LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 3 June 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The criminal sittings of ', the Auckland \ Supreme Court were continued • before « Mr. Justice Denniston on Saturday, and lasted until after six p.m. The Court ad- * journed until 11 a.m. to-day, when the l criminal business will be resumed. At aquarter past ten His Honor will hold a C , sitting in chambers; to arrange. the order of the cases in the civil cause list. V The newly-appointed Fire Brigades Board t for Auckland -will consist of Messrs. A. J. 0 Entrican, It. Tudehope, and P. M. Mackay 0 (representatives of the Auckland City Couii- fl eil), Messrs. Kent, A. S. Russell, and G. d N. Pierce (fire assurance managers), and j Mr. D. Goldio (Government nominee). A . Press Association telegram from Welling- rjton states that Captain Hugo, superinten- . dent of the Wellington Fire Brigade, is jsaid to be well in the running for the posi- _ tion of inspector of fire brigades throughout ?■ the colony. Captain Hennah's name is also mentioned in connection with the appointment. The Government has not yet a come to any decision in the matter, u -~\ . " :' /. ■ .. ei Major Gallagher, of the United States ]j Army, who is on a beef-buying mission to t, New Zealand, is peculiarly impressed with 0 j Wellington. Never since he has been out 5; of the States has he come into contact with people who so closely resemble the people of , his native State, lowa. " I v feel quite at home, here," be remarked to a P Times representative. " The people walk ff and talk smartly, are clean, healthy, and f< vigorous in appearance, and as keen as ° razors. You have a fine, hustling town. , s< Why, look here, you're just American. So I think I'll get to like you." . . C The hemp graded at the port of Auckland U I during last month, showed a considerable in- 01 crease over the corresponding month of last sc year. Last month 5300 bales, of a weight p ' of 896 tons 19cwt, and valued at £25,128, m taking the hemp at the average price of £28 per ton, .were graded, showing an increase & over May last year of 884 bales, weighing, T 184 tons ' 14cwt. During the winter fo months there will be a shrinkage in the flax tl output, as some of the mills close down \\ from now to the spring, owing to the wet weather hampering operations. tc There were'eight occupants of the police fil cells last evening, seven (including a cl female) being charged with drunkenness, b; and one with theft.. - . lw

As indicated In. the Hquld of ft* I issue, the dividend and bonus, amount'? ' 6. per shan-. were paid out t* "' Jin the Waihl Gold Mining £%£**» Saturday, the payment repmenting tL £ ' : Unbutton of £150,000, of which "*"" - £23.000 goes to | A Is dividend was also paid by U> e yV' man Consolidated Gold Minimi <L^"" and of the £15,000 put into l iia» ' . amount approximating £10,000 i, f, M - t ; jby local shareholders. With the dividend? |be declared by the Waiotnhi GaM M in ; * Company, to-day the TOSS &mnaA rt .? | bated amongst 'local gold mining invito'," '• * •in the course of a few days, will ■"«,;>. i ' .3 jtween £40,000 and £50,000 3 : . At a meeting of directors of the SW i [son Mining and Smelting Compter, £ 1 last Friday, if was reported that »ta&s | it ions had been received for 14.500 of th." I 120,000 shares offered, and more were to L 1 applied for from Wellington and Duftedj tt I J, The necessary plant for treating by pyritic '1 | smelting the copper ores at Whansiroi f jWaiomo, and Coronvatsdel has Wen ordered" I land will in due time be erected at Waiomo' I j The motor car service, which has 'beta installed on the Henderson section (of the ' '- ' purpose of coping more efficiently with i%<- I | suburban trade, was put into operation oa Saturday, and should meet all the require- -' I merits for which it has been devised. • M. 'though by this service provision is x&tds | only lor second-class accommodation the : carriage runs smoothly and is cousfortsblv furnished. No reports had been received (up to late on Saturday night as to the ex. • tent of patronage bestowed on the new CT . j vice along the line, but it is cousid*r«d [that it is only a matter of a short time be- • fore the increased facilities for prompt transit will be extensively availed of. f From now on till further notice trains will ' i leave Auckland for Avondale at 8.5 a.m. | and 3.55 p.m.. and Auckland for Henderson 1 at 9 a.m. and 11.50 a.m. Extra trains will I leave Avondale for Auckland at 8,45 a.m., 1 Henderson for Auckland tit 10.30 a.m. ui 1 12.55 p.m., and Avondale foi Newmarket i at 4.38 p.m. , j The sweated industries exhibit, which was shown at the Christchureh Exhibition, and later at other centres, and which shows in some degree the condition of labour in London, "will bo open for inspection in Auckland at the Council Chambers after ten o'clock on Wednesday morning. The ; ; ; exhibit will be open from ten to one o'clock and half-past two to five o'clock, and seven'; ;i ; to nine in the evening, except on Thursday, when the closing hour will be five o'clock. An officer of the Labour Department will be in attendance. No charge is to be nftade for admission. . ;' Amongst the estates of deceased persona finally certified for stamp duty in the month / of May arc those of the following: Sir W. L. Uuller, £150,232; John Tinline, £77,391 (of Wellington), and Sir A. J. Cadman, £22,070; T. 0. Williams, £6963 W. Dtider, £6021; D. Campbell, £3584; 0. McCabe, £2263; Mary Ann Such, £2002 (of Auckland). ' As bearing on our article on the success ; of ■'New Zealand University students in England, word has just come to New Zealand that Mr. Duncan Stout, the third son of the Chief Justice, has won the Sands Cox prize in physiology at Guy's Hospital. It is tenable for three years, and. is valued at £15 per year. He has also got a, proficiency prize for the term. Three were declared equal. Mr. Stout had 875 marks, A. W. Cox 874, "and W. Gardiner 860. They were declared equal, and the j two prizes divided. The prizes awarded, are worth £15 each. Mr. Stout won last year an open science scholarship. Mr. V. J. Brogan, principal clerk of Hie [staff division of the General'Post'Office, i Wellington, has retired from the service on the ground, of ill-health. Mr. Brogan,'who ' is a natives of Wellington, joined the ser- . I vice over 32. years ago, when he entered the Crown Lands Department, which was • then located at the lower end of Moles- | worth-street. In 1878, three years later, he was transferred to.the Telegraph De- . partment, and after tho amalgamation in;: :;i 1881 he was attached to the head office of the postal branch, and has been connected with it over since. For some time past Mr. Brogan has been in indifferent health, V and has at length found it necessary to re- \: : ;'\; tire." ; : .';' ; ' r l ::'^': :^:yf: 0[ About four o'clock on Friday afternoon a : i;i ; T young woman, carrying a baby, entered a ,' shop where a number of men were 'working, and approaching a particular employee in a familiar manner deposited the infant on the bench beside him, with the remark that "she had kept it long enough, and it i was up to him to take a turn." The young . man repudiated any liability, but the child ' was left with him in spite of his protesta- . : tions. In his dilemma he handed the infant over to the police, who had the giri mother brought to the station. She was finally persuaded to again take charge oi the child. "Although the labour market is rather depressed just now,".-remarked a local labour agent to a Wairarapa Daily Times' reporter, "it is not nearly so much so as at this ' | period last year." Bad weather was largely responsible, he said, for a considerable number of men being idle, and when the weather conditions improved several large contracts would utilise a good number of, the present unemployed. On Friday night one of the pioneer settlers of the Ohinewai district, in the person of Mrs. Hugh Sutherland, passed away (say our Huntly correspondent). - The deceased, who was in her 69th year, lived jn the early days oh a block of land to the north of Huntly, which her husband took up in con- -j junction with Mr. Donald McKinnon. 1 fhence the family proceeded to Waitetuna, but when the; purchase from Mr. J. H. Slccolls, of the present homestead, was completed Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland returned to live in the district. / The Union Company's s.s. Corinna, which arrived "at Onehunga on Saturday, brought up from Dunedin a largo 42 tons locomotive mgine for the Railway Department, Uaike the engine brought up on the previous "J trip, this last one was in pieces. As part ;] >f her outward cargo, the Corinna took away 52,000 ft of sawn timber yesterday. -.'■'. ■-■■.... ■ '.;,: Mr, Dryden, of the Auckland postal staff, nsitetl- Huntly on Saturday, and, accompanied by Mr. Reid, station and postnaster at Huntly, visited the site proposed j for the new office, the want of which, owing to the increase in railway work, is i seriously felt there. j At the end of this month the Northern j Company's steamer Earawa will come round o Auckland from Onehunga for a complete . : .|f iverhaul and inspection. During s her ahonce from the West Coast running the Ng»- i )uhi will take up the Onehunga-New Ply* nouth time-table. • ■ Detectives MacMahon and Fahey on Saturday arrested a Maori named Heu Heu rawhiao on a charge of theft of a cheque or £115 16s and £85 in cash at Kihikihi, ho property of another Maori, named .-., Vhiwhi. . . ■ . '-^" : :-■^ , Neuman Meider, of Cobden-street, New- | on, lately a member of the partnership j inn of Meider and McVeigh, bottle mer■hants, Newton, lias been adjudged a >ankrupt, Tho first meeting of creditors vill be held next Monday. ■ ' • ■)-''■' ■■■" :^fj