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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. » The intense interest taken in the personality of the late Premier was strikingly shoyn in connection with the portrait ,of Mr. Seddon circulated as a supplement to last evening's issue of the Post. No less than 23,000 copies of the paper were printed — 5000 more than our usual Monday circulation — but the desire for the memento bf the late Premiar was bo great that the supply was soon exhausted, and the continued demand necessitated the printing of further copies to-day. The colonial mails which left Melbourne on the 16th May, arrived in London on the morning of tho 16th inst., one day early. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court is set down for to-morrow, but owing to there being no Judge of the Supreme Court in Wellington, an adjournment until next week will be necessary. The police advise that Mr. John Wclstenholme, storekeeper, whose abBDnce from Ongaonga since Wednesday night had caused some anxiety, is at present in Wellington. . . The Auckland Trades and Labour Council has decided to have petitions printed for circulation among the unions "in its district praying Parliament to grant preference of employment to unionists. At 6.48 o'clock last night tbe Newtown Fire Brigade received a call from the Con-stuble-street alarm box, an explosion of gas having occurred in a house in Pic-tcn-avenue, owned and occupied by Mr Win. French. The flames were extinguished before the firemen could reach tho spot, but not before some damage had been done ,to one of the bedrooms. The Louse is insured with the National Company for £300, The Lower Hutt Borough Council last evening confirmed a special order levying a. rate of three-tenths of a penny in the £1 to provide security for interest on tho £14,000 gas loan. The council then adjourned until Monday next. A charge of theft of a bank draft for j £38 and a watch and chain from George Furner, in one of the city streets on Saturday night, was this morning preferred at the Magistrate's Court against a young man named Wm. Willis, On the application of Chief Detective M'Grath, Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., remanded accused until Monday next. Two first offending inebriates were each convicted and discharged. Mr. Percy Brown, of Raratonga, who has been appointed New Zealand Government Inspector of Fruit, is coming to Wellington to acquire some expert knowledge of the work he will havo to do, and generally to confer with the authorities on the question of tho betterment of the Island fruit trade. At the Opera House last evening, the stage-doorkeeper, Alfred Baldwin, was seized with a paralytic stroke, and had to be taken to the Hospital. His condition to-day is reported to be serious. Baldwin is . well-known in Wellington, and was for many years on the shore staff, of the Union Steam Ship Company. A storekeeper's assistant on board the Athenic, which arrived from the Old Country yesterday, walked in front of a tramcar in Manners-street about 10.20 last night, and came to grief. The car bumped into him, but he managed to scramble out of the "tray ■without sustaining any serious injuries. He was taken to Dr. Hislop's surgery, where he was found to be dazed, and to have received a cut on one of his shins. Subsequently he was removed to the Hospital for treatment. His name is Arthur Wm, Gntton, and be is to-day reported to be well enough to leave the institution. The question of the Government of Now Zealand undertaking the education of tho native children of the Cook and Northern Islands is being considered by tho Government (says the. Cook Islands correspondent of the Auckland Star), and a report on the matter has been prepared by Mr. Hogben, the New Zealand Inspector-General of Schools. Up to the present the education of the children has been 'undertaken by the London Missionary Society and other religious, bodies throughout the group, but only in Raratonga and Aitutaki is English laught. A grant is made by the local administration to tho Tereorora boarding school, which is under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, but so far that is the only asistanco made by the Government towards tho cost of education in these islands. The new scheme ns outlined by the InspectorGonerai is a very comprehensive but expensive one. Tho Resident Commissioner is of opinion that the same could "be groatly modified, and he is sending a report on the matter to tho Minister. Special offering of all silk ribbons, 6 inches wide, in 1 all siiades, including black, heliotrope, and purple, at 7^d, 9d, 10id, Is per yard. Paris coloured net laces in gre.tit variety, at 3£d, 64d, 9£d, 10id, 1b per yard. Black nnd coloured silks, Is 6d, Is Bd, 1$ 9d, Is lid, 2s 3d, to 7s lid per yard. Fancy flannelette blouses, Is lid each, Smart flannel blouses, 7s lid, 9s lid, 11s 6d each. Golf jerseys, 8s lid, 9s lid, 10s 6d, to 21a each.— Kirkcaldie and Sfoins, Ltd.— Advt.