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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 28, 2 February 1907, Page 4

L6OAL AND GENERAL. * The State schools in the Wellington district will be re-opened on Monday next. The attendance at tho Exhibition for the week ending last /light totalled 67,646, making the aggregate to date 1,061,464. The steamers Aiverina, Te Anau, and Rotomahana, which arrived from Lyttelion this morning, brought 790 passengers up from the southern port. I Strict instructions have been issued (says the Wairarapa Daily Times) that tho erection of the trunk telephone line between Masterton and Wellington must be finished within three or four weeks. The Mayor informed Councillor Cohen, at last night's meeting of the City Council, that lie -would take steps to ensure the running of Aro-street tramcars to meet the mail trains at Manawatu railway station. The General Assembly Library has been visited by a Uiga number of people late- I ly, chiefly visitors from other parts. The Hon. Mt. MnTray, of the South Australian Legislature, and Mr. Weedon, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, were shown over the library, and spoke highly of the arrangements and the present condition of things. A special meeting of the Municipal Labour Representation Committee, set tip by the Trades and Labour Council on the suggestion of the Independent Political Labour League, is to be held next week, when the prospects of successfully running a combined labour ticket will be further discussed. According to telegrams received from Christchurch, Timaru, and Ashburton, extensive grass fires were raging m various parts of the Canterbury district yesterday. Between Hinds and Ealing fivo thousand acres of pasture land was destroyed. A bush fire also occurred near Oxford, and grass and crops were damaged at llangitata. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday next at 1 o'clock. We aro requested to remind members who have not already notified whether or not they intend to be present of the necessity of doing so forthwith to facilitate the necessary arrarigenients. The Third Wellington Battalion of Public Schdol Cadets, under Major Blirlinson, will leave Wellington for their week's camp in the Exhibition grounds on Tuesday next, instead of Wednesday. The change of day has been necessitated owing to difficulty in arranging for transport between Wellington and LytteP.to. ul all-wool fine voiles and heavy c&»lvas "voiles, in a good assortment ot shades, usually 3s od to 4s lid vdrd, How Is a yard at our Great Sale. Kirkcaldie and St4iu», Ltd.^Advt,