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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 6

Petone milk-vendors notify that on and after Ist April the price of milk wiJl be 2d per pint and 4d per quart.. The Napier Daily Telegraph reports that- the authorities controlling the Meanee Mission and Seminary have decided to transfer tho institution (including the observatory) to their profperty on the hills near Greenmeadows. °The reason, for the change is that *<ue new locality will be more convenient, much higher, and consequently rao'e healthy for the students preparing for the priesthood. The removal is to be proceeded wilh immediately. Dr. Henry and Mr. Potts, who are to conduct a mission in New Zealand, will arrive from Sydney on Wednesday next. Dr. Henry has foi warded to Mr. H. N. Holmes, who is making arrangements for the mission in Wellington, a copy of a letter he has received from Mr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the missioner who visited Australia last year. Mr. Chapman says he is sure that Dr. Henry would find "the field white unto the harvest," and that Dr. Henry would have a marvellous victory. As a body retired by legislation, the Trustees of the Wellington Benevolent 1 Institute held their last meeting yesterday aflernoon. Mr. D. Robertson presided, the other trustees present being Miss Richmond, the Rev. W. A. Evans, and Mr. J. Wakeham. The report of the master of the Ohiro Home showed \ ' that there are 100 inmates in the horne — ] 71 men and 29 women. One woman had died during the week, after a longer j residence in the institution than any other inmate. The trustees dealt with, a number of relief caseu. J Comment is made in the annual report of the Wellington Ladies' Hockey Association on the plan adopted to decide the 1 ladies' champion team of New Zealand , by means of a tournament. 'Last year Wellington was represented at the tourney, held at Napier, but it was impossible, it is pointed out, to send the best team, owing to the duration of the fixture. Hope is expressed that in future a more feasible way of deciding the championship will be found. The committee suggests that a challenge cup on the lines of the Plunket Shield (cricket championship) would prove more satisfactory. Applications for sections in the new Hawtrey Settlement, near Johnsonville, | closed at the District Land Office yesterday. Applicants have to appear person- . ally before the board to-morrow forenoon I and be examined, and ballots for secj tions for which there is more than one I applicant will be held in tho afternoon. Preference will be given to landless applicants. There are 89 sections, varying in area from 36 perches to 17 acres. 'The leases aro for thirty-three years, with right of renewal. The sections aro considered suitable for persons employed in the city who wish to build homes "for themselves. ' Apparently brooding under a grievanco, an inmate of the Ohiro Home waited on the Benevolent Trustees at their last meeting yesterday afternoon, and voiced his troubles in a long and eloquent address. He declared himself the victim of unworthy aspersions, certain folks having said ho was living on the rations allowed by the trustees to a uoor family, whereas he averred he had saved the family from starvation and dp-grace. He did not precisely state how,' and, when the chairman observed that the affair did not concern the trustees, the old man delivered an ultimatum. "Very well "he cried, "I must obtain redress elsewhere. L shall be reluctantly compelled to ventilate the matter on the public platform." The trustees remained inexorable. Relief was sought from the Benevolent Trustees yesterday afternoon by a young mother, who told a pitiful story. She had been deserted by her husband and left to undergo with her children extreme privations. The trustees expressed their indignation at the action of the hu&band and declared emphatically that the law should be invoked to recall him to a sense of duty. After some discussion they decided that the best thing would be for the children to be committed to a State receiving home in order to give the mother, assisted by the trustees, time to recover her health. It was some time before the poor woman would consent to this course, and only then after she had received the assurance that she might rejoin her children as soon as she was able to maintain them. During a discussion, In Dunedin on Monday by the Libraries' Association (says the Star) on the matter of library ' hygiene, Mr. H. Shaw, an Auckland ; representative, said he had handled books J for forty years, and some of them had j borne the dust of centuries (says the Star). As a matter of fact, he once got a book that in the sixteenth century hud been. in the library of a monastery in which an epidemic of disease had beep very fatal to the monks. It was a very dirty book. He had cleaned up every page, and he was still alive (Laughter.) Pie had handled, thousands of secondhand books in all stages, and had never been any the worse for doing ro. Most sellers of second-hand books lived to a green old age. The bacteria to be found j on the books did not affect them. Ho had never heard of any public librarian, second-hand bookseller, or any collectjr suffering disease as a reseult of handling books. The bacteria on books was avery common sort of dirt microbe. Another old colonist passed away yea- j terday at his residence, in the person of Mr. W. H. Brflwer, who arrived in the ship London in 1842. In the «arly flayu he followed the occupation of a fisherman, and in the time of the Maori War served in the militia, and for many years, was a member of the Wellington City Rifles. IT 6 always took a lively interest in cricket, and for many years was a prominent Wellington bowler, and represented Wellington with the first team that went to Auckland, travelling in the steamer Stormbird. He was also a member of the Wellington Rowing Club, and was one of the crew who in 1870 won tho Sha-w-SaviU Cup. He entered the service of the Wellington Corporation many years ago, and for twenty-five years was custodian of the Newtown Park. The large trees now standing in the Park were all planted by him. He leaves a wido v and a family of nine, all of whom are married, as well as a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. There was- some disturbance in the forecastle of the French barque Jacques last night, resulting in a sailor named Fred llickards bcine arrested on a charge of assaulting Pierre Moizan, another member of the crew. The former admitted the offence in the S.M. Court to-day. It was stated that accused had been ashore, and when he returned aboard he caused trouble by pulling i Moizan's bedclothes off, and the assault | followed. Before inflictincr punishment, j Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M „ requested j that- complainant be brought forward, ro that he could ascertain the extent of the man's injuries. Complainant affirmed that the bnmerl and battered condition of his face was due to accused. Turning to the latter, the magistrate a=ked : "You are not a Frenchman!" "N T o, sir," the man replied, "but lam the only Englishman in the forecastle." "Well," advised Mr. Haselden, "you had better mend your ways, or else you will find 'yourself in further trouble." A fine of £1 was imposed, the option beintt one wppk's imprisonment. Why not clean tho.se soiled gloves, they're not worn pnoiish to throw away? Buy si bottle of "KayanesV Glove Cleanor, Is , and 1* 6d a bottle. — Krrk<aldie and Stains, Ltd. — Advt.