KILBIRNIE POST OFFICE.

A deputation representing the residents of South Kilbirnie was introduced by Mr. J. P. Luke to-day to Sir Joseph Ward General). The deputation asked that a site for a new post office should be acquired at South Kilbirnie. A cheap site, Mr. J. W. Eassori said, had been offered and the location was half a mile nearer to South Kilbirnio than the present post office. A largely signed petition was presented by the deputation in support of the request. Sir Joseph. Ward said in reply that the City Council had agreed to give the Government a sits at Childer'fi-terrace, the Government had since been waiting for the area to be reclaimed. The site in question was only a little distance away from that now suggested and the Government could not very well make a chcuge now. The Government was rady to go on with the work because it recognised the district was a growing one. At the same time he promised to obtain a report on the matter.

Wonderland will bo open this evening, when the tea gardens will be illuminated. The miniature railway, as well as the chute, swing, toboggan, helter skelter, will be run free of cost to patrons. Rev. J: Letcher, of Capetown, was a passenger to New Zftaland by the Tongarixo r yegteriiajfr