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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1907, Page 6

LOCAL AND GEN EII AL. » During tho quarter which ended- on 3ist December last, therp were 22 bankruptcies in the Wellington district, in addition to 12 which were dealt with by tho Wellington office, making a total of 34 for tho provincial district. A tutalof 31, of which soven were dealt with in Wellington, was recordod in tho corresponding quarter of the previous year. The total assets realised during tho December quarter of last yoar amounted to £4920, while the dividends paid wore £3192. The figures for tho corresponding quarter of 1905 being £4380 and £2720. A curious set of circumstances was revealed in connection! with tho deceases of an elderly settler near Wellington reconlly. When his end was near ho diow on a piece of paper a plan of his pioperty (a small holding near the sea) and marked the place where his money was located. Digging at the spot marked on the plan the searchers discoverod a tin containing thirteen hundred sovereigns, but they aro still searching for a further Ibgacy of £200, which ia supposed to havo been buried somewhere on tho section. "Tho volume of imports continues to i oxhibit substantial expansion, but tho official roturns published as to this j branch of tvnda fail to givo tho infoimation which your council thinks tho trading community is ontitled to oxpect. r lho only particulars given are contained in tho annual volume of statistics which appears about six months after the close of each year. In the opinion of your council, 6omo de- ! tails of tho classes of goods impoitcd Should be given with the quarterly Gazette returns, as is done in the case of exports." — Extract from tho annual roport of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce In connection with the Feildlng Agricultural show to-morrow and on Wednesday holiday excursion tickets will bo issued on the Wellington-Manawatu railway. Building operations are proceeding npace in connection with tho erection of tho new Congregational Church in Con-stable-iitreot, Newtown. Mr. F. Drew is the buildor. Tho foundation stonelaying ceremony is not to take place until tho 20th inst., when advantage is to be taken of tho passing through o' many of tho delegates from the churches of thfr Noith who aTe attending tho annual meeting of the Congregational Union, which opens at Dunedin on tho 7th in/it. Mr. A. Lindsay, of Wellington, will perform the ceremony of laying tho stone. A two-manual pino organ ifi being secured for the new church from Kngland, and is expected to arrive in | timo tor the oponhig of tho buUdiiijj. Just nrrived — a splendid assortment of embroideries and headings, off which we shall allow a discount of 3s in the £ during our gr^at sale.— Kirkcaldie and Stainc, Ltd.— Advt.