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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 7

About sixty shopkeepers in Wellington have notified the Labour Department that they intend to observe the weekly half-holiday on Saturday. On a charge of making a false declaration in connection with tho birth of her chiid, Elizabeth Victoria Shore was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for trinl. Mr. Yon Haast appeared for defendant. A remarkable spike of a Japanese gol-den-ray lily {hlium auratum) is at present on exhibition in Mr. F. Cooper's window in Manners-street. The spike contains nearly 300 blooms, and has already attracted much attention. Tho by-slection to fill the vacant seat on tho Hutt River Board, caused by th> resignation of Mr. T. W. M'Donakl, was held yesterday. The polling resulted :— T. A. Peterkin, 251 votes; H. Sladden, 118 votes; informal, 2. Mr. Pctorkin was therefore declared elected by a majority of 133 vote 3. "I rnn short of money by sending it homo to my mother," said Philip Bmith, when charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with the theft of £6 from fellow-boarders nt a boardinghouse in the city. Evidence was given as to defendant's previous good character. He was convicted, and fined £3. Ono month wrs allowed for payment. More- than forty ladies attended a meeting held in the Petone Municipal Buildings last evening for tho purpose of arranging a local collecting campaign on Hospital Sunday, 9th February. Tho following collecting stations were allotted : — Railway Station, Mrs. Greening and friend, and Mesdames Colquhoun and M'Ewan ; Cotton's corner, Misses Fleet and Gallagher ; Priest's j corner, Mesdameo Short and Castle ; Post Office, Mesdames Southgato and Woodhouse; Laing's corner, Misses E. Bennett and L. Packard ; Bay-street Misses Cockrano and M'Ewan; Huttroad, Mius Suudgreen and friend ; Esplanade, Me,*dames Huggins and Gibbes ; Cuba-street, Miss Ralph and Mro. Asho. x "There are some people in ths community to whom children arc amongst the articles labelled 'not wanted,'" said Dr. Robertson, addressing tho meeting in connection with infant life protection afc Government House, Auckland. "At the hospital," the doctor continued, "we constantly come across children who are scarcely out of the "institution before they are in again. Advice is given, but it is not taken. Tho children are simplyy not wanted. Such cases arc not rare in the Auckland Hospital now," he declared. "I would like to sco the State take care of such cliildren as these. We, tho doctors, see sufficient to show that is is nccersary to relieve certain parents of their responsibilities for the sake of the children/ This severe indictment, says the Herald, was uttered impressively, anr 1 more so probably since Dr. Robertson had tho Prime Minister among his listenei'3. "The police have nothing to do with the matter," said Inspector Ellison this morning, when his attention was directed to Mr. Hogg's remarks at the meeting of Bensvolent Trustees regarding the desertion of wives. "The Government will not undertake to bring back deserters from places outside Ne,w Zealand, unless tha complainant guarantees the costs. The police have no voice in the matter. The' same rule applies to Australia and other countries. If a warrant is issued, a man will be brought from any part of New Zealand to another, and considerable quantities of money are spent in this way." The practice regarding wife dese'rtors does not differ from the one observed with other criminals. If they leavo the country they are not brought back unless the persons affected by their deeds guarantee the cost. However, \u very sonous cases the Government may take action itself, ab its own expense, but each case is considered on its merits. Now-a-days the man in the street appears' to consider that he, isi capable of judging a walking contest;. Condemnation and approval has been levelled at Kerr's style. Some say his "style" is correct— others that it is bad. Last evening at the meeting of the Wellington Centre of the N.Z.A.A.A., Dr. Newman had a word to say about tho matter. He declared that judges had been too lax in the discharge of their duties in tho past and this weakness had had a bad effect on competitors. There was a great question as to wliather Kerr walked correctly and tlrey v r -ere anxious to give him every chance. Rowland, who was at the championship meeting at Christchurch last year, for instance, was ordered off when he competed recently in England. "There is no doubt in my mind," Dr. Newman concluded, "that with a little coaching Kerr will soon walk with absolute fairness and in accordance 'with the judge's reguireinents. I think he is tho finest walker in New Zealand." During the hearing of a case in the Auckland police court on Saturday, Mr. Lundon, solicitor for the defence, asked Defective Miller to produce a copy of the notes taken during the first interview with the chief witness for the prosecution. Detective Millar demurred, stating that tho notes were only taken as a guide to working up the case. Mr. Kettle considered tho request reasonable. Detective Miller replied that it was contrary to instructions. Mr. Kettlo then heatedly ordered the notes to be produced in court, stating that he had had a great deal of trouble ovor tho j question of tho production of notes in comb regardless of his expressed desire. If he had any more trouble ovor the matter he would report it to the Department for Justice. At a later sta?e in the case Chief-Detective- Marsack quoted Mr. Justice Denniston's ruling that the proper course to obtain the note*, was to subpena the person to produce ' them. Mr. Kettle replied that until the Supreme Court upset his -ruling ha would order tho production of notes when he considered itneccssarv for tho refreshing of a witness's memory, or for the purpose of testing his reliability. Messrs. Cole and Wcsterman, ca?h drapers, Manners-street, advertise hundreds of templing prices for reliable goods on page 4. The firm's limited c-pace compels emphatic i eductions on tho inimenso and up-to-date stocks. Hotels 3nd boardinehouaes would do well to saa the linen damask cloths, honeycomb and Marcslla quilts, towels, sheetings, etc., vhirh are now far below the firm.i usual cut prices. Fashion goods are marked to absolute- clearing prices, and doubtless thousands of ladies will make a detour to the popular drapers in Man-ners-stnet to-morrow. — Advt. The Autocar in its report of the Olympin Show says : — ''For its power, price, and general automobile design and execution, the 14-16 Argyll is not surpassed by any car of its ekes in the Exhibition." Catalogues and particular;. from Scott Motor .and Cycle- Co., Ltd., Wellington. Advt. Nfvr Customs Tar;S. — mformition regarding changes can be supplied by the Xe^ Zealand Express Company, Ltd., 20 Customhouse -quay. Telephone No. 2410. —Advt. Tho big race at Trontham en Saturday proved to be r. fc'reat attraction. Tho big race in Cuba-street was the race for bargains' at (J. Smith's, Ltd., groat summer i,ulo ; tho paco was fast and furious. The next ovonts will fatart each morning and continue till six p.m. This salo is a certain wiii»9;. Ona of the groat events in Wellington at tho present moment is tho annual summer srde which is bein? held at the storo of C Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street. Tremendous reductions are boine; made in our millinery department. Hats for the races ut 50 to 75 per cent, reductions.— -Advt. • I