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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1912, Page 6

There is a general falling-off in the milk supply at the various factories throughout the Mnnawatu district, althougn, owing to the fairly high test that is being maintained, the output compare? very favourably with that for the corresponding period' last eeueon. Except for a period of fourteen days, while between Capetown and Hobavt, the Atheuic wa» in constant wireless communication with the outside world on her voyage from London to Wellington. The longest distance at which communication woe maintained wan 1146 miles, with R.M..S. Otranto, aud a message was sent to Wellington at a distance of 760 mike. Jusfc before midnight last night tho Fire Brigade received a call to an out' break of fire at a six-roomed house in Grafton-road, iioseneath, owned and occupied by Mr. A. Walker. The house, which was badly damaged, \va« insured for £210 in tho Liverpool, London, and Globe office and £150 in the Atlas 'Company, the furniture was insured for £100 in tho Yorkshire office. f The tender of- .Messrs. J. W. M'Miiian and Co., at £19,030 haa been accepted by the Public Works Departjnent for the erection of a two-story brick building in Sydney-street, to house the Stamp Department, the Na» tive Lands Department, and the Native . Land Court. It will contain v, courtroom, a large public office (or the Stamps Departments accommodation tor the Minister and officials of tho Native Lands Department, and fire-proof storage accommodation for records. The steamer Wairoa, under Captain Cook, left Auckland yesterday for Bluff, after being refitted for the expedition to the Auckland Islands, where an attempt is to be made to recover the specie which wont dowr- on board tho General Grant. Mr. J. M'Leod, a diver with long e»perienco in salvage and general under, water work, accompanies tho vessel, and at Dunedin about 70 tons of gear and a large quantity of stores will be shipped. About tho end of next month Captain Cook expects to cloar Bluff for the scene of tho wreck. During the , past year the committee of the Wellington Boys' Institute ha* found employment for quite a number of boys in and about the city. Applications for boj« are becoming so numerous that it is now quite impossible to supply ' all the demand*,. "The boys are influenced," guy* the annual report of the institute, " whenever the opportunity present*) iteolf, to take up farming w6rk, and several boys liave been found employment on farme. In a farming country like New Zealand, one of- tho best services that can be rendered to the boy— a* well as to the community— is to get him .on to tho land. This policy will be increasingly urged upon the boys in future." Speaking on the question of the Wairarapa train service ati the Mastcvton^ Chamber of Commoic», Mt. 0. U. Daniell suggested that the chamber should invite a number of representative business men of Wellington to pay a visit to Masterton, so that they could judge for themselves the present condition of the railway service to the Wairarapa. - The Chamber of Commerce might thus gam the assistance of Wellington bu«i- , ness men, many of whom were ignorant of the real state of affaire in connection with the railway. Mr. Darnell staled that it seemed as if the Wellington people took it for granted that the Wairarapa trade was an assured thing for their city, and did not trouble about tho inconveniences that Wuirarapa business people and tho public generally had to contend with. • ■ . The question of where and under what circumstances a statement made to a police constable is privileged was raised during the hearing of v, slander case in the Supreme Court at Masterton. It was shown in evidence, according to the Age, that a woman had com' plained to the police that ahe had been charged with taking money from her employer. The police made enquiries coucerning the complaint, and in the course of those enquiries certain statement* were made. These statement* formed the basis of an action for slander. Mr. Justice Edwards stated that the poli(;i' were nob acting in the execution of thcu duty when they did what they were not required to do by law. It was a question whether statements made in such circumstances were privileged. As far % as his Honour was concerned he was nob aware that a decision had been given on the point. lAs the outcome of a visit paid by Constable Stevens to the Shamrock Hotel on Sunday, the 3rd of March last, six men— George Fallon, William Stark, William Harold Stone, James Wamsley, John Taylor, and Thomas John Hamilton—were charged in the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day, with having been illegally on licensed premises. The facts of the case as stated by Senior-Sergeant Darby were that Coustuble Steven* went into the hotel and found all the men hiding behind the door of the billiard room. Various excuses were given by defendants, one stating that he went in to use the telephone, and another that he wanted to make some enquiries about a picnic. Stark, Stone, and Wamsley pleaded guilty and were each fined 10*, •with costs 7a. Fallon pleaded not guilty, staling that he went to the- hotel with a parcel. H© was discharged. Tuylor } wlio also pleaded nob guilty, said that he was on the promises for the purpose of having dinner. When found by tne constable, however, he said that he was a boarder. A fine of 10s, with costs, was imposed. Tho case against Hamilton was adjourned. Two powerful lorry hor&e.* put ub .i somewhat remarkable record to-day, when they bolted from the Town Hall corner up Mercer-street?, across Willis- . street, and finished up prostrate on the footpath under the Evening Post verandah, without knocking holes in anyone^ anything, or themselves. They had left, (inexplicably) the driver (C. Milliet) at the Town Hall," whore lu> had alighted to recover his hat. Thenc© they proceeded straight up Mercer-street, where an acetylene generator wan unshipped and biunped on to th<* right, iootpalh, while the runaway shaved standing ve< Hides dangerously. As they approached Willis-street one horse wished to turn U> the right, while his team mate had an idea to the contrary . With such a« divergence of opinion, a middle course was taken, twd the wild things, heading straight for the opposite Ude of the road to Meroer-slreet, careered croshingly full on the footpatbj a. verandah post splitting the twain in th© only safe place— between the pair of shafts. lLere volunteers «ab on the horses' heads to prevent them thinking more evil. What might easily have become v tragedy ttai* came to a conventional conclusion, and *-h« only dainuge done was to the harness. The horse* themselves were hardly scratched, the lorry is no wow* lor its experience, nor i* the verandah posl. The defence problems of the Dominion I continue to attract attention both in theory and practice, and tho great ma-i jority of tho people are convihcpd tliat the best safeguard of peace Is to be pro pared for war, since force is the thing that ultimately counts in tho dealings between conflicting nationalities. Full preparations liavo also boon hi ado to meet, all competition by C. Smith, Ltd., whoso extensive shipment* ure now on view; and include some special linen in Indies' gloves for hard wear, such as Dent's voul uappo t i?dimUefc glovee, with straps and dome tastenors, vi. 3« lid ;»nd 4» lid pair; atao [ two. dome dogskin glo\cs at 2s lid aud 3* lid per pair. The>c ar*> fi«t.ola*e makes at Modes) prices, and with full satisfaction m wcur. C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street.— '