BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12626, 4 October 1905, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Percy Davidson was committed for trial a* Christchurch yesterday on charges of having forged cheques for £5 2s, £0 15s, and £35 respectively. Ernest Albert Frame, a Burnham boy, pleaded guiltv at Rangiora yesterday to wedging a spike between a length of Tails on the Ranglora-Oxford railway m Augnst, and to laving metal on the hne subseeuentlv. the boy's employer undertook to take charge of him until the case could be reported to the Minister of Education. A dentist-, reporting to the Blenheim School Committee on the teeth of the children attending the school, stated that out of 150 bovs only twenty-eight had sound leeth out'oi 160 sirls only twenty-three, and out of thirty infants only fifteen. The r:«LTtcr fc;is been brought under the notice of tlws parents. The i;:er«heim police yesterday received a letter purporting to be signed by a resident, staling tiiat his body would be found in the Tuamarina scrub. A search made there by tbe poiit-e proved fruitless, but the resident in question b misring. Mr E. J. Riddifotd, lowei Hurt, has offered a .handsome donation if the Government will establish a veterinary college m the Wellington district The acceptance of til* offer deper.de on whether the donation will cover the cost entuded by the project, as compared with the establishment of a vetorinary school at Ota;-.o University. The Chief Vet-nrinanan favor.the latter oUtn. An unoccupied two-storey houto near Otahuhu, owned by Captain Hutton, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The buJdmg was nuwed for £550. Robert O'Conneil, a sailor, was committed for trial at Auckland yesterday on a charge of stealing a cash box containing £lO from the cabin of tbe chief stewaru of the Delphic. Accused, who pleaded Ttriltv, stated that lie hroko open <lk> run box," took a little over £2 from it, and threw the tnrx with the remaining money overboard. A c:ise wherein .lanics Gray was charged at the C'lirsiehurch Police Court with having used Colombo str.-et for betting purposes u-lis adjourned for a week, in order that It-ral argument ir.igln be heard oil a I point rai.-ed to the effect that the prohibition against using i public place was not a prohibition against a single bet, only an isolated transaction being involved in the case. The question of the snccefsi-ju to the property cl a native t• -stater, who had been a slave L-i ilaoii times, was before the Native Appellate Court :u Auckland yesterday. The slave, who had received land from his owner, died without i?sue, and Ids adopted child claimed to succeed. 'l"he descendant* o-f the (nvr.iT of the slave, however, claimed liia property, because their people owned the slave. Decision was reserved. Auckland ladies have derided to make a wedding gift to Lady Constance Knox, subscriptions Ix-ing limited to half a crown. At a recent tangi in tbe Auckland district two tons of Hour, two tons of potatoes, three-quarters of a ton 6i sugar, half a ton of rice, 2,000 loaves of bread, and seven bullocks, besides tea and oiier items, were consumed.