MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1899, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

[PKES3 ASSOCIATION.] (Receive May 13, noon.) London, 12th M.ay. The Queen will visit Kensington Palace on 251.1 i May, prior to its being presented 1o the public. ,Her Majesty -will lay the foundation stone of the Kensington Museum on the 17th inst., and attend a Te Deum service at Westminster Abbey on the 24th in connection with the celebration of her birthday. (Received May 13, 10.5 a.m.) London, 12th May. The balance-sheet of the Scottish and Australian Investment Company shows the year's profits to have been £7568. A dividend of 2^ per cent, has been declared, and £1328 carried forward.

Mr. John Duthie, M.H.R., who is suffering from tin illness which has kept hini a close prisoner for .several weeks, is progressing so satisfactorily that he hopes to be able to leave his room tomorrow, although it will probably be some time before lie will regain his iibiial activity. In consequence of the wet weather all the principal Rugby and Association football matches which were to have been played in Wellington this afternoon Avcre postponed. Schemes for proposed changes in the judicial system and in ji'flicial procedure in tho colony have been under the consideration of the Council of the New Zealand Law Society for some considerable time, but the matter has been deferred for the present. The Council has left it to the Wellington District Law (Society to draft a Bill for the incorporation of the legal profession of the colony. There has been a very marked improvement- all round in the condition of the butter from New Zealand during the past year or two, remarks Mr. Cameron, Government Dairy Expert in London, in his last report, and this is unhesitatingly acknowledged by all those in the Old Country who are interested in the hand ling of it. The quality of the butter, the manner in which it is packed and got up, and the style and finish of the boxes, all show decided improvement. Of course, there are exceptions ; but these are much more rare than formerly, and are chiefly found in connection with "milled" lots. The stowing on board ship, together with the handling and expedition in discharge, show distinct advance over the manner prevailing two seasons ago. While the handling and distribution throughout Great Britain is certainly extending satisfactorily. Mr. Camei'on has been extremely pleased to' note during the season the numerous enquiries mada of him re garding certain individual brands of butter, the quality of which has so highly gratiQed the purchasers that they havo been desirous of communicating direct with tho producers themselves, in order to try to purchase the entire output of that particular, factory next season. Mr. M'Man writes informing us that, the late Mr. T. Sullivan, of the Tutanekai, leaves a widow -as well as two children. Mrs. Sullivan arrived from Auckland by the Takapuna today. On .several occasions recently larrikins or mischievous children have aurreuti.tiously found their way into the Mitchell;town School, and havo wantonly t destroyed books belonging to the school library by pouring chemicals loept for •experimental purposes over them. A number of books have also been stolen. The committee, finding itself unable to stop the practice, has invoked the aid of the police. The annual meeting of the Wellington Liedertafel was called for last night, but owing to there being no quorum, no busi ness could be transacted. The concert to be given by Mrs. Thomp son's pupils in aid of the South \ veiling ton Girls' Intitute (postponed from Tuesday evening last) will be held on next Tuesday evening, 16th inst., at the Congregational Church Schoolroom, Consta-ble-street. A large number of school children have visited the Dairy Union's Factory on Thorndon-quay to witness the manufacture of Black Swan butter. The directors, in an advertisemn'i, request that if any school children wish to visit the factory they may receive notice, to prevent overcrowding • The Tivoli Company opens at, l he Opera House this evening in what is' ; said to be an entertaining programme of the variety kind. Mirth and merriment should prov« acceptable in such chilly and depressing weather as we have been experitneing loday, and the Tivoli artists promise both. The funeral of the late Mrs. J. A. Bigg took place this morning from her husband's residence in Sydney-street. There is now on view in Messrs' Wriggles worth and BinnVs vestibule a, Hno codec lion of that firm's latest aehiovementK in the photographic art, for the propor display of which tho vestibule ha« been specially decorated. Included among the pictures arc some artistically-finished bromide- cabinets and semi-cabinets, in which the artist's brush has been associated with the camera effectively. A sepia-toned bromide enlargement of a recent visitor, Mr, Lloyd, of Chipago, and a group of New Zealand veterans are interesting photographs which will attract attention. Those thinking of purchasing an up-lo date encyclopaedia would do well to prruso an advertisement in another column relating to Chambers' s Eneyoloptrdip. Reasons are thore given why thin "Dictionary of Universal Knowledge " is claimed to be ■ preferable to all others.

DEATH. Bkui.— On Ulli M.i.v, at hoi- late lOhidenoo, C'aven-. dish HousjC, Eliiuibctli, Mie wife of J. A. Bigg* IN MEMORtAM. Banxistuk.— ln loving- ir.eniovy of Vidwin Bannister, wlio jiiibsud iiwny on i:'fh May, 181)5, at L'itxlierboit, Palmci'ston Isoj Hi. " 'I'ho lo\ed and lust !" Wli.v douei'.ill ilniin lost? MoL'uiiho wo niivs tlieni fr<nn oiird.nl>' roadj' Goil'tj niiiioon itu^el o'er our i>al.ln\.iy crosl. Looked mi t,& all, and Imiii'; (liciii (ho niobL Stvaifihtw.iy vuhovcil ihuin ironi Lifo's woary lIUUI. — (AlK'll.) Wahp.— ln lovmir memory of lOllon Ward, hcroud beloved d.uithlcr ol liio lale .beonavd P.imuii,, wlio depaited (hit, life 1 ltli Msij , 1H97. Pvocio\is davlins, blin hn > Icti. vs — Left us, yes, for cveriiioir 1 , Bui tvn bono to meet our luveil ono On that bng-ht and liajtpy sluue. Lunuly tho hoiibc and s.id the houis Since our de.ir ono line >,'ono ; But oh ! a. bnghter homo than ours In heaven il. now her own. liiboi'lcd l>y her loving 1 mother.