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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 6

Serious injuries were sustained yesterday by a young seaman, named George Warren, aged 17 years, while working on his ship, the s.s. Niwaru. A beam i'rom one of the hatches fell on him, inflicting injuries to his body and a severe scalp wound. He is now lying in the hospital, where he is progressing favourably. The Wellington branch of JJhe Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has passed a motion protesting against any alteration in the Arbitration Act allowing the Drivers and Firemen's Association to be recognised by the Minister of Railways, contending that such recognition would be detrimental to the service as a whole. On the East Coast route alone there is more than one undeveloped Taranaki, and experience has abundantly shown that, taken as a whole, Auckland is the real dairying province of the Dominion, states the New Zealand Herald. Butter to *he value of a million sterling could be raised yarly in Auckland province as .easily as a million loan can be raised ono© in London provided only that entitlement were permitted on the locked-up lands. At the Supreme Court to-day, Albert Peters and Harry Peters, trading as A. Peters and Sons, carriers, of the Hutt, were adjudicated bankrupts by Mr. Justice "Cooper. Mr. Quick appeared for H. Baldwin and Co., produce merchants, the petitioning creditors. Mr. P. Jackson (Wilford and Levi), who represented A. Peters and Sons, stated that there was a possibility of a company being formed to take over the business. With a timber famine threatening every timber-supplying country in .the world, who is to say that in thirty years New Zealand could buy any timber from other lands? We may have to depend entirely upon our own supplies. This is no chimera ; forestry experts all over the world look with grave anxiety to the future of the timber industry. We ,• should therefore lose no time in making our Forestry Department a much more important department of the State than heretofore. — Christchurch Press. A lady correspondent, "M.A.," writes protesting, against the modern daily chronicling of- fashion gossip. She urges that .her sisters should be more keen to have their minds and hearts- * beautiful with noble sentiments than their raiment overloaded . with odds and ends, which may or may not figure :n: n print. "It behoves the better class of women in Wellington," says "M.A.," "Xo set a good example by contributing articles themselves on the power of modesty and simplicity in womanhood." 'A correspondent, "J. 5.," an old cricketer, in a letter to The Post, insists, on the necessity for having a, cricket "coach" in Wellington, and puts forward a scheme in which he suggests that every player here should subscribe Mxpence a week towards such a purpose. The scheme proposes that the professional would teach all clubs, and play in turn_ (once only) with each. Our correspondent also advocates the appointment of three-non-players as selectors for representative matches, so as to avoid cliqueism. The South Australian Government has just located the grave of John Charles - Darke, who was killed by blacks on Eyre Peninsula., on 24th October, 1844, and intend to erect a monument there. Darke assisted in laying out Melbourne in 1838, and afterwards joined the South Australian Survey Department, under Colonel Frome. He located the beautiful country which is about to be opened up by a railway that will pass within eight miles of his grave, but over which no white man ever passed for over half a century after his death. Tools having been massed by Messrs. Campbell and Bourke, contractors, from a building they are erecting in A'itkenstreet, the police were informed. About 4 o'clock this morning a constable discovered a youth named George Arthur Wcstray asleep in the premises. On being awakened, he informed the officer that he was a stranger here, with no money and no friends. He had only arrived from Sydney a few weeks ago. A charge of being a rogue and a vagabond, in that he was found on private premises without lawful excuse, was preferred against nim in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Mx. W. G. Rid- - dell, S.M., said he proposed giving a chance to accused, who was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Three men-o'-warsmen appeared in the Magistrate's. Court to-day. Two of them — Frank Albert Barton and Daniel Livingstone — were charged with unlawfully breaking away from H.M.S. Pioneer yesterday. Henry Tointon was charged with deserting from, the same warship at Sydney. The magistrate ordered thafc all three be handed- over to. the naval authorities. Five inebriates made their initial appearance before the bench, Two were convicted and discharged, two more were fined ss, and the fifth was ordered to forfeit the amount of his bail (10s). Penalty for default in the last three cases was fixed at twenty-four hours' imprisonment. At the Mount Cook Police Court, before Mr F. J. ' Lissington, J.P., several cases of drunkenness were dealt with. Eugene Mahoncy was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and G. Peterson, Charles O'Connor,. James Coliingwood, Andrew Williamson, : and Samuel Connor were each fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Four first offenders were fined 5s eaph, or twenty-four hours in gaol. Wellington members of the New Zealand Institute of Journalists asembled with visiting brethren, at the Hotel Windsor on Saturday evening, and managed to keep one another interested in various topics, mostly informal, for some three hours. Mr. F. X Reeves, president of the institute, was in the chair. The programme included sohgs by various members, to piano accompaniments v by Mr. N. Dyson, who also played a waltz of his own composition. The voicing of opinions about divers topics of importance to the profession convinced the members • that the evening had not been misspent. It is noted by tlie Dunedin 'Evening Star that there is a rumour to the effect that the Otago University Council will not be able \o fill up the proposed Chair of Domestic Science, as no suitable candidate will be available till the year 1911. Housekeepers' week at the D.I.C. from 3rd to 10th inst., when special concessions will be made on purchases of furniture, household ironmongery, glassware, chinaware, furnishing '* :?s,: ?s, carpets, rugs, etc. A special iL od price list will be found on oage . of to-night's Post.— Advfc. — Xmas parcels for abroad. Get us to forward them. Our service is most reliable. We pack in cases and send direct" by steamer. The New Zealand Express C 0... Ltd.— Advt. l The decrease in the Customs returns is no doubt the result of tho period of depression through whioh the country has just pasod. Importers have beon T very careful, and many of tho local warehouses are hcr.vily overstocked, whioh necessitates the clearing out. of season's goods at sacrificed pricos. We wore fortunate in securing a manufacturer's stock of men's suitings at less tbaa cost of manufacture. Included in this line will be found the latest tweeds m stripe or heather mixtures, in briwns, greens, greys, oto. In order to bring- this lino before your notice wo w/li icake you a made-to-measure suit from anj of these tweeds for 50s. Tako advantage of this - offer.— C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-st.— AdvU