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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 8

Concerning the Knyvett episode, the Otago Daily Times says :—"The proposal that a Roya! Commission should be set up to enquire into the administration of the Defence Department will not commend itself to a community which has of late had more than enough of commissions, and it is gratifying to find that even Sir Joseph Ward recognises that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The suggestion, however, that a competent tribunal should be appointed before which Captain Knyvett should receive a fair trial will be received with a good deal of favour." The value of some photographs (£1 18s) was claimed in the S.M. Court today, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., by P. D. Francks, photographer, from Eliza Lee, of Kent-terrace. Defendant stated that she understood that she had fully settled the cost of the prints. Judgment was for claimant for £1 Bs, with costs £2. Mr. Fair appeared for plaintiff. A parade of the Wellington Rifle Battalion was called for Saturday next, but owing to unforeseen circumstances it has had to be cancelled. Mr. M. Marcus will arrive in Wellington on Wednesday nejet by the llanaka, en routo for Dunedin, where he opens the next tour of the Harry Hickaids Company. Included in vhe compauy aie Mr. Frasco Piper, a banjoplayer and juggler, of whose success m the Australian States reports have been received; the three Sitters Trapnell, acrobats after the style of the Klos Sisters; and Fred. Bluett, and Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons, who 'appear in an original sketch. The foimer will also lecture on the Fitzsimmons-Lang fight films, which form a portion of the entertainment The Hennah and Rissel's Patent Course Recorder —a Wellington invention—is, according to reports received by last mail, being well received in the Old Country. Mr. Rissel writes that he has already received an offer 0f.£10,000 from brokers acting on behalf of the Submarine Sounding Bell Company, but the terms were such that he did not advise a sale in that quarter. Messrs. Cassells and Company, the celebrated makers of scientific instruments, made the recorder their chief exhibit at the exhibition of the Physical Society, London. The Post's special correspondent at Dunedin telegraphed this afternoon :—: — Mr. Oakey, who came here from Wellington a few weeks ago as Town Clerk at Mornington, has resigned the position owing to failing health. The postal authorities advise that the Victoria, which left Sydney yesterday for Auckland, has on board an Australian mail, which is due here on Monday afternoon next. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Taylor are leaving for England on Ist April. Cabled reports from London as to the progress of the January wool sales are most encouraging. It was thought to be not improbable that the trade disturbance caused by the General Election would prejudicially influence prices. This has not been the case, however, and in the absence of any better reason it can only be assumed that the manufacturers of woollens had been working for a long time on short supplies of raw materials until the stores had become absolutely bare. The price not only keeps up, but has advanced in some cases to as high as 10 per cent. To-day's cable message corroborates private information received by local brokers, and published yesterday. The position is a very strong one, but, as has so often been pointed out, one can never tell how long it is going to last. This morning a party, . arranged by the Picton office of the Union Steam Ship Company, was to have left Picton to make investigations into the nature of the wreckage that is reported to have come ashore at "White Bluff, near Cape Campbell, from the wrecked Penguin. The result will probably be telegraphed to Mr. W. A. Kennedy, manager of the company at Wellington. Mr. J. B. Hobart, the author of "Dominion Banking," is to give a lecture in the Oddfellows' Hall, Lambton-quay, to-morrow night, under the auspices of the United Friendly Societies' Council. It is notified by advertisement in our columns that the Elcctriclight division of the No. 3 Co., Wellington Division New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteer* will be At Home on Sunday, 23rd Jan., in oamp near Mahunga B&y. The ateimer leaves Ferry .Wharf at 2,30 p.jOi