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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. The mining section of the Exchange displayed' a welcome return to activity tot-day. Talisman scrip was in renewed favour, being dealt in at the improved prices of £2 12s 3d and £2 12s 6d, which, makes a gam of Is and Is 3d. on tho last recorded transaction. Waihi also hardened fractionally, sales being effected at £8 6s 6d. A parcel of South KapoVa was qmtted at g£d. Buyers of Bank of JNew Zealand were again announced at £9 12s. New Zealand Drugs were wanted at £2 lls, and Westport Stockton would have been taken at the lower figure of 10s. The woes of the frugal housekeeper in Wellington appear to be interminable. Flour and bread rise, ba-con becomes a| penny dearer than last year, butter lifts from, Is to 1& 2d per lb, cheese is going up in price, and the last increase on the necessaries of life to be added to the list is milk. This will be 5d per quart in the city, instead' of 4d, on and after Saturday next. Injhe Hutt Valley it will be raised from. 3d 1 per quart to 4d, or 7d per half-gallon. The rise is attributed to dry weather, and consequent shortness of feed and supply. The poll of the Cromwell ratepayers taken last week to raiae a loan oi £300 '■ to bring in a further water supply waa carried almost unanimously, 109 voting for it and only three- against. The mails which left Wellington by the Moeraki on the 20th December, and connected at Sydney with the Brindisi mails per R.M.S. India, arived in London on the night of the 24th Januaryone day early. The Returning Officer of the Hutt River Board announces that two nominations— those of Thomas A. Peterkin and Hubert Sladdcn— have been received for the vacant seat on the board. The election will take place on Tuesday next. J General orders issued this nionth set out in tabulated form the scale of pay and allowances for the Hew Zealand' Permanent Staff and Permanent Forca authorised by Parliament during last session. These have already Been published in The Post. The seven firemen belonging to "the steamer Papanui who war© arrested at Lyttelton on Monday on a charge ,of stealing front cases in 11 the steamer's hold a quantity of goods valued at over £60 appeared before the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday, and were remanded till sth February. l The New Zealand Acetylene Gas Company has secured the contract to instal an acetylene gas supply in the. town of Geraldine. A poll of tho ratepayer« was taken on Monday on a proposal to borrow* £2000 for the purpose, and the affirmative was carried. Under ordinary circumstances the town should be illuminated in a month or six weeks. A court of enquiry consisting of Col. G. F. C. Campbell (president) and Major Robinson, R.E. and Capt. Lascelles, sat at the Alexandra. Barracks to-day to consider the circumstances surrounding the recent explosion at Mahanga .Bay, by which Thomas Ha-!1, camptcookj lost, his life. The enquiry was held in camera. It is perhaps not generally known tbafi the kea is a protected bird) in the Mount Cook region, but tho ken, is apparently aware of it (says the Chrifctchurch Press). Just at present he is a very troublesome visitor to the huts, which he enters, and then h© claws at everything within reach. But for the fact that the laiv has taken him under its wing a small fortune couldi be made in a short space of time' in' capturing .the kea. The ordinary meeting of the trustoss of the Wellington Benevolent Society was held yesterday afternoon. Mr. D. Robertson presided^ and there were also present Messrs. F. G. Bolton, A. C. Pearce, J. Smith, Mrs. Darvall, and the secretary (Mr. A. H. Troebridgo). Accounts amounting to £138 were passed for payment. There are 65 males and 32 females in the Ohiro Home. The secretary reported that every bed in th«. ho:<i3 was full. "A steady stream of desirable emigrants continues to -flow from this country to New Zealand, no fewer than 1289 i having sailed during the sis months ending 30th September," writes our London correspondent, under date 2O6bj October. "This would be the time of the year when numbers are ordinarily lowest for sailings, which would mean that the immigrants would land in New Zealand during the winter, a course which is not encouraged. All who hava sailed have had at least £25 to land with, and for the most part they are persons accustomed to a life 'on the land.* Last week >Mr. W. P. Reeves went down to the docks to witness the departure of the large number of intending settlers in New Zealand, who sailed from London by the Corinthic." Speaking at a complimentary dinner tendered to him in Aberdeen a few wseks ago, ex-Baillie Pyper, the father of the steam trawling industry of that poit, gave some interesting particulars of tho expansion of the fishing industry sine© tho introduction of steam trawlers. Twenty-fivß years ago, ho said, the population of Aberdeen was 90.000; to-day it was 175,000. There were 250 steam trawlers fishing from Aberdeen, and tUoy had on board 2SOO men. Multiply that number by fivs, and they had 12,000 of a population connected with the fishing industry. No less than £600,000 worth of fish was landed year by year at the port. Last yeax the value of flsli landed was £780,000. and they would soon reach the million. Such was the opposition offered to steam trawlers at their introduction that the effigies of Mr. and Mrs. Pyper wcro burnt. The policy and cntei prise of the ex-baillie has been fairly justified by results. Kirkcaldie and Stains, LH., h-vd a remarkably busy day with C - --wds that came for bargains. Th; .mo was greatest in the dress and fancy sections, and in tha millinery and niaatl* departments..— Advt»