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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 4

For the convenience of residents of Lower Hutt and Taita an official of the Hutt Tramway Board will be ia attendance at the office of the Lower j Hutt Borough Council on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the purpose of receiving rates. < Mr. W. M'Lean, secretary of the Wellington Opera House Company, will leave on Wednesday next for Auckland to attend the fifth annual conference of the New Zealand National Association of Spiritualists, before which he is to deliver an address on "Sixty-three Y ears' W^ork of Modern Spiritualism." }■ r r L nee c Wlil §° oa a holiday visit to Melbourne and Sydney— the first holiday, he has taken for fourteen years. So popular has the Wellington Orphans' Club become, and co great the increase in membership, that the committee has been forced to seek more commodious, quarters than those occupied last season. The Sydney-street School-a-oom has now been engaged, and the first meeting of the Orphaaos will be held there on Saturday, sth May. At a meeting of the committee last night a number of new members were elected and the secretary reported that further applications were being received. -, The following resolutions were passed by a meeting of the Wellington Operative Bootmakers' Union last night: — "That in the event of the boot manufacturers attempting to obtain a further increase in the tariff on imported boots, this union recommende the executive of the Bootmakers' Federation of New Zealand to strenuously oppose the attempt." "That after hearing the representative of tho conference held in Auckland between the boot manufacturers and the employees, this union is of opinion that no scarcity of male or female boot trade labour exists in Auckland." An important land transaction just concluded will result in the removal of one of the land marks of the Te Aro ' portion of the city. For something Hko forty years the Sisters of Mercy have conducted schools in property belonging to them in Dixon-street, and now" the land has been sold, through Messrs. J. Fanning and Co., land agents, to Messrs. Sharland and Co., who intend to erect a brick factory and offices thereon, and remove their business to there from Willeston-street. The land has an area of 77ft by nearly 274 ft, and the price paid was £5000. Argument on the appeal of Walter Francis Darby from his conviction in Auckland for certain breaches of the Bankruptcy Act was continued before the Court of Appeal yesterday afternoon. Mr. F. tarl. with him Mi-. E. W. Burton, appeared for appellant, and Mr J W. Salmond, Solicitor-General for the Crown. In the course of his address, Mr. Earl said that appella.nt'6 accountant made the mistake of assuming in the first balance-sheet that £1877 was the net amount of bills receivable whereas the real total was £2848. This wae the initial source of error. Mr. Burton also addressed the court, and the case was adjourned until 10.30 a.m. on Monday. Evidence given in a Coroner's enquiry at the Mt. Eden. Gaol this week tended to show that overfeeding had accelerated a prisoner's death. On enquiry at the gaol a Star reporter was informed that the man in question had been employed in kitchen work and had been in the habit of eating more than tho prison regulations allowed. In this connection, it 16 interesting to learn that a prisoner's daily ration includes ljlb of bread, lib potatoes, of meat without bone, 2oz of vegetables, and a pannikin of tea,. On three days of the week the meat ia roasted, aud on the remaining days it is boiled. When boiled the prisoners gefc a pannikin of soup also. Those that smoke are allowed a email stick of tobacco a week. Ways and means of sending President H. Marshall, of the Karori Rifle Club, to compete at the Coronation Bieley, meeting, were diecussed at a special meeting of the club held last night. References were made to his excellent shooting this season, and it was decided to organise a rifle meeting to tak« place at Trent ham on Saturday, 22nd April, when an interesting day's shooting will be provided. The programme will be liberal, both as regards events and prize money. The "scratch"' members of the club will not compete, but will act as range officers. Strong committees were set up to secure the neees« eary funds, and from the support already promised it seems certain that the president will be enabled to make the trip. Speaking at Christchurch, Mr. F. Burgoyne, a Labour candidate for municipal honours, gave details of a transaction which suggested that the State Fire Insurance Office worked in with the private, offices. The Hon. G. Fowlds, ia answer to a Post reporter, said the district manager of the State Fire Office at Christchurch stated that the rate first quoted to Mr. Burgoyne was on account of wrong information re detachments in the group of buildings insured, which information wae supplied by Mr. Burgoyne himself. After inspection of ' tha property the rate quoted proved to be incorrect. "The State Fire Office," the" Minister added, "does not fix its rates on information supplied, by any other office, nor do«s it take notice of reports by, other offices." Sir Robert Stout was interestingly reI miniscent at tlie kindergarten meeting last evening. /Referring to Judge Richmond, he said he was a most able speaker.. It was in 1864, when he delivered a lecture at Knox Church, Dunedin, that Sir Robert first heard him. At the annual break-up of the Grammar School, when Sir Robert was a teacher he first knew the judge and the intimacy continued to his death. He was one of the ablest judges New Zealand ever had, and as lecturer would ever bo rememberd by those wh& knew him. Deploring public lack of interest in education Sir Robert pointed to Rome and Greece aa examples of the lose of the citizen feeling. (The want of interest in civic lifa breught about the decay of both Greet 1 * and Rome. Then he referred to the public service rendered to New Zealand by, the Richmond family which had given also a Native Minister remarkable for hia largeness of heart and his clemency. , When the Te Kooti war had been concluded the Native Minister, as General Whitmore had told him (Sir Robert Stout), insisted upon the preservation ot the life of the prisoners. So that it was ai Richmond again, who was consumed by, the desire t« save the race— the Native race. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.. intimate to their customers that Monday (tho 10th inst.) will be the last discount day, for the monthly accounts. — Advt. You actually save money by checking your baggage through us. A 6niall fe« tor cartage at either end is all you pay. For that we collect, check, and deliver the baggage. Enquire. N.Z# Express Co., Ltd. — Advt. Now that we are into the election ( iuontH x things should soon become interesting, afc any rate for the candidates concerned in tho various polls to be taken, while the ordinary citizen will need to take aboub half a day off and put in some previous study in order to vote correctly- It >8 fortunate, however, that all the question* with which we have to deal are not sa complicated as this year's nleetion ; and any lady requiring autumn hosiery, for instance, need only visit the establishment! of C. Smith, Ltd., to obtain the finest value in the Dominion at all prices. The price range from 1< to 3s lid pair, whil« the ranije at 2s is unsurijasr-pd, incluJincs plain, ribbod, and fancy, in j^buiere ju><J '■sle thread.— Advt "1