BALLANCE MEMORIAL FUND.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1893, Page 3

BALLANCE MEMORIAL FUND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sik — Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable columns to say a few words on tho abovo subject; also to put forward a suggestion ? I hear it is proposed to found a scholarship (with the money collected by public subscription) to perpetuate the memory of the late John Ballance. Now, sir, who will benefit by such a scholarship f Not the sons and daughters of tho working classes, who, as soon as they are able, have to turn out and work in order t'j help tho father or mother in maintaining the home, but those who can well afford to pay for their children's higher education. As the people of New Zealand wish to do something towards perpetuating the memory of John Ballance, I think it cannot be perpetuated in a more fitting manner than by founding in each centre a fund for the amelioration of distress amongst the poor, and by so doing I think the memory of John Ballance will be for ever perpetuated by the heartfelt blessings from these poor souls. Trusting that some more able pen than mine will take this up. I am, 4c, A SOBSCEIBKR. Wellington, 25th September.

The Levin Memorial Committee meets this evening at the City Council Chambers at 7.30 o'clock. The following are the prize-winners in the New Zealand Academy's Art Union : — N. W. Werry (JE10), Miss Diediich (£8), W. S Reid, Mrs. G. Beetham, J. E. FitzGerald, F. Penty, W. H. Levin, J B. Hareourt, Hon. W. B. Mantell, M.L C. Miss L. Koch, W. C. Buchanan, M.H.R., W. Simm, Hon. R. Pharazyn, J. H. Meyer, W. Ferguson, H. S. Wardell, G. E. Tolhurst, A. Hoby. Delegates to the Liberal and Labour Eleotoral Convention will meet at tho Exchange Buildings to-morrow evening, on urgent business. =•« * Mr. C. T. Benzoni has been appointed Deputy -Registrar of Friendly Soqietiej., whioh will give him full power to act as Registrar in that officer's absence. Mr. Benzoni's career in the Public Service has been rather an eventful one. He joined the Medical Staff Corps during the Crimean War when a mere stripling. He forcced one of Lord Elgin's China Expedition, which was directed to India on account of the Mutiny, and he served there under Captain (now Sir Garnet) Wolseley in the 90th Light Infantry. Then he served with the Royal Engineers in the China Campaign at the destruction of the Taku forts, and afteiwards with the Guards and Rifle Brigade in Canada after the Trent affair. He was engaged in the Waikato Wcr, and subsequently entered the colonial Civil .-ervice in the Store Department, rising through various positions to bo Under-Secretary of Public Works, but was retrenched when that department was reorganised nnder a professional head. Subsequently he re-entered the Service as a clerk iil the office of tbo Registrar of Friendly Societies, in which he has now deservedly won promotion. At 2.30 p.m. to-morrow Hareourt &. Co. wiil sell seven very choico bnildin? sites in Thorndon. The sections are conveniently sitnated, and are approached by Karori-crescent, a aetr Corporation road of easy grade. They command excellent viens, and most of them liaro plantations of ti lilt and other trees. Tbevare also well drtjued, and connected with the new drainage system. As building sites th-y are simply unrivalled. The terms of sale are— lo per cent, cash, 20 per cent, in one monfb, and tbo balance cm remain on xnorffptge for m term of yearn a^7 per cent. W. F. Snortt will sell to-morrow, sundries. It is a real treat to go into C. Smith's shop and showroom? this season. Although the outside appearance of his premises are not so elaborate as some of the modern-built shops, the class of goods that he is showing cannot be surpas3edin any wholesale or retail house in the colony. In the millinery rooms the goods are lovely, quite equal to what you would sco in Regent-street, London, atabont half the price. In the mantle department you will see tho very latest styles in mantles, capes, and jackets., at very moderate prices ; and the cotton and woollen dress fabrics are simply lovely Before buying, call at C. Smith's, the Cash Draper, Cuba-street. — Advt What jl Difference. — What a difference there is in honsss ! Some smell sweet and wboleeome— others raußty and dir'_y. Hudson's Extract or Soap makes the difference. Sold only in packets by all wholesale and retail grocers in Wellington. — Advt. . 3 for 0/ reua.ng ma«er see iuurih oaat.