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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 119, 16 November 1900, Page 6

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Br,KjNiii:iM, Itith November Sailed, noou— Opawa, for Wellington Ni:\v Plymouth, 16th November Suiled; 1.30 pm— Mapourika, for Wellington Poivr KoniNson, 16th November Sailed, 11.80 am— Wakatu, for Kaikoura aud Wellington

The company of mounted rifles which is to be sent from New Zealand in connection with the Australian Commonwealth inauguration ceremony on Ist January will parade in Wellington on Ist December, and will probably leave for Sydney about the middle of the month. There are to be eleven rank and file from each of the four chief volunteer centres and six from the Nelson district. Each man is to find his own horse, but will receive forage allowance. The Hon. W. Rolleston and Mrs. Rolleston arrived at Fremantle yesterday in the Orient liner Ormuz, on their way home to i\ew Zealand from the Old Country. Mr. J. B. Reid, of the Colonial Consignment and " Distributing, Company, Limited, has (says the Christchurch Press) received advice from his London office that the sum of £5337 3s 6d has been transferred to tho Consignors' Distribution Fund as the result of the twelve months' working to the 30th June last. This amount is now being distributed among shippers through the company. The New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association has decided to throw open the championships of the colony to players residing New Zealand. The following alterations of the rules have accordingly been made: — "Players, if residents of New Zealand, must belong to an affiliated association and reside in the district for which they enter ; if resident elsewhere, must be members of a, club affiliated to an association. Players in doubles and. combined events, if resi-dent-in New Zealand, must reside in tho same district j if residents of Australia, must reside in the same colony ; if residents elsewhere, must reside in the same country." There is every prospect of some Melbourne players competing at the Championship Meeting to" be held in Christchurch at An enquiry is being held at Kumara by the Under-Secretary for Public Works (Mr. Blow), into charges preferred by and against the managers of the Government water-races in that district. The Superintendent of the Home for the Aged Needy acknowledges with thanks the receipt of cakes from Mrs. Darroch, of Cuba-street, for the inmates. Among the non-commissioned officers at tho front in South Africa who, on' the recommendation of Lord Roberts, have received commissions is Corporal Fitzgerald; of the Imperial Yeomanry. Mr. Kdward A. Fitzgerald is the well-known mountaineer, some account of whose exploits in hill-climbing 'appeared in the Sketch .four years ago. Mr. Fitzgerald (remark? the Christchurch Press), is also the well-known autllor of "Th© Highest Andes" and "Climbs in the New Zealand Alps." It may be remembered -that, with his companion, Mr. Stuart Vines, now a Sergeant of Yeomanry in South Africa, Mr. Fitzgerald beat the world's record of height in mountaineering in his expedition to Aconcagua. On returning to their club from tho theatre one ovening, Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Vines heard of the Government's call for volunteers, and next morning both enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry. Corporal Fitzgerald has been appointed to the sth (Princess Charlotte of WV.es's) Dragoon Guards. Tho School of Fine Forces was well filled on Wednesday evening, when Mr. Hiram Dunford delivered a lecturo on "The Creative' Power 1 -of Thought." The lecturer claimed for the mental science method of treatment the credit of some remarkable cures. At the close of his address he received a vote of thanks. '

All the members of the Government with the exception of the IVlinister for Railways and the Minister for Lands, who are in the South, are now in Wellington. The Hons. C. H. Mills and W. C Walker came back from Palmerston last night, and the Premier returned from the same ptaee to-day. The Hon. C. H. Mills leaves fol* Blenheim to-mor-row on private busiuess, but will be back in Wellington early in the week. The Minister for Public Works will probably stop at Stratford on Monday night and leave the next morning tor the purpose tit going over the route of the proposed light-lino railway to connect that town with the North Island Main Trunk Railway. Ho will then go on to New Plymouth and travel by steamer to the Manukau. Mr. John Prouse and Mrs. Howie (Te Rangipai), who have been filling engagements as soloists at Christchurch and Dunedin, returned to Wellington by tse Rotomahana to-day. Mr. Prouse was very hospitably treated during his three weeks' stay in the South. The Dunedin Choral Society's production of "Elijah" (in which both singers were engaged), was a musical and financial success. Mr. Prouse, as will be reinembei*ed, sang the solo in the Canterbury Jubilee Ode at the opening of the Exhibition. Recitals were given by Mrs. Howie .at Oamaru, Tiinaru, and Ashburton, Mr. Prouse assisting, and were very successful. At Aramoho on Tuesday George M'Donald, alias Godfrey, was committed for trial on a charge of breaking and entering the house of Thomas Mitchell. Bail was refused, the police stating that another charge of burglary was pending against him. Persons about to furnish will note tho advertisement of Mr. George Winder, furnishing warehouseman, Manners-street, in this issue. Special bargains are promised in curtains, carpets, and linoleums. Another display of electric motors at work will bo made at the Willis-street showroom of the New Zealand Electrical Syndicate to-morrow evening.