BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10188, 15 December 1896, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Arthur Allen, charged with malicious injury to property—namely, breaking two plate glass windows, valued at £ls, in the United Service Hotel—was committed for trial at Auckland yesterday. He was refused drink. He had been previously convicted eight times for wilful damage to property and sixteen times altogether. Benjamin Graves, aged seventy, living in a hut at Avondale, refused to go to the Auckland Hospital for treatment. A constable went for him, but Graves died in a cab on the way to the institution. Mr C. George, M.A. (Aberdeen), who has been in Tasmania since 1891, appointed assistant to the Invercargill High School. There were fifty-seven applicants, A South Dunedin resident draws attention to the fact that milk vendors are in the habit, while attending to customers, of leaving their cans full of mils on the streets without any supervision. The practice, he says, ought to be discontinued in the interest of consumers. Mr Arthur Hopkins, the Australian artist, takes Mr George Du Maurier’s place on ‘ Punch,’ and Mr Phil May joins the staff. Mr Dempster, secretary of the local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, has received the following reply from the Premier to the resolution sent congratulating the Government on their success at the recent elections“ Please convey to the members of your society my sincere thanks for their kind congratulations. Trust I shall ever merit the confidence of the workers of the colony.—R. J. Seddon, Wellington.” Only formal business was transacted at last night’s meeting of the Port Chalmers Borough Council. It was resolved that all arrears of rates and rents after the 31st inst. be placed in the solicitor’s hands for collection, and that, in terms of section 60 of the Bating Act, 1894, 10 per cent, interest after t hat date be added to all unpaid rates. Mr D, Lee was reappointed valuator and Constable Treaoy collector of dog tax for the year 1897.