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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 85, 12 April 1901, Page 5

All' the members of the Government with tho exception of Hie Hon. ' Carroll, who has gone to Rotorua, ond \ho Hon. W. C. Walker, who is still in Christchurch, arc now in Wellington.. Mr. Walker will return on Sunday. Tho Minister for Lands has promised a deputation consisting of Mr. W. H. Field, M.H.R., and Councillor xtichards of the Horowhenua County Council that he will give a subsidy of £ for £ up to a certain amount towards the cost of forming the Manguone-Te Horo road. Mr. Nodiuo, a settlor in the district, hus promised a substantial donation towards the cost of the erection of the bridges. Mr. W. H. Field, H.M.R., has accepted the invitation to attend the opening of the Federal Par'iamont and also the State banquet in Melbourne in connection with tho Royal visit. A deputation consisting of Mr. O. C. Major (Mayor of Hawera), Mr. Hollowoy (editor of the Patea Press), Mr. M'Kenna (Chairman of the Patea Harbour Board), and Captain Johnson (Chairman of the Hawera Dairy Farmers' Company) waited upon the Minister for agriculture this morning to ask that Patea should be made a. grading port. The deputation put facts before the Minister showing that the present and prospective trade of the port fully warranted their application, and after consultation with Mr. Ritchie, Secretary for Agriculture, the Minister acceded to the request. Patea will be proclaimed a grading port forthwith. The yacht Rainbow, which returned from a cruise in Marlborough Sounds yesterday, mode the run across from the entrance of Tory Channel to the Thorndon moorings in the remarkably fast time of five hours. She was under a double-reefed mainsail. Her crew consisted of Messrs. E. C. -a. Mills (owner), E. C. Batkin, J. H. Jack, J. M'Lean, jun., Knowles, and Captain Butt. Mr. PatricK Duncan, who has been appointed- Controller of the Treasury in the colonies of Transvaal and Orange River, is a nephew of Mr. David Milne, of Puia, Auckland. Mr. Daniel Arkell, brewer, at one time in Wellington, is a candidate for the Mayoralty of Auckland. Capt. Watfeon, of the British ship Aucon, has been fined £60, in default six months' imprisonment, by the Magistrate's Court at Newcastle, N.S.W., for haviag wilfully secreted six seamen, Frenchmen, who .had deserted from the French barque Noemi. The City Council is to hold a special meeting next Wednesday morning for the purpose of revising the muncinal roll. ' The Napier papers complain that the protest made by the Press Association to the Postmaster-General regarding delay in the transmission of press telegrams has not yet had the desired effect. The Mayor of Petone has received a communication from the Government approving the proposal of the borough to raise a loan under the Loans to Local Bodies Act for water and drainage purposes. The amount to be raised, conditional on to-morrow's poll being successful, is £23,000 for a water supply and £2500 for drainage, at 3£ per cent, interest, and repayable in 41 years. The very favourable terms on which the loan can be secured shpuld offer the strongest inducement to progressive ratepayers to endorse the proposals, and it has to be remembered that the authority under which the large advance is made by the Government lapses next year. • Included in the cargo of the Kumara, •winch, sailed: * from Wellington for Lon,don to-day, was a small experimental shipment of frozen ducklings and chickens prepared by the Agricultural Department. The birds were reared at the State Farm at Momohaki. Mr. A. E. Jaman, hitherto chief clerk of the Railway Stores Department, Petone, has been transferred .to Newmarket, Auckland. Mr. R. Fleming, of Newmarket takes his place at Petone. Prior to leaving Mr. Jarman received tokens of the goodwill of his late fellowofficials. Influenza is very prevalent at the Thames. The annual meeting of the Wellington Girls' High School Old Girls' Association will be held at the school at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The Petone Rifle Club notifies elsewhere the arrangements for its shooting to-morrow. 1 ' 0. Smith supplies high-class clothing for every one at popular prices. The gent's department contains a large and select assortment of clothing of the newest patterns and designs, made up in tho latest and moat fashionable styles, at very moderate prices, —Advfc. In 0. Smith'a juvenile outfitting departmont parents are always delighted with the boys' and youths' garments, and pronounce them to be the largest choice and cheapest and beat stock in Wellington.—Advt. O. Smith has opened in the dress department a large and choice selection of the newest woollen fabrics of. the most fashionable shades and designs. —Advt. Talk about fawn jackets! Before buying one you must sco O. Smith's. They are the best and cheapost fawn jackets in Wellington.' A real nice jacket from 13s 9d, ,16s 9d, 19s 6d, 23s 6d, 25a 6d, up to 3 guineas. —Advt. The great sale of Varcoe'a stock of boots and shoeß now being held by Mr. A. Lindsay, of Cuba-street, is in full swing. To-morrow fresh bargains will be brought forward Messrs. James Smith and Sons, of the New House, are taking advantage of tonight's band performance in the Cubastreet rotunda, and will make a special show in their windows of winter jackets, furs, millinery, gloves, and hosiery. A vast collection of novelties for the winter season is now being shown at Mr. O. Smith's in Cuba-street. Lovely pattern Fronoh bonnets and hats, fawn sac-jacket*, furs and dregs materials in great' variety were opened this week. The Wellington Open Air Mission advertises its services for Sunday, viz., Bible study at the Druids' Hall at 3 p.m., and open air meeting on the Queen's Wharf at 7 p.m. Mr. William Boag, the well-known horsebreeder, of Fendalton, Canterbury, has instructed the New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Association, Canterbury, to sell, in conjunction with Messrs. H. Matson and Co., the whole of his etook of horses, consisting of Clydesdale- entires, mares and fillies, draught colts and fillies, and American trotters, carriage pairs, harness horses, hackneys, and poniea. The salp will take place at the Canterbury Agricultural Show Grounds on the "2nd May.

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