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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 6

Tho" potato blight is sported to fay much ill evidence in the Stratford district. The Petone Council has arranged with. Miss Wolfe to give a series of lour, cooking demonstrations in the Munici-. pal Buildings in January. Our Greytown correspondent tele-, graphs that .the new Town Hall ijhero was opened last night by the Mayor. A. concert programme, arranged by^ Dr.. Palmer, of Featherston, was provided, and the whole affair was a great success. A spcial request, as will be seen from a uotico in our advertising columns, has been made to Mr. J. Heard to repeat tho lecture he gave for the benefit of the Home of Compassion. Mr. Hoard-has ■ geneiously complied with the icquesfc, and the lecture will bo giyen in the Sydney-street Schoolroom on MpncUy next. At the request of a number of Napier citizens, Mr. H. N. Holmes, general secretary of the V.M.C.A.., has been visiting that town, with a view to ascertaining the advisability of establishing a branch of the association in Hawkes Bay. Mi-. Holmes is confident Jhat l there is plenty of scope for the work ia Napier. v , A pleasant warmth has characterised the weather to-uay t and there is reason to anticipate continuance of it for the holidays of next week. ' Gardens and lawns have been ' freshened by Wednesday's rains, and the enervating atmosphere that prevailed in tho early part of the week has been supplanted by a comparatively bracing air. The engine of the extra up-mail train, which left Wellington for Napier at 9 yesterday morning, was derailed at Hukanui. This caused the down express to be delayed there for an hour. The mail reached Wellington ' at 8.15 p.m., one hour late. The Maori was kept back till 8.55 p.m. in order that the Southern portion of the mail might be- sent S3tith. 1 Some time ago the Women's Christian Temperance Union decided to ask that tho Sunday before Christmas should ba observed by tie churches as Peace Sun- - day. The matter cam© before the council of the Wellington churches; which resolved that it should be optional withy ministers to make reference in their sermons to-morrow to the subject of\ international peace. "Failing to support his three children" was a charge brought against William A. Borrow by Elizabetli Bari row at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Defendant stated that he had paid 5s a week for each child, but he would, have nothing to do with complainant. Mr. Riddell ordered him to pay 6s a week lor each child. In extenuation of a" charge of being found on licensed premises a prohibited person pleaded before Mr. Riddell, S.M., that he had ''only gone inside to soft somebody." His Worship indicated the right course of procedure in such a contingency. ir \Vhen a prohibition order is taken out against a man, h9h 9 must know that that he has no right to be on licensed premises or in possession of liquor. Should he wish to see anybody inside, it is his duty to send some other party in, but on no account should bo enter the hotol himself." ! The old trouble of peoplo who unpack goods on the „street and leave, the nails • scattered on ,the road cropped up again yesterday at the meeting of the Society for the Protection of Animals. Mr. Seed, the society's inspector, reported that a man who employs a great many horses complains that ho has at 'present five horses resting in consequence of injuries caused by nails. He calculates his losses at £100 in a year through hoKSQS that have been lamed. Tho meeting instructed tho 'inspector to try to isheet a case home. Messrs. J. H, Bethune and Co. reporfc that at an auction sale yesterday afternoon two properties were 6old' under instructions from the Registrar of the Supremo Court. The first one was a quar-ter-acre section at Johnsonville, with six-roomed house thereon, sold to Mr. R. Davies for £600. A town property, frontages of 38ft sin to.Tinakoriroad, and 80 feet to Cottleville-terracs, with shop and dwelling- No. 2, and cottage No. A, Tinakori-road, also building . facing Cottleville-terrace thereon, was purchased by Messrs. G. and L. Cloake for £1060. Appreciation of 'Mr. R. G. Knight'a action in inducing the Wellington Education Board to accept from him 120 wall charts hearing the Ten Commandments iha3 been expressed by the Citizens' Bible in Schools' League. In a letter to Mr. Knight, the secretary of tho league states that 1 in Canada the majority of th's schools are- furnished with Ten Commandment charts, ' and tho pupils are required to repeat them once a week. In Ireland the schools are similarly provided, but it is optional wiSh committees whether the charts are used or notThe drastic statements concerning the bad milk supply of Wellington, which have beon uttered recently by leading authorities, seem to bo bearing good fruit in one direction. A number of Featherston farmers nave just opened a milk cooling station in that town. Arrangements nave been made to bring tho temperature of tho milk down to under forty degrees and keep it there until it arrives in Wellington. .This will make it less easy ;for bacteria to increase, and the milk will consequently be cleaner and purer than that dcliv- s ered in the ordinary way. It is urged that all that is necessary is the establishment of a similar station in th« city from which tho milk could be distributed as required. A supplementary Gazette issued last night notifies that free carriage on tha New Zealand railways will bo allowed for exhibits for the ' FrancoBritish Exhibition. to ba opened in London in May next, provided that each package is legibly marked ''For exhibition at tho Franco-Bri-tish Exhibition," and is consigned to the Department of Industries and Commerce, or to the Exhibition direct. All loading and unloading is to be at the exEenso of the consignors. If the- exhiits aro sold, full railway charges must be paid. Free railftge will also ho granted on the return journey if a certificate is produced from the Exhibition authorities that the exhibits have not been transferred, exchanged, or sold. Very 'complete arrangements htwb been made in connection with the annual 'Catholic picnic and sports at the Very Rev. Father Lane's fine grounds at tho Hutt on Boxing Day- The programme of sports has been very carefully drawn up, and as the money prizes aro good, there should be big fields and olose finishes. One of tho events will be a tug-of-svar, the first prize being £5. , Entries for the 100 yards and 220 yards open races, and the 220 yards Boxing Day Handicap will close at tha Central Hotel, Hutt, on Monday night. Refreshments will be obtainable on the ground, and not water will be supplied free. There will bo games and sports for children. In the evening n concert and danco will bo held in the local drill hall, and cheap railway fares in connection with the- picnic aro announced. Take the children down to Toyland, in the store of Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd. Let them enjoy tha fun and' watoh tha runaway balloons. Store will he odou' I this erAnuuG^— AdrtM