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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 10, 12 January 1900, Page 4

■• LOCAL AND GENERAL. : — ♦ — » War and its attendant horrors will i form a conspicuous feature of the con- ■ tents of the Supplement to be issued with - to-morrow's -Post. The articles will in- ■ elude descriptions of recent battles in the * Transvaal, and incidents noted at Bel- • mont. Various verse upon the topic of > the hour has been contributed by local : writers and selected from abroad. Our > London correspondent sends a lengthy i budget of feminine gossip and fashion i ' notes. Then the regular columns will ■ contain the latest news concerning the • stage, the turf, sports and pastimes, and ; news of the world generally. i In accordance with the recommendation i of the Inspector-General of Schools (Mr. i G. Hogben) the Government has decided i to allocate as"" follows the Parliamentary ; grant of £200 for toe encouragement of swimming : — One-half to be given to the ; New Zealand Swimming Association in . recognition and in assistance of its efforts [ to foster swimming and life-saving . throughout the colony, and the other . half to be placed in the hands of the > same body for encouraging swimming in j the primary schools, to be distributed pro t rata to the number learning or to the number reaching a given qualification > (e.g., swimming 50yds) in the various ; Education Board districts. i With- regard to the invitation received by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to send a delegate to the Congress of British Chambers of Commerce, to be held in London in June next, it is not unlikely that Mr. J. E. Nathan, who is now resident in London, will be asked t to fill the position unless some local member of the Chamber willing to act ' happens to be going to England in timd 1 for the Congress. The (Jhamber has been i asked to submit resolutions on various subjects of international importance, such as commercdal relations between the s Mother Country and her colonies, inter3 colonial trade relations, foreign and co3 lonial bounties, boards of labour and conciliation, codification of the commercial law of the Empire, commercial edu5 cation, decimal system of weights and 1 measures and currency, cable communication, representation of Lnited Kingdom ' iv colonies and other parts of the Em- } pire for the promotion of mutual trade, defence of the Empire, etc. As soon as [ a delegate has been decided upon some of these matters will be discussed by the ~ Chamber. t The annual report of the Council of - the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 3 expresses keen appreciation of the gene- . rous action of the Wellington Dramatic x Students, whose performance of "The B Cabinet Minister,'" in May last, results ed in £73 16s being handed over to the . Academy,. The list of members now I as f ollows : — Life, 3; subscribing, r 64; artist, 44. At the eleventh annual exhibition opened by the Governor in August, 250 pictures were exhibited, and j 35, jof the value of £168, were sold or „ disposed of by art union. The statement of receipts and expenditure, which is ' appended, shows that during the year £75 was paid off the deposit account, I leaving £25; and three piano deben3 tures of £10 each have been redeemed. 1 The Council anticipates that before the 3 end of next year the Society will be ' free of debt. The President (Dr. Fell), \ one Vice-President (Mr. J. M. Nairn), ' and Misses Richardson and Richmond, * Dr. Kington Fyffe, and Mr. D. T. D Stuart, members of the Council retire ; from office this year. r Complaints are made of .undesirable I characters frequenting the plantations r and shrubberies in the vicinity of Or- . iental Bay and JRoseneath, and further [ police protection for the district is said to be necessary. The constable in charge [ of the district at the present time appears to have so wide an area to cover, ; that it is quite impossible for him, un- ' aided, to cope with what is said to be j a growing evil there. 1 The question of securing uniformity of ! size for packages of produce is exercising the attention of the Wellington Chamber ■ of Commerce, and the Secretary is about i to communicate with the Agricultural I Departments of the ' Australian colonies asking for copies of any regulations they may have bearing upon the subject. An a<f|ncy of the Government^Life In- ' surance is to be opened at ' tho Post Office, Shannon, on the 15th \ instant. ** Most people know "that Kirkcaldie and ; Stains' boot department caters for ladies, i girls, men, or boys. The assortment, the pripes, the value is all that can be de- ■ sired.— Adyt.