LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12774, 26 January 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

■»....— 'JL His EXCELLEXCV tug GOVEUXOR (Lord Pliuiket) opened the Technical School exhibition yesterday afternoon. His Excellency and suite- will, leave for luvercargill to-day.

An exhibition in connection with this ' Auckland Technical - School was.opened yeatcrday afternoon by His Excellency the Go- ; vernor.* In the course of his'remarks, thi, ■ jGovernor dwelt upon the lack of proper ac- !; commodation for the carrying on of-Vh'l •■ work of the school, and strongly urged thai! - steps should be -taken to secure an up-to-i'\ date building for the city. His Excellency' . announced that a citizen, who desired tliaiJ his name should not be mentioned, had of!> fercd: to give £500 towards this object, it four others would each contribute a. like- :;' amount. A full report of the proceedings£'; appears elsewhere. . , , ; The annual session of the Senate of New '/ Zealand University opened yesterday, ,; when the Chancellor. Sir Robert Stout, de- S livered his opening address, dealing witl» various aspects,/ of the education question, \ The Senate, which is sitting in the City f Council. Chambers, will resume to-day,' ' when the points raised in the Chancellory address will be considered. It is expected l ■' that the session will list about a fortnight.'.:- '; An elderly man named James Cummings; ' residing at Hairy Flat, was admitted to the hospital shortly after five o'clock last even.-; in™, suffering from a severe chill as the re-- ; suit of a .sudden, immersion in the harbour; ';•'- It appears that as Cummings was endeavouring to board the boat at the .Devoupoit ferry tee he missed the gangway and fell into the water, being immediately rescued '', and sent to the hospital. When inquiries were made at a late hour last evening, it was reported that Cummings was progress* h ing favourably. ' '■'"* \[ ... .... A. well-known grower of onions at One- - hunga had over half-a-ton of his crop stolen on Tuesday evening. There is no clue as to the perpetrators. Petty thefts are be-* coming all too common in certain parts of • Onehunga, and only last week a valuable watchdog was poisoned in order, 'it is believed, that an orchard could be successfully raided. < ' ' - ~.' The scow Ngaru will take another of the locomotives built by Messrs. A. and G. Price, of the Thames, to the' order of tieNew Zealand Railway Department, to Na-j pier next week. Another locomotive will be sent away at the end of February, and the last one about the end of March, : Two boys were brought before the Police Court yesterday for playing cricket in Green-wood-street. MV. S. E. McCarthy, S.M.; ' after pointing out the danger of a ball hit- . ting passers-by, told them if they were caught playing cricket in the street again '. they would be heavily fined. He then dis- '" charged them. ■'-']' ''. As Miss May Alley was crossing Khyber Pass, near Seafield View, after .alighting from a car yesterday morning, another car, which was coming in the opposite direction, struck her aud knocked her down.. She wag : attended to by Hi. King, who was in the vicinity, and sent to the hospital, where it was found that she was suffering from several severe abrasions about the face, After being treated at the institution Miss Alley left for Carlton Gore Road, where she resides with a Mrs. Jones'." Those who saw ; the accident say that Miss Alley escaped | very luckily, and praised the action of the motorman in bringing the car to a stand- - , still so soon. . - '*, • A fire, which was extinguished in its incipient stages, broke out in the hotel at :v NeAr Lynn on Monday rnight,, about eight); o'clock. A servant, in going to one of the : " bedrooms to get a pair of shoes which were under the bed, accidentally set fire to the' bedding, and. went away without noticing that anything was amiss. Shortly afterwards flumes were noticed by Mr. Woodward, a Henderson butcher, who was passing. He gave the alarm, and the lire was i promptly' extinguished. About'£lo worth : of damage was done to two beds, bedding, p the Avails and ceiling. The loss is covered • by insurance in the Imperial oflice. Our Gisborne correspondent states thafc ;|: tlio committee of the Tiuangaiiui Library [: : have leoeived a donation of £100 from " Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, to be applied for the purchase i.f the nucleus of a reference library for the town The committee decided to reserve a portion of their new , building, now in course of erection, for '/ works of reference, and have resolved to . open a suggestion book for subscribers to enter the names of volumes they consider it desirable to purchase. ; The installation of the metallic system for " ; the telephones in Wellington will probably* occupy two years. The material is in hand, . and the work will begin at once. The in- ■ stallation of the system in Auckland his been proceeding for some time, aud an ':■'' order has been sent Home for the material for Ghristchurch. At a meeting of the Old Age Pensions Court, yesterday, Mr. 11. S. YVardell, S.M.'/ presiding, the following new pensions Avers granted : —Patrick McXamara, Hans Han-, sen, John Lee, Margaret .Lee, Georg*.; Frederick Wilson, £18 ; Mary Ann Stanton* £17; Caroline Amelia Cave (conditionally),' 018. - _-'•.- ;v : The Waihi Magistrate's Court was occiw : pied all yesterday afternoon in dealing wit I !*' an alleged breach of contract in the purchase . of a fruiterer's business. The plaintiff was Mrs. Plummer, who claimed £70 odd from ; P. Orchard, for having failed to hand over " certain things which she contended she liadj purchased when she took over the business and plant. These included a mare and. trap, valued at £37 10s, fruit and vegetables!" £20,- and a pair of large Fairbank scales, valued at £6. Mr, E. G. B. Moss appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Jackson for the defendant. The evidence of the plaintiff went to show'-that she had purchased : defendant's fruiterer's business for £140, but, no inventory was taken, and she trusted entirely to defendant. The business was pur-, chased on a Thursday, and the plaintiff was to take possession on the Monday, and Orchard ; | agreed to put £20 worth of fruit and vege- . tables iij the shop to replace the goods dis- - ! posed of between Thursday and Monday | morning. This had not been done. An \, old horse and trap had also been given ia< stead of the ones mentioned, whilst the Fairt bank scales had been taken away. One. would-be purchaser of the business, called by plaintiff, stated that the horse aud trap handed over were the ones pointed out to him as going with the business, and when'-.'' he was going over the premises Mr. Orchard : had informed him that the Fairbank scales were not included in the plant. For the defence, it was submitted that the plaintiff and defendant were the best of friends uj to Christmas time, and that a demand had not been made for the things in question. Mr. Orchard had made an inventory, and everything was handed over according to that. A considerable amount of evidence ; was given, after which His Worship entered up a nonsuit, with costs £3 15s. .: '1 lie tender of Messrs. Midgee and Jen* kins, of Auckland, lor the construction a*;, the septic tanks in connection with-the-water scheme for New Plymouth, has been accepted by "he Borough Council. The amount of the contract is £1494 11*. ! The Angora goats kept at Trenthain by .1 the Department of Agriculture (writes oui / Wellington correspondent) have not don« f,y so Avell lately, by reason of the wet weather J and it is proposed to transfer them to lb* ; . 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Shortly after noon yesterday a young TOan n»ma<l Sheehy was picked up in Sy-meads-street, in an unconscious condition/ j[ a was immediately taken to the hospital, ■where i* -was discovered that he was suffering from slight concussion of the brain, and when lie regained consciousness a few , hours later he was unable to give any information except by saying-that his name van Sheehy. How he met with the accident is a mystery, as no one apparently saw him fall. He is a man of about 35 years of "lie Devonporl Ferry Company held a moonlight excursion round the harbour just night. The new s.s. Albatross, with 8, large ■ number "f excursionists, and the Pcvonporl Band, under Bandmaster T. Adams, aboard, left the ferry tee at eight ■•"-■■' p.m.. a "d called at Devonport later on, and then proceeded up and down the harbour. A number of enjoyable selections were rendered by the band during the trip, which terminated shortly after ten p.m. The Wellington City Council has already disposed of £80,000 worth of debentures of the £100,000 loan for electric tramways and street improvements in the Melrose Ward. Only £20,000 worth i's still on ''}■-:' : offer. The secretary of the Wanganui Garrison Band has written to the chairman of thelocal Veterans' Home Committee (Hon. E. Mitchelsou), offering to give an entertainment in aid of the funds of tiro Home after the conclusion of the forthcoming band contest. The offer has been thankfully accepted. His Excellency the Governor has consented to the entertainment being held in' the Government House grounds. The Holy Trinity Sunday-school, Devonport, held their annual picnic at Home Bay, Mr.tutapu, yesterday. The ferry steamer Osprey, which was generously placed atthe disposal of the Sunday-school by the Ferry Company, left Auckland at ten a.m. and two p.m.. and was well patronised. The vicar (the Rev T. Evershed), Messrs. H. Hunt, T. B. Oakden, and the Sundayschool teachers Mere in attendance, ami rendered every assistant* to make the outing an enjoyable one. A sports programme of 25 events was gone through, and passed off very successfully. Mr. J. Feudal) acted as starter and handicapper, and Mr. Brabant as judge. Prior to the departure of the steamer, three hearty cheers were accorded to Mr. J. Reid for the kindness -~- shown towards the Sunday-school. The steamer returned home at half-past six p.m. - A letter received in (."hnstchureh last week from a banking authority in London, places the value of the orders received in Yorkshire for woollen goods for Japan at ■ £1.500,000, and crossbteds' values are likely jf-' to be maintained as long as the war lasts.