LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 518, 27 May 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« .The Government is contemplating making additions to the Manners Street police station. "Yesterday, the next sitting of the Couil ■»f Appeal was lived for .lime 7, at 10 (•'clock. J. and W. Jamicson, contractors, of Christck'urch, aro the successful tenderers for the Auckland Post Office. According to Mr. Justice Oiopcr, a good (leal of tho contradictory evidence that-is given in Courts of law' is due to misun- • lerstandmg. . A. special meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board is to be held on Wednesday noxt at 3.15 p.m. to receive a deputation from the Wellington Wharf. Labourers' Union. Thirteen Chinesa arrived from Sydney bv the Manuka yesterday. They aro bound for the Eastern PucihV Islands, and learo Wellington by the Manapouri to-day. "Xhero has not been a straightforward witness in this caso," observed; Mr. Justice Cooper during the hearing of tho action Troadgold v. Official Assigneo at tho Supreme Court yesterday..''. The postal authorities advise that the Mariposa, which left San Francisco' on May 21, via Tahiti and Rarotonga, has on board English and American mails, which aro duo here by the Manapouri, on Juno 17. Tho Timber Commission sat until ton o'clock last night. It will resume at 9 a.m.> to-day, and in view of the fact that it has io report to tho Governor on Monday, it will probably conclude its examination of tho remaining witnesses to-night. Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P.. will introduce a deputation of Brooklyn' residents to the Minister for Public Works (Hon. R. M'Kenzic) at 5.15 p.m. to-day. Matters.relating to the Brooklyn tram service are to be laid before tho Minister. , ' v A. man wss arrested.by Detective Cassclls about 11 o'clock last night on a charge of conspiring with another man, while in a railway carriage between Papamii and Christchurch, to defraud a Native of the sum .of £18. He will appear at the Court to-day. Circumstances permitting, Captain Hooper, of the training ship Amokura,' has to give periodical lectures on yachtsmanship to yachtsmen and others at the.To Aro Boat Harbour. The reading of charts, etc., will also form part of the lectures, which should be decidedly; instructive, to yachtsmen, . On a coursing matter, Mr.iH. Webb, hon. cecrotary. I'nln-.erston North Club, writes to contradict tho statement that the Southland Club has a record nomination for tho'Dominion,, and that the next best nomination total was 38. He states that the first meeting held in Palmcrston: brought out 52 dogs, while the'meeting held there last month attracted 45 entries. '.."'.'

Mr. Bcrtling, tho superintendent of tho Wellington Zoo,, lias'received a letter from the Duke of Bedford informing him that a consignment of animals for tho "zoo" will reach Wellington in about a week's time by tho Wakanui. .The consignment consists of' three buff rheas, three grey rhcas, eight thar goats, three Hamas, and six axis ,deer. The animals are'valued at £500.

Lonoly Juan Fernandez rind Now Zealand are fairly remote. But there is, or was, a link it seems.; This week's mail from Homo brings news that a Mr. Andrew: Selkirk, who died recently in a Fifesbiro -village, .was one of tho advance guard of tho "cradle brigade" of minors who tried their luck on tho early New Zealand goldfields. -And-this Solkirk was a descendant! of .-Alexander' Selkirk, tho original of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe."

Mr. E. Newman, M.P!.', will, introduce a deputation representing the Horseshoe-and Sluggish Hirer Drainage Boards to tho Hon. D. Buddo this morning, when the question of. amalgamation of districts' will bo discussed. Afterwards, along with- Messrs. Buick Field,"M.P.'s, Mr. Newman will introduce a deputation consisting of Messrs. Sanson, Greig, and Armstrong, members of tho Manawatu and Oroua Drainage Boards, who desire alterations in- tho Drainage Act of 1908.

Tho Hon. J. T.Paul, M.L.0.,' told a Dominion reporter that he was very well satisfied with the result of his visit to Auckland. Ho, had addressed several meetings of workers in different branches.of the clothing .trade on behalf of the Southern Clothing Trades' Federation, which embraces several olasses of workers ,in Wellington, Christ, ohurch, and Dunedin. The object in view was to bring'all the clothing trade workers of the Dominion into lino, and this, ho thought; would soon bo accomplished. ..'■■.

It was stated at'last night's meeting of the Wellington Football Association that excitement ran exceptionally high during tho courso of a match at Porirua last Saturday, and that, a great deal, of betting was done over tho game. Several members spoko strongly against betting, and/it was decided to write'to the two clubs concerned, pointing out that tho' association understands that hotting was going on, and that if sufficient, proof is forthcoming in tho future the ground will bo closed and the teams suspended. -

Tho ablutions forced on:prisoners who pass through tho hands of tlie polico provo detrimental to tho matter of identification occasionally. A witness who was under crossexamination at the S.M. Court ,yesterday was asked how it was. that ho was now satisfied that tho two accused wero the men, after he had not been certain when :he saw_ them in gaol. "Well," explained the witness, "when I saw :them, boarding' tho' tram . at —- they were drunk and dirty, and when I next saw them at tho gaol they were sober and clean.'' Even the, prisoners ' smiled broadly at the'explanation.

When the lad Dane was again set forward for sentence at tho Supremo Court yesterday, on a charge of having committed a gravo crime at Nelson, Mr, Justice Cooper said that' he had not yet received official to whether there was accommodation at any of the industrial schools for boys of'criminal tendencies. Ho had, ho continued, been informed by tho_ governor of the Terrace- Gaol, that a portion of tho Burnham Industrial School was set apart for the purpose in question. In order that a reply might bo received from tho Secretary for Education on the subject, ho' would postpone sentence until' Friday morning.

Cabinet yesterday authorised tho expenditure of the following amounts out of Parliamentary votes :-7-Stratford-Ohgaruo railway, £11.100; Reefton-Inangahua railway, £1600; Coal Creek railway' extension, £5000; Midland railway, £3000; Midland railway (formation at Otira end), £1000;: Catlins-Waima-haka railway, £4500; • Rivorsdalo-Switzers railway, £4100; Orepuki-Waiau railway, £1800; Kawakawa-Grahamstown railway, £4500; Hclcnsville-Northwards railway, £9282 10s.; Holtitika-lloss railway, £482 10s.; Can-terbury-Marlborough railway, £250; 'West-port-Inangahua railway, £1600; purchase, of sleepers, £1625. Tenders wero accepted for the following works:—Additions to Napier Post Office (over £800), Wakefield Post Of, fice (over £S00), Fairlic Courthouse (over £500), Wyndham Post Office (over £1000), Lincoln' Police Station (ovor £7,00). It was decided to invite tenders for tho erection of tho new General Post Office at Welling, 'ton; .also a courthouse at Gisbornb and a police station at Shannon. , ■

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