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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1906, Page 7

Tho choice of the Observatory cite for the Premier's last resting-plaoe will throw the official ( time for the colony dightly out of reckoning for a while. It has been, found necessary to remove the telescope used for taking observations, and official time will now be dependent for two or three months on chronometers checked by theodolite observations. It is variously estimated that the telescope, which must be set to a meridian, can be re-erected in fr&m one to two months, and new points established for observation of the stars. To tide over the present difficulty the Surveyor-General has taken the matter in hand, and observations of stars angular distance from the zenith checked by taking stars east and west, will be made as frequently as possible until the instruments can again bo placed in position. The telescope is to bo re-erected on the site of the old forts at Kelburhe. A sitting in Bankruptcy was to have been held at Wellington this morning, but as there is no judge of the Supreme Court in Wellington at present, the Registrar (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper) ad--journed the sitting until Wednesday next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. At the miSSion service being held at Oxo Baptist Church, Vivian-street, the Rev. Lockhart Morton lost evening took for his address, "Wrongly-dressed People." The rev. gentleman stated that" he was not going to /discuss the fashion of the present day; he was not concerned about wrongly-dressed- people before men, but he was concerned about wrongly-dressed people before God. Mr. Morton took the word covers as representing dress seriatim — viz., conveniently forgetting people, openly denying people, viciously opposing righteousness, externally observing ceremony, righteously ■ living, and sincerely trying people. These were all wrongly-dressed before God. Solos were beautifully rendered by ,-Miss Morton (daughter of tho miseioner) and Mr. Pargetter. The subject to-night will be "Clear-minded People." •The third annual meeting of the Premier Savage Club was held last night, wHen a satisfactory report was presented. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted : — President, E. J. Leydon; vice-president, S. J. Moran; Management Committee, A. H. Casey, P. J. Moran, and J. J. Callaghan; hon. secretary, C. , Pfaff ; hon. treasurer, A. C. Bretherton. The objects of the club are the education of its members in impromptu speaking and the cultivation of social intercourse. A draper's assistant named James Win. Russell was to-day convicted at the Police i Court and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on a charge, of having converted to his own use fil belonging to his employer, C. Smith. For insobriety, four first" offenders were convicted and discharged, a fifth was remanded for curative treatment, and John Burke O'Brien was fined £1, in default seven days* imprisonment. John Eangford, charged with assaulting his son and using obscene language, was remanded until the 25th inst., and James Edward Rendell; alias Chas. Dix, was remanded until 27th inst. on a charge of vagrancy. The presiding Justices were Messrs. W. Hildreth and Jas. Gallagher. • The Garrison Band is requested to meed at the Government Buildings tomorrow at 1.15 p.m. It is important that members attend punctually at that ttime. The rapid increase in the number of passengers and in the amount off goods carried over the MiramaT Borough Council's wharves during the past tlsro years has resulted in the council's lease of tho .wharves becoming of considerable value. The receipts (according to the Town Clerk's report) from the wharves have been more than sufficient to pay interest on loans and cost of maintenance, even with the liberal concessions granted m • the shape of reduced wharfage on passengers. The council's lease will expire in April, 1915, and the Wellington Harbour Board will then resume gossession. This short duration of lease appears to preclude any material improvement in the wharves being undertaken' by the council on account of the considerable outlay involved. This improvement, however, being indispensable if the wharves are to cope witih the growing requirements of the traffic, the only solution lies in the Harbour Board resuming possession on equitable terms before the lease is determined by the efßuxion of tima It is understood, adds the CleTk, that no proposal for a renewal of the lease would be entertained by the Wellington Harbour Board. „-/ A splendid portrait, nicely framed to any design, is on sale at R. and E. Tingey's, Manners-street. Have one and keep the Grand Old Man's memory green. —Advt. An experienced clerk attends to our jCuetoms entries. No trouble to shippers or others. Ring up the New Zealand Express Co. Telephone 92.— Advt. On washing day use Empire. Bag Blue. It will not harm the finest fabric, and gives the clothes the colour you want. The cheapest and best blue. — Advt. Any mother takes pride in dressing' her ■little ones as prettily as possible. Well, it's only natural; but to carry out these Ideas means spending money. There is satisfaction in money being 1 woll spent, and to realise this just come along to C. Smith's, Cuba-street. Special price induceinenti in our children's millinery department. Beautifully selected stock. All new goods. Dainty creations in silk, beaver, and wool. Splendid Opportunity to secure seasonable millinery .at clearing prices. Beaver and silk bonnets, from 2s lid ; fancy hats, silk or beaver, from 4s lid each. These hats are very epecial value. In infants' hats there are hundreds to choose from, all styles and qualities, from 2s each. Mothers, bring your children along to C. Smith, the Cash Draper, Cuba-street. — Advt. Pure-bred Black Orpington and White Leghorn cockerels are advertised for sale . by Mr. F. G. Brown, Trentham. St. John's Church choir practice will not be held this week on account of tho Premier's funeral. Messrs. Sidey, Meech and Co. draw the attention of property buyers to the salo of freehold propeity advertised by them - to tako place 10-morrow evening at 7.30. It has now been postponed till Friday evening, on account of tho funoral of tho late Premier.