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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 55, 6 March 1915, Page 6

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kennedy and family have donated £100 to the Mayor's Belgian (new)' Fund. Some comment ' hag been made in the Wanganui and adjacent districts on the fact that since Christmas two prisoners have escaped from the prison camp at Waimarino. The Justice Department points out that there is not the slightest need for uneasiness on the part of the public. No "bad characters" are sent to these camps, the two men who got away had ,nol been convicted of what are described as "serious" offences, and the number of cases in which escape is attempted or made is very small in pro* portion to the number of men in the camps. A judgment of importance to mining companies was delivered by Mr. F. J. Burgess, S.M., in a case heard at Paeroa (reports _ the Herald). The Rising Sun Gold Mining Company was proceeded against by the Inspector of Noxious Weeds for failing to clear blackberries from its special claim at Owharoa. It was contended that the company was not the occupier within the meaning of the law, as it simply had a right to mine and no exclusive right to the surface. The Magistrate, however, held that the company was the occupier, unless the J surface of the land was held under residence sits or other license. As the action was in the nature of a test case ! he imposed a fine of Is and costs £1 Is. A convicted thief named James Oliver Armstrong was yesterday discovered by Detective Dempsey selling tobacco' to passers-by. Suspicions were naturally aroused immediately, and Armstrong was found to be in possession of 31b of tho ! fragrant weed. He was asked for ah explanation, and in reply stated that he had pioked the tobacco up in the street. Aa this was most unlikely he was arrested on a charge of theft. "I am not guilty," he said, when brought before Mf. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning. When asked by his Worship whether he had anything further to state, accused said : " I thmk I bought the tobacco." His Worship : " You are not sure. There are 64 previous convictions against you. • Three months." "Chips" (Newtown) writes criticising Mr. Mirams's scheme for raising £4800' a, month for the Belgian Fund, although he at once admits that the Belgians are well deserving of assistance. "Chips" thinks that Mr. Mirams has not studied the working man. "I am a tradesman," he says, "and do not average more than £3 a week. lam a married man with a family. I have given willingly many a time up to now, but I admit that it has been small. Mr. Mirams says that unions and other societies should pay so much. Well, a man might have to pay three or four times over in one week, and no doubt we shall want all we earn before the war is over. Look at the cost of living—it takes us all our time to make ends l v now." "Chips" suggests that the proper course would be to collect from people who are well off, especially those worth over £10,000. ' In view of the noxious weeds con» troversy, the > following experiment of rust inoculation which is being tried on a patch of Californian thistle at Mangatoki should be of interest to farmers (says the Wairarapa Age). A supply of rust-infected plants was setib up by the Agricultural Department in February last. The infected plants were bruised for a few hours in water, which was then sprayed on to the healthy plants. In the first and second months thore was no result,- in the third month the plants started to rot, and during the fourth month had completely rotted on top, with a reddish streak showing as though the rust had affected the stem tissues. During the fifth month the plants had rotted to a depth of 2ft. In ! October and November the young shoots were appearing, but in November there was evidence of disease on several plants, which, towards the end of November, were becoming very sickly, and the rust was spreading. Ohiro-road is to be widened at the top of the hill by the acquisition by the City Council of a strip on the Ohiro-road side and on the tram-line side of the S>6agar property. The new road following the tram lines is now being metalled, and when completed will take off a lot of the upward traffic of Ohiro-road, also enabling drivers to avoid the downward trip with its corkscrew corner near Arostreet. At the top of the hill there is a very steep declivity, .where the trams used to pass. In order to a avoid risks, ordinary vehicular traffic will be carried over tho linos, hence the need of widening at this spot, Tho Ohiro-road at its intersection with Cleveland-street will contribute traffic to a now road, which will branch off across country in order to give an easier grade to Vogeltown than the route via Cleveland-street affords. This will be a fairly large under, taking, involving passing through private property $ but it will open up a trowing and rather attractive residential istrict. , The recent dry weather in New J^aland was also felt at the Chatham Islands, and was beginning to cause the residents there some anxiety. Mr. E. 6. F. Zohrab, who has just returned from the Chathams, informed a Post reporter to-day that he had never before seen the Islands in bo dry a state, but fortunately on Sunday last, the day the Himitangi left for Lyttelton, heavy rain fell, and this would no doubt greatly improve the conditions. Dry winds had also been adding to the difficulties. Ifc had been arranged to send between seven and eight thousand sheep away last month, but owing to the congestion at the freezing works this could not be done, and farmers were thus faced with another problem of securing the necessary food for the animals, the dry weather having caused a shortage. The heavy rain since no doubt relieved the farmers' anxiety^ The Flora will probably make a trip to the Islands this month to pick up the sheep. There have been no other incidents of note at the Chathams lately, and everything is going along smoothly. At the Bluff last Monday Mr. W. f Newma'n opened five sacks of oysters in five hours, which he claims is a New Zealand record. Five sacks contain 4200 oysters, and the opening rate works out at fourteen per minute. The official expenses, of Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald, who contested the Suburbs seat at the General Election, have been returned at £115 3s. Thore were no receipts. 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