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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 147, 19 December 1905, Page 6

tOCAL AND GENERAL -♦ The- election of four Maori members of the House of Representatives will be held to-morrow. There are 24 candidates for the four seats, including tho retiring members, Mr. Hone Heke (Northern), Mr. Wi Pere (Eastern), Mr. Henare Kaihau (Western), and Mr. Tamo Parata (Southern). \ The decision of the Petone Borough Council to increase the dog tax from 6s to 10s has met with strong disapproval, as an outcome of which a petition bearing abont 425 signatures was presented to the Council last night by a deputation headed by Mr. Gough. After hearing the representations, tho Mayor promised the matter would be given reconsideration, "i- Later Councillor Kidd gave no- 1 tico to rescind tho resolution increasing the tax. There are to be no special volunteer trains from Wellington to Trentham on Saturdays until 20th January, but arrangements have been nitide whereby marksmen who desire to go out to the range may proceed on oidinary trains. On Boxing Day tho Wellington District Defence Rifle Clubs' Association will hold .its annual meeting at Trentham, and on New Year Day the Wellington Volunteer Rifle Association will hold its annual meeting at tho samo ,range. The Secretary of the Hospital asks us ' to acknowledge t\ith thanks the following | further donations to the Christmas funds — Mrs. Arkwrighl, £3 3s; Sargood, Son and Ewen, Ross and Glendining, Crichton and M'Kny, £2 2s each; ft. (i, Houldsworth, Fresh Food and Ice Co., Smith and Smith, J. A. Packer and Son, tho Stewart Timber Co., Baker Bros., Harcourt and Co., Bnnnaiyne and Co., D. Anderson and Son, Laery and Co., Turnbull and Co., £1 Is each 5 G. T. White, Edward Anderson, Jas. Reid, 10s 6d each ; W. H. Green, M'Ewen and Churchill, and J.R.C., 5s each. Christmas joys are doubled by the giving and receiving of gifts that are useful as well as handsome. QloVes for the ladies in suede and kid in all the newest glove shades at 4s 6d, 4s lid, 5s 6d, 5s 9d to 7s 6d per pdir, wear guaranteed. Ladies' handkerchiefs— hemstitched cambric at 2s 6d, 3s, 3s 6d to 7s 6d dozen ; Irish linen hemstitched handkerchiefSi washed ready for use, done up in fancy boxes of half-dozens at 4s lid, 5s lid, 8s 6d, 11s 6d the box. Special values in tray cloths, umbrellas, aprons, nt Kirkoaldie and SUiiu, Ltd.— Advt,,