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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. <3> To-day's call on 'Chango %vas responsible for trading of satisfactory volume, the muiing section furnishing* the bulk of th« transactions. Talisman scrip was in favour, and sales were recorded at £2 12b 9d, £2 13s, and £2 13s 3d, with holders naming £2 13s 6d as their idiia of values for further' parcels. Out of the £15,000 which the recently-de-clared Talisman dividend represents, about £11,000 -mil be distributed to New Zealand shareholders, who now largely preponderate. Waihis were firm, and buyers had to pay last Saturday's rate of £8 15s to secure scrip. Tairua Broken Hills were placed at 4s, a, considerable decline on the quotations of a, few months ago. In the investment section Manawatu Rails had acceptance at £2 3s tid. There were buyers of Bank of New Zealands at £9 12s 6d, Nationals £5 ss, Trust and Loan £7 7s, and Union Steam £1 11b 6d. The member for Rangitikei, Mr. A. E. Remington, is urging upon the Govern- | ment the necessity of erecting post offices at the townships of Utiku and Ohakune on the Main Trunk line. At the ordinary meeting of the Horn* for the Aged Needy yesterday, Mr. W. Allan presiding, accounts amounting to | £59 19s 8d were passed for payment. The affairs of the home were reported to be in a satisfactory condition. Mr. T. Shields has consented to attend at To Aro baths at 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoons for the purpose of instructing school childen in swimming and lifa saving. Mr. Shields will supervise the swimming for proficiency certificates. Mr. A. A. Somerville will instruct the children on Saturday afternoons. Owing to tno difficulty of obtaining labour, it is not improbable that the road engineer will be- unable to complete some of the road work in the Rangitikei district during the best seasoa ot the year for such undertakings. Tho votes placed on the estimates for the' roads have all been authorised by Cabinet. J A sale of pictures was held by - Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Com1 pany yesterday afternoon. Prices ranged from £1 10s 6d up to fifty guineas, the latter iigure being reached for a fine painting by J. Aldridge. The pictures remaining unsold are for private sale. The Premier has been approached by Mr. Hornsby, M.P., on a point connected with the amended Railway Classification Act of last session. The Act provides that every married man is to get* a minimum salary of £130 a year, i and the question. is whether this 13 to apply to both tho first and second divi. sion. Owing to the rapid increase of population a school, it is urged by Mr. Remington, M.P., i G badly needed in tho sawmilling district of Rangaiti-road, along the route of the Main Trunk ' Railway. He has brought the matter under tho notice of the Minister for , Education, who has promised to subj mit the matter to Cabinet as Boon as possible. "Anticipating a scarcity of unskilled labour," writes a correspondent, "I inserted an advertisement in last night's Post for the services of a handy man. ' or youth. Before tho first edition of ■ the paper could have been published tea I minutes, a stream of applicant? commenced an energetic campaign for engagement. And they talk about a pan* city of labour !" Next Friday all the companies forming the Wellington Division of Garrt1 son Artillery (except the Petone Navals) will go into camp at Mahanga Bay for the annual training in fort duties. The men will be trained by instructors from the permanent forces, and firing with live shell will take place from the big guns of the forts towards the end of tho sixteen days' training course. Last evening a deputation waited on the Wellington Centre of the New Zeaj land Amateur Athletic Association to urge that the certre should take action to have H. E. Kerr, the champion walker, included in tho team y to repiesent New Zealand at Hobart. It was explained that a sum of £20 had been subscribed by the citizens of Wellington to defray Kcrr's expenses. This announcement was 1 received with hearty applause and a conmiitte appointed to- deal with the matter subsequently decided to' forward , the money collected to the central body at Christchurch, with a request to in- N elude Kerr in the team. Dr. Newman, who is an ardent supporter of amateur athletics, speaking at th« meeting of the Wellington Centre of the N.Z.A.A.A., complained of the unsuitability of the Basin Reserve for ath'.etio sports. He said tho track was very uneven and it was almost impossible for athletes to get near standard times on the ground. He was convinced that had Sharpe been running on a good track last Saturday he would nave registered something very closely approaching standard time in the three mile championship. The course for the 100 yard 3 championship was the only one that could be called good. He thought the oentie should look into the matter of obtaining a more suit* able location for its sports meeting*. An interesting case engaged the attention of the Benevolent Trustees yesterday, when the Superintendent of 'the Ohiro Home asked for the endorsement of his action under the following circumstances. An old man, who, whatever he may have been in tho past, was now helpless and mentally deficient, had been sent to the Salvation Army, which declined to assist him ; then he was sent to a private boardinghouse, which would not take him in. There was only one of two alternatives to be taken. One was to let tho old man be locked up for vagrancy, and get three months' imprisonment for no other crime than poverty, or to admit him to the Home. The latter courso was taken. Tho superintendent's action was approved.' An inquest concerning the dsath ' of Martha Ann Bardsley, aged 46, who died suddenly at Crofton on- Monday ' evening, under circumstances detailed in, yesterday's Post, was held by Mr. J. Ashcroft, district coroner, after Tho Post wont to press yesterday. Evidence was given by family connections of de*-*" ceased as to har habits and tho circumstances immediately preceding hor death, while tho medical evidence of Dr. Henry, who made a post mortem examination of deceased, established that her heart and brain were in a condition that accounted for death, and made it quite apparent that had a doctor baen. in attendance before death he could bave done nothing to save deceased. Tho jury returned a verdict that doath was duo to inflammation of the bratn. At the semi-annual sale, Handsome Eiderdown Quilts, in printed sateens, nicely frilled ; double-bed size. Sale ' prices 29s 6d, 335 ; 355, 40s, 45s each. i Kukcaldie and Stains, Limited.—- Advi.