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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL, To-day'a representative Association and lacrosse matches will be reported at length in. Tho Post's Illustrated Sport* Edition, to 'be published at 8 o'clock to-night. All the other local sports fixtures will also be reported, and the result will be given of the Grand National Steeplechase event at Flemington. Talismans, Waihis, and Junctions, as mediums of brokerage, are temporarily, at all events, overshadowed by Lower Thames mining propositions. No fewer than twenty-three transactions were recorded at ye&terday afternoon's meeting of the Exchange. Ma-y Queens and Waiotahi scrip again came in for most attention, as a glance at the sale list shows. Reported sales : — May Queen, 5s l£d, 5s 3d, 5s 6d; Waiotahi, Bs, 7s lid; Waihi Consol., 4s 6d, 4s 7d, 4s 9d ; Kuranui Caledonian,. 2s 6d, 2s 6£d ; Tairua Broken Hills, 2s 3d; Talisman, £2 15s; Maoriland, 7£d, 6£d, 6d; Mountain King, Is Bd. On 'Change sales : — May Queen, 5s sd, 5s 4£d, 5s 4£d ; Kurauui Caledonian, 2s 6£d ; Saxon, 3s sd ; Waiotahi, 7s Bd, 7s 9d. At this morning's call on 'Change business was done in Kuranui Caledonian, 2s 6d ; May Queen, 4s lOd j Waiotahi, 8s 9d; whilst reported lines were : May Queen, 5s Id, ss ; Talisman, £2 14s lO^d ; Waiotahi, 7s lid ; New Sylvia, 3s 3d, 3s 4d, 3s 4£d; Maoriland, 7£d; Dixon Consolidated, Is Id, Is 2d. Quotations : National Bank, cum div., £5 lls (b), £5 13s (s); Trust and Agency, lls 6d (b), 12s (s) ; Wellington Gas, £6 5s paid, £14 5s (s) j National Insurance, £1 8* 3d (b); Standard, £1 2s 9d (b) ; Wellington Meat, £3 Is (s) ; New Zealand Shipping, £6 17s (b) ; Kaiapoi Woollen, pref., £5 (s) ; Wellington, £2 19s 3d (b), £3 Is (s) ; Leyland Timber, £1 2s 6d (s); New Zealand Cement, £2 2s (b) ; Sharland, ord., £1 Is (b), £1 2s (s ; Consol. Gold., 18s (b), 18s 6d (s) ; Kara Jigahake, Is 5d (s) ; Kuranui Caledonian, 2s s^d (b), 2s 6d (s) ; May Queen, 4s 9£d (b), 4s lOd (s) ; Saxon, 3s 5d (s) ; Talisman, £2 14s 6d (b), £2 15s (s) ; Junction, £2 5s 9d (b), £2 6s 6d (s) ; Waihi, £9 3& (b), £9 4s (s) ; Waiotahi, 8s 9d (b), 8s lOd (s) j Waihi Consol., 4s 6d (sj ; Watchman, Is 9d (s) ; New Sylvia, 3s 4d (b), 3s 5d (s) ; Maoriland, 6d (b), Is (s) ; Dixon Consol., Is 2d (b), Is 3d (s). The following is a copy of a telegram, received from the Talisman Consolidated by the Wellington Stock Exchange, dated 9th July : — Sent following cable to London : — "No 12 level south : Progress 26 feet, values low. No. 13 level nortli : Drive on branch vein 435 feet south, progress 9 feet, width of reef 27 inches, values low." A child named Jack O'Sullivan was admitted to the hospital to-day, suffering from a broken leg. He is on the right road to recovery. Another large shipload of people was taken to Australia by the Moana, which left last night for Sydney. The vessel's passenger capacity was taxed to its utmost, there being 91 people travelling in the saloon, and 297 in the steerage — a total of 398. An inquest is to be held at the morgue to-morrow into the circumstances connected with the death of a thirteen months old infant, named Ivy Bertha Ford, daughter of Ernest Ford, 43, Moles-worth-street. The child, apparently healthy, died whilst having a warm bath. A further sum of £15,000 was voted by Cabinet yesterday for the Hutt railway duplication works. Twelve additional men from Petone and thirteen from Wellington have been put on the works. The Minister (Hon. J. A. Millar) says that these men are on day wages, and will not be kept on if they cannot do a fair day's work. There is no relief work about it. Pronouncements of much more than I usual interest, regarding labour matters, were made last night, by the Hon. Mr. Millar, Minister for Labour, in replying to a deputation from the Cabinetmakers' Union. A further amendment of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was foreshadowed, and some important changes in the executive work of the department were specified. Tlie Minister's remarks are reported at some length in another part of to-day's Post. Dr. M 'Arthur, S.M., intimated at the conclusion of the evidence yesterday in the case of John Milesi and Joseph Ingle, fishmongers v. William Hurcomb, fishmonger, that he would deliver his judgment next Thursday. This is a claim for £64 6s 2d, being the alleged unliquidated balance of a partnership account due to plaintiff at the time of tho determination of the partnership between them and defendant. Mr- O. Beere is for plaintiffs and Mr. Hindmarsh is for defendant. The deputation which waited upon the Reserves Committee of tho City Council, with reference to the use of city grounds to-day, Messrs. H. N. Holmes and A. H. Casey, representing the Wellington Football Association and the Lacrosse Association respectively, obtained an assurance that the grounds would be available to-day, whatever the weather. The fixtures ?.ro accordingly being played as arranged. The committee impressed on the deputation, however, that to-day's concession was by no means to be taken as a precedent. A five-year-old boy named Ronald O'Connor, son \>i the proprietor of the Arcadia Private Hotel, had a miraculous escape from death yesterday. When playing on a landing of the fifth story of the building he escaped the vigilance of his mother and walked on to a largo skylight, and fell through, a distance of about 40 feet, on to a board landing. The child was picked up in a semiconscious condition. Dr. Napier M'Lean. who was called in, expressed surprise on finding no bones broken nor dislocated. The boy was removed to the hospital, and on enquiry to-day was found to be progressing iavourably. Opponents of the proposals of the Karori Borough Council to borrow £27,500 to extend the borough's tramline to the Recreation Ground, and to levy a special rate, did not receive very much sympathy at the meeting of ratepayers called last evening to discuss the idea. After the chief objector to the scheme had aired his views, and- had resumed his seat, another ratepayer, a staunch advocate of the projected extension, took the floor to controvert the opponent's unfavourable assertions. He turned upon the critic, and, ignoring the chaiv and its occupant, challenged him with very pertinent' questions. Humorous spiiits in the audience vastly encouraged the floor-holder, the interrogated ratepayer rose and looked at the chairman for support, the chairman rose simultaneously, but ail to no purpose. The oross-pxamination continued. Did he (the enemy) not vote for the establishment of the present system? Well, even if he was in Dunodiu at tlie time, thu opponent of to-day was a warm supporter then. Did the critic not confide in him (the speaker) that the coming of the service had lifted tho value of his property from a negligible one to ''something like £1250" ? The critic replied m the negative — a denial received by the attacking party with a show of disbelief. Then the interpolating outsiders m the room made things merry for a space, into which the chairman arrived. with the intimation to the original speaker, that all questions must be put through the chair. Striped cloakings, in green and black brown and black, white and black marone and black, 52in wide, at 6s lid a yard. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd t Advt t