A STRANGE AFFAIR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 5

A STRANGE AFFAIR.

[BY ELECTRIC TELECfftAPH. —COPYRIGHT.] m GOOD FRIDAY TRAMS. D>BGSS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, April 15. Despite the protest of the tramway employees, the City Council has decided to run a Sunday service on Good Friday. Last Good Friday 34,000 penny tickets were sold, and the traffic resulted in a slight loss.

DUNEDIN, April 15. At the Police Court to-day, Leah Myers, keeper of refreshment rooms in the Octagon, was charged with sending a child under thirteen years of age to a licenced house for beer. . Defendant admitted sending the boy with a note to the, holder of a bottle license, ordering six' pint bottles of stout, but the boy lost the money and the note. Mr Hanlon, for the defence, asked for a dismissal, on the ground that a store holding a bottle license was not a licensed house within the meaning of the Act. The Magistrate, Mr Widdow>son, said the point had not been raised before, and decision would be reserved. George Rattley, employed by John Peterson, holder of a bottle license, was charged with selling liquor to a child under thirteen years of age. Defendant said no* stout or ale was labelled as described, by the boy, and he had no recollection of the boy obtaining beer. Decision was reserved,

AUCKLAND, April 15. At a meeting of the recently formed Auckland Market Gardeners' Association, held this evening, it was decided to forward a petition to the' Government requesting that the Prime Minister's proposals that prison labor be used in the production of vegetables on a State-owned farm be not given effect to, as they were sure that when Sir Joseph Ward made the suggestion he was not aware that of the vegetables sold in Auckland a large quantity were grown by white labor. It was also resolved to forward a letter to the Inspector of Police, drawing- his attention to the Chinese working in their gardens on Sundays. DROWNED IN A TUB OF WATER NAPIER, April 15. A child named Neil Petersen, eleven months old, was drowned in a tub of blue water on McGlashan's station, Ngatapa, about 25 miles from Upper, Mohaka. The mother was doing the washing, and the little boy was playing near at hand. Her attention was drawn from him for some little time, and on looking round she saw him in the tub.

AUCKLAND, April 15. At the nautical enquiry into the Wai-runa-Moonah collision to-day, one witness, referring to the case of Seaman Smith, who was drowned, said that sufficient evidence had not been taken to establish identification, and he waß buried like a dog. Mr Kettle: One would have thought that every fragment of evidence would have been obtained in order to establish the identity of the body. Was he registered as unknown? Mr May: I believe so. Mr Kettle: Where was he buried? Witness: Out Waikumate way. 1/ think the company would have been prepared to give him a decent burial, too. I saw some sort of a black affair go out, but it was unfit to carry the remains of a human being, even if he were only a sailor. It was fit for a dog. Mr Kettle: The coroner and the police should have sden to this. Sergeant Ramsay, stated that everything had been done that was possible in the circumstances, and the coroner was satisfied that siifficient pains had been taken to establish identification. EARTHQUAKE. . FEILDING, April 15. Three shocks of earthquake, one being sharp, were felt here last night, the first at 8.15, the second at 9.15, and the third at 11 p.m. The second lasted fifteen seconds. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON, April U. tails about the financial experience of the Bank of New Zealand during the past six months will shortly be available for the public. In the meantime the directors have received cabled -information from London stating that the balance-sheet will be found "satisfactory, quite satisfactory," said the Chairman, Mr Harold Beauchamp, today. The bank, it is stated, came well through tHe crisis, which was felt so severely in America, and in a minor degree in London. The deepest ocean sounding yet recorded (27,930 ft) was obtained off the Kurile Islands, north of Japan. The camel's foot is Hfte a.soft cushion, well adapted to the stones and gravel over which it is constantly walking. During a single journey across the Sahara horses will wear out three set 6of shoes, while the camel's feet axe not even sore. Lyddite was first manufactured at Lydd, in Kent, from which it takes.its name, and consists of picric acid brought into- a dense state of fusion. Picric acid k obtained by the action of nitric acid on carbolic acid, a constituent of coal-tar oils. CURfi TOUR RHEUMATISMr-TVHY SUFFER? Many a sufferer from Rheumatism, Gnut, Sciatica, Lumbago, and kindred diseases is now completely free from m> excruciating paina, Rheumo, thewaniderfaj Temedy for these diseases, has- cured him. Amongst the number who have thua benefited fe Mr H. F. Janninsr, of Fflilding* Ho writes on Jtily.2l»t, 1907:— "I have taken, Rbenmo,. for Rheumatics, and have found great benefit from taking if% "and recommend it to all sufferers. — GT. F. Januing." Give Rheomo a fair trial, and it wiV nire YOn. All stores and chemist*. £• 6d and 4f 6d.