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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1908, Page 6

An alarm of fire took (the brigade tofj Willis-street just after four o'clock thisr* morning, where it was found that two-semi-detached washhouses at rear of tha, houses numbered 230 and 232 were on, fire. The damage done was confined tof,, the building in which the fire originated.-* A policy in the Commercial Union of- 1 fice covers the damage done. At the criminal sittings yesterday af-* ternoon, before Mr. Justice Cooper, Daniel Murphy pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving a watch and chain wrongfully taken from William George Brett on 27th-May, 1908. Accused was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. John Griffin, charged with indecent assault on a little girl under 10 years of age, was acquitted. The annual inspection of arms on is^ sue to volunteer companies in and!* around Wellington city was commenced! on Monday last, and will continue until- , the second week in September. Tho, volunteer companies to be inspected dur-i ing the current week were the City\ Rifles, Wellington Guards, Kelburife Rifles, College Rifles, and Civil Service* Rifles, j The arms on issue to men of th», Permanent Force were inspected lasS Monday. An extraordinary general meeting oft the Golden Bay Cement Works Companjjji is being held this afternoon, to elect directors and consider the advisableness o£ affirming motions already passed, to aU ter the articles of association, so as to, provide that tho minimum number oft shares to be held by any director shallj. be 250, and to alter the number of dU rectors from nine to six. A motion,., will also be proposed to increase the" company's capital to ±160,000 by tha» creation of 55,000 additional shares off £1 each, to rank pari passu with exist* ing ordinary shares. A District Order notifies that th» Maxim gun which was on issue to thai. Masterton Rifle Volunteers for instructional purposes has been transferred to Gisborne, to enable the East Coast"' Mounted Rifles and Gisborne Rifles tot undergo a course of instruction. The" Maxim gun, which was on loan to ther 2nd Battalion Wellington Rifle Volun^ teers for instructional purposes, has beei* transferred to Wellington, and will ba, handed over to the officer commanding^ Ist Battalion Rifle Volunteers along withfi the Maxim gun on issue to the Royal' New Zealand Artillery, to enable tlieiji Maxim squads in the Kelburno Rifles to?! undergo a course of training. Numerous correspondents of Tho Pos& will be interested in the information,^ that last night, at a meeting of the comJ mittee set up to arrange details in tha. formation of a body of volunteers to be*j known as the Dominion Scouts, it was» decided to hold a mass meating on on* about Ist or 2nd September, to arrange) for tendering the services of the pro*) posed corps to the Government. It hag, been resolved that ia the event of the corps' services being accepted, honorary^ members will be received on payment o£> ona guinea yearly subsci-iption, such am-, ount to be waived in cases of trooper^, incapacitated by sickness or wounds. In the current Outlook (Dunedin), th« t Rev. Isaac Jolly, who published in thoj paper some weeks ago an unfavourablaj review of .the Rev. J. Gibson Smith's* , recent book, writes specially to dissociate himself from the personal attacks made upon Mr. Smith' and Professor Salmond,, another reviewer of the book. Fort years, he says, he has been proud toi: rank Dr. Salmond among his pereonaH friends, and as regards Mr. Smith, he feels that nothing has happened that should lead any one to question his conscientiousness. He concludes : "I have hesitated to write this protest, buss I can no longer leave myself open t<( the suspicion of sympathising with thesaf' perfconal charges." Time is an important factor in di*t, tinguishing between burglary and house*, breaking. In giving evidence in- the Su»« preme Court, to-day, Constable Thos H M'Gregor eaiß that he accosted a mam early on the morning of 23rd June ia rsspect of a jeweller's shop in Cuba-streeti having been broken into. The man, saidi to him "you cannot search me, it is afteq six o'clock." "I don't understand," ob^ (served counsel. His Honour said tha, law provided that a man could not bg( searched without his consent until afteij his arrest. Chief-Detective M'Grath en-s lightened counsel as to the correct meant ing of the expression, and it was addedS that it had to do with burglary as dis-s tinct from house breaking and entering* "Night, of course, ends at six o'clock* under the statute," concluded his Honj our. ' The circumstances attending the death} of Mr. Thomas Edmeades, which oc«i curred at Tuapeka Mouth on th© 4th! instant, are, I believe, unparalleled iri th« annals of the Dominion, writes the Wai* tahuna West correspondent of the Milton Mirror. He was engaged to dig thfl{ grave for the remains of Mr. Hardie— » father of one of our Greenfield settlers^ A lady' resident, happening to go) through the cemetery a few minutes be* fore the arrival of the funeral, saw hint lying at the bottom of the grave he had) just completed digging. She at once, gave the alarm, and v what was the suri prise and horror of those in the funeral procession who hastened forward to find; the gravedigger dead in the grave h^ had prepared for another. An inquest! was not considered necessary, as hewafcl known to have been ailing for some time,. Is' ;there to be an epidemic of club* swinging feats in New Zealand? Has Mr. Tom Burrows, the incorrigible, piti-. less breaker of his own records, givenj the young people of this country aa ambition to be Kings and Queens andt Jacks of Clube? Apparently, a Master! J. Wright, a juvenile prodigy of the] Lower Hutt, whirled clubs recently for; 17-hours 2 minutes. On Saturday morn* ing Master Gordon Weir, at Christy church, set out to eclipse the Wright • performance, and did leave the Lower, Hutt boy behind by 29 minutes. Weiu is a seven-stone chit of a boy, not yob fifteen years old. He used clubs weigh-, ing a trifle over 2^lb, and wielded them| in the regulation Burrows style. The, youngster actually crammed more revolutions into the minute than Burrows, and) so out-Burrowsed Burrows in at least! one detail of the game. The tireless; boy sprinted for the finish, and nssuredl a crowd of admirers that he felt nons) the worse for the work. Me. Clement Wragge, who once sen? "Sychems" and other kinds of tornado to scare Hew Zealand, and eventuallj highly entertained the people here wittf quaint discourses, is now amusing India. "Mussoorio has been,, occupying itselfi lately with a brief period of solid thought, or something quite as good," cays a recent number of the Calcutta, 1 Englishman. "Professor Glcinenfc Wragge, F.R.G.S., has been giving lectures on popular scientific Bubjects, illustrated by lantern slides of great beauty, on such subjects aB astronomy, meteorology, . radium, and trips round the world. Professor Wragge began his lectures in a quieb way at the Municipal Hall, to the cultured few, but the fame thereof Boon spread abroad, and fronn Landour to the Happy Valley platforms were placed at his disposal, and crowds were ready to hear. This invasion ofl brains has already had a. marked effect* on the manners and appearance of th» ordinary inhabitant. An ascetic, ab. stracted aix, combined with specfcicle* and a stoop, is now much cultivated." Smart and etyliah white rauslia blouses, handsomely trimmed with em« broidery and Valenciennes insertion at 13s 6d, 27s 6d, 29a 6d each Kirkcaldie aad Stains.,, Linytga.— Advt,