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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 115, 17 May 1909, Page 7

A handsome new house for the Anglican Bishop of Auckland is to bo erected at a cost of from £2000 to £3000. A brilliant display of Aurorae Australis is said to have been seen from the R.M.S. Tainui early on Saturday morning, when the ship was nearing Cape Farewell. The Hawkes Bay Herald takes the Merchant Service Guild to task for passing a motion to the effect that the finding of the Appeal Court in the Penguin case was against the weight of evidence. The Herald considers the resolution silly, and one which any respectable body should be ashamed to put its name to. On the Bth inst Michael Edward and William Hetherington went to Day's Bay on the ferry steamer Cobar. A dispute between them ended in a fight, and they were arrested. To-day they were charged at the S.M. Court with using threatening behaviour on shipboard, whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned. Both pleaded guilty. As accused were first offenders, his i Worship decided to deal lightly with them, and imposed fines of 20s each, with costs ; in default, one week's imprisonment. A very simple excuse was- proffered by a citizen this morning for his unwillingness to serve on the jury. It would cause him inconvenience, he said. | His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman was very quick in pointing out to the reluctant gentleman that such service always caused inconvenience, which was no excuse for a dereliction of civic duty. The citizen became a juror, and took his place without further demur. Another gentleman answered, "Over age," when his name was called, and, though he did not look more than half a century, he was passed out of the running at 66. Then there was a juryman who did not appear at all. He was afterwards ascertained to be away on the rolling deep. A young woman, Mabel (Lee, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day to (1) obtaining, on the 26th April, from Mary Tier, board to the value of 16s, with intent to defraud ; (2) receiving 10s from iMary Tier on terms requiring her to account for the same, and f raudulently omitting to do so ; (3) stealing a purse and £2 15s from Mary Tier. Chief Detective 'Broberg informed the court that accused represented to complainant that she was the wife of a solicitor, and accordingly was received as a boarder. The 10s was given her for the purpose of procuring a postal note, which she said she gave to a girl. The purse accused took off a dressing-table. There were previous convictions against the same woman, and she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. A sailor named William Clifton Mattacks said in the S.M. Court to-day that he had been unfortunate enough to lose his ship. Having no money or friends, he on Saturday night boarded the coal hulk Enterprise, lying at the Queen's Wharf, and made himself as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. Unfortunately for him, he was discovered at 2 a.m. yesterday, and this morning was called upon to explain to the court why he should not be deemed to be a rogue and a vagabond. This was the first lime he had been found in such a predicament, and he was accordingly convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. A fine of 20s (the alternative being a week in gaol) was jmposed upon Basil Gordon M'llwain, charged with committing theft of timber to the value of 15s, belonging to Frederick Hunt and John M'Donald. Accused said that he had removed the wood for firing purposes. A cruise to the South Seas, on the mission steamer John Williams, has been entered upon by Mr. John Robertson, son of Mr. David Robertson, of the Phoenix foundry. He has gone as engineer of the mission steamer. Some enquiries as tf> the state of the engineering trade in Sydney have been made of The Post, in recent weeks, by correspondents, one of whom stated that he has thoughts of going thither to look for work. Advices received by Mr. D. Robertson, from his son, who has made it his business to test the trade in Sydney from an employment standpoint, show that it is in no better state there than it is in Wellington, and it remains slack here, though a slight help has been given to it on its ironfounding side, by the orders for a number of large girders required for the Union S.S. Company's new buildings, and the two or three other large offices that have been lately put in course of construction at Wellington. The patent course recorder referred to in our cablegrams on Saturday as having been tried on the steamer Mokoia on the trip from Auckland to Sydney with satisfactory results is the invention of Mr. S. E. Fraser, of the Waihi Company's staff at Waikino, Mr. Joseph Fraser, of Fraser and Sons, engineers, Auckland, and Mr. Jumeaux, ■ chief draughtsman in the latter firm's establishment. The apparatus was invented for the purpose of recording the actual steering of a vessel, when set on a course in accordance with the bridge compass — showing the quality of the steering, relative time, and any deviations from the set course. Mr. S. E. Fraser, who is at present in Wellington, states that the object of the invention is for the production of an apparatus, not for the navigation of the vessel, but for the recording of the bridge compass when the vessel is being navigated on a set course. The apparatus may be fixed in the captain's cabin. It is simple in its operation, ensures strict attention to the steering of the vessel, and stimulates emulation on the part of the steersman. The mechanism consists of a set of travers; ing rolls for the paper — a magnetic needle with marking device — mechanical means for marking, and a clockwork motive power, all of which are simple, reliable, strong, and accurate in construction. The invention has been tried on some of the Auckland coastal vessels, and the results are reported to have been most satisfactory. Mr. J. P. Luke, M.R, who has returned from Auckland, speaks highly of the engineering shops of the northern city. In the course of an interview with a Star reporter, he said he knew by the work which had been done in the past that capable and efficient people were in clmrge of the engineering industry in Auckland. ' H is a very great- pity," he continued, "that the growth of this particular industry should be marred for lack of that stimulus which appears to be deliberately withheld. A case in point is the action of the Auckland Harbour Board in regard to the purchasing of steam cranes outside the Dominion. I do not wish to traverse the action of the board, but I certainly think that they should facilitate as far as possible the manufacture of the requirements 'within the Dominion, and try to stamp out any prejudice there may be against local manufactures. In this instance the ironmasters and engineers should have been given ,the encouragement it was possible to give, even if it were found necessary to gH plans of the work from the Old Country. Personally, I do not expect every engineer to specialise in every department, and if he has not the special knowledge to give effect to the true interests of the community, the board could obtain the necessary plans from authorities in the Old World." A slight irritation in the throat may lead to a hacking cough. Zymole Trokeys stop it; they soothe the irritation and strengthen the throat,.—- Advt,