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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 123, 23 November 1908, Page 6

, LOCAL AND GENERAL >m About an average number of transactions were recorded at to-day's meeting of the Stock Exchange. National Banks changed hands al the fractionally improved rate of £5. In the industrial /section Leyland OTJiden Timber shares were in good 'demand, a parcel being accepted at £1 3s and dividend. The Leyland Company had a highly successful half year's trading which enabled the directors to issue a splendid balancesheet, and in consequence quotationshave firmed from the £1 buyers of a month ago, to the £1 2s 9d now on >offer. In the mining section sales of Talisman at £2 2s 6d ' cum div., and Waihi at £8 19s 6d, were effected. Westport-StockUm quotations had an easier tendency. It is said that development work at this mine has been temporarily suspended pending alterations to the coal bins. Quotations in other sections of the call were unchanged. Thirty-one applications lor permission to erect, alter, or extend' buildings were received by the Wellington Corporation during the fortnight ended 17th November. The total value was £9507, mad© up of £6220 in the City, £2992 in Melrose, and £395 in Northland. There are bitter complaints at Hamua. and Hukanui, in the heart of the Fortymile Bush, says the Wairarapa Daily Times, owing to the way in which a large area of native land, of exceptional quality and value, watered by the Mangatainoka Eiver, and situated between the Eketahuna-Pahiatua main road and railway, is gradually passing into the hands of private speculators and syndicates. A cathedral in Wellington has been for many years a dream of many Catholics in the city, and particularly of Archbishop Kedwood. Yesterday, at tho luncheon given by the Eedemptorist Fathers after the opening *>1! the new church of St, Geyard, his Grace said that though the scheme was progressing slowly he hoped to live to see tho cathedral at least half finished. "So you shall," came in a chorus from many of those present. Twice during Saturday and Sunday the Fire Brigade was called out. At 10.1 on Saturday night a slight fire occurred at a house, 32 Thompspn-street, occupied by Mrs. Christina Henderson, wheie a curtain in a bedroom had been set alight by a candle. Only the curtain was damaged. At 6.4 this morning there was another slight fire, at 80 Elizabethstreet, where slight damage was done to an outhouse. The house was occupied by Mr. J. Foley, und owned by Airs. H. Foley. An adjournment for three months -was granted by Mr. Justice Chapman this morning in the case of Thomas George Macarthy v. Benjamin Dawson and Justinian John Kivern Powell, a claim for £375 and interest on money lent. The parties, represented by Mr. Campbell, with him Mr Peacock (for the plaintiff, and Mr. Gray (instructed by Mr. Hindmaish), for the defendant Powell, after a short conference camo to a settlement on terms mutually ar- i ranged. i Mr. Justice Cooper intimated in the I Supreme Court to-day that he did not proposo to sit in the criminal jurisdiction to-morrow — election day. Four elections took place in this district to- j morrow, and seeing that the day had i been expressly proclaimed a holiday, he { thbught it wtsuld be more conducive to ] the administration of justice if he relieved jurors and witnesses from service for the whole day. His Honour added that he would be dealing with civil business' to-morrow. / Carelessness on the part of drivers of carts, and the excessive speed at which vehicles are driven around corners, have been mainly responsible for no # less than three accidents to children in £he streets of Petone within the last few days. Happily the accidents were not of a serious nature. In one case, however, it is alleged that a driver, whose vehicle had knocked a little girl over, was thoughtless or heartless enough to drive heedlessly on without even troubling to stop to enquire whether the child was seriously hurt or not. 111-luck pursued the excursion of the Deep Sea Anglers to Palliser Bay yesterday. To the number of forty -five they went out on the Duco. Outside the Heads the north-westerly caught them with its full force. Anchor was dropped at Mutata, a small cove in Palliser Bay, but the vessel commenced to drag, and a move was made to the moufch of Lake Wairarapa. The wind had again tho better of tho unequal contest, and compelled the Duco to "mope on." Though it was still early a start was made on the homeward route, the tug picking up the Duchess on the way towing a barque into port. The toilers of the deep were ill-rewarded for their outing with three groper and a trumpeter. An extraordinary feature of an assault and robbery case heard in the Supreme Court, on Saturday afternoon, was, according to Mr. Justice Cooper, the conduct of two barmaids, the prisoner and the informant at a well-known city hotel. His Honour agreed that it was an argument, as Mr. Myers had said, for No-license. Prisoner went intothe hotel with a lot of money in his possession, and was kept there the whole of one day in dririking and buying champagne in which the barmaids shared — spending altogether something like £s—until5 — until both he and the informant got into a state of intoxication. It showed that our licensing laws -nere sometimes more honoured in the breach than the observance, and afforded a plea, at any rate, for some of tho criticism which was adduced against employment of barmaids in hot-els. \Vhilst drunk a young man named James Innes behaved in such a disorderly manner that he was arrested and charged with that offence at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., fined accused 20s, with an alternative of seven days in gaol. On another charge, that of using obscene language, accused was convicted and fined £5, with an option of twenty-one days in gaol. Mr. O'Leary appeared for accused. A sailor, Thomas Ross Law, was fined ss, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for insobriety, and jf 10s, with a forty-eight hours' default ' for unlawfully assaulting a yout'4. Henry Agiucourt Beresford and Fr crick John Way were convicted n jn( j fined 10s, with the option in each <case of forty-eight hours' imprisonment^, for insobriety. A fine^ of 10s, in f">3fault twenty-four hours' impvisonmen' W as meted out to two first offenders charged, and three were conv'^ted and discharged. Cream lace front of plair,i tucked net guipure, lace insertion and/y uipure lace motifs, finished with edeJ^yjiss iacoi ac0 a ll•>vors, at 11s 6d.— KivkcaVdirj and Rtaius, Ltd.— Advk