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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1910, Page 7

In addition to the allotments of targets for Trentham on Saturday next, published in yesterday's Post, the Wellington Engineers have been drafted<on to targets 14 and 15, on the Collins range. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr Biddell, S.M., Win. M'Clelland, a driver in the employ of the Gas Coy., was charged on the information of S.P.C.A. with illtreating a horse, alleged to be suffering from disease. It was stated by two witnesses that the horse had gone lame, and that accused had trotted it. Defendant denied this, asserting that he walked the animal. The weight of evidence being against him, he was fined 20s, wife costs £1 Is, in default seven days' 'imprisonment. Mr. Meredith appeared for informant, and Mr. Brown for accused. Despite the fall in the price of kauri gum, an exchange reports that Austrian diggers are vigorously prosecuting their search for the resin, more particularly in those swampy localities which require extensive draining, in order that work may be carried on during the winter months. Their numbers approximate 3000, and they are scattered over the country, between Helensville and Parengarenga. In the Dargaville district there are about 800, the bulk of whom may be regarded as' permanent residents, inasmuch as they have entered into negotiations for draining operations .which will extend "over several years. In his report to the Christchurch Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Tuesday, the inspector (Mr. W. H. Zouch) said that at the invitation of the City Council Abattoir Committee he had attended a trial of the hammer process of stunning cattle, but the arrangements had been such that a successful trial had been impossible. The operator^ who seemed to have been more expert in the use of the pithing-spear than the hammer, had caused some surprise by inserting a cane in the spinal cord when using both methods. No expert operator would have needed to use the cane in connection with the hammer. It was a pity that no expert from Wellington nad been engaged to give the hammer process an efficient trial. Having, installed an expensive drainage system in the Melrose district, the .WeHinglon City Council has taken proceedings against a number of ratepayers who have not connected their private drains with the public sewer. Regarding a certain case mentioned in the S.M. Cerarl to-day, Mr. O'Shea, city solicitoi*, who prosecuted, stated that those ratepayers whose private drains were within 100 ft of the public main had been served with notices requiring them to connect up. For failing to do so, he pointed out, the Municipal Corporations Act provided a penalty cf £20. A defendant admitted that he had received the notice, but owing to the attitude of the adjoining owners he had been ujabie to carry out the work. The case was adjourned in order that defendant might consult a solicitor. Other proceedings were also deferred. Two recent arrivals from England lately had an experience of the New Zealand bush they are uot likely to forget for a long time. The Opotiki correspondent of the Herald writes that information was brought to Opotiki by Mr. J. Foster, of Upper Otara, to thei effect that tie two men who had been employed in the neighbourhood had got "bushed" in an endeavour to push through to Motu. They were not familiar with the bush tracks, and evidently soon wandered off the path. From Monday till Friday they were hopelessly lost, and eventually they came out near the Pakiki forest reserve in a completely exhausted condition. During their sojourn in the bush they were drenched by rain, their swags had been swept down a stream, and they were without food for the greater part of the time. One of the men was so exhausted when he reached th« open country again that he was unable to walk, and, -in Mr. Foster's opinion, another day of the bush would have proved fatal to both of them. One of Wellington's city councillors (J. E. Fitzgerald) appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day as defendant in a case in which he was prosecuted by the police for a breach of the municipal bylaws, viz., riding a motor bicycle across the intersection of two main thoroughfares at other than regulation speed. Sub-Inspector Norwood intimated that, at the instigation of the Wellington City Council, a constable was located in the centre of the roadway at congested corners to control the traffic. It was in this connection that defendant had fallen foul of his own council's law. In the course of his defence, defendant, who pleaded not guilty, said that he had ridden a motor bicycle for some years, and he knew the bylaws regulating them. It had always been his care, to observe the regulations, and, as a councillor, to set an example to others by observing them. It was held that defendant had not ridden his machine at an excessive speed, but at a greater fate than the prescribed four miles an hour. A fine of 10s, with 17s costs, was inflicted. Another tragedy has happened at the **Zoo." The victim is one of the three Axis deer, a beautiful hind presented by the Duke of Bedford. The Axis inimals are probably the prettiest in the whole institution. Marauding dogs are blamed for the death of a muchadmired creature, and the fatality, following fast on the. killing of two kangaroos Dnd a wallaby, has excited the wrath of the "Zoo's" friends. One citizen remarked to-day that the City Council's Reserves Committee should be more noticeably conscious of its responsibilities. This complainant was loth to believe that the miscßief had been done by vagrant dogs. He was inclined to think that inhuman Vsports" craftily accompanied the dogs when all was quiet in Newtown Park, and set the brutes on to the inmates for fun. He urged that a careful watch should be kept, day and night, during this troublesome period, in the hope that the cause of the havic might be detected. "A capture should not be beyond the genius of ovlv' detectives," he said. Some new creatures have lately arrived in the Park. The additional prisoners include storks, foreign geese, a'f 1 other -birds. The council of the Northern Bowling 'Association has set up a committee to arrange for a testimonial from all the affiliated clubs to the retiring secretary, Mr, J. H. Mentiplay. ' Events of every day occurrence are Shotographed by our outdoor operators, 'rivate sittings may be arranged at the "Znk" Studios, Manners-street, any day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. — Advt. Get the N.Z. Express Company to check youi' baggage. It ensures prompt delivery at your destination, and costs no more. — Advt. Imperial politics appear likely lo provide a great cleal of interest in the near future, the only certain outcome of the present gpu.-ral election being uncertainty, while there i? every indication of a stats of affairs 'to which the present generation is quite unaccustonied. The only thing! the inhabitants of the Dominion can do just at present is to await developments, and while the ladies of Wellington are doin^ this they are advised to visit the glove department of C. Smith, Ltd., Cubastreet, where a special shipment of Suede gloves, sent out in error, is being cleared at 1b lid per pair. These gloves have twodome fasteners, and are in tan, white, beaver, and pastel shades. They are selling very faat. Prompt action is needed to secure a share jai this bargain. — . \dvt.