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

The Excelsioi Lodge of Druids held its | fortnightly meeting in the Druids' Hall last evening. Bro. A. Brown, A.D., presided over a large attendance of members. It was decided to give the lodge delegate a free hand at the special meeting of the Grand Lodge. Four new members were initiated, and twelve candidates proposed. The Wellington City Solicitor wrote to the Petone Borough Council last evening asking for immediate payment of £1071 due to the Wellington Council as Petone's share of the Hutt-road work. If the money was not paid proceedings would be taken to recover the same. The letter pointed out that the Wellington Council was paying 5 per cent, interest on the money. The Mayor stated that tha delay arose through a seeming mistake in the carrying out of the formalities necessary to the raising of the loan required. The Premier at Newtown last night lamented the loss of land at the Hutt on which in past years the Government had set its desires. The practice of dividing the land amongst uncles and aunts and cousins had prevented the Government from taking the land under the compulsory acquisition powers conferred by law in respect to holdings over fifty acres in extent. And it was a peculiar thing that whenever the Government wanted to buy in the open market the prices went up with a rush. (Laughter.) But the Government had acquired land there, he was pleased to say, and it would, he hoped, shortly be put to a very beneficial use. (Particulars of % a scheme to erect worlanen's cottages, which the Premier went into at this stage, are recorded in another column.) Incidentally Mr. Seddon referred to the mistake that had been made in allotting too large an area of land, to the workmen's homes established at Epuni, where the greatly increased land values that had lately accrued (from £90 per acre to £500) had resulted in the holders of those lands being very severely taxed. The lesson of that was that in future suoh holdings would be made much smaller — a quarter acre, and in some cases an eighth of an acre. It is understood that at its meeting to-night the Miramar Borough Council will have before it an offer from the Messrs. Crawford to contribute a substantial sum. in cash if the borough will itself undertake the construction of an electric tramway between the city boundary and Seatoun, as was originally proposed. There is reason to believe that more than one Councillor will urge that the offer should be accepted provided the other large landowners will follow the example of the Messrs. Crawford. At its meeting last week the Mayor's proposal to allow a syndicate to construct the line and take over the ferry service was adopted, and ifc was decided to place the. scheme before the ratepayers at an early date. The offer made by Messrs. Crawford Brothers has now placed a new complexion on the matter. The committee of the Wellington Boxing Association met last - night, "and discussed matters in connection with tine competitions to be held in the Theatre Royal on Thursday asnd Friday. An offer of a 'guinea from Mr. J. H. Owen, was accepted with thanks. It was decided to devote any surplus over £4 4s from VicePresidents' contributions to raising to £4 the value of the bantam-weight trophy. 'Five £4 4s trophies will be ordered at once from Mr. G. T. White. The Chairman announced the following entries : — Five feather-weights, five light-weights, four middle-weights, four heavy-weigths, and two bantams. 'There will be nineteen heats of 57 bouts in the contest. Tha first drawings were made as follows : — Feather- weights : Sanderson (Auckland) v. Hill; Gosling y. Thomas; Crumpton a bye. Light-weights: Foss (Feilding) v. Bodley; Maries (New Plymouth) v. Williams ; Sanderson a bye. Middle-weights : M'Corley v. Lettington ; Mihoney v. Hardy. Heavy-weights: Maloney v. Barker; Shaw v. Lane. Bantams : Tobin v. Tracey'. It was decided to arrange for the appearance of Gray,' of Australia (bant.im) and Hickey, of Wellington (lightweight), for Thursday evening. The Secretary announced that there had been heavy bookings. It is intended to ask the Hon. J. Rigg, M.L.C., and Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R. , to deliver addresses at the meeting. The executive of th« Bible-in-schools Referendum League met yesterday afternoon. A manifesto dealing especially with the pamphlet published by the State Schools Defence League was, after careful consideration, adopted, and will presently be"" published and circulated^ Ib was resolved to send a copy to all publio school teachers and to all ministers of religion in the colony. It was reported that a large number of copies of the petition in favour of a referendum had \ been p- --ned fully signed, and that, it 1 was extent that by the end of the t month the executive would be in a position to present to Parliament a very large number of petitions from every part of the colony. The arrangements for the Town Hall demonstration on Thursday, i 3rd August, were carried forward a stage. It was intimated that Mr. Rowley, choirmaster of St Andrew's Church, had undertaken tho formation of a choir, and that Miss Caldow, the Dunsdin contralto, would sing a solo Arrangements are being made to secure tho services of another soloist. Tho words of the hymn to be used on the occasion nil', be printed and distributed among the audience. The selection of speakers is .not yet complete. The Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals met yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. S. Jameson in the chair. The Inspector (Mr. Williams) reported that he had taken action in a number of cases. He had laid six cases of overloading before Mr. Doyle, the Corporation Inspector, who had promised to proceed against the drivers. Mr. Williams mentioned that a, number of drivers were in sympathy with the Society in its efforts to stop the overloading of vehicles used for hill work. It was reported that the following subscriptions had been re ceived since last meeting : Messrs J. S. Handysido and Mr. Chapman, £1 Is each ; Mr. Justice Cooper, Hon. T. W. Hislop, Messrs. C. H. Dickerson, and the New Zealand Express Company, 10s 6d each; "Sunday," 7s 6d; Mrs. Tasker, Messrs. L. Tripp, J. Cotton, C. M, Banks, L. W. Ludwig, W. Hildreth, Rouse, Black and Sor., F. and W. Ferkins, W. and J. Staples, and Jones and Co. , 5s each ; Mrs. M'Dowell, 4s; Griffith and Jones, 3s; Misses silva and Rons Marten, Mesdames H. Williams, McLean, Ames, F. Neill, Rev. J. North, Misses Radford, Home, Beddingfield, 0. V. Ellis, W. Inglis, D. Everest, Webley, J. Strauchon, Moaller, W. 'Ramsay, C. Hawk, P. Castles, W. T. Grundy, Andrews and Manthel, C. Watson, Lulas, Hayes, and "Two Friends," 2s 6d each ; total £10 13s 6d. An Assistant-Inspector of Native Schools and a Ma-ti-en for the School for Deaf Mutes are advertised for. A general meeting of members of the State Schools Defence League will be held in tho Druids' Hall next Thursday evening. Mr. P. J. O'R-egan will continue his series of political economy lectures tomorrow evening, when he will deal with "tho canons of taxation." Tho lecture will be given 'n tho Trades Hall, and will commence at 8 o'clock. The members of the Old Wellington Navals' Association are invited by adver•tieement to attend the funeral to-morrow of their late comrade, Mr. J. Tinney.