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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. The business on the Stock Exchange this morning was limited to three sales. Gear Meats had quittance art £2 9s, which is a decline of Is upon late rates, and Waihis were dealt in at £9 2s 6d and £9 3s. Talismans hardened to buyers 54s 3d, sellers asking 6d more, but no business resulted. Bank of New South Wales, which sold last week at £43 10s, were to-day enquired for at the same figure, but no shares were offering An enquiry for Bank of New Zealanls at £9 12s 6d did not induce a selling bid. Other stocks were unchanged. The patients at the Hospital were entertained yesterday by the Wellington Professional Orchestra, which played a number of musical selections. Sitting in Chambers this morning Mr. Justice Button granted probate of the will of the lato Dr. M. A. Logan, and the late Mr. Charles Townley Browne. It has been ascertained that the net loss of the Government Fire Insurance Department by the Christchurch fire will be only £2000. This sum is made up as follows :— £looo on Messrs. Ashby, Bergh and Cos., £500 on Messrs. Hallenstein and Cos., and £500 on Messrs. Wardell and Cos. bacon factory. The Rev. C. Inwood commenced his mission in Wellington yesterday. He preached discourses to large congregations—in the morning at the Kent-ter-race Presbyterian Church, and in the evening at Wesley Church, Taranakistreet. The meeting to-night will be in the Vivian-street Batpist Church. The mission will be continued till Thursday next. The statement made by the Hon. C. H. Mills in regard to tho request to him to stand for a seat at Wellington tit the next General Election, has created much interest locally (writes the Marlborough Herald). Several names of suitable candidates in the event of Mr. Mills deciding to accept the offer have been suggested, tho most prominent being Messrs. W. H. Macey, R. MacArtney, John Duncan, Alex. MacKay and R. irCallum. To-morrow the 3rd Wellington Battalion of Public School Cadets will 'go into camp at the Hutt Racecourse, under Major Burlinson. It comprises corps from the Boys' Training Farm at Wereroa, and the public schools at Levin, Otaki, Johnsonville, Petono and Lower Hutt. The northern section will arrive m Wellington on Tuesday and will go out to Petono by the train leaving Wellington at 1.20 p.m. The battalion will march from Petone to the racecourse with tho battalion brass and pipe bands leading tho column. Workmen for building purposes appear to bo at a premium in the King Country. Tho Taumaranui Press says> that a local contractor recently paid a bricklayer £1 per day and board ; while his plumber received 22s per day. But the men were good hands, and the em- | ployer seems to be perfectly satisfied. Contractors reckon there is a good opening there for a resident bricklayer ; ho would be sure to be fully employed at high wages. Building operations are said to be going on apace all over the Taumarunui district. 1 . Carpenters are iv great demand and are unprocurable. . t , .North Canterbury station owners are nilding the motor car a useful adjunct ,to the -vehicles on their stations, and •several possess cars, that , enable , them to cover -a great extent of country in much less time than they could accomplish by any^ other means. Two wellknown Amuri station owners were recently whirled from OHristchurch to their homes, in three hours and a half, and in that tinie covered a distance that in 1860, when they originally went to the district, took them sever days to get over by means of drays, at a time when tho only roads were tho ruts made by drays that had gone ''over the country before them. The city fire brigade received a call shortly after one o-clock this morning to 60, Taranaki-fstreet, a house, occupied by Mr. S. Howan, butcher. Tho fire had broken out in Mr. Howan's office, situated in the shop, and the contents of this apartment were completely destroyed. The rest of the* promises, was not damaged thanks to the prompt arrival of the brigade. The building, which is unoccupied on tho top floor, is owned by Mrs. Hamilton, of Oriental-terrace, and is insured in the Phoenix office tor £400. The valuo of the contents of tho office was not great. On Saturday night at 8.15 the brigade was called to 6, Lipman-street, premises occupied by Mr. G. Tattle. Hero a fire had broken out in a dotached washhouse at tho back of the dwelling. The outbreak was quickly extinguished-; and the damage done was but slight. The preliminaries of the arrangement whereby Messrs. Keene and Reid, of Wellington, were to supply the Borough of Tauranga with gas, were announced in The Post two months ago. The negotiations have now reached a definite stage, and Messrs. Keene and Reid have signed a contract to supply Tauranga with gas for a period of 30 years. A modern plant is to be erected, and an ample supply is to be made available for lighting, cooking, and heating purposes. The Borough Council also considered a proposal to erect gas works made by Mr. Chenery Suggate, gas engineer, of Auckland, but it appears that Messrs. Keene and Reid's scheme include^ placing in commission two steamships, to trade between Tauranga and Wellington, and the residents of the Bay of Plenty cordially welcomed this part of the proposal. They have hitherto been dependent upon one Auckland shipping company tor communication with ports outside Tauranga. A note of warning was 6ounded by the Chief Justice to-day against the assumption that wool will always maintain a high price ; and against the folly of people confidently predicting the future in respect to the wool market. In one case he saw witness after witness go into the box and say that/ wool would never fall, because, they said, the number of people in the world was increasing, and more people were getting accustomed to wear woollen clothing. He was afraid that some settlers who took up land on a confident assumption of the future, might regret it, and in the case of leasehold land, they might have to ask for concessions, as had been the case in the past in some instances. Mr. Skerrett, K.C., remarked that some of those settlers who, it was thought, would have to ask for concessions, werenow riding in their motorcars. His Honour said it must not be. taken for granted that wool would continue at its price of the past two years." During the hearing of the Carrington estate compensation case to-day, Mr. Skerrett, K.C., alluded to the fact that the witnesses for the Crown had inspected tho land in the present very dry season, and saw the land at its worst. "The proverbial oldest inhabitant has never before witnessed a season like this," added Mr. Skerrett. "Wo have had three months without any rain at all, and what is unusual in this coun. try, hot weather and hot wind*"