SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 11683, 15 February 1902, Page 6

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON, February IS.

When the Eighth Contingent were camped at Trentham a man named Joseph Angus kept a booth by the wherein he dispensed what he called “hops.” Two probationary constables went then one day, and had several drinks of this liquor, which one of them thought wa« ‘ pretty strange beer.” Each brought a bottle of' it home with him, and had it analysed by Mr T. H. Host wide. In sequel Angus and his assistant (Laura Colder) were charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday with having unlawfully mid intoxicating liquor without being possessed of a 'license so to do. Colder faded to appear, and Angus pleaded not guilty. Mr Hustwkk testified that the liquor wa» a mixture of beer and something which might have been cider, and was certainly intoxicating. Eventually Angus was fined £lO, with costs amounting to £1 14s, or in default two months’ hard labor. Colder was fined £5, with 13s costs, and the <ption of one mouth’s imprisonment.

Sir R. Stout will attend the annual meeting of the Senate of the New Zealand University, which is to begin at Dunedin next week.

AUCKLAND, February 14. Though the report circulated recently of six men having been dismissed from camp at Tepapa for misbehaviour proved incorrect, it is true that three privates were yesterday so punished for neglecting certain sanitary roles upon which depends tie health of the whole camp. Captain O’Brien is determined to enforce discipline and: to take no risk of an outbreak of fever when every possible provision has been made for cleanliness, dependent only upon men observing the ordinary requirements of camp life. The men were, I am informed, bundled right out of camp, and I should imagine their chances of getting back are not very hopeful. The names of the offenders are withheld, but the facts stated I have on the best authority. I may add, for the information of Southerners, that the dismissed men belong to the northern pan oT Auckland province. The Defence Department is sending a storekeeper and stall to the camp to put up a store and equip the camp on the ground.