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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 10, 11 July 1902, Page 4

The course of business at the series of London wool sales which opened on Tuesday appears so for to be in favour of the. seller. Press Association and private messages state that fine merinos are 6 I per cent, dearer, medium qualities unchanged, and low sorts irregular and generally 5 per cent, cheaper. A cablegram from the Agent-General aiso states that fine qualities are firm and 6 per cento, higher, whjle coarse crossbreds, which seem to form the bulk of the New Zealand supply, are slightly lower in price. Sir Joseph Ward will next Monday meet a deputation on the subject of greater advantages . to workers as far as suburban railway trains ore concerned. The order establishing the Cook and Other Islands Land Titles Court appears in. the Gazette; also the form for the certificate of exemption under the School Attendance Act, 1901. The M&raroa, which leffc for Sydney via East Coast yesterday, shipped 200 sheep at Gisborne for the New South Wales capital. The following were the fees received under the Land Transfer Act for tho year ending 31st March last:— Auckland, £3744; Taranaki, £2631; Wellington, £7166; Hawkes Bay, £1341; Poverty Bay, £819; Nelson, £702; Marlborough, £307; Canterbury, £6832; Otago, £2659; Southland, £2015; Westland, £341. The total is £28,463, as against £28,893 for the preceding year. The following appointments are gazetted:— G. H. Broome, A.M.1.C.E., to be a member of tho Board of Examiners under the Coal Mines Act 1891, vice W. M. Store, deceased ; G. H. Davis, transferred from Post and Telegraph Department, to bo a cadet draughtsman in the Department of Lands and Survey ; B. A. Keenan, to be a clerk in the Department of Lands and Survey ; Catherine M. Watterson, to be a clerical cadette in the Department of Lands and Survey. The boundaries of the Waikato Maori Land District, subject for some time to much dispute, aro gazetted. The district oxtends' right across the Waikato and Thames valleys from the West Coast to the East, and includes the Coromandel Peninsula. Nomination of three Maori representatives on the Council will close at the Runanga House, Waahi, Huntly, on 13th August, the poll is fixed for 4vh September, and the returnable date is on or before Ist October. Mr. George Thomas Wilkinson is returning ciffioer. There are 37 polling-places. Two Petone butchers, John Cooper and William Smith, were charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning by the Stock Department with having slaughtered and dressed carcases of meat for bale in aa unlicensed slaughterhouse, and also with having subjected tho carcases of lambs to the process known us "blowing" and "spouting." Mr. Dalziell, counsel for the Department, said slaughtering in unlicensed premises was a common offence, and tho Department desired to have a stop put to it. Mr. Wilford, who defended, said the men had no public abattoirs to work in, to which Mr. Didxie'.l replied that tho men had licensed premises at their disposat. Further hearing of the case was adjourned until Monday next. a case brought before the Magistrate's Court this morning indicated that the Health Department intends to strictly enforce the powers with which it is invested. Andrew Wixon, of Ngahauranga, was charged with having failed to report that he had a case of scarlet foyer in his house, and Dr. Perry, of Petono, (Wixon's medical attendant) was also charged with having failed to report the cusc. Mr. Myers, who conducted the prosecution, said that the defence of the doctor was that first it was a doubtful, and theft only a mild case. The Department complained that a number of people Mere under the impressiou that because on infectious case was mild it need not bo , reportod. It had brought the present charges bofore the Court in order to let the people generally know that both housholders and medical mon must report all cases of infectious disease, whether mild or severe, as soon as they were apparent. Both defendants pleaded Guilty. Wixoa Bttid he had understood that it was the doctor's duty to report, and the doctor (for whom 'Mr. Wilford appeared) stated that he had been so busy that he had omitted to give the Department the notice in this particular case, but he had carried out his duty previously. Defendants were each fined Is and costs, Wixon's costs amounting to 9s and the doctor's to 30s. The Star of Wellington Lodge of Good Templars lust night initiated one new member, and several others were proposed. Bros. E. A. Goodger and W. S. Ingram gave a report of the proceedings of the PahnerBton North Convention. Several excellent readings were given by Sisters A. Gubband and J. Morris and Bro. G. Petherick, G.O. • Inspector Ellison, in charge of the | Wellington Police District, iv his report , to the Commissioner of Police, says: — "There is a great drawback at Wellington station in tha want of quarters close to the station for the Sub-lnspeotor and Inspector. It is impossible for these ottioers to carry out their work to the best advantago to tho public whilst living at a distance from the station ; both aro liablo to be wanted on short notice at any hour of the day 'or night." Tho weekly meeting of the Trades Council was held in the Trades Hall last night, Mr. H. C. Jones in the chair. A communication was received from the Women's National Council, asking that, support be given to the request that the Government set up a Royal Commission to enquire into child labour in connection with the dairy industry. The letter was roforred back to the Women's Council for further information. The Labour Paper Committee reported that the journal had been registered. The President (Mr. H. 0. Jones) was appointed to represent the Council at the conference to bo held tonight of trades unions on the subject of tho Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Mr. Bruton moved that the Council set up a deputation to wait upon tie ActingPremier with a request to repeal tho clause in the Rating on. Unimproved Valuo Act which says "this Act shall not apply to wuter, gas, electric, sewage, hospital and charitable aid rates." Th» clause, he said, had been slipped through a sleepy House in 1896 by the Opposition, and its injustice was telling severely on tho people. Messrs." Jones, Cole, Cooper, Noot, M'Laren, and the mover were, appointed ac a deputation. The fortunate inventor who patented the wooden toothpick amassed a fortune. Send for Advice to Inventors, by Henry Hughes, patent ugent, Queen's Chambers, Wellington.— Auvfc.