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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 20, 24 January 1907, Page 4

Our appeal on behalf of the widow and family of Henry J. Alderslade has elicited a speedy response from Mr. J. W. Copithorne, who in forwarding a i subscription of £1 writes : — "This is not a case of 'straitened circumstances' only, but dire need. The widow is left penniless absolutely., and both herself and her children had at the time insufficient food. I would respectfully suggest that the early subscriptions be at once applied in relieving their pressing necessities. I know this is a case of urgent and very painful distress." We shall be pleased to receive and acknowledge further donations in aid of the bereaved family. The death, occurred in Victoria last week of Mr. Eli Summers, a brother of the late Charles Summers, the well-known Australian sculptor. The three- brothers Kn, Albert, and Charles, all possessing artistic tastes, went to Australia in the early days, with the object of getting together enough money to carry on their artistic studies. They worked together for some time until "Charles, becoming impatient left for. Rome, leaving his brothers in possession o.f%what was afterwards declared to bB 'one of the richest reefs in Australia If the men employed on the Kelburne Park works had been employed full timeduring November and December, when there was nothing- in the weather conditions to prevent it, they would not, writes a correspondent, have com* to the City Council foT another shilling a day. During this time, he says, they averaged only three and a half days a week. "Picture to yourself," he says, "a .manned man going home on Saturday night to his wife and family with twentyeight shillings for his week's work. Half of that amount goes for house-rent, leaving tho other half to live upon. They could not" have a very merry Christmas on that.' r Steady work rather than inflated wages and spasmodic employment is, he thinks, the remedy for the men's complaints. "This summer we have had no summer," is a very general comment amongst Melbourne city folk this season. As yet none of the enervating winds from the north have scorched tiie city streets, and though occasionally the sun has been warm, never once has the temperature approached a very high degiee. There have been many reasons offered, and not the least common is the extra-vagant assertion that the climate is changing. Mr. Baracchi, the Victorian Government astronomer, says that he can remember only one summer during the last" sixteen years which wns cooler than the present" one. From 1895 to 1901 the summers were exceedingly hot, but since then has come a succession of cooler yenrs. At a meeting of the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Cooks and Waiters, held in the Trades Hall last night, Mr. A. J. Carey was elected secretary. An offer of an office in Willis-street, partly occupied by the Wharf Labourers' Union, was accepted, and the secretary was instructed to take immediate possession. The executive of the union was empowered to select representatives to meet the employers' representatives in a conference asked for by the latter. Several serious allegations were made by members present at the meeting, to the effect that the new agreement was being contemptuously treated by some employers. The chairman informed the meeting that all oreaches of the agreement were being dealt with by the Labour Department immediately upon being reported to them. The retiring secretary, congratulated the union on its success, and stated that 359 members had joined the union since it was reorganised in January, of last year. By the San Francisco mail, just delivered, Mr. T. E. Donne, manager of the Department of Toirrist Resorts and Industries, -received about 1500 letteis, principally from America, in addition to a huge assortment of newspapers. Some 330 of tho American correspondents, understanding that- New Zealand's Premier was an enthusiastic advocate of penny postage, put only a two-cent stamp (Id) on the envelopes, and consequently the | Tourist Department was debited " with I £3 14s 9d''for deficiencies. Very many of the American enquiries, which coma from practically every State, and also from Canada, are concerned with the conditkma of land settlement in New Zealand. Very few artisans submit any questions. The department has been informed that five farmers and their families, all with money, have hffc their homes at Oregon for New Zealand. As the guests at the farewell banquet to Bir Joseph Ward this evening file into tho Parliamentary Buildings their gaze will ba'arrestcd by a life-size figure of the late Mr. Reddon. The late Premier is in his characteristic fighting pose, looming vividly from tho .canvas. Is is a sludv by Mr/ "Van der Velden/an artist well known in Australasia, and he has devejoped a strong idea. It is the story of the "Triumph of Labour," not go much the portrait of a man, whose days are numbered, as the presentation of a type, eterna l Even to an eye not specially trained, the artist's idea soon apparent.. The Liberal leader stands in front of a forest nnd mountain scene of the Wes^ Coast that ho loved so well, and the> days of "Digger Dick" are suggested by minors in the foreground, listening reverently to the words of th« chief who is throwing his huge shoulders, as well as his voice, at them in the leonine way that many thousands of people in various parts of New Zealand will long remember. In the background them is the carping critic, one jeering at the master's speech, another passing a. jest with a conuade. These factions indicate the battle that Mr. Seddon had to fight, and the laurel branch on the platform shows that he achieved success. When the picture is finished there will be a light in the sky to represent the permanent effect in history of Mr. Seddon's career. Whether the light is for good or bad is not for the artist to decide; it is something fixed for ever in the firmament. The Karori Borough Council met last night, there being present tho Mayor (Mr. A. C. Pearce),and Councillors Dasent, Putnam, Lissjngton, Spiers, Mills, Clark, Cook, Grant. A complaint regarding drainage by S. J. Latham, of Upland-road was refrtred to the engineer. Mr. H. C. Grocott wrote pointing out the danger likely tq arise from the growth of gorse on land to the east of the viaduct. He added that the matter had beei* referred to the Department of Agriculture, and the necessary notices would be served on the owners of land concerned. The letter was received. In regard to outstanding rates from last year, the- clerk reported that considerable difficulty had been experienced in collecting the amount due by several ratepayere, and it was decided that proceedings be taken for their recoAery. It was decided that proceedings bo taken against people who had allowed horses to wander on tho borough roads. Some discussion took place as to the acnon of an owner of land in building on which is alleged to bo a less area than allowed under the Act, the Mayor characterising the action as a palpable evasion of the bylaw. It was stated, however, that a permit had been issued for the building, «s an addition to an existing structure, nnd one councillor urged that the whole of the building bylaws were "in a frightful state," and needed revising. Eventually the matter was referred to the Borough Solicitor for an opinion. , A lady's hair makes or mars her beauty. Capilla makes the 6calp healthy and ensures beautiful tresses. — Advt.