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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 39, 15 August 1905, Page 6

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AUOKIASD, 15Hl August. S»iled— Yjctorin, for Smitliein pnrts. Passcngprs for Wellington — Misses Short and Little Mrsrlnmes Irving, Little, and Wells, Messrs. Little and Wrlls. NEW PLYMOUTH, 15th August. Sailed— Takapuna dion!i), for Wellington. DrNFDIN, 15th AURUEt. Sailed— Jfokoia, for Northern poits. PnssenKew for Wellington— Mrsriflin&s ITolton, Hunt, Ward, Slcssis. Scott, Hnll, lies, M'Craricen.

. During last month the Labour Department assisted 208 married and 346 single men in getting employment.

To-day the Hon. Mtihuta made his first appearance in the Legislative Council this session.

Mr. R. B. Young, touring represent^-; live for Mr. M. B. Curtis' American Novelty Company, ai rived from Auckland to-day to make the necessary arrangements for the company's opening here.

Lower Hutt Borough Councillor Yerex, who is a part proprietor of the Hutt and e^one Chronicle, recently published in that paper something which transp' l at a committee meeting of the Council from which the press was excluded. Last night the Council decided that Councillor Yerex had been guilty of contempt of the Council's standing orders, and Councillor Yerex, who was i>resent, was formally censured by the Mayor, Mr. T. W. M'Donald. Councillor Yerex said he had not published all the proceedings in committee, but only a part the publication of which' \i ou'd do no harm, and which he felt the interests of his "larger constituency" demanded. The motion of censure was passed without dissent.

A villa clofco to tho Athletic Park is specially advertised for galo in another column by Messrs. W. H. Morrah and Co.

Tho Petono Al Hairdressiug and Billiard Saloons are the subject of an advertisement elsewhere in which Mrs. M. E. Wilson asks for a continuance of the liberal support accoidcd' her late husband.

Messrs. Levien, Shallcrass and Co. havo boon instructed by Mr. Darcy Ford to continue tho sale- of drapery at their looms, Willis-struet, on Thursday next.

Tho Wellington Auctioneering Company ndvei'tfco particulars of a sale of household furnituro and effects, nt 22, Alpha-street, off Cambridge-terrace, on Friday next, at 2 p.m. Messrs. J. H. Bethuno and Co.'s sale of. a consignment of books from England will bo resumed at their auction looms, Fea-therston-strcot, to-morrow afternoon, at 1 o'clock, when tho .books from lot 261 to tho cud of the catalogue will be Eold.

Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co. sell at their rooms, to-morrow, at 1.30 o'clock, household furnituro and effects, contents of bix rooms, removed for convenience of Bale, in addition to which is a quantity of new and second-hand furniture to bo boIcT on account of oilier vendors; also 50 dozen glass tumblers, nbßolutely without reserve. Full details of tho above sales appear in tho auction column.