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Evening Star, Issue 11661, 21 January 1902, Page 4

The Awainoa Estate, Oamaru, is being subdivided into small sections by the executors of the late Hon. M. Holmes, and will be placed in the market in the beginning of March. Mr A. S. Paterson and Mr Keith Ramsay have been appointed to represent the Dunedin Chamber of Commerca at the conference of Chambers of Commerce in Wellington on the 4th February. Crs Gore and Sandilands, speaking at last night's meeting of the St. Kilda Council, erpressed the hope that before long the suburban boroughs would be amalgamated with Dunedin. The remark was not endorsed by ell the other councillors. Mr E. H. Carew, S.M., was occupied all day yesterday in hearing the case of W. B. Manley v. Elizabeth and William B. Inglis, claim £1 17s Bd, for asphalting. Mr Moore appeared for plaintiff, and after evidence had been taken judgment was given in favor of defendants, who conducted their own case. No costs were allowed.

Our Oamaru correspondent wires:—Mr T. A. Patterson, the present first assistant of the Tokomairiro District High School, has been recommended by the local committee fo rthe position of head-master of the District High School at Hampden, and Miss C. E. Chalmer,, now mistress at Taieri Ferry, has been recommended as extra assistant at the same school. •

A maintenance case brought before the Police Court to-day presented unusual features. The case for the police was that Helen M'lntyre, the mother of a child born three years ago, had sworn an information that William Taylor was the father, and that the police had, after much searching, found Taylor working in a dairy factory at Stirling. The police asked that Taylor be remanded to Christchurch, where the mother now resides. Mr Emslie protested against this proposal. Miss M?lntyre went from Balclutha to Christchurch eight months ago, and the child was three years old, yet this was the first that Taylor had ever "heard of the child's existence. How, then, could he be charged with failure or neglect! Defendant did not de.sire to evade responsibility. He was willing to go to Christchurch and see the young lady, and if she could satisfy him as to his responsibility he would make due provision. He (Mr Emslie) thouebt the mode of procedure moat reprehensible. The Bench, without comment, announced that defendant would be ordered to make hie answer in Christchurch as demanded.

Dr T. Nishikawa, of the Japanese Fisheries Bureau, is now finishing bi3 notetaking in Dunedin, after a busy time that he has also, so he says, found pleasant, thanks to the help afforded him by various gentlemen who are interested in fish questions, and he leaves to-morrow morning by train for Moeraki, after which he is to pay a visit to the salmon ponds at Hakateramea, and then proceed to Christchurch on his way to the North. By the time he ships at Auckland for Sydney he will have been a month in the colony. The courteous and distinguished visitor from the Enterprising East says that though it is a mistake to class the Japanese as non-meat-eaters, since they consume mutton freely, they usually prefer lighter food, and are very fond of fish. One of the best-known of the edible varieties in Japanese waters is the tunny. He has seen no likeness as between the Japaneso fish and the New Zealand fish. Dr Nishikawa was very much interested in what he was shown yesterday in his Port Chalmers trip, under Mr F. J. Sullivan's guidance, and he requests us to thank .ill who haw. assisted 4° niake his visit to Otago instructive and enjoyable.

James Herbert Pascoe, charged at the Police Court to-day with vagrancy, is quite from the ordinary run of vagrants. Apparently yet in the prime of life, carrying himself like a soldier, and no shabbier than many a man who can call on the bank cashier for a few hundreds, he looked anything but a wreck or an idler, and, but for the steady faith which all court habitues have in At Moseley's correctness, it might have been thought that the charge was a mistake. The facts r* narrated by Sergeant Lyons and Chief Detective Campbell and supported otherwise are uncommon and pitiful. Pascoe used to be a constable; whilst in charge of the Clinton. station, five or mx years ago, he was shot in the hip by a lunatic and disabled. The department gave him chances by appointing him to easy stations, at Kawakawa, Methven. and other places, but he unhappilv became unsteady and eventually retired on compensation. The money he thus got" was used to buy into a delicensed house in the Clutha district. Gradually he lost every thing, and drank the more. Several persons tried to help him, but he would not or could not help himself, and lately he has taken to sleeping in railway carriages and other queer places, becoming thus a source of complaint. Last night he walked into the police station and asked to be locked up, and this morning he made an appeal to the justices to send him to the Benevolent Institution. The Bench decided, however, that it would be the wisest thing, in the man's own iuterests, to imprison him for a. week, so as to make him knock off drinking. He seemed quite taken aback when told of the decision.

The Railway Department advertises time table alterations for the Catlins branch ra this issue.

Jam and jelly jars at lowest price*. Braitbwaite's Book Arcade.—TAdvt.] A special carnage will be attached to the express train for the early settlers' picnic tomorrow.

Ladies' own hair combings made into switches, coils, fringes, at lowest prices. Hendy's, Princes street.—TAdvt.] The Dunedin Citizens' Band play at ike Botanical Gardens to-morrow evening, ard in commemoration of the Queen's death Beethoven's Funeral March will be played. Cycling in the snow is not a pleasant pastime; but in New Zealand you can enjoy your Christmas ou an Anglo or Humber Cycle. Anglo, 6 Princes street.—[AdH.] Inadvertently the name of Mrs M'Kay, of Nelson, was appended to the story entitled ' A Mothar's Holiday' that appeared in our issue of December - 21. Authorship shoul 1 have been credited to Mrs M'Leod, of Nelson. Jam and jelly jars at lowest prices. Braitbwaite's Book Arcade.—£Advi.] Mr Morris, photographer, Princes street, Dunedin, finds it is not generally known that his charge i» one guinea per dozen for cabinet portraits of children. Any extra chnrgtn are for vignette*, groups, large mounts, also the various methods of printing.—[Advt.]