TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1908, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

Obes3 assocjiation.l EQUAL TO THEFT. TIMARU, 17th October. A youth aged eighteen, named Charles 3Darcy, was fined 20s and costs (6s), or fourteen days' imprisonment with hai"l labour, for stealing a bridle from a private stable. Accused stated that he found the bridle on the roadside _ a month ago, but as he took no action to discover the owner and his previous record was bad, the magistrate said his action in keeping the bridle was tantamount to theft. NORTH ISLAND BUTTER. CHRISTCHURCH, 17th Oct. "One pound out of every five pounds of butter used in Christchurch during the vi inter comes from the North Island," said the secretary of the Canterbury Central Dairy Company to-day. "The quantity of butter brought here from the North is increasing every year, and if it were not for tho North Island butter coming here prices would be at a, famine level during the winter — probably 2s or 2s 6d a pound." FIRE IN DUNEDIN DUNEDIN, 18th October. A. six-roomed house in King-street, owned by Speight and Co., brewers, and occupied by Robert Warren, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The family retired at 10 o'clock last night, leaving everything apparently cafe. A small fire was then burning in the sitting-room. The house and contents were completely destroyed. Ths house was valued at £300 or" £400, and the furniture at £225. The latter was irsured in the New Zealand office for £200. The insurance on the house is not known SCEPTICAL ABOUT A CURE. CHRISTCHURCH, 17th Oct. Di. R. H. Bakewell, of Onehunga, formerly physician to the Leper Asylum, Trinidad, in a letter to a Christchurch paper on the subject oiL. the Maori leper patient recently discharged j from Quail Island as cured by thp Nas- j tin treatment, questions tho, permanency of the cure. He says :—: — "Even when a cure has been -effected the patient cannot return to the diet, ! environment, and habits in which he ! lived when he contracted the disease. | I have seen many hopeful cases, when ■every visible trace of the disease hadj been removed, relapse, because the patients went back to their old homes, and resumed the habits, „diet, etc., which had been the original cause of the malady. If the Maori who has been ! treated in the Lyttelton quaratine station goes back to some filthy Maori hovel, and eats sharks' flesh and other j fish salted or half putrid, sleeps in ill-/ ventilated huts, and generally falls back to the habits of his people, it is almost certain that, if he does not die of accident or some acute disease, he will be attacked by leprosy." • MEN CHEAP; PIGS DEAR. CHRISTCHURCH, 17th Oct. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Central Dairy Company to-day, Mr. John Rennie called attention to the spread of tuberculosis among cattle and pigs in New Zealand, and expressed the opinion that an important factor ■was the infection of skim milk returned from the creameries. One or two cows, he said, could infect the whole supply, and he had himself noticed the spread of disease among pigs fed on the skim milk. "Men are cheap and pigs are dear," he remarked in reply to a question about the position of the ordinary consumer in the matter. Mr. Rennie moved that the directors should consider the advisableness of pasteurising the skim milk, and his motion was carried. The shareholders did not seem to regard the matter as one ot great importance, for a number left the meeting during a brief debate on the motion. A (.QMPLETE MOA SKELETON. CHRiSTCHURCH, 17th Oct. About eighteen months ago a party r•" workmen, while t-ngfged * draining the swamp land in tr.e vicinity of Sloven's Creek, on the Midland railway works, unearthed a quantity of moa bores. One of their number, Mr. J. Get It, succeeded in obtaining a complete skeleton, which he has now put together and temporarily housed. The bones, with the exception. of a few of the small ones, which show slight signs of decay only, are in a good state of preservation, and in the absence of expert opinion Mr Gault states that the skeleton is apparently complete. The height from the grooiid t>; the head, with the neck arched, is 7ft 6in, the iuck itself being sft 6m in length, t.nd the length of leg tiom ground to hip 4ft 6in. He has also in his possession the greater part of the skeleton of a moa chick. THE JAPANESE DESERTER. CHRISTCHURCH, 17th Oct. T. Sando, a young Japanese who was cabin-boy on the tramp steamer Mortlake, and who deserted frcm her in Lytteltcn, appeared this morning in the Ljttelton Police Court. He was charged with having desertea, and admitted the charge. . Being ;iu undcsliable immigrant, no steps in connection^ with the des£-ition were taken, but he x was remanded for eight days to allow the Collector of Customs to communicate with the Colonial Secretary for advice as to his disposal. Ths agents of the vessel expressed their willingness to pay all expenses necessary to send the youth back to the Mortlake at Newcastle, and it is understood that he will be dispatched to his ship. A BURNING ' COALMINE. DUNEDIN, 17th Octobsr. On Thursday morning an ettempt »vis made to resume ''peintions in the AUnndale coalmine which h-id n-cently to be closed down. The management, acting on the advice of the Inspector of Mines (Mr Green), and oi Mr. Hayes (mining engineer, of Wellington), reversed the \entila*ing fans, ana oi< Thursday, pfter allowing time for the gases to disperse, the maargor and three men entered the mine with hoses xo check the fire. On the water being placed on the burning face, however, the men were driven bark by steam and smoke ,• and it wms decided to permanently close the \voi kings. The majority of the men aie under notice of dismissal, the manpgenitnt only retaining about half a dozen men to work a 7ft seam in anether par:, of the mine remote from the fire ( HOUSEHOLD GOODS STOLEN. CHRISTCHURCH, 17th Oct. Detectives J. Kennedy and Eade, who recently arrested two men on a charge of being connected with it number of burglaries which had been committed in the Islington district, visited Hornby -yesterday, and obtained possession of a large quantity of household goods. These articles are alleged to belong to a resident who is at present on a vi&it to Sydney. INTERPRETATION OF AN AWARD CHRISTCHURCH, 17th Oct. Aa application has been made to the Arbitration Court by both employers and employees for an interpretation of a clause in the Canterbury Timberyard, Ccrljard, and Sawmill Employees' award. The clause refers to the employment of yard 'ahowrers the em-

pltjees contending that, although yard labourers are paid by the hour, they should be considered as weekly-wage men TEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. DUNEDIN, 18th October. Janvs M'Donald, a married man about sixtj years of age, residing at Elginroad, Sydenham, was „ found by the police about 9.15 p.m. yesterday in the stieet. He complained of feeling unwell, and was taken to the hospital, but on arrival there he came unconscious, and died at 11.10 p.m. Deceased arrived from Christchurch three days before his death. Heart failure was the cause of death. THE ENCOUNTER. CHRISTCHURCH, 18th Oct. H.M.S. Encounter, second-class cruiser, Captain Fyler, left Akaroa at 6.30 thii morning, and arrived at Lyttelton 'at 11 o'clock. The vessel' is expected to remain for about a week.