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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 49, 28 February 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, In Cabinet yesterday a tender was ac- | cepted for the supply of 175,000 medals to be distributed to New Zealand children as a souvenir of the Coronation. 1 Cabinet also decided not to send a Patrol of Boy Scouts to the command parade ! at Windsor on 4th July. A suggestion that a N«w Zealand cadet team should be sent to the championship meeting at Bisley was considered and declined. The mails which left Wellington on 20th January per the s.s. Marama and connected at Sydney with the Naples mails per the R.M.S. Osterly, arrived in. London 0.11 the morning of the 26th inst. The Postal authorities advise that the s.s. Moeraki, which sailed from Sydney at 2 p.m. on Saturday, has on board an Australian mail. She is due to arrive here to-morrow morning. The quarterly meeting of the Wellington Licensing Committee will be held at noon to-morrow. Eight applications for transfers will be dealt with. It has been decided to erect a residence at> Wallaceville for the officer in charge of the veterinary laboratory, and plans and specifications have been approved by Cabinet. There will be about 700 men or more in camp at the Dominion championship rifle meeting opening at Trenlham on Friday. Previously there has not boen much doing in. the evenings, but this year an enterprising entertainer has decided to open a. kinematograph show in a large tent. A youth of fourteen came before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the Juvenile Court to-day, on a charge of stealing money from Waipuki Smith, of Wellington. He was sent to the Weraroa Training Farm, and his father was ordered to refund 5s 9d, and to contribute 5s a week towards his maintenance. A similar charge preferred against a lad of fifteen was adjourned until tomorrow. The operations of the National Provident Fund begin to-morrow throughout the Dominion. A very large number of enquiries have reached the office in- connection with the scheme, and there *ias been a good demand for the descriptive literature prepared by the department. All the post offices have been supplied with the necessary literature, and later on similar material will be posted to factories and places of business in order to further advertise th© benefits of the scheme. Councillor R. Fletcher has given notice of his intention to move at the next meeting of the City Council to rescind the resolutions passed at the last meeting m favour of letting spaces inside the 1 tram care for advertisements. It was recognised that had Councillor Fletcher been present at th© last meeting thero would have been a great deal more serious opposition than the proposal then encountered. The resolutions actually carried were as follow :— "That considering that nearly £2000 a year can be mad© out of letting spaces in tram cars for advertising, the right to place neat and suitable advertisements in the cars be sold or let." " That tenders be invited for advertising in the care, and samples. of the proposed advertisements to be placed in the cars to be supplied." A question of whether the right mail was arrested is involved in the case of Albert E. Lindwall, who was apprehended at R«efton on a charge of dieobeying a maintenance order issued at Auckland in 1909, his real name being alleged to be Bobert Gibbs, an exmember of the police force. A con stable swore that ho had known accused at the depot, and accused swore that ho was never in New Zealand until last year. He was remanded to appear at Auckland. En route to Wellington, he is stated to have got overboard from theArahura at Westport, and when rescued ho was taken to the hospital. Wherß he reached Wellington a number of policemen who served with Gibbs in the depot, declared that the arrested man was not their late companion. Accused might have been dismissed, but he chose to go to Auckland and have the matter finally cleared up. The tender of Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, electrical engineers, of Wellington, has been accepted for the construction of a complete electric lighting and pumping scheme for the Taihape Borough Council. To-morrow being the first Wednesday in_ the month, there will be the usual offering of remnants at special prices. Kirkcaldio and Stains,, Ltd.— Advt.