LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1901, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

» An all-night sitting of the House of Representatives took place last night on the Payment of Sill, and was continued into to-day, the opponents of the measure stonewalling it. , Yesterday afternoon there was a discussion as to the proposed payment to the shareholders and debentureholders of the Midland Railway Company. A large amount of business was dealt with by the Legislative Council yesterday. The Maori Land Administration Act Amendment Bill was read a second time, and referred to the Native i Affairs Committee. The Local Bodies Loans Bill, and the Cook Islands Bill were read a second time, and put through final stages. The Coalmines Act Amendment Bill was partially considered in Committee ;~ the Local Bodies Goldfields Bill was read a third time and passed ; and the State Coalmines Bill was put through committee and its final stages. ! The polling for the Patea seat, rendered vacant by the unseating of Mr. Haselden on petition, will take place toniorrow.; Mr., Haselden and Mr. Heslop are the candidates, the former in the Opposition interest and the latter in that of the Government. It is proposed to grant a pension of £308 6s 8d per annum to Mr. Sidney Weetman, of the Lands and Survey Department, commencing on Ist March, 1902. "This afternoon I was introduced to the Premier, the Parliamentary Library, and quite a number of blessings," said the Rev. Mr. Greenhough at the Baptist Church last evening. The number of sheep in the' colony on 30th April of this year was 20,233,099, as compared with 19,355,195 last year. The number of owners increased from 18,357 to 18,360. j Saturday, 9th November (King's Birth- i day), being a Post Office holiday, all branches of the Post Office will be closed. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will close at 8 p.m. on Friday, Bth inst. A delivery of letters usually delivered by 'letter-carriers will take place over the public counter of the Post Office between 7 and 8 p.m. on Friday. The Sisters of the People is an institution connected' with the» Primitive Methodist Church, whose special mission is to visit the sick. Mrs. Wright, a local member of the sisterhood, has been granted facilities for visiting patients in the Hospital. The judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of W. C. Fitzgerald ,v. the Kelburne and Karori Tramway Company — a claim for compensation in connection .with the high levels tramway — will be delivered to-morrow morning. The boy w"ho was recently detected pilfering letters from the Post.. Office box of his late employer, Mr. Hindmarsh, was brought before the Chief Justice this morping. His Honour placed him on probation for six months, and ordered him to pay two guineas costs. Saturday next being a Government holiday the Thorndon Bowling Club is arranging a Progressive Bowls Match to occupy the entire day. Previous matches of this description have proved highly interesting, and a good muster is anticipated on this occasion. The Adelaide-road widening scheme is the subject of anxious enquiry by a correspondent, who asks if it has been blown out to sea. The labour of turning the first sod at the lower end seems to have exhausted the City Fathers, who appear to be incapable of further effort before the wet and muddy weather sets in. Mr. C. W. M'Murran, a journalist of New York City, is at present in Wei- j lington. He is making a tour of the colonies for the purpose of enquiring into the conditions of life and business prospects, and! is writing a series of articles for M'Clure's Newspaper Syndicate. Mr. M'Murran holds credentials and intro-. •ductiona from. President Roosevelt and other leading people •of the United ' States. He goes South this evening, but will come North again. Three drunkards without previous convictions were dealt with by the Stipendiary Magistrate this morning, and Lizzie Griggs, charged on remand with habitual drunkenness, was sent to gaol for three, months. At Mount Cook Police Station, five drunkards were brought before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P. Two of them, Ellen Anderson and Mary Ann Wynn, habitual drunkards, were sentenced to two months' hard labour. J A claim of £650 for compensation in connection with the construction of the high levels tramway. has been lodged by Mrs. John Jack against the City Council and the Kelburne and Karori Tramway Company. Mrs. Jack alleges that owing to the subsidence of the tunnel through the Botanical-road hill her house and grounds have been damaged, and that her husband was laid up for six weeks owing to an , accident which befell him while walking through the grounds after the collapse of the tunnel. The hearing of the case has been fixed for the 26th instant. Wellington is described by the Rev. Mr. Greenhough as coming nearer to Naples — except in the matter of smells — than any other city he has ever visited. It was often said, he remarked last night, that "you must see Naples and die;" "probably you will," added Mr. Greenhough, but he would rather say i •"See Wellington, and yon will wish to jlive." The congregational singing in Wellington, was, he observed, the best he had heard in these southern lands.' The residents in Horokiwi Valley have decided to form a tennis club. Messrs. Thomas Smith, N. Abbott, and C. Gray # offered sates, and that of Mr. Gray was accepted. Hudson's Soap makes hardest water as soft as velvet. Hudson's Soap is sweet, quick, and safe. Sold everywhere in packets.— Advt.

A principle of some importance to local bodies was established yesterday by the judgment of the Couit of Appeal in the case of Tucker against the Kaiti Road Board. The effect of the judgment is that the owner of land in a special rating district •which is included in an area severed from a formerly existing area controlled by another local body, and created into a new district, cannot be successfully sued by the original local body for a special rate which was made and levied prior to the constitution of the new district. It is said that the judgment affects several local bodies 'in the colony. « Here is a fund of dry humour and pointed satire "about the Rev. Mr. Greenhough. He told his audience last evening that he was once passing in a train through a village in England when one passenger asked its nanre, and another said disparagingly, "Such >a village 1 full of Nonconformists." "He said it," added Mr. Greenhough, "as though he would like to burn us ; so lat once fired up and said 'Sir, I have the honour to be a Dissenter, and I think I have the advantage of you, because I try to be a Christian gentleman as well.'" The church mobs which used to be such a trial to the Nonconformist Churches in England was desoribed by the speaker as "Mobs violently attached to the church, the Bible, and beer." The quarterly meeting of the Piofieer Lodge of Good Templars was very largely attended last night. Great ' interest was taken in the election of officers. All the chairs changed hands, the following being elected:— C.T., Brother Bedford; V.T., Sister Richards ; Secretary, Brother Hyde;*A,S., Sister Webb;. Treasurer, '"Brother -White" j P.S., Brother Cooper ; Chaplain, Sister Hyde, sen. } M., Brother Sorrensen ; D.*M., Sister M'Dermott; G., Brother Gestro; Trustees, Brothers Bedford and White and Sister Webb ; Reporter, Brother E. Martin. Fourteen members were added to the toJI during the past quarter, and there are now • 54 members^ good on the books. It is an old joke against .the typical Irishman of the humourist that he "couldn't count one little pig because it wouldn't keep still." Some of the people Svhose practices bring them under the notice- of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals remember the idea, and now and then act upon it. Yesterday the Inspector reported one small case to his committee. A horse had been examined by the Acting-Veter-inarian, who considered iij should be destroyed. But before anyi action could be taken, the owner, against the instructions of the Inspector, took the animal out to Karori— a piece of downright cruelty, as the beast was not in, a fit state to walk. Since then the animal had been spirited about to "different parts of the country, and it has not yet been found. The Railway Department's arrangements for the lines from this city to Napier and New Plymouth with respect to King's Birthday are published' in our advertising columns. Very full Retails as to the time-tables and excursions are announced. On the invitation of the Trades Council, a number of city residents irilerested in the adoption of the rating on unimproved values system met in the Trocadero last night, to arranges plan of campaign for the poll on the subject, which is to be taken on the 14th instant. Mr. W. Naughton, President of the Trades Council, occupied the chair. Air. P. J. (XRegan, who was the principal speaker, said that the present system was largely responsible for the high rents charged in Wellington, and this should induce everyone wto. desired a reform to -assist in the agitation for a change of system. Rating on bare land values was the proper system for the city, and the press of Wellington had helped to # instruct the people upon the subject by afforuing faoilities for discussion in their columns. In reply to questions, the Chairman explained that no one save those burgesses on the ratepayers' list could vote ; but every ratepayer's wife could vote in right of her husband. It was resolved to circulate leaflets showing how the new system would work in practice, and several gentlemen voluntarily undertook the work of distributing these in the city. Another meeting is to be held next Monday, when •district canvassers will be appointed. Judgments for plaintiffs were delivered by the Stipendiary Magistrate this morning in the following civil cases : — Te Aro Loan Co. v. Jessie Bell, £8 17s 6d; Wilkins and Field' v. J. Connolly, 15s; Empire Loan Co. v. C. Edwards, £3 8s; J. H. Jackson v. W. Robinson, £7 13s 6d; Augusta A. Hume v. James Adams, £13 13s sd. In the case of Joseph Metz v. Jan. Dormer, heard last week, as to the liability of the owner of stolen and pawned articles to the pawnbroker for money advanced to the thief, judgment was given in favour of plaintiff (the pawnbroker) for the amount claimed, £4, and £1 12s costs. • The committee of the Society for ,the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 'met yesterday afternoon. Lord Ranfurly, Patron of the Society, forwarded a letter which lie had received from Mrs. Nattrass, of the Hutt, complaining of the way in which the SoViety was worked. Poor old people, she said, were afraid to ride behind young horses, and bought nice quiet animals. Then the Society's Inspector came along and killed them. If these' people must have young horses then the Government should raise a fund to provide the deserving poor with them. Mrs. Nattrass described herself as a sufferer at the hands of ,Jhe Society. It will be remembered that she was convicted a few weeks ago for ill-treatment of pigs. The Society decided 1 to take no action in regard to the letter. The Inspector reported a number of cases which were now in hand. He had some difficulty with one of these. The following subscriptions were received: — Mr. W. Watson, £2 2s ; Messrs. A. E. Kernot and Poynton, 10s 6d each; Miss Davis, Mesdames Pysent, M'Lellan, Ritchie, W. E. Brown, and x Mr.' D. W. Virtue, 5s each; smaller sums, 15s; total, £5 3s. At the monthly meeting of the Wellington Branch of the Socialist Party a spirited discussion took place on a motion congratulating the Government on the passing of the State Coalmines Bill and urging the taking of prompt action to give practical effect to the .proposals of the Bill, especially with regard to the direct supply of coal to the public. Some members wished to add to the resolution an amendment regretting that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was not to apply to the workers in the State mines. Several speakers, however, contended that this amendment raised a question somewhat outside the scope of the resolution, and as the result, of the voting the amendment was lost and the original motion was carried unanimously. Notice was given that at the next meeting there would be a discussion upon the conditions of employment that apply to State employees. A meeting of the Gaelic Society will be held at the Trocadero to-night. Not much fun to be had with an aching head. But Steams' Headache Cure will stop the ache in about 15 minutes if you give it a chance.— Advt.

After some nine years and a half of service as head ranger to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, Mr. P. Moorhouse, whose name nar long been a terror to poachers, is giving up his position to take a better appointment under the Tourist Department. His duties will be to take charge of imported game and to see to the distribution of game generally. His long experience as ranger should prove invaluable to him. The "Manners Ward" Branch of the Liberal Federation met last night, Mr. F. A. Vaughan presiding. The Organising Secretary of the Federation (Mr. Arthur Edwards) was in attendance, and 1 details of, organisation were discussed. Mr) Wm. M'Lean gave an address upon the rating on unimproved values system, and urged the members of the branch to do all in their power towards carrying the proposal for the adoption of the new system at the coming poll. There were 158 patients in the Hospital this morning./ The Trustees were surprised to learn that nine of these were down with scarlet fever, as it did not seem to promise we&l that so much fever Bhould be about so early in the season. The Secretary said that about a fortnight ago there were only two patients in the fever ward, and the medical 'officer then' expected to get a clean ward. < At the recent meeting of the local section of the British Medical Association the following resolution was passed and ordered to be sent to the Hospital! Trustees : — "That it be a recommendation to the Hospital Trustees that this section considers that patients who have already made provision for medical attendance by payment to clubs should not be treated -as out-patients at the Hospital." This, morning, the Trustees, in dealing with tho letter from the Association, passed the following resolution,:— "That a reply be sent to the Association stating that in future Lodge patients will not be treated as out-patients unless they produce a recommendation from the jnedical practitioner of their Lodge to the effect that they are suitable cases' for consultations, j and that they cannot afford to pay for outside treatment, in which case they shall be entitled to a consultation with Dr. Ewart, but not to outpatient treatment thereafter." This morning the Conciliation Board gave its decision on the proposal to attach certain country employers to an industrial agreement entered into between the Tailors' Union and the Wellington employers. The Chairman said that after consulting the President of the Arbitration Court as to what had previously been done in the matter, the Board had decided that "as the resolution passed by the members of the industrial union of workers was to add parties to the dispute before the Court of Arbitration, and ,not a resolution to refer the dispute to the Board of Conciliation, the Board had not jurisdiction to deal with the dispute." The Hospital Trustees met this morning, Mr, G. Webb in the chair. The receipts for the fortnight amounted to £163 (including £68 from in-patients and £24 from out-patients), and the expenditure to £611, including salaries for October (£300) and progress payment (£255) for the operating theatre to Mr. J. Russell: Accounts .to the amount of £424 were passed for payment. The House Committee recommended : — That the former, decision of the Trustees as to the" property in Tinakori-road occupied by Mr. Hume be adhered to, viz., that he be given seven days to make a decision ; that the Government be, approached with an offer '.to exchange the three yacant sections in Salamanca-road (which the Victoria College Counci'lis anxious to obtain for University purposes) for the vacant acre in possession! of the Government, adjoining the Hospital grounds ; that the lowest tender for supplying and fitting up a large range in the kitchen (£75 2s, from Mr. Winder) be accepted ; that the sick visitors appointed by the various Lodges be allowed the privilege of visiting their members on Saturday afternoon ; that the telephones required for the extension to the wards be rented instead of purchased. These recommendations were adopted. There was a large attendance last night at the monthly practice meeting of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. The Honorary Surgeon, Dr. Henry, gave a lecture on an exhibition of roller . bandaging, and received a hearty round of applause at the conclusion of the practice. As the City and Suburban Co-opera-tive . Building Society's new issue will start operations immediately those interested are reminded that shares may be applied for at the Trocadero at 8.30 tomorrow evening. Good music strikes us the more familiar we are with it, and so Black Swan Butter impresses the palate the oftener it is used. — Advt. To which he replied probably" it would. He meant that Defiance Butter would take precedence before all others owing to its excellent taste. — Advt. Because it is not known— People pay more than £15 15s for a guaranteed for twelve months bicycle ; easy terms. Bicycles enamelled and plated, 30s.— Oates, Lowry and Co., Cuba-street. — Advt. O. Smith, the cash draper and clothier, will close his premises all day on Saturday (King's Birthday), and remain open all day on Wednesday, 6th November, and until 10 o'clock on Friday night, Bth November. —Advt. Cyclists] — O. Smith has imported the latest materials in nobby patterns for comfortable Cycling Suits, and is making same to measure for 425. Call and see the patterns and styles. Cycling Hose in all newest styles, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s 6d; all styles and colours in Sweaters, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s lid, 4s lid, 5s Ud.— Advt. O. Smith ,has just cleared a warehouse stock of Black Hard Hats, and is selling them at wholesale price — 2s Ud, 3s lid, 4s lid, all shapes. Also, a line of gent s Crush Hats, in fawn, ' brown, and grey. These are well worth from 7s 6d to 12s 6d, and have been marked 3s 6d, 4s oq, 5s 6d, 6s 6d, to clear.— Advt. The Miramar Ferry Company's steamer Loyalty will run only the 2.30 p.m. trip to-morrow afternoon— as there is no Wednesday half-holiday this week, tho usual 1.15 p.m. trip will be dropped. Messrs. Warnock and Adkin have an advertisement over our Wanted column offering cheap tailoring for one month. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. draw attention to the fact that their Island Bay land Bale will "take place on Thursday, 7th instant, and urge those who have not inspected the property to do so at once. On the 13th instant they will sell eight houses in Daniel and Harper streets, together^wtth a vacant section. These properties, whioh axe let at rentah of 15s to 18s 6d per week, are situated close to the tram lines and within easy reach of the -city. The Wellington Steam Ferry Company's steamers will run to Day's Bay to-morrow morning and afternoon at the usual hours. The daily service to the bay is now being run. Mr. James Muir, hydropathic specialist, has a new advertisement in this issue, in which he calls attention to the fact that he has made arrangements to carry out the treatment at the sanatorium, Seatoun. Tne baths there include Kussian^or vapour, hot and cold salt water baths. Particulars and information can be obtainod at his consulting room, 40, Lambton-quay, from 1 to 2 p.m

Remarkable disappearance of all dirt from everything by usiuj,' Hudson's Soap, lieward! Purity, health, perfect satisfaction by its regular daily use. — Advt^ About £200 worth of men's shirtings, whioh have been more or lees damaged in the fire at Mrs. Mayer's shirt manufactory on Saturday morning have been purchased by Messrs. James Smith and bons, of tho New House. Tho greater part of this stock has been damaged by water only. The bulk of it is now being made into shirts. The balance, which is wet, has been cut into remnants, which must bo cleared at once. To-morrow, at 1 o'clock sharp, Messrs. J. H. Bethuno and Co. will commence their sale of 1800 books from one of tho leading firms of booksellers in Edinburgh Tho contains no less than 522 lots, and the collection is described aB one of the finest and most varied yet offered in New Zealand. It contains a large number of old and rare works on New Zealand, Australia, and the South Sea Islands, besides all classes of literature. The sale will be continued at 1 o clock the next day, and ev»ry lot is to be sold' without reserve.