LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1909, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At this morning's meeting of the Exchango a quiet market prevailed, sales on 'Change being restricted to Talisman •£2 12s 6d, and Saxon 2«. Reported transactions were — Big River £2 ]6s, Maoriland Q±d, and May Queen 2s lOd. The closing prices of the leading mines <were— Waihi, £9 2s 6d (b.), £9 3s 6d (s.); Talisman, £2 12s 6d (b.), £2 12s ■Sd (s.); Junction, £2 4s (b.), £2 5s (s.)l A San Francisco mail, brought ta Auckland yesterday by the. steamer Century, is due at Wellington by tha Main Trunk express this afternoon. English ajid Australian mail mat. ter is due to-morrow afternoon — tha Victoria having arrived at Auckland from Sydney this morning. Another American mail, dated San Francisco, 21st May, is due to arrive here with tha Manapouri on Thursday morning. * To-morrow is the day fixed for the unveiling of the two memorial portraits in Invercargill, of the late Edward Gibbon Wakefield. One will be hung in the Town Hall and the other in the Athenaeum. It is alleged that John Hemingway, who was arrested in Sydney last week on a charge of breaking and entering a local warehouse, had in his possession £60 worth of valuables, including jewellery and fountain" pens. The Defence Department has been offered th-e use of the Wellington Homing Pigeon Society's birds in connection with; military manoeuvres. The society is imbued with patriotic motives, and •will nob accept any payment in the event of thai department availing itself of the offer. Football and hockey are tabooed on the Eastbourne Recreation Ground. Tha local Borough Council, at its meeting on Saturday, resolved : "That until further notice the playing of football or hockey, on the Recreation Reserve be prohibited, and that a public notice to this effect be placed on the ground." A prohibited person— Stephen Cairns — was charged in the Magistrate's Court* to-day with entering licensed premises. He was fined 40s, the alternative being seven days' imprisonment. For driving in Cuba-street at night without proper lights, Lawrence Lyons was fined 10s, with costs 7s. Estimates and list of proposed rates for the year were submitted to the Eastbourne Borough Council, at ita meeting on Saturday night. There waa considerable discussion on the estimates, and it was finally resolved to still further consider them at a special meeting of the council on Saturday next. Annie Evans, who had been remanded for medical treatment, was to-day, in the Magistrate's Court, charged with drunkenness. She was ordered to pay, 10s (doctor's fee) ; in default, 48 hours* imprisonment. Edward Mbrrison and Joseph Goodier, also appearing on charges of drunkenness, were fined 10a each, penalty for default ( being fixed at 48 hours' imprisonment. 1 Three first offending inebriates were also dealt with. ' One was convicted and discharged, anj the others each fined 10s. ''Times are. Very hard, your Worship., I have been looking for work ever since I was last up," remarked a young man, named John Thomas Driscoll, when charged in the Magistrate's Court today with stealing a portmanteau and its. contents, valued at £6, from the City. Buffet Hotf 1. Clmf Detective Brober®, stated that accused had been admitted to" twelve months' probation at the lasto silting of the Supreme Court, being then* charged with entering the same premises. _ Driscoll was sentenced to on«, month's imprisonment., with hard labour.. There appears to have been considerable encroachment on public streets at Rona Bay and thereabouts. Some people have, unknowingly or otherwise, in* closed a little bit of the "long pad-* dock." However, this is not to be coin. tinued. The Eastbourne Borough ' Cour^ cil on Saturday resolved : "That ownersr of structures encroaching on the publio street or footway be required to giva an undertaking in writing to remova such structures, whenever called upon 1 to do so by the council ; the Town Cleric to demand such undertaking in all case* reported to him by the Borough Fore-* man." The presentation of the gold emblem* of the Marine Engineers' Institute to thflj Hon. J. Carroll (Native Minister), Hon« G. Fowlds (Minister for Education^ Hon. R. M'Kenzie (Minister for Pub^ lie Works), Hon. C. M. Luke, M.L.C., and Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P. (S. Luke an<s Co., Ltd.), Messrs. H. C. Tewsley (Saiv good, Son, and Ewen), M. and N* M'Lean (John M'Lean and Son, Ltd.)* I G. Joachim, and W. A. Fla<rell (Wests port Coal Co.), W. J. Hanlon (John*, ston and Co.), and A. J. Arnst (SycU ney), will be made at a supper at thai Hotel Windsor this evening. The chaiz; will be taken by Mr. James Darlingy President of tho Institute. A brana new saloon car will snortlyj be at the disposal of his Excellency ths Governor. It is for use on the Mainf Trunk line for the most part, and will be luxuriously fitted. It is at present receiving finishing touches in the Petone workshops. With a length of 50 feet and of ample breadth, the vice-regal c.ir; is divided into drawing-room, diningroom, and bedroom. Two lavatories ore also provided, and the car has its own baggage room. A special dynamo supplies electric light, and provision is made for illumination by gas. A catf for Ministers' use is being built, and it will bo furnished and equipped oij much the same luxurious scale. What is li'eant^by the "Two o'clock day" was explained at this week's meat, ing of the Auckland branch of the Lib; oral and Labour Federation of New Zea« land. Mrs. Emily Nicol, of Ponsonby, reports, the Auckland Star, wrote, poinfe ing out that on wet days school child ref are kept damp and foodle^s until two o'clock, to enable their second iuleml, ance to be registered; this., in oidci- thai the teachers' ' salaries should uoi :■ utter, Mr. Haile Giles, ?aid that, as a U-:u1m» of about thirty yeais' t-tatuJinq, he dis. approved the pra< tico, and h.\d nevof adopted it. A motion was pitted to lh< effect that the one call of the roll fboulc suffice for the whole day, and it \\,u decided to send a copy of the i evolution to the Teachers' Institute, and invite its co-operation. To-morrow, Tuesday, and three fol< lowing days, there will be an interesting display in our windows of fashionable evening goods. Kirkcaldie and StainsLtd.— Advfc,.

No less than 220 cases were set down for hearing at the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Thursday last. Dengue fever has made its reappearance in Suva, and the correspondent of the Auckland Herald reports that many residents are, and have been, affected by it. -Mrs. John Bett, one of the oldest residents of Wanganui, died suddenly at that place yesterday afternoon. Deceased was seventy-six years of age. The cause of death is attributed to heart disease, Mrs. Bett being apparently in her usual health and spirits up to the time of her demise. At the meeting of the Auckland Trades Council on Wednesday night, the Star reports, a notice of motion was tabled to the effect that members of the Press other than those representing the recognised labour papers be excluded from a) i meetings of the council. One delegate asked, " Will .the reporters have a, vote on this motion ? If they have, I am afraid they will vote for it." The Otago Daily Times understands that the police are investigating a case ii a country township where it is alleged that a corpse has been buried by two men during the hours of darkness. No certificate of burial has reached the registrar of deaths in the district. It is further alleged that when the coffin, was being lowered into the grave one of the tv-*o men requested the other to offer up some kind of a prayer. This request was not complied with, and both men hurried away from the cemetery, taking ■with them the lantern, by the dim light of which the burial had taken place. Use of insulting words was the nature of a charge preferred in the S.M. Court to-day against Christopher M'Kay, a warder in the Wellington Asylum. Accused, who pleaded not guijty, said that ho had been a member of the local police force, and prior io that a constable in Glasgow. He produced certificates of good conduct obtained at Home. Sub-Inspector Phair stated that accused had been discnirgej from the local force. The allegfed cjjjectionable speech; was levelled a^a'nst a constabel on duty. The defence was that the boot was on the other foot. His Worship held that the evidence was distinctly against M'Kay. It had been stated that he %vas under the influence of liquor at the time of the offence, while evidence had been given against him by two persons, who were sober. Accused was fined 40s, with costs 17s. Some of the Tongans have been saying things in Samoa which the German Government considered serious, and now the Tongan Government has been notified thai no more Tongans will be allowed to land, and no 'Samoans to leave, Samoa for Tonga (says the Tonga correspondent of the IFiji Times). Many of the chiefs and people will welcome this law, as those who have 'Samoan relations have had to keep hordes of followers, who take away horses and pigs, and practically return nothing to Tonga. One Tongan, called Jione Lamibefci, wae imprisoned in Apia, and returned by steamer for something he was alleged to have said. These people go to Samoa and tell the people there that they have a king, and get their financial statement printed, etc., and urge the Samoans to demand the same. They don't tell the Samoans that the Parliament and all the Government heads of the native department have to do as they are told, or else up goes the 'British flag. All along the Hutt-road between Ngahauranga and Kaiwarra, and beyond, as far as the Thorndon Esplanade, the widening of the Hutt-road and the straightening and duplication of the railway, are making considerable changes. About Kaiwarra itself there has been a very large amount of filling in at the reclamation behind the retaining wall, which is approaching completion from the Ngahauranga side. There is a little gap this side the Kaiwarra station, and then the outline of the boulders cast in to bar out the sea may be seen following the line of the marking posts under the water. It will be some time, of course, before the line reaches town, but work is far advanced at Kaiwarra. There, too, the standards and roof members of the new structure for Cable's foundry are iiv position, only waiting to be clothed with the external skin of .iron. The bridge over the Kaiwarra stream is half complete, and almost ready for the transference of the road. To-day, at the Supreme Court, beforeMr. Justice Sim, the evidence of one' witness was taken in the action for divorce — Mazzha Kallil Noon v. Noon Assad Noon — a wife's petition on the ground of desertion. The petitioner, who was stated to be ill, was represented by Mr. Gray. Petitioner's brother, Rinnan Kailil el Sham, deposed to the marriage of his sister to respondent sixteen years ago, at Sibel, Mt. Labanon, Syria. -A. child was born, and about twelve months after the marriage the lespondent went to Australia, petitioner following him nine months later. Three years ago petitioner was keeping a drapery and fancy goods store on Lamb-ton-quay. Witness arrived in New Zealand nine years ago, and was now in partnership with his cousin in Ohura. Three years ago he had seen the respondent in Wellington, and once he had met him up country. Respondent was living apart from his wife. Further hearing was adjourned until Thursday morning next. Enquiries made both in Canterbury and Otago, where the bulk of* the wheat is grown and where the surplus is held, have failed, it is said, to discover any indications of the operations of Australian buyers, or any corroborative information that such a visit is contemplated. So far from more than half of the surplus of 2,000,000 bushels of wheat having been exported, the Customs returns show that, up to the end of May, only 156,463 sacks (equal to about 521,543 bushels) had been shipped. To show that Christchurch merchants are not anticipating a wheat famine, it has been mentioned th^-t they have shipped practically all their stocks, and, in view ot the present state of the Home market, they are not making further purchases, unless they can obtain them on a parity Avith London values. Meanwhile there is little wheat offering, as farmers are holding firmly. A prominent representative of the milling trade in Auckland, interviewed regarding the position in the flour market, remarked that the price of flour in the South was recently reduced from £11 10s to £10 10s by the Flourmillers' Association, in order' to rally those inclined to hesitate at the renewal of their agreement, the association knowing that to run at a loss would give the delinquents an idea of what they might expect if they broke away from' the association. Have you furniture or goods you want stored? We have excellent accommodation in new brick-built stores. Lowest rates. The N.Z. Express Company. I Tel. 1333.— Advt. The meteorologist has to be a faithful observer of the ever-varying heavens, and whether the latest spot on the sun or the extra brilliancy of tho stars may enable, him to foretell the stato of the weather on Saturday next, 19th June, is open to doubt But even the meteorologist has hts limitations, and all the various statistics in the world would be of no assistance m revealing the deluge which overtook the Dress and Manchester Departments at C. Smith's, Ltd., Cuba-street, on. Thursday, 10th June The result of a burst -waterpipe will mean a loss of £700 to £800 to the firm and a "flood of Dregs and Manjchestor bargains for the public next Saturday. — Advt-