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Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1901, Page 4

The annual floral services of St. David's Presbyterian Church, Petone, were held yesterday. The church was profusely and tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens. White lilies were the dominant bloom, and the effect they produced was very chaste. Speoial hymns and anthems were used, the morning service being conducted by the Rev. J. K. Elliott, and the evening by the Rev. A. Thomson. Thero were large congregations on both occasions. This evening a sacred concert will be given in the church, to which admisBion is free. In playing off for the first place in the handicap tourney of the Wellington Chess Club, Messrs. Morton and Kelling drew after a 3£ hours' gam*. A further game to decide the tie will be played later on. The public are invited,' as usual, to witness the return match ' between the Wellington Chess Club and the Working Men's Chess Club, which will be played at the Trocadero on Friday evening next, commencing at 7.45 o'clock, j A four-roomed cottage at Waiwetu, owned by Mr. F. Devereaux and occupied by Mr. F. Barker, was destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The occupier was in Wellington at the time, and the origin of the fire is unknown. A risk of £75 on the furniture is held by the New Zealand Insurance Company, and the occupier estimates his loss at £150 above the insurance. The following are the results of the various weight-guessing competitions which were held at the Manawatu Show : —Bullock, 8091b — Messrs. T. W. M'Kenzie, Palmerston, and James Prouse, Levin, each guessed the correct weight. Five sheep, 443£ lb — Messrs. G. Capplestone, Eltham, 441£1b, 1; Mr. C. S. C. Dermer, Feilding, 447£1b, 2. Single sheep, 1781b— Messrs. R. C. Noedl, Woodville, and D. C. Campion, Manakau, each guessed 177£1b. The Rev. W. J. Elliott, who has just returned from a brief visit to the Clutha district, writes describing the progress made there owing to prohibition. "Six months ago," ho says, "I left Balclutha, and though the population of the town is just about 1017 the improvements in building, 1 etc., have been at the' rate of £1000 a month, or £6000 for the six months. There is considerable enterprise among some of the business men> and everywhere I saw signs of progress. Mr. Watt has rebuilt his water-gafe works, the former ones having been destroyed by fire, and the gas mama are being considerably extended. Sly-grog selling is nothing like so rampant, and it is being rapidly reduced to a diminishing quantity by the vigilance of the local police. I am quite convinced that a great libel was recently perpefs-ated when it was declared that drunkenness was 'on the increase among the young men of the Clutha.. Though I spent nearly five days in Balclutha? last week, I never saw a single person the worse for liquor, but I regretted to see some traces of it on a special trip I made with. 150 others up the Clutha River." At the examination of a Queenstown school ,the other day (says the Southland Times) the inspector chose as a subject for composition, "The. visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York." One of the scholars distinguished himself by finishing his essay as follows : — "Jpour were knighted, but the • Hon. Richard SeddoD is now Saint Richard Seddon." If (writes a correspondent of our contemporary) Saint Dick makes this saintship pay him as well as his Premiership, he will soon be able to retire, and let two worlds take care of themselves. It turns out that there was a colonial officer named Philip Russell killed in the engagement of the Seventeenth Lancers near Tarkastad, South Africa, on . the 17th September. The mistake which, confounded him with the son of Captain Russell, M.H.R., of Hawkes Bay, seems to have been made by the Capetown press. The London Times gives the following account of the matter: — Second Lieutenant Philip Leslie Russell, the third officer of the 17th Lancers who was killed, was 23 years of age, and was the youngest son of the late Hon. Philip Russell, of Carngham, near Ballarot, Victoria. He left Cambridge University to join the regiment in March of last year. • ' The Glasgow Wharf has been completed by Messrs. John. M'Lean and Sons, and has been: taken over by the Wellington Harbour Board, which will at its meeting on Thursday pass the final payment to the contractors. The wharf, which has cost nearly £40,000 to build, will accommodate two of the largest steamers trading to Wellington. About 3,000,000 feet of ironbark timber has been used in its construction, and on one-third 1 of that quantity the Messrs. M'Lean have had to pay an import duty of 2s per hundred feet, as it was delivered sawn. The New Zealand Government does not impose any tax on Australian hewn timber or logs. The erection of the sheds on the ne\y wharf has entailed an additional expenditure of £4300, and the installation of cranes, etc., will bring the Board's total outlay up to nearly £60,000. The wharf is in all respects the finest structure of the kind in the Southern hemisphere. The fourth, anpual picnic of the railway employees in iftus district, held on Saturday, was largely attended. Messrs. T. M. Wilford and W. H. Field, M.H.R.'s, Mr. T. Ronayne, General Manager of Railways, and Mr. A. L. Beattie, Locomotive Superintendent, visited, the grounds daring the day. A long programme of sports had been arranged, but a number of events had to be postponed. These will be got off on the Petone recreation ground at an early date. The following iwere placed- in the various events, that -were concluded: — Apprentices' Race, flat : Connelly 1, Keir 2, Hebley 3. Boiler-makers' Race : Collins 1, Drain 2, Broderick 3. Painters' Race: Caj?ey 1, Lusty 2, Keir 3. Fitter's Race : Hebley 1, Bowman 2, Armstrong 3. Blacksmiths' Race: Connelly 1, Slater 2a2 a Ffnch 3. Carpenters' Race : Wakelin 1, Wilson 2, O'Loughlin 3. Westinghouse Brake Company's Employees' Race : Cairns 1, M'Whirter 2, Firth 3. Bioyde Race, one mile : Hayes 1, Rintoul 2, Flight 3. Married Women's Race: Usmar 1, Swindale 2, Severn 3. Open Handicap, 100 yds: Powell (6yds) 1, M'Guire (scr) 2, Nicholas (10yds) 3. • Old Men's Race : Dalton 1, Matson 2. Single Women's Race t Ryan 1, Bowman 2, E. Wood 3. Mile Walk : Poll 1, M'Whirter 2, Rose 3. The Dunedin Evening Star has this year issued a Christmas number similar in style -to those of the illustrated weeklies but somewhat less in bulk. There is an illustrated article on Stewart Island and one by Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, M.H.R., on the famous Clinton Valley. Mr. Alick Munro "has a story" entitled "A Women of Wiles," which occupies about half the number. An article of special, interest to Scotsmen will be the account of the Presbyterian Assembly recently held in Dunedin. A meeting of butchers in reference to the cricket club question will be held at Godber's Rooms on Wednesday evening. Without philosophy we should) be little above the lower animal. It is try» philosophy to seek the best, and Blatfk Stfan Butter is the best obtainable.— Advt.