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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. ♦ Excavation work in connection with the wood-paving of Lambton-quay was finished yesterday, and a large number ,of the men were discharged. The completion of the wood-paving operations in tho city is now well in sight, and 'it is expected that if fine weather continues the work will be finished within two or three weeks. Some 30,000 squaw yards of paving was done by the coat tractors, and about 70,000 square yards by the Corporation, under the directioa of Mr. Hall and the supervision of the City Engineer, only about 3000 or 4000 'yards remaining to be done. Despito many drawbacks, good progress ha* been made with this work. At times the various gangs employed aggregated 300 men, but the number has now beea reduced to from 70 to SO men. Given fine weather, this year's Ho* pital Sunday, which in to be observed tomorrow week, should be as successful financially as its predecessors. This year the funds raised are to go to the Hospital, and will not, as previously, be snared with j other institutions. Collection-boxes liave already been placed in the city hotels. A nurse residing in Majoribanks-stree* had a trying experience last night. She alighted from a tram about 11.30 at the Courlenay-pluce station, and proceeded towards her home. A man followed, and in a lonely spot seized her. She screamed loudly, and soon attracted several persons to her assistance. The assailant, seeing that the odds were against him, dashed off down the street. He was pur. sued by Captain Post, of the Tutanekai, overtaken, and knocked down with a stick. A young man named Robert Burke was arrested in connection with the affair and this morning appeared at the Police Court to answer a charge of having committed an aggravated assault upon the lndy in question. On the application of Sub-Inspector O'Donovan accused was remanded until the 2nd December. A meeting of local chemists was held last night, at which it was decided to seek an interview with the Chief Health Officer for the colony with respect to the operation of the new regulations relating to the publication of the formula of patent medicines. The -chemists desire to be informed as to the manner in which the regulations are likely to b« interpreted, with a view to future action if necessary. The police received a message from Mertinborough to-day stating that a single man named Charles Terry was drowned last evening whilst bathing in the Ruamahungß. River at the KahautaraBridge. ili\ James Bourke, of Kilbirnie, has given a large section in that suburb as a sits for a Roman Catholic Church. The banks throughout the Colony will be closed next Wednesday, St. Andrew's Day. Tho destructive proclivities of some. youths at Brooklyn are causing the Corporation some trouble. A number of lamps provided to act as a protection aguinst bho danger of pedestrians stumbling over road works have been broken. An example is to be made of the first offender who ia caught. The Otago University Council has decided to ask the Agent-General to select a Professor of Physiology, and has also decided to proceed with the erection of a, Physiological School and a Veterinary College at a cost of £3600. Following on the increase in rates on Post Office Savings Bank deposits, the building and investment societies have increased their rates- by half per cent, making their rate 4J per cent, on twelve months' deposits. The answer work of the recent series of University of New Zealand Examinations for degrees, honours, scholarships, etc^ was forwarded to England by the Tongariro on Thursday last in fifty-seven parcels, weighing in the aggregate between four and five hundredweight. The cabled results may be expected about 20th February. At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Dr. A. M' Arthur, S.M., Albftn Vincent Knapp was fined ss, with 7s costs; for having signed an unstamped receipt for £10 liable to duty, from Messrs. Brandon, Hislop, and Johnston, solicitors. Mr. Hislop appeared for the defendant, entered a plea of guilty, and explained that the omission of the stamp was purely an oversight. The annual conference of the New Zealand Employers' Federation is to be held in Wellington on Wednesday and Thursday next. Delegates arc expected from various Employers' Associations in different parts of the colony. , The agenda includes consideration of the operation of the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, and the new Shops and Offices Act, in its bearing on office and shop assistants. Attention will also be given to the question of the constitution of the Employers' Federation. Reports of the year'a work will be presented; and officers for next year will be elected. The Submarine miners- commenced their fourth annual camp of instruction at Shelly Bay last evening. The pavade was under the command of liieut. R. Price, and there were also present Lieut. C. W. Palmer and 65 non-commissioned officers and men. On arrival at Shelly Bay the men had tea, and soon afterwards made themselves comfortable for the night. The reveille was sounded at 4.30 o'clock this morning, and all the various equads were speedily at work. The camp will continue for sixteen days. Dr. Valintine is still at Kaponga in connection with the recent outbreak of enteric fever in that township. The epidemic is abating, and the local body concerned is being asked • to take the necessary steps to prevent its recurrence. The issue of tickets for the concert to be given on Wednesday, the 7tli pros., in connection with the opening of the Town Hall, was exhausted this morning. Fifteen hundred tickets, covering tho admission of three thousand people, were issued during the three days during which applications were received, and applications were still being received when tb* supply was exhausted. It has been decided to open the doors for the evening ceremony at 7.15 p.m., instead of at 7.45 o'clock, as notified on the tickets. The Public Health Department reports the following infectious disease cases as having occurred in the city for the week ending to-day :— Scarlet fever 3, enteric fever 1, diphtheria 4; total 8. There are. no cases in the Hurt County. "Ex-Councillor" writes entering a protest against the allotment of the penny sections on the tramways being left to the discretion of the City JElectrical Engineer. The public, he says, wants the Cuba-street section to commence at Kent-terrace, which would save a great amount of inconvenience. Another tramway complaint comes from "Waiting," who, travelling to Newtown Park last Sunday , afternoon, found that he and the many others compelled to wait some time for a car, owing to the rush for seats, were unable to rest in the old-time wadtin^-shed, which had been taken for other purposes. A shelter and a resting place in this position are, our correspondent thinks, very necessary, especially m the summer months. Mrs. Muellers' pupils are reminded in another column of their practice. In the special space on page 7 re. served by Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., shoe buyers will be interested in the savings to bo made all- next w«ek.«- Advt,