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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1914, Page 6

There was an exceptionally small list of police cases set down for hearing at to-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court. The usual array of holiday inebriates was missing. The bail of two first offenders, charged with drunkenness, was estreated, and Joseph Keen was fined 10s, and ordered to pay 17s 6d medical expenses. The alternative was fixed at 48 hours in gaol. John Piyse, a prohibited person, who had just served a. month in custody, became drunk again yesterday, and for this, offence he was fined JS2, or. in default, ordered to spend another month in gaol. Time m which to find the money was allowed. Frank William Jarvis denied any knowledge of the theft of a pair of boots valued at 15s, slating that he had been under the influence of liquor. He was convicted and sentenced to seven days' hard labour. The boy of fifteen who was arrested last week at Horse Shoe Bush, behind Dairy Flat, on a charge of having maimed five young bulls, came before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., later, at Auckland (says the Star). The evidence showed that Messrs. Foster and Colin Kelly ran a number of cattle on some land at Horse Shoe Bush owned by Mrs. Kelly In July they ' had about * 177 head of cattle of mixed sexes on the land, and when visiting the place later to round up the stock with a view to Belling them, they found quite a number of the steers and young Culls dead and dying Altogether the loss represented about £200. It was stated that some of the cattle appeared to have been struck on the spine at the back of the head , others seemed to ha,ve been speared, while the bulls had been castrated in an unusual manner ; and suspicion fell on the boy because he used to herd his father's dairy cows on the land, and at the same time carry spear _ and spade to partly occupy his time in gum-digging. The boy admitted the offence, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Four calls have been i-eceived by the Fire Brigade since yesterday morning. •The first one was from Courtenay-place", where a.n outbreak occurred in an upstairs room, in which Mr. Robert Mar* tin, confectioner, wa« boiling sugar on a gas stove. The sugar foiled over and a blaze followed. The room wae soon filled with smoke and gas, and Mr. Martin, as well as two of his children, who were m an adjoining room, was rendered unconscious. Mrs. Martin carried them out into the open air, and Dr. Whyte ?,ttend* ed to them. The brigade soon suppress' ed the fire. Damage to the extent oi £50 or £60 was dona to the biu'Jding and its contents. At 7.30 o'clock last night the brigade was called to Brooklyn, where a fire had broken, out in a house of three rooms, occupied by Mr. Thomas Browning. The flamos we're extinguished after the cottage (which 'is insured with the Victoria Company for £100) and the contents (which are covered by a policy of a like amount with the State office) had been considerably damaged. The cause of the fire is not known. Shortly before 8 p.m. a lighted candle ignited a curtain in No. 10, Mul gravestreet, occupied by Mr. Gilbert Stewart. The wall-paper in the room was soon ablaze, but the fire was promptly suppressed. This morning the brigade had a busy half-hour beating out a gorse fire at the top of Governor-road, Kelburn. Keen interest" is taken by a young mechanical engineer, who" came to Melbourne, recently from Scotland, in tho report that a large German factory h«wl been raided in Edinburgh (says a Mi-1 bourne paper). "There is little doubt that it is the factory in which 1 worktd for three months,-" he said. "It was lon years ago that tile factory was erect ed .for a German firm which, it wai stated, intended to manufacture choco lateß. It was large and substantial, and' built, of red brick. The windows w«t> frosted so that no one could see inside. There were substantial ferro-concrete foundations, and a flat roof, A significant feature was ail 'puter "COncreta court, suitable for running out big guns, but too large for its supposed use as a van yard. To everybody iTi the neighbourhood the factory was a standing curiosity, and was known as the white elephant, l'topie wondered why the German firm, after spending so much money on it, did not produce chocolate* in commercial quantity. Curiously enough, the master engineer of my present film has a brother living within 50 yards of the factory at Willesden, near London, which was reported also to have been laided by the military. The Edinburgh factory was fitted with two suction engines of high power. It was 40 y*rits ftom tho Firth ol Forth, and guns from it could easily demolish the Forth Biidge, the Rosytli Naval Base, the Leith Docks, the Inck Keith Fort, and the N;R.R. Railway Junctions." In accordance with instructions given by the New South Wales Chief Commissioner of Police the German band has been stopped from playing about the streets of Sydney and suburbs. This is because of the indignation caused by the band playing tho Austrian National Hymn outside of thte" German Club in Sydney. The leader of the band (writes the Sydney correspondent of The Post) is pleading for continued leave to play and collect money, but the police say that after what has happened * there would almost inevitably be troublesome scenes . and disturbances if the band showed itself again, aud that, the band's promise not to commit further indiscretions in the matter of selections of music would bo no insurance against street troubles. The Chief Secretary of the State, Mr. Cann, who administers the Police Department, says he thinks the police have gone beyond their powers in, on their own authority, ordering the band off. Enquiries made by Mr. Cann have produced the information that the bandsmen are mostly Bavarians. Some of them have been playing about the streets of Sydney for twenty years. Some of them are naturalised. vTo be in the f aahion of seizing German trade the_ secretary of the Professional Musicians' Union ha-s organised a British street band, consisting .of seven musicians, whosa portable music stands are decorated with the Union Jack. This British band has been about for a couple of days, tt seems to be pretty tired of the street begging business already, and its earnings indicate that the displaced Germans must have known more about the game to keep plump and cheerful as they did. The Marlborough War Fund now totals £2860, and the Poor of Britain and Belgium Fund £1670. 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Ladies of real Rceent-street and Fifth-avenue ta^to will do well to pay a visit to C. Smith's new Showroome, at 96, 98, 100, 102, Ouba-street.-Advt.