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Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1901, Page 4

The question of the advisability or otherwise of the Conciliation Board having the assistance of experts from either side was brought up during the hearing of the Seamen's dispute on Saturday. Mr. Jones, representative of the union, thought such a system would shorten the proceedings, provided the experts sat with the Board. Mr. Kirby, of the Union Company, expressed himself strongly in favour of the idea. The inadequacy of the tram accommodation provided by the city authorities on wet mornings is a matter of strong comment on the part of belated beings anxious to reach business at the proper hours. This morning the cars were crowded on leaving Newtown, and therefore on passing the? tramshed^, but nevertheless those responsible took no steps to put on other vehicles ; consequently numbers of people en route were unable to reach town otherwise than in a damp condition, late for business, and breathing uncomplimentary things against the powers that control the traffic. The latest additions to the Telephone Exchange list are as follows: — Joseph Ames, Ellice-street ; E. T. Bunny, Lower Hutt; R. M. Griffiths and Co.", Harrisstreet; Mrs. C. Pownall, Wellingtonterrace; New York Life Insurance Office, Lambton-quay ; H. Edwards, Han-key-street; R. W. MTilly, corner of Fairlie-terrace and Kelburne-parade ; A. Levi, Lambton-quay ; Yee Pa and Co., Lambton-quay: and W. Jupp, Willisstreet. Only one bankruptcy was recorded in Wellington last month. The Commissioner of Police and the Secretary for Education left Wellington on Saturday— the former for the West Coast, and the latter for Christchurch. The Chief Government Veterinarian has retured from the South. While in the south Mr. Gilruth held the annual veterinary examination at Lincoln College. The Education Department is discouraging the use of the Union Jack by the State Schools, as it prefers that the New Zealand Ensign should be flown. The death is announced to-day of Mrs. Majendie, of Ohariu, wife of Mr. F. A. Majendie, President of the New Zealand Counties Association, and an ex-Chair-man of the Hutt County Council. The deceased lady, who was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends, had been in ill-health for some time. She was 64 years of age. A sitting of the Wellington Licensing Committee was to have taken place today, but owing to the absence from the city of two members of the Committee — the Rev. H. Van Staveren, who has been on a visit to the Kermadecs, and Mr. C. E. Willeston, who is on a visit to England—it could not be held. The Committee will meet on Monday next. An impressive ordination ceremony took place at the Sacred Heart Church, Hillstreet, at 10.30 Mass' yesterday morning, when the Rev. James Tymons was ordained priest, and the Rev. E. Talon, who received the minor orders on Saturday, was raised to the sub-deaconship. The ceremony was performed by Archbishop Redwood, assisted by the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy and the Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy. After the Mass Father Tymons gave his blessing to the congregation, the first to receive it being his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tymons, of Greymouth. In the evening Father Tymons chanted vespers and celebrated Benediction, and Archbishop Redwood preached an able sermon on the dignity of the priesthood. Miss White sang as an offertory piece a solo, "Abide with me," ' while Rossi's "Tantum Ergo" was sung by Mrs. Kelly, Miss White, and Messrs. J. Carr arid O. M'Manaway. Father J. Tymons is an ex-student of St. Patrick's College and a brother of the Rev. Father Tymons, of Palmerston North. Both he and the Rev. E. Talon were students at the Meanee Seminary. . • The fifth anniversary of the Constablestreet Congregational Church Sundayschool wus celebrated yesterday. At the three special services the building was crowded to the doors, and addresses were delivered by the Revs. W. A. Evans, Charles Dallaston, and B. L. Thomas. The special feature of the celebration was the singing of the children, under Herr Overbye, and the result was a musical success. The solos and 'duets were sung by Mesdames Howe and Page, Misses Elsie Sears, Eva and Gertie .Mason, Wolffe, M. Fear, Messrs. Shearer and Carrad. An orchestra of stringed instruments rendered assistance, and Miss Eva Cotton played the organ. The celebration is to conclude on Wednesday with a tea and public meeting. The annual picnic of the City Corporation employees was held in the Railway Recreation Grounds, Upper Hutt, on Saturday, about 600 being present. Jupp's Band was in attendance, and played selections during the day. A long programme of sports was gone through, and the amusements of the children were well catered for. ' # " A misunderstanding occurred at the Supreme Court this morning. Before the hearing of the «first case was commenced Mr. Justice Edwards instructed the Court officials to see that only those who had business at the Court were allowed inside the bar, and that the public were confined to the space set apart for them. This was, however, construed into meaning that the public were to go outside altogether, and so they went out, a Judge'Sj order not being the sort of thing one cares to resist. The mistake was not explained, and so the public were for some time spared the details of a painful case of alleged assault on a child, and the child was spared the pain of giving her evidence before a Court full of men. Some of them found out their mistake later on, and returned into Court, but the attendance for the rest of the morning was decidedly meagre. A fire was discovered yesterday afternoon in the upper portion of the /premises occupied by Messrs. Inge and Gould, grocers, Lambton-quay. Constable Cattanach noticed smoke issuing from one of the front windows, and on rushing upstairs found that two young men — Charles Smith and John Ryland — had extinguished the flames. The rooms above the shop are rented by James Jew, and used as a boardinghouse. It is supposed that a match must have been carelessly dropped 6n the bed, for the bedclotning was destroyed and the wallpaper burnt. The damage is estimated at about £3. The Fire Brigade was not summoned. An enormous difference has been made in the cost of cable communication with jsouth Africa through the laying of the new cable across tie Indian Ocean via the Cocos Islands Fo Australia. For instance, the rate for ordinary messages from New Zealand to Capetown which has hitherto, by the Zanzibar route, been 7s 6d per word, now falls to 3s 6d, with 2s Id as the Government rate ; messages to Durban will be transmitted at 3s per word instead of 7s 6d ; to Orange River and Transvaal Colonies at 3s Id instead of 7s 8d ; Southern Rhodesia 3s 3d instead of 7s 4d; and in like proportion in other cases. Tke new rates came into force yesterday. Steams' Headache Cure. — That headache of yours, whatever the cause, can. be relieved in less than no time by Steams' and no other cure. All chemists. 1 --Advt.