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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 72, 22 September 1906, Page 4

Three days ago Government officers finally made the plans of the Karori tramway ready for signature by the Governor, and this last touch will be given at tho next meeting of the Executive Council, probably on Monday or Tuesday. Though technically local bodies should not commence the construction of a tramway till an authorising Order-ui-Council is issued, they sometimes take a risk. As_ a matter *of fact, tho plans of tho Karori work, after undergoing several revisions, were approved some time- ago, and consequently tho borough council Was acting safely in pushing the project forward. The caeo of Newall and another v. the Feilding Borough Council, hoard at the sittings of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, was mentioned before the Chief Justice in Chambers this morning. Tho plaintiffs, J?. Newall and John Gould, as executors of tho late Mr. Newall, sued the Borough Council for £3000 damages for his death, which It was alleged was due lo a defective culvert on the council's roads. Mr. Wilford, for the plaintiffs, agreed to a noneuit, with costs according to scale, witnesses' expenses and disbursements, and a stay of proceedings for seven days was granted to allow plaintiffs to appeal on a question of 'law. A meeting of the King's Coronation Lodge, No. 83, 1.0. G.T., was held last evening. Bro. E. Nolan, C.T., presided, there being a crowded attendance. One former member of the order was re-admitted, and two new members were initiated. After the business had been disposed of an enjoyable programme was submitted, tho contributors being Sisters Ryan, Weavers, Mill, Dr^ry, and Bros. Sharpe, Allan, Whitely, and Nolan. Appreciation was expressed by the presiding officer of the increased interest I manifested by members aud visitors. Tenders wero recently ' called for tht, Boys' Institute building, and in all ten were received, the lowest, that of Messrs. Men-elaus and fiigg^, for £1343, being accepted. It was originally expected that tho building would be erected for £900, and tho public on being appealed to very prcnerouEly subscribed th. sum of £891. Since that time, however, tho City Council hag passed a bylav which now necessitates brick in place oi timber walls. This accounts for the increased cost. It will be remembered thai the young men who are interesting them selves in this work subscribed the neces sary cum (£405) to purchase the sito in Arthur-fitreet. As it la hoped to open the building free of debt a further appeal will bo ro-ide for the balance required for building. His Excellency the Governor has consented to lay the foundation stone on Tucsdpy, 2nd October, at 3 p.m., and later on during the same week a salo of work will be held, the proceeds of which will go towards furniohipg. The boys in the Mount Cook dLrtvict ore keenly looking -forward to the completion of tho building, which it is hoped will be accomplished by next March. \ A simple but ingenious contrivance has been devised by Mr. T. Shields in connection with the proposal which he has mado to give free instruction in swimming to boys at Te Aro Baths on Wednesday afternoon^. His idea is that the City Council should instal six light swinging dc-rrirfe, made of lin galvanised iron piping with ropo loops for the pupils' arms. Se proposes that the derricks, each of which will not. rnst morn thaD 64 or £5, should be erected outside the dressing-sheds, four to be in tlio bath for men, and the remaining two in the women's and girls' bath. Each derrick is to be constructed with ball-bearings so that the iron arm w'll eisily move across the bath when the boy or girl who is being taught strikes out with arms and feet. Provision is to be m-ido by means of adjustable weights for preventing a pupil using one of the swimming machines from sinking too much. Mr. Shielda will explain his invention to tho Baths Committee of thn City Council ;n; n a few days' time. A number of prisoners were brought before Mr. Riddell, S.M., this morning, and remanded nntil next week. James Francis Maxwell and Wm. Jenkinson Sparrow wero charged on two informations with theft at Petone of a. Mock valued at 7s 6d and two pairs of boots valued at 30s, tho property of soms persons unknown, find Sparrow was further chirged with theft at Wellington of a x purso containing 5s in money, the property of Arthur Pickin. Sparrow pleaded not guilty to each charge and Maxwell guilty to the first charge, and admitted having taken one pair of boots. Both men were remanded till 'next Friday. Henry Smith was remanded to appear at Kaikoura on the same date on a charge of having wilfully damaged property valued at 30s, belonging to James Mullane. John Charles Wylie was charged with having broken a pane of glass in a railway carriage belonging to the Manawatu "Company at Longbura, and with naving stolen from the dwelling of Annie Watson, at Masterton, a silver watch and sundry articles valued at £10, the property of Herbert Pellett and others. On the application of the. police accused was remanded to appear at Masterton on Monday. For insobriety, Henry Thomas was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, Henry M'Cprmack was fined 20s, in default three days' imprisonment, and two first offenders wero each fined 10s, in default forty-oight hctfrs' imprisonment. Taking tho lowest possible estimate of the area and quality of the 'ands in the Cook Islands (says the Resident Commissioner, in his annual report), I can see nothing to prevent a fourfold increase in the cxpprts of the group ; bub this position cannot be attained by tho native inhabitants. There must be European planters who shall find remunerative work for those men who, though natives of these islands, are now working for other people at fahit-i, Maiden, or Samoa., and others who aro wasting their time in New Guinea. It 3eems to mo that the only chance that these islands have of preserving a remnant of tho native race is that they sliall be induced to adopt habits of ' industry, and this oan only be done by two means: first, by giying each man a good title lo his ancestaral lands ; and secondly, by encouraging a sufficient number of suitable Europeans to settle in the group, in order to insure employment foi; the young people, who must and will have money, and who prefer when young to work for those who will pay them daily wages. The pity is that the early missionaries did not enforce upon this people the fact that industry and godliness went hand-in-hand. During the first sixty years of their residence in dicsa ishnds fclieir influence was very' great, and at any tiasu during that period they might have called upon the people let p'.ant the wholo of the coral-sand zone of the Elands with coconuts. Had they done so the work would have been done within two years, and the present generations would have been wealthy. ■Mr. tobert rlogg will deliver an address on Sunday evening, at 7.45, in His Majesty's The;ttre, tho subject bcinjj, " Labour's Broken Crutches." This address is the third of a series of addresses on "Trades Cuioii fallacies,' and Air. Hogg will deal with the clause giving permits to incompetents and the question of preference to unionists. A musical programme is promised. The Rev, W. Strange, missionary on his way to South America, will conduct semeb at Webb-street Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow morning. The annual meeting of the Midland Cricket Club will be held at Qodbej.-'s Boom*, Guba-Bteeetj, oh Taefidny next.