TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[mess association.] £135 FOR A GLASS OF BEER AUCKLAND, 27th January At a meeting of tho Hospital and Charitable Aid Board this afternoon Mr Coyle, referring to old-age pensions, cited I the case of an army vetorau eighty-two , ycarb of age, an inmate of the Costley Home, who, because he had partaken of one glas3 of becu and dozed off in a public place, had been deprived for five years of hia puiihiou. This practically meant a fine of £135 for this one slip. He was a man oi unblemished character, end only on this | ono occasion had he lapsed. 1 here were other inmates of the home who wero fully entitled to tho money, but for some reason could not get it. After discussion the question of pensions \ias referred to a committee DRAINAGE SCHEMES. AUCKLAND, 27th January At a conference of local bodies to-night Mi Mick;loy Taylor's drainage scheme lor Auckland and suburbs was explained to upwards of sixty delegates by that gentleman. Resolutions were carried recommending the adoption of the scheme by tho local bochss, and a further conference, witn the object of having it carried out, was fixed for 2ith February. v NAPIER, 27th January. At a special meeting of the Borough Council to-night, the question of extending the present sewer outfall was discussed. It was decided to get Mr Midgley Taylor, tho English engineer now visiting the Dominion, who is a recognised authority on sanitary engineering, to report upon tho work. A l HADES COUNCIL AND IMMIGRATION. CHRISTCHURCB, 27th January. . Tho Canterbury Tr?de3 and Labour Council, at its meeting on Saturday, passed the following motion. — "That tho j council strongly protests ngairist any EC-home of immigration by the Government, oil tho ground that men and women in our own factories are unable to obtain anything like constant employment ; further, Wis consider it would not only be unjust to the workers of the Dominion, but unjust to the immigrants, who would have to compete' with our fellow-workers ducing wafjes and prejudicing national conditions.' ' It was resolved to refer the matter to all Trades Councils in the Dominion, and j to request thorn to bring the subject under the lictico of the affiliated unions. A committee, consisting of tho Hon. "John Ban-, M L.C., and Messrs. E. Howard, and R. T Bailey, was set up to draft, a letter and forward same to the newspapers in tho United Kingdom concerning the conditions of the labour market in tho Dominion. The views of Mr. J. 15. March, tho Government Immigration Agont, who, of rourpe, is an authority! on the work of his department, are "not those of the Trades Council. Mr. March left for Wellington on Saturday night to meet tho immigrants who are expected to arrive on Wednesday by the Coiinihic, and in conversation with a reporter he said that from previous experience ho was quite satisfied that they would all be placed without difficulty' There 'was a great demand, especially in j the North Island, for labourers on farms and dailies, and a large proportion of the newcomers were labourer? who filled requirements in that direction, THE SUMXER SUICIDE. 'CHKIStCHUIiCH,.2'( r th January. At the inquest concerning the death of James Topham, whose body was found in, a email gully on the Lyttelton -rond near Sumner, a: verdict was returned that decraefid, while of unsound mind, committed wieido by opening a varicose -vein in his leg. CHRISTIAN CONVENTION. WANGANUI, 27th January. The Wanganui Christian Convention (en the lines of the famous Keswiok Convention), the first in Now Zealand, was opened to-day, and will be continued during rho week. Tho Rev. Charles lv« wood, dolagato from tho Keswiok • Conference, is present. There were largo congregations to-day, and there is every prospect of a very 'successful tirno. ■ WELCOME RAIN IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, 27th January. The mild drought which Auckland has experienced during the mentb was broken early this moniintr by several heavy showers. The fall ii very welcome in tho country districts, whore pastures have been much dried up. BREACH OF COMPANIES ACT. AUCKLAND, 27rh .lanuorv. A prosecution that should bo ft warning to those controlling the affairs of n. company was heard at the Police Court thin afternoon. The Churchill Co-opera-tive Dairy Company wns charged with having failed to forward to rhe Registrar of Companies the annual list of' shareholders anil a sumrnr.ry of the capital, p.* required by section 103 of tho Companies Act, 1903. Thore were two infovmationa. The offence was not denial. The magistrate imposed a fine of 6d per j day from tho dato of tho breach on pach chnrjre. On one charpro the une totallad £13 (h 6d. and costs £1 Bs. and on rhe j other £3 13s with £1 19s costs. j DETECTIVES' SURPRISE PARTY. DUNEDIN. Zlih January. An alleged' "two-up" school on too rods imed ground, in the vicinity of one of 1 thp large factories. v. ns surprised by "Helectivos Ward sinj FTunt to-day The defectives succeeded in apprehending six j men, who are said to have been playing. ! THE CARS OF MRS. HENDERSON PALMER STON N . 27th January, The Manawalu Times publishes ;>n interview with Mrs. Henderson, sentenced fo seven years' imprisonment for manslaughter at Wellington in 1900, in which she announces her determination to petition Parliament for a reopening: of her qoso on various grounds, kiul, complains of the manner of her treatment in goal, which she left an invalid. TROUT IN PLENTY. AUCKLAND, 27ih January. Trout aio plentiful and in pood condition thi« season from Rotorua <o Wanfr.inui. Auckland anglprs have found excellent sport. Big_ catehei are reported from Rotorua, while an Auckland party which visited Waimihia, near Taumarunui, claim to have had rare bport. CORONER FINED FOR CRUELTY. AUCKLAND, 27th January. ] At tho Police Court to-day, Mr Ket- I tie, S.M., gave judgment in tho case in which Thomas Greshaui, City Coronor, wos prosecuted by tho Society (or the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for illtreating o fox-terrior pup on Btb December last by causing it (o bo hooked on a fi&hhoo't placed in on aperture in n fence. Having reviewed (lio facts established by tho evidence, _^Mr Kcftlc said- — "The question n wheihor, on ihe'so facts, tho dot'emtant ought to be comicted of 'cruelly ill-treat ing, abusing, <or forluring' the dog. I urn of opinion Ihnt iliis question must be answered in the affirmative. I have considered the caso cited by Mr Prcndergasr, who appeared for tho defendant. ' I have also perused the English cases and the American decisions bearing on this subject. The latest New Zealand case is Hazelhurst v. Tucker (Chapman, J.,), 9 Gaz. L.R. 206, Dec, 1906. These decisions clearly establish that persons who recklessly disregard the feelings of dumb animal;*, and wilfully, wantonly, mercilessly, and needlessly, cause them pain without reasonuLlo and adequate object or justification are guilty of cruelty. In my opinion, the facls in this case bring the defendant well within this definition, and he

(nusf. bo convicted, and fineJ £2, with costs. This conviction does not prejudice the right, of tho owner of the dog to claim compensation from tho defondnnt for the damago dono to the clog. — Sco sections 8 and 9 of tho Act."