BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Since last Friday nearly 7,000 sheep have been railed from. Southland to Canterbury. At the meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday thirty-seven applications were received for the position of instructor in agriculture and Nature study. Eight applicants were New Zealanders, one was a Canadian, ahd twenty-eight were English. The candidate recommended by Mr George was the Canadian applicant, Mr Vincent W- Jackson, 8.A., who was appointed. A confectioner’s shop occupied by Mr? Whelan in Queen street, Auckland, caugh fire yesterday evening. The tea rooms ac the rear of the shop were destroyed, with the contents, but the front portion of i:;o shop escaped injury. The exertions of the Fixe Brigade prevented a disastrous ore, a< the buildings are old and of wood, mil a good wind was blowing. A fire in the sample rooms of the C.uo Hotel, Palmerston North, last night destroyed the samples and papers of Mr Berry, traveller for Duff and Co., Christcnvrch, in whose rooms it started. Benjamin and Co.’s traveller, Mr Batt, also had i samples more. or less damaged. Insurances are held over the goods at head office. At the Napier Supreme Court yesterday Duncan M“Kay was found guilty of obtam ing money and goods under false pretences and Tuahine Whakahoro was found guilty of perjury. In both cases sentences wire deferred. At the New Plymouth Supreme Co a”, yesterday Mr Justice -Edwards said that from something that had come to his knowledge he felt it necessary to warn the jurv men that they must not discuss a case with other people, representatives of the Crown or otherwise. It was freely rumor:! that the jury would disagree in the incen diarism case against M'Eldowie. Henry John Little, landlord of the Oka to Hotel, Taranaki, dropped dead in the bar yesterday. ‘ George Stafford Mathesou, a railway hand (for whom Mr Hanlon appeared), was committed for trial at Palmerston yesterday on a charge of breaking and entering the shop of Elizabeth Clements and stealing tlit-rt-. from a quantity of tobacco valued ?t 5s -bd. At the afternoon meeting of the W.C.T.U. Convention at Greymonth yesterday it was stated that the colonial membership totalled 1,471, an increase of 141. The white ribbon flag now waves in 155 different places in the colony. The Rev. Father Hays has received from Rome notification that Pins X. was Irghiy gratified with the results of Father Hays's temperance work, and made special mention of the edifying act cL Christian self-sacri-fice made by so many thousands of people in the City of Melbourne < who took the pledge of total abstinence' for l U. I tv, Holiness, as a mark of favor, had bestowed the apostolic benediction on ail who joined’ Father Hays’s crusade. Father Hays is how staying in Melbourne. At the Wellington Police Co.uit veete r day James Phillip®, who carries on business in Taranaki street, was charged witn havmg 'suffered offensive rubbish to remam on bis premises, in contravention of the city bylaw. It was shown in evidence thin attracted by. a revolting smell ficnj defn.d ant’s premises, the inspector gained en ■trance after some trouble, and found an extraordinary collection of 'ester‘.ng fruit, rotting sacks, and lumber. . There- were dray loads of, rotten bananas, fowls .n mates and sacks, and general , rubbiso. So bad was the stench; that people living on the other side of the street had Co keep the windows of their houses closed.' DiJendaiit bad been known to stow putniymg taror under his house.. He was fined £5, wiiji costs. .