ARRIVALS BY THE IONIC.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 8

ARRIVALS BY THE IONIC.

The lonic, from London, brought 240 assisted passengers, made up as follows : — 56 men, 120 women, 67 children. The number nominated by relatives in x>ew Zealand was 163, of "whom 62 are under twelve years of age. Seventy of the tululte, and five children, were approved Iby the'. High Commissioner. Amongst the assisted passengers are — 54 domestics 15 farmers, 13 farm labourers, five housekeepers, and 37 women who have come to rejoin their husbands. The 'total capital of the passengers approved by the High Commissioner i« £3275.

'Initiates of the Ohiro lfome to-date number 98, of whom 68 . are men. In the intermediate, or casual ward, there are 26 inmates, nil men. ' Late on Saturday evening some intruders with a large disregard lor property broke open the doors of a new launch in the boat (harbour. This vessel, which has beeiv. in the water little more than three weeks, was relieved of an accumulator and some tools. The contents of the lockers, "after being turned out on the floor, were left behind. The articles | taken, we are informed, would be of use only in a motor boat. As announced in our advertising columns, a reward is being offered for information which will lead to the detection of the perpetrator or perpetrators. • ' ' Signs of the Old Year's dissolution have become apparent, though sufficient length of days remain to it to permit of further revolutions and afternoon teas, and other gatherings that lead to news, transpiring before new's issues of almanacs become absolute necessities. None the less, they are handy articles to have on business 'both as means of ready reference and as a reminder that time still shares' the characteristics of the birds of the air, Count Zeppelin, the Wright Brothers, and possibly some New Zealand experimonters. First in the field with almanacs for 1910 is the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Company, from whose local agents, Messrs.'Rowley and Gill, The Post has received two almanacs, which are well adapted for wall use, and which unite pleasing print and lithography with commendable clearness of figures. Mr. H. E. Gunter, the well-known Palmerston musician, is in Wellington for the purpose of undergoing an operation for the remdval of one of his eyes. Mr. Gunter has only recently recovered from an operation tor appendicitis. A meeting' of all those) interested in tho formation of o club to foster cash athletics, under N.Z. Union rules, will be held to-morrow evening at Mr. Neil Austin's rooms, Tho Don, old Exchange Hall Buildings. Mos&rs. Levien, Shallcrass and Co. advortiso a sale of household furniture- and effects a« tbo Central Auction Rooms on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Messrs. T. Ballinger and Co., Ltd., notify in our advertising columns that they have landed a shipment of electric irons, which, especially in tho hot summer weather, should prove a boon to housewives. .Messrs. J. 11. Bethuno and Co. are holding a property auction at their rooms at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow, when they will submit a residential property on Wellington-terrace, comprising freehold land with a frontage of 40ft by a depth "of. 330 ft (going right back to Kelburne. Park), on which stands the nine-roomed residence, No. 203, Wellington-terrace. They aro also offering two sections in Kenwyn-lorrace, near Rintoul-street ; those each have n frontage of 35ft 6in by a depth of 80ft. Tho auctioneers stato that a large proportion of the purchase money can remain on mortgage for three years at 5 per cent. ~ On the Palmcrston North Show Ground-, on Thursday, Mr. Harry Palmer will sell exhibits of purebred 'pigs. Me.sM I*.1 *. R. and E. Tinjjey, Matiner*strcot, ha-ve oti \ iew at their Man/ier.«strcct ••how rooms v collection of art pictuio» from the establishment of Raphuol Tuck, yt London, Particular* tire uUvor>tiaed. jib AUQtbejr pfiliUßO.