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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 4

A start hus been made driving the cylindrical piles necessary for the purposes of providing the site for the Queen Victoria tiUtue iv the Post Office triangle. The £35,000 loan for street improve* ment works in the Meh-ose Ward of the City^ was wholly taken up by the Citizens' Lifo Assurance Company at 4£ per cent, interest. The Colonial Secretary has informed Mr. Barber, M.H.R., that a notification containing a description of the proposed borough comprising the district now controlled by the Seat oua Road Board will shortly be gazetted. Domestio servants seem to be fairly plentiful in Christchurch, and the registry offices have little difficulty in meeting tho requirements of mistresses. A short time ago domestics were hardly to be obtained at all, but the demand appeal 3 to have drawn girls from other centres. Some doubt appears to exist as to whether the Collins v. Isitt debate will not simply take the form of a lecture by each gentleman on alternate evenings. The arrangement is that Mr. Collins and Mr. Isitt shall on Thursday each speak; foi half an hour and for a shorter time alternately. On the Friday evening the 'orclei •will bo reversed. The meetings begin at 7.45 p.m. in the hope that the speakers will consent to be alternately questioned during the half-hour following each night's debate. Tickets can be obtained ut most of the booksellers in the city. Mr. J. M. Wilson, the well-known American lecturer, will deliver an address in the Theatre Royal on Sunday evening, his subject being "The Gospel of To-day 1 An Exposition of the Ethics of Socialism as Contrasted with the 'Religion of the Present Commercial Sj'slem." Admission will be free. The public are particularly requested to note the change from the, usual place of meeting. Tho United Missionary prayer meeting will be held next Tuesday night at the Vivian-street Baptist Classroom. The Chairman will be Captain Blackburne, local Secretary of the China Inland Mission, and the Bubject will be "China." The annual meeting of shareholders o{ tho South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company will be held at Auckland on Wednesday, 12th October. At tho conclusion of the meeting an extraordinary meeting will be held, when a number of special resolutions advertised elsewhere will be brought forward. Harassing and persecuting discharged prisoners is an allegation sometimes made by counsel against the police when defendkig criminals. This charge is said to have no foundation so far as the Wellington police is concerned. In the Magistrate's Court this morning -Chief Detective M'Grath stated that the detectives aro always willing to find employment for discharged prisoners, and assist them in "turning over a new leaf." It was only the other day that a man after serving two years' imprisonment went to the detective office, said he was "full up" of hia| business, and wanted to "go straight." One of the officers took him home, gavo him an outfit, and wrote a letter to a friend asking him to do what he could for tho man in giving him employment. The friend engaged tho man straight away, und intends keeping him employed for several mouths. In the meantime the detective made further enquiries about, work, and now hus another job for tho ex-prisoner to go to as soon as he com- • pletcs the work ho has in hand. In view of the great interest at present being token in the drink problem, the New Zealand Socialist party ha* decided to resume to-morrow last Sunday's open discussion on "State Control of the Liquor Traffic." Mr. Kraig will open tha debate, and the Socialist orchestra will render musical selections. All interested are cordially invited to attend. The usual meeting of the SUr of Wellington Lodge, 1.U.G.T., was held in. Richards' Hull, Cuba-street, on Thursday evening, Bro. J. Brockie, C.T., presiding. One candidate was initiated, and there wife a. large attendance of members and visitors. After the business was concluded parlour games were indulged in for the remainder of tho evening. A Sisters' reciting competition is to take place at next meeting. A question relating to the estate of tlie kto Mr. R. C. Chute, \rho, until a few months ago was licensee of tho Te Aro Hotel, Upper Willis-street, was before tho Chief Justice in Chambers today. The will provided for. payment to' the widow of a legacy of £200 and of an annuity of £150. The value of the whole estate, excepting the life insurance moneys, was £140. Owing to the passing of the Life- Assurance Act Amendment Act 4903, the lifo policy moneys were not available for payment of tlto legacy or the annuity, and the Court was asked to say s what should be done -under the circumstances to carry out the provisions of the will. Hifl Honour suggested that tlie earn of £400 should be handed to the widow, and the balance of £174 should ■ retrain to pay the insurance premiums for tlie son of the deceased. It was arranged that in the meantime the matter should stand over in order that Mr. Weston, who appeared for the widow, mi|;ht consult the insuranco company. Mi?. D. M. Findlay ap. paired for tho executors of the will.' The family of Mr. L. Roskruge, of the Audit Department, Mas recently indisposed by partaking of a pumpkin alleged to have been procured from a • Chinese fruiterer on the 6th September. The matter was reported to the Health Department, and Inspector Scheaur immediately went to the shop of Chung Wah, Moles worth-street, and 1 found nmongstra quantity of vegetables a portion of a pumpkin partially covered with mildew. A . Chinese salesman walked up to the Inspector, placed the pumpkin on a scale, and asked "You like urn altogether?" The Inspector explained who he was, seised the pumpkin, nnd laid an information against Chung Wah, charging him with having exposed for sale a portion of a vegetable unfit for human consumption. After we went to press yesterday alternoon the charge was heard at the Magistrate's Court, before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty, and explained that he had been in business in Wellington for ten years, and always endeavoured to sell the beat) of articles, and alleged that he never sold a bad pieco of pumpkin to Mr. Roskruge. Dr. Moßgillj of tho Health Department, swore that the articlo seized by -the Inspector was unfit for human consumption, and explained that if some of the seemingly sound portions of the vegetable were placed under a microscope they would be seen to bo infected by a fungoid growth, which spread from the parts which were visibly rotten. A fine of 20s with £4 0s 6<i costs was imposed. Mr. Myers conducted the prosecution on behalf o£ tho Health Department. Knrori subscribers, of the Evening Post are notified that they can secure early delivery of their papers on communicating with Mrs. Coates at the store. Services will be conducted at the Druids' Hall, Taranaki-sireet, to-morrow by the Rev. J. S. M'Cullagh, Elder in charge in New Zealand of tho Christian Cathoho Church in Zion. "It's scorching hot!" will soon- be tbo cry, for old Kyig Sol is mounting higher and sending down fiercer rays every day. Prepare to save your complexion now by buying one of the sunshades we describe on page 7. — Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt. •