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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. • No decision has yet been come to as to where the next rowing championship regatta shall be held. The Marlborough people are anxious that the races should be held at Picton, and have decided to guarantee a substantial sum for prizes. Wellington wants the regatta held here, and Wanganui intends to apply to have it held in that district. A fire balloon lodged on the roof of Mr. C. Smith's drapery establishment, Cuba-street, about 8 o'clock last evening, and led to the Central Fire Brigade being called out. A petition, which already contains many signatures, is in circulation in the Karori Borough, urging the Public Health Officer for the district (Dr. Valintine) to impress upon the Karori Borough Council the necessity tor proper and systematic removal of nightsoik. The City Engineer is pushing on the street-improvpment operations in Melrose Ward. Gangs of men are at work widening Ohiro-road, kerbing and channelling Island Bay thoroughfares, and widening Evans Bay-road. There'is plenty of unskilled labour offering for the work. The gang on the Evans Bay portion of the Queen's Drive is cutting down the hill at 'to, dangerous corner near the Patent Slip, and the result will be a great improvement of that roadway. Messrs. Findlay and Dalziel, solicitors, will represent the Seatoun Road Board in connection with the case which that Board is bringing to test the right of the, Hutt County Council to levy a special rate of lid in the £ upon property in the Makara Riding, of which the Seatoun district is a portion. Messrs. Hallenstein Bros, have presented to the Wellington Engineers' Corps a large silver cup which is to be fired for by the marksmen ot the corps. The cup, which is to be called the Hallenstein Bros' trophy, is on view in the window of the New Zealand Clothing Factory's shop on Lambton-quay. Last year the firm presented a cup to the D Battery for the encouragement of rifle shooting. The remarks of the Secretary of Labour (Mr. E. Tregear) on the subject of rent and wages contained in a memorandum recently sent to the Premier are endorsed by No. 1 Branch of the Liberal and Labour Federation. The most important consideration is pure and wholesome food. Defiance Butter, made only from selected cream, is pure, wholesome, and the best in the market.— Advt t