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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1904, Page 6

_ i Sydney advises that South and West Australian business is subjeeV to delay owing to an interruption to the line. The R.M.S. Ventura, with British mails of Bth October, left San Francisco on 20th October at 2 p.m., due date. Mr. Denis Heenan, an old settler, who died at Dunedin to-day from creeping paralysis, was (telegraphs our cqrrespondent) a teacher at the Lower Hutt in 1850. Dr.' Greenwood, of the Hospital for Consumptives, New Brighton, has offered to take Miss- Gertie Campion into his institution free of charge if she will return to New Zealand. Excellent business was done at the sale of work in the Anglican Churchroom, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon and evening. A concert was held last night, items being given by Mrs. Fortune, Misses Smith (2), Furness (2), Messrs. Fenton, Furness, Smith, Fortune, and Wragge. The entertainment will be repeated this evening. 'A child named Allan Beasley, whose mother is in indigent circumstances and unable to support it, was to-day committed, on the application of the police, to the Wellington Receiving Home. Dr. A. M' Arthur, S.M., who heard the applii cation, ordered the mother to pay 4s a week towards the child's support. Messrs. Sidey, Meech and Co. advertise particulars for their usual Saturday's sale, which 'ikes place at their rooms to-mor-row, commencing at 1.30 sharp. Particulars of another big purchase of drapery and olothing appear in our Wanted columns to-night. The goods will be sold to-morrow by Messrs. Pearson and Cd., the successful tenderers. The s.s. Duchess will run special excursions to Day's Bay to-morrow morning and afternoon at the usual hours. Full timetable appears in another column.