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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1904, Page 4

Tho recreation ground question was before tho City Council last- evening. Councillor Barber said the ratepayers had refiibed the Miramar grounds, \and tho Council must no\f consider the obtaining of recreation grounds, otherwise all the holiday traffic would be driven to the double railway lino to be built to Iho Hutt. Tho now racecourse was to " bo at Trentham, and football and sport* would drift towards the present race courso when the Racing Club left it. The Council should make an effort to geU a recreation ground in Wellington and keep this traffic for the city. On 'tho motion of Councillor Evans, the matted of reporting on recreation grounds available, or capable of being made available, in tho city, was referred to the Reserves Committee. Tho section of land botwoen the former shelter sheds and the Harbour Board's* wuol stores, bounded at each end by wharf gates — i.e., the strip along which, tho railway runs — has been the subject of negotiations between the Government and the City Council; and the negotiations seem to have ended no more satisfactorily than is usual between thos«i bodies. The Council wanted to take ovex tho strip and make it up to the street level, in fact, a part of the street just, like tho other part of the rt*ilway on Jervois-quay, tho Government to contribute towards tho cost of macadamising. A lettor from the Public Works Department, read in committeo of th« Council last evening, intimated that the Deparfemont could not contribute to the cost; further, the title of the land mnst continue to vest in the Crown. Thesu conditions settled tho Council's answer) which is a refusal of the terms. " Enquirer " writes pointing out that somo time ago tho City; Council passed a resolution under which prosecutions were to be mado by its officers against persons or companies whose smoke-stacks created a nuisance. " Are you awaro ol any action having boon taken?" aska our correspondent. Tho reply given at tho Corporation office is that in order to back up prosecutions substantial evidence is required. Officers of the Council have therefore been, and still ane, making enquiries and investigations in support of legal action which is to follow. "1 got into th© wrong end of tint town and I couldn't get out," said Boss Taylor at the Police Court this morning, in reply to a charge of a second offenoa of insobriety. "Where did you intend going?" asked Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M. "Masterton, and if you give me a chance - I'll dear out to-day," was the reply. "All right ; convicted and discharged," said 'his Worship. Taylor ejaculated, • "Thank-yer, sir," and then left the dock as if he meant business. For similar - offences Sarah Jameson and Patrick Biggins were each fined 20s\ in default seven days' imprisonment, and Hannah McCarthy was convicted and discliarged. The information against Victor Rebay, yesterday admitted having travelled "from. Sydney to Wellington without having ■ paid his steamer fare, £3 15s, -was with-drawn-on account of bis brother having paid the money. A young married man l named -William WeJdon w&s found grcUty of having consorted with reputed thieves, and was sent to gaol for three months. It was shown that he held previously been convicted of a similar offence. Mr. F. G. Dalziell has won the Wellington Golf Club's cleek for the year. Tho silver medals for highest scores in class-firing by the various school cadet corps have been received from England. They are of nent design, having on one side an impression of the King's head with the encircling lettering "For King, and Country — Public School Cadets, N.Z," and on the other the motto "Defence, not Defiance," and thoy ore attached by a red, white, and blue ribbou to a pin. This year's winners (84 point* being the possible score) .were as follows :— .Wellington, Sergeant H. Clemanco (Greytown), 78 ; Hawke's Bay, Private W.'Fitzjohn (Dannevirke North), 76; Nelson, Corporal Gerald Sadd (Nelson), 71 ; Greymouth, Bugler C. Mosa (OTeymouth), 76; Taranaki, Private Bert Gray (Okato), 65 ; Auckland, Sergeant H. Tanner (Coromandel),- 70 ; Wangaoui, Private H. Lawson (Patea), 67; North Canterbury, Private E. Becker* (Southbrook), 66; South Canterbury, LanceCorporal E. Verdon (Timaru), 73 ; Otago, • Private E. Egglestone (Lawrence), 71 ; Southland, Privato E. Stuart (Invercargill), 71. It appeared from the proceedings of . the City Cooncil lnst evening that & re^ quest for the right of advertising on tho x electric tramcars has been referred to tho Electrical Tramways Engineer. Councillor Godber expressed the opinion that a report of tho Engineer was not necessary, and that the Council should not tolerato any advertising on the electric cars. Tho Mayor said the request, on being referred to tho Engineer, had simply gone through the usual process. Ho was understood to add : " There is not the slightest fear of our doing it."Later on the Council decided to invito tondoTs "for tho right to advertise on" the backs of tram tickots in use on tho electric tramways, for periods of one, -two, and threo years." Councillor Godber contended that it would be better both for tho people and the guards if ' cards of twelve penny section tickets ,■ woro sold; and this should be arranged for before entering into advertising agreements for a period. The Mayor remarked that tho present tickets would have to bo usod up in any case. Referring to the matter of the proteo- • tion of life insurance policies at the meeting of the Insurance Institute last) evening, Mr. Martin Chapman pointed' out that if a person has a policy on his own life it is protected up to a certain amount (£2000). That is, if he "becomes - bankrupt it cannot be taken as on asset for the payment of his creditors. If * he dies it is not available for payment of his debts and legacies, unless he bo 'expressly declares.* There may be a sound priuciple underlying these provisions, continued the speakor, but tho mode of carrying it oat is crudo and leads to injustice. The idea is that, the policy . is a provision for tho wife and children, of the assured. This is practically to a certain extent effected in the oase of- his death, but in tho case of bankruptcy thero is little besides injustice done. The creditors are deprived of the oss*t in question, but tho wife and children are' not in the slightest degree protected ; the policy does not pass to them. The only , attempt to protect them is the declaration that the bankrupt- shall not deal with tlie property for three yoirs. At tho end of three years he is free to do as he pleases with it, and in most cases he proceeds at the first moment possible to raise money on it by sale, surrender, or mortgage, and to use the money for his own purposes. At Auckland on Monday lost, Mr. Jas. Mills, managing director of the Vnion Company, was asked if it was proposed to adopt the turbine principle in steamers . trading in New Zealand waters. -In reply, Mr. Mills stated that his company would wait until it has had some experience with the Loongana. If the experience of the new vessel proves satis* factory, the company will complete arrangements already in tram for the construction of an 18-fcnot turbine boat for the Wollington-Lyttelton service. As stated last week, the company is already build-, ing a 16 or 17-knot turbine vessel of 400 ft length and 50ft beam, -for the intercolonial trade. Munt, Cottrell, and Co., carriers, Customs aud forwarding agents. Storage a speciality. Furniture packed aud removed. Office; Queen's Cham--bers. Telephone No. 23.— AdvK