WANDERING STOCK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 8

WANDERING STOCK.

In reference to wandering stock, Mr. Jas. Doyle, when prosecuting offending owners in the Magistrate's Court to-day, inthnated that numerous complaints had be&n received by the Town Clerk from people in suburban districts relative to damage sustained through cattle and horses roaming at large. Tie also sail that instruction had been given corporation officials to be strict in such matters. The following persons were fined : Henry Antrobus, Wm. Boyd, John Bassett, Samuel Bray, Edward Bloomfield, Thomas W. Easton, Emily M. Evatt, Cecil Graham, Geo. Gooch, Jeremiah Harrington, Wm. J. Hart, Edward Hayes, Joseph Howard, Geo. Hunt, Albert Mildenhall, Lairington M'Williams, Wm. Nash, Elizabeth Robertson, Chas. Sargeant, Edward T. Taylor, Chas. Wadley, Francis Walker, Thomas Watson, Reginald Welsby, Jonathan Wilkinson, Wm. Fry Newcombe, M. P. Spiers. The following were ordered to pay costs : John Falpun, John Bassett, and Reginald, Welsbj-. The fines ranged from 5s to £1. '

A deputation from Levin, introduced by Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., was informed by the Minister of Railways yesterday that a crossing would be made over the railway line there three chains north of the Makomako-road, where it would not interfere with shunting opera tions. X the borough would bear the expense another new crossing would be made between Weraroa and Levin. Mrs. W. R. Williams, who has taken such a vital interest in the V.M.C.A., and has assisted it so considerably, intimated to the association authorities on tho occasion of their recent carnival, that if £250 could be so raised, she would subsidise it £ for £/ After the carnival was over, it was found that despite the hard and earnest work of participants but £206 had been raised. The temporary .sadness at the probable loss of the subsidy was changed to satisfaction when it was announced tit a meeting of the- Ladies' Auxiliary, Mrs. Ilott presiding, that £269 4s 7d (including subscriptions and collections) hah come to hand. This, deducting £19 4s 4d expenses, left .£250 0i 3d, and on learning the news Mrs. Williams, promptly forwarded her cheque for £250. The meeting tendered the donor its warmest thanks. A pleasant ceremony took place today at Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Stains's workroom, when Mrs. Snodgrass, who is severing her connection with the firm after being nine and a half years in charge of the department, was the recipient of a handsome dressing-case, suitably inscribed, as a mark of the esteem in which she is held by her fellow workers. The quarterly social and reunion of the outdoor staff of the Provident Life Assurance Company was held last evening, in Noad's Rooms, Cuba-street. In spite of the inclement weather, the whole of the staff were present. Tho gathering was presided over by Mr. J. J. Roberts, the company's inspector. During the evening, the prizes won by the three leading agents during the past Quarter were presented. The harmony of the evening was contributed to by Mrs. Jacobsen, and Messrs. Pegg, Bakei, Smith and Jacobsen. The members of/ the Taranaki and Wellington Association foot-ball representatives will bo preseut at to-night's performance of the Royal Pictures, on the invitation of the Wellington Football Association. • The Napier Borough Council is obtaining £4000, at 6 per cent., pending the flotation of the loan of £134,250 recently authorised by the ratepayers. As the result of the Rev. H. G. Cole'h mission in Napier, nearly £51 has been added to the funds of the boys' rescue work and training farm in Victoria. ! "We supply no-license districts," 111ns a legend that arrests the eye on more than one window in the city. Curiosity about the quantity of liquor rolling across the borders of the drought lands m kegs and casks, demijohns and bottles, is beginning to work up. The figures are kept in the office of Mr. Holmes, at the Magistrate's Court, but are not, visible to the public. They aye "confidential" for the present, but they will be revealed periodically by-and-bye, if the Southern precedents are to apply to Wellington. In Ashburton and other no-license arpas official information, showing the quantity of alcoholic beverages introduced under permit, has lieen published, at intervals, each year. Messrs. llarcourt and Co. announce in our advertising columns that they will sell by auction at their rooms, 195, Lamb-ton-quay, on Tuesday next, the 13th inst., at 2.30 p.m., a property having a frontge of 37ft lo Taranaki-street by a depth of 100 ft, tog'ethcr with a four-roomed cottage erected thereoni known as No. 291. , j Messrs. A. Lindsay, Ltd. 'a, *'0s 9<J boot tale" ttarti to-morrow, at their , Cuba-ctreet fhop.