TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1909, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

IDENTIFYING A PRISONER }. A NOVEL SUGGESTION. J [BX TELEGRAPH — SPECIAt TO THE POSI,^ CHRISTCHURCH, This Dayj? Counsel in a case at the Suprejjfcft Court yesterday, after asking that, all witnesses should be ordered out *of court, requested that the accused should be allowed to sit down in the eorneiNof the ' dock. The question was one ->'of identification, he said, and he proposed to ask witnesss to closely describe bna accused being able.to..see him. His Honour said that he had never ■heard such an application, and he did not feel inclined to grant it. ? The Crown Prosecutor said that "thft accused had been considerably altering his face, and had shaved off his moustache. - . • , ; y „ '. Counsel said that as, a, rule prisoners, were identified from among others n the cells. No such course had been followed in the- present ca.se. His Honour, said that, thcro was no question of the usual- course, and he was not going to introduce a new practice or altei the procedure of the court, in fact, he would not listenMo the applita- • tion. Making a prison^ conceal himself in the dock while witnesses werS being cross-examined was a.noveity not to be admired. Of course, he added, counsel had already made his point io the jury. fPRESS ASSOCIATION.] ! MOSGIEL WOOLLEN FACTORY COMPANY. DUNEDIN, 16th November. ' The annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company was held today. The Hon. T. .Fergus, who presided, in moving the adoption of th« annual report, said the balance-sheet disclosed a distinct improvement on th» past year, and the directors thought tho» prospects for the coining year were better. Though the directors " were likely to De faced with a rise in tho price of wool, they hoped to be able to obtain prices for goods that would leave a margin oi" profit. The report and balance-sheet were adopted, carrying a dividend of 5£ per cent. Mr. Watson Shennan. was re-elected as director. PRIMAGE DUTY. INVERCARGILL, .16th Nov. lnvercargill merchants are strongly, of opinion that the operation -of a 1 per cent, primage duty is unnecessarily cumbersome, and should be modified in some way. At a meeting ,tJ v f,'thrf» Chamber of Commerce' this 'afternoon, a resolution was carried asking the Government ~to take steps to produce thei amount of revenue required -by -levying"i a surtax on one class of goods' only, -or, failing that, to make provision whereby primage on goods may be collected -as soon as they arrive in New Zealand.