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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1911, Page 8

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WELLINGTON BUSINESS. Saks on 'Change reported to-day were as follow :— INVESTMENT. 10 a.m.— Equitable Building, £9 15s (r) ; Wellington Gas rights, 4d (c). MINING. Noon.— Talisman, £2 10s 3d (c) ; Waihi, £3 9s, £3 9s 6d (r) ; Waitangi, 2s Bd/ (c) ; Grand Junction, £1 9s 3d (c). 3.15 p.m.— New Sylvia Is Bid, Is 83d, Is 9£d (r) j Waihi. £3 9s 3d (r). TRANSACTIOnTeISEWHERE. [»T tfteeaApir— pbiss association.) AUCKLAND, 13th September. The following business was done ai the 3.15 p.m. call to-day : — New Sylvia, 2s 3d, 2s 2d; Ross Goldfields, Is lid; Waihi Grand Junction, £1 8s 6d ; Wilson Cement (pref.), £1 19s 9d. DUNEDIN, 13th September. Stock Exchange sales :— Waihi, £3 Bs. Sales reported s— Waihi, £3 8s 6d ; Waihi Extended, Is B£d ; Kaiapoi VVWlen (ord.), £5 10s (two parcels). AUCKLAND, This Day. Business done on 'Change this morning :— May Queen, 2s, Is lid ; Sylvia, 2s Id to 18 9d ; Saxon, Is 9d ; Hauraki Reefs (con.), Is 4d; Waihi, 68s 9d to 69s 3d; Grand Junction, 29s j New Zealand Insurance, 9?s 6d. GREYTOWN NOTES. ■ ' ■» ■■ (it TEfcSOSAl'n— SPttttAt TO tH* 105T.3 GREYTOWN, This Day. At 9, meeting ol the Borough Council tiro tender of Mr. tt. Humphries was accepted for the erection of the Coronation Baths. At the samo meeting it was reported that the gas would be turned on next Saturday, but the official opening would not take placo till the following Thursday. The street pedestal lights have been delayed owing to the Government having to remove their standard survey pegs to the side of the road. The gasworks have cost £5500 up to date, whereas £6000 was borrowed. The Mayor thinks the balance will not be> required. A meeting of the Mount Hector Tourists Track Committee was held on Tuesday flight, when it was decided to write to the Featherston County Council for the- Government grant of £100, Mid then proceed immediately with tho work. MISSIONS TO SEAMEN. There was ft large audience at the Missions to Seamen Institute laefc evening, when. Mr. G. W. Barltrop provided an interesting limelight lantern entertainment. Mr. Shell, the miesioner^ oc cupied the chair. Scenes depicting views of England, Scotland, and of, tho Royal Navy were shown. Musical i items were interspersed during the evening, the following contributing:— Messrs. W. Gardner, Taylor, Belcher, and Roberts (Whakarua). LODGE MEETING. The Hope of Petone Lodge of Good Templars held its weekly session in tho Ranfurly Hall, Potone, last evening. Bro. T. Townsend C.T., presided over a very good attendance of members. Bro. Rigarlsford, Grand Treasurer, and Bro. George Price, District Chief Templar, were in attendance, and were heartily received. Two new members were initiated, and several proposedfor next week. After business a short musical programme was given. Bro. Jones was awarded Bro. Jordan's trophy for obtaining most new members last quarter. Tha&nnual^ meeting of the Petone Cooperative Building Society, which was to have been held last evening, lapsed for want of a . quorum. 'X ballot for a loan appropriation of £200 was, however, proceeded with. The first two numbers drawn were 56 and 201 in that order, but as neither of these accepted, a third draw came out in favour of No. 44. Under the heading of "A Dangerous Corner," Mr. J, C. Hutchinson writes : — "In a letter of mine which appeared under the above heading in your columns some months ago, I drew attention to the dangerous nature of the footpath skirting Anderson Park, and overlooking Glenbervie-road and Sydneystreet. Thi« letter, before publication, was shown to the city engineer, and the necessity for the work was admitted. All that was required, I pointed out at the time, was that the existing fence should be lengthened a chain or so at each end, and had this been done there would have been no necessity for further complaint. The winding path which .admits yon from Tinakori-road to tho playground, with a precipice unprotected on one side, 25ft to 35ft deep, a-nd which is traversed by children, many of tender years, during the day, is the cause of many a- heartache to those who see the danger, and live close by. Many have spoken to me of their anxiety in this direction. Why the fence was not brought parallel with the footpath down to the Tinakori-road level is pasfc all understanding. Expense is no excuse. Ten or twelve more posts, the wire necessary to connect the same, and one day's- work for two mcii, ie all that is required. Unless this is j seen to, you will, , Mr. Editor, in all probability some day, have a very serious accident to record, and, as I said in. my previous letter, in that case tho city authorities will ha. by no means fiee from liability." Before Mr. W. G. Biddell. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, W. H. Poole, butcher, Wellington, sued Alfred Phillip?, butcher, Wellington, for £20, the amount of a cheque drawn by the defendant on the Bank of New Zealand payable to plaintiff or bearer and dis- | honoured. Mr. C. R. Dix appeared for plaintiff and Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon for defendant. Defendant tendered the cheque as part of the purchase money of a butcher's business and a horse, cart, and harness, but subsequently stopped payment on the ground that the horse was not staunch. The Magistrate held that .-is defendant had had an opportunity of .inspecting the animal prior to purchasing it, he had no right to stop payment of the cheque. Judgment was for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with casts £3 12s. Two complaints have reached The Post regarding the delay in the delivery of letters posted at Pefcone and addressed to Lower Hutt. In one instance it is stated that a letter was posted at Petone. last lTriday, while it. was not handed to the addressee until the following, Monday— four days altogether. The complainant states that- this is a common occurrence and that he has so far been ttn&bie to discover any reason for it. In the instance mentioned' itis claimed that the lette' 1 "-bould have been delivered on the sftme day or. a.fc the latest, on the following morning. Oft the matter being put before the Chief Postmaftter at Wellington, thai officer ftated that no complaint had been made to the department. The proper course for such persons to 4 pursue in regard to eases of this nature was that they should forward th* envelope of the letter to (ho pa?t office, when, an enquiry could be made, Ml. Kilpatfick, grocer. Ceurtenayplace, publishes in our advertising columns * uqtioe "to .tho thrifty housekeeper.."