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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 20, 23 July 1909, Page 6

The information against Albert Tronson, alias Charies Russell, who appeared on remand in the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court to-day, charged with the theft of eight books, valued at ss, was withdrawn by leave of the court. ■ A sum of £5 has been donated by the Wellington Amateur Athletic dub to tho 'Wellingtoiv Centre as a help towards meeting the centre'e liability .for sending a New Zealand team to the coming Australasian championship con- ' tests In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Dr. A. 'M' Arthur", S.M., Fleming, Laurens-on and Co. sued Jas. DicK and Hunter 'MlKechnie, trading as the Direct Supply Association, for £60, alleged commission on a drapery business. Decision was reserved. Mr. iLevvey is for plaintiff, and Mr.' W. H. JJ. Bell for defendant. Entries for the coming annual dog show of the Wellington Kennel Club are being received in such numbers as to promise a record. The committee of the club met last night to make further arrangements. Mr. E. Bernascoui, who has acted in a similar capacity on previous occasions, was appointed show manager. The committee also consider-. ■ Ed a long list of special prizes and do* nations. Some stress was put yesterday after., noon, by Mr. R. Fletcher, on the disadvantages of the lack of telephonic communication between the Mount Victoria signal station and Beacon Hill. Mr. Fletcher reminded the Harbour Board that the.'Mount Victoria signalman was required at present to be for ever watching Beacon Hill for signs of approaching vessels. The chairman (Mr. T. M. \Vilford) approved -the idea, and suggested that the connection should be by private wire rather than through the Exchange. The matter would be referred to the Wharves and Accounts Committee. Mr. J. G. Hnrkness remarked that it was timo of the board to review the whole . matter of its signalling system. • David Wilson, the youth who asked the indulgence of the magistrate in the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court yesterday, when charged with being an idle and disorderly person, appeared again this morning before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M. The case was allowed to stand down yesterday in order that a statement by accused, that he had £30 to his credit in the Post Office Savings Bank up to a week ago, might be enquired into. The Chief Detective informed the court that he had learned that Wilson had £14 in the bank last January. He vithdrew the deposit, and since then the sum total of his earnings had been £1 14s. His Worship sentenced him to three months' imprison-s ment. Tree-planting at iMiramar on the lines of the scheme for which the Mayor of that borough (Mr. C. J. Crawford) m responsible, is being prosecuted to some purpose. Of £140 voted not so long ago towards the object, £120 has been spent. Tho trees, which are in » flourishing condition, consist of poiiutakawa, pines, karakas, and cabbage palms, and also a number of native shrubs. Unfortunately, there appears to 'be clanger from wandering- stock. At last night's meeting of the Borough Council, a letter war read from Dr, Makgill, stating that some stray horeesi had recently raided his garden and inflicted damage to the extent of £2. The correspondent asked the council to move in the matter of wandering 6tock, otherwise he \vould hold it responsible for the damage. The letter was referred to the borough ranger. On • the, death of the Rev. Richard Coffey, Who was their incumbent for thirty years, the parishioners of St. Mark's Church and his friends raised funds to perpetuate his memory for all time. Fifteon months ago a beautifully; carved oak pulpit was placed in St. Mark's and dedicated to his memory, and a few months back a handsome 1 marble cross was erected over his grave at Karori. A substantial sum has been invested, and with the interest Coffey Memorial prizes are to be given every year in the Sunday School. A massivn marble font has been made in Italy, and is to be dedicated on Sunday mor'ning_ next. The basin is of the purest white marble, and stands on a central shaft of white marble, surrounded byfour columns of red Sicilian marble. On. the four sides of the font are panels depicting in high relief the emblems of the four evangelists. The whole design is welt carried out, and is an excellent specimen of modern Italian modelling. _ Amended regulations for the classifies* tion of the Post and Telegraph Department are gazetted as follow :—4O.: — 40. Every male officer who is twenty-two yeare of age or upwards shall receive a saJary! of not less than £100 per annum. 41. ' Every male officer who is married, 015 who is a widower with a child or children, shall receive a salary not less than £130 per annum. But he shall not be entitled to claim, and shall not ba paid, the additional sum' of £10 mentioned in clause 42 hereof until th« salary attached to his official position in the Post and Telegraph Departmental list reaches £130. 42. An officer who :s married, or is a widower or a widow with a child or»children, and is drawing a salary less than £150, shall be paid a sum additional to salary of £10 per annum until the salary reaches the sum of £150 per annum, except ao provided in clause 41. When the difference between the annual salary and £150 is less than £10, a sum equal to tho difference shall be paid. 42a. 'Notwithstanding the provisions of tho three last preceding! clauses, any portion of such salary above the classification scale for tho office held shall not give the officer receiving it seniority over others in the same class or grade who entered sucfe class or grade before that officer. Bookmakers and their calling wera freely discussed at the Racing Conference, which succeeded in transiting all the business before it yesterday. Ths president, m his address, dealt with the fraternity and its influence on ths sport, tho man who lays the odds wav imported into a discussion on stipendiary stewards, he was the centre piece in tha J debate on the question of taking a legal test case to defino certain rights of rac ing olubs. and generally bobbed up her© and there during the proceedings. Tha vast weight of opinion was " plainly against the odds-layer boing given a, legal status, but, as one delegate phi as. Ed it : let sleeping dogs lie ; and wl.oa. the power to authorise a test case imd«r the motion referred to was given the president he was also furnished with a discretionary right as to the add^bleness of exercising die power. A most important departure was made when the conference affirmed the prinripla of stipendiary stewards. Before the business concluded a warm tubute was paid the president for the .signal service ha had rendered the sport, [n the course of his reply, Sir George Clifford, apparently alluding to the pacing of the Gaming Act of 1907, which compelled clubs to license bookmakers, slated that a heavy blow had fallen .m them, which had had the effect of undoing much of what had previously been accomplished in Ine interests *of pure spot'l, but it was for them to show that they were not utterly defeated, bnt wero still determined to carry on their task of making racing in New Zealand a woithy example to the rest ot the worid. The sentiments were heartily applauded by every delegate. Blanket Cloth, 52in. wide, in plain shades of Saxo blue, navy, royal, car. dinal, reseda, and white, at 4s 6d a yard. — Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— AdvL