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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 6

Tho regulations under the Maori Land Administration Act and the Native Land Settlement Act, are under consideration of tho Native Department, and will shortly be submitted to the Crown Law Officers for approval. It has been deemed advisable to defer issuing new Native Land Court regulations till after Parliament has passed the Consolidating Bill which is to bo introduced next session. Gorse on the Town Belt, lias been a long enduring nuisance, and steps to compel its clearance are to bo takon forthwith. On the motion of Councillor Luke, the City Council decided last night that tho omcors of the council ba instructed oo serve notices upon the lessoos of any t jarts of the Town Belt directing them to lemove goree from their foldings. A stowaway namd Davd Manson, with half-a-crown in his pocket, was handed over to the police- on the arrival of tho Warrimoo from Sydney this morning. Subsequently ho was brought before Mr. Riddel!, S.M., and fined £4, in. default twenty-one days' imprisonment. Re had nothing to say aoout his trip, ' or his prospects. Arthur Scott was lined Os, in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment for drunk&nness, and 40s, ia default seven days' imprisonment, for having been found in tho Princess Theatre Hotel during .the currenc;, of a prohibition ordor. One first onimding ■ inebriate was convicted and discharged. A dispute between the GreymouthPoint Elizabeth Railway and Coal Co., Limited, and David Clark, over £2 17» for coal supplied, to-day resolved itself into a question of whether defendant had paid more that he had been given credit foi. . Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., who heard the case, gay& judgment for plaintiff, for whom Mr. Neave appeared, for £2 4s, with £1 12s costs. M'Farlane and Co., drapers, represented by Mr. Levvey, sued Alfred Evans for *i 13s 6d for rent, in lieu of notice, and repairs to a drain. Judgment was for plaintiff for £1| 5s 6d, with 6s costs. In the matter of telephone communication with Wellington, the Mayor of Uroytown has received the following letter from the Telegraph Department Wellington: — In retereuco to your lettei of tho 19th inEtant, asking that direct telephonic communication be established between Wellington and Grey- ■ town, I have the honor to inform you, I that it had already -been decifled to i erect a lino to give Greytown and other ' offices in the \Vairarapa the desired I communication with Wellington. — I am, etc., J. Ii Logan, Superintendent of electric lines. Just before 9 o'clock last evening a couple of fibre mattresses caught fire in the back yard of a boardinghouce in Taranaki-place occupied by Mr. Michael Conway, and owned by Mr. Thomas Cannichael. The Central Brigade turned out, and put an end to the outbreak without much trouble. Soon afterwards a firo broke out in a wooden wardrobe built into the wall of a bedroam at a house in Devon-street, occupied by Mr. Alex. Simpson, and owned by Mr. Adams. The fire was extinguished by neighbours and firemen with buckets of water. Thero is an insurance of £300 on the building in tho Phoenix Office. A private prosecution by Thomas Major Shore against Herbert Edward Hamilton Bird on a charge of theft , of goods valued at £67 5s from a dwelling in Macdonald-crescent, was contin- : ued before. Mr. Riddell, S.M., yesterday afternoon. Mr. P. Jackson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Yon Haast for the defence. His Worship, after hearing evidence, said that the case was not a satisfactory one, but he "thought a prima facie ca6e had been made out. Accused was accordingly committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being allovved in self £&) and one surety in £5&. Notice of moiion, for the special meeting of tho Harbour Board fixed for Mohi <lay next, has been given by Mr. Fletcher in the following terms: — "Ths& the socrctary bo instructed to ascertain from tho contractors for the dock, and report to the board, whether they an» willing to cancel thoir present contract, and j upon what terms." &nd (2) "Ab in the I opinion of a large sqction of tho com1 munity it is alleged that the present sits of the dock at Clydo-quay, owing to its unsuitability is like to prove a gigantic ■ blunder, the board should at once obtain i export opinions (engineering and nautical) on the question, with a view to , having the matter fully reported upon, at tho earliest poseiblo dale." A conference of Trade Unionists to consider the advisability of establishing I a labour paper in Wellington was holdlin the Trades Hall last night. Tho ! majority of the unions in the city wera ! represented. A long discussion ensued ! on the project. A resolutidn to tha effect that the timo had arrived for tho establishment of a union-maintained paper on the lines of the New South Wales Worker, was generally approved. ' The question of ways and means pre- ' sented a big problem, howovnr, .md many schemes ot finance were suggeFted. Eventually tho conference decided upon recommonding to the unions tho alteration of their rules, so as to allow for tha setting aside of 5s per annum' per member as a compulsory contribution towards the proposed paper as a means of overcoming the difficulty and tho oxpediting of the project. The Otago Daily Times Oromwoll coricspondent writes: — A meeting to arrange the_ proposed banquet to ■ Sir Joseph Ward was called during iho week, but wa* poorly attended. The idea does not Ond favour with tho bulk of tho residents here, many of whom have been staunch supporters of the Government hitherto. The studied neglect of the interests of Central Otago in general, and this ,portion of it in particular for tho aggrandisement of Southland, has disgusted a large eection of the community. Whon the state of trad? here and the deserted appenranca of Cromwell streets, and tho dwindling awfty of the population is taken into account, comparisons are drawn at what would be the case if tho line had not been >stopped at Clyde and the irrigation of the Cromwell Flat been encouraged by bringing n tho Ho? ring Meg Scheme to irrigate it. Sir JpsepH Ward will have a lot to explain away when he arrives. General orders issued by tho Council of Defence notify that the new provisions for target practice nro to tie tissued) shortly, and that these will j take the place of tho pamphlet i.s.,ued last year in respect of target practice, so far as tho opening portions go (pages one to fifteen). Tho remainder oi tho | year old pamphlet — containing target j practice instruction general instrac- , lions, signalling, aiming, ond schemes ' for field practice, in conjunction with the Training Manual Appendix of 19C5— will be still adhered to. The orders stale that much latitude in efb | to commanders as to metnod of » ,i'.,inr inn "y training and field firing oxI erases. Oiliccrs commanding iistricts will give this most impoi rantsubject every attention. On :he> point an to duties of bands when in tho field or at Easter manoeuvre; the orders specify that they should ba practised as stretcher-bearers, also in. first-aid duties to their corps; v.hera this is not practicable they should ;uigument tho field hospital aud bearer crops. "The Lomballe" — a wedgwood silk hat. lined with a lighter shade trimmed with a spray of flowers to tone, and bird, at 355. Kirkcaldie and Staius. Ltd.-Advfc-