LATE SHIPPING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1909, Page 6

LATE SHIPPING.

April 28— Huia, h.s. (3.30 p.m.), 127 tons, Dcwell, from Waffganui. • DEPARTURES. April 28— Rotoiti, h.s. (11.10 a.m.), 1150 tons, E\ans, for Picton, New Plymouth, and Onehunga. Passengers — Saloon : For Picton— Mrs Andrew, Dr. Andrew. For New PlymouthMiss Malone, Mr. ChappeU. April 28— Takapuna, s.s. (1 p.m.), 1036 tons, Stewart, for Picton and Nelson. Passengers — Saloon : For Picton— Misses Horton, Powell, M'Cullough, Gihbin, Chaytor, Mesdames Wiltons, Powell, Purser, Chaytor, Evans, Messrs Button, Strang, Scott, Evans, Falla, Barnes, Moore, Wilkins, Fulton. Hulbert, Matthews, Waters, Edwards, Jagush. For Nelson — Misses Fitchett, ltocke, Mesdames Sedgwick, Michie, Atdrews, Wadsworth, Dr. Andrews, Messrs. Sedgwiek, Michie, Wadsworth, Sadd and boy, Dickson, Brown, Reynolds, Ross. WAIMEA AT ALBANY. A cablegram from Albany announces that the Anchor Company's new steamer Wstimea ha? arrived there from Glasgow, and wa to sau to-day for Nelson direct. The little craft has come out in excellent time, and from the Clyde to Port Said she averaged 9 knots. \ ru- of about twelve days should now bring her to her destination. She is being brought out by Captain M. Irvine, of Christchurch, who has with him as chief oflicer Mr. L. A. Waters. LANGTON GRANGE'S LOADING. . Some delay has been occasioned in unloading the Fcaeral-Houlder-Shire steamer Langton Grange at Lyttelton, but she will probably proceed in a day or two to Port Chalmers. Or. completion of discharge at the latter place, she proceeds to the Bluff and Waitara, thence to Wellington. The vessel is due here for loading purposes about the 12th Slay, and after a stay of three days leaves To- Picton. Upon completion of her loadliift at Lyttelton the Langton Grange will return to Wellington for coaling, and is timed to sail for the West Coast of the United Kingdom on the 20th May. NEW CHARTERS. Tlnee more vessels, aie announced by Mr. (i a. Scales as having been chartered by Urn lor freight purposes between New Zealand and the United Kingdom and the Contirent. These aie the Clan Grant, the Clan Ltbho, and Clan M'lntyre. The Clan Grant is a steel screw turretdecked steamer of 3948 tons grobs register built in 1002 by W. Doxlord and Sons, of Sunderland. alie is due at Timaru from A\oiunouth and Glasgow about the middle of next montli. The Clan Leslie is of 3937 tons gross register also turret-dec Led, and built by Messrs. Dcxford. She is due at Lyttelton from London, Avonmouth, and Glasgow about the 20th May. The Clan M'lntjre is :i tteel bcrew steamer of 4507 tons gross register, built in 1903 by Fuine&s Withy and Co., of West HartlepocJ. She is a two-decked steamer with a length ot- 395.5 ft. Tliis vessel is to take the loading berth for the United Kingdom in June. Movements of other vessels previously chartered by Mr. Scales are as under :— Clan Sutherland, at Antwerp (now on her MJ OUt). Clan Macaulay at London. Clan MaeLaren, due now at Dunkirk. Clan Ogilyy, due at Auckland to-day from Picton, sailing on Thursday for London via Port Pirie and Durban. All the seven vessels mentioned above belong to the well-known Clan line of bteamers owned by Messrs. Cayzer Irvine and Co., of Glasgow. Their total fleet numbers 50 vessels, the usual trade being from the Clyde and London to South Africa and India. In order to cope with the additional passenger traffic at the time of the Marlborough races, special arrangements have been made by this Union Company. A call at Picton will be made by the Mapourika next Tuesday leaving here at 12.45 p.m. On Wednesday the Takapuna leaves here at 7.30 a.m. for Picton and Nelson. The Arahura will wait at Pici.on till the races are over before leaving for Wellington on Wednesday evening, and the Takapuna will do the same on Thursday. Owing to a shortage of coal, the Kapiti, which left Lyttelton for Wellington on Monday night, had to pufc back for v. supply at 4.45 o'clock this morning. A Press Association message states that she left Lyttelton again at 10 a.m. to-day. On Friday the Shaw-Savill cargo carrier Tokomaiu is due to arrive here from Picton. The vessel will fill up and rebunkcr at this port, and should get away for London, via Monte Video, on Monday. Last night the Federal-Houlder-Shire steam"ci- Drayton Grange left Lyttelton for. Avonmoutli, Liverpool, and Glasgow, via Madeira, lhe vessel is said to have taken a full cargo including 70,000 carcases of mutton, from JLJ ttCltOH. A telegram from Lyttelton advises that tho Dc-ii of Ruthven left there yestciday for Tim™"i S'Xlli and , Wel »»8ton, after having sMpBY TELEGRAPH. . . , „. LYTTELTON, 28th Apiil. Arnved-Victoria (6.10 a.m.), from Dunedin. Sailed— Kapiti (io a.m.), for Wellington. b^ g 1i S .i ?e {"i Butesllire ' for England, which sailed at 11.40 this morning :— Col. Djury Air and Mrs. Chalmers, Mrs. Roberts Q., . , r , DUNEDIN, 28th April. Sailed— Moana (3 p.m.), for northern porta Passengers for Wellington-Mibs Sutherland Mrs. Bunt and infant, Mr. Bunt DUWlenana ' Tnt-, i • C £ PB MARIA - 28th April. Tutanekai passed south at 12.45 a m « i a ir MOTUEKA, 28th April. Sailed— Manaroa (4 a.m.), for Wellington Arrived-Indra^a ( 77 NN a A m I ) ER iro 22 m tll Gfsbo i ; ne . . . , PICTON, 28th Aunl hhgton n ° Douglab < 7 a - m ->> from Wel- ,,,,,„ HI . . BLENHEIM, 28th April."" h-7v f a lm ran ground on the Wairau Ainved-PutiUi (noon)" irom'^em^tMi!" 1 ' Wrihngton. "" (12>1 ° Pm0 ' fOr Pi " tOn and WESTPORT, 2Sth April ton!''"' °" US U - 40 P- ra ->> f r°m willing-

An "Admirer of Lions" writes- — I believe that the municipal museum at Newtown could be easily improved by the correction of a few minor faults lhe dignity of the main room is rather seriously discounted by the prominence of an unlionhke lion in the centre of the apartment. Nothing of majesty is latent m the efhgy of the King of Beasts. The legs are awry, the body is emaciated, and as even m contour as a drain-pipe, lhe taxidermist may have done the best with the material at his disposal, but what sort of a skin did he have for the stuffing? I would not be surprised to hear that a hearthrug had been used to convey an image of a monarch of the torest, but the imitation is very misleading to the young children who are brought to the institution to do nature study. Better no lion at all than a very bad mock-hon, especially when the city has a live 'King Dick' to emphasise the grotesqueness of the Newtown facsimile. While the authorities are attending to this matter they should not overlook the ta-whini scrub that has been thrust, in rigid rectitude, into several of the animal cases. The use of this vegetation, in even lines, gives a comical, rather than a realistic, touch to the habitat, and unnecessarily invites the ridicule which it is important for the museum's friends to avoid. Also an unsparing hand should pluck out most of the irritating rows of rushes, which stand up in little tufts like soldiers on parade, all through the aquatic bird cases in one room. Whatever the bird's preference was in life, it is doomed to bulrushes in death. A few sobering touches would do much to raise the dignity of the museum to the point desired by its founders. The rings and watches, taken from Boers killed during the South African war (according to an inscription near the pathetic exhibits) should be removed at once." The wholesale manufacturers and bicycle importers have a grievance with the Railway Department. Under the tiaffic regulations it is provided that the recognised agents of firms established in New Zealand will be allowed to carry free of charge two bicycles (packed in cases) as traveller's luggage. The department has now announced th=>t such samples will be taken by goods train only, and that, furthermore, they will be charged excess rates, as the crates used are slightly in excess of the regulation size. The wholesale dealers argue that if business is to be transacted expeditiously samples must go with the travellers by express trains. The matter is to be brought under the notice of the Minister. Mrs. Eliso Stumpf, of New York, will devote tho whole evening to tha srivinjr of merges at New Century Hall this evening, commencing at 8 o clock.

At the Zoological Gardens, Newtown Park, a new pond for the seals has been prepared, and they are now in their new location. 'Polling was rather slow in the earlypart of the day, but is brisker this . afternoon (reports a Press Association telegram from Christchurch). Both candidates for the Mayoralty are confident. The polling, it is believed, will be very heavy for the Thursday haif-holiday, bufc supporters of Saturday are trusting to the heavy residential vote made up of workers. A Press Association telegram from Ashburton states that a house owned and occupied by J. H. Stewart, at Chertsey, with it§ contents, was, in the temporary absence of the occupants, totally destroyed by fire this morning. Only a few articles of clothing were saved. It is understood the house was insured in the Norwich office for £225, but the loss is considerably above this. Hon. A. W. Hogg told an Auckland reporter that he had at present over 5000 men engaged under the Department of Roads and Bridges. Although he is rapidly exhausting the vote, amounting to about three-quarters of a million, the Minister is determined to keep men engaged while their employment is advantageous to settlement, John O'Donoghue, blacksmith, of Martinborough, came to Wellington for the Easter holidays. He had not been in the city many days ere he discovered that he had lost a sum of money. Information was given to the police, and this morning, in the Magistrate's Court, Timothy Laurance Dwyer was charged with assault and robbery to the extent of 13s. Informant and accused had met in a hotel bar, so it was said. Desiring something to eat, they left the hotel, with the intention of proceeding to a restaurant. While going up a lane, accused, O'Donoghue alleged, struck him on the back of the neck and felled him. The next thing he remembered was finding his pocket inside out, and his money and boon companion gone. Accused pleaded not guilty, and after listening to the case at some length, Mr. Riddell, S.M., dismissed the information, on the ground that the evidence was weak. He thought that a charge of common assault should be laid. This was done, and, in convicting Dwyer, the Bench said that as he had already been detained one week in custody he should be discharged. The InyercargiU correspondent of the Otago Daily Times states that the flaxmill industry is in a bad way, and the mills that are going are doing very little for export, their principal work being to fill New Zealand orders for twine. Several Southland mills have closed down owing to the poor prospects of the market, and millers all over the district are waiting for a rise in the market before restarting. An Invercargill labour agent, asked about the market, said that the whole trouble lay in the royalties that the flaxmillers were called upon to pay. These were always about the top figure that could be demanded, and when the market fell the royalties were not reduced, and so millers had to close their mills. The wages had gone down to 6s a day, and they could not go much lower than that. In his opinion the only solution of the difficulty, other than a rise in the market, lay in the , Government considering the question of royaltiea. The Suva correspondent to the New Zealand Herald notes the great satisfaction in Fiji with which the residents hail the news that a fortnightly service between Fiji and Melbourne will be instituted in June. Two steamers which formerly ran between Portugal and the Amazon will run a fortnightly service. The boats can carry many passengers, and are fitted with refrigerating plants for cold storage. The annual subsidy is £6000. As a souvenir of the Easter Bowling Tournament held under the auspices of the Wellington Centre, Mr. G. F. Wilson has designed an artistic certificate in water colours, to be presented' to the Newtown Club, whose representatives comprised the winning rink. The certificate contains the namjes »of all the competing teams, grouped under the headings of their respective clubs, whose badges and colours are clearly marked, while as " side shows " there are portraits of the president of the centre (Mr. J. T. King), the lion, secretary (Mr. T. L. Churchward), representations of various bowling emblems, and other original features which make the certificate a pleasant memento of a very interesting gathering. Various individuals are endeavouring to convince people in Great Britain that prices in New Zealand have a loftiness thoroughly " worthy of the Dominion." " Some of the nonsense," writes The Post's London correspondent, "is, of course, quite honest — that is to say ;t; t ;s; s supplied in good l'aith by disappointed emigrants who have not had time to get to the root of things, or are only too willing to be discouraged. But some of it is written by experienced New Zealanders, men who must know that they are unfairly maligning their country. What are we to say, for instance, of the man who informs The Spectator that the cost of i'uel is £3 a ton ; that the cost of labour is so heavy that the Government has to make work for working men ; that an excessively high price has to bo paid for food and clothing. As a matter of fact, the New Zealander, accustomed to live on a certain scale in New Zealand, will find it quite impossible to ■ obtain in England the same quality in either food or clothing for the same ' money that he pays in New Zealand. A definite reservation must be made in respect to tweed suits, which are 30 per, cent, cheaper here than in the Dominion, ] and boots, which are somewhat cheaper. ' Food is dearer all round. It is difficult to obtain the quality that one is accustomed to in New Zealand except at the very high prices which wealthy people are able to pay." Mr. E. C Jack, writing in reference to the election of a committee for the Tc Aro School, submits that The Post's comments on the case were based upoii an incomplete report. The incident specially mentioned by Mr. Jack was the disqualification of certain members of the old committee, on the ground that they resided outside the school district, and the filling of their places by [ a Biblc-in-schools ticket. The correspondent maintains that the mention of those members' ineligibility for office could not have come as a surprise at tho meeting. "I stated at the meeting," declares Mr. Jack, "that twelve months before, m the same room, I had drawn attention to the fact. Further than that, tho secretary stated at the meeting that ;t week previously he had enquired at the Education Board as to their position, and had been advised that they were outeido the district. Yet, singularly enough, with a full knowledge of the fact, the names were- placed on the blackboard for nomination." -Mr. Jack also says that "the opinion was not expressed, publicly at any rate, in the meeting that a section had acted unfairly, though one gentleman no doubt would have done so had the the firmness of the chairman not' prevented him." Finally, he states that "the 'Bible-in-Schools Party is acting fairly and squarely in all its actions." The brevity of the report was in the circumstances a matter of necessity. With elections and other matters crowding the space, it was impossible to havefull reports of all he householders" meeings. . The attention of ladies is drawn to particulars of "two health talks" to be Riven in tho^Viavi Rooms, Bank N.S.W. Chambers, on Thursday and Monday afternoons next, at 3 p.m.