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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 6

A dinner wuo held at tho Hotei Windsor last evening in connection with tho newly-formed Institute of Local Government Engineers, the executive oi the Institute of Marine Engineers being entertained. An enjoyable evening war spent. Mr. Wallace, secretary of the Marine Engineers' Institute, is to act as local secretary . for the newly-formed body. The fact that much indignation waa felt at Lower Hutt at \he dastardly action of faonio person or persons in laying poison for dogs in tho main streets lias already been mentioned in Tho Post, Several valuable o'oge have eaten Iho poifcon with fatal results. A meeting of dog owners and othtrs intei'Mted Is to bo held at the Lower Hutt Town Hall on Tuesday evening next to discuss the matter. Sir Joseph Ward has received front the Wellington Branch of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association a tcjsolu- ! tion expressing regret at his resignation of the portfolio of Poatnuistur-Ueneral and Commissioner o£ Telegraphs, . and placing on record the Uhaooiiitioh's deep appreciation of the many services rendered to the officers of the Department during the long term he has been its Ministerial chief. The branch recognises the goodwill which pervaded his sentinienta towards the staff, and desires that ho in turn should know that this feeling will ever remain a happy remembrance of the stuff. Two police casos were dealt with by Mr. W. G. Biddell, 8.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. Elizabeth Stennett, an elderly woman, charged with theft of a handkerchief, two railway tickets, and £3 9s in money, from Mrs. Annie Whiteman, waa convicted and ordered to como up for sentence when called on, a condition being that sho makee restitution, Reginald Wright was charged with having bo huved in a threatening manner at John' sonville Railway Station on tho 2nd of March. After hearing evidence, his Worship said that Wright had been provoked, and in the circumstances had probably acted reasonably. Tho information was dismissed. Stressing the need for a greater and moro public encouragement ot Free Kindergarten work in Wellington, a speaker at last night's annual meeting mentioned that the Auckland Harbour Board had given a valuable site for tho erection ot a Freo Kindergarten School, and Sir John Logan Campbell had provided funds for the building. The Duntidln Harbour Board, too, had recognised tho valuable work by tho gift of a Bite, and though so far there had been no donor come forward to present the building, such was the feeling in that centre that it was not improbable any day. The speaker suggested that if the City Council or Harbour Board was approached in the proper spirit for sitea tor Freo Kindergarten Schools, the suggestion would not be unkindly received. Two persons bearing similar names had business at the Magistrate's Court yesterday. One waa charged with having used obscene language, and when his name was called a young man entered the. Court room and took up his Btand alongside the dock. "Are you — — ? " queried the Clerk of the Court, preparing to read from the charge-sheet. " Yes," was the reply. " You are charged with having used obscene language," commenced Mr. Holmes. " Pardon me," interrupted the young man, over whose features a look of amazement had gradually spread, "there must be a mistake. 1 haven't done anything. lam only here as a. witness. The service* of the orderly were at once requisitioned, but the person to whom ttie charge applied failed to materialise. He was dealt with, however, by the Magistrate. The Motueka Star contains a reply by Mr. J. Harris, Home Missionary at Motueka, to ''an article in the Auckland Star reporting speeches made by delegates at the recent Methodist Conference, in which the members of the church in the Motueka district were reflected upon. Mr. Harris says the Motueka Methodists do not pay their spiritual adviser a "miserable salary of £100," as asserted, but £120, plus £10, plus parsonage, which was previously let at 10s per week — or a total of £15b. In addition a circuit debt (caused by removal expenses) bos been almost wiped out, and the choir, has recently decided to procure a new organ and has shouldered tho financial responsibility— a matter of some £75. The alleged 6s collection from a "crowded church" at an , anniversary 'celebration on a "recent Sunday" is scouted as an impossibility. The Motueka Methodists have not hod an anniversary celobration for years, and the collections are liberally responded to by the church members, who are nearly all working people. , Mr. Harris concludes :— "I learn that the circuit has had a bad name in the past (rightly or wrongly) and like the proverbial bad name for at dog it sticks, and it will continue to stick so long as there are conference parrots who continue- to repeat something which they may have heard without first finding out whether the statements accord with 'present facts or otherwise-.!' The proposal to tax tho bicycle, laid before the Chrietchurch City Council on Wednesday, has created considerable interest amongst local cycling folk. A Press representative interviewed some of the officials of two or three cycling clubs on the scheme, and asked for their opinion about it. They regarded it more with amusement than otherwise, and pointed out that in tlw city, wh*ro there aro supposed to bo something like 30,000 bicycles, it would be almoet a matter of impossibility to register them all, and would mean tho maintenance of a greatly increased polico force- to bring delinquents to book. In fact, the whole thing would very quickly develop into a farce. _ They did not see, ako, how tho placing of a number oti a bicyclo, with so many in existence, would gieatly prevent tho theft of machines. Inspejtor Kiely, who was also interviewed by the reporter on. tho matter, said tho numbering of motoicycles, and cars was quite necessary, iv order that the police might bo ujjlo to trace breaches of tho city bylawa, but it was quite different with the bicycles, which, though once a luxury, J wore now a stern necessity to peoplo living in tho suburbs. Ho did not think the numbering of tho machines would assibt the police in catching bicyclo thieves, because tho machines were so numerous that no proper control could be taken ot them It would be much better if each business pkvco iv the «ity were compelled to provide a cycle stable , where- the employees could put their bicyclet,, instead of leaving endless rows of them outside, at the mcicy of any thief who might happen to como along. The intcrprovincial lacrosse challenge shield, presented by Mr. W. J. Proud, of Sydney, arrived in Wellington last week, and is now on viow in Mr. ■). B. Speed's window, Lambton-quay. Th§ defence problem* of thn Dominion continue '.o attract attention both m theory and praitn-o, and the tfrcat majority of rho pconlo uro convinced that tho belt safeguard of peuco i« to bo prepared for >w:\v, siufie foivu in the thing that ultitnntoly count* in tho dealing* butucen eonrlictmg nationnlitici. Kull lireparatiosis hu\e nho booti nmdo to nuot al! coi;n>otiu>ii by C. Smith, Ltd., whewo extemho shipments aro uuw ou viow, and include s>omo special linen in ladiiV glove* for hnrd wear, such as Dent's real nappa gauntlet gloves, with straps and demo fasloiKTs, at .v 3ld and 4« lid piuv: iil.o fuo-iliituo do»;bkiu ulovof> hI, 2s llu tiud Z-, 11<1 per puii. The*o ;ue first .c)um makoa at tnodc<vl prin-tJ, and mth' full Natisiaction ia wear* C. tfmith, Wl,, I Cubft4troet t -AtlYk»