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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 5

Arrangements are being made through an Auckland firm for the prospecting of the ranges at the back of the Thames. The Minister for Mines cannot see his way to contribute towards an increase of the salary of the director of the Waihi School of Mines from £330 to £375. Co-operative workers in New Zealand for the month of April last numbered 8862. of whom 4616 were employed by the Public Works Department, and 4246 oy tho Roads Department. For being on the platform of the Thorndon Railway Station, without having the necessary authority, Albeit Crampton, expressman, was yesterday-, in the S.M. Court, fined 10s, with costs 9s. Professor Park announced, at the meeting of the Otago Institute, that the sum of £153 10s had been taken at the Shacklej:on lecture in Dunedin. Expenses had amounted to £29. Of the balance £50 was devoted to the Karitane Home, and the remainder to the students' building fund. Thomas Brownley, for using obscene language in Taranaki-place yesterday, was brought before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., to-day. He was fined £5, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. Agnes Mary Reardon, for importuning, was fined £2. The penalty for default in her case was fixed at one week's imprisonment. For insobriety, two first offenders were convicted. According to the Labour Journal, "quiet" describes the state for the month ending 31st 'May of the Wellington agricultural operations, building and engineering trades; "fair" is the description of the leather, retail, and cycling aiul motor trade;. ; '"active" l«, applies t<> coach-building and meat freezing industries; "busy" to clothing; "slack" to j unskilled labour; and "dull" to printing j trades. Last evening, in the Oddfellows' Hall, Petone, the Wellington branch of the Amalgamated Society of. Railway Servants held its annual smoke concert, Mr. H. R Johnson presiding. There was a large number of members present. During tho evening a lengthy toast-list was honoured, interspersed among which ! were musical items by the .following ! contributors : — Messrb. F. Mason, V. Burridge, J. Canty, Hutchison, Evans, j and Brooker. In replying to the toast I of the A.S.R.S., the' general secretary (Mr. M. J. Mack) spoke of the growth of the movement. Apples will be dearer next week than for some time past, there having been a falling off in the somewhat plenteous supplies that were forward all last month. Lemons, 1 too, a»e scarce, and up to 7s a case has been paid for them wholesale this week. Potatoes haVe been coming in from iMarlborough in. large loti all the week, but prices have been steady at £5 to £5 10s per ton for best quality. Sacks of pumpkins found purchasers at 4s 6d to 5s each, and choice cauliflowers have brought up to 9s per sack. Cabbages, which wore a glut m the market a few months ago, and practically unsaleable at 9d and Is a sack, have sold up to 2s 9d per sack this week. French beans, a luxury in the winter, were sold at from Es to '7s per half-sack. A present guest of the Wellington V.M.C..A. is tho Rev. W. Powell, who is here on a three weeks' visit, in the course of a tour of Australasia, undertaken on behalf of his leper home at Bapatla, Guntur district, India. Mr. Powell, who has spent over twenty years m the work of assisting lepers in India, will preach in several of the Wellington pulpits to-morrow, when he will give his hearers some idea of the affliction — mental, social, and physical — which leprosy entails upon sufferers from it. There are 10,000 of the most needy cases who are in receipt of immediate comfort, but tho majority of the diseased are uncared for and unsegregated. Some few scattered homes have been established in India by the Government, but this assistance is quite inadequate for the need of the great work. Mr. Powell has therefore undertaken a tour by which he hopes to gain £500 towards the upkeep of his Bapatla Home of 127 patients, whom he has made his own charge. In Auckland he raised £80 for the fund, and he is hopeful that the people of Wellington will hhow a practical sympathy both with his Indian labours and the suffering of 'their Indian fcllowmen. If you have to shift, get us to do the work.' We will do it carefully, and economically, and reduce the worry to a minimum. The N.Z. Express Co. Tel 1333.— Advt. The Imperial Defence Conference, which is to be hold in London at the end of July, is causing a political sensation in ]Sew Zealand. Tho debatable question arise 3, who is the best man to represent the Dominion? Present indications, according to those in authority are that the Prime Minister will bo the one selected. The selection over, ladies will have time to investigate a 20 per cent, discount which is now obtainable in the fur department at C. Smith's, Ltd., Cuba-street ; 4s in the £ will bo allowed on all furs purchased this week. White foxnline, 10s fid, 12s 6d, 15s 6d, 21s; white Thibet, 7s 6d, 83 6d, ICs 6d, 12s 6d ; brown marmot-, 6s 6d, 8s 6d, 11s 6d. 15s 6d; bear, 10s 6d, 15s 6d, 25?, 42s.— Advt.

Me3si\. Levirn, Shallerass and Co. advertise that thoir next sale of household furniture and effects will bo held at tho Central Auction Rooms on Friday next. A number of properties are advertised to let hy the same firm, including a -vtaie\cuse in tho Hotel Windsor block. Tenders aio called for leasing for rhrco jtars about throe acres, of grass land fronting White's Lint. Particulars arc obtainable at tho ofiics of tho Hutt River Board. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure 1b 6d and 2s &L— Advt.