SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL. Mr T. Arthur, late traffic superintendent I for Wellington, has retired from the Hail- ! way Department aire* 41 years in I no service, of which lie was the. oldest member. ! Ho was presented (says a WcUin«;on mos- ! sage) with a silver sakcr and a silver teapot Irum his colleagues and subordinates, the presentation was made hv the Hon. J. A. .Millar, Minister t [ Railways. J Lieutonantcoloucl Hume, who lately rei tired on superannuation from the position | ot Inspector of Prisons, was the recipient i of ii valuable presentation from the visiting justices and officers of his (leimrtiiicnt. The Minister of .lusikc, who J made Ihc premutation, said that since- his i own appointment to the control of the | department ho had realised nioie than ever > kclure lb f great dillieujlies awl rjsponsibi- ■ lilies of Col.inol Hume's position, and nis j sutws in thai position w:w highly credit- ; aide to him. Colonel Hume, in the course oi a feeding reply, expres-.d the (.pinion that anyone who could compare tin? prisons of New Zealand a.' they were in 1830 and now would agree that, hiving regard to the financial tomlil'.ons, a great improvement li.nl taken place. i Mother .Mary Joseph AuberL of tho Home of Compassion, Island Bav, Wellington-" the Grand Old Woman of Wellington ",—has just attained her scventy-foiiri.ii birthday.. She is still eager in wo'll-doin.',' and is still a well-loved and noticeable liguro in our city (reiuatks the Post). Mr 'Alexander Grant, Railway Traffic Hupe.-iiitonilc.-ii for the South Island, wiil retired from the public service on Hie 30th inst. Mr Grant, who was horn at Elgin, in .Morayshire. Scotland, and educated at Elgin Academy, joined the Highland railway as cade! at Elgin Slatiau on January 20, 1862, when he was 17 years of aue, anil served for nearly two y-tars under the late Mr William Kohnrls, superintendent of liniw for the said company. lie was employed as relieving officer for a shori time, and was then promoted to the charge of the goods department, Nairn. Subsequently he ttlkid petitions as clerk and sta-tionmaster, .uid latterly was apiiointcd ledgerkeoper in th« goods' department. InveriKss, tho head filaiion of the Highland railway. Mr Grant, after having served the Highland Railway Oompanv for over 11 years, resigned his jxxiition in Inverness m April, 1873. to emigrate to Now Zealand, and tailed the same month from G.asgow in tho good ship James Nirol I'leming, which, after a smart pawo of /0 (lays, arrived in Port Chalmers: on Julv I. Mr Grant was the recipient of a hand- I some presentation, and the subject of many j complimentary references at a represent:!- I uve gathering of railv.ay servants on Juno ! 00. A Wellington message states that the Government has decided to invito Lord Kitchener to visit New Zealand and give advice on military mutters. CASUALTIES AND OFFENCES. An expressman named John Frederick Ramsay, who was thrown from his vehicle m Jeryols road, Auckland, on Juno 29, sueenmoed to his injuria on the 30th. The horse attached to the express bolted, andthe cart ecllided with a tree, with the result that Ramsay was thrown heavily on his head. He was picked no in an unconscious condition, and death' ensued this morning. He was "(0 years of age. Andrew Hana, n well-known ex-foot-baller, was drowned about 2 o'ciocl; on Sunday, June 27, ip i| lo Uretawa River I at Kalikali. He had gone from Tatt- | ranga to referee in a football match. He ; tripped on a rope nwl fell off the wharf, striking his head on a launch. The deceased represented Auckland iii 1893-04. and was well knoivii and popular in all branches of athletics. He leaves a widow and three children. Bartholomew Dennehy, a road contractor, who was injnrethiy falling down the face of a cutting'at Mangapoike, Poverty Bay, died in a private hospital, not- having recovered consciousness. He leaves a widow and live children. The deceased had been working with a rooe round him, and when shifting he fell over a cliff, a distance of about SUft, being struck on the head will; a rock. The body of Harry Black, a signwrilev 'J|, was found on the beach, Napier, on i Juno 28. The deceased had .sull'evcd from insomnia and depression for a considerable time. The deceased possessed ample means, and had had some intention 'of starting business at Hastings. The body was fully clothed, and deceased's bicycle was about 25 yaids away. The coroner returned a verdict of drowning, but whether it was wilful or accidental there was not sufficient evidence to show. Gordon Pike, 24 years of age, while running with companions to catch a tram in Wellington, suddenly dropped dead. Pike had not been dll previously. He was an athletic young man, and one rf the town travellers for a local hardware linn. At the inquest the medical evidence showed that death was due lo hemorrhage of the brain, and a verdict was returned accordingly. A fatal accident occurred at- Blackball on the 7th inst., whereby a young 111a.11, James Mcehan, 30 years of age, was kilkd. It appears lb> lie was working ! at the Blackball Company's siding blasting rocks, and wa; tamping a .shot when it- exploded, praclieally blowing his head olf. He died shortly afterwards. Deceased was a single man, and resided with his ptnotits at Blackball. Ivy Kviills, 14. while walking home from the Parna Bay School, Whangarei, on the 7th, suddenly dropped dead whilst Mifafmg to a companion a fright ..die hail recently been sttbjcciv.d to by a bull. Samuel Gee, 72 years of age, who was knocked down by a tramcar in Queen street, Auckland, on the 7th, died in the hospital on I he 9th. The body of a nuin was found on the 9th inst. on Babbit'lsland, close to Nelson. It has not yet bsen identified, but it is supposed to he that of one of the victims of the recent canoe fatality, in which (wo lives were lost. Mr Sheehy. a Wangamii resident, died in the hospital on the lltli as the result of being thrown out oi his trap on Wednesday. His neck was broken by the fall, which occurred very simply. Susan Grey, formerly 'of Mangaweka, who was an inmate of Porirua .Mental A.-sylum, wa= found drowned in a creek at Porirua on tho 9th insl. A. Black, engineer at G. W. J. Parsons's monumental works, was caught be- .' nc.iili the machinery on June 23, and was I severely injured. One of his arms was I torn oil, and Mr Black received other j severe injuries to his head and body.' He ' was taken to the hospital with all prompti- j tude, but died shortly afterwards. At i the inquest the evidence showed that the ! deceased descended into the inspection pit while the machinery was in motion, and was caught in the gear and frightfully mangled. A verdict of accidental death was returned. '

A labourer named Jamc« Sharkie. aged I 11 years, died in the Duuedin Hospital I from blood poisoning apparently tho j result of a, ' blow received by a! caul basket when working cargo on the' Wairiinoo on the 2nd inst. At the time ! the mishap was noi considered pcrious, i and Sharkie continued at work till the 6th inst., when the abrasion on his hand berame painful and he consulted Dr Lindon, who ordered his removal to the hospital. On his admission next, evening iii.s arm w;ts amputated, but he died on Sunday morning. Thiity volunteers vainly sought the body of the man drowned 'in the Tnkiiuiii Uiver, H.B. on the Ith inst., traversing 18 miles of (he river from the ford to the ssa. 'Hero is every reason lo believe that the victim is Neil Duncan, who has not been heard of siucg the fatality was reported. Samuel F.lsmoi'o, (53), a labourer, residing at Grovetown, Marlborough, was found dead on the 11th in a dilch not far from h ; s house. It is supposed that he missed the fn:>tbridg-e over which he wa< accustomed to cios.s, and that he died from shock, as he had been troubled lately with his heart. There was very little water in the ditch. The deceased leaven a widow, and family. The bedy of a slock drover named Thomas Lambert, late, of Porangahan, was found in an otilhoure, near Danncvirho, his throat being cut. Ho had evidently been dead for several days. P.ithy Constance Bright, aged three vers and a-hall'. was drowned in the Awatere River, Blenheim, on the Ist. A trap containing Bright, bis wife, and three children was crossing the river, when it capized. All but Ruby were got safely a-shore. She was swspt'away, and drowned. Some time ago two brothers named Macalister disappeared. They were last seen in a small beat in the Thame* rowing jiasl the place where tl.ey were employed. I'lie boat and oars were found, and 'this morning the body of one man was found near Kopa, confirming the belief that both fell into the water and were drowned. j A seaman named M'lnfosh, belonging to tin. harone Jessie Craig,' fell from | aloft when the vessel was oil' East Cape |on (he 2nd inst. He dropped on to j the deck—a. distance of 55ft—and died I subsequently. Deceased was 19 vears of j age, and his parents reside in Melbourne. j The scon- Flora filled and sank olf the I .railway wharf early on the 2nd inst. Tito | captain and two men took to tho j rigging, while a man named Frederick j Clnik, known as "Scotty," started io swim ashore lor assistance. " Scotty' 1 has not been seen or heard of since, and it is feared that ho has been drowned. The captain and the other two men were rescued. William Love.dale, aged 60, married, fell from a new building at Wellington on the 2nd, a distance of 70ft, and sustained such serious injuries that he died almost immediately. His wife is on a visit to the Old Country. The hotly of an old man iptal William Mavkeiuie, reported missing since the j 16th tilt., was found in a gully off Le j Cren street, Timaru, on the 2nd. The dis- ; covcry clears a painful mystery. ;_ J. nomas JOdwanU died at Palmerston j North on June 22. On Sunday, at FeildI ing, ho was taking the cover'off a horse I vilicn he «as kicked in the stomach. : At ; _Pa!nicrsbii North on July 8, Head- ! ley Nye was charged with murdering his I father, Thomas Nye, at Foxton on Mondav. lie was remanded io appear at Foxton. The ! accused did not appear to realise his posi- | tion, arc! was smiling throughout- the proJ ceedings. | A sensational escape from serious acci- | dent occurred at the tunnel works at j Otira on June 29. A trucker j mimed Ma.nard, whose duty it is to take j tho full trucks of tunnel spoil to the tip j head to empty them, was taking a rakt j of three from the mouth of the tunnel, ! when tho brakes failed to hold them. | 'i'hn distance to the tip head is nearly i three-quarters of a milo down a steep | gradient of one in 33, and at the end j the trucks are run out on to a high trestle | 54it above the river bed, and from there, tho spoil is tipped. At tho cud of the i trestle there is a sheer drop on lo the boulders below. Mallard stuck to his post, trying to get the brakes to control thu runaways, but without avail, ami hv tho time the trucks reached the trestle they wero travelling at the rate of about 30 miles an hour. To make matters worse, Mansrd was riding on the middle truck, making it extremely hazardous for him to attempt to leave the trucks. How he got- off .safely is a. j mystery, but jtist ■ a- moment' before ! the trucks dived over into the river bed Mauard made the attempt to alight, and succeeded. There was nothing more than tho ends of the sleepers projecting about Sin or lO'm outside the width of the (rucks for him to alight on, and this at a speed of at least 30 miles an hour. How he escaped being knocked off the trestle by the truck following him i s inexplicable. The trucks were smashed to pieces. At the inquest on the body of lioberl Henry Woodhotme, who was'found dead in Cathedral square late on July 7 from a gunshot wound, the evidence showed that the engine-drivers in the tramway shea heard a shot abaut two minutes alter deI ccivwd had said "Good night." The bodywas found lying across tho pavement, with thu feet, towards the wall of the building and a gun lying parallel with the body. Witnesues who saw the position of the body and of the gun were-of opinion that the occurrence which caused the deceased's death ivas accidental. The owner of the gnu slated that he had discarded it because it had accidentally gone off with him. The gun was 15 years old, and was ail lo pieces. The deceased, when it was lent In him, im'dorlook to have it mended. The coroner tried the pull-off, and remarked that if the gun were bumped hard on th<* paxement it wcuki probably go oh. The owner of the gun stated that the dceea.-ed used a string on the gun as a sling for catrying it on his back. The «roner said his verdict was that the deceased came to his death by a gunshot, but there was no evidence to show whethc. it was accidental or otherwise. John M'.Burne.y, a middle-aged man. was found on the 11th hanging with his head between the pickets of" a'fence in Hamilton, Waikalo. He was alive when extricated, but tlied at the hospital. It is snpuoicil to have been llie result of a fit. Tlic police have been advised that on the 12th George Henry Fergueon, aged i'O years, was killed at Niagara, near Waikawa. by a falling tree rebounding and striking him on the head. The Auckland police received word from Warkworth that an Australian named Steve l'crvan has been accidentally drowned there. A telegram from Maiigawai states that the body of an elderly man named John Theobold was found in the Mangawai River. I'M ward Long (17) was recharging an acetylene generator at Tomoana, H. 8., when an explosion occurred, inflicting a serious scalp wound and disfiguring his face. I.mig'disd on the 14th inst. The sequel to the raid on the two-up schoal on the Wellington City Reserve was that 16 men were charged at the Police Court. Several who were liia; offenders pbaded " Guilty." aixl were fined £3 each, with cost-;,' or a monlhV | imprisonment, and tecsnil ol'iVnders were lined £1 carh, with a similar alternative. The Solicitor-general (Dr Fitchett) who is on his way Home in connection with a claim for about half a million sterling that is being made against the New Zealand Government in connection with a laud transaction, which tool; place a considerable time ago. The claim against the Dominion which is tailing (he Solicitor-general to England, anil about which there has been so much mystery, is quite an old one, and has been referred to in Parliament on former ucciuitms. It is preferred by an American named Webster, and date's back to the early day of colonisation in Now Zealand. Webster, it'appears, in the caily days purchased large areas of land irom the Maoris, and the Government, before the Native titles had been allotted, gave Crown wrants for the tame. Mr Webster still lias the Crown grants, but these were subsequently not recognised, owing to the dispute about the titles. The claimant, it is stated, has at- length persuaded the Government of his own country to take the matter up with a view to a settlement.

MISCELLANEOUS- I The engineer's report of the working I of the Wellington electrical trams for the i year ended .March 31 'fates that 21.679,9'Ji passengers were carried, licit!;,' 1.574.179 more than during the mevious'l2 months. The gros.s revenue was £136.156 (increase £.11,4*6), tvidlic revenue £128.652 (include £10,226), working expenses £91.672 (incrcue £8831), excess of revenue over' expenses £44,764 (increase £2591), net unpins 85554 (incrca;-? £3rj6). The returns o[ value; of chief exports for New Zealand produce from the port of Wellington lor the month of June last compared with June, 1908, arc as follow, the figutes for last war being in parent'licst:-: —Uutlt-r. £6553 (±53680); cheese, £9316 (£2013): b«f. £13.1.69 (£6350); mutton. £5390 (£19.061): mutton pieces, £10X67 (£ffiß4 ; lamb. £■10.657 (£37.057); potatoes, £7 (nil); hemp, £z2./id (£25,816): low. £fttu (£912); grain and pulse, £1-19 (£175): hides. £11,879/ (£4746); skins. £6635 £15,421); tallow, £17,598 (£14.362). A mcmoi'i;!l photograph of tJie late Hiirin Matengn. of (.'able Bay, Nelson, who saved the crew of the ship Delaware in 1863. and who earned the title of the Grace Darling of New Zealand, was unveiled by the Hon. James Carroll (Acting Prime Minister) at the Missions to Set" men'* Institute, Wellington, on July 2. The cost of .the Tim'w Commission will, it is said, run into hel-wcm- £3000 and £4000. The member* of the commission who iveie not member.) of-Parliament were paid sit the rate of two guinoas a day, and the members, of Parliament on the commission would probably get a guinea a day. The general opinion is that the commission was a useless extravagance, and llia-tT all the information obtained could have bean eecured by two or three departmental officers. The lintli!!' in fitnro at the principal depots throughout- the country at the end of the month was as follow'.*:—Wellington, 7104 boxes: Auckland, 11.500; Lyttclton, 970; Dunedin. 5699; New Ply-' j mouth, 7869; Pntea, 2450;—10fn1, 35,592. At the end of Juno last year there were 40,176 boxes of butler in store. The Seddou wsmoriiil is slowly retirinß its tall column skyward. The column will b» capped with a symbolical figure holding a book of laws in the right' hand and I a wreath in the left hand. The right [foot rc'sl« on two bocks. The figure will be Bft 6in in height, and should"be comipleted in bronze by the end of October, land reach Wellington bv the New- Year. Three fcttleuients for retrenched civil servants arc being provided by llie Govev'.ipir.nt. Cur: is about eight milks from Kilnkihi, or Istuv.i Railway Station, on the North Island Main Tnink line. Anothe is at Riurimm and the third at Owhauga, bath on the Main Trunk, south of Taiimarunui. Applications for land ore lo be invited shortly from retired civil servants, whose .superannuation allowance does not exceed £75 per annum, and the opportunity offered Ls such that, within 12 months, the new wttiers should be producing from their holdings. The Kihikihi settlement is reached by a good, formed road, and on it there'will ]>j 13 small farms of from 160 to. ICO acres of fern or ti-trce country, while at Kaurimu and Owhanga the settlements adjoin the main line, and are of bush country, subdivided into smaller areas than the Kihikihi settlement. Liberal advances are to be made towards thy erection of a house on each section, while the holders will be given further advances up to £2 10s per acre for felling bush and grassing, or up to £2 per acre for clearing and grassiii" the- fern and ti-tree bind. " during the moni.ii just ended 150 births were registered, 53 marriages have bean solemnised, and 63 deaths have been noti•,i "V;™ »""-*,' as compared with 130 births, 62 and 78 deaths for .hme, 190?. The three months ended on June 30 showed totals of 470 hrtns, 164 marriages, and 202 dentin, as compared with 370 births, 206 marriascs. and 208 deaths for the same quarter' of , I "," J1 s0 fM this ?'"»• 880 births, 405 deaths, and 323 marriage.-, have been registered as compared with 794 I births, 4M deaths, and 350 marriages j lor (lie first six months of 1903. These figures show a marked increase in tli« bn-ili rate, tho 830 births which have taken place 1113 year being unequalled isiiK-o as tor bade as lco'i, when tho rcgUkT shows ! a ';-!al for tho hajf Vear of W\. j Ins bankruptcy returns for Olago and ! Southland for the quarter ended June 30 ! show that, there wero 14 in the Dunedin ! office and live in the deputies' offices, I making a total of 19 for the term. The j total number of bankruptcies remaining to |U ; . dealt with on Jimo 30, including'those j standing over from tho previous months, ! was:—Dunedin, 36; district offices, 17. j The assets realised were:-Dunedin office, j £2357; district offices, £1516; while the j dividends paid were: Dunedin office, £416; J district ohices, £306. j The total value of the 10 hotels in the Dunedin City licen=ing area tho licenses of which wili expire 011 the 30ih inst, as the outcome of the reduction vote, is j authoritatively set down at £36,000. The j value of tile three properties in the Duu- ] edin South district, the licenses of which I lapse, is estimated at £6300. These 1 amounts do not. of course, represent the actual extent or the effect of the reduction vote on the value of the properties concerned, and it would be a difficult matter at the present time to compute what the value of the properties ivill be when the licenses have expired. Tho doyen cf the Now Zealand railway service is Mr Thomas Arthur, Traffic Superintendent, Wellington, who relircs on superannuation at the end of this month. He was in i] a ra jh,- a; , service in Southland when the northern line was of wood, for he joined on Ist June. 1865, as guard-in-cbargc on the lilulf line. In 1870 he roso to the position of omWin-churgo of Invcrcargill district, and 1877 found' him Ucneral Manager of Southland railways. When Ikse were brought into tho, Dunedin district in 1880 -Mr Arthur became stiitionmastcr at Livercargill, ami he filled similar pceifiom, at AshburUm and Dimedin. In 1695 he was appointed District Traffic. .Manager, Duncdin; in ISOO he went t 0 Ciiristclmrch; ami in 1951 J,c lVil s appointed to his present position-that of Traffic Supcriu-l-Mclent, Wellington, cxercisim. control over all (he Norlh Island railways. He has been in the service 44 year.,-a record i:er:od,-nnd (says the i\V, v Zealand Imicis) retired in the best of heullh, with '■h= ifcod wishes of everyone who served under him. Under the will of the late Airs Christina. Mneneil. cf Mornington, the Dimedin Hosintal receives £50, the City Miseion £50. the Dunedin Orphanage at Grant's Braes £50, (lie Sailors' Rest £50, and St. Andrew's Church £100. The entries received for ih,- November praciieal examination,- 0 f I lie Associated Board of tho P.oyal Academy ;l nd Royal College of Music constitute a record for Dunedin. numbering j„ a H C;to. The previous highest total was 180. including the theory examinations held in num.., the "total eniiies for the year have b;eii 202. A lady pasteuger who arrival IJVl JV t-i-c Atliemc was leaning <»-,;,■ ,) 10 ~,;,; ..„,, dropped her handbtig, containing $ 0 a ,, () soiik- valuables ami papers, inio'ihc water oeiween the .si-oamer ami the wharf (jaje a Pro-s Aiwrialion telegram from WolhV- '•<>"). A diver was obtaiiwl from the liar'our Board, l.„l after groping f ot , hrec hours in 30ft of water he failed t„ r ., cover the property LOCAL OPTIOX POLL RESULTS. As a result, of the. no-license rrd Wi"" lion votes carried in' November last" '(io publicans licenses will h,, ;so on .ho 30th inst. m the area extending frcm Bruce in the south to Oamaru in the , lsr \l\. The different elxiorates arc nlfcod us fob lows:—lJrucu (no-licens?). 22; Tii-ri (reduction), 2; Dunedin ,Scuth (reduction), 0; Duiikliii City (reduction), 10; ChMmc n (reduction), 3; Oamaru (result of addition* t-i uo-liccuso area), 6;— total, 46. In addition (0 the lapses enumerated six liccir-c----111 Ashbuvion and one license at Mataura are affected by inclusion in no-license areas, making a total of 53, out of a grand i iotal of 107 for tho Dominion. The North I Island districts were affected by the vote as under:—Oliinomuri (nc-license), M; Eden (no-license), 4; Maslorlon (nc-li'consa)! 15; Wellington .Suburbs (no-license). 7; Wellington South (no-license), 4; Auckland City (reduction), 5; Mauukau deduction),

3; Parneil (reduction), 2--total, C'l. Ti.» ell'eet of the vote -on publicans' licenses in Dinmlin City for the psricd 1895 to 1909 has been as follows: —l 693 (reduction), 22; 1903 (reduction), 13; 1909 (reduction), 10.a tolal reduction of 45 in a period of 16 years. The total number of publicans' licenses remaining in Duuedin City is 30. The following- is a list of hotels in Otago which have been closed as tho result either of reduction or the can-vine; of nolicense:- ' ' Dnnedin.-Cenhal Hole!, Catherine Ilavilon; Uiiinbow Hotel, W. Glcesoii; Shade-, Hotel, James Bare-lay; deal Northern lloi-1, Joseph Toomey; Scotia lintel, J. J. Pvoughan; Caledonia Hold, G. T. RaceAdelaide Hotel. (.'. Campbell; Queen's Hotel, John Crane; Uomjlas Ilot-I, J Oddes; Duke of Edinburgh lloiel, J) M-Kenzie. . Chalmers.—Railway Hotel, Waikottaiti, Jamoi Mnlhe'un; Seac-lill - ' Hotel, SeaelilV C. I). I)e Clill'ord; Bavensbourne Hotel! Bavensbotirne. James M'Chiskev. Duuedin South-Grand Pacific lloiel William M-Corkimlale; Caversham lIoH Frauci.-; Porter; Hallway Workshops Hotel, Francis Gali'aney. Taieri.-llyde' Hotel, Ilvde. Thomas Connelly; Waihola- Hotel, Waihola, Edward M'Kewen. Bruce.—White Horse Hotel, Milton, Horace W. Bastings; Roval, Milton, Patrick Lalfey; Milton, Milton, Alex. Stewart; Commercial, Milton, 11. G. Coombe; Bridge, Kaitangala, James Lamb; Club', Kattaugala, Charles Burrcll; Stirling, Stirling-, A. M. Plank; Empire, La-wrence, Koliert M'Millan; Ma-:onie, Uwrenee. Geo. Leslie; Montgomery's, Lawrence, Ronald Montgomery; Railway, Lawrence, James Kclloher; Ross Place, Lawrence, Mrs Sarah Airey; Royal George, Lawrence. Tho?. Dwyer; Tuapeka, Lawrence, John J. Keppel; Camp, Lawrence, James Hopkins; Bridge, Waitahuna, G. F. Oudaille; Haveloek, Waitahuna, Thns. Brodcrick; Blue-spur, Bluespur, Duncan Beaton; Thistle, Evan's Flat, John Munro; Provincial, Evan's Flat, Mrs John Houlihan: Tuapeka Mouth, Tuapeka Mouth, David I'Yaser; Victoria Hotel, accommodation license, Glenore, Mrs Stenhouse. Oainaru (result of additions to no-license area).—North Western, Pahnerston, ,7. A.' Duncan; Wa.verley, Pahnerston, Alexandrinu. M'Donald; Shag Point. Shag Point. Mrs S. Gilmour; Manipdon, Hampden' Mrs Rebecca Marshall; Junction, Dunhtick! William Moir; Alexandra, Glen Park, Mrs Mewhinney.