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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 764, 29 December 1908, Page 3

The Rev. George Budd, of l'eildine is giving an address to-day at the Bummer School that is being held in Maaterton. Mr Ben. Fuller, of Wellington, has completed arrangements for the exhibiSon in New Zealand of the moving pictures of the boxing championship, Johnaon v. Burne. Mr F W. Manton, of Wellington recently faonoluded ft. walking tour from Napier to Waihi, passing en route through the heart of the Unwera oountry. An excellent idea in connection witib. the encouragement of elementary agriculture in rural schools has been adopted in Taraaaki. The master ot the Kakaramea school gave each ot his pupils a dozen plants of J^ool Rab£ which has been grown very successfully in the sohol garden, offering a priae, to be awarded at Laster, for the best specimen produced. The Marquis of Northampton's, motor-car ran into a herd of bullocks at Chalk Hill, near ©unstable, swerved and leapt thirty-five feet down a steep embankment. . The Marquis, was thrown out by the collision, but was not seriously hurt. The chaffuer went down with the car, however, and sustained a broken rib and other injuries. He had a marvellous escape from death. The car was completely wrecked. It must be conceded,, says the Grey Star, that the greatest and most urgent need of the West Coast is a harbour which it will be possible to work at any state of the tide and in all weathers. "Further than this our ideal is a harbour which will he capable of accommodating tramp vessels of such a size as will enable us to compete successfully with Newcastle and our other rivals in the commercial world. The question opens up a large subject, the construction of a harbour at Point ISnaabeth.' • "You began your career of crime about thirty years ago, when you were convicted of stealing/ remarked Judge Docker, in passing sentence at the New South Wales Quarter Sessions last week, upon Charles Walters, a man convicted of burglary. "In trying to escape on that occasion you were shot, and had to have your arm amputated at the shoulder. When you came up for trial then, the judge considered you had suffered enough and let you off, but," added his Honour, "even the loss of an arm did not deter you from pursuing your course of crime. The gaol records show thajb you have had, among others, sentences of ten and five years' penal servitude. You have been able to do with one arm what other men found it difficult to do with two. You could do manual labour, and earn 7s a day." The prisoner, who was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, was declared a habitual criminal.