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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 8

The vital statistics in Wellington for the month of January are as follow : — Births, 170; deaths, 61; and marriages, 77. "Carping and cavilling about little wretched things," was an explosion made, with some justification, by the Hon. T. K. iMacdonald, chairman of the Harbour Board, yesterday. For the first time in a long period there was a full attendance, and the urst result was the wasting of half an hour upon a trifle which should havo been dismissed in a minute or so. There were motions and amendments, and country roared against town. There was a babble of voices, a tremendous entanglement, till the chairman's patience was exhausted, and he very forcibly reminded the members that there was really serious business on the order paper. ' The General Labourers' Union has become affiliated to the Trades and Labour Council. Mr. F. G. Bolton, Mayor of Eastbourne, has consented to become -a candidate for a seat on the Harbour Board, as one of the representatives of the citizens of Wellington. The Government' canning expert (Mr. W. Jaques), who has just leturned to Wellington from the South, where he has been giving farmers lectures on fruit preserving for domestic requirements, leaves for Motueka on Monday, and will afterwards visit Central O'tago, Giaborno, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and the far North, as far as Hokiangat in our cable messages to-day reference is made to a person attired in peer's robes claiming to be present at the opening of Parliament as Lord de Morky. The barony of De Morley has been in abeyance since 1686, but has lately been claimed, as fifteenth baron, by Jame-s Thorne Rowe, who has assumed the additional name of De Morley. Authorities admit that such a, peerage docs exist, but the present claimant has not established his right to the succession. Doubtless, this is the claimant refeired to in the' cablegram. Mr. James Moore, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Royal Humane Society, states that ho will bo glad to look into the case of the rescue of -a drowning boy at the boat harbour, Oriental Bay, with a view to recognising the bravely of the rescuer, if particular are furnished the society. Mr. S. G. Ross, jeweller and engraver, Lambtonquay, notifies through Tho Post advertising columns that he -will open in his new premises (under Barrott's Hotel) to-morrow morning. On Thursday morning Mr. A. Lindsay will hold ti sale of boofs and shoes. Particulars aro advertised. The annual picnic of the Thorndon Dinghy Sailing Club is to be held at Somes Island on 2nd February. The Duco leaves the Ferry Wharf at 9.30 a.m — Advfr*