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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 15, 18 July 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AjSKD GENERAL. Disorders in Russia multiply and repression by the Government grows stronger and wider each succeeding day. It is the same dreadful' tale of riot, rebellion, strikes, brutal and indiscriminate murder, fire and rapine, that waxes stronger until the hour shall strike for the revolution, or the end of the Romanoffs and their devilish instruments. In Manchuria torrential rains have for the time put an end to all major operations in the field. The Governor and Lady Plunket have issued between 400 and 500 invitations for a ball at Government Hous - on Thursday night. The colonial mails which left Melbourne on the 14th of June per R M.S. Britannia, via. Brindisi, arrived in London on the morning of tho ?6th hist., due date. In the course of an address at Newtown last night, the Premier, i l remarking on the forgelfulness of the people in respect to public men, mentioned tHat recently not one child in the whole of a third standard could toll who S'r George Grey was. A collision occurred in Man; ers-street about 5.20 last evening, between an electric tram and a lorry owned by the Colonial Carrying Company. The lorry had been drawn in close to f lio kerb, but the horse took fright and becked into the car — a double-decker. Both lorry and horse were knocked over, tho shafts of the vehicle having to be sawn off before the animal could be extricated. A tender for the erection, of a new warehouse for the firm of P. Hayman and Co. has been lot ut a price of about £20,000. The building will be of six stories, and its height will be 102 ft from pavement to parapet, which is ten feet higher than tho King's Chambers, Wil-lis-street. It is to be completed in May of next year. In his address at the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations' Conference today, the President-elect remarked that while steam cultivation of the soil had not made great progress, yet it was possible that the next quarter of a century might sse a complete revolution through the motor. At tha same time, however, in his old-fashioned view, the horse was still, and always would be, worthy of a place in the farm life of the colony. The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Wellington Working Men's Club was. held last night, the President (Mr. W. C. Noot) in the chair. The report and bal-ance-sheet, which were considered satisfactory, were adopted. Regret vi« expressed at the deaths of Messrs. Poynler, K. Scott, Newton, and Pennoyc, during tho past six months. A ballot for the election, of office-bearers will bo held tomorrow. Wo hwo been afforded an opportunity by Mr. James MacMahon of viewing tho pirns of the icheirte of sea-side amttpements to be provided for Island Bay on tho lines of similar resorts in the Old Country and America. In view of the early extension of the tramway to the Bay, and its daily increasing importance, tho popularity of that resort should be largely enhanced. The project is s<iid to be in the hands of an influential syndicate, and particulars of operations will shortly be made public. Buy your furnishings direct fiom the maker. 11. Fielder and Co. are. manufacturers, and the cheapest house in town. Writo for free catalogues.— -Advt.