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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 14, 18 January 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. The Evening Post sheet almanac for 1910 will be issued gratis with Friday's paper. Mr. Vernon Reed, M.P. for the Bay of Islands, has (states a Press Association telegram from Auckland) initiated an agitation, the object of which is to induce the Government to constitute a Royal Commission to enquire regarding the control of the New Zealand forces. A telegram signed by Messrs. Reed, Baume, Poole, Glover, and Poland, M.P.'s, was despatched to-day to the Prime Minister. It asks, in view of the early operation of the Defence Act, that an exhaustive enquiry should be held by a R&yal Commission into all matters pertaining to the adminstration generally by the executive officers of the Defence- Department. The postal authorities advise that the Warrimoo, which left Sydney on Saturday, 15th inst., for Wellington, has on board an Australian mail, which is due here ou Wednesday next, 19th insfc. Ratepayers will be pleased to know that the corporation tramways revenue continues to improve. The cash receipts last Saturday were £514, being an increase of £77 by comparison with the corresponding clay of last year. Sunday's receipts totalled £277, an increase of £15. At the present time about four thousand applicants for employment have their names registered on the books of the Wellington City Electrical Tramways Department of thic city. From every part of New- Zealand, and from many parts of Australia, the applications have come. It should be noted that a large number of the applicants have present employment; their intention in seeking new appointments being simply to better their positions. The number on the books of the department was much greater about six months ago, and there was then a larger proportion of the applicants out of employment. Authorisations to the extent of £28;950 for railways, and £1456 for roads have been made by Ca"binet. Rordan Feran, held to be the putative father of an illegitimate child, was yesterday, in' the Magistrate's Court, ordered to contribute 7s per week towards its maintenance, with costs £9. Defendant was also ordered to enter into a bond for £50, and two sureties of £25 each. He was allowed one week to find the/securities. Mr. Meredith appeared fo/ complainant, and Mr. P. W. Jackson for defendant. The funeral of the late Mr. Edward Seager took place yesterday afternoon. As a mark of respect, the Victoria. Foundry, which was owned by the deceased for so mtmy years, was closed, as was also the Star Foundry. Representatives of all the engineering establishments in the city, and the directors of the Wellington Opera House, the New Zealand Candle Co., and E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., attended the funeral. The burial service at Karori was conducted by the Rev. B. Hutson, Presbyterian minister at Brooklyn. The City Tramways Department has been advised that the spare parts of the undergear of the special car /for the Brooklyn section are now on their way out from America, via England. The motor, which was designed by Mr. Stuart Richardson, the City electrical engineer, has also been made in the States, and has probably been shipped by one of the steamers from New xork to New Zealand. The- car, which will have side entrances, and will hold 40 people, will probably be running within three months froir the present tima The first monthly meeting for the year of the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand was hejd yesterday afternoon in the National Mutual Lif© Association's Buildings, when all the members ot the Wellington section of the board (Messrs. G. Bagley, J. Baillie, F. Castle, and A. Hobson) were present. Mr. F Castle was unanimously chosen to be president for the year, this making his second term of tenure of that office. A report of the result of legal proceedings heard at Dunedin in December against T. R. Scott was made by the board'fi solicitor, Mr. Nielsen, and the position was partly discussed. A conference of all the New Zealand members of the board was fixed to commence on Bth June, 1910, when matters of importance to pharmacists will be dealt with. The electric lighting department of the Wellington City Council is well abreast of the times in the latest developments of what might be termed domestic electricity. The department, in its showrooms in Harris-street, has an oven roasting ioints and baking pastry while citizens look on :an electric , toaster turning out a toast with a flavour all its own ; electric grillers ; electric kettles boiling watei in a few minutes, and half a dozen other pieces of handy apparatus for saving time and trouble. There are electric shaving- water heaters, electric gluepdts, electric curling tongs, and other articles to be seen in use at the rooms, worked by ordinary currents. Both yesterday morning and afternoon the showroom was visited by a large number of people, chiefly ladies, who took a great interest in the new methods. Do you know that we make a speciality of picture-framing, and have ovet 300 patterns of mouldings to select from ? A beautiful collection of ai>t pictures. Kirkcaldie and Staing t Ltd,— Advt.,