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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 8

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AUCKLAND, 12th July. To sail— Morayshire (to-morrow), for Lyttelton. GREYMOUTH, 12th July. To sail— Hoimdale (midnight), for Gisborne. BLDXHEIJI, 12th July. Opawa crossed bar for Wellington at 1.20 this, afternoon. NEW PLYMOUTH, 12th July. Sailed— llineinoa (2.15 p.m.), for Frencii Freesias, though their name is appropriate enough for tho weather, are a mockery in the florists' windows, and the narcissi are a pretty joke. There is no excuse now for the spring flowers to be nodding their heads in merriment at the discomfiture of the shivering populace. The warm days prior to th,e middle of June served to induce various plants to bloom prematurely, but lat- | terly the southerlies have done, their best ; to discourage the flowers. One grey and bleak day follows another, but it is consoling to the people here to know that their contemporaries in other places are similarly afflicted. The weather is broken almost everywhere, and positively declines to be mended. More rain is in the inexhaustible store of the blackened sky, and a cold night is assured, with an official guarantee to convince the sceptical. Mr. W. Burrett, late of the Northern Steam Ship Company's service, has been appointed assistant town clerk at tho Thames. In the 'Magistrate's Court this afternoon, Fredk. Dobson was charged with permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises, and George Avery, barman, was charged with supplying liquor to Arthur 'Scott, who was at the time intoxicated. 'Both defendants, who were represented by 'Mr. Young, pleaded not guilty. Sub-Inspector Norwood prosecuted. Evidence waG submitted that on the- 28th June accused Avery served Scott with liquor. The police arrived on the scene, and called in the licensee DobsoJi. Scott was put to a test to prove that he was not intoxicated, but he staggered. Thereupon, accused Dobson ordered him out of the bar. Scott was subsequently arrested outside for drunkenness. The further hearing was adjourned till Friday. A resident of Napier writes to the Daily Telegraph, saying that he has a lucrative billet, and he cannot bear to think that his fellow-creatures, especially women and children, have not bread to eat. Ho added that if a certain suffering correspondent would disclose his identity to the writer he would arrange to have him provided with two loaves of bread a day for a month, if, meanwhile, he should not succeed in gotting work. With the co-operation of the»| editor of the journal, mentioned the assistance was given without publicity on either side. An advertisement appears in our columns, stating that (J. A. Turner's hair specialist business, has been purchased by W. Jupp, of this city. Clients are assurcdHhat they can rely on rtcciving lirst-cluss attention.