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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 59, 7 September 1905, Page 4

The tender of Messrs. Murdoch and Willis at about £5000 ihas been accepted for the rection of a block of brick buildings three stories high on the site of the wooden premises in Upper Cuba-street, formerly owned and occupied by Dr. -Teare. The ground floor will be divided into shops, and the upper stories will be fitted up for lesidential purposes. The plans and specifications were prepared by Mr. James O'Dea. Professor Hugo Heerman, the wellknown violinist, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, visited the Tourist Department at Wellington this week, and endorsed his signature m the visitors' book with ihe remark:— "On my way back home; delighted of New Zealand." Particulars of the Swift Road Race are advertised in another, column. Iwenty-mne entries have been received and amongst the competitors are some well-known riders, such as Mudewav J Linn, and O. M. Gardner. The roads are now in first-class condition, and given fine weather a good race should result. The Wellington Political Reform League will hold a public meeting at the Concert Hall of the Town Hall next Monday evening, when addresses will be delivered by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Massey), Sir Wm. Rusell, Messrs. Herdman, Duthie, Aitken, and J. Allen, M's.H.R. Particulars of the subjects to be discussed are given elsewhere. A claim of £51 5s by John Hughes Brown against Andrew Sellar for materials furnished and work and labour done in connection with the erection of the Ngatiawa bridge was this morning decided by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., in favour of the defendant, with £4 5s costs. His Worship, in the course of his judgment, said : "The evidence of the plaintiff was of' such an unsatisfactory and shuffling nature that I am unable to discover that anything is due to him." Mr. Izard appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Morisonfor the defendant. The duty of employers in regard to indenturing apprentices was made the subject of a warniy; by Mr. Justice Chapman in inflicting penalties against J. M'Kechnie andß. Dick at the Arbitration Court at Invorcargill the other day. Ho said the Court was getting tired of these breaches. It was not their duty to be always lecturing employers, and if these things^went on much longer, throwing an inordinate amount of work on the inspecI tors, they would have to bring employers to a sense of their duty by more severe penalties. Many employers had been seriously inattentive to their duty, and had set the award at naught, carelessly thinking that 'after all they would get through and no great harm would be done. At the Tourisla' Office in Wellington there are now on view several volumes of the Visitors' Register kept in connection with the New Zealand exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis). A glance through these serves to show the cosmopolitan nature of the patronage given. H. Kiaemel, of 2841, Montgomery- street, St. Louis, adds to his signature the comment: — "I think the New Zealand Agricultural Exhibit is the best display in -the building." J. F. Ash-•n-ood, of Sydney, Australia, speaks of the exhibit as a very fine one, and James C. Towns, of Melbourne, Australia, remarks that it is very creditable. The superlative note is attained by Arnold S. Hatch, of Albany, New York, who votes the display "supernaturally sublime." Lillian Marshall, of London, says that the exhibits aie "most excellent indeed," and one of the Japanese Commissioners, Issa Tanimura, of Tokio, req«''f<ts that catalogues of the New Zealand exliibit be mailed to Japan. Mrs. Victoria G. Courliug Whitney, of St. Louis, gallantly wrote that the exhibit and tho%tiendant were both perfectly splendid. At a meeting of the North Canterbury Education Bortrd yesterday an enquiry V'as received from a pirent whether his daughter would be received into any of the Board's schools on the understanding that she was not to receive uny corporal punishment. The Board's solicitors advised that there was no room to doubt the power of a schoolmaster to include corporal punishment as part of the discipline of a school, or that the law would not interfere with him in the exercise of such power, unless it were proved that he had exercised it unreasonably. In cases where a master was warned beforehand that a child was of hiclily neVvous or delicate constitution, and th-it corporal punishment might possibly affect its general health, greater responsibility was cast upon him of seeing that any punishment inflicted was reasonable and proper. The principles laid down in the letter were approved by the Board. An important transaction in city property lias just taken place, a piivate Mndicate having purchased from Mr. E. C. Peers, for the sum of £27,500, the, handsome brick building of five stories ami a basement, to be known as the Hotel Arcadia, now *in course of erection at the comer of Lambton-quny and Stout-street, closa to the Drillshed. The new owners aiu to take' possession when the building is completed by Messrs. Ilowie and Matthews, according to Mr. Btnnie's plans, in November. The pru- v i mise"s st-ind on a section with a frontage of 78ft, and an irregular extreme depth of 127 ft, and the price realised is at tlie rate of £160 per foot for the land and £15 000 for the building. The sale was effected jointly by Messrs. Parata, I MoD'att and Co. and Mr. F. Loudon. A great deal of interest was taken in a civil case partly heard at the Hutt Court yesterday, by reason of the fact that the plaintiff is a member of the Hutt Borough Council, and was. a.leged ! to have committed a breach of this borough bylaws in the work which was the : bubject mutter of the litigation. G. T. Croft sought to recover from F. R. Bubt the sum of £74 13s (of -which de- [ fendunt had paid £60) for work done, including the construction of a . stable and mauuie bin. The latter, defendant contended, was in direct contravention of the borough bylaws. The ex-Building Inspector (Mr. Miifidd) stated that he hud refused the application for a building permit when it was applied for, and only issued it when ordered to do so by the Council. Plaintiff stated thai Bust wanted him to make a choup job, and had seen the progress of tho work right through, and only raised any ob-. jection when payment was asked for. Plaintiff was not a^are till quite lately that there had been any breach of the bjUws iv the carrying out of the work. The Borough Engineer (Mr. Rix-Trott) said it wns his duty to see thab the manure bin was pulled down and reconstructed in accordance with Uiu bylaws, and plaintiff thereupon offered to pay half the cost of that work Mr. Lii-kie appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Wilford for defendant, 'ihe fuithcr hearing of the ca.<»e was adjourned till to-day in Wellington. In tho case of Alex Lee v. James August, claim for £34, vulue of a. draught lioise purchas-. Ed by plaintiff from defendant at a sale, 'judgment was reserved till next Thursday, at Wellington. Feeling Better To-day.— Those s people who began taking Steams' Wins Si ood Liver Oil for a bad cough and goneinl bad health la«l week, are feeling bettor to-day. Don't you wish you did? Worth More than it Ucets.— Meilicmo i 6 cheap when it does people good, no matter what it costs. Stoarns' Wine of Cod Liver Oil doesn't cost .much and helps every one that takes it. Stops mat couching. — Advt/