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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 113, 15 May 1911, Page 6

Councillor M'Laren will move at tho next meeting of tho City Council — " That the rates of pay to the general labourers in_ the omploy of the corporation bej raised to 9s per 'day for permanent men, ai)d 1b 3d per hour for casuals." The sum of £3 15s 2d was collected in tlw Hospital grounds yesterday afternoon, when the Central Mission Bund gave a musical performance in aid of tho uiEtin tutiou's funds. It is announced hi Invercargill that tho price of timber has been raised by one (shilling pev 100 ft. Thiß rise has been expected by consumers in Otago and Southland for some time, it being recognised that there has been a considerable increase in tho cost of production. Some time ago rsaya the Hawera Star) Mr. W. D. Powdrell received news oc tho death of his brother, Mr. Harry Powdrell, which was said to havo occurred in one of tho remote parts of South Africa. Mr. Powdrell this week received the still further shocking supplementary information that his brother had been wilfully shot by a Russian Pole. Mr. Harry Powdrell at tho time had a buih of £250 in his belt, and probably waa murdered for this. It is rumoured in Picton that the Government intends altering the route of the Railway between Picton and Mount Pleasant, which will entirely do away with the viaduct and tho eteep grade to the Elevation. The scheme is to take the linet from the new wharf straight through Speed's Valley, and tunnelling the hill. Such a deviation (states the local journal) has been under the consideration of the Railway D^ partmont for many years. According to a correspondent who Bigns himself "Tram," there is another reason than th© new workers' ticket system, for the relaxation of the usual five o'clock congestion on workers' cars. During the winter monthfi, ba points out, hundreds of workers, each as painter*, carpenters, and others included under awards, are leaving off work at 4.30 p.m. Consequently, workers' tickets, in the opinion of our correspondent, 'are not entirely responsible for bhe better distribution of lata afternoon tram traffic. The trawler Nora Niven reports that "all's well" with tho little community at the Chatham Islands fishing station, and that the freezing works are in good order. The Bchooner Clyde, owned* by Mr. J. M'Lean, was at Kaingaroa at the same time as the Hoto, Niven, and she reported that sha would set sail on Friday last for Weilinjfton. In al) probability the refrigerating machinery will be installed on the Clyde on, her return to Wellington. Sho will then engage in the con* veyance of fish from the islands to Well lington. At the recent Mayoral installation, Councillor J. E. Fitzgerald raised tha question of separating the administration of the Electric Light Department of the City Council from the Tramways Department in the way of appointing a separate committee 01 the council to supervise operations. The question was deferred. Councillor Fitzgerald has now given notice of motion for the next meeting of tho council : — That a committee of five mombens be formed as an Electric Lighting Committee, to deal with all, matters pertaining to tho Electric Lighting Department. Keen regret was expressed throughout tho district in January of last year (telegraphs the Gisborne correspondent of tho Chrißteb.ur.ch Press) when a fire destroyed the native church at Te Arai, one of the "bliow places" of tho East Coast, noted particularly on account of the splendid Maori carvings it 'contained. lb is now proposed to rebuild the church. The achetofc is being teken up enthusiastically by the Maori*, who have already commenced upon the carving, whioh will: form an important feature of the interior of the new building, The carving will be in the nature of a frieze running right round tho interior of the ohurch, together with carved columns of Maori design. The whole-hearted manner in which Irishmen vote for Home Kulo wa» illustrated by Mr. Haeelton, M.P., at a. social gathering in Pahnerßton North. Six men came all the way from America to voto for Mr. Kettle at East Tyrone}, the majority was only 14. In Mr. D«v-» lin's contest in Belfast the Unionist candidate had t ascertained through a previous municipal election that 45 names on the jx>ll were of persons who had gone to England, and therefore hadn't voted, so he was prepared for impersonation. When stranger* presented themselves and voted under these names he had all 45 arrested $ but they turned out to be the genuine votere come over from England to help the Nationalist candidate, and the Unionist had to pay them £10 eaoh as compensation for wrongful arrest. Now that the duplication and straightening of the Hutt railway are complete, the work of altering tha Thorndon Esplanade to suit the new order of things ha» been carried out by the Railway Department in accordance with its a.greement with the City Council. Grass has been sown on a topdressed area opposite the Esplanade Hotel, on the seaward side of the lime. This section is by way of compensation for that strip of the Esplanade taken, over by the Department for the oxt» lin© of rails and the widening of tho curve. The Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford) visited the locality yesterday afternoon to see how the work had been done. Incidentally, he inspected th» Thorndon Baths to satisfy himself as to complainta about their condition mtid« by several swimmers. 1 Dealing editorially with the subject of the Auckland Exhibition, the Lyttelton Times says:— "The comment serves to remind us that although four year« have elapsed since the closing of the last New Zealand International Exhibition, there has yet been no appearance of the official hustory for which Parliament long since made the necessary appropriation. There seeme to be no reason why the work ehould not have been published six montiie after the eniterprise concluded its very eucceseful season, unless a. motive for delay is to be found in the fact that a temporary financial stringency caused tho Government to limit it« expenditure for a period to the barest necessities. In any cace the times of prosperity nave returned, and the country can very well afford to haw am important national event adequately recorded in some permanent fashion. 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