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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 8

. Advice has been received from. Australia that Mr. Maurice Redwood, a grand-nephew of His Grace Archbishop Redwood, was killed in action on sth August. The boy (he was not eighteen years of age) had seen two years' service, having enlisted shortly after the outbreak of the war.

In the formal wording of the Police Offences Act an "incorrigible rogue" is a person who'has no lawful visible means of support and has been previously con--victed of vagrancy.1 In reality the term has a much wider meaning, as was clearly demonstrated in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Joseph .' Nicholls, alias Emerson, alias Cooper, was charged with being an incorrigible rogue, and according to the testimony of Detective-Ser-geant Lewis the accused was of that undesirable class which needs constant watching. Nicholls, said the detective, had been given every chance to redeem himself,/but had drifted back to his old way of living. He was known to the detectives as a "sharper" who associated with thieves and lived on his wits. Whenever hewent to a certain town his presence was"immediately known, and he had to be watched lest he commit some offence against the law. Accused complained that he was being continually hounded down by the police, which drew forth a remark from the Magistrate (Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M.) that -jt was a well-known fact that the police gave an offender,, against the law every chance to "make good" so long as_ he showed any inclination in that direction. In the present oase the Magistrate was satisfied as to accused's worthlessness, and sent him to gaol for three months Nicholls admitted obtaining a pair of boots by means of false pretences, and on this charge he was ordered to spend an additional fourteen days in prison. _

Tho . Mirovitch-Piastro concerts recently given in Wellington were so successful that musical peoplo will welcome the news that the two artists will give a return concert in the large Town Hall on Tuesday next, 3rd October, at popular prices (3s, 2s, and Is). Tho programme will bo an exceptionally attractive one, and this concert should appeal to tho general public, and especially to teachers and students of tho piano or the violin. The concert is to bo given in the large Town Hall, but as only one concert can be given, intending patrons would do well to book seats when the plans open at The Bristol on Thursday next. Seats may be reserved for ss>.