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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 18 December 1905, Page 6

Some cvi tains caught fire at the house of Mr. M'Kench, No. 20, Macdonaldcrescent, at 10.45 on Saturday night. The brigade was called from the alarmbox in the crescent, but on arrival at the scene found that the flames had been extinguished by the occupants of the house. The alarm-box, it appeared, was fctruck with undue force, and consequently was damaged. The first motor car run xinder the auspices of the Wellington Automobile Club was, held on Saturday afternoon. A start was made from the Post Office about half-past 2, and thirteen cars started, Leuded by tht- Mayor (Hon. T. TV. Bis,lop). Owing to several cars being late they were not away together, as intended. Upon arrival at the Oaks, Taita, afternoon tea was beived, und several photographs were taken at the grounds. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent. During his recent northern tour of inspection, Mi\ Donne supervised the carrying out of a series of experiments designed to induce the sleeping monster, Waimangu Geyser, to wake from his slumber, which has now lasted for o\er a year. The experiments, however, were not successful. >Mr. Donne's own opinion is that the geyser basin has been filled up with hundreds of tons of silt thrown \ip at the timo of the Tarawera eruption, and he thinks there will be no good result until the basin has been cleaned out. At Porirua on the night of the 15th inst., an altercation occurred between Harry Davis and Walter Johnston, resulting in Johnson having one of his knee-caps put out. This morning D.ivis was charged before Messrs. Henry Savage and Win. Tustin, Justices, with hay- ! ing assaulted Johnston, causing him grievous bodily harm. Sub-Inspector O'Donovan stated that subsequent inves- j tigations had shown that the informant provoked the" defendant to fight with j him, and therefore the police had no evidence to offer. The case was dismissed. The contract for the erection of the six-story brick warehouse for Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co. has been let to Messrs. Sanders Bros., the price being about £32,500. The building is to cover the block of land at the corner of Giey and Featherston streets, including the warehouse occupied by Messrs. Nathan and Co. in Featherstn-street, and the offices in Grey-street occupied by Mr. Jorgenson and others. During the building operations Messrs. Nathan and Co. will carry on their business in the new two-story brick warehouse on Lambtonquay, adjoining "The Arcadia." At £i meeting of the Council of tho New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association on Saturday night, Mr. G. F. C. Campbell m the chair, the action of the secretary in granting permission to the Lyttelton Regatta- Committee to row maiden races in clinker-boals, as defined by the Canterbury Association, was confirmed. The Otago Association nsked for a ruling whether it had power to refuse sanction to a programmo which provided a course with a. turn, whereas they required straight-away courses in all cases. II was decided to reply Mint, local associations have full power under Rulo 1 for amateur rogattas to insist on a straight course, if they think fit. A letter was read from thp Southland Association asking whether a regatta committee could legally reduce the amount of its advertised prize money- It was decided to inform the vSouthland Association that after the programme had received the sanction of the local association, and been circulated nmoupst clubs, no further conditions could bo added. "You arc young in years but o'd in sin," said the Chairman of the Bench at the Police Court on Saturday to a welldressed young, woman named Theresa Russell, who was charged with having insufficient means of support. Mr. Herdman suggested that she be convicted and ordered to come up for sentence v.-hen called, upon, in order to give her a cliance of doing better.' The police concurred in the suggestion, and ifc was adopted by the Court. F. Perma, a steward out of employment, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for having been found by night without lawful excuse in a stable owned by Henry Duff, of Brooklyn. He was also sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for having stolen a singlet, va'.ued at ss, the property of L. Rasmussen. For insobriety, Win. Fraser Dalgarno was fined 10s, in default three days' imprisonment, on each of two charges. It was stated that the defendant was arrested on Friday morning, bailed out later in the day when sober, and arrested again at night. The presiding Justices wero Messrs. H. Sanson j (Chairman) and John Smith. Sir Joseph Ward, in the course of a speech at the letter-carriers' dinner on Saturday evening, announced that Egypt within the last few days had intimated its agreea&eness to accept, , from the 15th of this month, the position of discharging letters at the rate of the nimble penny. He sincerely hoped that before very long other countries would also come within the zone of the system. One of the strongest reasons Continental countries had for not adopting this system was because they considered it would add to the commerce of the Englishspeaking race. They had the impression that, with equal facilities, the Britisher would get ahead of them, • and it was therefore desirable to keep in operation the system of charging twopence or twopence halfpenny, being under the impression it would keep ua T)ack. "But," said' Sir Joseph, "nothing in the world can keep us back." (Cheers.) The annual meeting of the City and Suburban Co-operative Building Society of Wellington will be held in the Troca- j dero this evening. The directors, refer- i ring to the first issue, state that the year's oporations havo been satisfactory, resulting in a profit of £94 4s 4d, plus cancelled shares £49 13s, in all £143 17s 4d, making tho total at credit of profit and loss account £634 12s 3d. During the year there havo bepn four approprintions by ballot — namely, three of £iOO oach, and one of £300. There wero also three appropriations by sale amounting to £1000. There is at present £2855 15s 8d at the Post Office Savings Bank and the Bank of Now .South Wales. From that amount, however, there requires to be deducted the sum of £1900, being the amount of loans to members which are not yet completed. Messrs. James Barr and" A. W. Hill are the rntiring directors. Mr. Barr, being eligible, offers himself for ro-election, but Mr. Hill does not intend to seek re-elec-tion. Referring to tho Bccond issue, the directors state that the credit at profit and loss account has been increased to £68 17s 9d, a. profit in the year's working of £43 2s Id, which is very satisfaotory. During the past year there wore two appropriations by ballot — one of £300 and one of £500." There were also two appropriations of £500 each by sale. All loan transactions havo been completed, with the exception of tho amount of £500, which is lodged in the Post Office Sa-vings Bank. Messrs. James Barr and A, YV. Hill are tho retiring directors this year. Mr. Barr, being eligible, offers himself for re-oleotion, but Mr. Hill does not intend to seek reelection. Owing to unforeseen circumstances, "Dazio" will not perform in our Toy Department until 3 p.m. on Saturday next. If you did not see him on Saturday last, come next Saturday— his performances are marvellous.— Kirkcaldie iand Stains, Ltd,— AdvU I