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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 142, 15 December 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. — o 'At the Exchange to-day sales were reported of Wellington Meats (£2 12s 6d paid) at £3 2s, Talisman (two parcels) at £2 2s 6d, and Tangiaro at 7d. In. surance shares have a, hardening tendency, and buyers were offering the higher rate of £2 7s 9d for South British, but there were no sellers below £2 9s. Bank of N.Z. were fractionally easier, with buyers £8 8s and sellers asking 4s more. Generally there was a firm tone in all sections of the call, and quotations chow little or no alteration. X All possiblo steps are being taken by the Railways Department to cope with the holiday traffic between Wellington and 'Auckland on the Main Trunk line. As already announced, in addition to the usual two-day service, a train will run daily each way from Monday, the 21st inst., to 4th January, inclusive. The train from Wellington will leave at 10.30 p.m., and reach Auckland at 7.0 p.m. The South bound train will leave Auckland at 9.15 p.m., and arrive at Wellington at 5.45 p.m. No trains will start on Sundays or on Christmas Day. Dining oars will be run on the through trains. Only passengers for Wellington or Auckland will be carried, either from the terminal stations or the stations en route. Through goods traffic will be carried ovei the Main Trunk line on and after the 7th January. The Postal authorities advise that the Moeraki, which left Sydney for Wellington on Saturday, has on board an Australian mail which is due here to-mor-row. A donation of £5 for the hospital wo s received from Mrs. S. A. Rhodes with thanks by the Hospital Trustees to-day ; also a gift of £111 3s subscribed to by Chinese residents. Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., has received a telegram from the Prime Minister regretting that he is not able to authorise the payment of old-age pensioners for December before Christmas, as it would be illegal. The Railways Department has arranged, as the result of an interview by Mr. A. L. D. Fraser with the ActingMinister for Railways and the officers of the Department, to run insulated trucks for the carriage of fish between Napier and Wellington. Will trams run on Christmas Day? The question was again considered by the Tramways Committee of the City Council, and it was decided to recommend that the cars be run. This recommendation will' be considered by the council at its meeting on Thursday. The report of the engineer on Island Bay tramfares was considered. It is understood to be less favourably inclined towards a concession in fares, than was the committee itself at its previous meeting. The report will be forwarded to thb committee of Island Bay residents. Having pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening behaviour, whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned, Herbert Hunter told Mr. Riddell, S.M., this morning that he had taken a couple of whiskies on top of some medicine, and that had upset his equanimity. Edward Moran, his partner in the clock and antagonist in the fight by the Cricketers' Arms Hotel last night, pleaded the total oblivion of intoxication. His Worship imposed fines of £l, or in defaut ordered 7 days' imprisonment. Charles Fergu- i son was fined £3, with the option of 14 days' imprisonement, for using obscene language. Two first offenders were fined ! ss; or in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for insobriety. The case of Thew v. Thew, a wife's suit for judicial separation, was concluded in the Supreme Court after The Post went to press yesterday. Besjpondent, Hugh Beattie Thew, was questioned by Mr. O'Leary as to when he had embraced ".Spiritualism." His Honour pointed out that respondent was not a j Spiritualist. Witness said he believed j in the phenomena. He had practised magnetic healing practically all his life, j "Why," he • declared, "I cured her i (pointing to his wife) of toothache before we were married." His Honour said the case was one of the mo&t peculiar that had ever come under his notice. The jury after a retirement of eight minutes returned a verdict for respondent. In two cases brought under the Consolidated Opium Act, 1907, '.against chemists yesterday for failing to keep books specifying particulars of opium sold by them, defences were offered. Wm. Salek pleaded not guilty, stating that he had never purchased any opium since the Act came into force. He had a book, and would have entered up any pale or use of any opium passing through his hands, but he had used none. His | Worship dismissed the information in this case, and also in the case of Walter B. f. Perrott, who said he kept a book at his main pharmacy, in which trans- i actions relating to the branch at Berhampore were duly entered. The defen- ! dant undertook to keep a book at Berhampore also for the future. Reluctance of hospital patients to payup for treatment was once more referred to at the meeting of the Hospital Trustees to-day, when Mr. J. Rod, a new member, said he knew of people who had received treatment for which they could well afford to pay. The chairmin (Hon. C. M. Luke) agreed. No matter, he said, how vigilant officials were, cases would occur in which persons who could pay would evade their obligations. At the same time, he would be glad if Mr. Rod would give any information on the subject. Mr. Rod said he could not do so that day, but he would be able to show that there were persons who could pay and who should he made to pay for treatment. The matter then dropped Rather extraordinary precautions are being taken by the No-license party in establishing a. patrol round the courthouse at night during the magisterial recount (wrote the Waihi correspondent of the Auckland Star last Friday). The ballot papers, it may be stated, are deposited in the strong-room of the Warden's Court during intervening hoirrs of adjournment, and the No-license party, with a view to pi'evenling any j attempt at interfering with the ballot papers, have instituted "shifts," and advocates took short watches during night and morning up till the time of the court resuming. The courthouse is therefore carefully guarded, notwithstanding the fact that the papers are deposited in a strong-room, entrance to which it is impossible to gain except by dynamite. To-morrow, Wednesday, our store will close at 1 p.m., so that we may open all day Saturday. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt t