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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL, There is a keenness in the air to-day that makes for the infusion of plenty of vigour into outdoor sport, if it does not conduce to the physical comfort of the patron on the bank. Several fixtures that promised hard-fought contests wera set down for decision this afternoon in various branches of sport, and complete reports of these, together with r&sults of the leading football ma-tcho? in other centres, will appear in The Post's Sports Edition to-night. The edition will also contain a report of the day's racing at Takapuna and special articles of general interest. AH the railway workshops and gcodssheds in New Zealand were closed yesterday, and no work was done on the railway wharves. Every train running was brought to a standstill at 11.45 a.m., and remained slatfianary till noon. Tram traffic in the city was also entirely suspended for a period. During the month of April there were 257 deaths in the four chief centres, as against 235 in March. The number in Auckland was 66, or 0.84 per 1000; Wellington, 52, or 0.68 per 1000; Christchurch, 52, or 0.93 per 1000; Dunedin, 80, or 1.28 per 1000. As to the causes of death, seven were from typhoid, 17 Irom phthisis, 11 from apoplexy, one from congenital syphilis, 23 from cancer, 30 from heart disease, three from pneumonia, 10 from diarrhoea (all children under five years of age), six from Bright's disease, 13 from marasmus, 17 from premature birth, and 13 from senile debility. Of the total deaths, 73 were of children under five years of age, being 28.40 per cent, of the whole number ; 62 of those were- under one year of age. The total births in the four cities were 620, against 602 in March. "Do you wish a -solicitor to defeaid you?" asked Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-tfay of a woman named Eliza South^e, alia>Booth, alias Tall, who pleaded' not guilty to a ohsrge that she v.as a rogue and a vagabond. "No, your Worship," replied accused, "1 wsui you to defend me." The magistrate explained that he could not take sides. There were 38 previous convictions against the woman, including 14 for vagrancy. She was sent, to the Salvation Army Home for six months at her own reqiWt. The name of the tovpi district known ns Kaikora North nas been altered to Otune. Ladies' black velvet flipper?, with puik pompous and hempen soles, torn fortable house slippers, at 2s lid a pair. — Kirkcaldio and Stains, Ltd.— Advt.