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Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 99, 26 April 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL, » The Governor and Lady Ranfurly will return to Auckland from the Hot Lakes on Monday week, sth May. Tha 3Tew Zealand Farmers' Union, ac- ! cording to Mr. Glass, its Organising Secretary, is able to control 60,000 rotes. The Hon. G. H. Mills has arranged to address his constituents next week. , He will speak at Blenheim on Thursday and at Picton on Friday. A requisition to Messrs. Fisher and Wilford, M.H.R.'s, asking them to call a public meeting to consider various questions of Harbour Board administration, will be found in our advertising column. An aurora was seen in Christchurch on Tuesday night between half-past nine and ten o'clock. A correspondent of the Press says it took the form of radiating line from a centre like a fan — blue, grey, and rose colour. According to the Dunedin correspondent of a contemporary, ft well-known Taieri farmer considers that the high prices now ruling will more than compensate the farmers for the losses caused by the recent floods. One farmer sent away five trucks of chaffy and netted over £100. The Secretary of the Labour Department, Mr. £. Tregear, has returned to Wellington after piloting tha Victorian Labour Commission through New Zealand. The Commissioners expressed great satisfaction with the arrangements made for their accommodation and convenience by Mr. Tregear on behalf of the Government. It is persistently reported in the Waihemo district that Mr. James Arkle, who opposed Mr. T. Mackenzie at the by-election for'Waihemo, intends coming out again at the general election to contest the seat with Mr. Mackenzie, the sitting member. The City* Council is to be asked by the Wellington Tree Planting and Scenery Preservation Society to make a road to the top of Mount Victoria, and see that more attention is paid to the plantation reserve at the foot of the hill. "This new duty thrown upon Judges is the about the most onerous they have been asked to undertake," remarked Mr. Justice Dennistoa at Christchurch in dealing with a case in which, under the new 'Act, 1 he was asked to alter the provisions of a will. Mrs. S.. A. Rhodes, of "The Grange," Wadestown, haa been elected President, and Dr. Elizabeth Platts-Mills Honorary Surgeon of the St. John Ambulance Nursing Guild. The Wellington Tree Planting and Scenery Preservation Society is in the happy position of ' having no liabilities. The outstanding subscriptions only amount to £1 17s 6d. The Stipendiary Magistrate to-day fined James Morris 5s with 7s costs for having cycled by night in Manners-street without carrying a light. Three firstoffence drunkards wore mulcted in like fines. A two-year-old child, without settled place of abode, was committed to the Wellington Receiving Home. One hundred and twenty-eight sheep, of which 86 are Vermont merino rams, Jiurchnsed in Tasmania by Mr. Akers, of 'almerston North, arrived by the Waihora this morning. Experience has shown the Wellington Tree Planting and Scenery Preservation Society that ib had been' a mistake to fix Arbor Day for a date which is practically in the depth of winter. At the annual meeting of the society last night it was decided, on the motion of Mr. G. A. Hurley, to recommend the incoming committee to approach the other scenery preservation societies in the colony with the object of inducing the • Government to arrange that Arbor Day should be fixed for dJTcreut il.it»s bo as to suit the tree-r 1 ' "fuig seas- v i- tlie different parts of w Z«J ir.d. , You can tell ' ,c character of the housewife by the h.uia and bacon she uses) if it the Swan brand, she is the good sort. — Advt.