IS ROSENEATH NEGLECTED?

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 8

IS ROSENEATH NEGLECTED?

"Poor Pushed Ratepayer" writes complaining of the negleot of Roseneath by the City Council. The place, he says, has no water, no gas lamps, no kerosene lamps, and no tram-cars, yet has to pay rates to enable money to be spent elsewhere. He understands there is a reserve somewhere in Upper Roseneath put aside by the City Council for a reservoir. "What on earth," he asks, "is the good of keeping the reserve there and not using it? I am sure if the reservoir was built there we would all have plenty of water on the high levels, which would be a godsend to all in the vicinity. There is Brooklyn ; they have both trams and reservoir. It's all nonsense to say that the place is not populated enough. Give the people the inducements to populate a place and you will hear quite a different song sung. Perhaps our council is getting rather antiquated in its ideas. There is one thing certain, and that is, we want tho water up on the high levels, and by starting the reservoir on tho top of Roseneath is the only way of us getting it."

In the opinion of Mr. Skerrett, K.C., the milk supply for Wellington must within the next two or three years come almost entirely from the Wairarapa and the Manawatu. ''If a man wants a farm at the Upper Hutt ot Mungaroa, he must pay a very high figure for the land — as high a rental as from 50s to 70s an acre. The daily land in some parts is now nearly all cut up for roads and building purposes." "I am afraid for some time it will have to be used menre for cows than for dwellings, ' remarked the Chief Justice. Tho Mothers* Union of England has sent out an ambassadress to New Zealand, in tho person of (Mrs. Halliday, who will give an address at the Sydney-str-eet schoolroom to-morrow afternoon on "Roots and Foundations." The union seeks to preserve the sanctity of marriage, and to increase the feeling of responsibility for children among parents, and to band women together to theso ends, Tho Mothers' Union has now a membership of 270.000. One of the handsomest presents which reached tho nursery last Christinas was a doll's house of the value of £200. The recipient is the two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt,. "American children are so precocious that we have only a tiny doubt whether Master Yanderbill will be old enough to appreciate this gift," comments the James's Budget. "Our fears run m a different direction. Will ho not despise a doll's house as being the- trivial sort of thing in which girls delight? If so, his parents must be piepared for stern rebuke. So .perhaps must other parents who have been lavish in their expenditure on juvenile presents. Money §ocs for little in the amusement of ohilren. A penny toy often gives twice the pleasure forthcoming from, a guinea one ;" and the Holborn hawkers probably contribute as much to the Christmas gaiety of the nursery as shops into which papa must not enter unless his pockets are full of silver and gold. it seems a dreadful thing to say — almost an aspersion on millionaires — but we should not be the least surprised if Master Vanderbilt would chuckle as much over a duck with a 'wobbly' neck or a rag doll as she will over his luxurious doll's residence. It is obviously a residence, not a house." The French barques La Fontaine and Macmahon arrived together in Hobson's Bay, berthed in company, loaded side by aide, and were taken to anchorage off Williamstown, destinations of each being the- United Kingdom with grain freights. The incident (says a Melbourne paper) might have passed casually, but for the circumstance that friendly rivalry as to sailing powers led to numerous "wagers"' a* to which ship would reach her signalling point first. To put the situation nautically, respective cooks bet tins of fat against eacli other, sailors wagered their sea boots, mates pledged their "screws,"' and infection reached the saloons, where masters staked numerous promises for fulfilment when destinations were recorded. Weather was only partly favourable for the opening trial of speed the other day, but as each ship dropped i her curtainb to the breeze, the sight was one of the prettiest ever witnessed outside Port Phillip Heads. Tolstoi said recently to Henry Nevinson, the English writer on Russia: — "You are young and I am old, but as you grow older you will find, as I have found, that day follows day, and there does not seem much change in you, till suddenly you hear people speaking of you as an old man. It is the same with tin. age in history; day follows day, and there does not seem to be much change, till suddenly it is found that the age is become old. It. is finished; it is out of date. The present movement in Russia is not a riot, it is not even a revolution ; it is tho end of an age." Tho Matin, a Paris journal, according to the Paris correspondent of the Globe, published some amusing reflections as to what would have happened if Thomas Druce had boon a: Frenchman. "By the present time," it says, "France would be divided into two parties, Druccitcs and anti-Druccites The whole politics oi France would be reduced to this question — 'Is the coffin to be opened?' Three Ministries would, have fallen ; several keepers of the .scab would have resigned, and M. Clcmenceau would have taken the reins of J Government with the solo object of learning what was in the coffin. Finally, M. Jaures would have made a five days' speech in the chamber, and two days before Ihe^ opening of the coffin, M. Lepine would have held the cemetery in .{<»#ce, whilst a division ol infantry, three regiments of Cuirassiers, and two batteries of artillery would ,have been massed close by, under the orders of the inillitiiry governor of Paris. At present the Chamber and Senate would be sitting «.perially to hear tho lcporl" of what was in the coffin " An advertisement is published in ihiißUie notifying particulars of Mm Killmme Bute School picnic ut the Upper Hutt tO'ttorr.ow.