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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 134, 7 June 1906, Page 4

The Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union has set up a subcommittee to wait upon tho Mayor and bring under notice tho need for more cars to the Athletic Park for football matches. The meeting of tobacconists called for last night to consider the situation as" created by the judgment of ths Stipendiary 'Magistrate did not come off, o^ving to time being an insufficient attendance. The- silver button played for by the Hutt Ladiss' Golf Club yesterday was won by iMis. Johnstono with a, score of 104, handicap 2— 102. Mis. Van Zedlitz was next best, scoie 10.J, scratch. Excellent business was done yesterday afternoon and last night at tlio sale of work at Newtown in aid of the building fund of St. James's Young Men's Bible Class rooms. Tho takings amounted to £47 10s. Amongst the Etrong attractions of the evening were a minstrel show and a display of "waxworks," which took place in a large marquee erected on the church grounds. A variety stall was in charge of Misses Henshilwood and Urquhart. The necessity of some person making a practice of looking through the grandstand at tho Athletic Park after football matches have finished was urged at a meeting of the Wellington Rugby Union last night. A member of the committee stated that on Saturday last some members of the union noticed quite accidentally after the crowd had left that a' man, who had apparently taken a fit, was left behind. A conveyance was secured, and the man was taken to the Hospital, where, it was stated, he had since died. According to a member of tho committee, the custodian of the ground (Mr. Murphy) is iv the habit of making an inspection of the stand beforo locking up. The half-yearly meeting of the Excelsior Lodge of Druids waß held in tho Druido' Hall last evening. Bro. L. Boock presided over a large attendance of members. The balance-sheet for the half-year was received and adopted. The lodge membership has increased by an addition of 29 members, and the funds by £155 5s 9d, although the sick pay for the half-year amounted to £212 6s. Tho election of officers resulted as follows:— A.D., Bro. G. Hart; V.A., Bro. V. Clifford; Secretary, Bro. F. Jennings (re-elected) ; Treasuror, Bro. O. NeiTson (re-elected) ; A.D.B.'s, Bros. E. M'Elwain and Smythe; V.A.B.'s, Bros. .Spierling and Waterworth; M.S., Bro. H. Leppor ; 1.G., Bro. Jones ; 0.G., Bro. A. Brown ; Organist, Bro. E. J. King; J.P.A., Bro. L. Boock; Auditor, Bro. Lepper. Bro. Stevens, P.S., and 8r0..G. Stott, P.D.P., acted as scrutineers. A presentable looking girl, 14 years ] of age, was this morning convicted by Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., of tiheftof a bangle, a watch, and muff, valued at £3, belonging* to a resident at Newtown, and was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The police stated that the defendant was a companion of • the informant's daughter. She knew where the key of the informant's house was kept, and on the 30tl!i April and 18th May went into the house during the absence of the occupants and took the articles in question, selling tike watch and chain to pawnbrokers for 5s and 103 respectively. His Worship stated that if the defendant was found out at nighti after tea she was to be brought before him immediately. He would then commit her to an Industrial School, where she would bo kept unffil she was 21 years of age. His Worship furtheT directed that the defendant's mother should make restitution of 30s. Speaking at a meeting in Auckland the other day in reference to' the question of railway communication between Auckland and Gisborne, Mr. J. W. Whinray, of Gisborne, stated that tho Poverty Bay people wanted the railway extended from Gisborne to Motu as soon as possible, because there wero 900,--000,000 feet of timber on 20,000 acres of land, and that was only a small area 'of tho bush to be tapped by the railway. At 2s per 100 ft freight it would produce £910,000, which would make the railway to Motu three times over. The line would pass through the most Earfe of the colony, not only to Motu, ut right on to Opotiki and Whakatane. Last month's receipts on the 20 milc3 of railway already constructed v/c3 doublo the expenditure, which was evidence how the railway in that district would pay. • A complaint was made by a member of the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union at last night's meeting against the overcrowding" of the grandstand at Athletic Park. On a recent occasion the doorkeepers took money from people after all the seating accommodation had been filled, and these 6pectatoi« had to stand all the time. The speaker thought it was the duty of the committee to bring this matter under the notice of the Park Company. If they would not close the doors when the stand was, full, the least they could do would be, to pjaee a notice outside the stand stilting that there was only standing room. The New Zealand Lavm Tennis Association has received tho following nominations from affiliated associations, in view of a New Zealand team being picked to play against Brifjisb and Australian tennis teams about Christmastime. Four ladies will be required and six men, and bo far ten ladies and nineteen men hayo been nominated : — Wellington : Misses Nunneley, Travels, Gore,, 'and A. Ward, Messrs. H. A Parker, C. C. Cox, R. N. K. Swanston, F. Laishloy, F. M. B. Fisher, and H. M. Gore. Canterbury : Misses Nicholson and Whitehouse, Messrs. A. Wilding. Goss, Harmen, Borrows, KiveL', Quill, and Aitken. Auckland : Miss D. Udy, Mr. J. C. Peacock. Taranaki : Mis. Payne and Miss Powdrell, Messrs. C. J. Dickie, A. G. Wallace, and J. C. Nicholson. Otago : Miss F. Campbell. Messrs. R. S. Brown and O. G. White. Four or five sheep are among the employees of the Gear Meat Company at Petono. One of these animals, says the manager of the works, is worth half-a-dozen men in its special work— decoying. A reporter saw theso trappers tho otnor day. ' They were skipping about light-heartedly, glancing unconcernedly at a mob of unfortunates who were talcing their last glimpse of tho sun. In tho morning the "decoys" would lead the doomed ones to the slaughtermen's knives, and thus savo themselves from execution. Theso doceivers are cunning. They knowi when tho moment is duo for the ceasing of the assassination, and then make tracks for their own proserve. They have grown fat in the service — one of them has a fifth leg — but their deaths will probably bo violent. Occasionally a decoy goes out on strike, whether from remorse or a ilosiro for more feed it 13 not known, and the arbitrator settles tlio question with a sharp knife. ' Those who have not availed themselves of our remarkable ribbon and silk offerings aro advised that tho lots were very large and are practically intact, despite libera l selling. Lovely ribbons in every shade, sin wido, at 7id, 9d, 10id, Is yard ; silks in black and colours, Is 6d, Is Bd, Is 9d, Is lid, 2s 3d, to 7s lid yard ; net laces in exquisite designs, 6id, 74d, 9£d, lOAd, Is, to 5s lid yard ; smart flannel blouses, 5s lid, 7s lid, 9s lid 11s 6d, to 17s 6d each ; moreen underskirts, 4s 6d each. You'll find there's a decided moneyswing on every item offered. Kirkcaldio and Stains -.jXtdJ.— Adv.t,