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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1914, Page 7

The Petone Borougli Council is only waiting for the weather to moderate and a supply of timber to come to hand before it makes a start with the foreshore improvement scheme.. | Yesterday afternoon a woman named j Maggie Gibson, between fifty and sixty years of age, died suddenly at No. 4, Little Hawkestone-street. She had been ailing for some time past,, but had not been attended by any doctor. Dr. Andersen was calkd in, but was unable to (.'ive a ceitih'cafce of death. An inque.'tt will be held this afternoon. " A curious feature of the present outbreak of infantile paTalysis," says the Nurses' Journal, "is that many adult patients have been attacked. In a country hospital We recently saw two cases — one a little boy of about six years of age, crying bitterly with abdominal pains, the other a woman of thirty-three. The acute stage was past, and the patient was sitting on a verandah in a wheel-chair, both legs completely paralysed. So far there have been 'few deaths and many cases of recovery. After the acute stage is over, massage has been largely employed, with very good results." Residents of Hill-street have sent a petition to the Mayor and City Council against the proposal to Construct a branch lino of tramway from Moles* worth-street to Tinakori-road, via Hillstreet. The petitioners object to the proposal to lay down a double line of tram rails in the street. Being a purely residential street, the noise and dust which would be caused by the proposed tram would amount to a nuisance U> the people living there. They contend that the street is too narrow for a double line of tram rails ; and oppose the very large expense, estimated at £10,000) for the smaJl length of tram-line. Australian wine makers have recently been endeavouring to dissociate their products from the Austrian wine of North Auckland. Some complaints regarding Austrian wine were laid befort* the Prime Minister in the North, but the similarity of the words '' Australian ' !^and " Austiian " led to a telegraphic error and the publication in, several newapapeis, including Australian newspapers, of the complaint as having reference to " Australian" wine. The secretary of one of the Australian Wine Growers' Associations promptly telegraphed to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and was somewhat puzzled 'on receiving the following reply : — "Reply- , ing, your telegram, report evidently i mutilated in transmission. Was speaking at country meeting and referencewas not made to Australian wine, but to wine made by Australian gumdiggers ' in North Auckland district and locally I known as Australian wine." On enquiry it was ascertained that the same telegraphic error which led to the enquiry had been repeated in the correction. The reference was to wine made by Austrian gumdiggers in the North Auckland district and locally known as Austrian wiiiOi The colours for the Senior Cadet companies in the Wellington city and suburban district have now been definitely decided upon and registered. The colours are as follow :— -Wellington College, black, old gold, black; St. Patrick's College, navy blue band, with narrow white edges and college badge, in white, on front; St. James s, maroon, white, maroon ; Kilbirnie, red, blue, red ; St. Anne's, red, yellow, red; Brooklyn, red, white, black ; Newtown, red, white, red ; St. Thomas's, red, white, red; Thorndon, gold, bide, gold ; Karori, black, white, black ; Johnsonville, cerise, blue ; Post and Telegraph, navy blue, gold, navy blue; Petone Technical School, dark blue, light blue, dark blue ; Petone, khaki and red; Upper Hutt, green and white; Lower Hutt, navy blue, sase blue, navy blue; Wellington Y,M.C.A., black, , red, black, with twisted yellow cord round bottom ; Wellington Boy Scouts, green band, with narrow red, yellow, red lines ; Wellington Boys' Institute, yellow and red; Wellington Technical School, black band, with narrow gold line in centre ; Amoktira, naval uniform. The various companies will wear their colours at a brigade parade for the first time on Saturday next, and will march past in the ordei named. A philosophical individual who called at the Christchitrch Police Station on Friday in a useless quest for a stolen bicycle, expressed the opinion that the best way to check the activities of the cycle thief would be to throw the machines of Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M., and Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., into the river. Thereafter ( he believed there would not be such soft hearts on the Bench for this particular offence. The police are not backward in the pursuit of offenders (says a Christchurch paper). The watchhoiise-keeper is kept busy cataloguing and describing the machines that find their way to the station. No fewer than 120 unclaimed bicycles are at present in the little back shed at the sta< tion. Three of them came from Rangiora tied together, and it is supposed that they were casually picked up in Christchurch, ridden to Rangiora, and discarded. There are new machines, old skeletons, and spare parts, but the strange thing is that the owners fail to turn up. The police believe that a regular trade goes on in stolen bicycles, and they would like to see second-hand bicycle dealers put under the provision of the Second-hand Dealers Act, by which they would be compelled to give an account of every' second-hand machine they handle. This reform was pui forward some time ago, but it failed to materialise. After a long and amusing hearing the New York Supreme Court has rejected a strange petition for a yearly allowance of £2200 a year from th^ estate of an insane aunt made by Mr. Marshall R. Kernochan, a scion of an old and wealthy New York family. The court had referred the petition to a referee, who recommended an allowance of £1800 a year after listening to a dramatic recital of the social obligations of young Mr. Kernochan. The insane aunt has art income of £20,000 and Mr. Kernocban informed the referee that unless the court granted him the required allowance he would be obliged to resign his membership of twelve New York clubs and abandon all hope of ■winning as his wife a charming young woman, well known in New York society, to whom he had not yet pronosed but who he had reason to believe v/as willing to accept him if his income was assured. Denying he was an idler, Mr. Kernochan said he followed the profession of a musical composer. He gave the court a long list of compositions he had published, and added that his earnings amounted to J36 a yftu', and the expenses of advertising his publications to £30 a year. Mr, Kernochan inherited £30,000 from his father. He employs a chauffeur /to run hi? mvtor-cars at £20 a month, lives with his mother, who has an income of £8000 a year, and enjoys the friendship of a Batfe aunt with an income of £20,000. The Judge, in dismissing the petition, reproved the referee /or his recommendation and declared that it was not the duty of an insane aunt to "keep ja, healthy and athlotic yourg mnn in an environment of luxury, wealth, an'l position," to act as patroness of music, or to enable him to propose marriage to any young woman willing to accept him if his financial piospecf/B were assured. If neither the mother nor the sane aunt was willing to piovide adequately for the petitioner, the court advised him to resign his membership of expensive clubs and discuss his chauffeur.