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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 64, 17 March 1910, Page 6

The foundation stone of the new brick fire brigade station at Palmerston North that the Fire Board is erecting, was laid by Councillor Armstrong, the chairman, with appropriate ceremonies yesterday afternoon, telegraphs our local correspondent. There seems to be every prospect of an early start on the construction of the Wadestown tramway. Application has already been made to the Government for the necessary loan. About the end of April is the present forecast of the time of starting. Tenders are to be called very shortly by the City Council for setting back the block of buildings in Willis-street, containing the premises of Messrs. Goodall and Lyons. The alterations, which aro in view of the general street widening scheme, will convert the^ block into four shops with offices upstairs. Mr. H. E. M'Gowan, of Willowbridge, has imported an American potato digger. It was at work on Saturday (says the Waimate Advertiser), when sixteen men were busily employed following the mechanical /lifter of tha tubars. The crops, according to Mr. M'Gowan, are turning out very well. As -the machine has 200 acres of potatoes still to lift, there will be ample opportunity of inspection. The engagement book of Mr. P. Hally, • -•••cihation Commissioner, is fairly full for the next few days. He will deal in Xapier to-morrow with a dispute in the tailoring trade, and also endeavour to bring about an understanding between wharfworkers there and their employers. Then follow two West Coast coal miners* disputes. Afterwards the Weilingtoa Saddlers and Wellington Branch of»the Amalgamated Society of Engineers will claim Mr. Hally's attention. Speaking on Parliamentary prospects to a Southland Times reporter, Mr. Hanan, M.P., stated that he was, satisfied that the Land Bill of iast session would not be brought befoie Parliament again, and he doubted very much if there would be another Land Bill introduced in the coming session. He thought that the greater part of the session should be devoted to consideration of the Local Government Bill which the Premier last session intimated he would introduce after the vacation. Consideration would also, he believed, be given to some amendments of the Licensing Act. S The native locusts are more numerous on the Port Hills than they have been for many years (reports the Christchurch Press). Small grasshoppers are also more plentiful. The reason for this is probably to be found in the fact that during tha last two years there has been a more than usually, abundant growth of grass, and no fires have taken, place. The locusts are not identical with, the migratory pest to be found in South. America, Africa, and Austialia. Tha New Zealand locust has only a short flight. He has been seen and heard in lar^e numbers in the Hutt Valley this year. Newcastle without coal was an unprecedented sight beheld in New South Wales this year. Now an equally strangeoccurrence is to be reported in Levin, which is without cabbages (reports the local Chronicle). Local vegetable growers state that -there are none in their gardens worth hawking, the turnip fly or some icindred pest having riddled the leaves until there is neither health nor heart left in them. It is understood that the chief of the Weraroa Experimental Farm is of opinion that the use of ammonia water, will provide a future remedy, but the thoroughness of the cure is still to be ascertained. Questioned at Auckland witn regard to the proposed new service between Australia and London via South America, connection with the trans-Andine railway at Valparaiso, Sir James Mills declined to express art opinion on the subject, in view of the fact that no news of the proposition had reached him until his arrival in Auckland yesterday morning (says a Press Association mesfcage). The_ question of distances and the possibilities of trade between Australia and New Zealand with Chila needed te be seriously gone into (Si>* James explained) befoie any definite opinion could be expressed. With the aid of candle light, members of the Victoria College Council last night, when the usual business meeting wag over, made a cursory inspection of tha new wing to the college building, The addition, which is not yet out of the builder's hands, consists of two new class looms, a common room, a gowning room, and a tea or reception room. The class rooms met with general approval. Comment was made upon the improved sloping floor and' the ventilation and light ing was also considered to be eatisfactoiy. "This wing," facetiously remarked one member, when the tour of inspec. tion was over, "is almort done, but we are not finished yet — wo want mor« wing»." "We will be in heaven, then," added another member of the board. Now that the new wing to Victoria College is nearing completion, the Finance Committee reported to laet night'a meeting of the College Council that it was anxious to obtain tne balance of the promised contributions. It asked that any members of the council who had promised subscriptions outstanding should endeavour to get them in without delay. In explaining the financial position, the chairman intimated that tha promised contributions amounted to £772, of which £661 had been actually received. The secretary announced that in addition two of the professors had £75, which would be paid in immediately. The expenditure on the job was £2506 6s 6d, towards which there was tbe Government subsidy of £1000 and the £661 already mentioned. It was decided that the secretary should remind thos* who had not forwarded their promised contributions that their intended donations would Be welcomed. The following particulars regarding the finding of a skeleton on Mount Egmont on Sunday are taken from the Taranaki Daily News : — J.ust about five years ago a young man named King, who made the asoeHt of Mount Egmonfc from the North Egmont Mountain House, doing so against the advice of the then custodian, Mr. Morris, lost his way on the mountain, doubtless on account of his deviation from the regular track, and although search parties scoured the mountain side for days afterwards no trace of the unfortunate man could be found, for snow had commenced falling. Reluctantly the searchers gave up the quest, and left the finding of the body to chance and to time, the opinion being expressed that when tho summer came the melting of the snows would leave the body bare in some nook near the main track. But summer aftei summer went by, and no trace was found, although Mr. Morris, in nearly every on« of about fifty subsequent ascents as guide, always kept the matter in mind. On Sunday last, however, one of a large party from New Plymouth, on leturning from the summit, diverged from the usual route, and was considerably startled when he stumbled across a humaa skeleton, in a good state of preservation, with a few fragments of clothing lying around, as well as a pair of leggings. Order firfct thing to-morrow your new suit for Easter. New range of smart fruitings just to hand. Prices are 63s 70s, and 755. Kirkcaldie and Stains' Ltd.— Advt.