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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 17 April 1907, Page 1

Easter Monday night at To KuraUa, taking a feather boa. About 5 p.m. she put tlio boa with her hat and jacket under tlio table. Wliou she left the hall at half-past twelve, the boa was missing. She next saw it at tlio police station. CJoustahle Doyle stated that ho saw accused on the Karaka railway platform, with the boa on her hat, and asked her where sho got it. She hesitated and then admitted that she found it on the door outside the dressing-room door. Witness asked was it hers ,and sho reolied no, but she thought there was no harm in taking it away. The constable then said that it was reported stolen from the dressingroom. Accused siiid she did not take it from there, and admitted she knew it was wrong to take it. She left the hall with Boh. lingers, and told witness to tell him about it. Witness saw Rogers the same ihi.v. On Saturday ho saw accused, alio asked him if he saw Rogers, and witness said “Yes. He says you’re telling lies.’* She replied, “I do not think so.”

By Mr. lif'rs: tjhe said slio picked up tlio boa on the floor outside tlio dressing-roni door. It was found on lier at 9.30 a.in. .Mr. Bees contended * that accused wore the .boa to Karaka, thinking someone might see it. She picked it up after leaving the building. Counsel urged that there was no fraudulent intent and no secrecy or concealment about it.

Accused, Riving evidence, admitted wearing the bon, which she picked up outside the door of the hall. She did not see the police or 'anyone claiming it. There was no attempt to sell the boa. Had anyone asked for it she would have given it up. His Worship said that, according to her own statement, she picked up the boa, and had she been honest she would have given it to the door-keeper, or to the police the following morning. She had ample means of ascertaining the owner if she had chosen, and having failed to do so, she was guilty of the offence charged, and would be fined £5 and costs Os. or 14 days’ hard labor ill default, 14 days being allowed for payment.

MILITARY TRAINING. (N.Z. Herald.)) The debt, which all her free selfgoverning coXmies ov.e without doubt to England, may yet he itpaid not only by the help they may give her in time of need —should need arise—hut by the example they may set her in the meantime of intelligent preparation for possible dangers, by which those dangers may be averted. AVc have not tli excuse in these colonies which applies to a very large class of people in England, that the danger of war has never been brought close to them, and that the warnings they had they have been taught to suspect as professionally interested. In this colony, at least, we have known what war meant at our ojvn doors, and have seen how the danger could be met by the exertions of the people themselves, and not by a regular army. A\ r e, in common with Australia, Cape Colony, and Canada, have seen what can be done by irregular troops in opposition to the best-trained soldiers, and we have also seen how far the difficulty could be overcome by the assistance of an army of trained irregulars. In all these respects we have the advantage of the masses of the home-staying population of England, who have seen nothing and experienced nothing, except what they could learn through their newspapers. It is for us, therefore, to set an example'which may influence in process of time those who probably would scoff at any direct appeal from the colonies on such a subject. By training our school children to the use of arms; by insisting on our young men keeping up the training they have thus received as they grow older; by taking care that every citizen is made to feel the duty and the privilege of being ready to defend the liberty lie lias inherited, and the many blessings that have flowed from it, wo shall have secured our own part of the Empire from encroachment, and we may well find that in doing so wo have supplied the argument that was wanting to induce the people in the British Islands to rise to the appreciation of their new conditions, and to provide against the risk of new dangers. English people object to compulsion, not less, wc may lie sure in tile colonies than at Home; but there is a compulsion which is but another name for real freedom —the compulsion born of a patriotic enthusiasm which thinks no effort and no sacrifice tijo great in the individual ..which is needed to advance and secure the common good.

Eli Smith, a]i Alaskaii lnail-cjnrier, has won a hot of £2OOO, by driving -a team of clogs from Nome (Alaska) to Washington. [1 e started out in November, 1905, and covered the distance of 8000 miles in 65 days less than the stipulated time. He drove liis team to the White House, where he was cordially received by President Roosevelt, who questioned him about his trip. When Smith started out from Nome. Ids tt:am consisted of 10 dogs, but three, of them died on the journey, and they wore replaced by three full-blooded wolves, which had been captured in their wild state and broken to harness,

The largest crane in the world, with a lifting capacity of 200 tons, was brought iiito use »vt Armstrong's J£lswick works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in February. The crane will take a normal load of 150 tons, but lias been tested to 200 tons, and is intended to lift gun barbettes from the workshops to the warships, doing away with three months’ delay and the labor usually employed in taking them to pieces and reconstructing. The crane has taken two years to build and weighs 1100 tons. It can raise its load 100 ft.

A representative of the Echo tie Paris has seen at St. Cyr the new aeroplane with which 31. Santos Dumont intends to compete for different prizes. The machine, lie says, resembles M. Santos Dumont’s last in outward appearance, but many important alterations have been made. The arms are of pliable wood, and are fixed in the form of a V at an angle of eight degrees, and over f hem are stretched two pieces of cloth, which from the shape of the framework form two gigantic box kites about 43ft across. In the middle of one of these is placed the motor which works a two-bladed screw of aluminium, 61 ft in diameter. In front a tri-car saddle has been substituted for the basket, and is fixed behind the motor and a little lower. The rudder, which is in the rear of the aeronaut’s seat, will weigh about 601 b less than that of the machine with which' 31. Santos Dumont won the Archdeacon Cup.