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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1890, Page 2

Our report of yesterday's meeting of the Land Board, and two letters to tho Editor, ono on tho Bubjeot of Registry Offioes, and tho other on Railway Employes' Grievances, will bo found on our fourth pagd. Our Saturday Supplement io-morrow will contain tho Following Selections: — "Put Youfefelf in Bis Place," "Temperance," "Items for Ladies," "Was it a Dream?" "A Story for Payers of Income Tax," " Slips of tho Tongue," "What He Wanted," " John Burns on Stanley," " Selling People in England," " Nowb in Brief ," "Influonza in the Olden Time." The Eeprosentation Commissioners in their final report to the Governor have inado alterations in their original draft of constituencies as follows : —The township of Gordon has been added to Mataura, which laa rendered necossary some slight amendment in tho bonndaries of Glutha, Tuapola, Mount Ida, and Wakatipu. Dunedm Suburbs and Port Chalmers have been altered by adding West Harbour and the rest of Maori Hill to the Suburbs. Goraldine has received a small piece whioh It bad' been proposed to add to Asbburton. Thore has boon a slight adjustment of the boundary between Now Plymouth and Waikato, so as to inolnde Awakino settlement inthe former. Taupo County has been added to Hawke's Bay, and part of Te Arai riding taken from it, but the district round Te Arai remains in Hawke's Bay. Yesterday's cable news recorded tho de« ciajon of the Privy Council in a long-standing New Zealand suit, that of the Shaw, SaYill and Albion Company against tho Titnaru Harbour Board. The action waß originally hoard in tho Wellington Snpreme Court in 1887, tho Shaw-Savill Company claiming damages from the Timarn Harbour Board for the loss- of the ship Lyttelton, which occurred through the vessel striking on some undiscovered obstacle while she was boing towed to sea by the s.s. Grafton, in charge of one of the Board's employes. The jury" returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for | the full value of tho ship and cargo, but on the caso being carried to the Court of Appoal it was decided in favour of the ! Harbour Board, on the ground of insufficient notion of action. Tho company in turn appealed to tho Privy Connoil, but, as this cable message shows, unsuccessfully. The public accounts for .the last quarter of the financial year appear in the Gazette. We hasten to relieve the feelings of the numerous friends of the hermit of Island Bay by assuring thorn that there is no foundation for the report of his death, which was freely circulated yesterday evening. Tho rumour is easily traceable to the cable message from England published yesterday, Btating that the oelebrated Englieb stallion Hermit had paid the debt of nature. The quarterly Bank returns up to 31st March show the total assets to be -617,575,946 19s 7d, and the total liabilities £13,231,878 15s 43. The liabilities consist bf Motes in oironlation, £019,425 "7s 7d ; bills in circulation, .£61,527 12s 3d; balances due to other Banks, ,£30,677 12s lOd; Government deposits, .£491,809 10s lid ; deposits not bearinterest, £3,562,379; deposits bearing intereßt, .£8,1(35,459 11s 9d. The assets consist of coin, .£2,29,4,701 16s sd ; bullion, .£107,670 123 6d ; notes and bills of other Banks, .£38,169 19a sd ; balances due from other Banks, £142,522 18s lOd ; landed property, £510,840 9s Id ; notes and bills discounted, £2,631,925 Is 4d; Government! securities, £100 641 0s 6d ; good debts due I to Banks, £11,377,203 0s lCd; other securities, £372,26G 0s Bd. Mr.' Allan Magnire has quite completed all the constructive works connected with his big Te Aro reclamation oontract, and his only further responsibility is that for three months' ( maintenanco, whioh dates from the 17th of April. In view, however, of the certainty that several works will shortly have to be done necessitating tho opening up of Hnnter-Btreet and Jervoisquay, the City Surveyor recommended to the Counci last night that Mr. Maguiro be relieved from responsibility on the 31st of May, provided that the flat be left in thorough repair then. _ The recommendation was adopted, Councillor Petherick paying the contraotor the compliment of stating that tho reclamation, was the best job he had ever seen done iv Wellington. A change is about to take place in tho management of tho Bank of New Zealand's branoh in Manners-street, Mr. Cbas. Smith, who has been in charge for the past two yoafo, having received orders to proceed to Woodville -and succeed Mr. William Cook, tho present manager there. Mr. Smith is one of the most popular officers in the service of tho Bank, and his many friends, while regretting his departure from the city, will learn with pleasure that the transfer means substantial promotion. In addition to managing the branch at Woodville he will also have charge of the branches at Paliiatua and Danevirke. Mr. Smith leaves for his now field of labours next week, and will curry with him the best wishes of a largo circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Curnow will aot as manager of the branch in Mannerß-street pending fnrther arrangomonts. The contract for the erection of an additional servant's room at the Hospital was lot yosterday by the Chairman of the Trustoeß to Mr. James Trevor, who undertook to do the work for £93 Bs. The unsuccessful tenderers were— Persson (informal), £92 8s ; S. Hemingway, .£9B lQs ; C. Taylor, £107 15s; Grey and Seymour, £110; H. J. White, £126 IBs; J. Bell, £128; J. Orr (informal), £159 10s. Mr. W. Copeland, the well-known sculler, who has been stationed in the Wakapuaka Telegraph Office for the last twelve months, was in town to-day en route to Auckland, to which city be has been transferred. The firet instalment of , new plant ordered for the Fire Brigade, on the recommendation of Captain Kemsloy, has bsen completed to the. satisfaotion of membars of tho Fire Brigade Committee. It consists of a fire carriage— constructed by Mr. Mitoholl, of Molesworth-street— to oarry all the material likely to be required at a fire, including the hose-reel, which is usually separate from the rest of the gear ; and two sets of telescopic ladders, manufactured by Mr. C. Tandy, of Vivian-street. . Each set of ladders is 24ft in length, and can be extended by means of Bteel ropes and "drums by sections of 12ft and 7ft respectively, making the total length of each Bet 43ft, and enabling a height of 86ft to be reached when both sets are conneoted. The eides of the ladders are of Baltio timber; the rnnjs of hickory, and all the mountings are of steel. Both the new appliances will be delivered at the Central Pire Brigade Station in a day or two. The members of the United Ironworkers Assistants' Society held a speoial meeting last night at Bowley's Rooms, Cuba-street, the business being to receive two delegates From the Federated Trades and Labour Council, and also to appoint shop stewards. Ihe delegates from the Council— Messrs. illan and Hurleston — were cordially received by the President of the United Ironworkers Assistants' Society (Mr. J. R. Mills) and the assembled members. Mr. Allan spoke at some length, and explained the operations of the Council and also the benefits to be derived from Unionism. The delegates informed the meeting that the rules which had been forivtrded by the Eocioty to the Council were considered to have been framed on a sound basis, and thoroughly equal to tho requirements of .the Ironworkers Assistants' Society. Finally it was resolved to send ;wo delegates to meet the Conncil at their leit meoting, with a view to affiliate, and Messrs. Welby and Murray wore chosen the lociety's representatives. A vote of thanks o Mossrs. Allan and Hurleston for attending .he meeting having been passed, those gentlemen retired. The eleotion of Bhop itewards having been concluded, the meotng terminated with a vote of thanks to the ihairman. The new departure taken by the Orpheus jlee Club in arranging to give a smoke ooniert of high-class music at the Exohange Jail to-morrow evening, is one that should otnmend itself favourably to lovers of the artistic. This class of free-and-easy enterainment is very popular in Sydney and lelbourne, and has also taken root in the iouthern towns, and its introduction her 6 hould be hailed with general Batisfacti' jn 'he programme drawn up for to-mor r ' ight comprises all the choice itenr^ '^w rere given at the olnb's opening cor .certUgt reek, with the addition of soy «•] ntw lees. Mr. Robert Parker will ooo on d™t Tnl Ir TallisTrimnell has kindly ${$££ 3 play the accompaniments, i '• ■> ■ .