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Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1903, Page 4

The Takapuna, with the Southern portion of the San Francisco mail on board, arrived here soon after midday. Captain Post, of the Tutanekai, is inspecting the Government steamers on Lake Wakatipu. It is probable 'that the machinery of the new steamer which the Government intends to place on the lake will be on the turbine Drinciple. The Chief Justice- is expected to return from Napier to-morrow eventng. He will probably preside at the Wanganui Circuit Sittings, opening on the 21st inst. It is reported that the Ngahauranga Railway Station was broker into on Sunday evening, but the thief or thieves did not tamper with the safe, and are believed to have obtained only 7d for thenpains. The New Zealand Shipping Company has been advised by its Monte Video agent that the quarantine restrictions placed on cattle from New Zealand have been removed. Th 3 tender of Sanders Brothers has been accepted for the erection of a threestory brick warehouse at the corner of Stout and Ballance streets for Messrs. Butler Brothers, wholesale saddlers, in accordance with plans prepared by Messrs. Hislop and Walden. The building, which is to cost over £10,000, is to be ready for occupation in July. Owing to Mr. Robert Parker's indisposition there will be no orchestral practice to-night. The full chorus will meet on Thursday as usual, and an orchestral practice will be held at the Dresden on Friday, The Secretary for Agriculture made an inspection of the State Farm at Levin yesterday. The work of getting the land in order for the summer has been much retarded by the continued wet weather. Some thousands of trees have been planted during the past three months, in addition to varieties of flax from various parts of the colony. About 120 cows are being milked, and the butter-fafc is being purchased by the Levin Dairy Company. All the live stock on the estate is lookr ing remarkably well. An old man named James Jones, charged with having insufficient lawful meana of support, was discharged to-day by the Stipendiary Magistrate on condition that he returns to the Ohiro Home, which he had left as the result of some trivia) matter. Henry Belcher, arrested at Wanganui, and charged with theft of a handcart, was remanded till Friday. An eye-witness of the- incident informs us that the credit of rescuing the man Johnson from the Shamrock boardinghouse during the fire on Sunday morning belongs to three members of ths Fire Brigade. Our informant states that Johnson was found lying insensible in 'a bedroom, the . smoke having stupefied him, and he was carried down a ladder by the firemen, who handed him over to the car© of Sergeant Miller. The contract price for the Queen Victoria Statue which is to be placed on % site opposite the General Post Office in Wellington is between £1800 and £1900, towards which about £1700 has now been received. The sculptor, Mr. Dmry, is / expected to complete his work in seven or eighty months. The Star Boating Club has just received delivery of two tub pairs, built to its ' order by Greenland, of Melbourne. The Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association is inviting the co-opera-tion \>f the Wairarapa Pastoral and Agricultural Society and Messrs. A. W. Hogg and W. C. Buchanan in getting a veterinarian appointed to the Wairarapa district. Mr. S. Burton, veterinary surgeon, was recently removed to Palmerston North. The New Zealand Accountants and Auditors' Association (registere*d) intimates that the annual examination of the association will be held throughout the colony on the 26th October next. The examinations are for the Fellows', Associates', and Students' grades, and are available to members of either sex. The syllabus of examination has beSn re-arranged, and now supplies fuller information than the old issue, and includes a complete descriptive list o members and tbe positions held by them. Intending candidates may procure copies of syllabus, past examination question papers, and other particulars from the Registrar of the Association, Mr. J. Henry Mackie, Auckland, or Mr. 0. S. Watkins, 3, Panama-street. The Rev. R. S. Gray, of Christdmrch, President of the Baptist Union, will take the chair at the farewell meeting to be given to-night to Mr. E. D. J. Hercus, M.A., at the Baptist Church, Berhampore. The Rev. J. Kennedy Elliot, Mr. Bed'ord, M.H.R., and others will take part. To-morrow evening at the New Century Hall, Kent-terrace, Mr. J". M. Moorey, who is lecturing under the auspices of the Wellington Association- of Spiritualists, will devote the whole evening to tests. The general meeting of members of the Town and' Country Co-operative Supply Federation has been postponed till Tuesday next. An inspection of the Wellington Volunteer Bearer Corps will be held in the Mount Cook Barracks to-night. A meeting of the Wellington Eight Hours Union will be held in the Trades Hall to-morrow evening. .homing can stem the tide of popular favour which is carrying Black Swan Butter into every home. — Advt. What you want is a smart, stylish Costume Skirt to wear with your blouses. C. Smith can do this for you better than any other house in town. This is one of his great specialties. He has just opened up a very fine collection in black cloth with silk strappings and frills at 8s lid, 10s 6d, lls 9d, 12s 6d, 13s 9d, Us 6d to 255; black satin cloth, 17s 6d to 30s; black voiles, 35b to 425. The blouses aro simply lovely. C.S. is always noted for his blouses, but this season eclipses all previous showings. Silic slips, lac© trimmed, If 6d, 8s lid, 9s 6d, 10s od, lls 6d ; handsome silk blouse, with and without lace yokes, 10s 6d, 11s 6d, 12s 6d, 14a 6d, to ZSs. New spring goods in every department at C. Smith's, Cuba-st. — Advt. Now is the time to have your cycle overhauled. We enamel and plate machines for 30s; freo wheels from 30s ; repairs to all makes of cycles. Oates, Lowry and Co., Cuba-street. — Advt.