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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1909, Page 4

Topographical maps of Wellington district, for cuidance and information flf members of the defence force, are being prepared and revised by the District Defence Department. A conference of delegates from tha various branches in New Zealand of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers will be held in the Queen's Chambers (placed at the disposal of the Society by tha executive of the Australasian Institute* of Marine Engineers) on Tuesday next. A young man from Timaru had some unenviable experiences of employmentseeking in London recently. The local' Post states that he went in answer to an advertisement for a blacksmith's striker and found in the street a crowd of 2000 men on the same errand as himself. The Wellington and Wairaraga Charitable Aid Board for the current year (1909-10) will consist of Messrs W. C, Buchanan, J. P. Luke, D. M'Laren, A., W. Hogg, M.P.'s, F. Cohen, R. C. Kirk, M. W. Welch, J. J. Devine, and R. Moss, (Eketahuna). The first meeting of tho board will be held in the Town Hall at noon on Ist December. Yesterday afternoon the Normal Training College closed for the summer ■vacation. The students' breaking-up ceremony, held in the lecture-hall, wa« attended by Messrs. W. Allan, J. G. W. Aitken, Professor H. B. Kirk, Mr. Robert Parker, and the teaching staff. Speeches were given by various speak* ers. A social gathering was held in thai evening. Twenty-four targets were kept revolving all day at Trentham on Friday, when the four companies comprised in the Wellington College Cadets went through their annual class-firing course. The parade totalled 180 of afl ranks, and the general average of firing Ivas satisfactory. The cadets of St. Patrick's College will go through a similar course next week. Mr. R. S. Badger, a resident of Christchurch, has received from a British firm established in St. Petersburg a request for information in regard to the possibility of commencing trade between New Zea^nd and Siberia by way of VJadivostock, the Lyttelton Times reports. Mr. Badger hopes that people who are interested in the proposal will communicate with him. A financial statement presented at last riighVs meeting of the Technical Education Board disclosed that the board has a debit balance of £977 4s Bd. Outstanding receipts total £1712 11s sd, composed mostly of capitation. The salaries for 'November and December amounted to £1020 10s Bd. Accountg totalling £1144 0s lOd were passed for payment. Last year at the same- period thero was a credit balance of £1460 78 sd. Within tEe past two months thera have been considerably fewer people travelling from New Zealand to Australia than was the rule during tha winter. The migration is now reversed^ and the number coming from Australia is' much greater than the number going there. The Moana, which left yesterday afternoon for Sydney, carried only 115 passengers, while the Ulimaroa landed nearly 600 people here from Sydney last Wednesday. Prospects of a good season, and the increased demand for harvesters and shearers in New Zealand, doubtless account for the reversal. While the Mayor was delivering a a panegyric on progressive New Zealand, at the reception to Mr. and Mrs. Will' Crooks last night, he happened to chance, among the list of State and municipal enterprises, on that of the State coal mines. "Wa have State fire insuranoe," he .said, "and State coal — " "When we can get it," came a voico from the rear, and the audience, reminded of the trouble on the West Coast, burst into hearty laughter. Mr. Crooks, who had evidently been reading the papers, saw the point, and joined in with a smile. Mr. Will Qrooks, M.P., who, with Mrs. Crooks, arrived from Auckland yesterday, will go on to Christchurch on Monday night. After spending a day and a half in that city, they proceed to . Dunedin, and remain there until the Monday following, when they will leave for tfee Bluff to catch the boat for Hobart and Melbourne. Recent political developments have necessitated a speedier return home- than expected, and Mr. and Mrs. Crooks will leave Melbourne for England on the ■ 14th December. Mr. Crooks will be th© guest of the New Zealand Club at lunch' on Monday. "We have heard a good deal about whait these municipal abattoirs can do>," said Councillor Hindmarsh at the official opening of the Wellington municipal abattoirs, a.t Ngahauranga, "but we have, not been told that pigs haven't to pass through them. Yet pigs spread more disease than any other animal ! I think we should v all endeavour to have pigs brought within the meaning of the Act." Mr Garrett, a master butcher who was present, professed some incredulity, and asked what was the use of making butchers slaughter at municipal abattoirs if pigs were exempt. Some farmers had asked him, he said, whether they were entitled to slaughter pigs on their' farms if intended for city consumption, but he had been unable to tell them. He would like to hear the Government veterinarian f on the point. Mr. Reakes answered that it was the case that farmers could slaughter not • more than five pigs a week on their own farms. Mr. Garrett : "It is the dirtiest of animals! This ought to be stopped." The Mayor (Dr. Newman) said that tha Abattoirs Committee of the City Council had had,the anomaly under consideration for some time, for it recognised the gravity of the case. The Government also had the matter under consideration, and Dr. Newman believed that in a .very short time it would be found that all pork intended for consumption in the city would have to go through these abattoirs. In the Divorce Court yesterday a decree nisi was granted in the case Callan v. Callan. The petitioner, James Callan. a seaman, was married to the respondent (nee Alice Sheriff) at Port Chalmers in 1892, and thero was issue. The co respondent was Walter Henry I» r orris. Tho parties reside in Wellington. Custody of two children was granted to the petitioner, for whom Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared. Costs on the lower scale were given against corespondent. £10 in Prizes.—Baxter's simple Tracing Competition. Separate prizes for children and adults. For pnrtirulars see advertisement on page 3 of this issue. — Advt. Xmas parcels for imroad. Get us to forward them. Our service is most reliable. We pnek in cases and send direct by steamer. Tho New Zealand txpresa Co., Ltd. — Advt. The crisis in tho Australian coalfields has far moro teaching effects than was at first anticipated, and now many investor! are expressing grave doubts in connection wit.i tho local coal industry. A reliable investment is available for to-day, which would repay any one taking advantage of the same. Tho head-quarters of this great investment may be found in Cuba-street, at tho store of C. Smith, Ltd. Every oni is cordially invited to inspect our samplo goods purchased from the well-known manufacturers, I. and R. Morley, Copew t. Cram P ton and Co., Ware-street Warehouse Co., at 50 per cent, below usual prices, and row on display, uaving you 7s 6d to 10s in the £. It is only necessary to steto that these goods being samules cannot be duplicated, consequently it is advisable to shon early and «ecure first choice. — AdTk