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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1907, Page 7

Afc 'twenty minutes to three o'clock this morning Constable M'Leod found •n elderly man named Edward Guest wandering about tho streets. Subsequently he found accommodation for him at the polico cells, and this morning charged him befoi-o Mr. Riddell, S.M., with being an idle and a disorderly perbon having insufficient means of support. Rub • Inspector O'Donovan statsd that ihe dofondant had Wandered away from tha Ohiro Home. The master of the inbtituto had informed tho police of his willingness to take the defendant back. Defendant consented to remain in tho Rome, and the polico then withdrew tho charge. Mary Halford, charged ■with importuning in Macdonald-cre3-oout. was remanded on the application cif Mr. P. Jackson until to-morrow. Bail wa3 allowed. For insobriety, Henry Thomas was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, ona first-offender was fined 10s, in default fcrty-eight hours' imprisonment, r.nd another was convicted and discharged. Mr. W. Pryor, general " secretary of the Now Zealand Employers* Federation, is to address the annual meeting of the Canterbury Employers' Association on 6th August. In the last issue of the New Zealand Building, Engineering, and Mining Journal, a contrast is made of tho prices paid for tho supply of electricity in Dunedin and Wellington. The comparison puts Dnaadin in a very favourable light. Tho systems upon which tho respective charges are based differ, as tho Dunedin rates are upon tho maximum demand plan, but a comparison >s arrived at by taking an installation of SCO kilowatts in each city. In Wellington that power for one hour would bs 500 units at 6d, cost £12 10s, and in Dunedin 500 utiit3 at Sd total £10 8s 4d. In Wellington 2000 units at 5Ad cost £45 16s Sdr and i:i Dunedin tho Game number cost £20 16s Bd. "The Government rate at Wellington is 53 per unit," says the journal, "while in Dunedin it is 2d per unit up to tho two-hour standard, all in excess of that limit being charged for at nor unit. The latter, however, does not include elevator motors, which are charged for at ths rate of 3d por unit (flat rate)." Another new car from the factory of Meesrs. Rguso, Black and Son. of Kent-t--race, will bo added to the lolling i .3ck of the City Tramways Department in a few days. Tho care is of t£e fiideentrance palace pattern, with a smoking compartment at each end, and it has stating accommodation for pixty perIts length is 36ft. The greater part of tho car is built of ash, which is 'nicely finished. An embossed steel ceiling r.dds greatly to the internal appearance of the car. The time allowed for construction was ten weeks, and Messrs. Rouse, Black and Son have completed the work in eight weeks. Tho firm has been entrusted with the building of five ■ more cai3.' cud will be able to delivei one of them towards tho end of the pie&cnt month. Doable-deckers Nos. 47, 48, 49, and 50 were turned out pf the saute factory some months ago, and are giving the Tramways Department every satisfaction. There is one immigrant that this country is by no means desirous of welcoming to its shores. This is the Australian j cattle tick, whose diswputablo career was exposed by Mr. C. J. Reakes at the AgTicultural Conference yesterday. The parasite, which preys on cattl? with deadly effect, swarms in Queensland, and j hns travellsd down as fnr as South Wales. It is practically impossible to suppress, once it gets a hold. A- single tick will lay from 1500 to .5000 eggs, and ! it is said that eggs placed at a temperature of 17 degrees below frpszing point i for twenty -four hours, and afterwards j incubated at 95 degrees Fahr., have hatched oat. In describing what h? saw in North Queensland, Mr. J. A. Gilruth said' that a hundred ticks could be found on the tip of a single blade of grass. So great was the fear of thn disease spr>3ssding that in New South Wales not only horses, but motor-c*rs from infected areas were disinfected. During the month ending yesterday 180 births, 69 deaths, and 81 marriage* were registered in Wellington. Action is being taken by the Petono Eorough Council to at once transfer to the Harbour Board the land required for storo sites at- the end of Victoria-street, and to Temove the Petone Navals' boatshed so as to clear the way for the approaches to the new wharf which is about to be erected. Referring to the subject to-day, tho Mayor (Mr. J.. W. M'Ewan) said he was confident tho wharf would prove a great benefit to the district. Already people interested in the timber trade were making enquiries in lie matter. Mr. -M'Ewan thought " that a ferry service was among one of "the v-jrlicat possibilities once the wharf was cufnplcted. Hearing of the Munt, Cottrell and Co. v. Andrews case was concludod yesterday afternoon, before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M. Examination of John Kir, carrier, was continued by Mr. Dunn. Albert Edward Rodmcn, foreman to the defendant, denied that there had been any dolay in answering calls to remove material from the wharf. John Curtis, jun., stated] thot after going through the carting accounts in ths City Council's books, he had accepted the apportionment made by Muct, Cottrell and Co. His Worship re-•erv-jd judgment. The Arbitration Court will bo kepi bury ,xrhen it resumes operations in Wel)os;ton. In addition to the Timber Yards and Sawmill Workers, and Wellington Building Trades Labourers' p:nding disputes, there arc ast down two applications for interpretations of awards anJ sixty-six cases of enfariemen-t in connection with the building, grocers, bakers, plasterers, drivers, tailors, butchers, ccoks, and waiters' awards. j Men on drinking bouts often attribute the ill-effects of their experiences to the quality of tho liquor they consume, but seldom, according to Inspector Ellison, "to thsir beastly appetites." With a view to satisfying himself as to the purity or otherwise of liquor sold in countiy hotels, the Tnspcctui recently had samples of boor, whisky, and other liquor taken from houses in the Marlborough, and Wairarapa districts cnbmiitad /for analysis. Thp.rosvlts proved ■* thit nune of the liquor had been adulterated except some whisky and brandy taken from one ' house. These two samples, it is alleged, contained too much water, and arc to form the basis of a prosecution at an early date. All the samples were selected norn, liquor which was facing retailed to customero at the time. Fir'.cen thousand yards of Japanese silks, in white, (.ream, pink, and every wanted shade. 27m wide, worth 2s 3d. going at Is Gd a yard tit. tho "Ruorgani«atjon Sale." Kirkcaldie and Staini. Ltd.— Advt. New Customs Tariff.— lnformation regarding changes can be supplied by the Jieiv Zealand Express Company, Ltd.. 20 Customhouse-quay. Telephone No. 2410 —Advt. The tariff reforms are cauxing a good deal of discussion in the local prese, but we aro not prepared to enter into any argument en tlio merit; of tho Cuctoms diitic*. But wo aro prepared to sell, for the next few oayn, a special lino of golf jerseya at lew th»n tho old cost. This \va« a lucky purchase, and enables you to get a really good golf jersey at half their real value, in ail colour;, from 2i 6d, 2s lid, 3s 6d to 5* lid, at C. Smith'a, Tho Cash Dmper, Cubvitreet.— Advt. t