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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 11, 13 January 1900, Page 4

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The Colonial Secretary's. Department has been advised that it -v/afl not found necessary to quarantine the, British India Company's cargo steamer Virawa on her arrival : in Auckland. Baiore the vessel left Calcutta she was thoroughly fumigated, and no sickness of any kind occurred on the voyage. " Oh, don't pose as a philanthropist !" interjected the Magistrate when a witness in one of the sly-g,rog selling cases in Court yesterday stance d that he turned his home" into refresh ment rooms because he saw with re-let that too many respectable people were going to the publichouse. "We ai>e essentially practical here," added t;lie Magistrate. "I have no doubt you ciid it because you could turn it into -un honest permy — and quite right, too.' 01 The witness went no further in the same strain. The ,zecommendations of the Conciliation Board in connection w^h the difficulty between the Drivers' Union and the employers were considered last night by the Union. It was unanimously decided to disagree with ths award, but to suspend action for the present. Owing to the decision of Judge Edwards in the Christchurch Grocers Assistants' Union case, by which thie Union and all similar unions are debarred from taking advantage of the provisions of the Act, as not being Industrial Unions, it was decided to suspend action in this direction until the decision is ma.de known on the case to be stated for the Court of Appeal. Messrs. A. Orr, Moore, and Hannifai were appointed a Committee to watch proceedings an.d take such action as might be deemed necessary, and arrange for a further conference with the employers with th.c object of bringing about a settlement oi ; the dispute. It was also decided to interview the Minister for Railways in reference to various matters. The New Zealand League of Wheelmen' having granted the Wellington Cycling Club the privilege of deciding the cash and amateur championships of the colony at Wellington, the committee of the local club -is leaving no stone unturned to make the meeting at the Athletic Park on 31st January and 4tii' February (Wednesday and Saturday) a great success. The championship events this year will doubtless prove more interesting than usual, for the form of "the riders has been so conflicting that there is much speculation as to who will succeed in the contest for supremacy. The Pa-rk track is being put in first rate order, and the sport promises to be the best ever t seen at a local cycle meeting. The City Council is experiencing a difficulty in connection with the proposed widening of the roadway past the old Evening Post comer. The Council has placed itself ;n communication with Messrs. StewaTt Dawson and Co., who recently purchased a portion of the land proposed to be acquired, asking the firm if it was willing to dispose of a portion of its frontage, so as to allow of the street being widened, and a reply is daily expected from tho general manager in Australia. Mr. W. 0. FitzGerald, the owner of the land adjoining Messrs. Stewart Dawson and Co's property in Willis-street, has received an offer of £125 for a small strip, of his frontage," and has sent a reply to the Council to the effect thai to tako out the present .front of his building, set it back and replace it in brick as required by the city bylaws, would entail a cost of £400. The carrying out of such alteration wouid geat.y hamper him, either by involving him in a heavy penalty for delay in giving possession of an adjoining allotment, or by causing him to relinquish business for a time. Further, the cutting-off of the strip of land would upset his architect's plans, by throwing out an fittings, counter, Avindow and other measurements. "In all the circumstances," he concludes, "I am unable to entertain the proposal unless the sum of JUIOOO is paid to me by the Council for the land, alterations to building and other losses that would be. entailed." Tlie Post Office authorities are advised that tho colonial mails per Aorangi, which left Sydney on the 6th December, arrived in London on the 10th January, one' day early. One first offending inebriate, a woman, was punished by the Stipendiary Magistrate this morßing. At the Mount Cook Police Station, before Mr. W. Hildreth, J.P., a urst offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged. A number of those who passed the men's examinations of the St. John Ambulance Society having expressed a desire to form a branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Mayor of Wellington has consented to preside at a meeting for the purpose, to be held next Friday, and of which due notice will be given. The formation of a nursing guild for those Mho have passed the nursing examinations is also talked of. The new pictures exhibited by the Kinematograph last night were much admired by a large number of people. The entertainment will be repeated to-night. Mr. Christie Simonsens,. business manager for Mr. Bland Holt, arrived from Auckland this morning to supervise the transhipping of the scenery for " New Babylon" and "The War of Wealth" plays Avhich are to be included in Mr. Holt's return tour. Mr. Simonsens returns with the scenery to Auckland tomorrow. He reports that the company is doing splendid business in the northern city. That women are creatures of sex, is true, so are men, but all agree that Black Swan Butter eclipses everything.— Advt.