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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL, Topical illustrations in the Sports Edi» tion of the Evening Post to bo published' at 8 o'clock this evening will include pictures of Arnst and Webb, the contestants in the sculling race to be decided at 'Wanganui on Tuesday nest. A special article on the subject of the race will also appear. Full accounts of this afternoon's eports fixtures will be grven as usual. Waihi Consolidateds were sold at 5s on 'Change yesterday, at the second call, and no other business was done} but sales were reported, thus : — National Insurance, £1 8s 3d; Tairua Broken Hills, 2s 6id; Waihi Consolidated, 5s 2d, 5s 4d; Watchman, 2s 2d, 2s 4d; New Alpine (9s 3d paid), Ss 3d. Transfers la three lines — Tairua Broken Hills at 2s 6d, Talisman at £2 12s 9d, and Waihi Consolidated at 4s 10d and 4 s lid — ivere effected this morning, and the reported sales comprised Wailii Grand Junction, £2 6s 3d, £2 6s 6d; New Alpine (9s 3d paid), 8s 3d. The closing quotations to-day were : National Bank, i/5 6s 6d (b),- £5 7s 6d (s): Bank of .New Zealand (cum dividend), £9 4s 6d (b); National Mortgage, £3 (s) ; Loan and Mercantile, 4s (s) ; River Plate, £1 14s (b); Wellington Investment T. and A lls 6d (b) j Wellington Trust Loan, £7 (b); Christchurch Gas (£5), £9 (b); Feilding Gas, £1 Os 3d (b), £1 Os 9d (s) ; Wellington Gas, £18 2s" 6d for £10, and £1 Us premium for new issue ; Standard Insurance, £1 2s 3d (b), £1 2s 9d (s); Christchurch Meat, £10 10s (b) ; Gear Meat, £10 4s 3d (b) for £4, and £2 lls 9d (b) for £1 • Wellington Meat, £5 (s) for £4; Union I Steam, £1 14s (b) ; Wellington Woollen (ordinary), £3 Is (s) ; Taupiri Coal, £1 Os 6d (s) ; Westport-Stockton, 7s 6d (s) : Kauri Timber (15s paid), 15s (s) ; Leyland O'Brien, £1 2s 6d (s); Portland Cement (ex dividend), £1 19s 9d (b) £2 Os 6d (s); Sharland and Co., 19s (b); Taranaki Petroleum, 7s (s). Mining :— Kuranui Caledonian, Is 2d (b), Is 4d (s) ; New Zealand Crown, 5s J3id (b), 5s lid 1 (s); May- Queen, 2s 8d (b), 2s lOd (s); Saxon, 2s id (b) ; Tairua, Broken Hills, 2s 6d (b), 2s 8d (s) ; Talisman, £2 12s 9d (b), £2 13s (s); Waihi Extended, 6s 8d (b), 6s lOd (s) ; Waihi Grand Junction, £2 6s (b), £2 6s 6d (s) • Waihi G.M., £9 Os 6d (b), £9 Is 6d s )'; Waiotahi, 3s 7d (b), 3s lOd (s) ; Waihi Consolidated, 4s IOJd (t>), 5s (s) ; Waitangi, 3s lOd (b), 4s (s) ; Watchman, 2s Id (b); New Alpine, 8s (b), 8s 6d (s) for 9s 3d, and 8s 6d (b), 9s 3d (s) for 10s. The mails which left Wellington on, the 27th May by the s.s. Manapouri, aud connected at Papeete with the Mariposa, arrived at San Francisco on thq 18th instant — due date. The General Assembly (Library will reopen to reeese, privilege holders on Wednesday next His Honour Mr. Justice Sim leaves for Palmerston Xorth to-Say. On Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, he will commence hearing of the case of Mason v. Thomson, an action for rescission of contract and a refund of purchase money on a farm at Manakau. Damages also are claimed. Counsel engaged are Mr. i Skerrett, K.C., and Mr. Moore for the , plaintiff, Dr. Eindlay and Mr. T. Young I for the defendant. "I listened patiently while you were talking!" remarked Councillor Atkinson | to . an interrupting fellow councillor on Thursday night. Councillor Devine: "Xo jspu didn't 1" Councillor Atkinson : "I assure you that I did. It wasn't very ' easy, but I did it." Fourteen councillors i who seemed to have been in a similar case (it was 9.15 p.m., and the gentleman in regard to whom Mr. Atkinson, said he had shown such forbearance, had spoken seven times), laughed loudly. The next ordinary meeting of the City Council' has been fixed as the time to hear objections to proposed public drains through private property. A special meeting of the Miramar Borough Council will be held at npou on i Monday next to pass special ordeis deal- ' ing with the raising of a special loan of £3000, and with the diminishing of the width of Broadwsry near its junction with Ira-street, Cornwall-street, and Tio Tio-road. Dr. F. C. Batchelor and Dr. Truby King are, at the request of the Otago University Senate, consulting with the Inspector-General of Schools (Mr. G. Hogben) regarding the curriculum necessary for the ut iversity degree for the proposed Studholme chair of domestic economics. Despite the depression existing everywhere, work at the Bruce Woollen Mills is (states our Dunedin special) becoming very brisk. Orders are daily increasing, and the whole of the employees are working full time, in, order to cope with the demand. The management has found it necessary to increase the staff. - Mr. James Moore, the Seamen's Miasioner, has received a letter from a resident of Brooklyn, New York, enquiring as to the whereabouts of Charles 'M'AWfer, a &ajlo/ , who wa«« la«>t heurd o£ in Wellington. Any information about the man, who is a native of Greenock, Scotland, will be thankfully received by Mr. iMoore. s A meeting of the South Wellington School Committee was held Inst evening. It was decided, amongst other things, to establish a miniature rifle range, and a committee was set up to give effect to the project. The City Council is to be approached with the view of having the footway in Eussoll-terrace attended to. Mr. Higginbottoin was nominated as a candidate for a eeat on the Educatioa Board. It has been stated that some licensees in what will soon be "dry" districts intended ha\ing convivial "celebrations" on the fateful 30th inst., after closing time. However, Inspector Elli&on points out that although the hotels will close at 10 o'clock as übual, on the last day of the month, the licenses will not actually expire until midnight on that date, and that, therefore, any persons found on licenses premises without lawful excuse during the two dying hour.*, arc liable- to the usu.il penalty. ".Progress of British . Merchant Shipping," a Pailiamont'ary paper wkkh was issued eaily this year, notes that the proportion of foreign seamen employed in the British mercantile marine <hows a steady decrease sin«j the ycav 1903. The total n onion of foreigner to every hunBritish poiscns employed in that; year was 22 88, while for the yeur 1907 it was 18.35. Ihe number of BriUtlj persons employed, not including Lascars, has lisea from 176,5,"-0 in the former year to 194,848 ill the latter. A young woman of respectable appearance — Maggie M'Dermott, alias Leawas charged to-day before Mr. W. G, Kiddell, S.M., with insobriety. She consented to <a prohibition order being issued against her, and was convicted and discharged. An old man named John v Tumor, who was still suffering from the «ffccte of liquor, wu rtm&ndad to the 26th inst. for m«dical treatment. ■ P«tei> Nelson was fintd 10s, in dafault 48 hours imprisonment, for inebriety, and on first-offender was penalised to the (Knan.J of ss, with the option of 24 hours' ivn» prisonment. Crepe de clwjiie Direot«oire evening scarves, with slides and large silk tassels, n cream, sky blue, heliotrope, and hrown, at °^s 6d each. Kirkcaldie anj Stains, Ltd.— Ad>4.