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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1904, Page 4

Waimangu geyser has since resumption of operations, after its couple of months rest, been putting up a greater average of "shots" than before the stoppage. The opening up I>y the Onslow Borough Council of the roads through tho Highland Park Estate is proceeding vriinout interruption, and there has beea no further attempt by either Mrs. Rhode* or the Council to effect a compromise. It is proposed to hold camps of the various school cadet corps of tlie colony towards the end of the school year (De. cember), and the Wellington Education Board yesterday authorised its Chairnuui (Mr. Lee), Mr. M'DonaM, and the School Inspectors to consult with the teachers on the subject, ao4 also to ask the opinions of tbe committees controllkig nohools whioh poasess cadet corps. In Suture the truant officers under tbe Wellington Education Board will give their attention to Catholic and pmata schools as well m to the Board school. Such a system \viU, so it was stated yesterday, be of material assistance to the Board schools, and has the unprovsd of the Catholic school authorities. It waa stated also that the Kcently-appoint. Ed Wellington Inspector is doing excel, tent work, and that already his effort* had produced beneficial resulti. It is estimated (says the Wakarapn Daily Times) that it will be fully two months yet before Ute work will be overtoken in connection with the repairing of chimneys damaged by the recent earthquake. Somo of the bricklayers employed were procurer! in Wellington, the wage paid being Xss a day, 5s a day for food, and travelling expenses paid both ways. Captain Domigan, who- has just returned from the Bisley meeting, report! the M&taura, Ensign, says the average British workman as seen at Home is inexpressibly tired. Scavengers are employed on the Bieley rifle ranges to pick up the pieces of papor thrown about the ground. These gentry are supplied with bag* slung from their shoulders, but the exertion of itooping down to pick up fragments of. paper is too much for them. Each man provides himself with a stick which has a mil at the end of it. With this weapon he deliberately bayonets each separate scrap of paper and conveys it to his satchel. Should a fragment blow away while be is drawing a bead upon it, he hunts it down in a leisurely fashion, and sooner or later impales it triumphantly upon his spear. Captain Dotoigan says wast struck tha New Zealauders most at Home was the large number of women of all classes en* tenng publichouses for the purpose of drinking. Tho Education Department is initiating a scheme for the interchange of letters between the aobool children of Britain and New Zealand. The Depart" merit undertakes to send letters from this end free of charge, and they can either be sent direct to the Education Boardi or to the Deportment. The members of the Wellington Board expressed tlie opinion yesterday that tbe idea was a good one, which it would endeavour to encourage, but Mr. Hogg thought that i'ho system of interchange should also apply to the schools of. this colony and of the Australian Commonwealth. 14 was decided to forward this recommenda* tion to the Education Dep&rttneircA statement in concoction with the rorelation of carpenters' wages to tho cost of buHding houses, and, therefore, to tho amount of roDtai6, was made by a buildor to a meeting of his creditors kiChriHtchurch last week. He had come over from Australia, and on the strength of btrild. ing oxpenence in thai country, had erected, as a speculation, three eight-room, ed houses, fitted with all conveniences. These had cost at least £200 more -than ho had calculated, chiefly on account of tho wages' bill. This was tho cause of his bankruptcy. He declared that "having to pay men 10s 8d a day for smoking cigarettes and making a fire to do> their .work by made all the difference ill the calculation of the cost of labour." Replying to the toast of the Dairying Industry at a banquet at Wainuku a few evenings ago, Mr. Brown, Chairman ol Directors of the Midhirst factory, said that to a great extent -the reason why the New Zealand butter was not as good! as the Danish, was simply because suppliers did not pay sufficient attention to cleanliness. In some instances milk waa takon to 'the factories which should be refused. Until turners learnt to exercise scrupulous cleanliness they coald nob hope to successfully compete in the butter markets with, that of Danish make. Sitting in his civil jurisdiction at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs in tho " following oases: — Commercial Agency v. Felix Baigent, £11 5s 2a, costs £1 Jffs 6d ; same v. John Fox, £1 Is, cost* 12s ; same v. Alexander M'Farlano, £2 2s, costs 10s ; same v. Frederick H. Vile, £7 17 3d, costs £1 3s 6d; same v. John R. Watson, £12 17s Bd, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. Qalyar Bros-, £15 13s 6d, costs, £2 14s ; same v. Geo. Burnett-, £47 10s, costs £3 4s; some r, James A. Smith, £30 18s lid, costs £3 14s; same v. Triggs and Denton, £83 5s 9d, costs £2 14s; some v. Angustine Priddle, £40 0s 2d, costs £2 14s » Kireo v. John M'Lachlan, £43 13« 3d, costb £2 14s; came v. Jameo Rtohdale, £4 15s 4d, cost* 10s ; Vacuum Oil Co. v. Henry Cox, £1 16s 2d. costs ss; Oscar Johnson v. August Bussy de St. Romain, 630, costs £2 14s t Kirkcaldie and Stains v. John Walls, jun., £2 2s 6dL costs 10s; sams v. Alfred Goodson, £l 0s lOd, costs ss; Scott Henderson and Co. t. Robt. Vin#en, £42 6s lOd; costa £2 14», ; George and Kersley v. Eliiibeth Trudgconv £16 17s Id, costs £1 10 a 6dj Canada Cycle and Motor Co., Ltd., v. S. Holden Howie, £2 175. 6 d, costs 10s. In the defended case, Louise Butler v. Nellie Jonnings, . a claim of £3, rent, judgment was found for plaintiff, foi •whom Mr. Luckie appeared. No cost* were allowed. Mr. Levi appeared for the defendant. In connection with the visit to New Zealand of the Bishpp of New Guinea, who arrived in Auckland on the 25th inst. , a few notes oa the work ' of thd Mission will bo of interest. The sphere of Us operations comprises a strip of about 300 miles along the north-east coast of the inland, extending from East Capo to the German boundary. The fiwt mwmonaries landed there in August, 1891, nnd the Bishop (tlie Right Rev. M. J. Stone-Wigg) w«a consecrated caiiy in 1898. There are now some 60 worker*, European and native, connected with th<j Mission, which has a numbor of fully, constituted stations. There ate about 500 native Christians, 3 r ) catechumens, and some 1500 children receiving instruction in the various schools. Tub work waa commended to tho notice and sympathy of the New Zealand Church by the Bishops in a pastoral issued in 1894, and it has on many occasions evoked expressions of cordial sympathy and commend* ation from the resident British Administrators of New Guinea. Under its influence cannibalism and other inhuma* customs are rapidly' dying out, the natives are being educated and trained mi industrial pursuits, and have been shown how to develop tho tesources of their country. The Bishop hopes to arrive ir* Wellington at the end of next week, and will give an address at a public meeting in St. Peter's Schoolroom. He is also to preach m the local Anglican. Churches. Furniture carefully packed, stored, and removed by experienced men; special low rates. New Zealand ' Express Company. No. 20, Customhouse quay. Telephone 9k, —Advt.. * «%