LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Parliament re-assembled yesterday. The Legislative Council adjourned after making some appreciative references to the death of the late Hon. H. Feldwick, while the House of Representatives spent the afternoon in difcussing qujestions addressed to Ministers. In the evening a number of private members' Bills were put through their committee stages. The mails which left Wellington on 10th July by the Ulimaroa, and connected at Sydney with the Naples mails per the R.M.S Oroya, arrived in London on tho 17th August, one day early. On Saturday next the members of the Wellington Hospital Board .will make an inspection of\ the Otaki Hospital and Consumptive Sanatorium. Some of the results of qualifying examinations of acting-officers of volunteer companies are not yet available, but a partial list appears in the latest District Orders. Amongst the successful candidates are Acting-Captain F. Ross (Hutt Valley Rifles), Acting-Captain .Maihesoii (Wellington College Cadets), and Acting-Lieut. Skelley <D Battery). Mrs. T. W. Hislop addressed a large meeting of mothers yesterday afternoon in the Mission Hall, Tory-street. Mrs. Hislop gave some sterling advice to those present, on the care and management of t their infants, and paid that mothers could exchange valuable information at meetings of that kind. Sister Isabel, on behalf of the gathering, thanked Mrs. Hislop for her attendance, and her interesting address. Certain passers-by up to Kelburne and its vicinity, to avoid the trying pinch above tho Mount-street cemetery, have been in the habit of taking a short cut through the college grounds. The matter was discussed at the meeting of the College Council last evening. It was pointed out that the track over the.sumunit of the college reserve had been, renovated, a pathway had been laid down and metalled, yet pedestrians still persisted in making free use of a trade past the college buildings. It was decided that the caretaker should be instructed to warn offenders, and that in future persistent trespassers would be dealt with. The question as to whether the tennis court gates were ever locked (the trespassing is begun through the gates) was conclusively settled by tho chairman, who admitted that going homo late ono night after transacting some business in the college he found the ,gates locked. But he discovered a ladder, by means of which late studonts, in similar circumstances, climbed to liberty. The necessity was pressing, the night was dark and late, so no eye saw the undignified means of escape. The adraiasion was received with cries of "Shame," but there was no motion of censure.