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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1908, Page 7

Lord Chelmsford, Governor of Queensland, opened a new Y.M.C.A. building at Brisbane yesterday which cost £25,000 to erect. / A "deputation from Whiteman's Valley ,will wait upon the Hutt County Council ab its next meeting and urge the immediate repair of the road between Silverstream and Whiteman's Valley. Corporation Inspector Doyle was commended at the fortnightly meeting of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday for having prosecuted <» driver for flogging a horse recently. Eleven patients were admitted to Otaki Hospital, and 13 discharged during July. There were ten patients under treatment. ' Three operations were performed under anaesthetics m the month. Tire refuse destructor has been put up satisfactorily, and is working well. It cost £32. , ! The Oamaru iMail states that iMr. J. (D. Sievwright, of Wellington, will shortly visit Oamaru to ascertain his prospects of support in the event of his being a candidate for that constituency at the general election. Mr. Sievwright was a candidate against the Hon. T. Y. Duncan in 1896, when he was defeated. Opinions are divided amongst Hawkes Bay farmers as to the desirability of importing the small brown owl for the purpose of exterminating the small birds which are doing so much mischief in that part of the district. One settler states that ten acres of his oats have been ruined by the depredations of rooks. One of the objections that jurymen have to service on the jury is the tedium of standing about the court and waiting their turn. There is no v accommodation at present, but Mr. JusticeCooper, in\ giving a jury leave to retire to-day, said that in a few months there would be a room for waiting jurors, where they might congregate. Giving evidence at the Supreme Court in Christchurch, says the Lyttelton Times, tho Police Department's fingerprint expert said that if there were four points of similarity between ' two finger-prints, the chances were 3250 to 1 that tliey were from the same finger. If, as in the case in which he was giving evidence, there were 12 to 14 points of similarity between two prints, the number of chances to 1 that they wero from the same finger could only be reS resented by a number far exceeding le population of the world. In his report to the S.P.C.A. yesterday evening, the society's Inspector referred to the manner in which owners in the city got rid of decrepit and wornout horses. Animals in the last stages were sent out to the country to save burial or burning expenses. A case was mentioned in which an owner had disposed of a horse of this class by making a present of it to a lad in the country. Shortly afterwards the lad rode the sorry steed into Wellington, where it was taken charge of and promptly Shot. The meeting suggested that in the future proceedings be taken against offenders in this way. • "Small boys should not be allowed to carry firearms without being licensed," eaid Inspector Seed at the meeting of the S.P.C.A. yesterday. The Inspector stated 'he, had found a cow in the Petond district which had apparently died in great agony. The hindquarters of the animal were literally 1 riddled with large ghot. lhe shot had been delivered at dose quarters, and it was evidently the work of small boys anxious^ to ehoot something. Mr. Seed stated he had received numerous complaints of horses and other animals having been seriously injured by irresponsible and thoughtless persons with firearms. It will be remembered Chat at a conference between the leaders of the "Wellington Y.M.C.A. and the Young Maori Party, which was held during the recent Maori Congress, it was decided to form a special class of instruction in native matters, in order that the Y.M.C.A. might extend the field of its operations to work among the Maoris. That resolution has i not been lost sight of, and a class for the purpose will be commenced to-morrow night at the Y.M.C.A. rooms. Mr. A. T. Ngata, M.P., will take the leadership of the class. A set of 20 books dealing with Maori history, language, literature, and customs, Has been presented to the Y.M.C.A. by the executive of the recent Maori Congress, as the nucleus of a library. Considerable interest is shown by passers-by in the new Union Bank Building, which is now in course of construction, under the plans of Mr. Wm. C. Chatfield, architect, near the fountain on Lambton-quay. The massive steel construction is of very imposing structural interest, and as this portion of the work is nearly all in, rapid progress will ba made with the building in the course of the next month. At present the workmen are fixing together the lower stone work of the building, which, for 6ft from the ground, will be in Coromandel granite. The upper portions ,will be in brick faced with stucco work, and it will be a very handsome structure in the Corinthian style of architecture with three imposing elevations — one to Featherston-street, one to the fountain, and the third to Lambton-quay. It .■will be- 74ft high with a total frontage on the three elevations of 188 ft. That the road to Ohiro is easy was shown yesterday, when an application for relief was made to the Benevolent Trustees on behalf of a- man and his twife. It was reported that they cold their t belongings when leaving Auckland, ' and that at Hastings they speno the proceeds in furnishing a house, somewhat lavishly, on time payment. When they left that town they forfeited their deposit, and now they wero "down upon their luck" in Wellington, but hopeful for better Another case mentioned to tho trustees was that )of a wharf labourer, with a wife and four children, whose weekly earnings panged from 35s to 30s a week and less, and whose house- rent was 17s 6d per Week. An old age pensioner, who was .examined by the trustees, said he did not know how old he was, for he was no scholar; but if any of the gentlemen could tell him in what year Mr. and Mrs. Manning were executed in London it could be easily reckoned, for he was then fifteen. There was no criminologist amongst the trustees who could tell the date, so the point as to the pld man's age wa& not elucidated at the time, though it has been since. Mr. A. W. Martin, sole controller of Dr. J. A. Sherman's method of curing rupture, has returned, and may be conBulkid at the Hotel Cecil until the 22nd Ancr that date Blenheim and Nelson will be visited. Sufferers will do well to avail themselves of this opportunity, as Mr. Martin's appointments in the South Island will occupy a considerable time. —Advt. Special storage accommodation always available for furniture and all sorts of dry goods in our stores. We make a speciality of packing and handling furniture. The New Zealand Express Company, Limited, 20, Customhouse-quay. {Telephone, 1333.— Advt. The scarcity and high pries of butter are matters of «erious important to Wellington housekeepers just at present, and there *eems «v«ry prospect of matters becoming even worss in thii respect than they now ai». Somo compensation can, however, be obtained" for this state of things by paying a vUit to the well-known Store of O. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street, where epeoial value can be obtained in the glove and hosiery departments. Reliable goods only are stocked, the products of leading makers, colonial, Home, and Continental. A visit of inspection will be well repaid. — ifldvt.