LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 67, 19 March 1918, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

AEEIVAIS. . Much 19—Mararoa, e.s. (11.50 a.m.), ISM tons, Cameron, from Lyttelton

Shortly after the Hinemoa. which has been undargoing overhaul, comes off the Patent Slip, she will make a trip to the southern lighthouses ■' , • ''■.;.

When the Blenheim arrives in Wellington on Thursday next Bhe is to „go up on the Slip for overhaul ■ '

BY TELEGRAPH.

PICTON, 19tn March. Arrived—Wairau (early), from Wellington . NELSON, 19th March Arrived—Pateena (1-30 a.m.), from Picton and Wellington; Kaltoa (4 a.m.), from Wellington

A!dozen canary nests and wires and a couple of canary baths are the last things which. a.noldier would-be expectad to have any: use for, or, in his sober senses, any desire to possess, but when a home service man went into/Foglie* and Gopp's shop in Vivian-street' yesterday afternoon h© was far from sober,', and apparently looked on bird-cage fittings as particularly desirable. The police were called in, and while the stolan articles were being wrapped up' the man reached over the counter ;«nd knocked the parcel to the floor, breaking sis, pottery "nests." When he appeared before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M;,at the Magistrate's Court this morning; Inspector Marsack said that the case was rather one of drunkenness than of theft. On both charges of theft and of wilful damage he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and was further ordered to make good the damage he had done. A prohibition order, to Temain in force for twelve months, was also issued against him.

A strange optical illusion was noticed by residents of Oriental Bay early this morning, when what appeared to be a huge ocean liner, of somewhat unusual build for a vessel of her size, loomed up through the heavy, haze, and proceeded towards the wharves dangerously near the shore. A temporary lifting of the smoke gave ,a clearer view of tho vessel, the s.s. tfikau, which had been magnified out of nil proportion by the different refraction of the atmospher* due to the haze..

The crime of murder .lias incaaaaed 10t per cent, in Arizona since the abolition of the death, penalty (says 'a member of the State Board of Pardonoj). Homicides have become co common in feme of the counties as ,to occasion concern among law-abiding citizens. In Maricopa County, with a population of 3,4,488, thers were 15 murders in the first ten months ot last year. In*,the othsr counties tbo crime is constantly increasing this, sotwithetanding. 1 the facS that intoxicating liquor ha« been practically banished from the State. Whiia there is more or Jess illicit traffic in intoxicants, the many murders since Prohibition went into effect cannot be charged to drunkenness, "hey aredue solelyl to the fact thac offenders'buow, th«y cm* I not be punished by death.