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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18, 23 January 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Through the kindness of friends in Australia, Mr. A. Hamilton, director of the Dominion Museum, has been able to bring back additions to the already fine collection of butterflies, moths, and beetles in the museum. The ethnological branch has been enriched by a number of intere&ting carvings and weapons from German New Guinea. Mr. Hamilton also secured an interesting memento of old Wellington in the brass plate of the first provincial building erected in the capital city. Representations were recently made to the Minister of Railways by Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., as to the necessity for improving the railway station accommodation at Khandallah and Crofton. The Hon. J. A. Millar has now written to the member for Wellington Suburbs that considerable expenditure has been authorised in the suggested direction, and that the work will be put in hand at an early date. A fire alarm call box has been installed at the corner of Majoribanksstreet and Austin-street. Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., who returned on Saturday from Auckland, says he found that the^ Labour organisations in. i that city were strengthening considerably and there were indications of still further growth in future, when the Labour bodies moved into the new Trades Hall, which, project they have in hand at present. A rabbiter, named Henry Williamson, residing at 186, Adelaide-road, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday afternoon, suffering from a gunshot wound in the arm. While out shooting near Sinclair Hea-d on Saturday it appears he received a shot in the arm from a pea | rifle. The bullet was successfully extracted and the patient is making satisfactory progress. A resident of Ashburton, in conversation with a Timaru Herald reporter, } said that sly grcg-selling is now almost a thing of the past in Ashburton. This j he attributed to the excellent way in which the police had brought offenders I to book, and to the substantial fines imposed by Mr. Day, S.M. Ha added that there had uot been one sly grog case in Ashburton during the past two months. At a special meeting of the Johnsonville Town Board, the engineer (Mr. Rounthwaite) attended and submitted working plans of the water-works and drainage scheme. Some discussion took place regarding tho advisability of extending the services to the higher levels of the township, but it was ultimately decided to connect up where possible in order that the benefits of the system might be shared by aid who are entitled vP them. It was resolved to call for tenders forthwith for the carrying out of the necessary works, which will involve an expenditure of over £11,000. A single man named Sydney John Whitelaw, a bricklayer) attempted to commit suicide at the Coffee Palace, Willis-street, on the afternoon of llth. January. He was seen to corns cut of his bedroom with his throat cut, and asked for a doctor. When the latter arrived th& man was in a serious condition. When charged with the offence, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., today, h« pleaded guilty, and was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, besides paying £1 11s costs in a month's time._ Be had been treated afc the Hospital and is returning Ehere. Whitelaw only arrived from London by the Waiwera, three weelrt ago. lie has done no work for a fortnight and has been drinking a little. Mr. J. P. Maxwell, engineer of the Paparoa Coal Company, in discussing the harbour ah Greymouth, suggested : ■ — (1) That a deep-water harbour should be constructed on the south side of the Grey in proximity to the town, and capabls of being connected with the lagoon scheme if found desirable. (2) To retain the river accommodation, the access to which would be improved by the initial works of the deep-water harbour. (3) To provide accommodation in the proposed harbour of about 1100 ft of berthage, with 24ft of water at low water ordinary spring tides, which would suffice to take two ocean steamers, and to allow space for subsequent extensions of such berthage to accommodate' four to six ocean steamers when development of the trade required it. He said he considered that this scheme might be I executed for about £425,000. | Great pleasure was expressed to a- Christchurch Press representative the other day by the Hon. Gavin Duffy, of Victoria,' at the way in which the Government has developed the tourist resorts. To his mind, they were certainly a great asset to the country. • More accommodation was urgently needed, however, at Mount Cook. Mr. Wade, the ex-Premier of New South Wales, had told him that, owing to inability to get accommodation, he had been compelled to abandon Ms trip, and, a distinguished Queensland barrister had told him the very same thing. Mount Cook was certainly one of the finest sights in tho Dominion, and tho accommodation should be increased. Speaking in another connection, the visitor intimated that he was staggered at the prices asked for land in the Dominion. In very few places in Victoria, — and then only in the choicest spots — were similar prices demanded. Compulsory grading of butter is a question about which there has been considerable difference of opinion. Some interesting comments were made recently by the Victorian Superintendent o"i Exports (Mr. E. Crowe), who firmly believes in the necessity for compulsory grading. Uiider the present optional system butter-producers find that they get almost as good a figure on the London market for the low as for the higli quality article, and Mr. Crowe points out that while this is so farmers and the factories in Victoria cannot be expected to strive to keep their manufactures up to a high standard. One way to prevent, the standaid of butter from falling was to pay a higher figure for superfine cream. Compulsory, grading would improve the quality of butter, and assist in keeping up the prices for Victorian butter in London. Any educational efforts made by the departmental officers wore discounted whilst the pre sent state of affairs existed, but the. careless farmer should find it necessary by the fa3t of receiving lees for his cream to make the m<i4 of * his oppor- | tunities. At present 2G per cent, of tho J butter exported from Victoria was super- j fine, and 53 per cent, first grade, or, allowing for loss on the voyage, a little over 70 pev cent. Crepe de Chine Scarves, in pink and white, handsomely embroidered with gold and finished with Bin silk fringe; 19in wide, 2£ yards: long, at 79s 6d. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advb.