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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1908, Page 4

The heaviest rainfall in the Dominion for July last was at Wekaweka (North of Auckland), 15.64 inches. The lowest was at Nelson, ,66 inch. Mr. W. S. Hutchison, Auckland, builder of the Rotorua Baths, has secured the tender for the new post office, Wha-ngarei, the contract price being £2889. Counterfeit half-sovereigns have been circulated in Auckland. They are a perfect imitation of the genuine article, though easily detected if "tested by ringing. After deliberating for two and a half hours last evening, the juTy in the case in which George Oram was charged with breaking and entering and theft of £300 worth of jewellery, at the shop of Thos. Crouch, Cuba-street, returned a verdict of not guilty. Prisoner, who was represented by Mr. Toogood, was then discharged. I An alleged encroachment of four feet on Wrngfield-street by property-owners j on the south side of the thoroughfare was brought under the notice of the i City Council last evening by Councillor Fletcher. The street, he said, was orig- | inally thirty feet wide ; now it was only twenty-six feet. He stated that he brought the matter before the engineer some time ago, and now asked ihe council to take the necessary steps to see that its rights were established to the property by putting back the street, as originally dedicated. On Councillor Fletcher's motion, the matter was referred to the Bylaws Committee in order to give eff«ct to his proposal. I A slight difference between the tram- | way men and the City Council was mentioned by Councillor Ballinger last evening. He said that at last meeting it was decided to come to an arrangement with tho union. The latter sent in a letter on Monday, which was somewhat misleading. The committee were told that there was only a halfpenny difference in respect to one item. Since then the committee had received a list of at least 13 clauses. The wording had been altered, and ne submitted' that it should not have been touched. He therefore kept the matter off the order paper, and took upon himself the responsibility of postponing the subject for a week. In. order to suit the convenience of residents of the Miramar Borough who wish to attend church service in the city, the Miramar Borough Council has made an arrangement with the City Council for the running of a tram car every Sun* day morning for the next two months. Tho car will leave the Government Buildings on Lambton-quay for Seatoun at 9.30 o'clock, and start on, the return from Seatoun at 10.10. Double fares will bo charged. Local residents have guaranteed the Miramar Borough Council against any loss on the running of the car. If the two months' trial is a financial socoess th© Sunday morning service •will probably be continued during the lumraer. George Leech, on remand, charged with obtaining certain moneys by false pretences, was to-dajr further remanded, on his own application, till next Monday, to enable him to obtain counsel for his defence. For riding a bicycle at night without a light, Thomas Marshall was fined 10s, with costs 7s. For allowing a chimney to be in such a state that it caught fire, Henry Lemon Bryenton was fined lO^s, with costs 7s. Fcr breaches of the Truancy Act, Henry John Clapperton, Alex. M'lnnes, James Foothead, John Short, and Fred Thomaa were each fined 2s, with costs 7s. On another breach, Thomas was fined 4s, with costs 7s, a similar penalty being meted out to Francis M'Donald. Tru- ! ant Inspector Dineen prosecuted. "When will you take the council into ■ your confidence with reference to the Wadestown tramway proposals ?" asked Councillor Luke of the Mayor last evening. His Worship said he hoped they would have the whole matter before them before the next meeting of the Finance Committee. At a later stage of the meeting. Councillor Fisher enquired what was being done in the matter of the route, and the Mayor replied thai the Tramway Committee ought to report, on this head at the next meeting. Councillor Ballinger interpolated that the matter had been already discussed by. the committee. A question was then ptrfc to the Mayor in respect to the Charlotte-street deviation-, and his Worship replied that the Tramways Committee was awaiting a reply from the Government before taking any further steps. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Dr. M' Arthur, S.M., Norman Gustavus Hall, who has a prison record of 21 years in the" aggregate", was convicted on two charges of the petty theft of an overcoat and blankets, valued at £4 Bs. Hall, who pleaded guilty,- was sentenced on the first count to one month's imprisonment, and on the second to three months' imprisonment. On a charge of deliberately breaking three panes of glass, of a value of 15s, the property of Frank M. Solomon, Joseph Lea, who appeared in the dock with a very much battered couirtenance, was convicted and fined 40s, with the option of 14 days' imprisonment. A middleaged man named Charles Jackson was i sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment on a charge of indecency in" Dixon-street. One first offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. Mr. H. F. Skey, officer in charge of tho magnetic survey, states in an appendix to a report presented to Parliament yesterday that the Milne seismograph No. 16 has been kept in continnuous operation during tho year, and the records obtai.ied have been developed and measured. The number of earthquakes recorded during the twelve months was eighty-seven. Eight of the principal seismograms are reproduced, including those of the Mexican earthquakes of 26th and 27th March, 1968. A magnetic survey of the Chatham Islands has recently been completed by Mr. Skey, with the assistance of Mr. E. Kidson, M.Sc, now of the staff of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. Observations were obtained in less, than two months at twenty stations on the islands, in spite of the almost total absence of roads, which necessitated the employment of a sledge as a conveyance. The Surveyor-General, in his annual report presented to Parliament, makes a reference to tho secular movement of the New Zealand coast. He says the importance of provision being made for ita detection and determination at a later period has been brought under notice of late years, but up to the present no steps appear to have been taken to becurc and permanently record reliable information as to existing conditions, so as to afford data for the determination at some future time of slow elevation or subsidence of different parts of £he coastline. This knowledge, apart, from its scientific interest, is an important factor m the construction of marine works, as was. pointed out by the late Mr. P. S. Hay, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, in 1903, in a special report on the subject. As a preliminary to a more comprehensive scheme in the future in a wider distribution of tide-gauges and mean sea-level determinations, , it is the intention of Mr. Humphries to have, tha zeros of all existing tide-gauge* in tha various port* of the Dominion carefully connected to permanent bench-marks in secure positions on the shore, which can be effected at » very small cost. Saturday shoppers are reminded that Kirkcaldie and Stains, Limited, will close their establishment at 1 p.m. to-