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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. ■ ' <mThe Mining Act Amendment Bill was tha chief subject discussed by the Legislative Council yesterday. In the House the Electoral Ilill completed its passage through Committee, and was then put through final stages. Mr. W. A. Webb, who gave senE,%tional prices for Te Aute stock at the Johnsonville sales last week, is of opinion that prices in the Sydney market will koop up for a while longer, in spite of the fuct that frozen meat is now being put on the murket. During a recent trip to the West Const of this Island he purchased about 230 bullocks for shipment, same 60 or 80 of which he will probably freeze, owing to the difficulty of getting them shipped alive at regular intervals. Six hundred live sheep from Wellington will leave to-day by tho Mokoia for Sydney. The steamer has also 100 frozen carcases on board fiom Lyttelton. On Thursday the Taviani will sail for the New South Walos capital direct with a shipment of live stock. . The Australian horsa San Fran, purchased by tho Hon. J. D. Ormond, jarrived from Sydney by the \»nrrimoo, and whs landed in. good condition this morning. For the week ending to-day the following cases of infectious diseases were reported to the Wellington oftico of the Health Department :~-Scarlatina, 10 coses j enteric, nil ; measles, 111 ; diphtherin, 1 ; tuberculosis, 4. The first pile of the new Hutt Bridge will be driven by tho Acting-Premier on .Wednesday next at 3 o'clock. At last night's meeting of the Wellington Cycling Club U was resolved to secede from tho New Zealand league of Wheelmen. Advices received by the last Australian mail states that on« of tho Australian freezing companies holds, or has at call, nine-tenths of tho frozen meat (beel) available in New South Wales and in New Zealand for the Australian market, roughly estimated at 40,000 quarters. Dr. Anderson, Houso Surgeon at the Wanganui Hospital, has resigned in order to go into private practice. Dr. Crawford, of Christchurch, will temporarily fill the position. Adelaide- road is improving very rapidly, old buildings r.re' being removed, and new ones* erected. The. latest in that direstion is *'io erection of two shops (adjoining the Gear Company) for Mr. A. Loasby. The designing and building was done by Messrs. F. and W. Ferkins. In his annual report the City Engineer hints at pending proceedings in regard to the smoke nuisance from factory chimneys. The new city morgue, now in course of erection at Clyde-quay, will consist of a mortuary, a post-mortem room, juryroom, and waiting-room, together with vestibule, porch, and the usual sanitary conveniences. The mortuary will accommodate three bodies, and the post-mortem room will be fitted with a slate table, and a tank for disinfecting purposes. John Patrick Ward, of Wellington, mining agent, to-day filed his schedule in bankruptcy. The first meeting of cieditova will be held on Friday next at 11 a.m. Messrs James Prouse and W. C. Nation aye to bo entertained at a banquet at Levin on Monday night in recognition of their efforts in conneccion with the local water-race scheme. A large fortune was made by the person who patented tho safety-pin — a simple piece of bent wire. Write to Henry Hughes, patent agent, Queen's Chambers, for Advice to Inventors. — Advfc.