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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1906, Page 6

Regulations under the Scaffolding Inspection Act are gazetted. The small Enropean grey owl and the Paradise duck have been added to the list of protected birds. The diseases known as milk fevet, puerperal fever, sapraemia, acute sep- I cis, and septicaemia, are declared to be ' infectious diseases under the Public Health Act The Corporation pffices will be closed from noon to-morrow until Thursday, the 3rd prox Matters of urgency will be attended to by an emergency staff. T k? holidays at the municipal libraries of Wellington (Central, Newtown, and Brooklyn) will be Christmas, Boxing, and New year's Days. At yesterday's prize distribution at the Terrace School, the chairman pie sented to the winners of the senior championship (tennis) the handsome cup g'ven by tfr. F. Grady, Willis-street -This cup will be held by the school until December, 1907, when the next contest takes place. The winners, whose names recently appeared, each received a medal suitably inscribed. The Garrison Band will give a performance at Newtovro Park- on Sunday afternoon. The programme will include the test selection "I Lombardi" (Verdi), which is to be played at the Exhibition Band Contest. A collection will be made in aid of the fund to send the band to the contest. The offer' received by the/ New Zealand Exhibition authorities in reference to a visit of a. team of American university Rugby players to New Zealand has been considered by the New Zealand Union, and ths outgoing San Francisco mail carries an offer of a substantial guarantee from the New Zealand Union towards the expenses of such a visit, and a suggestion for a 6eries of ten matches throughout the colony between Bth April and 10th May, or preferably a. month later. The union has informed the Americans that if their team is equal to the various provincial teams of the colony there is no doubt that the tour will be a financial success, and the visitors will in that event be recouped the whole of theirf outlay. A New Zealand representative team visits Australia next season, leaving New Zealand probably in, July, go it would be necessary for the visitors to have concluded their matches before the end of July. The Labourers' Union of Nelson has lost its employment boojj, which was kept at the local office- of tha Labour Department. The union suspects that the book was stolen, and in a letter to the Wellington Trades Council conveying this allegation, states further that the book was to have played an all-important part as evidence in several breach of award actions- instituted by the union. What shall we do without that book? was the anxious question put by the union to the council The latter body is advising the union to proceed with its actions, inform the Arbitration Conil why the book Could not be produced, an<H £us£c the Minuter of Labour for safer and better nccommoHation for employment books The annual meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was held in the rooms yesterday afternoon, when there was a fair attendance. The usual business of the union was gone into- and the secretary's and treasurer's reports and balance-sheets were submitted. Reports fr\>m superintendents of departments were also vead. The Bum o^/£6 was voted toward the temperance bay at Christchurch Exhibition. The officers for 1907 were' elected as follows :— President, Mrs. Boiallj treasurer, Miss Wilkinson; secretary, Miss Kelly. The meeting then adjourned until ' February, 1907. While he was in the North recently, Mr. T. _E. Donne visited some underground caves about twenty mile? from Rotorua, towards the East Coast. It is supposed that these excavations were made by old^ime Maoris, "escapees from Hongi's massacres or something of that sort, says Mr. Donne. He fdund ten of these caverns, which" were cut out of soft rock, evidently by Maori chisels, for the walls were all scored with chisel marks of various sizes. The largest of these ancient habitations is about 12ft long and Bft wide. Only one relic of tho old dwellers, a stone lamp, was found. The caves aTe interesting ethnologically, state* Mr. Ponoo, but are of no great value from the general tourist ''point of view. They are too far way from Rotorua, and the way to them is rather arduous. A_ deserter from the Niwaru named Daniel Sullivan was tp-day ordered by Dr. M'Arthur, 6.M., to lx> returned to the vessel. John M'Gee, on a charge of having stolen a watch and chain, etc., j valued at £5, the property of Alfred Ernest Ellwood, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Accused was a seaman on board the Niwaru, and the informant was a passenger. Harry Hall was fined 40s, in default" seyen days' imprisonment for having stolen a Panama hat, valued at 32s 6d, the property of Hill and Sgns. For insobriety John M'Kie was fined 40s, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, and three first-offenders ■\verq each fined 10s, in default forty weight hours' imprisonment. Three men named Geo, Stafford, James M'Carthy, and Alfred Burnicle, alias Pearce, were charged with having been found by night on the premises of the corporation in Jervoisquay, without lawful excuso. Stafford was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, M'Cartby to fourteen days.', and Buroicle to one month's imprisonment. A member of tho party which has been searching for tha Maori outlaw Matenga, in the wilds of Poverty Bay, writes to a friend in Wellington that for the present tho search has been abandoned. "Twenty weeka of solid battling through the bush," he adds, "has iuat about settled us. Just im»gino sleeping wherever you happen to jo when night conies, living on tinned beef and biscuit, and never lighting a firo in tho daytime, and you c&u guess wo have had a pretty rough time. For tho last fouf weeks wo have been working a river which necessitated wading all d&y long — not ono of your garden party creeks, but a river running like a mill-raco, and in places up to your waist. Tho first part of the trip there was either snpw or rain, and sometimes both, every day. Wo had snow on the 11th Dccembor, which is a record for even this place." During the enquiry yesterday afternoon in regard to tho recent firo motor engine fatality, tho usual difficulty was experienced at arriving at an idea of the speed at which tho car travelled on tbe afternoon of the aocid#at. Most of the wtlnessps differed In their opinions, the estimates ranging from twentyfive miles an hour down to eight miles, tho speed nt which the driver of the car swore he negotiated the corner. Tho necessity for properly regulating motor traffic in this city Jwving been emphasised by Mr. Myers, representing [ tho police, tho coroner asked oounsol it he could say from a legal point of viow whether a fire brigade had a chartered right to travel at any speed they liked whon proceeding to a fire. They knew, of course, that in London, for instance, all traffic had to givo way to the brigade. Mr. Myers said emphatically they certainly had no such right. They must oxorcißo due care to provide for the eafety of the publio, which brought forth the rejoinder from the City Solicitor, "And there is » certain duty on the cart of tho public to look out for , the five engine at it £om,eg aloijfc"- ,