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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. o The Land and Income Assessment Bill was further considered in Commit- ! tea in the House of Representatives yesterday. The proceedings were rather protracted, and progress was reported shortly after midnight. Sir Joseph Ward made an announcement regarding defence matters and the M'Cullough case. In the Council several Bills were disposed of. An interesting discussion* took place on the Animals Protection Bill. , I A Quiet market ruled at to-day's call of tho Exchange. - Transactions took a limited range and with wide quotations, business was difficult to clinch. A good turnover could be effected in Meat shares, but sellers show not the slightest, disposition to help the market. There is no improvement lo record in Waih'is. The market is still lifeless in that particular, but the optimistic feeling with regard to Talisman has on this occasion counterbalanced the adverse tone of the market In rolation to mining interests. Consequently scrip values are hardening, &lo\vly but steaaily Sales of Talisman were registered at £2 7s 6d. Ngatiawa were transferred at Is Ad. Waihis at £8 10s and £8 12s respectively produced no business. There was a transaction in New Zealand Paper Mills at £1 33 7£d. In the miscellaneous section, New Zealand Portland Cement arc offered at £1 16s, and Taranaki Petroleum at 14s. Quotations for all other scrip are quite unaltered. The proclamation of the Dominion i"c I contained in a Gazette Extraordinary, issued yesterday. The takings of the tramcars on Do^ I minion Day amounted to £470. The record, however, is £475, for Easter MonJay last. The illuminations of the State Buildings will be repeated to-niglit. They attracted large numbers of people last night, and a Band pkyed at the Government Buildings. ""-During the week ending to-day, the Health Department received notification of the following cases in tho city :—: — Scarlet fever, 11; enteric, 1; diphtheria, 1 j tuberculosis, 1. No cases were reported from the Unit County. The battle of tho slate v. the paper pad for use in schools was waged with much vigour oy members of the Education Board yesterday. Mr. Vile stood up as a champion of the " good old slate," while Captain M'Donald broke v lane« for the pad. " Between pads and fads," said Mr. Hogg, M.H.1?., " there's not much difference, just a lettor. They'll soon be coming to such a pass in schools that a child won't be ablo lo sneeze without somo one standing by with, a disinfectant." Brilliants — a beautiful soft-finished mohair, in bright navy blue, light grey, pale heliotrope, and champagno, 48in wide, for immediate wear, at 6s 6d a yard. Kirkcaldie and Stains.— Advt t