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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL ■o The Health Department reports that during the week ending to-day four cases of scarlet fever occurred in the city, one case of diphtheria and one of tuberculosis. In the Hutt County there was ono case of scanct fever. Labour must organise its forces : this was the view of the seamen expressed last evening at the meeting of the union. It was then recognised that the proposal of the Trades Council to make no remits on legislation to the annual conference until past recommendations had been dealt with was a sensible proceeding inasmuch as pasing the same resolutions year after year, and forwarding the same to the Government, had been futile hitherto, and it seemed evident that the Government had no intention of giving effect to them. The Wellington centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association netted a profit of about £100 on the recent championship meeting held on the Basin Reserve. The- judgment of the court in the enquiry into the recent stranding of the h.s. Waihi on Karori rock, near Wellington, has been postponed owing to the illness of Captain Grey, one of the assessors. A flower, fruit, and vegetable show will bo held in the Parochial Hall, Karori on Wednesday and Thursday next. On the latter flay the prizes and certificate in the children's classes will be presented by Mrs. W. H. Field. A conference between representatives of New Zealand shipowners and delegates from the Seamen's Union will be held in Wellington on 4th March. The Minister for Marine (Hon. J. A. Millar) will preside. The proceedings will bo in camera. A new set of seamen's articles is in the course of printing for us© in the inter-colonial trade, and will soon be available for use. Hitherto the same articles as have been adopted for the use of foreign-going vessels have been used in the inter-colonial trade. "It is quite surprising to see- now badly New Zealand children, boys and girls/ carry themselves," says Dr. Mas Hera, in a report on the health of school children in Auckland. "An erect, wellbalanced bearing is the rarest thing to meet when inspecting litllo New Zealanders' backs." Tho Seamen's Union at its meeting last evening was not inclined to support the project for establishing a Labour paper as tne organ of unionism in Wellington. On the contrary the seamen's delegate to tho Trades Council was instructed to oppose the proposal and to support tho labour paper already published in Auckland. A fire in a wooden shed situated in Cambridge-avenue was the causa of the Fire Brigade being called out at 10.7 last evening. The shed was occupied by Messrs. Manning and Broadfoot, and utilised as a carpenters' work shop. Tho building and the contents we.i' 6 partialy destroyed. There was an insurance of £100 on the contents, in the Commercial Union Office. Earlier in the evening a call was received to a dwelling, No. 39 Molesworth-street. The , alarm was due to tho upsetting of a frying pan on a stove. A gilded sixpence was" passed 1 to a tram conductor on top of a two-decker last night as a half-sovereign. Seen in daylight, the sham was obvious, but at night the fraud would be difficult to discover. The front part of the silver coin showing that it was a sixpence had been made quite smooth, and the gilding was of that light colour which is characteristic of Australian-minted coins. Tho conductor, undor the system at present in vogue, has- to bear the loss of the 9s 6d. The men, however, urge that that is not fair, as they have no chance of "ringing" a- coin on a car, and ar© therefore practically at the mercy of tho criminal. Tho Attorney-General was - asked in Christchurch whether it was intended to appoint any more King's Counsel in the near future, or to fill the vacancy in Christchurch caused by tho death of Mr. T. I. Joynt. "There have been several applications since the last X.C.'s were x appointed," said Dr. Findlay, in reply, "but the CHisf Justice has expressed the opinion, without reflecting on the suitability of the applicants, that no further appointments should bo made for somo lime. To creak, fresh X.C.'s so soon after the original appointments had been made was, in the Chief Justice's opinion, neither expedient nor in accordance with practice." A husband and wife were both taken into tho Receiving-house at Royal Park (says the 'Melbourne Age) suffering from a like mental complaint. Both were afflicted with the same delusions. This is believed to be the first occasion in Melbourne for a number of years when a married couple have been seized at the same time with the same kind of mental disease; and it is either a remarkable case of a special environment producing like results in different people, or else it is a most noteworthy coincidence. The patients are from Northcote. About seventeen years ago a couple were admitted to the Kew Asylum suffering in tho samo ' way. "The City Council having decided the pitch of the Town Hall organ," said a member of tho Wellington Choral Society at the annual meeting last night, "it might well purchase and hire out wood wind instruments attuned to the organ." Failing that, he suggested that the society should procure a set of such instruments. He reckoned that they could bo purchased for £200, but £100 would buy what would enable the orchestra to use the Town Hall organ. Mr. Maughan Barnett in suportiug tho proposal said that tho pitch of tho organ was the correct one, because better effect could bo . obtained than from a higher pitch. Instrumentalists at Home ho said had two sets of instruments. The motion was carried and will be recommendfid to the ne\\. committee. .