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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1909, Page 7

Further consideration of the matter of ■widening Willis-street was given by the Finance Committee of tho City Council, at its meeting yesterday afternoon. _ A sub-committee was set up to confer with Mr. J. Duthie as to the setting back of his premises. A meeting of all registered accountants. in the Wellington district, convened by the New Zealand Society of Accountants,' is to be" held in the Chamber of Commerce this evening. The business is defined as "the discussion and enunciation of principles which should govern the election of the council, the regulation of the society and its administration." "When you empty out the bath, take care you do not empty out the baby too," is a German proverb. It was quoted by the Rev. G-. J. Williams at. the annual meeting of the London Missionary Society last night. He was demonstratiug that the present was an age in which people preferred to do as they pleased, and scorned religious work, and he aptly made the quotation to illustrate a, statement that while such persons gained additional freedom they might lose their religious loyalty. The recent fire at Northland, in the opinion of a correspondent ('"Resident Ratepayer"), would not have been attended with such loss of property had tht City Council done justice to the ratepayers of the district. On such #ccasions, he says, the chemical eng./ie is absolutely useless, and the hose of the Drigade should have been brought into action, as there is a fine. play", with good pressure, about fifty yards from the ecene of the outbreak. The writer says residents are heavily rated for water supply, and he pleads for the services of the brigade in case of fire, and a callbox to render them quickly available. The equivalent of a broken platsglass window — £11 • Is — was sought in the S.M. Court yesterday afternoon by R. A. Wakelin and Son, builders, from Foley and Sons, plasterers. Plaintiffs, it appeared, were contractors for the erection of a certain building, and defendants were sub-contractors. During operations, defendants put up a swinging scaffold, which knocked down some bricks, and smashed the window. For the defence, several witnesses were called. They denied that defendants' men caused the damage. Counsel also urged that even if defendants were responsible, it would bo to the owners of the building, and not to plaintiffs. The magistrate gave judgment m favour of defendants, with costs (£1 Is). Mr. 1 D. M. Findlay appeared for claimants, and Mr. Herdman for the defence. The New "Zealand Parliament is to have an exact reproduction in silver of the historic mace which was installed in the House of Commons during the reign of Charles 11. The order (writes our London correspondent) has been placed in London, and the mace will be manufactured by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths' Company, of Regent-sheet. It is interesting to note that the mace from which the reproduction is about to be made is the third which the House of Commons has had. The first disappeared after the execution/ of Charles 1., and the second was the "bauble" that Cromwell ordered to be •removed. In the Museum at Kingston, Jamaica, there is preserved a mace which in the past has been claimed to be the identical one which wa-s the subject of the Protector's famous outburst. Accounts in connection with the Penguin Stewardesses' Memorial Fund have been finally Adjusted. The original proposal was to use the fund to endow a bed at the General Hospital, but as the fund proved inadequate for this purpose, it was resolved to distribute the money in endowing beds for stewardesses' children, and after them the children of seafaring folk, at" varipus local institutions. A total of £84 18s 9d was in hand, but three extra subscriptions were received : £2 8s from the Moeraki, 7s 6d from the Rotoiti, and 5s 6d irom the Manuka. Votes of £20 each were voted to four children's institutions, £1 2s was refunded to the Sailors' Grave Fund ; £3 10s was spent oi> tablets, and the "balance of £2 6s was handed to the Brooklyn Orphanage, which came into existence after the allocations to the other similar institutions were made. After The Post went io press yesterday, the hearing of the appeal regarding Northland rates was concluded before his Honour, Mr. Justice Cooper, in Banco. For appellant, Andersoh, Mr. T. F. Martin contended that the rate demand of the Karori Borough Council was not in order, inasmuch as the order •did not specify owner or occupier ; or the period for which the rate was payable ; that the period for which the rate was payable was not properly stated ; that the demand wae not made for the correct period in accordance with the rate struck. Further, the council had no statutory authority for collecting the rates outside its own boundaries. In reply, Mr. Hislop, as representing the Borough Council, argued that the rate demand was in order, and that the council had the liability. His Honour reserved judgment. Nervousness at examinations, and its influence upon candidates, and examiners and the final result, was referred to by Mr. Henry Saint George in the course of a lecture at Sydney-street Hall last evening. As examiner for Trinity College of Music, London, Mr. Saint George has had thousands of candidates sitting befdre him, and his psychological observations must necessarily have been extensive. • Thd examiners, he said, carefully studied this matter, and they tried to look through it to ascertain what were the real capabilities ' of the candidate sitting for an examination. There seemed to be some terror, but he assured the younger people that examiners were auit harmless folk. He advised all wlio were sitting for examinations to get themselves ready well beforehand, and' then for a few days before sitting to rest — just play what pieces they liked, and then they would come up fresh. If they played their test pieces right up to the very morning of the examination their work could not but be mechanical. If candidates practised like that — right up to the morning of the examination — they were almost certain to fail, for they would be terrified and depressed when they came before the examiner. He emphatically condemned the lust for certificates. The total figures on their cards were the least important — it was the details that mattered, for a candidate who had gained 60 marks might be really much more capable than one who had gained 90. Examinations were simply a means of "getting oneself measured." As for the rendering of, say, a sonata, he might say there were as many correct renderings as there were sincere performers. It was a matter of temperament, and this was well understood by the older masters. Storage wanted? Right; we have it! The very best in Wellington — brick stores, convenient, commodious. Lowest tariff rates. The N. Z. Express Coy. Tel. 1333.— Advt. Tho coining session is likely to be both interesting and important. One of tho chief items under discussion will be finance. We are told that the financial , position, of this country is tho most unsatisfactory that has been for many yoar3. This pinch that are feeling will necessitate the careful expenditure of capital. For the cheapest and best value in town, visit O. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-st. For this week special attention will be given to blouses, Peter Pan blouses in white muslin, deep collar and cuffa, tucked all over and. edged dainty shades of (sky, ■pink, helio, nil; 7s 6d. If out of town mail your order at once. — Advt.