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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 18, 21 July 1900, Page 4

LOCAL AND G/iN/i'RAL. _♦ — _ The Mayor has received a cable message from Calcutta acknowledging receipt of the 11th instalment (£kioo) sent from Wellington to the Indian Famine Relief Fund. The total amount sent up to tho present is £2oUO. Following are the latest contributions to the Wellington Fund: — From— the Chief Postmaster (Westport), £8 9s Id, made up as follows — Granity Sunday School, £2 3s 9d; Mrs. Sheath, 10s Mr. A. W. Baker, £5 15s 4d; A. H., 6s; concert got up by Katie Tasker, Mabel Strong, Beattie Ambridge, and Cissie Kelliher, 6s; lecture by Air. A. W. Baker (per Rev. A. W. Sedgwick ' of Fictan), £2 9s 9d The Benevolent Trustees- yesterday made their quarterly official inspection of the Ohiro Home, and found everything to their satisfaction. Old age pensions to the full amount have been granted by the Stipendiary Magistrate to Mr. Mikaera Te Rangiunerhia, 67 years of age, native, and Miss Elizabeth Pinfold, 66 years of age, 28 spent in the colony. For disorderly behaviour while drunk, Harry Morris was fined 10s or in default 48 hours' imprisonment, by Mr. Haselden, 8.M., this morning. Alice 0 Donnell, an oft-convicted inebriate, was remanded till the 27th for medical treatment. The Magisterial enquiry held at Napier into the wreck of the three-masted schooner Elizabeth. Price at Mahia has concluded. Captain Hughes and his officers have beea exonerated from blame. A few pounds' worth of damage was caused by an outbreak of fire about 5.40 last evening in a house in Dixon-street, owned by Sirs. Mary Ann Higgins, and occupied by Mrs. M. Wighton. The Premier yesterday, at the request of th^e Mayor (Air. J. G. W. Aitken), promised to print for circulation among members of Parliament and Municipal bodies the opinions by Mr. T. F. Martin on the various laws affecting municipalities, which he has .given from time to time as Secretary and counsel to the Municipal Association of New Zealand. "As others see us" is strikingly illustrated in the following letter received yesterday by a little lady friend of ours from a Russian girl correspondent in St. Petersburg :—"I: — "I am sending you some stamps, and 1 would send you some more if I were quite sure you had nothing to do with those dreadfully, unworthy Australians, who have helped the English in their robbing of the poor Boers. Wo, in Russia, and all Europe are so full of this war, which is so wicked and unjust, that I can write of nothing else. 1 enclose some Russian and Servian stamps." Argument has been, partly heard by the Chief- Justice in the case in which Wm. Fraser M'Leod was recently awarded £?50 damages against the Manawatu Railway Company for injuries received while in charge of one of the Company's locomotives. Dr. Findlay moved that judgment should be entered for the plaintiff in accordance with the verdict of the jury. Mr. Oliivier, with whom was Mr. Skerretfc, applied for a nonsuit, or that judgment should be entered up for the Company, on. the ground that there was nob proper evidence to go to the jury. The cuse stands adjourned until next Wednesday week. The suggestion was made by Mr. L. J. Carmine at the annual dinner of the Wellington j.-oultry. Pigeon, and Canary Association last night that the Government might reasonably allow Poultry Societies to give prize birds as art union prizes, with the view of popularising shows and enabling societies to meet their liabilities with less difficulty. Mr.' F. Townsend went further, and suggested that the Government should subsidise poultry societies throughout the colony. The Hon. Mr. Feldwick, M.L.C., thought the suggestion might be considered when the Estimates were being drawn up. Ministers who were present at the dinner did not commit themselves to any expression of opinion on the matter. The late Mrs. C. B. Izard, who died at the family residence in Hobson-street on Wednesday afternoon, was an o*d and respected resident of Wellington. She was born in England, and came out with her husband to Wellington in 1860. For some time before her death she had been' in failing health. The deceased lady, who was of a very amiable and charitable disposition, is survived by her husband and a family of sixteen. The funeral took place on Thursday. The Bishop of Wellington and the Rev. T. H. Sprott conducted a service in St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral and afterwards officiated afc the grave in the Bolton-street Cemetery. The delegates to the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers' Association meeting in Wellington were entertained at the Trocadero last night by Mr. Martin Kennedy. Several toasts were honoured, and a number of songs and recitations given. During the evening Mr. Horace Bastings (President of the Assoication) was presented, for himself and Mrs. Bastings, with a token of the esteem in which they are held by the members. The Builders and Contractors' Association is to meet on Monday evening to consider the recent award of the Conciliation Board and other matters.