LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1146, 6 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

According to the "Tavanaki Herald" of Saturday Inst', :i parcel of ten paid-up shares in (lie Taranaki Petroleum Company worn sold by auction that morning at 225. .'id. (o a jilawke's Day buyer.

Wo are rerniesled to state that owing to the dilHcullics experienced in communicating the information to, and geltin;; registration returns in from the outlying country districts, and the fact that it will take' the Defence Department until the middle of June lo check tlin lists of those already registered, the Minister for Defence has sanctioned an extension of lime to register up to 7 p.m. on June 17, 1911. There can be no further extension of time beyond June 17, and those who are not then registered will be subject to the penalties under the Act.

No new developments are reported in connection wil'h the outbreak of plague in Auckland (fays our special correspondent). The bulletin for the week ended on Saturday states that four patients were sfiil under treatment at'the hospital. Out' of 100 rats examined during tho week, eight were found to bo infected with plague.

Messrs. A. and G. Price, of the Thames, Auckland, have secured a contract from (he Railway Department for the construction of ten locomotives. This makes the third contract (for ten locomotive engines) which this firm has secured from the Government.

Joseph Mandel, who had bec-n called upon for jury service at the Supreme Court yesterday, was fined '10s. for r.ot attending. Ho had forwarded a medical certificate, but Mr. Justice Sim said that if a juror could not attend ha should send someone to make representations to the Court on his behalf.

Tho hearing of a charge against James Simeon, of Johnsonville, of supplying beer to certain Natives at Waikanae, was adjourned at the Magistrate's Court yesterday until June 12, to enable Mr. Weston, counsel for the defendant, who was engaged in the Supreme Court, to attend. The charge, against Simeon is that tlio liquor was supplied in the Raukawa district, which is a "proclaimed" area under Section 43 of the Licensing Act, 1910. Witness's expenses , £1 lGs. Sd., were allowed.

Yesterday Detectives Lewis and Cameron arrested a man, who will appear at tho Magistrate's Court this morning, charged with theft of an overcoat valued at £3 10s., the properly of E. M. Casey.

A recent telegram from Christchurch stated that some indignation was being felt by census enumerators in Canterbury at the action of the Chief Census Officer in Wellington having refused to pass their accounts. It was stated by the officer in question to a Dominion representative yesterday that the payment of the accounts was only being deferred until the amounts could be checked. The sums involved in some cases ora very considerable, and, after all, what is being douo is only ordinary official caution. No payments have been refused yet, and possibly all will be paid.

"All proclamations on telegraph poles arc to bo removed forthwith. The forms are not to be merely torn down, but must bo completely washed off, and the poles loft in their original state"—extract from District Orders -published by the Defence Department yesterday.