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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1908, Page 7

The Council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association will be represented at the championship meeting on the- Basin Reserve on Saturday by Messrs. C. J. Cooper, Jas. Green, and H. S. Batchelor, of Christchurcb. Mr. P. G. Bolton, who is Mayor rf Eastbourne, and a member of the Hospital and Benevolent Trustees, and of- the Hutt Park Control Board, has been asked to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate for one of the vacancies in the Wellington Harbour Board at' the coming election. Mr. Bolton is to give his answer in a few days The twenty prisoners who have been engaged in tree-planting at Dumgree, near Blenheim, will be transferred to Hanmer next week. The work which they have done at Dnmgrpe has not been profitable. Owing to the continued' dry weather a large proportion of the trees (about a million in number) have died. Very little rain fell last year, and last season about 400,000 trees were planted to replace those which had succumbed to the dry weather. A number of sporting enthusiasts met in the New Zealander Hotel last evening for the purpose of forming a coursing club, to be known as the Hutt Valley Coursing Club. It was stated that a leasa of ground had practically been secured At Trentham. The following officers weie elected : — Patron, Mr. T. M. Wilford ; president, Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald ; vice-presidents, Messrs. Benzie, < T. Donnelly, C. A. Schauer, G. Gough, Hogdson, T. Wilkins, W. J. Williams, G W. Woods, R. Harris ; committee, Messrs. Sullivan, Beale, Gough, ' Purdy, Sapsford, D. Brewer, Evans, Donoghue, Hamilton; auditors, Messrs. Ryan and Butler. _ Property in the vicinity of Auckland city has been advancing in value during the last few years at a very rapid rate, and there have been numerous transactions in suburban lands for which high figures havo been paid. A recent transaction (says the Herald) was the sale of the well-known Pah property, Epsom, of fifty acres, on which "is St. John's Collegiate School, and accessory buildings, for the total sum of £12,000, the purchaser being Mr. G. T. Bayly, of New Plymouth. It is now about five years since the property was bought by the- Rev. P. S. Smallfieid for £8000. The new purchaser has leased the college buildings, etc., to Mr Smallfieid, who will carry on the institution as previously. Three- of the Chinese recently arrested at Bendigo on a charge of having unlawfully purchased gold, appealed before tho court last Thursday. Only one case was finished, accused being fined £5, in default one- month's imprisonment. Some plausible explanations were offered by the Chinese as to how they became possessed of the specimens found on their premises. Counsel produced a piece of gold-bearing quartz, which had been found at the foot of the bed of one of the a-ccused, and on being asked where it came from accused replied that "a little boy had thrown it on the roof about eight months ago, I and that he (accused) had climbed up on the roof and got the specimen, with the object of complaining to the boy's father, but had forgotten to do it!" In an editorial article on "a Chair of Commerce," Feilding Star says : "Just as there are many bad lawyers despite tho educational facilities already offered, so there are accountants who are very ill equipped for their, duties, and beyond the technical schools there is no means afforded for our commercial men to attain to a high place in their profession, which is every bit as important as that of law and literature. The founding' of ft. Chair of Commerce by the university senate would mark a distinct advance upon that body's work for education, and would enable our army of aspiring young men in commercial life to attain a higher degree of education than is possible under present conditions. We would recommend the suggestion for the consideration of the association of accountants, a very progressive and enterprising body." "The dog that worried the cat" has risen above the level of the old nursery rhyme, and now seeks his excitement in worrying a grey kangaroo. That, at all events, is the latest report from Wellington "Zoo," wherein the grey kangaroo now hops disconsolately with a broken leg, caused by -the attack of v dog upon him. It is suggested that there must be something seriously wrong with the constitution or heart of a kangaroo that can be treated in this manner by any one dog, for the average '"roo" — | grey, red, black, or brown j kangaroo, wallaroo, or even h;s cousins germane known as wallabies — would promptly; disembowel any venturesome canine that singly attacked him. Even the rush of a pack of dogs upon a kangaroo usually results in injury for at least one of the attackers. But civilisation has its drawbacks, and its enervating influences are apparently common. to kangaroo as to man. Mr. Riddell, S.M., delivered judgment in the Magistrate's Court this morning in the case of Patrick Cavanagh v. Henry M. Morton, a claim for £25 for loss of fifty lambs from two weeks' to two months' old which were killed by defendant's dog. His Worship said : — "Defendant denies that his clog killed plaintiff's lambs. I consider the weight of evidence is against him. As to damages, tho proper measure would be the cost to plaintiff of replacing the lambs at or about the dale of their destruction. There is nothing to bhow that "lie made any attempt to procure- lambs in substitution for those killed 1 , and the evidence as to their value is conflicting. Although it is clear that a lamb two weeks old is not so valuable as one two months old, yet I think the* damage would be most fairly assessed by an average price. I j fix it at 7s 6d per head. Judgment for plaintiff for £18 15s, costs of court £1 18s, witness's expenses 225, solicitor's fees £1 165." Writing on the subject of sports generally, the following reference to football in New Zealand is made by a contributor to The Times (London) :—"ln: — "In New Zealand all kinds of experiments in tho reduction in the size of the pack were being tried. The final result in this country was tho appearance of a fourth three-quarter, and of the modern system of combination, which, as so brilliantly exemplified iv the play of this season's Oxford Fifteen, neither subordinates the forwards to the backs, nor the backs to the forwards, and practically brings every man in the teamincluding the full-back— to the support of an attack. In New Zealand they have gone a step further and reduced the number of forwards from eight to seven — a change which necessarily involves a complete reorganisation of the back division. Except in Wale?, the New Zealand new model has not been accepted as embodying a strategic improvement, and, even there, experts are by no means agreed as fe its value. The Baying of a Welsh player of reputes, 'It is good enough if you can get seven good enough forwards,' sums up tho controversy for the time being." Messrs. Caterer and Carey, drapers, of Cuba-street begii_ their summer sale tomorrow, and genuine bargains are guaranteed to all. The firm have decided to close the millinery department, and trimmed hats usually sold for 35s can be had for 10s and other lines equally low. Ladies' underwear, dresses, laces, gloves, Japanese silks, blouses, hosiery, all show drastic reductions. Be early', the first comer gets the biz bargain.— Advt.