LOCAL AND GENERAL.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 12 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the Dunedin Police Court, Vivian James Adlan, alias Robert Thomas Ferguson, charged with stealing at Surrey Hills, Mayfield, 413 ewes valued at £826, the property of the Bank of1 New Zealand, pleaded auilty aiid was comiuitfpd

The St. Rathans Gold mir.. Company, Ltd., has received the fo lowing report from the mine mai. ager — "Section of cliff overhangin. and dangerous now removed and snaft carried up forty feet above ccilar set with watertight boxing. Woiic underground just resumed." a wireless set has beeu inslalled in St. Luke's Ghurch to receive the Bishop of London's sermon which will be broadcast from the Christchurch Cathedral on Sunday night The Bishop is also delivering an address at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon and this will also be picked up by the receiving set. The New South "Wales howlers are delighted with the attention received from the Tourist Department i Mr Scott (President of the new ; South Wales Association) stated yesterday that he was more than pleased with the treatment he and the rest of the team had received at the hands of the Department who j had compiete charge of all the transport arrangements and accommodation, on the tour, Mr Spora oi the Auckland bureau is accompanying the howlers right through. Ratepayers of the Waitaki County have been attending the offices of the Council in large numbers during the past few days discharging their liabilities before the 10 per cent penalty is imposed on unpaid rates • on Tuesday next. Many have not yet paid their rates and yesterday there was still nearly £10,000 outstanding. Quite a number are under the impression that they do not need to pay until March 31. .but they are mistaken as the Council has power to sue for rates after 14 days have elapsed from the date 'the demand was made, „ * THe HawKe's Bay districf conference o£ I.O.O.F., Manchester- Unity, discussed' the question of hospital fees charged1 to lodge patients and decided that the' Board "of Directors be requested to take in hand the inauguration of ' a Dominion hospital scheme, the Minister of Health, in (conjunction with the executive officers of other societies to be approached to" ascertain the 'best terms which c'an be obtained for a fiat rate foi bospital treatment of members ot friendly jsocieties under tbe age of sixteeri. Maintaming that if the country could alford to pay the King hundreds of thousands annually ^ it could " alford to keep him, Elliott Creswell Stanveld, 54, has preferred staying in a benovelent institution for a quarter of ta century rather than work, so the police stated at a Dunedin Court yesterday when Stanfield1 was- charged as idle and disordeprly. Stanfield called it a psychblogical m'aitter and accepted the Magistrate's offer to go" to^the Salvation Army Men's Industrial Home at Addington for two years _in preference to three months- hard labour, . .. V #1 The tragic story bf a boy's death was told in the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch yesterday, when Helen Mary Kinnimont, a single woriian, was charged with having driven a motor on FebrUary 20 in a negligent manner, thereby causing the death of David Noel Nelson. There is a further charge of having driven without being the hold er of a license. Witnesses gave evidence of having seen the car on a footpath, where the boy was Walking. It had evidently tried to avoid a eollision with another car. Accused was committed for trial, hail be ing allowed. . , At "a" irieeting of the" eommittee of the Oamaru Beautifying Society tbe chairman (Dr Douglas) read a circular letter which is being distributed throughout New Zealand in support of Mr E. P. Lee's private Bill to empower loc.al bodies to prohibit the erection of hoardings and the sub-committee's action in issuing the circular was confirmed. Mr D. V. Smith was elected secretary in succession to Mr J. W. Mackisack; Accounts totallirig £14 4s lOd were passed. A credit balance of £24 4s 8d was reported. At the conclusion of the riieeting Mr F. W. Humphries wished Dr Douglas an enjoyable voyage to England. The other members added their good wishes. Recent decisions of the Arbitration Court are being viewed with alarm by farmers who contend that, as a result of the increased awards recently granted by the Court, the cost of production is becoming prohibitive. The subject came before a. meeting of the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday and on the motion of Mr J. G. Ruddenklau, it was decided todraw the attention of the Prime Minister to the fact that_ primary producers were in an impossible position owing to continual increases in wages being rganted hy the Arbitration Court. It was considered that the Court was administered on wrong lines when the cost of living was the basis of • its aWards and no account was taken as to the employers' ability to pay.

There are more ways of making money than nierely working for it; The secretary of a Christchurch bowling club had a visit from a man the other day who asserted that he was the caretalcer of the phoenix Bowling Club, Oamaru, He had run a bit short, and if he could get the loan of a pound the secretary of the Phoenix Club would return it right away. The secretary of the Phoenix Club has acknowledged the receipt of the debit, but he very much regrets ! On and about the same date (as the lawyers say) an Oamaru dentist, who is not unconnected with bowling clubs, received a visit from a stylishly dressed young man who said he was a ten tist and said he eame from Dunedin and had lost his purse out of his motor car. He was accommodaled with thirty shillings. Nothing more need be said save tbat it was a painful extr action.

at Auckland yesterday Mr Jus- ! tice Herdman delivered judgment j in a case brought by George Hutchison, solicito)', against a native trustee, tn which plaintiff sought to recover from defendant, who is an administrator in the estate of Puhi Maihi, over £1900 for costs incurred and money lent and for interest. Puhi Maihi committed suicide in January. 1923. The value of his estate, his Honour was informed, was about £1400. The effeet of the judgment is that plaintiff's claims for £650 and £717 and the claim for interest are disallowed, and the whole of his claim for £634, .excepting a small sum, disappears, too. fhe judgment went in favour of defendant on a counter-claim, and a decree was made that a mortgage he delivered for cancellation. i

.;e rondition of Williani Mcj'ey. who was admitted to the uhlic Hospital on Thursdav night .afferina from a severe razor vvound in the throat, was reported iast evening to be satisf etory and there is a good chance of him recoverlng. In connection with thr North Otago Caledonian Society"- sports meeting next Saturday ;'.s announced yesterday tn; ' v. Camerson, the well-'.-4* Oamaru sprinter, had agreef' - a whippei over 10( yard- meron wjll have a start of 32 ; ,Is. .On Thursday 7.30 p.m, Rev. Adam Clarke give another of his blacknoard [--IVs on the "Witness of the Great c. ramid of Egypt to the Last "VVar and the Next War. This meeting will be on Thursday — not Wednesday evening — because of the memorial service at the High School - * , Mr L'. O. Stantori, field secretary of New Zealand and Anstralia fori the Oriental Missionary Society of Japan, Korea and China, has just retrned from those very interesting conntries. and in an address to be delivered in the Baptist ChurcE "ori Monday evening at 7.45, will give' first-hand information of prevailing conditions there. The meeting is open to everybody. THe iannual picnic of teacBefS and scholars connected with 5L Luke's Sunday School will Ibg Held! to-day at the Willows, Maheno. Thg Wolf Clubs are" invited to come iri uniform, and thc Newhorough Boys* Choir will also be* present. Motdi buses will lea/ve the Parish Hali 'at9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. One will leave the Thames Highway, close to the Newhorough Church at 8.45, and one will pick up the Totara folks at the School corner at 8.45. If the weather is unfavourable the picnic will be held in the afternoon in th| Parish Hall. - ' - ^ In delivering tEe judgment bf Ihe Nautical Court in regard tb ihe cbL lision of s.s. Northumberland ysjth a rock Mr Cutten# S.M., said the only point the Court had! to cbrisider was whether br not the ship wag steered on the course set. It Wbuld' be an unusual proceeding for & ship to be steered bn any course iddfferent to that set by ihe master The Court had carefully considered the evidence and .it ipifgared ^piafthe ship, whStt ta^fg a course which, appeare® § gafe and pFoper, one, struck a suhrSleged rock. N3 blame was attached to anyone. The master's certific'ate was returned i§ him. . " "