NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15377, 12 August 1913, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Tiffl civil sessions of tha Auckland * iMpreme Court opened before His Honor ■Mr. Jnsticfe Cooper yesterday. Eor failing to attend the Supreme Court civil sessions yesterday, a juror, who had boen dummoued, was fined 40s. Steps are being taken to arrange for tha holding of a flower carnival during the opening week of the Auckland Exhibition. His Honor Mr. Justice Cooper sit at half-past nine o'clock this morning: at the Supreme Court to hesx undefended divorce cases. .'-■.■• Ac inmate of the Pakatoa Island Inebriates' Home was to 21 days' iinpiisonment with hard labour for yesterday. A clerk in the treasury deportment of the Auckland City Coancil, Clarence' Harold Robinson, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement.

At the Wanganui Magistrate's Court yesterday a man named Toy was fined £5 tot sefiiag: milk, a sample of which contained 20 per cent, of added water.—(Press Association.) In the Trinity College o? Music examination* Louisa Harris (St. Mary's Convent High School, Ponsonby}, secured honours in the 'intermediate division with 81 marks*

The youag man Ralph Crawford, who was shot while deer-stalking at Tauwhare <m Sunday, was received into the Waikatb Hospital tie same evening, and is progressing satisfactorily, his injuries not being as serious as was at first anticipated. When a local King's Counsel was addressing the Supreme Court yesterday he spoke from the second row of beneheifc "As a matter of general practice," observed His Honor Mr, Justice Cooper, "King's Counsel should occupy the front bench."

A miner earned Charles Dare, employed in the Talisman mine, had one of his lefts broken on Saturday (telegraphs our Waihi correspondent). He was at the time engaged in carrying tools up a ladder way from No. 14 level, and his foot missing a rang, he fell backwards, break'ing his leg. During the week ending August 2 coal shipped at Newcastle for places beyond the State totalled 116,478 tons, of which 60,200 tons were loaded for Commonwealth and New Zealand ports and 56,198 tons for foreign ports. For the, corresponding week last year the total was 111,319 tons.