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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, The free-plaoe pupils who are en» titled to admission to the Girls' High. School will not join the classes until after the present year. This decision has been amicably come to by the College Governors and the Government. It was felt that it would be a foolhardyproceeding to take scholars away from their classes at the present time, as they are just in the middle of a term. Thepresent term ends in December, and the parties interested agree that pupils who are entitled to free plaoes would be better served by going on with their studies at the High Schools, and completing the course upon which they had entered. Wellington's representatives were in conquering mood in all fields on Saturday, in various departments of sport. Canterbury fell before the onset of the (Rugby A team to the extent of 11 to 6, and Horowhenua's chosen men were overcome by thfe B brigade at Levin by 13 to 3. The Auckland challengers for the Association Brown Shield were condemned to go empty away. They strove manfully for mastery at the Athletic Park, but finished a goal bahind the holders. At Auckland, hockey invaders captured a shield by a margin of 1 goal (3 ,to 2) after a hot battle. Auckland has now lost two of the four shields which it had tightly gripped a. year ago. The .Northerners have still the Ranfurly Rugby Shield and the Plunket Cricket Shield. The tenure o* the Ranfurly trophy is now rather shaky. It is understood, too, that Canterbury will make a desperate endeavour in the summer to make at least r- temporary home for the Plunket ShiaM in Christchurch. Only Australian mail matter wffl# brought to Auckland by the Vicfowia, which arrived at the northern port from Sydney yesterday morning. The southern bags are due by this afternoon's Mam Trunk express. It is probable that the weekly English mail via Brindisi, is being brought to Wellington by the Manuka, due from Sydney on Wednesday morning. An incident which throws an interesting light on the peculiarities of ocean currents was related by Captain Abram, of the fishing vessel Duco, which returned a week ago from the Chatham Islands. While the vessel was in the vicinity of Cubi Strait, the sea being rather heavy, a lifebelt was lost overboard. A few days later the identical lifebelt was-,picked up on the beach at the opposite side of the island. It had evidently been carried round by currents and tide, a distance of several miles. The mails which left Wellington on the 12th August by the s.s Manapouri, and connected at Papeete with the R.M.S. Mariposa, arrived at San Francisco on the 3rd inst. — due date. ( In the Magistrate's Court to-day, a yonng man named- Charles Taylor appeared on two charges — one of drunkenness and the other of having committed an unnatural offence on Saturday. On the former he was convicted and discharged, and on the more serious allegation was remanded till Wednesday. While under the influence of liquor on Saturday, Joseph Goodier directed his unsteady footsteps towards an. express in which were some bottles of whisky. He helped himself to two and retired. A little later, when he was arrested, one I bottle was found to be broken ; the other | was intact. In the Magistrate's Court , this morning Goodier was charged with | theft. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £1, with costs (ss), in default, one week's imprisonment. A visit to Christchurch was paid by a score of Savages from the Wellington hapu, in connection with the annual interchanges of visits by the savage clubsj The Wellington men went out to the Wellington-Canterbury 'football match on Saturday afternoon, and also had a fifty-mile excursion jpto the country, in motor-cars. The eyening's entertainment at the Savage Club rooms was given wholly by the Wellington men, and the manner of its reception by the, local Savages proved that the entertainment was of an enjoyable quality. Some of the Wellington \men came back on Sunday, and the remainder were to aiv rive by to-day's steamer. A small boy who ran away from hitt home in Ashburton on Wednesday had some exciting experiences, as published by the Christchurch Star. He "stowed away" on an express train, and told th« guard that his mother had bought him a « ticket and he had lost it. On arrival at Christchurch the guard handed tha lad over to the police, and he Was well cared for by them. On Thursday he was given practically a free run of the barracks, pending the arrival of his father. The boy seemed "good," but he climbed H wall, and was caught on a train bound for Lyttelton. The boy's father arrived in Christchurch in the- evening, and found the absconder in the watchhouse at the Police Station. A man named William Higginson, aged 35 years, died) suddenly at a boardinghouse in Dixon-street this morning. It appears that deceased had been complaining of a cold for the past five weeks, and had been confined to the house for the last day dr two. Early this morning he was in such a state that his room-mate called in Dr. Pigeon, who found him to be suffering from' pneumonia, and ordered his removal to the hospital. Before he could bo transferred, however, he fell back in his bed and expired. Deceased is supposed to have been a single man, and has no relatives in New Zealand. An inquest is being held at the Morgue this afternoon. Mr. Roosevelt, who is on a hunting expedition in East Africa, had an exciting experience on 20th July, while endeavouring to shoot a hippopotamus. At 9 o'clock in the morning he went out on Lake Naivasca in a rowboat, accompanied by two natives. After rowing out some distance from shore the boat was surrounded by a dozen hippopotami, which attacked the boat, some of them diving under and striking the bottom of it with their backs. The natives be-,-came frightened, but Mr. Roosevelt was not dismayed, and selecting the finest bull and the largest cow shot them dead. The rest of the animate were driven off. Mr. Roosevelt arrived at the camp at 3 o'clock the following morning, after towing home his game with a launch, which was sent out in search for tha rowboat. On Saturday morning, Kate Wileon was released from prison, and the tame day was under arrest again. In tha Magistrate's Court this morning she waa charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Riddiford-street while drank. Accused's record of previous convictions totalled nine. She was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment. Similar punishment was meted out to William Severn, also charged with drunkenness. Of five firet-offendors, four wera each mulcted in the sum of ss, and t>he other, out on bail, was fined 10s. Tha alternative in all cases was fixed at 24 hours' imprisonment. At the Mount Cook Police Court this morning, before jMr Horace Baker, J.P., John Smith, ] for being drunk and disorderly, was fin•d 20s, or three days' imprisonment. Four first-offenders were convicted nnd discharged, while another, on bail, did not appear, and was fined 10a, or 48 hours in gaol. Lisle thread hose, with vertical dropstitch or bracelet stripes, in emerald, aky blue, or violet, also in mixed stripes, at 2s aya v pair. — Kirkcaldi^ and Stains, Ltd.— AdvU