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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 6

Latest advices received from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt state that Captain J. A. Wallingford has been appointed infantry brigade machine gun officer, with Captain J. M. Rose as his assistant. Captain P. B. Henderson has been appointed mounted brigade machine gun officer. The three officers mentioned, who left New Zealand as assistant adjutants to the Auckland, Wellington, ahd Canterbury battalions respectively, were (when the mail left Egypt) acting as musketry instructors as well, spending each day on the rifle range. The anhua.l general meeting of the members of the Wellington Spiritualists' Church was held in the New Century Hail last night, Mrs. Keay'Brown in the chair. The report and balance«flheet disclosed a very satisfactory position. The following officers were elected :■ — President. Mr. P. R, Russell ; vice-pre-sident, Mrs. Keay-Btown; secretary, Mr. F. Tumor (re-elected) j treasurer, Mr. M'Nicoll \ committee, Mesdames Morris, Potts, and Mile*>, Messrs. Stewart, Mouatt, and Sutcliffej social com* mittee, Mesdames Stennbg, Sinclair, and Mr. Plumridg«. The value of the annual examination for certificates for proficiency and spraying conducted by the Agricultural Department is (says the Journal of Agriculture) becoming well recognised both by persons possessing' small or domestic orchards and by those who desire to undertake the care of such properties. This year thirty persons notified their intention of sitting, and of these twelve sat and eight passed the examination. A number withdrew, as they felt they did not possess sufficient knowledge of the various subjects, and desired to study further with the view of coining up for examination next year. Amongst the successful candidates were R. Skelhom (Wellington), A. R. Hadfield (Carterton), R. M'Killop (Marton), George Shailer (Palmerßton North), and J. W. Whelan (Feilding). An unusual scene was enacted in the Magstrate'6 Court this morning, which provided some excitement for a few onlookers. A civil case had just been decided, and an elderly man on the losing side was nettled at the result. At one of the exits he met counsel who had argued against him, and Borne hot words were used. Just as his Worship was leaving by another door, the solicitor returned, and called to the Magistrate in angry tones to stop. " 1 just want to show what type of people there are on the other side," he said m effect. "This old man has called me a scoundrel, and he lifted his hand to strike me." The Magistrate intimated that he could not deal with tho matter then, and he urged the irate party to be quiet. The latter then came forward rapidly. " I doh't want to sp_cak to you ; go away," taid his Worship, as he hurriedly left the Court-room. When last seen the old man was proudly patting his coat pocket with the intimation to the solicitor that he had something there which would " settle him." A tiger shark, 7ft long and weighing about 1001b, was caught by the crew ot the yacht Patronus off Mahanga Bay on Sunday last. At a sitting of the Juvenile Court this morning, a boy, 15 years of age, was admonished and discharged for stealing a bicycle, valued at £3. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., was on the Bench. , Yesterday a young man named Samuel Levy was arrested in Wellington for failing to answer, at Nelsoni on 29th January, a summons for using obscene language. He appeared before Mr. D. 6. A. Cooper, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court to-day, and was remanded to Nelson. I The two men, Andrews and Patching, who are charged with the theft of mails off the liner Corinthic, are seamen, and not firemen, as previously reported. A new variety of wheat from Italy being tested at tho Ruakura Farm of Instruction gives evidence of great drought-resisting powers.