STORMY CONDITIONS PROBABLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 47, 24 August 1911, Page 8

STORMY CONDITIONS PROBABLE.

• ii. Though the weather conditions so far as Wellington is concerned are bright enough at present, a warning comes from the Meteorological Office that a change is probable, that stormy conditions generally may be anticipated. Rain is expected shortly in most parts of the country, and snow on the higher levels in the South. Changeable and showery weather has been experienced on. all the Western coast, and in the_ southernmost districts. The barometer is still unsteady, with a probable decline northward of New Ply. mouth and Napier. A southerly wind, strong to gafe, and veering to southeasterly, is likely to obtain.

Frederick James Mann, of Upper Hutt, butcher, was to-day adjudged a bankrupt. The first meeting oi creditors will be held afc 11 a.m. on Tuesday next, 29th Angust, In our motor column yesterday appeared a reference to the motor passenger waggonete at the Hutt. Through inadvertence this was incorrectly described as an "Albion." It is not a product of the Albion Motor Company, but a quite different make of vehicle altogether. We Tegret the oversight. The coal workers' section of the Wharf Labourers' Union met last night, ana resolved to request the union to take a ballot oft the question of joining the Miners' Federation. The Wharf Labourers' Conference, which h to be held at Auckland shortly, will have the matter under discussion. The meeting also drew up demands for a new award. Some 1700 eases of fruit comprising oranges, passions, and pines came to Wellington yesterday from Sydney by the Moeraki. The Postal authorities advise that tho fl.fi. Maheno, which left Sydney at noon on Wednesday for Auckland, has on board an Australian mail, also an English mail via Suez. The Wellington portion will be due her© by Main Trunk on Monday next. At the Lambton Police Station l&et evening. Constable Michael Fleming, of iM district office, who ha* been' a.ppointed thief clerk afc the difitriel- office at Inveroargill, was preeented by members of the local fora? with a. case of razors and an umbrella.- Constable T. Jones wiH fill tho \acancy in the local office. To-morrow, afc 1.15 o'clock, Messrs. Brand and Johnston Tvill hold an Ruction sdlrt of nursery stock. Under instructions from the ftcgistrftr of th& Supreme Court, Messrs. Harcourt