WONDERLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 8

WONDERLAND.

Wonderland advertises its last day to morrow afternoon. All the sideshows will bo free. The grounds will not be open at night.

Meeting herds of bullocks in a narrow ' gorge appears to be attended wiih con- i eiderable personal risk, according to a < complainant to the Makara County ' Council to-day. He said that while i driving he met in Ngahauranga Gorge i a mob of cattle which damaged his cart i and prevented him working for two ' days. He claimed 9s per day, and 15s < for damage to his cart from the owner i of the cattle, but obtained no redrew. < In desperation he appealed to the coun- i cil. He also complained of motor cars i coming down the Gorge at an exceeeive. ] speed and without sounding a horn or : giving any other warning note. He ' was moved to come before the council, | not so much for the damage ke had < sustained as in tho interests of pub.ic i safety. Councillor Bryant remarked at- i to the motor cars in Ngahauranga Gorge ' that the council was powerless. There i would be a shocking accident there, no : doubt; but- the council had been trji ig ; for two years to stop the practice but without avail. The council resolved to ' refer the complainant to the council"? solicitor for advice, suggesting legal proceedings for the damage done, and expressing its fullest sympathy in the matter. ■ The death is recorded in a Press Association message from Dunedin of Mr. Maitland Gardner, a noted musician of that city. Mr. Gardner was born in ! London, and received his first musical training under Signor and Madam Ferrari, and afterwards studied choral work under Mr. Henry Eyres, of the Royal Academy. He first appeared in public in concerts at St. James's and Exeter Halls. Mr. Gard ner came to Christchurch in 1830, and remained in that city until 1899, when he removed to Dunedin. He became the head of musical life in Dunedin, filling the position of actinglecretary to the honorary representative of the Dunedin Centre of the Associated Board of the Itoyal Academy and the i Royal College of Music. As a Freemason, Mr. Gardner was Past Master of Lodge St. Augustine, and hon. secretary of Lodge Otago. Messrs. Jame* Smith, Ltd., advertiis the purchase of a warehouseman's stock of ladies' iintrimmed straw hats, which will be on view at the firm's premises this evening The Wellington branch of the New New Zealand Institute) of Architects will hold its third monthly meeting to-night, when Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum, will read a paper on "Maori Architecture,"