----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Weller SHIPPING NEWS: Arrival - July 13 - Australia, s.s., from Northern ports. Passengers - Mesdames WILKIE and CHIESELT; Messrs GILDING and WILSON. Departures - July 13 - Te Kapu, s.s., for Wairoa. July 13 - Waiwera, schooner, Captain PANKOW, for Gisborne. July 13 - Australia, s.s., for Wellington. Passengers - Mr SHEPHERD and family. July 13 - Norval, schooner, for Greymouth. July 13 - Opotiki, schooner, Captain BERGENSEN, for Gisborne. Birth - DAVISON - On the 11th July, the wife of Jno. H. DAVISON, St. Leonards, Amuri of a son. Death - THOMAS - At Napier Hospital, on July 13th, Richard Thomas, formerly of Brecon, South Wales, England, aged 11 years. The Public Works Committee of the Municipal Council agreed last evening to recommend the Council as follows:- That tenders be invited for raising the Battery road from Shakespeare road to past Mr PALMER's house at the corner of Milton road, and also up the Shakespeare road as far as necessary, to the first angle below the railway crossing in Waghorne street. At the R.M. Court yesterday, before Mr TURNBULL, R.M., James THOMPSON, for a second offence of drunkenness within a recent period, was fined 1 pound and costs, the alternative being seven days' hard labor. James TURNER, similarly charged, did not appear, and his bail of 1 pound was estreated. T. HAYDEN was fined 2s and costs for allowing a horse to stray at the Spit, and Henry NELSON, for allowing a number of horses and cattle to be at large, was fined 1 pound and costs. Frances NEAL, for leaving a horse and cart unattended, was fined 10s and costs. Owners of dogs will be interested in a case heard yesterday at the R.M. Court, in which Peter EDDIE, a laborer employed by the Corporation, was charged with being the owner of a dangerous dog. It appeared from the evidence that on the 17th of last month two little boys named TEHON and GIBBS were out playing, and came across the dog, who was gnawing a bone. The dog, a large black one of the retriver breed, sprang at little TEHON, and bit a piece out of his right arm. The would was a very severe one indeed, the piece bitten out being described by Dr. MENZIES as the size and shape of a man's tongue. The boy was taken home, and later to the hospital, where he was under treatment for nearly three weeks. The dog was destroyed some time after he had bitten the boy........