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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 53, 3 March 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL « No scrip changed hands at to-day\ call on the Stock Exchange. Holders of good investment' stock are lolh to stall, for buyers in several instances are offering prices that read attractively enough. Offers of £1 14s 6d for Union Steam, £1 10s 9d for Eiver Plates, and £2 4g 6d for Manawatu Rails dhould enable business to be clinched; but drew blank. Mining interests were quiet but steady. Buyers of Waihi bid £8 18s 6d, but sellers named £9 2s, whilst Talisman mam.' tamed rates at £2 13s and £2 t4s. Big River wore firmer at 13s 6d bid, and 15s wanted. Cum rights, Whitcomba and Tombs £2 10s paid shares wore on offer at £4 85. Loan and Mercantile were again enquired for at ss, with, 'sellers asking 5a 6d. Preliminary steps are shortly to be taken by the Government to declare a portion of the Urewera- country to be a gold fields area, and when that is done prospecting for gold will be allowed. For the erection of an infant department in connection with the new school at Upper Hutt, the Wellington Education . Board has accepted the tender of Croft and Son, Petone. A system of thieving known ad "hotel barbering " was resorted to In Wellington the other night, and resulted in about five or six pounds being abstracted from the clothes of boarders at the Grand Hotel. The grants made by Cabinet" towards the rebuilding of schools buildings destroped by bush fires in the Wellington Education District amount to £1582— namely, £1232 for a school and ..residence at Nireaha, and £350 for Maku School * The following tenders have been accepted by the Public Works Department :— Additons to the Eketahuna Post Oißce. Messrs. 'Mackenzie and Brenchley, Mauriceville, £488 ; erection of new Government Buildings at Tc Kuiti, Messrs. Sheldon and Aitken, Hamilton, £1396 16s; erection of Post Office at Utiku, 'Mr. W. J. -Brown, Wellington, £639; additions to Hastings Police Station, Mr. A. E. Curd, Hastings, £304. In a letter to his brother (Mr. H. Baillie) 'Mr. John Baillie, of the Baillie Art Gallery, London, states that ha is sonding a picture by the late W. E. Osborne to the Wellington Art Gallery. The picture, a characteristic London sketch, has been given by the artist's widow. "The Studio" of October, 1906,, has a very complimentary notice o£ the ivork of the artist, who .was a follower of Whistler, but not an imitator. Officers of the Agricultural Department have been very vigilant, states Mr. Kirk, Government Biologist, but they have not seen any further signs of the fruit fly, which was noticed near Auckland recently. The new regulations give- the department increased powers over imported fruit. The latest edicts do not alter the process for precautious inland. - Mr. Kirk, however, says that the machinery already provided is sufficient to cope with an out. break. The vexed question of the Dyer Settlement School site has been settled by Messrs. Vile, Buchanan and Hogg, members of the Education Board, and tha Chief Inspector (Mr. Fleming), who yesterday inspected the two sites, and finall yresolved that the original site, which had been strongly 'disapproved by some of the settlors, b» adhered to, and especially as a large quantity of material for the school was already on the ground. It Is proposed to shortly hold conferences of officers of the St. John Ambulance Brigade at the variouß centres to consider different matters connected with the working of the brigade. According to filiations recently issued, members of the brigade who are me-dallion-holders may now obtain a bar or label each year upon passing the examination, and a certificate for five years' brigade service is in course of preparation. The principle of rating on unimproved land values* has now been adopted in 76 districts, including 42 borcughs, 2 cities, 20 counties, 10 road districts, and 2 town districts The principle has been rejected at the polls in 15 districts, being 10 boroughs, 1 city, 2 counties and 2 road districts The Lyttelton Times s totes that five polls have been taken on the proposal to revert to capital value rating and in each cas's tho district has refused to go back A few fleas, according to David H«rum, are good for a dog ; they keep him from brooding over the fact that he is a dog. Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday asked Mr. Fell if he applied this theory to lice affected she^p- Mr. Fell, at tho time, was appearing for Edward Joucs. who was charged with having exposed for sale in a public sale yard 70 lambs affected with lice. Counsel contended that his client looked at the ewes the lambs were running with and could nob see any trace of lice on them. His worship imposed a fino of £2, with 7s costs, in default tourteon days' imprisonment. A matter mentioned by Mr. H. Rae in an article in Tho Post last week can bear some connection. He made a statement which purported to indicate that the Public Library was not popular. A fact recorded in black and wnito in tha library office is that the attendance in the reference department for the past twelve months shows nu improvement of 55 per cent, on the tallies of five yearaL ago, -and tho business of tho circulating section has increased proportionately, both in the number of books issued and the aggregate of subscribes. When the* Chief Librarian goes to America in May to attend a great conference of librarians, hr hopes to ncquiro information which will help to greatly improve tho library ns a place of public resort and profit. The Duiicdin City Council hns asked the Wellington Corporation to allow Mr. Bnillio to disposa of £100, to bo entrusted to him by the southern au- „ thorities for expenditure on books for » children's department at tho Dunfldin. Library. To-morrow, being the first Wediyssdny in tho month, thcsVo wi(| bo. ft sparinl clearance of rcmn&nU and oddments. Kirkcaldio and Stcinit, Ltd.--Advt-