A person before the City Police Court yesterday was charged with trespassing on a part of the railway overlooking the Caledonian Grounds.
The police had received certain instructions regarding this part of the railway and warned him off.
He gave his name, and the information that he had been deputed by the railway authorities to warn off trespassers.
The police subsequently found that the name and the information were alike fictitious.
He was fined 4, with 7s costs.
• While waiting on the Milton Railway Station one day this week, there came under the notice of Inspector Gladstone, of the Public Health Department, a state of affairs which is anything but desirable, and which seems to be all too prevalent.
By a slow train from the south there arrived some 20 carcases of pigs, which were being forwarded for curing purposes.
These were mixed up with the general goods, and three of them were taken out and dumped on a piece of wood, while the remaining 17 were thrown out on the platform, which was by no means clean, the carcases being in no way covered or protected.
Unfortunately, there are no regulations in regard to the proper handling of the carcases of pigs while in transit over the railways, notwithstanding the fact that the absence of such has for a long time been the subject of repeated remonstrances from different quarters.
• Is there poverty in Dunedin? Sister Annie, speaking last evening out of her experience as a city missioner, said there was - dire poverty, at our very doors.
Only that evening, before coming to the meeting, she had visited a poor woman in the city.
The woman, who was in a dying condition, received from the Benevolent Trustees weekly the sum of 5s, of which 4s was absorbed for rent, leaving 1s for food.
She had seen the unfortunate woman safely removed from her squalor to the Dunedin Hospital.
• Our Cromwell correspondent telegraphed yesterday: - "The weather is exceptionally mild for this time of the year.
A strong, warm wind was blowing last night, with warm heavy rain throughout the district all today. - ODT, 13.6.1908.
