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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 88, 16 April 1901, Page 4

Speaking at Kilbirnie last night, Mr. G. Frost, who is socking re-election to the Mayoral chair of Melrose Borough, haid ho was endeavouring to get the opinion of the Chief Offlccr of the Health Department upon the • system of slopdrainage in the borough. With this object in view, Dr. Mason had begun a tour of the wards, and when he had finished his tour of inspection no doubt the Council would receive an important und valuable report. It will be remembered that the members of the Wellington Physical Training School gave a display at i..*asterton about eighteen months ago. As a result the residents are desirous of forming a gymnasium similar to that carried on in this city. Mr. J. W. M. Harrison, Director of the Wellington Physical Training School has been offered the visiting instructorship, but owing to his many classes here, he is unable to accept the position. The formal opening of the new Central Fire Brigade Station will take place at 2.30 to-morrow afternoon. The Mayor of Wellington will deliver -an address, after which the Brigade will give an exhibition, and the visitors will be regaled with afternoon tea. One of the members of yesterday's railway deputation to Ministers stated that in winter-time the roads in some parts' of the 'Masterton- Weber district were so bad that it cost settlers about £7 a ton to pack goods to or from market. The Wellington candidates in connection with the standard examination of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board, 24 in number, will sit in the Board-room of the National Mutual Buildings, on Thursday. The Agricultural Department has been informed that Mr. Hamett, one of its viticultural experts, has found traces of phylloxera in only one vineyard in the Hastings district. But for the presence of a little milder all the other vines in the district are remarkably healthy. The headquarters staff of- the Bank of New South Wales presented Mr. H. A. E. Hurley with a gold watch and chain and complete sets of cutlery and table silver prior to his departure for Hastings to become manager of the branch in that town. In connection with the- application for the offices of Town Clerk and Assistant Town' Clerk of Christchurch, it is noticeable (says the Press) that a large proportion of them came from the Empire City. A Press Association message from Melbourne states that the Dutch cruiser Noord Brabant will leave Java for Melbourne- to-morrow. The cases of Phelan v. Bohan and Wilkie v. Moore and others are to be heard in the Supreme Court on Monday next. Mr. ' Justice Cooper returned from Auckland last night. To-morrow he will deliver judgment in the case of Flockton v. Leonard. The conference of representatives of the Tailoresses' Unions of the colony closed yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. S. Winstanley, who has been on the staff of the Wellington Telegraph Office for some years, and who has been one of Wellington's most prominent yachtsmen, has been transferred to Nelson. He has received presentations from his late office mates and from Mr. A. H. Turnbull, Commodore of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club. "You're not the sort of fellow that we want in this colony," remarked the Stipendiary Magistrate this morning to Joseph M'Ginnity, who was charged withi having been drunk on the Queen's Wharf and with having trespassed on the steamer Mamari, and refused to leave after being warned to do so by the chief officer. Dr. M'Arthur added that after M'Ginnity, a stowaway on 1&e steamer, had been well treated by the officers, he. had come back and annoyed themf He would be convicted and discharged on the charge of drunkenness, and would receive 14 days' imprisonment for the trespass. The Government for some unexplained reason has placed the order for refurnishing Searl's 'Hotel — where the staff of the Duke • o.f Cornwall are to be lodged — with a Christchurch firm. This extraordinary proceeding lias naturally displeased the local manufacturers and warehousemen who have, devoted both capital and labour to the development of the furniture trade of this city. It surely cannot be claimed that furniture and appointments of quality and elegance cannot be procured locally. What would be said in Christchurch, we wonder, had the order for refurnishing Colter's Hotel, been. placed with a Wellington firm? Messrs. Robinson and Keenan have been appointed to the staff of the Govern- ' menj> Tourist and Industries and Commerce Department. The privileges in connection with the coming meeting of the Wellington Racing Club -were sold at auction yesterday by Messrs. Harcourt and Co? There was a good attendance, and bidding was keen. The prices obtained, which showed an all-round advance upon previous offers, were as follows : — Grandstand bar, £67, Messrs. Freeman and Gray ; Publicans' Booths, No?. 1 and 2, £72, Mrsi Watson ; publicans' luncheon booth, £18 10s, Mr. F. Brown ; fruit and oyster stall, £4, Mrs. Marx ; refreshment stall (to be erected by tenderer), £17, Mrs. Marx ; correct cards, £94, Mr. Tartalini, pf Morton. ' Despite former prejudices against pro- j hibition, which even the oratory of its j ablest exponents had failed to dispel, a j four years' residence in the Clutha as Wesleyan minister has made the Rev. W. J. Elliott a stalwart advocate of the system. Mr. Elliott told an interviewer from Christchurch Truth he had not been six months in the 'Clutha before observation and experience made him a prohibitionist. There was no doubt, in his opinion, that the success of that system had been very marked in the electorate. Drunkenness had decreased 90 per cent. In 1898 the Clutha had been almost crimele<s, as the law regards crime. Far from any deterioration in the value of property having taken place, during the last six years, the value of new erections, additions, and minor improvements amounted to £>VA,OO\) in HaXclutha, and to £75,000 in the whole of the Clutha. Yet Balclutha had formerly been the stronghold of the liquor party, and formerly it had five publichouses. A charge often made, but quite false, Avas that private drinking at home had greatly increased. Mr. Elliott had not found a house where this was the case, or where private drinking was indulged in only after the incoming of prohibition. It was wrong to say that as much drink was consumed in the Clutha as formerly, lor many in the district who had been moderate drinkers for 1 thirtj r years strongly denied the fact, and had given Mr. Elliott pormission to make public use of their npmes in denying it. Not one-twentieth " of the drink was consumed in the Clutha now that had been. Mi. Elliott twill be in Wellington in the course of a few days. Love is intenser at the centre than at the circumference, but Black Swan ,Butter is of even texture throughout. Fresh and of prime quaiity every day. — A,dvt.