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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.' i i The city 'rates required to be got in. by 31st March amounted to £159,042, of which £151,933 was received to the due *dato. There was left £7109 outstanding. This is now being rapidly got in. The amount is slightly in excess of the outstanding rates of last year, which is accounted lor by the tightness of monoy during the past few months. The clerical work involved in collection was heavy, as tho following figures show: Demands sent out, 20,000; "reminders," 11,040; letters, I960; summonses, 250. Return* of land under the Land and Incomo Assessment Act must be supplied to the Commissioner of Taxes on or before let May. The Taranaki carpenters' dispute will be heard by Mr. Harle Giles (Conciliation Commissioner) on Monday. Surmise and, later, comment was occasioned on . the wharves last evening when, a few minutes before 8 o'clock, the Maunganui, which left port at 6.15 p.m., was seen returning up the harbour Later, it transpired that a lady passenger had boarded the vessel in mistake for tho Maori, and* it was not until the Sydney boat was well out into Cook Strait that tho mistake was discovered. At 7.55 o'clock the vessel berthed at the outer tee of the Queen's Wharf, and landed tho wrongly consigned passenger, who was just able to catch the Lyttelton boat, which, luckily for her, left a few minutes late. A party of Victoria College (Wellington) and Christchurch College students who had been down to Dunedin passed through Timaru by the first express for tho North on Wednesday afternoon, and attracted much attention by their antics to make themselves a nuisance (says the Tima.ru Post). The major portion of tho party was made up of youths who were not lax in their efforts to amuse the feminine portion of the "troupe," and anyone else who cared to look on. The young men paraded the station several times uttering queer noises, shouting, singing, and generally getting in the way of the railway officials as much as possible. One guard quietly asked tho ■ offenders to desist, but tho next moment he found his hat missing. At Oamaru the party created such ( a disturbance that the police had to intervene. A new proposal by Mr. Mace, of Mace and Nicholson, for the widening of Nghauranga-road, was laid before the Makara County Council yesterday by that gentleman. Some time ago it was decided to put in a. tunnel five or six chains in length to take»away the creek water and by thecliversion of the stream enable the road to bo widened. Mr. Mace thinks that a better plan would be to tunnel further up the' gorge, in order to reclaim more of the creek bed, and he put his views before the council yesterday. After the matter had been diecussed, it was decided that Mr. Mace should meet the council on the road next Wednesday, and point out where ho thinks the tunnel should be put in. The meeting was attended by Councillors J. H. Haggerty (chairman), F. T. Moore, A. J. Taylor, T. H. Eastwood, H. J. Monaghaai, and G. Monk. Delegates to the Trades Council complained yesterday that in reporting the discussion on the action* of the President of the Arbitration Coiui, the newspapers made it appeal" that the condemnatory motion passed had been moved with the word " brutal " in the text. Mr. Sullivan, who moved the motion, pointed out that he had eliminated the word " brutal " from tho rough draft before lie actually moved the motion. What really occurred wae that when the remit was reached the president of the conference enquired whether it was intended to move it in the form in which it appeared in the rough, and Mr. Sullivan eliminated the word in question, and moved the motion then. As a matter of fact, the Poet simply published a condensation of the motion, and in that precis no mention of the word "brutal " or of the other stringent references to the President of the Arbitration Court appeared. With reference to a statement made on Thursday in tho Magistrate 1 * Court, wo have, been asked to mention that tho rent of tho Kelburne Kioek is ,£7 a week, and not £4. The new Children's Hospital, which was opened by the Governor some weeks ago, is still unoccupied, owing to the delay in the arrival of the "Nursery Rhyme" panels for tho decoration At the wards. The proprietors of the Wangwmt Chronicle have sold their property on Taupo-quay, W&nganui, to Messrs. Arch. Clark and Sons, who will build a warehouse thert. New four-storied premises will be erected by the Chronicle at Campbell-place. Although to all intents and purposes the Butt Valley Tramway Board in not now in existence, it has not yet been officially disbanded. The secretary applied to the Government, for the sesuio of the necessary Order-in-Council immediately after the meeting of the board in January laet, but this has not yet been issued. Kirkcftldio and Stains. Ltd., will utvt «■ ook offer 800 pair* of Indie* 1 gk«o kid boots and bhoes, made by Laird Scaob*r, of Anwrwa,iBt the bargain price of 7« 6d a pair. Particular arc Adverti**d.-» Advt.