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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 70, 24 March 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL - — ... , .» At to-night's meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board a request is to be mado by a deputation from the Wharf Labourers' Union that shelter bo provided for men waiting for work on the wharves. For various feafcona the old "donkey-room" is considered unsuitable and inconvenient for most of tho men. _ The suggestion is to be made that shipping companies should contribute a share of the cost of a shelter-shed, as the men are required to Wait for the convenience of the companies as well as the Harbour Board. Ignorance was pleaded a* an excuse by defendant in a case, Inspector of Factories v. the Wellington Brewery Company, in 'which the company was charged, before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, at the Petone Magistrate's Court this morning, with failing to keep a proper wagefe and overtime book. A fine of £1, with costs (7s), was inflicted. When the children of the Petone West School held their' annual picnic this month they unanimously decided to forego the usual race prizes, and to devote the money to the New Belgian Relief Fund. This resulted in £6 15s being available, and that sum has reached us, through the headmaster, Mr. D. Bedingfield, and has been duly, handed to the Mayor. The Stratford correspondent of the Tavanaki Herald says that the town was full on Saturday of "farmers engaged in the cheerful bußUiesa of cashing the monthly milk cheques. These are generally of not quite so satisfactory dimensions as those of the same date of 1914, but the decline is not alarming, aaad will fade into insignificance beside the huge bonuses already in sight for the cheesefactory suppliers." The remains of the late Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, were brought from Australia by the Manuka last night, and forwarded on to Lyttelton by the Maori. Among the Catholic clergy who left by the same boat to attend the funeral obsequies to-morrow were His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, who will preach tho sermon, Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, who will celebrate Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass, Very Yen. Dean Smyth, S.M. Provincial. Monsignor Brodie (Auckland), Very Rev. Dean Holley (Wanganui), Very Rev, Dean Regnault (Wellington), and .several others. The Very Rev. Father T. Roche, C.SS.R., Superior of the Redemptorist Monastery at Mount St. Gerard, will leave this evening. Owing to the illness of. counsel in the whole of the jury cases ■which were set down for hearing at the sittings of the Mastefton Supreme Court,, the cases have all been adjourned for hearing at future sittings in Masterton and Wellington. Among the caees is a slander action, in which Whitu Waaka claims £501 damages from Kere Waaka. This case will now be heard at Wellington. Another ( case, in which Hugh Mprison and claim from the Featherston County Council £550 for destruction of the Morison Bush Hall, caused through the alleged negligence of the County Council by allowing sparks to fly *rom a traction, engine and cause a nrtv "was adjourned till the next sittings of the Court in Maafcerton. Bargain-hunters were much in evidence yesterday at the sale of unclaimed goods by Messrs. Thompson Bros, on behalf of the Colonial Carrying Company. The sale was an extensive one, comprising almost everything that it is possible for the absent-minded members of the community to leave behind or for others to leave unclaimed. There were such things there as pianos, canaries, cheeses, crockery, -bicycles, sacks of bark, chests of drawers, ' washstands, and trunks by the dozen. AH were put' up to auction, and there was some spirited bidding. The sale of the numerous trunks, or " mystery boxes," however, was responsible for the greatest interest, and in several instances when the successful speculators opened their purchases, created not a little amusement. One man, for instance, who paid 18s for an "unknown quantity,'" found on opening his purchase that it contained nothing but booklets booming a patent medicine. He was loud in expressing his disgust. Several good bargains were obtained, such as a piano for £12, a 400-day clock for Bs, and a standard time clock for 2s. x\.t the Petone Magistrate's Court today, Clara Agatha Hodgkineon proceeded against her husband, Herbert Henry William Hodgkinson, on a. charge of failing to support herself and 6ix children. In her evidence complainant stated that she had received no monetary assistance from her husband, who was employed as a sub-man-ager of a Hawkes Bay farm, since 10th December last. She had been separated from her husband for three years, and when they last lived together he was receiving £lto a year, with the addition of house allowance. Complainant was now employed in a laundry earning 30s a week, on which she had to keep herself and four children, the two others being in a home. The Magistrate (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.) made an order for the payment of 25s per week, the first instalment' to be paid on 7th April. Costs (£1 Is) were allowed. A Dunedin reporter has been putting questions to Captain M'Laglen, a bayonet and ju-jitsu expert, who is under special engagement to the Defence Department for a term. He was asked how he had become so skilled in the Japanese art. He explained that his uncle, a British officer, had been for many years stationed at the British Legation 111 Japan, and on his return Home had brought a Japanese servant, who was one of the highest exponents of the art that Japan possessed. " When I was twelve years of age," said the captain, "he began to teach me ju-jitsu, and when I was eighteen years old I defeated all that came along — professors, -athletes, and even my own tutor." When asked what ju-jitsu really was, Captain M'Laglen replied : " There are at the present day only thirty men- in Japan who could tell you that, and who possess a thorough knowledge of ' Simini-jitsu,' which means 'producing sleep.' There is also the art of ' Katsu-jitsu,' which is undoubtedly the most wonderful system of restoration the world has ever known. It is not known to the medical fraternity. It is possible, under this system^ to bring back to life a person who has fallen dead through disordered action of the heart or -through shock. Many soldiers die in warfare through a bullet entering the body, and not necessarily because it struck a vital part, but simply from shock. The restoration of such cases to life has been proved over and over again, and I have proved it myself." The captain will give a demonstration on Friday evening at the Railway Department's entertainment in the Town Hall, in aid of the Belgians. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., are showing a splendid selection of dainty and exquisite Jewellery Novelties, particularly suitable for Easter gitts.— Advt. For men who must be out in the cold our fleecjj underwear at 2s lid is a boon. Goo. Fowld*, Ltd., Manners-street. —Advt