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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 4

The negotiations for the sale of land at Lyall Bay to the City Council, men* tioned in yesterday's issue, were conducted by Messrs Longmoro and Co., Lambton-quj,y. The total gate takings at the Masterton show this week were £326, and lun. cheon and teas realised £213, making a total of £539. This is more than £200 over last year's figures. A public meeting of Hutfc ratepayers will be held in the Lower Hutt Town Hall on Monday, 27th February, to consider a proposal to raise a loan of £10,009 for drainage works. Tho Victoria College Officers' Trainj ing Corps commence their annual training camp at Trentham this evening. Ifc will last for about a week Captain "Rawdon Beere will ., be in charge from Monday, Lieutenant Atkinson being in 'command meantime. The New Zealand Ironmasters' Association will hold its annual conferenoe in Dunedin, commencing on Menday. Messrs. D. Robertson (president), W. Cable, W. Crabtree, and H. F. Alien (secretary) will be- the Weilington delegates. Mr. J. P. Luke, who was also appointed a delegate, is not sure if he can attend. The question of an increased Customs tariff for the protection of the- ironfounding indus« try will be one of the questions to b& considered. In Chambers, before Mr. Justice Chapman, yesterday afternoon, Mr. R. B. Williams, counsel for plaintiff, moved for judgment in a, case in which Stephen. Edward Powrie proceeded against Patrick John Sullivan for possession of certain lands and £5, m-cjnse profits. Th« suit concerned a mortgage which defendant obtained over his land at Kil. birnio for £500, he convenanting to pay plaintiff £2 18s 4d monthly as principal and interest. Default was made, nothing boing paid, and on application by plaintiff the Registrar of the Supreme Court sold the property, but defendant refused to give up possession. Defendant did not- appear. After hearing Mr. Williams, his Honour entered judgment accordingly with costs £9 9s, in addition to costs previously allowed. Mr. Laing-Meason waited upon the Featherston County Council at its last meeting to explain, repoils an exchange, the extraordinary position taken up by the Public Works Department in connection with the plans of the new Waihenga Bridge. Air. Laing-Meason explained that the department had al- - lowed them to call and accept tenders j for the work and had raised no objections. As soon as the contractor had got fairly started the engineer of the Public Works Department stepped in aud said that if the- council did not suostitute clay for cement in the proposed approaches to tho bridge he would not pass the plans. Mr. Laing-Measou said he tried to reason with him, but it was all in vain. He had never expeiicnced such erratic conduct; in fact, the thing was absolutely childish. The tact ot tho contract being signed did not have any weight with him, A Victoria-street business man called au the Evening Post office this morning and complained that the footpaths ol the street were covered with dust, and that some of it had got into tha buildings Investigation showed that the street sweeping machine was the cape of the nuisance. In operation it raises clouds of dust, and thus the very, fine deposits rest on the footpaths. It is difficult to know what can be dons to remedy matters, but the- complaint is j being investigated. As the machine is ueed at an early hour in the morning, tho dust cannot very well penetrate tho doors of the buildings. The footpaths in Upper Willis street we also covered 1 with a layer of dust and the gutters fill, ed with fine gravel when the streetsweeper operates in. tliafc vicinity. This otreet was recently tarred for dust-pro-vention purposes and the sweeper unfortunately not only removes the du«>fc but also the tarred surface. Reference to the small number oi students in mining subjects who sit for examination in the various goldnelds schools of mines in New Zealand waa made at a meeting of the Thames School of Mines Board. The secretary (Mr. Albert Bruce) said the principal' reason why there were so few students in mining was that the Mines Department officials appeared to think that the object of the schools was for the training of mining engineers only, and the examinations were set to such a standard as to altogether exclude the class of men for whose benefit the schools were originally established, namely, the prac tieal miner who had not the' capabilities for passing the examinations as at present fixed. It was pointed out that tliQ schools of mines councils had been blamed for increasing the rang© of subjects and making ths examination for mine-managers' certificates more technical and difficult. The Thames Council, however, had repeatedly warned the Department as to what would be the inevi« table result of such a course, but without avail. A special committee was appointed to go into the question, with a view to endeavouring to put tha scheme on a better footing. A record of all iron ships that have been built in tho Jjominion since the establishment of the ironfoundiug industry, has been prepared by Mr. H. F. Allen* secretary of the New Zealand Ironmasters' Association, and of its Wellington branch, to 'be read at the conference oi New Zealand lronmoulders at Dunedin. on the 27th inst. The first iron ship appears to have been the Moa, 188 tons gross register, built at Lyttelton in 1864. Since then, to the end of 1909, thirty-five iron ships have been built in New" Zealand, their burthen ranging from 12 to 219 tons. Mr. Allen adds that the Ben Lomond, now described in the Mercantile List as belonging to His Majesty tha King, has performed a lot of useful work on Lake Wakatipu. She was built by, 2»lr. R. S. Sparrow, of Dunedin, in 1872. One firm alone, in Dunedin, Mr. Alien states, has the building of no fewer than four steamers in hand. One of them i« being built to tfce order of the New Zealand Government, and is to be run oa Lake Wakatipu to cone with the constantly increasing tourist traffic. She is to ha-ve space for the carriage of 1000 passengers. The Mountaineer, which is also running on Lake Wakatipu. was built in 1879. Both these steamers have proved themselves good boats, but larger and faster ones are now necessary. Monday, the 20th inst., is last discount day at the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Laaibton -quay. Customers please note. — Advt. When you check your baggage through us you have only to pack and unpack it. We pick it up at your door, check it, amd you 'find it waiting at your hotel at other end. Checking is • free ; cartage only is charged. N.Z. Express Co. t Ltd.— Advt. A striking illustration of tho "entente ■cordiale" aud its effeots on the social and economic policies of nations is now .being brought forward before the dwellers iv this Dominion by tho presence i» New Zealand waters of the French cruiser Kcrsaint. This joint goodwill beuween two nations is not only a triumph of diplomacy, but is also a compliment to tho ier>,son and humanity of tho twentieth century, and at any rate wo know without doubt tnat the spirit of "mutual consideration" is here in tho city of Wellington, whore C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street, liava determined upon a final clearing of items in tho Dress Department dm ing thi3 vcek, each item has boon carefully gone through, and prices in many oases cue down less than half. If this is not a forciblo expression of "entente cordiale,'^ we don't know what is.— Advt.