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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL English and Australian mail matter was brought to Auckland yesteiday morning by the Ma'heno from Sydney. The Southern portion is due to arrive at Wellington, this afternoon by the Main Trunk express. Saturday last was the anniversary of the proclamation of New Zealand as a colony (1840^ The Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will meet at the Town Hall to-morrow afternoon to Teceive reports from various committees. Hemp graded for export during the month of April amounted to 14,528 bales, of which 57.65 per cent, was "good fair" and 52.85 per cent, "fair" grade. The largest contributors were : Wellington, 4763 bales; Auckland, 3751 bales; Foxton, 3623 bales; Bluff, 1012 bales. The tow graded amounted to 4515 bales, chiefly second grade. There were 37 bales of flax and 158 bales of tow condemned. Ten naval reservists joined the thirdclass cruiser Pioneer at Wellington this morning for purposes of drill and instruction in various departments on the man-of-war. Three or four are stokers, and the others are seamen, who will be drilled in the arts of their craft, gunnery, and kindred activities. The periods of instruction will vary in different cases from a week to a month. During the next two months the Pioneer is to r,emain in the vicinity of Wellington, and her programme for that time will probably include visits to Napier, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Nelson, and Picton. Subsequently the man-of-war will go southward to drill more reservists. The contractors — Messrs. Sanders Bros. — for erection of the Harbour Board's new J shed on Waterloo-quay have so far been somewhat hampered by the inflow of tidal water. Excavations revealed a very sodden condition of th» earth at sea-level, and in order to cope with the flow of the tide two 5 h.p. electric motor pumps are now discharging big quantities of muddy water into the harbour. Piles had to be driven very deep, and during the driving operations a storm-water iron pipe was accidentally broken. The land on which the shed will be erected is reclaimed, and it is not anticipated that the foundations will be properly laid for some weeks .yet. There was an interesting debate on arbitration at the Victoria College Debating Society's meeting on Saturday night. Mr. M. H. Oram moved "That arbitration will never provide either a desirable or a practical solution of international quarrels." Mr. G. W. Morice opposed. At the conclusion of the debate — in which fourteen members took part — a vote was taken, and the motion was declared lost by fourteen votes to nine. The judge (Mr. C. Wilson, Parliamentary Librarian) placed the principal speakers in the following order : — Mr. G. W. Morice first, Mr. M. H. Oram second, Mr. Butcher third, Mr. W. Rutherf oi^d fourth, Mr. Macalister fifth. A vote of thanks to the judge was passed. With a view to giving publicity to the fact that trawling is not permitted in certain parts of the Wellington harbour, Mr. C. S. Nixon, Collector of Customs, prosecuted David Andr«w Sharp, master of the s.s. Phantom, in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The charge was that defendant used a trawl net for taking fish in prohibited grounds. Defendant, in pleading guilty, explained that he did not commit the offence wilfully. He had come to Wellington from Napier to trawl in the Sounds. The weather was unfavourable when he intended to leave Wellington, so ho trawled in the harbour to kill time. j He had no knowledge of the Order-in- | Council. Mr. Nixon did not press for the full penalty provided by law. Mr. | W. G. Riddell, S.M., fixed the fine at 10s, with costs _7s. A regrettable incident occurred on*he football ground at the Hutt Park on Saturday. Shortly after the conclusion of the match between the Melrose and St. James's Clubs, Ryder, of St. James, was struck a violent blow by, it is alleged, a young man with whom he had had a difference of opinion earlier in the afternoon. Ryder fell backward, and his striking a wall, he was rendered unconscious. Mr. Paul Peters administered first aid, and Ryder was then taken to Mr. James's shop, where he was attended to by Dr. Hector. As he was not well enough to be taken to his home at Kilbirnie, lie was removed to Mr. T. Daly's house in Bridge-street, where he is still staying. He will probably be able to como into town to-mor-row. Ryder played for Melrose last season. The matter has been reported to the police, and it is understood that it will also come before the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union on Wednesday night. Discussing the recent comparisons made by him between the results of last year"s working accounts of Petone and Lytteiton municipal gasworks — in which he had said that compared with Lyttelton 4 Petone's return was some JS2OOO 6hort — Councillor Piper, of Pelone, stated to a Post representative that he preferred to wait until the copies of the details of the Petone accounts, as read by the Mayor last evening, were supplied to councillors, befoie dealing further with this aspect. One . result, he added, of the recent discussion, was that a very ugly looking chicken had gone home to roost. In explanation he leferred to The Evening Post of 28th October, 1909, where the Mayor (Mr. J. W. M'Ewan) was reported to have stated his intention to vigorously opp"oso a proposal to electrify the street lighting of the borough, on the grounds that such a sc-Kema would result in a heavy loss and financial embarrassment of Ui» gasworks, by reason of the consequent large reduction in the output of gas, etc. "Xow," continued Councillor Piper, "it was made quite clear at last counciJ meeting, that the g?..sworks docs not receive one penny, or any credit, for a single foot of gas consumed in the street lamps. Thus, instead of the electrical proposal being fraught with danger to the gasworks, it is obvious that the proposal would, so far as the gas working account is concerned, result in a huge financial saving." Smart chip hats, small shnpe, in black and all fashionable colours, trimmed straw cabuchons and ribbon velvet, at 21s each. — Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd. — Advfc,