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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 4

Classes in carving are to be established under the leadership of Mr. W. Corbett^ at the V.M.C.A. The idea is to show) what can be done in che art of inlay* ing on furniture, floors, walls, and cefl-t ings, by moans of the small timbers of New Zealand. Mr. Corbett is an architect and a former instructor at tlie Technical! School, Wellington. For the half-year just ended the vitals statistics for Auckland, were: — Births 1390, deaths 680, and marriages 723, atfi compared with 1430 births, 580 deaths, and 668 marriages for the half-year end* ing 30th June, 1909. Marriage befowt ■the registrar, says the Herald, is 6tatedl to be becoming more and more popular^ j the figures going -up steadily month. by| month. ' A report by the City Engineer with' regard to tlie decision to ' increase the) fares on the Miramar trams was considered by the Tramways Committee of! the Miramar Borough Council yesterday H It was decided that the council wait oni the City Tramways Committee to ' dis« cuss the matter. * A petition has bean received at the Borough Council officai against the increased fares, and it is understood that a deputation will wait oa the next nteeting of the council in favour of the increased tariff. Several merchants interested' in ths fruit trade in New Zealand are at prosent visiting Cook Islands, says a correspondent of the Auckland Star, and tha result is that exceptionally^ giood prices are being obtained for bananas. It was assumed) tha* New Zealand fruit m«r-. chants were handicapped owing to short supplies coming forward from. Fiji, ojmSJ had been compelled to secure shipmenta to fill their orders. The growers were reaping the benefit, for they were receive ing good prices for their fruit, and dei Uvery was taken on the wharf t at Raro* tonga, so that they were not taking- tha risk of fruit arriving in New Zealand iq bad condition. Traversing Major M'Donald's utter-< ances at a cadet function at Petone on Monday night, regarding the successful working of that section of the Defence Act dealing with the junior cadets, tha chairman of the school committee, Mr., D. M'Kenzie, expressed himself as being somewhat sceptical about the future of the scheme. Petone's, he said, was the only school committee to protest^ against the passing of the new measure now in force, and he was still of the opinion that under the old system, the boys would be found to have been better than with the introduction of compulsion^ and the new regulations. He considered a great mistake had been made. The value of his opinion would, he concluded, be found out later by the people ot the Dominion. In submitting a remit at the ' Municipal Conference yesterday, to the effect that power be given to sell all native reserves within the limit of cities or boroughs, and invest the money obtained on behalf of the owners, Mr. Haydon (Palmerston North) said there was a native reserve in his town which was not worth more than £250 a year to the Maoris, yet it was estimated to realise over £37,000. It was restricting buildi ing and stopping the making of roads. The Hon. A. R. Guinness said Greymoufh' also suffered through being in the midst of a native reserve of 500 acres, the un. improved value of which was £110,000^ yet 45 years ago it was not worth £250. The borough had spfent a large sum of money on public works on the land, but^ did not receive one penny in rates. There are in New Zealand, said Mr., M'Cabe during his lecture last evening, some very remarkable and interesting specimens of the lizard family. An instructive fact was that the New Zealand lizards retained the features of lizards of ages past. The tuatara pre- . sen ted an almost complete identity in. form and skeleton to the lizards which had been shown to have existed in <)ther parts of the world millions of years ago. On the top of its head there was a nollow, and the reason for this was that the creature had a very finelydeveloped third eye. The retina in this eye was formed of rods and cones, and there was a very distinct optic nerve. A third eye in the top, of the head could also be traced in the pyrosome, and the pureal body in mammals was the relic of. a third eye in their remote ancestors. A question affecting the right of a prisoner to argue a case before the Court of Appeal was considered by a full Bench of the Supreme Court yesterday. The mattei was relative to a case of His Majesty the King v. John Majoribanks Steele. Mr. Justice Edwards mentioned that Steele was now in gaol, and that the Minister of Justice nad written to him for the facti of the matter. The Chief Justice considered that the man's case should be heard. In answer to a statepient tnafc Steele did not intend to be represented by counsel, the Solicitor-General, Mr. J. W. Salmond, expressed the opinion that the case 6hould be provisionally argued to see whether he should bo heard. The Bench agreed that the man snould be given a hearing, and he will be brought down for that purpose. Mr. William Gill, who has been man* ager of the Alliance Assurance Co., Ltd., in Wellington for the past nineteen years, has resigned, and ie about to retire on a well-earned pension. His successor in office will be Mr. C. R. Smith, now manager at Dunedin, who has been associated with the Alliance Company and their predecessors, the Union Insurance Company of New Zealand, since, 1881. Mr. Gill is a native of Dudley, England, and after receiving his education at private and public schools in the Midland Counties he en*tered the service of a South Staffordshire firm of ironmakers, where he learnt the business in all its branches. At Cleveland, in the .North of England, he lose to the position of iron manufacturer, and was also closely identified with several kindred industries in the town of Middlesborough. He was for years secretary of the company, which built the original Tay Bridge. In 1879 he paid a visit to New Zealand, having come out to Australia on business, and in 1887 he settled In the colony. He joined the headquarters staff of the South British Insurance Company. A year later he went to Capetown as the company's assistant manager, and was afterwards acting-manager at Johannesburg. Soon after returning to New Zealand in 1890 he left the South British Company, and became 'manager of Ihe Union Insurance Company at Wellington. The Alliance Company took over the Union Company's business in 1892, and Mr. Gill has been manager of the former company at Wellington over since. Mr. Gill was for years prominent in local musical and Masonic circles. He was president of Wellington Musical Union and Ihe Orchestral Society, and he has also taken an active part in the affairs of the Church of England. Mr. Gill is a respected citizen, and will carry with him into his private life the best, wishes of all who know him. So reliable are we in checking bagage, passing entries, forwarding pareol*, removing furniture, that people come to ua again and again.— N.Z. Express Co.— Advt. An item of important newa that will be of interest to thousands of ladies in Wellington and district. C. Smith, Ltd., in announoing their winter salo, wieh to emphasise the fact that they hold but two sales in each year— a fact which, when taken together with tlie addit»w»»l fact of ihoir huge turnover, renders it absolutely impossible for bargains offered by them on these occasions to be equalled by any firm in tho country. Jf you ar« out of town, send for our price-list. Remenv ber, price is no object with us at the present time this season. Goods must bata t cleared out.— Advt, J