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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 21, 26 January 1909, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL. «t» Sales reported at to-day's meeting of the Stock Exchange were two parcels o: Talisman scrip at £2 6s 9d ; Waitangi (Is paid up) 3s 4d, and Wellington Woollen £3 2s. In the, investment section Bank of New Zealand hardened to £8 10s buyer, and this offer induced a seller to declare at £8 12s. Manawatu Rails were enquired for at £2 14s, but there were no snares on offer. Meat shares came in for Increased attention, and there were buyers for Gears, Christchurch, and Wellington meat. The conference of delegates of local bodies in Wellington and suburbs to decide which day shall be observed as the statutory weekly half-holiday will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow afternoon. A banquet in celebration of his accession to th 6 Ministry, will be given to the Hon. A. W. Hogg by the settlers of Hukanui on sth February ; on the 11th February he will be entertained at a garden party at Masterton, and at a banquet the same evening. The Conciliation Commissioners will exercise jurisdiction in the following districts : Mr. Halley in Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland ; Mr. Triggs in Otago and Canterbury; Mr. Harle Giles in Auckland, Poverty Bay, and Taranaki. A few minutes before three o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a fourroomed cottage in Shannon-street, occupied by Mr. Wm. Mountjoy, and owned by Mr. R. W. Williams, of the Defence Department. The back bedroom, with its contents, was slightly damaged by fire. The furniture is Insured >n the New Zealand office for £100. As stated yesterday, William Webb, ex-champion sculler, is in Dunedin, undergoing medical treatment. Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that the question of another match with the present champion has been talked of, but it is understood that Webb prefers to say nothing on that point at present, as he intends to train Wheleh on the Wanganui River for his match with Fogwell, and hopes, by Easter time to know how he feels. A lady who visited the Newtown Park "Zoo" yesterday complained strongly to a Post reporter ot the way in which rough boys treat the animals. "No wonder some of them die," she said. Also, it appears that even some grown-up people are not much better. Two men were standing by and merely laughed at the boys^ conduct. " I wish I had been a man," she added, " I would have taught the young imps what it felt like to be maltreated." And she evidently meant what she said. Speaking at the gathering of musicians in Auckland, Herr Herschberg said ft was a mistaken idea to gauge the quality and efficiency of musical life by the number of those who managed to gain degrees of Doctor or Bachelor of Music. In Germany, which was still the dominant country for music in its highest forms, degrees of music did not exist. The scientific part of music might be mastered by comparatively unmusical people, while only those who were really musically gifted would be successful either as composer or performers. Of the great number of degree men in music, now many had excelled as composers or performers? The fine weather that has been experienced for the 'last few days, says the Wairarapa Daily Times of Monday, has helped farmers considerably with their Harvesting ■work with the result that stacks are going up in every part of the district. The crops throughout the South Wairarapa are exceptionally heavy thie season, and with the good yields that are expected in this district there will be a large surplus of oats and chaff for export. But as other districts will also have large quantities to dispose of over and above their own requirements, the prices to the producers are expected to""be rather lower this year than last. At yesterday's sitting of the University Senate a lengthy discussion (states a Press Association telegram) took place | on a motion for the adoption of the j following recommendations of the Recess Committee, appointed to report on the subject of modifying the matriculation statute :—(1): — (1) That a certificate from the principal of a secondary school should be accepted as an alternative to the entrance examination of the university. (2) That such certificate should represent four years of satisfactory secondary work, and should be endorsed by the Education Department. (3) That, inter alia, it should vouch for satisfactory courses in the following : — (a) English, including English history, (b) elementary mathematics, (c) one foreign language (d) one science. (4) That the fee lor matriculation, whether by examination or otherwise, should bo £2 Hs. Voting on the motion for the adoption of the report was equal — 10 ayes and 10 uoe& The Chancellor gave bis casting vote against the motion. The Labour agent at Masterton. speaking to a Wairarapa Times reporter, said :—": — " The unemployed problem is much more serious than the majority of people imagine. Since the beginning of the year, no less than one hundred and fifty persons— printers, engineers, carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, etc — have given me their names and addresses, with n request to communicate with them if work became available. But this does not represent half the number of applications I have had. A very noticeable fact is that a good percentage of the unemployed are recent arrivals from the Old Country, immigrants who have been assisted by the Government. Comparatively few of those who apply to me are residents of the district. Many of them complain bitterly that they left good billets at Home to como to the Dominion, the condition of things here having beon grossly misrepresented to them. A day or two ago 1 had a young fellow in here who said ho had walked from Now Plymouth looking for work. He was ' down on his uppers,' and told a pitiful story. Ho said he came out to New Zealand a short time ago as an assisted immigrant. On arrival at Wellington he was told that he would find plenty of work in the dairying districts. He went to Taranaki, but he was unable to milk, and the only offer of employment he got was 4s 6d a week and board to leg-rope cows, wash cans, and do other odd jobs. It is not to be wondered at that he heaped maledictions on the head of the New Zealand Government and those who had misled him. He was a stranger in a strange land, without friends and without money, and ho longod vainly to get back to England.