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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1907, Page 6

! LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kession of Parliament of 1907 was brought to a -close late yesterday afternoon. Before ' finally adjournI ing complimentary remarks were made by the Premier and the Leaver of th© Opposition, .and Sir Joseph Ward also made commendatory reference- to Mr. Speaker, the Land Drafting Department, (Professor- Salinond and Mr. Joliffe) and the officers of the House. An amendment was brought down by "Governor's Message to the Factories' Amendment Bill, striking out tha % clause relating to the registration of factories occupied by Chinese, and the hoars of labour in Chinese laundries. If such a clause was included in the Bill, said the Premier, - His Excellency the Governor would deem it his duty to reserve it for the Koyal assent, and that ' would delay tha measure, i'resh legislation on' the subject would be introduced next year. Both Houses agreed to the amendment; Th© Premier also announced that £800i000 on account of the latest loan had been raised to such good advantage that it realised £855,000, giving an average interest equal to 3£ per cent. A quiet but steady call was experienced at the Stock Exchange to-day. Transactions included a line of Weli lington Trust and Loan' (£5 paid), j sold at £7 10s, which means a return of ; aboutt 5 l-3rd per cent. ; Christchurch Meats (£5 paid) at £10 10s, returning slightly over 7£ per cent., and N.Z. Paper Mills £1 5s 3d. The mining division saw some realisation by holders of Talisman scrip, evidently in the shape of profit-taking ; consequently values eased fractionally, but closed firm. Scrip was dealt in at £2 13s 9d, with £2 13s 3d and £2 Hs, representing both sfdes at the close. Waihi (cum div.) were wanted at £8 9s_6d, 2s below holders' views, with no resultant business. A good many buying orders •in the investment and general sections of [ the Hat could not be filled on account of the lack ofofferings. ! In accordance with our_ custom for > several years past -re propose oto publish at intervals description of the Acts of Parliament passed during the session which terminated yesterday. The first Act dealt with, thd Land Laws Amendment Act, appears in another clomun, and, as it makes a radical alteration of the law, shojald prova of value and interest to those, who are concerned in that phase of the legislation of the Dominion. John Hayes, engineer and mine manager of 'the Puponga Coal and Goldmining j Company, has issued a writ claiming £775 from the company, balance of salary alleged to be owing. William George Tustin, against whom there are charges of having committed breaches of the Bankruptcy Act, will stand hia trial before Mr. Justice Cooper ia the Supreme Court to-morrow morning. ""j It is anticipated that the final closing of accounts in connection with' the New Zealand International Exhibition will be effected within the next ten days. 1 Mr. G. S. Munro, general manager, who has-been in Wellington for^a' few days, left for Christchurch last night to complete h.is duties. Following the' example set by the Wellington branch of the V.M.C.A., the Auckland branch ot the organisation has' decided to grant its. general secretary, Mr. G. S. 'Mitchell, extended leave of absence in order that he may visit the United States, whdre tho movement has the strongest hold. _ A correspondent complains of "the apparently needless oxtravagance of a special train to convey some half-dozen M.H.B.'s on Sunday to Ohakune, and thence by coach and special train on Monday to Auckland. " Had they waited till Monday they could have gone at their own expenses, and only been one day later in Auckland. The cost will be at least £300^ which,' for about six members, seems a shameful piece of extravagance." The case of Leonard Cloake v. G. and Lewis Cloake, an application for the sal© of partnership property, was brought before My. Justice Button yesterday afternoon.. Mr. Sharp appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Young for defendant. There was a counter-claim for dissolution ,of partnership. The parties are shoemakers. On the application of "Mr. Sharp thß case was adjourned by consent until Thursday next at' 10 a.m. The ladies who are organising waye and means of collecting on Hospital Sunday, aro determined to lose no I chance of reaping the harvest of public gonerosity. Disappointment was expressed at tho committee meeting in the Town Hall yesterday that at last year's demonstration in the Basin Reserve several thousand "people were allowed to get into the ground without paying their footing. This time they Ajill h^-e to r u « the gauntlet Of the Amazons with the boxes and hard ox heart will bo he who enters free. Somo strong remarks on the unreadiness of counsel were, made by Mr. Justico Button in the Supreme ' Cour,t this morning. "1 understand," said His Honour, "that there are no cases which counsel are ready to go on with to-day. I wish it to be distinctly understood that I am very much dissatisfied in finding counsel in- this unready position. Wo lost a great part of yesterday, and shall lose a great part of today. I arranged for divorce cases to be heard this morning, but, none of them are ready, I wish it w bo understood that if parties are not ready their cases will bo struck out. • The court has been led to expect that 1 eases will go on in a certain order, or nearly so, and when the court sits there, is nothing to go on with. Thera is a long list before tha court to be taken before the vacation, and I think parties' unreadiness is a great waste of time."-