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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 78, 4 April 1910, Page 6

Captain G. G. Smith, Naval Registrar at Wellington, has gone to Auckland in connection with the visit of the drillship Pioneer. Up to Saturday last about 500 local factories had been registered by the Labour Department. A large number of "shop" returns — giving particulars of number of employees, wages paid, etc. — have also been sent in. The department desires that all those who by law have to send in these returns should do so at once, otherwise prosecutions will follow. The Immigration Officer in Wellington (Mr. Danby) has been advised that amongst the passengers by the Turakina, due here next Wednesday, are 36 persons who are coming out under the assisted system. Twenty of these «tre women and 15 are children under the age of 12. Of the 36 assisted passengers 29 (14 adults and 15 children) were nominated by relatives in New Zealand., There are some domestic- servants ap^ proved by the High Commissioner. Activity continues to be displayed by, the police in seeing that the provisions of the Licensing Act are complied with. Of a large and varied charge-sheet laid before the Bench in the Magistrate's Court to-day about a dozen of the prosecutions touched on this particular Act, including charges against a licensee. In addition, judgment is to be given to-morrow in a case in which another licensee was charged one day last week with alleged breaches of the same Act. Court proceedings by way of a warning to fishermen were taken to-day by Mr. (f. S. Nixon. Collector of Customs, before Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M. The defendant was George Gordon and the; charge against defendant was that he drew his net containing fish to dry land. "I just wish fisherma-n to know, your Worship," mentioned Mr. Nixon, "that they must empty their nets of small fish in the water, so as to avoid a practice of casting the refuse on the beaches." Only a nominal penalty was asked for. A fine of ss, with costs 9s, was inflicted. Brooklyn Presbyterian Children's Home benefited to the extent of nearly £40 yesterday, as the result of special collections made at Kent-terrace Church. Mr. Mills, agent for the Home, gave an interesting address on its work and ideals in the morning, and Mrs. Mills, the matron, ppoke in'the evening on th« work as seen through a woman's eyes. There were several children of the Home present, and they recited psalms and sang several hymns. Tho children of any denomination are admitted to th& Home if the circumstances warrant it. The treasurer is Mr. W. M. Hannay, Wellington-terrace. The members of the local branches of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, together with the delegates who have been attending the recent conference, were present at th» early Mass at St. Joseph's Church yesterday, and partook of the sacrament. Breakfast was subsequently served at Carroll's, whence the members, to th« number of nearly three hundred, marched in procession to the Sacred Heart Church in Hill -street-, where High Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Herbert, S.M., who preached aa appropriate sermon. Some amusement was caused in the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Friday morning, in a case in which a lady solicitor appeared (states the Star). Tho lady was asking a debtor a question, when he turned with a surprised look and said, "Who are you? What's your; name?" "The lady is a solicitor of tho Supreme Court," interposed Mr. Kettle, "and appears for the judgment creditor. "Oh !" replied the witness ; "is that $o*" nnd the examination proceeded, with the result that an order for payment was* made. A remarkable sight was witenssed by those on board the coastal steamer Queen of the South, during a recent passage from Foxton to Wellington. Soon after passing Cape Terawhiti the steamer ran into a large number of dead fish, floating on the water, and ,they became thicker as tho steamer advanced. Off Karori rock they abounded in thousands, and Captain Harvey reports that his vessel was ploughing through the fish for at least four miles. They extended in all directions, and appeared to consist mainly of ling. One suggestion is that the fish were killed by some submarine disturbance, of $ volcanic nature. A peculiar conflict of duties was disclosed to the University Senate o* Saturday afternoon, in an application from an Auckland student. That gentleman, evidently an enthusiastic volunteer, found that his lectures and hi* parades were compatible with one another in respect of time. He, therefore, esteeming the service of his country more urgent than the service of learning, applied to the senate for exemption from lectures on the ground that they came into collision with his military • duties in the shape of volunteer parades. The senate declared that it had no power under the University Statutes to grant the request, and advised the applicant to renew his appeal to the next annual meeting. After an investigation of the rocks to the north of Auckland, believed by Mr. Clement Wragge to exhibit human inscriptions as relics of some ancient form of fire worship, Mr. A. Hamilton, curator of the Dominion Museum, is fap from convinced by Mr. Wragge's arguments. He visited similar rocks and examined them carefully. He found that geological evidence was decisive as to their character. They were of . basalt easily channelled and sculptured by atmospheric influence. As Mr. Wragge was still at work in his investigations, Mr. Hamilton did not intervene in that particular locality. He went to the rocks described by Mr. John White in 1858, and often since mentioned by other observers and writers. Mr. Hamilton saw nothing to suggest any artificial arrangement in the stones that came under his notice. He thinks it is possible that the rocks found by Mr .Wragge might have been used as a "wahi tapu,' a place for depositing bones and other sacred* things. Mr. Hamilton proposes to visit the scene of Mr. Wragge's investigations as soon as they are complete. It is time that Canterbury set about a campaign against codlin moth, says th* Christchurch Press. During the last few years the moth baa spread practically all over th© province, renorts going to show that very few districts are frea from it. Some parts of Christchurch. are still clean, but St. Albaus and l'ap»nui arc infested with it, and it is also abundant in parts of Riccarton and Opawa. Some of the orchards in the harbour bays are badly infected, so that in some instances fully one-sixth of ths crop is xiseless for market, and this despite the fact that careful measures were taken to destroy the moth throughout the season. But for this, probably not 5 per cent, of the fruit would have been fit to pick. The, total loss this year throughout Canterbury from thio cause must be very considerable, and it will become heavier unless fruit-growers avail themselves of all possible mean* of keeping their orchards free from the moth. It is useless to think of New Zealand becoming a fruit-exporting country so long as Carjyocapsa Pomonella, to give this very small moth its very long namo, is allowed to ravage the orchards. We specialise in Picture Framing of every description, 200 designs of the most up-to-date, moulaings to select from. We invite you to inspect our art gallery. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt.