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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 6

The mails which l«?ft Wellington on ' 22nd Decaniber, per the s.s, Ulimaroiv, i and connected at Sydney with tho Nanlo.* maik per R.M.S. OsUsrley, arrived' in London on the morning of Hi<> 28lh in.«l. The Manuka, which arrived from Sydney to-day, had a smooth passage acroes. Last night a. concert was held, the Rev. Mr. Pallieon presiding, and about £5 was collected for the Shipwreck .Relief Society. "'Shearing is all done, thank govxlness. 1 was never more sick of anything in my life," remarked a Bush fanner a few daye ago. Ho added that ho was only üblo to work throe full days in cix weeks. The Petone Bowling Club's club cor.teata have been progressing vary wsU this Reason. The final of the champion pairs hae now b«en reached, and this evening Cooper and Colea will play oft with Cassell and Fowler. A good contest is looked for, £h« Wellington lottev carriers will hold their fifth annual picnic at Day's Bay on Saturday. A good programme of sports has been provided, including tho Post and Telegraph Handicaps ami tho letter Carriers' Cup, and a ploswaiib day s outing is anticipated. I The following paragraph occuie in a report presented by the chairman to the Oamaru Harbour Board on lfriday last t 'The rateß to be levied for 1912 will be the last at the old amount, a substantial reduction taking place when the old loane uvt> repaid next year. I feel sure that ratepayer will heartily welcome the experience. There is a great dearth of fiaxmill hands throughout Southland at the preBent timt, and good wages aro being offered, up to 10b per day for ordinary hands and 323 6d per ton for scutcherG. In the height of the sawmilling industry the highest price paid was 30e. The Southland Newa states that several milk which would otherwise start operations straight away are hampered owing to the difficulty experienced in securing a complement of hands. j For some time the Custom* and Har- ' hour authorities at Dunedin have been keeping a Bharp look-out for owners of motor-boats reputed to be in the habit of carrying passenger* without being duly licensed. Detection is obviously difficult owing to the fact that the pt-ac tice is indulged in' only on special occasions, and frequently as a f avouiv. As these , boats are rarely equipped with life-say-I ing apparatus passengers run serious I risks, and the boat-owner inflicts an in- ■ justice on those who are licensed to ply i for hire. A case in point is reportea to have occurred last week (according to ■ the Otago Daily Times), and it is probable that more will be heard of the matter. 1 Members of Timaru Harbour Board tako exception to a statement in a telegram reporting an inquest on the man O'Neill, who was killed by a blast at their quarry, to the effect that the accident was caused by the blast being hurrkd so as not to keep members ot tlio board waiting. Some members were at the quarry that afternoon, but according to the chairman's statement the- blust was ready, and there was no occasion to hurry. The secretary Btated that the engineer did not oven know members would be there. When the inquest was resumed this week, the coroner said there was no evidence to the effect that th© blaet had been hurried. A wrong inference had been drawn from a witness Haye&'s evidence. Some interesting side-lighta were thrown on a commonplace-looking bicycle case in the Magistrate's Court, Dunedin, on Monday last, by a question which the defendant elected to put. He had just been fined 6s and costs for cycling without a light, and evidently thought it' was his move 1 next. "Is it lawful," he' enquired, "for a policeman to trip a man up when he is riding a bicycle?" But the Magistrate was not to be drawn, and replied diplomatically, "That is a matter I am not going into just now." The Sub-inspector here thought that a little further light might be interesting, and asked pointedly, "Do you want to go into the matter of your trying to escape?" The defendant muttered something about having no fckin left on his side, and turned away slowly like on© who feels that his wrongs are beyond legal redress. There was a narrow escape from a serious coaching accident near Makuri on Monday. The four-horse mail coach, from Pongaroa was about two miles from Makuri. and was descending a steep incline when a trace broke. The position was not a pleasant onw, for the brakes did not work properly in the emergency. The coach was on a hill ; on one side was a hard limestone cliff, and on the other a steep fall. The driver saved the situation with admirable presence of mind. Remembering that & little- further on the limestone cliff gave place to a clay bank, he contented himself with keeping the horses on the' track and checking their speed a* much as possible. Then when he reached the clay bank he called to tho passengers (tliroe ladipe) to hold tijjht, and turned th» coach into the bank. Here it came to a stop, leaning against tho bank. The driver stuck to his peat, but tho three ladies had evidently not such v tight hold, and all three were thrown out by the impact of the coach on the bank, but they sustained no injuries beyond a shaking. It is understood that Mr. Alex. Webster's reappointment as Town Ckrk of P«ton©, will necessitate his retirement as secretary of the I'eUmw Fire Board. When applications were invited it wa« stipula-ted that the cuccc«,ful applicant could tako no outside work. ' During the holiday season (says th« Otago Daily Times) a popular place of resort in DuiMxlin was tho Early Settlers' Museum, in Lower High-street. On on© afternoon about Christmas timo as many as 140 people visited it. It is a remarkable fact that it is no hurried visit that the majority of th© peopie mako to this unique institution. Th« views of early Dunedin and th© photographs of the first residents appe.ir to claim special attention, at any rato from the older generation of xisitoi*. Around those, exhibits some of tln'in hover for a long time, thoir minds doubtless filled with recoikctiois of their first «xper:©n«s in a kod that wsa tln-n new and strange to th»m. , The younger generation is mow concerned ' with the section of an old>-tinie house, tho Provincial Council seala nml desks, Ihe eld fashioned clocks, nud the letter to (he Superintendent, selling out that the prisoners in the gaol had been allowed to attend a race meeting at Montecillo. Tho committee has a number of other photographs a»d picture* in its> possession, and it is hoped in tho course of a iew months to secure two or thrw hage glass cases in whirl) those additional exhibits will b© placed, thus adding materially to a department of the Museum that is already of absorbing interest. , Tho increased cost of living is a factor which directly conooms every member of tho rommunity, and tho various attempts ma.de to erwo matters for different sections of workers simply react upon tho people ah a wholo. Tho complex naturo of the problem mak«fl ifc retjuuo Very caretul handling. Ono redeeming: feature is jji'uBontod by the fact of keen competition, which tends to keop prjeos &t tho lowtwl possible level. For instwico, C. Smith, Limited, Cubn-etroot, nre / now off orihg a lino of ladies' whito kid gloves, with self or black Btitohed baoks and three domo fasteners, at Is lid per pt.ir. This is the sort of opportunity to be grasped without