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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 6

An impression seems to prevail income quarters that native game can be shot this season. That is not the case. Only imported game — Californian quail and liares — can be shot for one month — from the 14th of May. The Greyknvn Borough Council's application for a loan of £6000 for the erection of a gasworks has been refused by the State-guaranteed Advances Board. The amount in hand towards the purchase of an ambulance wagon for Petone is £102 17s. The estimated co.*t of the vehicle is £130. In order to raise the further sum required, a promenade concert will be held towards the end of the month. It is understood that Acting-Detective Abbott will leave for Sydney on Friday to bring over a. man named Robert Anderson, who has been arrested on a charge of indecent assault on a girl under 16 years of age at Wellington on' the Ist April. The sitting of the commission to adjust matters between the Wellington City Council and the Karori Borough Council in connection with tho merging of a portion of Northland in the city, was fixed for to-day. The matter was mentioned in court and adjourned for a week. People who were out late last night were treated to a line display of Southern lights — the Aurora Australia. Every few seconds the flashing streamers flared up behind the Kilbirnie Hills and died down again. The general effect was not unlike that of a great fire beneath the sky-line. The epidemic of dengue fever which broke out recently at Rarotonga and Tahiti has now almost spent itself, according to the report of officers of the Mokoia, on arrival at Wellington this I morning. Most of the business people and a large number of the natives were more or less affected, but nearly all have now quite recovered. Some days ago a correspondent, writing from the Hutt Valley, reported that wild dogs were causing much trouble in the Wainui forest reserve among the deer and other animals. He stated that dead deer had been found in the beds of creaks flowing into the reservoir. The caretaker of the reserve is emphatic in denying that anything of the kind has taken place. He knows nothing of any wild dogs killing deer in the reserve. At the meeting of contributors to the Home for the Aged Needy yesterday, the chairman (Mr. W. Allan) remarked that the home was opened in 1889. From that time till the present, 183 persons had been admitted. There are nineteen women and twenty-one men now in the institution. "We make them as comfortable as we can," added Mr. Allan, "and it is a rare thing for an inmate to ask to leave the home unless it is to be taken care of by near relatives." Steps aro being taken to once againurge upon the Wellington Acclimatisation Society and the Government the urgent necessity of putting a stop to the Slaughter of tuis by Maoris on a reserve originally dedicated as a bird sanctuary to the State by the late Mrs. H. A. Field, and situated between Paraparaumu and Waikanae. It is stated that about this time of the year when the kohi kohi is in bloom the tuis gather in large numbers, and can easily be slaughtered. At one time they were very numerous in the sanctuary referred to, but in recent years they have been ruthlessly slaughtered to make pies for the natives. When the Mokoia was at Papeete the inhabitants of the settlement manifested great interest in the steamer, as she is the largest passenger vessel that has visited the group. Large crowds came down to the wharf and boarded the ship to inspect her equipment and accommodation. The results that have attended the placing "of the Mokoia on the Wellington-Tahiti run are somewhat disappointing, ( however, so far, at any rate,,, as concerns the return jouiney. Only ten passengers — saloon and steerage — travelled by the vessel from Tahiti and Rarotonga to Wellington, and this for a fine passenger steamer is not encouraging. Of course, the present season is not the time for travellers from the Old Country or the United States to New Zealand — the stream is in tho other direction just now. On thejourney from Wellington the Mokoia j had a satisfactory number of passengers, both saloon and steerage, and i will probably take a fair number when J she sails again in about a fortnight. Now I that the Mokoia has been placed in the service, this route Homeward has much to recommend it. A useful compendium of information for all interested in the work of local bodies is the Municipal Handbook of New Zealand for 1909. It gives in its 175 pages practically a complete summary of municipal affairs in all the cities nnd boroughs of the Dominion. Among the main items in the description of each centre are : Population, capital value, unimproved value, value of imErovements, area, miles of streets, numei of buildings, number of dwellings, number of ratepayers, number of rateable' properties, municipal departments, reserves, finance, and the personnel of the council and its chief officials. The handbook has been compiled by direction of the Minister of Internal Affairs, and appears to be thoroughly reliable in its information. Rubber haa been booming for some time now, and the extraordinary prices realised have given a great impulse to the flotation of companies and, incidentally, to the planting of fresh trees in many parts of the world. The Malay States have come into prominence as a rubber-producing country, and much British capital is invested there. According to a rubber planter at present visiting Wellington, things are exceedingly prosperous in the Straits Settlements jnst now. Rubber is up to 11s 6d a pound, and the total cost ol delivering it in London does not exceed Is 6d a pound. Hence, there is room for a considerable drop in price, which is bound lo come when all tho plantations now being established all over the tropics come into bearing — that is, about five years from the date of planting. At ruling rates a planter may draw as much as £15,000 a year from a hundred acres of trees. "Since the settlement of the strike on 14th March business in coal has been booming," state 3 the Sydney Telegraph of 28th March." A couple of days after work was resumed trains commenced to arrive at the dyke with long lines of trucks, and when the collieries were in full working order a procession of heavily laden trains reached the big marshalling ySrd daily, all the loading appliances being kept woikuig constantly. About 30,150 tons were loaded into various vessels during the lu.ot few days of the first week after the resumption of opez-ations, while last week f«H tune was ' worked at nearly all the /mines, and up 1 to yesterday 91,000 tons had been exported to foreign and inter-State ports. Of course, the bulk of the coal was taken to oversea destinations, many of the steamers which had been waiting here for months being despatched. The exodus, however, has not altered the crowded appearance of th<\ harbour to* any material extent. At present there are fully 100 vessels scattered about the port, and additions are being made day' by day. So far only two sailers have left, but several are lying out in the stream ready for sea." There's no need for you to wear soiled gloves, when a bottle of the famous "Kayaness" glove cleaner can be had for Is, or large size Is 6d. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advt.