LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12883, 25 September 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow is Dominion Day. A large cargo of Oregon, pine arrived at Auckland 'ast week, on the steel fouirmasted barquentine Hawaii, from Astorijk (Oregor). The vessel -will land 1,300,000 teet of timber at Auckland. Maggie Papakura, the Rotorua guide, who has just returned from a visit, to Australia, declares the. Waitomo- caves (Waikato) are more picturesque and interesting than the famous' Jenolan caves of New South Wales. A bewildered Maori debtor at Rotorua' ' the other day wanted the Court to explain hear it was that a debt for £4 ha 4 to over £6 after' he had paid 245. . The Uench explained that the oftener a , debt was brought before the Court the bigger it grew. Mr Ewen Campbell, at th© annual meet- . ing of the Chamber of Commerce last - night, said that at the Wellington Coir- , ference it has been proposed to alter Bank Holidays, doing away with "Saint" days and keeping open for half-a-day on raceday 3 for" the convenience <pf business people. . , , . . r • . • A correspondent writes us re the paragraph in last evening's issue relating' to a disturbance on the Racecourse on Thursday. He states that the parties concerned were both clerks and old friends-^-not a bookmaker and a backer — and the disturbance was not connected with a wager. John Alexander Angus, alias Johnston, alias Stewart, appeared for sentence before his Honor Mr Justice Edwards at the Supreme Court this morning. Accused - had pleaded guilty to three charges of theft at New Plymouth. The records', showed that accused had been convicted on fifteen previous occasions. His Honor sentenced pria/ner to eighteen months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be consecutive. Accused was also declared an habitual criminal. At the Chamber of Commerce meeting last night, Mr. Campbell said that Ministers of the Crown always hurled figures at | deputation*, well knowing that the said ; deputations had no chance of controverting them, "la fact," said Mr Campbell, "iv 1 an argument, it seems a safe course to quote figures, for then the other fellow thinks you know ail about it, and keeps quiet/ At the Supreme Court this morning, Samuel Meatyard, convicted of falsifying the books of the U.F.C.A., came up for sentence. Mr Hogg, for prisoner, said he quite realised that probation was out of the question, but, bearing in mind' accused's previous good character, he asked his Honor to deal leniently with mm. Accused was 27 years of age. His Honor said that as this was accused's first offence he would deal leniently with him - in the hope that it would lead to accused's reformation. A sentence of one year's imprisonment was imposed. A man named James Patrick Mooney, v ' alias Tierney called at Dr. Hugh Keith's house in Auckland, on. Saturday! and ask- ' ed for money to imy drink. The doctor, feeing the man wanted food instead of drink, took him ,into his house and acted the part of the Good Samaritan, givinghim food The doctor went o|it of thf... feitchen, where th© man was, but coming bade found a pair of his boots on th! man s feet. The man, who. was not drunk could give no explanation of how the f it must have been the result of » fit of mental aberration. * • Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce S'S!?^! l^ A ht ' ** E - A - Campbell stated that he had been doing nothing for. U past throe or four months, but attending meeting of various socic/ies and public bodies, and that at each of these meetings resolutions had been passed aproving of compulsory military trahw ing. Mr Campbell expressed himself very \ strongly on the lack of discipline- in the,' • " life of the young man of the present day and the unsoldierlike bearing of the youths wasting time on th© street corners. This would ba remedied by military train-

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