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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 4

Judgment was reserved yesterday by Dr. M 'Arthur, S.M., in the case Aaron Samuels and George William Gray, carrying on business as the Wholesale Wooilen Company, v. Arthur William Norman Goode, F. W. Vare, W. F. Thompson, and W. J. Scammell, a claim for £81, the amount of a promissory note and interest. i On Tuesday next, at 9.30 a.m., his Excellency the Governor is to present a gold medal won by the best boy on the Amokurn. Lord Plunket will bo rowed out to the ship by a crew from the Amokura, while the Defence launch is to take out members of Parliament and the press, leaving Thorndon Esplanade at 9.15 o'clock. A proposal to invite to New Zealand the champion sprinter of the Olympian games— R. E. Walker, of South Africa — is being discussed by some of the centres affiliated to the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. The Wellington Centre has resolved that it views favourably the proposal, and -is willing to co-operate with the council in the matter. A suggestion has been made that it would be well, to also invite the South African Marathon champion (Heffeman) to make a visit to New* Zealand. Rather an anomaly was revealed in the S.M. Court to-day, when an inebriate was charged as a 3rst offender, although in the days gone by he had run up a total of 121 convictions. "A record libt, your Worship," remarked Sta-tion-Sergeant Darby. Lately, however, the man with the formidable record had been good, and became legally a first offender. His one hundred and twenty second conviction was entered to-day, and he was in addition fined ss, with the usual ilternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment. The Wellington branch of the New Zealand Teachers' Institute met last evening, Mr.' n. A. Parkinson presiding. The resignation of Mr. F. P. Wilson as a member of the institute was accepted. Miss Craig's notice of motion, "That this District Institute respectfully represents to the Wellington Education 1 Board, the advisability and justice of employing such of its teachers as are not in permanent positions in preference to teachcers from other districts," was referred to the Management Committee to report on. Twelve now members were elected. The question of recognising in a suitable manner the services to the city of the late Mayor (the Hon. T. W. Hislop) was discussed at a meeting of citizens last night. Amongst those present were Councillors Frost, Shirtcliffe, and Hindmarsh, and apologies for absence were received from Councillors Luke, Fletcher, and Cohen, who also expressed sympathy with the project. Mr. A. A. Corrigan was appointed chairman and treasurer, and Mr. George Goodall secretary. Sir Joseph Ward headed the subscription list. Those present at the meeting subscribed sixty-eight guineas. . At Messrs. Levien, Shallcrass, and Company's land sale yesterday a section in Myrtle-crescent, 200 ft by 82ft 9in, with a seven-roomed house upon it, was sold to Mr. Ward for £850. A property at the corner of Adelaide-road (Island Bay) and the Esplanade, consisting of a house of six rooms,- erected on a section 9O.ft by 83ft, was purchased by Mr. J. M. Benge and Miss G. Ger. trade Harding for £700. Both properties were offered by order of the mortgagee, under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court. The firm also submitted two other house properties—one, No. 260, Wellington-ter-race, and the other on Adelaide-road South ; but neither was sold, the reserves not being reached. No toy pleases the harebrained youth so much as a visitors-book, and no visi-tors-book pleased him so much as that in the Tourist Court of the Christchurch Exhibition. B ere, without let or hindrance, ho scribbled his opinion of the court, usually in gross taste and sometimes in terms quite unprintable. At Waitomo Caves house there is one such book. Gaucheries, like "Just the juicy oyster," and similar scintillations of meat-axe wit appear in it. This is a fiee country, and opinion of all and sundry is sought. Some visitors have emptied their vocabularies in praise of 'the^ cave 6, but in more or less respectable language Piety and desire for creatnre comforts are thus epitomised : " Thy works, O God, are glorious — very; clean ;good table." It is the opinion of some members of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association that the body it succeeded is unduly delaying the transfer of its funds. At last night's meeting of the Wellington Centre, a reference to the matter was made by Mr. J. H. Pollock, who said that the new council was now determined to send a representative team to Brisbane, to compete in the Australasian championship events, notwithstanding the inconvenience caused by the delay of the old council in forwarding the funds to the new body. It wes no fanlt of the present council that those who were to make the trip hsd not been communicated with before; the sole reason had been the difficulty regarding money matters. He advised every athlete who had a chance of selection to keep in good form. With the day of doom so near at hand to all hotels affected -by the November licensing pell, it is interesting to have an estimate of the losses to tha parties concerned. On another page the position in Wellington South and Suburbs is fully described. The losses in - Masterton, which is also going "dry" at the same time, are even greater. Mr. Martin Kennedy, managing director for Staples and Co., who own several of the Masterton hotels, told a Post reporter that the loss would be over £30,000. The Club Hotel, valued at aboiit £15,000, would lose, £10,000 by the advent of the new era j the Empire, a new building, costing £12,000, about the same amount ; and the Queen's and the Central about £5;»0 each. The Occidental, Mrs. Sullivan's hotel, would probably be affected to the same extent. Mr. T. G. Macarthy put the loss on the Prince of Wales, an hotel just rebuilt by order of the Licensing Committee, at about £7000. , A correspondent with the expressive norn deplume of ".Graft till the Skin Comes off my Hands," has written to the editor of The Post, complaining that when he and a friend called recently at the Labour Bureau, enquiring for employment, they were treated with scant courtesy, and even rudeness. The writer supplies details of a conversation which, he alleges, took place between him and Mr. M'Keown, the officer in charge of the Bureau. "Graft, Etc.," suggests that he and his friend, after admitting that they wer«> "VoloniaJs, bom here," were practically told that they hxd httic chance of getting work, although, when they had at first asked "if theie were any jobs going," they were told "yes.'! When this matter was mentioned by a Post reporter to Mr. M'Keown, he "domed that he had ever been discourteous to any caller, and he was sure that he had not taken part in any conversation of the kind detailed by "Graft." In fact, he contended that if there was ever any discourtesy in his office he was the receiver rather than the giver of it, for some men seemed to think that he was personally to blame when he had no v.ork lo ofier thei< Swathed Toque on Mole Ottoman silk, lined under hrim with Saxe blue, and trimmed with bandeau, with touches of same, at 455. Kirkcaldie and Stains. Ltd.— Advt, .