WELLINGTON NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 12843, 19 June 1906, Page 2

WELLINGTON NOTES.

[Special to the Star.] ■ Juno 19. The lack of news about tho movements of tho Eastern Extension Cable Company’s steamer Recorder has caused some anxiety to friends of the . vessel’s staff. The steamer left Wellington on the 6th inst: to pick up the broken ends of the duplicate caWo. but she appears to havo had a difficult task, for no signal from her reached tho receiving station till yesterday morning. Fears were Brushed away by a telegram from Mr Selfe, superintendent at Wokapuaka, who stated that the Recorder would probably arrive at 'Wellington on Thursday. An informal application: for protection against an unspecified police sergeant was made to Dr M’Arthur, S.M.,' by one John Burke O’Brien, a wild-eyed, grey-bearded, educated vagrant, who has run the round of police courts in various parts of the colony. Ho told the magistrate that ho was recently discharged from tho Terraco Prison after serving a month’s imprisonment that should not have been inflicted upon him, and now he was being pestered and hunted by a sergeant of police. Lately lie had been stopping at the Salvation Army Home, but on Sunday night ho was studying astronomy. Why should a man bo followed by a sergeant for that? He asked the Court for a protection order. Dr M'Arthur surmised that a prohibition older was meant. Eventually the applicant left the court with an assurance (as informal as his own application) that be was under the Court’s protection.