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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 6

A meeting of the Miramur Borough Council held at 12.30 p.m, on Friday next to confirm the special order making a rate of in the £ for the Miramar wharf loan of £5000. Bearing the yellow man's bwnlenl In a Chinese vegetable garden in the suburbs of Auckland (or the last couplo of weeks a white man could be seen, who is employed to walk up and down between the rows of peas, and net as a Uving scarecrow! There are over 5000 cases of frozen fish, mostly blue cod, at Bluff, each case containing about 651b weight. Last year at this time there wefu hot more than 150 eases on hand, The weather this year on the whole has Been very favourable to the fishing industry. If (remarks the Waikftto Independent) a lew seat is given to the King Country, it is announced that Mr, James Boddfe, Mayor of Te Kuiti, will stand in the Opposition interests. If this opportunity is not open to him he will probably stand against Mr. W. T. Jennings for TBurnafunui. Mr. Boddie wa* formerly a leading settler at BlUmm^ T&ranaki. Tbs family of the late Mr .Francis M'Pafknd. has received over 400 messages of condolence from people all over the Dominion. Ths funeral yesterday was the largest wen in Wellington for seme time. Wreaths were sent by mem. bers of the Cabinet, various licensed victuallers' associations, Wellington Master Bakers' Union, and Wellington wifle 1 and spirit merchant*. At a meeting of the Lower Hutt School Committee held last evening tho chairmaiij Mr. H. Baldwin, announced his intention of offering as a prize one yea* v » free tuition in any jßubject the winner chooses at the Petone Technical School, for competition amongst the scholars of the higher standards, in commercial subjects on the lines of the competition in» augurated some time back by the Cham- ! ber of Commerce, the subjects to toffl' prise arithmetic, handwriting, afid composition. He also offered to provide a prize for competition among the girls attending the KiflgVroad School, the details of which would be arranged by the headmastef, A smart nke© of work atane 1 * td the credit of the ferry steamer Ditches*. Leaving Wellington at 2.30 ,m, on Saturday with the barque Ermlnia in tmv, she reached her destination— Lyfctelton— at 9 „in. on Sunday, the journey of 176 miles having been aceo-m* phshed in about 184 hours. When about thitty miles off the Lyttelton Heads the barque commenced to roll hfeayily owing to the big south-easterly swell encountered, and ihe tow-line was subjected to a &evety strain. The Duchess left Lyttelton on the return trip to VVellingtcfl at 11 p.m. on Sunday and made port at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. * On her way back from Lyttelton yei. terday afternoon the ferry steamer Duchess sighted the carcase ol a dead whale ol big proportions. Having In yiew a substantial return for the trouble involved, the Duchess wae steered about a mile out of her course to within a short distance of the deceased leviathan. Those on board were greeted with an overpowering stench, and greatly to their disappointment discovered thatthe I carcase had already been stripped of the blubber by whalers. There was sufficient left on the bones to provide dainty picking* for the countless wmy of feeagulls that had taken possession. Porpoises to the number of several liur. dred were also investigating matter*. A rather unique incident happened in an Auckland *alefoom ot»© day last week. A property, consisting of a block of land and a cottage, in Valley-road, Mount Eden, was offered for sale by direction of the registrar of the Supreme Court a*d * h * fl llw auctioneer called for bids £400 was offered. At this stage befwe Another bid could be received, a well-known! city merchant cwne forward, and asked the amount of the mottaaße and stated that ha would tak» it over in order to assist the mortgagor whoee property was being sold. After & harried consultation with the mortgagee's solicitor, the property was withdrawn from sale, the auctioneer announcing that the merchant referred to was "helping a lame dog over a, stile." Suspicions as to th© future behaviour of MoUht Eden are voiced from time to time by writers and lecturers. Mr. E. k. Mtugafl, who discoursed on the subject of volcanoes and cognate matters at the Auckland Training College last week (says the Herald), also expressed a doubt upon the subject. He did not feel sure, he said, that it was correct to speak of the great pride of Aucklanders as "an extinct volcano," He alluded to th© hiitory of Vesuvius and other veilknown volcanoes in other countries, as showing that it was difficult indeed to say when a volcano was extinct, H© I also instanced Tarawera, which burst forth so suddenly without warning «i 1886. In view of these examples he thought that perhaps it would be wiser j to use the word "dormant" rather than the expression "extinct" in referring to once active but now quiescent volcanoes. In a letter to the clergy and the people of Wellington, through the Church Chronicle, Bahop Wallis writes; " Itet me assure you of my loving gratitude for the very generous proof of your affectionate remembrance, which the Archdeacon of Wellington presented to me in your Mmc the night before w© sailed. He was good enough to inform me that all the parishes of the diocese had had a chare in this great kindness, and that among the contributon* was an especially large number of those whom I had the privilege of confirming. . . . Many «ad moments have come to mo during this Voyage, as 1 have thought, of tho work and friends I have left behind. Perhaps the raddeift of atl was whe.h. on the evening of Ascension Day, nearly a week after wo had crossed the Equator, I saw for the last time the Southern Cross upright in all its beauty above the horizon, and knew that I should no longer look upon that precious femlndet of my life and work in New Zealand. , . . T need not assure you that 2 am praying for you every day, and that I shall be very near you in spirit on the Tuesday in Whitsun week, when you will meet for the coneecration of my friend and former chaplain to be my aucceasoi', His long experience will have helped him to see what things ate needed in the diocese, and when he is able to tell you what, in his judgment, aided by the Spirit of God, are the forward movements that aie most urgently called for at the present time, I am sure you will give him that hearty co-operation which 1 myself have often thankfully received from you." Always punctual, always reliable and accurate. Whether its forwarding, Customs worl£ baggage handling, furniture, removing, it's done well and economically. The N. 52, Express Company, Ltd. —Advt. The Wellington City Council is to be highly commended for the determined stand it has taken with regard to the tramway regulation*, and it is to be hoped that the dtifiens generally realise what is at stake in the matter. Wellington has showh itself quite capable of managing its own affairs -in the past ih all rmpecta, For instance, the huge volume of business transacted by the firm of C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street, shows thai the people of this dty appreciate souml commercial enterprise, and to-day come to the froht with two special furnishing bargain* i 840 yard* floorcloth, in good patterns, will Htand hard wear, 1, H, and ]J yards wido, Is rmr yard; 1000 yards wrong earppi runner, reversible, in good pattern*, 18 mm 22 inches wide, 4id and &4d j^ard.— ' AdH,