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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. < . The final meeting for this week of the Stock Exchange proved a quiet one, business being confined to the mining section. Feilding Gas snares continue to harden, buyers bidding up to 19s 6d, but no shares were offering. A parcel of Manawatu Rails came yito the market at £2 &», but as buyers did not bid higher than £2 7s, no business resulted. Wellington Woollens are steadily hardening; buyers wetfe offering £3 6s. Mountain Rimu Timber and Sharland's were wanted at £1 2s 9d and 19s respectively, but there no sellers of either stock. Talisman Consolidated ' changed hands at £2 4b 9d, after which sellers demanded £2 ss. Waihie had business at £9 11s and £9 12s, and buyers <at the close were in evidence -at £9 lls 6d, sellers asking Is more. During the wedk ending to-day there Avefe thirteen cases of scarlet fever, two of diphtheria, and one of tuberculosis reported! in the city. One case of scarlet fever was also reported in the Hutt County. . ' A copy pf the New South Wales Rugby Football Annual for 1908 is to hand 'from Mr. Alfred Ford, football manufacturer, Sydney. t The fire brigade was called out twice last 'evening to chimney fires. At 6.37 it was summoned to Franklin-avenue, at 7.23 to College-street. The writ for the.TuapeJia by-election was issued yesterdayl by the Clerk of Writs, Mr. H. Pollen. The writ is returnable on 12th June, and the election »vill take place on Friday, sth' June. Nfllminationt} close on 28tJi /inst. Already £1800 has been subscribed for the erection of a. Unitarian ChuTch in Wellington. Of this . amount the Rev. Dr; Tudor Jones has' collected £1200. Building operations are likely to commence within the next six months. ■ Empire Day will be' observed on Monday, although there will be a church parade of the Defence Forces at the Town Hill on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The banks and law offices will close on Monday, but tße shops will remain open, ehopkeepeTS having decided to observe the weekly . half -holiday on Wednesday. Cabinet yesterday authorised a "grant of £500 for the drainage of Rotorua and £500 for the JWestport-Inangahua railway. A tender of £5652 was accepted for additions to and re-building portions of Te' Oranga Home at Chrißtchurch. The construction of l a railway wharf at Nelson to' provide 400 ft of deep sea berthage was also authorised. The question of forming a volunteer fire brigade for Kaiwarra will be considered by the Onslow Borough Council on Tuesday. At the sarae N meeting the council will fix the term of the Kaiwaira drainage loan (£1464), discuss the proposal to establish a septic tank on grourfd belonging to the borough now leased to Messrs. John Newton andi,Son, and appoint a member of the Assessment Court for the, borough. An exhibition of New Zealand flax and kindred fibres is being considered by prominent millers and according to the latest reports is practically -under way. _The Department of Agriculture has promised assistance in the shape of providing a building the old drill shed free of charge. Xt will also present a display of flax plant in all stages of their development. Plants grown at the Waerenga Experimental Station and at the State Farm, Weraroa,' will also be shown, as well as milking machines v and dressing methods, Samples of v Manila and Sisal hemp fibres will afford an oppor' unity of making interesting comparisons. A district order by Lieutenant-Colonel A. Bauchop, C.M.G., officer' commanding the Wellington district, was read at the weekly parade of the Johnsonvillo Rifles as follows: — "In regard to the enquiry into a case of insubordination in tho Johnsonville Rifle Volunteers, held by order of the O.C. District, and the subsequent result, etc., etc. The O.C. Johnsonville Rifle Volunteers will announce at the first parade of his corps, that for this misdemeanour the O.C. District dismissed the four men to whom the enquiry referred, from the forces, but through the leniency of his Excellency the Governor (Commander-in-Chief), this was cancelled with instructions that all who signed the raenim-ial be reDrimauiifitL'*-.