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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 6

A Dominion nojlicense Convention! is to be held in Wellington on 15th June. It is expected to be the most representative gathering of the sort ever held in New Zealand. The chief business will be the consideration of th« Legislative proposals of the party, and to make preliminary arrangements for the poll next year. Arrangements have been made by tha Government for a display of New* Zealand products, principally from the Anglo-Japanese exhibition in London, in the .Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industries. The exhibition will be arranged by Mr. C. Klette, of the Austro- Hungarian Consular service, who is returning after nine years in New Zealand, air. Klette -will deliver lectures on this country to commercial men and others interested in the legislation, commerce, manufactures, and general conditions of the Dominion. Lower Willis-street is being gradually widened, and only a few blocks remain below Mercer-street to be set back to the new lint. Messrs. John Duthieand Co. are already completing the alterations to their premises. The City Council has accepted the tender of Mr. John Moffatt to set back the premises lately occupied by Messrs. Goodall and Lyons, the property of the council. Street fire alarms have been set up at seven different points in the Kilbirnie district, namely at the corners of Arawustreet and Hataitai-road, Waitoa-street-Hataitai-road, Moxham-avenue-Goa-street, Wellington-road-Seatoun-road, Crawford-street-Seatoun-road, Ross and Coubts streets, Queen's Drive, and Turistreet. These installations are the first of the extensions to connect the outlying districts with the central depot at Jer-vois-quay. An interesting experiment nas been tried by the Auckland Harbour Board by the immersion of timber in salt water. Timber put down without special treatment was attacked by the toredo (a marine borer) in three months. Timber that had been powellised has been down for seven months, but co far ifc has not been injured by the borer, states the Harbour Board's engineer in a letter to the New Zealand Powell Wood Process Company. Wild dogs, writes "Sanitas," are causing trouble in the hills at the back of Wainuiomata. They apparently hunt in packs, and their depredations have extended beyond the worrying of sheep to the killing of deer. The dead bodies of deer have been found near the beds of some of the streams flowing into the reservoir. This is not calculated to improve the city water supply. He asks whether the City Council is going to do anything to stop the nuisance, as the reserve is under their control ? Enquiries go to show that the city authorities have not received any official information as to the facts mentioned by the writer. Councillor Atkinson will move at th© meeting of the City Council next Thursday evening : — "That, in the opinion of this council, paragraph h of section 42 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, relating to the disqualification of counj cillors, should be amended co that the exception therein contained will read as follows : 'Other than as a shareholder in an incorporated company which contains more than twenty members and is not a private company, and of which huch person is not a director or the general manager, or in an association or partnership consisting of more than twenty members' ; (2) thai pending such alteration in the law, this council should decline to accept any tender from any company in which a councillor is a shareholder, and which does not come within the sxception above set out." What is known as the system of "free wiring" is advocated by the Mayor of Wellington (Dr. Newman) as a means of cheapening domestic installations of electric light and improving the revenue of the Electric Lighting Department. Unfortunately, the present rules of the fire underwriters forbid any such system of "free wiring," that is, carrying the wires through the house ancased on brackets. As the system is approved in England, Germany, and other countries, the Mayor sees no reason why •it should not be introduced into Wellington.. Members of the Electric Lighting Department will, therefore, wait on the Conference of New Zealand Fire Insurance Companies, to be held shortly in Wellington, ask for a reconsideration and revision of the rules in this respect. The fifteenth annual conference of the United Commercial Traders' Association was opened in Sydney on the 25th ult. In moving the adoption of the report, the chairman said that the assets of the affiliated bodies had actually increased from £108,009 to £127,891 during the year — nearly £20,000 in 12 months. The year before their assets had grown by £15,000. This was in spite of £2170 having been paid out in benefits to members. The membership had increased from 4137 to 4401 — a net gain of 264 as against 356 in the year before. In seconding Ihe report, the treasurer said that in 16 years their capital had increased about 33 times. The most important event in the affairs of the affiliated associations during the year was the opening of the magnificent new clubhouse at Sydney, bijilt and furnished at a cost of £65,000. The Commandant of Cadets (Major M'Donald), in an order issued yesterday, says: — "As a very few of the battalions in tho Dominion have yet been gazetted, Officers Commanding Battalions are asked to report as early as possible to the Commandant of Cadets on the reorganisation of their battalions, principally with a view to rearranging their commands in such a way as to enable them to have better control, easier mobilisation, and better facilities for battalion parades. Battalion commanders should in their report give their opinion as to the suitability of the present uniform, and suggest any alterations they consider necessary ; the report should also deal with any other matters affecting the interior economy of battalions, in the direction of recommendations particularly for the completion of battalion, staff establishment. Capitation will not In the future be paid to units, and in lieu thereof the department will supply uniforms, equipment, etc., free.* Lord Fisher, still called "Jack" in naval circles, writes Mr. Henry \Y. Lucy to xhe Sydney Herald, relieved from official duties and endowed with a peerage, has taken up his residence in Norfolk with his son, who recently came into possession of a fine estate. .Nothing could be more complete than the change of life, associations, and pursuits. Writing to a friend in town, the ex-First Sea Lord say 6:— '"Through 56 years 1 have been unemployed only for three weeks. After incessant fighting since the week I was born, I find it odd to be planting cabbages, like the Emperor Diocletian when he doSed the Imperial purple. I have always thought how splendid was ihe epitaph engraved on tho tomb of one of Nelson's captains — 'Death found him fighting.' ' Naturally the abrupt cnange to a daily life of complete leisure will be irkeome to a man of Lord Fisher's tremendous, stil unshattered energy. But he may enjoy it with the proud reflection that after six years' rule at the Admiralty he left the British Fleet in a condition of incomparable strength and efficiency. A manufacturer's set of samples of sterling silver and electroplate ware at maker's prices. Special display in our main building. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd,— Advfc.