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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 52, 30 August 1900, Page 4

The Chairman of the Education Board (Mr. J. R. Blair) said at yesterday's meeting that the Board needed a regulation under which power could be given to retire teachers who had reached an age limit. The Karori - road tunnel contract case is to be taken into the Court of Appeal, the plaintiff (Slowey) having decided to appeal against the decision, of Mr. Justice Edwards, who set aside the verdict of the jury for £1628. A correspondent writes to complain of lack of adhesiveness in the gum on many bt our postage stamps. ' The penny and half -penny stamps especially, he says, are very meagrely gummed, and the loss of time entailed on those who have much correspondence ia considerable. He expresses a hope that the Stamp Office authorities will reform their ways in this respect. The necessity for clearing Featherston and Victoria streets and neighbouring localities of women of ill-repute was again urged by the Magistrate this morning, when fining Nellie JMielsori 40s, with an alternative of fourteen days' imprisonment, for soliciting prostitution. The woman had made the mistake of importuning Constable Cattanach. A female was let- off with a caution, Robert M'Mann was fined 10s, or in default 48 hours' imprisonment, and Mary Ross was fined 20s, or to undergo seven days' hard labour — all for" drunkenness. Mary Ross also received a sentence of two months' imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a document belonging to some person unknown. News was received by the San Francigco mail yesterday of the death of Mr. Thos. G. Osborn, son of Mrs. Osborn, bi Austin-street. The deceased, * who was born in We.lington 32 years ago, left for America, for the benefit o his health four years ago, and remained at Battle Creek, Michigan, a locality much resorted to by invalids, until his death on tbe 18th of last month. Mr. Osborn was manager of Messrs. J. E. Nathan and Co.'s fancy goods department up to the time he left for the United States. He was for many years a leading yachtsman in Wellington and on numerous occasions boats which he skilfully handled were winners of regatta races. The following shorthand speed certificates have bean received from Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Limited, in connection with the examination held by the Wellington Shorthandwriters Association on 2nd June last:— Mr. R. Waters, 60 words per minute; Misses N. Eglinton, C. Guise, and G. Geyger, 70 ; Air. A. N. Longton, Misses K. Edgar, B. Drury, M. Tunbridge, E. E. Westrupp, A. L. Fitchetf;, R. Carstens, A. Longton, G. Tippler, and I. Raymond, 80; Misses E. F. Barkley, R. Bitozzi, A. Bern, R. Isaacs, and A. Greenwood, 100; Mr. S. Macalister, 110 ; Mr. W. G. Gow, Misses M. C. Robertson, and A. L. Howarth, 120; Mr. F. Easton, 140; Mr. F. W. Furby, 150. A correspondent "C.S." questions the correctness of the statement by Mr. Luxford that in the drowning accident sixty years ago a larger number of persons were drowned in Por,t Nicholson at one time than on any other occasion. He refers to the drowning of some twelve Maori prisoners who tried to escape by swimming from the hulk off Kaiwarra in January, 1866, during, the Maori War, and whose bodies were interred in the Bolton-street Cemetery. Reference is also made to' the great flood and loss of life in the Hutt Valley in 1858, when, among others, a family of eleven souls was drowned. It is, however, scarcely correct to speak of the loss of life on this occasion as being "in Port Nicholson." At the Mount Cook Police Station this morning, before Mr. W. Hildreth, J.P., four first offenders were brought up for drunkenness. Three were fined ss, or in default to undergo 24 hours' imprisonment, and the other was let off with a caution. Throughout Taranaki and the West Coast districts the butter factories are extending their operations by establishing additional skimming stations, which will enable them to largely increase their output. Similar action is being taken by the butter making companies in the Waikato. In various parts of the North Island private creameries are also being set up. The town clock presented to Wanganui by Miss -C. Bennett to commemorate the yet-to-come declaration of peace in I the Transvaal is to have a peal of bells that will enliven the town with music appropriate to the time of day. The clock will strike only the hours, and the bells will play the following tunes :— The "Reveille" at 6 a.m. ; "Caller Herrin' (representing the Scottish element and denoting the introduction of the business of the day) at 8 a.m. ; "Come to Dinner" at 12 ; "The Last Rose of Summer" (representing me beautiful minstrelsy of Erin) at 1 p.m. ; "Polly put the kettle on and we'll have, tea" (a Welsh tune) 5 p.m. ; "Vesper Bells" (a pretty lullaby) at 8 p.m. ; and "God Save the Qfueen" at 10 p.m. Judgment's for plaintiffs were given in the fo.lowing cases heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day : — Commercial Agency, Ltd., v. Harper and Allport, £40 15s 4d; G. Sinclair v. Walter R. Hare, £7 18s sd ; H. G. Booker v. Giles Bradley, 19s 7d ; H. G. Booker v. John Hill, £1 17s lid ; Cook and Gray v. Patrick Roache, £3 0s 6d ; same v. James Condor, £3 10s 2d; J. Rigg v. Wm. H. M'Cracken, £12; Wilkins and Field v. Frederick Caulton, £8 4s. In the case of the Commercial Agency, Ltd., v. Chas. Wood, £1 18s, defendant was ordered to pay within 14 days or go to gaol for 48 hours. The latest additions to the Telephone Exchange are as follows: — The private residences of Messrs H. W. Kersley, Brougham-street ; G. J. Clapham, MTarlane-street ; H. W. Pilcher, corner Ellice' and Brougham avenues ; Sir E 0. Gibbes, Bidwell-street; Mrs. W. H. Nelson, Wellington-terrace ; H. L. Hawk, Hanson-street ; J. A. B. Howe, Broug-ham-street; and .Mrs. Dudfield, Kentterrace. Also business establishments of Messrs. F. Pownall (N.Z. and Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association), Victoria-street; James Rigg and Co., Mercer-street; Max Kreissig, Willisstreet; and Berry arid Co., Cuba-street. The fourth annual meeting of members of the Petone Co-operative Building Society was held last evening, and was largely attended. Mr. C. Lusty, Chairman of Directors, presided. The report and balance sheet (a digest of which has been published) was read and adopted. Messrs. C. Lusty and J. Gilmour, retiring directors, who were the only candidates nominated for the vacancies, were re-elected. Mr. Rushton was elected shareholders' auditor, and Mr. J. Piper was given a vote of thanks for his services to the Society. A ballot for an appropriation was taken, and resulted in Mr. G. King's iftmber being drawn, and as he holds two shares he receives a loan of £200 free of interest. The play in the representative Hockey match Canterbury v. Wellington, will begin at the Athletic Park at 3 o'clock sharp on Monday. A good game is expected. Good management is better than a good income, but there can be no good manngement in the household without Black Swan Butter. Fresh from the churn daily. — Advt.