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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 64, 13 September 1900, Page 4

LOCAL jiND GENERAL. » The House of Representatives spent yesterday afternoon and evening in further considering the Estimates, fair progress being made before adjourning, at '6 o'clock this morning. In the Legislative Council the Hating on Unimproved Value Act Amendment Bill the Testators Family Maintenance Bill, and the Deceased Husband's Brother Marriage Bill were read a second time. The whole of the local bodies, and members of Parliament who have- been approached on the subject have expressed sympathy wilh the movement initiated by the Chamber of Commerce with the object of having the road between Wellington and Petone widened and straighteneu. The Chamber has now decided to call a meeting of representatives of the City Council, the suburban Borough Councils, Road Boards, and members of the Legislature for Monday next to arrange for a deputation to wait upon the Government and^iirge that the work should be carried out at an early date. To-day was varnishing day at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. The twelfth annual exhibition of the Academy will" be opened by His Excellency the Governor on Saturday afternoon next at the Gallery in Whil'more-street. As usual, the lady members of the committee will provide afternoon tea. The collection of pictures is numerous and interest ing. There should be many visitors dining the fortnight for which the exhibition will remain open. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Ranfurly yesterday inspected the 18-carat goid cigar case which is to •be presented to .Lieut. -General Baden Powell by his admirers in the Wellington district in recognition of his gallant defence of Mafekalg. The cover of 'the case is handchased, a finely-executed design depicting 8.-P." in the trenches at Mafeking directing the defence of the garrison. Above nre inscribed ' the words "T'was nobly fought." The work reflects credit on Messrs. Littlejohn and Co., by whom it was manufactured. With reference to the ordering ■from America of new corridor cars for the New Zealand railways, mentioned by us yesterday, the Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch Press states, on the authority of an officer of the Railway Department, that a definite order has been given for £100,000 worth of carriages, and that an officer of the Department has proceeded to America in connection with the business. In all, some sixty cars have been, or are f to be, ordered. They \wllbe built to a special design to suit bur narrow-gauge lines, and will be quite up-to-date and far in advance of anything we have at present. They are to be shipped from New York, and should be running on our lines about March next. - A public meeting was to have been held at Lower Hutt last evening to consider the question of widening the Wai-wetu-road. Owing tc the inclemency of the weather the attendance waa so small that the Mayor (Air. E. P. Bunny) put it to those present whether be should go on or whether the meeting should be adjourned. Mr.' J. Ward proposed an adjournment until Saturday, or some other evening to be decided 1 by the Mayor, This was seconded by Mr. J. Cudby, and agreed to. JThe Registrar of Patents <Mr. F. W. Waldegrave) had before him yesterday an application by Mr. C. L. Benedict, of Chicago, for letters patent for a combined 1 telegraph form and envelope. The application was opposed by Mr. Myers, on behalf of the Postmaster - General, mainly on the ground that a similar invention had been in use by the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department. The Registrar upheld the objection, and refused to grant the application. Mr. Kirk appeared for the applicant. The .Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce is favourable to the proposal that the Chambers of Commerce in New Zealand should federate, and has decided to send delegates to the conference which the Auckland Chamber suggests should be held in Canterbury m November or January to consider the scheme. The Council has also passed a vote of thanks to Mr. J. E. Nathan for the very able manner in which he represented Wellington at the recent Congress of British Chambers of Commerce in London. A place of worship is being built at Petone, and is now nearing completion, for the use of a sect known as Christian Brethren. The main building is 35 by 22ft, and will be seated for 150 people. At the back of this is a room 10 by 22ffc. Near one end of the mainbuilding there is a sunk bath of concrete about 12ft in length by 6ft wide and sft deep, with steps leading to the bottom. As this sect holds to the total immersion as the method of baptism its purpose is obvious. In the Banco Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, Mr.. Wilford intimated that Mrs. Shute did not intend to proceed with her appeal against a .conviction from alleged breach of the Licensing Act at Mangaweka. The appeal was struck off the list, and on the application of Mr. Myers the Crown, was allowed £5 5s costs. Councillor Fullfordj has given notice that he will move at next Tuesday's meeting of the Melrose Borough Council — That all casual labour employed by, the Council be paid for at the rate of 8s per day, or Is per hour worked, and that all roadmen employed at the present time receive this rate. It is notified that the fishing season for trout and berch within the Wellington Acclimatisation District will open on 18th October. Licenses are obtainable from Messrs. W. H. Tisdall and G. Denton, of Wellington, and all the principal money order offices in the district. An old resident of Invercargill, who had been in receipt of the old age pension, received the welcome information recently (says the Southland News) that through the death of a brother he had benefited to the extent of £4000. Mr. Wilson Smith, one of the victims in the fire near Martinborough, was well known in South Canterbury (says the Christchurch Press) as a member of the firm of Smith and Temple, Geraldine. It is stated by the Christchurch Press that Mr. Walter Bentley, the well-known actor, and Mr. Hales, son of the En-gineer-in-chief, who was in Bentley's last company which toured' New Zealand, are about to proceed to San x< rancisco. Both actors have been engaged to appear at good salaries with an American company in the States. We also learn that Miss Ada Woodhill will accompany Messrs. Benlley and Hales, under engagement to the same firm. Mr. Bentley will probably spend a week or two at the Hot Lakes before leaving the colony. You miiy as well expect to change an ass into a zebra by painting his skin as hope to discount the quality of Black Swan Butter.— Advt.