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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 89, 14 April 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. — — — ■» The Evening Post will not bo published on Friday next {Good Friday). It is intended by the Salvation Army authorities to hold a ten days' campaign in Wellington early in May. His Excellency Lord Plunket has forwarded to New Plymouth a donation of £5 towards the cost of erecting the Marsland Hill Memorial to the -men who fell in the MUori ware. The motorman Frank Barton, who is still in Hospital as the result of a collision between his car and a' steam lony in Comtonay-place, is making an excellent recovery from his serious injuries. The main roll of the electors for the general Parliamentary elections closes to-morrow. No names can be put on the supplementary roll until tho main roll is printed, and that will not be for some months. Members of tho City Council arc tnking part this afternoon in tho formal opening of tho new Kolburne waterworks. Tho surface reservoir is situated on the city pide of the Karori reservoir, and as tho pumps which force tho water up aro now in good working order, everything is in readiness for Hooding tho pipes. An enterprising Westport resident is carrying on coal boring operations at CapQsFoulwind. Ho has passed through lignite coal and has reached a covering such as is usually found over bituminous coal. According to bis theory (reports tho Westport Times), the coal seam dips from the mountain^ iuy\ rise% •viraiii at Oaoo Fauluiiud.