LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5737, 4 November 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In accordance with our usual custom, at eloction-timo, wo intend giving an extended report of each candidate's more important speech. Considerations of space prevent us giving more than brief reports of each candidate’s subsequent addresses; but fuller reports of these speeches may bo arranged for through our business department. W« doom it desirable to make this intimation in order to avoid any appearance of undue partiality for particular can* didates. Messrs H^rcourt and Co. held ani auction sale of city properties at their rooms yesterday afternoon. A nine, roomed residence in Austin street was passed in. Town aero 1060, having a frontage of 132 ft to Adelaide road, Berhampore, by a depth of 330 ft, was sold to Mr A. T. Bate, as agent, for £1250. In ono of his addresses, Dr Gh apple informed his audience that in virile bub despised Japan there were 8000 medical school inspectors; America had 500, Brussels 52, Paris 128, and New Zealand none. These inspectors visited schools, and examined pupils for dofocta of hearing, sight, and speech, as well as for signs of infectious or insidious illness, and thus 'prevented the development and progress of disease. The Nowi Zealand Public Health Department, ho said, should bo brought into line in this direction. In tho Arbitration Court yesterday a cab proprietor said tho cheapest cab that could bo mad© in 'Wellington would cost £IBO. Tho business of tho American Tobacco Company of New Zealand, Ltd;, has been acquired by tho British Eta* pire Trading Company, Ltd. At Laery and Oo.’a auction mart yesterday 5s 3d per lb was secured for grapes from the Auckland district. This satisfactory figure is a record. A man named Harold Clifford, whm had pleaded guilty to a charge of steal, ing a horse, saddle, and bridle, waa brought up for sentence before his Honor the Chief Justice yesterday. Ho was given an excellent character by Mr Garvey, the probation officer fori Wellington. His Honor decided that it was a case in which the provisions of the First Offenders’ Probation Act could be extended.

At a meeting of the executive of the. State Schools Defence League ’yesterday, the following motion was carried 3 —That tho executive expresses its satisfaction that while tho Bitle-in-SchooU Executive in its latest manifesto has again changed front by proposing to confine tho duty of the State school teachers to explaining the dictionary meaning of tho words in the Bible lessons, tho Anglican Synod of Otago has frankly declared that nothing short of definite religious instruction will bo satisfactory.

A youth named Charles (Macdonald was before Dr McArthur, S.M., in tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with the theft of a watch, value £4, the property of Edward Brown. Ho pleaded not guilty. It appeared that the lad, as a matter of fact, had found tho watch in Cambridge terrace. Not seeing any advertisement for it, ho pawned it. The police produced an advertisement that had appeared, but the youth said he had not seen it. In> entering up a conviction, and ordering Macdonald to come up for sentence 1/ called upon, his Worship pointed out the danger that lay in people not pursuing tho proper course when they found an article. It should, he said, always bo handed to tho police, and if they failed to discover the owner, the article might ho given back to the finder, who would then bo in tho position of holding it in trust should the rightful owner eventually be found.. The prisoner Charles Newton, alia* Murray, who escaped from the Mount Cook prison works on Wednesday, and was recaptured late on Thursday night, as reported in yesterday’s “Times,” was, brought before Dr McArthur, S.M., at’ the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and pleaded guilty to tho offence. ChiefDetective McGrath said tho man was serving six yeans for a burglary committed at Napier (he blew up a safe with dynamite in Hannah’s boot-shop at that place). On Wednesday last ha was employed with the penal gang, but managed to change into a suit of clothes, evidently “planted” by a discharged prisoner. He then walked off. At that time ho had red hair and whiskers, and these ho had since dyed black. On Thursday night the escapee was seen in Victoria street, in company with a well-known criminal, by Detectives Broberg and Quirk, who, after a .short chase, captured him. He (th« chief detective) asked that an example should be made in this case. Successful gaol-breaking had a bad effect upon ocher prisoners. His Worship said tho safety of the public had also to he considered. He sentenced Newton to a further term of twelve months, with hard labour.

Thursday next will bo observed as a holiday by all banks in New /calami. The annual cruise to tho \\ c»t Coast Bounds will bo made by ll;o Union ( ompany's Htcamcr AVaikare, leaving Dunedin on January OUi. .Tupp’s Hand it to play on the Basin 'Renerve to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 3.15 o’clock. The programme appears in another column. The Kent terrace Presbyterian Church will hold anniversary services to-morrow. The Rev Dr Nisbot, oi 'First Ohnrcti Dunedin, will preach. The annual tea-meeting will be held on Tuesday. A mi-license meeting, to ho addressed by Mr I'. M. ii. Fisher, .MJl.il., Dr Chappie, and several others, is to bo | /leld in’tho concert room of the Town j Kail to-morrow afternoon. lb is ad- j vertised as a “men’s meeting.’’ I A ballot in Uni first issno of the City j and Suburban Dnilding Society was | held last evening, when the appropria- j lion fell to -Mr J. E. Connor, who holds i •three shares in the society, and is thus j •entitled to .€3OO. The barbarous custom which prevails , Among the .Hindoos of contracting marriages tor their children at a very early age, and of degrading and maltreating girls whoso husbands have died, has excited pity and indignation wherever it .has become known. 'Hie result ol this liy.stom is that there are twenty-five million widows living in India, ol whom seventy-seven thousand are under ten years of age. -Many missions have been organised for the express purpose of rescuing these child-widows from their doleful surroundings. Ono such mission is conducted by Ramlita Ilainabai, herself a Brahmin widow, and. to assist her an auxiliary has been formed in New /calami. Hence tho announcement that an Indian bazaar and sale-of-work is to..he held under the auspices of the auxiliary at Lower Hutt. It will be opened in tho Oddfellows’ Hail <lll Monday by .Mr J. CL W. Aitken, AI.ILR., and will be continued on Tuesday. Some of the goods on .sale have came from India, China, Japan, uml other Asiatic countries.

A few figures from a recent Parliamentary return issued by the Admiralty may interest those people who profess they would like lo see Hie Navy made a common charge upon the Empire at large. 'Tho return shows Mint in twelve years forty-six battleships costing £-J7',<17!),502, twenty-two armoured cruisers costing .018,203,91-1, twenty first-class protected cruisers costing £lO,l-11,008, and seventeen secondclass protected cruisers completed at a cost of nearly £5,000,000 have passed .into commission. This makes a total of 105 shins of war of 5000 tons and over added' to the Navy in a little over twelve years. On those £81,154,208 has been spu'd- They represent 1,191,805 tons to tho fighting fleet, added at a cost of about £OB per ton. Tho most expensive of tho forty-six battleships was tho New Zealand, which was recently completed at Portsmouth. This fighting vessel cost, with her guns, £1,491,955. Tho costliest cruiser was tho Leviathan, tiio bill for which ran up to £1,058,999 bofdro she was ‘Toady (or business.”

Various reasons have boon assigned from time to time as accounting for “the law’s delay,” but tho latest, possibly, is the liberal quotations -which 'counsel find themselves complied to mako from tho writings and judgments of learned jurists. Yesterday, in the Appeal Court case of Ryder v. Hall, their Honors were apparently dismayed at the array of law boohs stacked on tho tables ‘in front of tbo barristers’ benches. Air Justice Donniston said, casually, that many English authorities w-oraed to suggest that colonial Judges ivero ignorant of tho elementary principles of law. and often iterated and reiterated such principles tiresomely. Sir Robert Stout. Chief Justice, followed with an equally casual remark that in Scotland pleaders at the Bar more frequently cited Roman law than modern legal authorities. Air . Alartiu Chapman pleasantly suggested that possibly tho English Judges had heard so •much law that they bad forgotten some of its elementary principles, at -which their Honors laughed as heartily as did tho Bar. This incident recalls a story that lias been related in regard to Sir Julian Salomons, tho leader ot the Bar in New South Wales. On one occasion he came into Court, and proceeded to arrange in duo order a very formidable number of books. Are you eoing to cite all those authorities, asked tho Judge. “No ” came tho ready reply, “not if your Honor knows the law I”

Tenders are -wanted by Messrs Turnbull and Son for extensive additions to a residence off Bouloott street. Miss Davey will have a display of millinery models at her showrooms, Hume s Buildings, from next Monday. Mr J. C. Maddison invites tenders for alterations to Messrs Harcourt and Co. s promises. Rhoumo is. recommended to the use of sufferers from rheumatism. Easy terms are arranged for dentistry work by Mr Edward Evans, dental surgeon, Lambton quay. O’Sullivan and Co., 'Willis street, advertise a dairy farm and an auctioneor-s business for sale. Messrs Macdonald, Wilson and Co. issue their Wellington Lauded Property Guide in a new and convenient form in two editions, ono containing details of town and suburban properties and a country edition of small investments, farms, businesses, hotels, etc., placed in their hands for private sale. Copies can bo had nt the firm’s offices, or will be posted to nay address on application being made to the firm. The Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company. Ltd., requires n sales manager conversant with the woollen and worsted trade. A firm with a connection throughout South Africa is prepared to accept agencies for Mew Zealand produce. Mr H. E. Leighton, auctioneer and land agent, has taken over the suite of offices lately occupied by Messrs Beattie, Lang and Co., in Foatheraton street, and by removal of partitions has added them to his own. The centre office is converted into a spacious saleroom, whore the land sales of the firm, will ho held in future. The walls are lined with plans and maps of various estates and allotments for sale. Tho commodious suite of offices ho has just occupied is rendered necessary owing to his over-increasing business.

Messrs Levien, Shallorass and Co. will continue the sale of unredeemed pledges at their rooms this morning, commencing at 11 o’clock. Every effort will bo made to clear the numerous lines remaining, including piano, diamond bangle, and Waltham stop watch. On our eighth page, Messrs W. H. Turnbull and Co. advertise a fresh list of city and suburban properties for private sale. Several attractive building allotments are therein described, and, separately advertised, are thirty-two sections at York Bay, for sale upon easy terms. York Bay is adjacent to Lowry liny, and will profit by the proposed wharf to be erected at Lowry Bay, and the swift ferry-boat service that it is proposed to inaugurate. In another advertisement, particulars aro_ given of forty-eight allotments at Karori, on tho Main road, prices of which range from ICs per foot. They nro for sale on citSjjp terms. Attention is also directed to an advertisement calling for tenders for tho lease of a corner block in Manners street. Tenders close ot noon on the l"th lust .

.Messrs Macdonald. Wilson ami Co. inserf in our auction eolumns several ad- ! veitisements of land sales fo which they direct special alt,ml ion. On Wednesday evening. HUi inxt.. at 7.3 b o'clock at'(heir Jl.• i,i- baud Marl, Uicv will conduct <m IHmlf ol I lie Wellington SI cam Ferry Company. 1.L1., the _ postponed sale of sixty-six seaside building seel ions, part of the company's estate at Day’s Lay, ranging it) area from an eighth of an aero lo over half an acre. Tho additional area of flat land sHnalc on the northern portion of the company’s grounds adjoining the hockey ground, and included in the present sale has added additional interest to the sale, (lithographic plans can he had from Urn auctioneers, or at the pavilion. Day’s liny. The easy terms of sale offered for purchase of Ihe allotments are a special feature of the sale. Immediately after tho above sale, the firm will submit on behalf of Mr A. Hull, the balance of his Newtown estate, comprising twenty sections adjoining Newtown Far!:, live of which have frontages to Mansfield street and lifUen to Hoy street. The terms of sale are extremely easy, viz.. JO per cent, deposit, JO per cent, in Unco and twelve months, with the balance in five yearn at 3 per cent, interest. Fresh lithographic plans have been issued and may bo had on application. On Thursday, 10th instant, the linn will submit, under instructions from ilr. and Mrs .Staples, ten splendid riuarfer-acre building sections Clift x 1631 T each, Island Day, having fronlageis to (lie Parade. Clyde el reel, and Avon street, situate close to the now Convent of I lie Sacred Heart. The terms of sale announced are of a specially liberal character. Lithographic plans can be had on application. Messrs Hnrconrt and Co. advertise city, suburban, and bum properties for sale. An opportunity is offered lo speculators to aefjuire large areas of land in the suburbs for snhdivisional purposes. The firm's November issue of the “-Property and Investors’ Guide” is now being disliilmled. Messrs Crichton and Mclvay invito tenders, to close on tho 11th Inst., fortlic creel ion of a residence in Colombo street, Newtown. The firm will also receive up lo I he llt.h Inst, tenders for tho erection, at Trcntbam of horse stables and other .structures for the Wellington Lacing Club. Mr G. Davis, Nelson street, Petone, has been appointed local agent for the Victoria Insurance Company, Ltd. To-day. at 2 p.m., Messrs Laery and Co. will cell horses at tho Royal Horse Bazaar, Jewels quay. Messrs Sidoy, Meech and Co. will sell furniture, boots, shoes and clothing in their rooms at t. 30 p.m to-day. On Monday the firm will sell an assigned stock of Japanese ware, hampers, glarswaro, stationery, jewellery, vases, ornaments, etc. On Tuesday Messrs J. H, Bethunoand Co. will sell the household furniture of Mr John McLean, at his residence, 33, Lllico street. Tho furniture will bo on view on the morning of sale. Abraham and Williams will sell stock at Johiisonville on Tuesday. Tenders will he received up to Tuesday, 21 at iuet. by Mr J. Charlesworth for the erection of business promises at the corner of Grey and Death erston streets for Joseph Nathan and Co.. Ltd. Tenders, lo close next Thursday, are invited by Messrs T. Turnbull and Sou for fitting up a toiletroom at premises, Lambton quay. Holiday excursion fares in connection with the ICing’a Birthday (9th inst.) are advertised by tho Manawatu Railway Company. Tho Globe Proprietary has businesses of all kinds for sale.

Air C. Parata is prepared to give lessons in tho Maori language. Tho annual picnic of the Corporation employees will bo held at Upper Hutt on .Saturday, December 2nd.