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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1908, Page 4

. LOCAL AND GENERAL. To-day the Evening Post enters on its forty-fouith year of publication. As evidence of the progress made since the Bth of February, 1065, it may interest readers to learn that the press used for printing the initial numbers of the paper was only equal to printing 300 copies per hour, and thoy had to be folded by h&nrl. To-day J ,he machinery used in producing The Tost can priut, fold, and count in paresis, at the rate of 48,000 copies per hour. At Auckland last evening, Sir Joseph Ward alluded to the monopoly of market gardening and sale of vegetables possessed by the Chinese, who did not aa a ' rule take family responsibilities on their shoulders. In order to neutralist* this monopoly ho suggested, by way of experiment, that suitable areas of land should be set aside hear tho four chief cities for market gardens, to bo worked by prisoners. Tho valuo of the woifc done by the prisoners who were married men could be assessed, and half the amount given to their wives and families, who v/ero now often dependent on charity. The other half would go to the up-keep of the prisoners. The Prime Minister said the European gardener was almost extincD, so that little harm could be done ip that direction. , The mails which left Sydney on the 24th December, per B.M.ti.' Miowera, via Vancouver, arrived in London in the afternoon o! 6th February, eight days late. , _', , ' Mr. T. E. 1 Donne, general manager of the Departments of. Tourists and industries,- will have the superintendence of tho advertising arrangements in accordance with tho recent decision of- the Government. Details of the plans are not yet available. The annual conference of the members of tho Ironmasters' Association, to have b9en opened in Christchurch next week, will probably bo postponed until 11th March. Another heat for the Petone Rowing Club's Benibr pairs was rowed lastevening, when Bonner and Guthrie defealed Shardlow and Gallagher by two lengths. Tlie Minister for Mines has instructed Mr. F. Reed to proceed to the West ; Coast to report on the proposal to cxi tend the W.aimca water-race across the • Terema&au river. i _ i S The infectious disease case,s reported i to the Health Department during the i waoli ended to-day wero as follows: — iln the city, scarlet fever, 5 ; enteric | fever, 1 ; tuberculosis, 1. la Hufct County, ; scarlet fever, 3. ' I | The chairman of the Technical Eduj cation Board (Mr. J. P. Luke) has ] -written to tho Government suggesting that if the museum is to be placed on tlio Mount Cook site, it is desirable that the Technical School should also be placed there. Another grass fire occurred at Northland yesteiaay afternoon, 'ihe fire was endangering a number of housss, but it was extinguished by residents before the tire brigade arrived. A j chimney on fire at 159, Willis-street, j caused the brigade to bo called out agajn a littlo later. At an inquest held at Perth on th 6 body of Wtfliam Hill, veterinary suigcon, who committed suicide, it was stated that three doctors were rung up, that two refused to attend, and the third on arrival found that Hill was dead. The jury added a rider to the verdict censuring the two doctors. The recently-formed New Zealand Automobile Association will hold a conference in the Town Hall, Wellington, on the 21st instant. The Hon. T. W. Hislop (president) will occupy the chair. The business includes the adoption of rules and the discussion of matters of general interest to automobilists. An invitation has l?cen received by the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Labour, to deliver an. address to the miners at Waikino, Waihi. The Minister has also boon asked to deliver addresses in country districts in the South Island. He hopes to be able to comply with the requests prior to the opening of Parliament. With reference to the caso of Seruka, a Samoan boy who wishes to come to New Zealand to learn .English, under, circumstances set out ii\ our issue of yosterday, the Rtv. A. E. Hunt stated at tha Congregational Union meeting this morning that the missionaries in Samoa were not permitted by the German Government to teach native converts the English language.* Last evening at the Central Drill Shed, Captain T. W. M'Donald, Assist-ant-Adjutant General, District Headquarters, delivered a lecture on "Military Topography." There was a good attendance of members of the Heretaunga Mounted Rifles and the Wellington Cycle Corps. Lieut. -Col. Bauchop, 0.C.D.,' presided. Tho lecture, which included field sketching, sketching country by triangulation and kindred means, and methods of contouring hill-features, was thoroughly appreciated. Kirkcaldie and Staines, Ltd., intimate to their customers that Monday, the 10th inst.. is the last discount day tor. the monthly accounts.— AdvU