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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. «> The Premier will not return to Wellington until to-morrow. He will attend a social gathering at Palinerston North 10-night in honour of Mr. Wood, M.H.It. The Minister for Lands is still confined to his room in Wellington with a severe attack of colic. The Minister for Education is to return from Christchurch on Monday. Operations at the various Government poultry depots are again becoming brisk. At the Christchurch depot last week about 1000 birds were killed and dressed for export. The output of the depots for the, current financial year will greatly exceed that for the year 1901-2. For the past eight months the volume of busi; ness has 'been greater than that for the whole twelve ■foom.is previous. The Minister for Public Works will leave Wellington on Monday for the purpose of formally opening the WaiparaScargiU section, (about fourteen, miles long) of the Waipara-Blenheim railway on the following day. If his engagements .will permit, the Premier will also be present. Mr. and Mrs. John Blundell and their daughters, Misses Kathleen and Ida, returned to Wellington last night by the Monowai. The party left Wellington by the Gothic in March last, and spent the extended holiday in Great Britain and Ireland and £he Continent of Europe. Mr. Blundell and his family returned home via Sydney by the Orient Company's new steamer Orontes. 3?he party has returned in the best of health. This morning the Stipendiary Magistrate issued prohibition orders (unopposed) against James Chapman and Michael Hanratty. Patrick Horsford, William James Barrett, and a first-offender, all convicted of drunkenness, were discharged, the first two promising to take the pledge. On behalf of the late honorary medical staff of the Wanganui Hospital, Dr. Hatherley has written the Secretary of the Hospital Board to the effect that, seeing that the Board has made provision for carrying on the work of the Hospital, and that tlie welfare of the patients has been secured, the resignation of the 7th ult. must be considered final. Drs. Anderson and Reid are acting as the honorary visiting staff, pending an official appointment by the Board. Mr. Field, M.H.R., after considerable correspondence on the subject, has induced the Railway Department to allow its district engineer to meet the Hutt County Council and' its Engineer and go ' over the Hutt-road, with the view of devising some means of surmounting the drainage "difficulty. Mr. Field considers that the settlement of the trouble as to the drainage of the road is within measurable distance. Once the water is allowed to run away under me railway line the state of the road in the wet weather will not be anything like as bad as during the past winter. , The enquiry into the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the local option poll will be held, as indicated last evening, by Dr. M' Arthur, S.M., on Friday, the 19th inst. A new toy, or a labour-saving device, if patented, may make you a millionaire. Apply to Henry Hughes, Patent Agent, Queen's Chambers, for "Advice to Inventors," — Advt*.