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

The Governor and Lady Ranfurly gave v small dance at Government House la6t night. The Superintendent of the Government Tourist Department, Mr. T. E. Donne, will shortly visit tho Egmont National Park, Taranaki, and confer with the Board as to the expenditure on improvements to attract tourists. A handsome stone obelisk is being prepared by Mr. W. J. Helyer as a memorial to fallen troopers, to be erected in a prominent positiou at Feildmg. The monument, which will be 14it oin high, will be surmounted by an ornamental iron branch bearing four lamps. On the respective sides will be engraved the following inscriptions : "(1) To the memory of those brave men from this district who, obeying the call of duty, sacrificed their lives in the cause of their Empire in the Boer War in South Airica, A.D., 1899-1902;" (2) "V.R. ;" (3) "E.R. ;" (4) "Duty to God and Empire." The memorial is to be supplied with four drinking basins and cups, and also a drinking trough for dogs.- Mr. F. de J. Clere was designer of the monument. Information has reached Wellington that Mr. Bayne, formerly director of Lincoln College, Christchurch. has received the appointment of director to the Palatine County College, Illinois, at a salary of £1000 a year. The Wellington Tree Planting * and Scenery Preservation Society has received as a gift from Mr. Thos. Horton, of Pahiatua, a splendid selection of trees and shrubs, -which the Society is much in need of. At the instance of Mr. Guinness, who interviewed the head of the Tourißt Department on the matter, Mr. Moorhouee has been instructed to proceed to Greymouth with a view to reporting on the limestone caves near Barrytown, and also as to the desirableness of opening up Haupiri hot springs for tourist purposes. Dr. Pomare, Native Health Officer, is making an inspection of the Waikawa and Wairau pahs in the Marlborough district. On the application of Mr. A. R. Guinness, counsel for plaintiff, Mr. Haselden, S.M., this morning decided to hear, on Friday next at noon, the evidence of Mr. T. Ronayne, General Manager of New Zealand Railways, in the West Coast case of John Byrne v. Charles Peck. We have received from Mr. Coghlan, Government Statistician, "The Wealth and Progress of New South Wales" for the yeara 1900 and 1901. The volume, which contains nearly 1050 pages, is arranged on similar lines to previous issue?, *ith the exception that the greater part of the historical sketch has been omitted. It is an admirable example of what such a handbook should be. It is notified in the Gazette that so much of the by-law made by the Manawatu County Council as appoints the several sums to be paid to the county funds for the licensing of vehicles, has been approved by Hu Excellency the Governor. Miss Kate $. O'Sullivan has been appointed teacher to Pencarrow Lighthouse School. Mr. A. Monteney Jephson, a visitor from' England, is staying at Government House. An obvious slip in our paragraph as to the last meeting of the Ratepayers' Association credited the Association with claiming exemption from the water-meter bylaw for owners of "less than three houses." Of course it should have been "horses." Another portion of Mr. Menloye's Windsor Park Estate, Oamaru district, containing about 2200 acres, has been acquired by the Government, xue property will be cut into small farms at once, and is expected to be placed on the market as soon as possible. A sitting in Wellington of the Native Land Court has been fixed for Thursday next, 17th July. The jurisdiction of tho Count de Courte, French Consul for New Zealand, has been considerably extended, and in future he will have Consular control of the majority of the islands in the Pacific. The Count, who has just returned to Wellington from a visit to Europe, will shortly leave on a visit to the South Seas, returning to Auckland, where, as previously static! in these columns, the Consular headquarters are to be situated. ■ Over sixty guests were present at the luncheon tendered to the delegates to the Municipal Conference by the Mayor and Councillors of Wellington yesterday. The party was taken to tne Lower Hutt by special train, and to Bellevue Gardens by drags. The Major (Mr. J. W. G. Aitkon) presided at the luncheon, and expressed the pleasure he had had in acting as Chairman of the Conference. He congratulated the delegates upon their grasp of the various subjects dealt with. The toasts honoured were — "The King," "His Excellency the Governor," "The Members of both Houses of Parliament," j "The Visiting Delegates to the Municipal j Conference," "Our Hosts," "Officers ot the Municipal Association," "The Ladies,*' and "The Press." After a series of photographs had been taken the party returned to the city. The Thorndon Branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation of New Zealand held a meeting last night, Mr. A. Collins in the chair. | The question of the extension of the branch's boundaries was, held over ponding advice from the Organising Secretary. A vote of condolence with Mr, P. Hutson on account of the death' of hii wife was passed. At the sitting of the Diocesan Synod yesterday afternoon the Rev. P. C. Earee, of Masterton, told a doleful story of the disadvantages which worshippers suffered from at his church. On one side of the building is an athletic gymnasium, and on the other the Salvation Army barracks. Frequently devotions were earned out to a rag-tune musical accompaniment on a piano, and hymns were on occasion stopped by the energy of the Army's brass band. The new Anglican Church at Petono, the foundation stone of which will be kid by the Governor to-morrow, promises to be one of the best of the smaller churches in the diocese. The design, as prepared by Mr. F. de J. Clere, &.K.1.8.A., Diocesan Architect, shows a building consisting of a nave 44ft x 20it, chancel 34ft x 20ft; aisles 14ft wide ; with baptistry, two porches, two vestries, and organ chamber. The plan is exceedingly simple, but promises to be effective, the prominent features being the arcades which run the whole length of tho church, and which consist of six large arches on each side of the nave. Special accommodation is made for the choir which at St. Augustine's is a large one. The men and boys are to be placed in the chancel and the ladies in the aisles behind them instead of being placed with their backs to the congregation, as is often the case. Seating is provided for 450 people. Outside, the prominent feature of the church will be the tower mirmounted by a spire, and rising to a total height of a little over a hundred feet. This will be a special gift of Mr. T. Price, the well known Petone sawmiller. The style of the church may be described in early decorated Gothic, with unavoidable variations. It is very unpleasant to have your palate teased with rank hams and bacon, you will never suffer if you use only Swan Brand.— Advt.