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

At ft special meeting of the OhrisV church City Council lost night Mr, 3, J, JDougall, Deputy-Mayor, wm unanimous* ly elected Mayor In snweerion to the late Mr. T. E. Taylor. The Boa^d of Theological Studies a| the Anglican Church is meeting in W||i lihgtott, Tlia Bishop* of Auckland ani Nelson ara present In conttwtioh witS the boavd, and they are staying at BighoßßCOUfl. BWtop Sprott will ordain, Mr, Tame. Iv&tafte to ttie dlaeonate ab Ota-ki on 20th August, and will hold a eonfirma-tion eei-vlfe there the same day. In September Bishop Sprott will hoW confirmations in Wellington City churches, tfotty-four years ago to-day the Thames district w*a thrown open for goldmlning purposes. Mr. i/ame* Mnokay, who was native commteolftner in those daye^ Rfld wa« instrumental lit Inducing the iAiaorls to allow mining to be earned en within a certain area on the shores of thfl Haitr&kl Gulf, js now lying seriously ill at Paeroa. Captain A, Farquhar, the popular master of the Northern Company's fine paddle steamer Waketere, was ih charge of one of the fiwt steamboats running between the Thames and Auckland, and he it «Mll In that trade, Another gentleman who was associated with the Thames in the early days 1* the Hon, James M'Qowmi, Involved legal argument relating ttt oueeuons of procedure arising out of litigation concerning a block 0! 92.765 mn«, near Taupe, which had been before the courts for the hst eight or ten years, was heard In the Court cf Appeal y«tefd&y. The Bench wn« occupied by 1 Sir Joshua Williams, and Justices M. wards, diarjm&ri, and Sim. Mr. M* Chapman, K.C., with him Mr, S. A. Atkinson, appeared for i?«,ten&. Kerelu and other*, plaintiffs, and M*. J, Logan Stout, with Tilm Mr. tt. £, Evans, V TaitufnH. Marangat«na Mid Miethw, defendant*. The court held that defendante had abandoned a. fli'Bt notice ef appeal, and that there could be no appeal from the court of first instance as to the determination of th& amount of security for cost*. It was still open, the coart added, to defendants to appeal m tha judgment of Matth lft«t In favour el plaintiffs. Matters in connection with the unloading of the barquentine Pelotas, lying en the Caetleeliff beach, are &t a etaadstill, reports ihe Wanganui Chronicle. The contractors, Messrs, Tomiett and St&kee, nr& busy dismantling the vessel, which looksa thorough derelict, but ho attempt is being made to salve any more of the cargo ef sleepers. Some 2800 have been unloaded, and a* the terms of the contract ehtered into by Messrs,' Tomsett and Stokes have been fulfilled, thft firm - doe* net Intend to do any more dUohargmg except at a higher price, About 1600 weepers are etUl lying in th© hold, but g, pump or diver ar& new necessary in, order to enable them to be "reached. Th© underwriters are, therefore, beihg approached 011 the subject. The vessel is st.lll holding together remarkably well, and i« showing little effect from the eea. It is considered that were the vessel pumped out there would be Uutle difficulty In getting her floated, There was a lengthy diicu»ion nt Iftst meeting ef the council of the Otago Ac> climatisation Society about the fallow deer herd in Centta! Ot&go. The Ta.. panul Society had rmmmentlttl thab culling of the herd be permitted during the month of August, a limited number ef permits to be issued. The Deer Com« mittee of the Ot&go Society d-ccommend-«d that culling be limited to &0 permits, optative from Ist to 16th August. Ranger O'Neill, authorised by the society. tp investigate the complaints from wttlers as to the depreaatiofle of M1&&& deer ih the KaMklebtirtt district, forward, ed an exhaustive report, from which iv was apparent that settlers were much ftMwyetJ at the dftmuge caused, hoi- only, to crops of oats and turnips, but to th© grazing, the carrying capacity of thet pastures as regarded beth cattle and sheep being greatly kreened by the pre* Btfiee of deer m eueh numbers. A great, deal of further information was placed before the meeting, it being seated by cue o«rty that en an taee. of M,OOD acre* there were between 20.000 »nd 30,000 de«— ft statement which some members scouted as ridiculous] another estimate of 12,000 deer as being tlie out* side total of the herd being as much neater the mwk. fences Bisected' by the settlers have failed to keep the deer out of the crops, and the society, is threatened with a lawsuit by on© of the settlers. The chairman announced that 60 permits had been issued to *hoob hinds only between Ist and 16th August, and if the two weeke did not prov« enough the time eotiW be ©jftended. During the discussion the condition of the herd was mentioned. It was assart* ed that malfoTmß were vwy prevalent owing to inbreeding, and that freeH blood might with advantage be introduced. A T&pMimi «port«mafi, wrote maintaining that the herd wa§ th© b«t, not only in Nw Zeftlund, bwh in the world, and that culling was alt that was necessary, The coming elections promise to b# particularly interesting, so far as Awa« rua is concerned, writes the Bluff cor. respondent of the Dunedin Star, In, addition to the candidature of the sitting member for the constituency (Sir Joseph Ward) there are likely to be> three others in the field, and, strangely enough, in different interests. They are Mr. J. % Hamilton (Winton), Mr. T, Fleming (Invercargill), and Mr. A. W. Morris (Waikiwl). Sir Joseph Ward has held the Awarua seat for over 20 years. His acceptance of a title will 110 doubt add to his opponent* those electors whose democratic and Soci»listio 'ideas are more radical than those of the average elector. The Opposition interest centres in the candidature of Mr. 0. R, Hamilton, who has occupied with ere* dit a seat upon the Southland County Oouhcil for some years past, and he ia reported to have a strong following in Winton and the surrounding district. Mr. Hamilton's supporters are sanguine that their candidate will poll heavily at the forthcoming poll, and no doubt a plank of this candidate's platform will be what has bten termed the und&ffiocTatic action of the present member io accepting an hereditary title. It is also anticipated that Mr, Hamilton will poll well as a No-license advocate, bub it ap» pears to me that however brigkt Mr. Hamilton's chances may have been when his candidature Was first announced they are somewhat discounted by the fact that there are now two additional cau« didfttes iv the field. Should Mr. Ham* ilton poll as heavily as anticipated by the Opposition Party, he may have &n opportunity of measuring blades with his redoubtable opponent on a second ballot. Mr. Flemings platfortn appear* to be that of an Independent, and it b*» its advantages, although it is difficult io Bay with cettaihty at the present moment with what light the candidatttt* of an Independent will be regarded in Awarua, where there are able candidate* representing th& main parties. Mr. A. W, Marris contested the seat last election, and this year he stands again. Mr. Mor. ris failed to ruach 1000 votes in i&08, but as he appears this year a* a Labour candidate he anticipates making a fight of it. The Labour vote in Awarua ia not sufficient in itself to affect seriously the position of the sitting member, and it is probable that unless Mr. Morris evolves a policy which embraces some* tiring move promising than th© Labour articles his possibilities of successfully contesting the Awarua seat, as he implied himself in a recent Bluff Address, are not the rosiest in the world,