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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL A _ notable feature of the suburban municipal elections yesterday was that in every case where the outgoing Mayor stood he was re-elected. The Mayorelect of Wellington City (Mi-. D. M'Laren) will be formally installed in office at noon on Wednesday next. The Prime Minister state* (says a Press Association message from Auckland) that the surplus for the financial year ending 31st March is about threequarters of a million pounds. The headquarters of the Masonic Grand Lodge aa-e being transferred from •Wellington to Dunedin for a term of two years in accordance with the general policy. The lodges in Wellington and suburbs entertained the Grand Secretary (M.W. Bro. Niccol) at a dinner at the Hotel Windsor last evening Bro. Niccol leaves for the South to-night. The annual communication is to bo held at Dunedin on Wednesday, Bth May, when 188 lodgee will be represented. "Not only in my own interests, but in the interests of Porirua — a rising district with a large lunatic asylum in it." So Mr. St. Leger appealed to Hon. 11. G. Ell yesterday for his influence in the matter of the licence of the Porirua Hotel, cut out by a-n alteration in the boundaries. Mr.' St. Legor, while acknowledging that he was interested in the matter, being the licensee of the hotel, strongly emphasised the fact that' the convenience of the township and district should be considered. Mr. Ell explained to Mr. St. Leger that the matter was not in his hands, but in those of the Minister of Justice, to whom he would refer it. Interviewed by a Waikato Times representative yesterday on the future leadership, the Premier said he could not see people were looking to Mr. Maesey at all. The Opposition had succeeded in discrediting the former Liberal party, but it by no means followed that the effects of their methods against Sir Joseph Ward implied that the- country wanted Mr. Massey to bo entrusted to control the destinies of the Dominion. Mr. Maesey's captains-generals had won many fights in 'the last campaign which had been bungled by their Jteader The length of time the present Government would remain in office wa<? for tho Houbg to say. If the present favourable feeling met with by Ministers throughout the Dominion continued itl would be reflected when Parliament met. The Premier made it • quite clear that the Government would me no political legerdemain to > secure majorities The country was Liberal at heart, and was looking for guidance on sound, economic, progressive lines. , His party met these reasonable aspirations. Thei'e 'could bo no doubt of its future. "I write to enter a protest against the recently altered time-table ol the steamers in the Wellington-San Francisco service," writes "Merchant" in » letter to Tin* Post. "To-morrow the s.s. Aorangi, with outward San Francifico mails, leaves \Yellington at 5 p.m., and the s.s. Tahiti, with the inward San Francisco mail, is due here at 6 p.m. Last month the inward steamer arrived the day after the outward steamer left. Under the old time-table, before- the steamers, wont on to Sydney, the steamer left on the return trip a week after its arrival here. Thus shippers were given a week in which to execute orders received by that boat; bub now it is amonth before these orders can bo shippod. I believe the large subsidy was given to the Union S.S. Co., Ltd., for the purpose of securing a, service between Wellington and* San JTriviicisco lor the benefit of New Zealand. Of course, I do not know if our Government agreed to tho extension of the service to Sydney, but the fact remains that wo are sub* sidising a service which at present is of very little use to New Zealand, and appears to bo run solely for the benefit of Sydney merchants. This is a matter which our Chamber of Commerce should take up energetically, and I hope they will approach the Union S.S. Co., Ltd., and the Government immediately. I think you will agree with me, eir, that the present time-table is ridiculous, and trust you will give tho matter some prominence a 6 it vitally affects tho increasing trade with tho west coast of America.' 1 At the last meeting of the Hibernian Society (St. Patrick's Branch. No. 95) the following resolution was carried: — "This branch of the H.A.C.B.S. congvatulatos the Veil. Archdeacon Brodio oil his courageous and timely protest at Waihi on Sunday week last against the attacks on the Catholic Church and its doctrines and practices by a Socialist lecturer, and assures him of its heartiest felicitations on the success which attended hie 'efforts," The values of the principal exports of New Zealand products for tho first half of April show a. great advatnee when coinpart^kwith those for the coneeponding periUH of last yeai*. The increases a;re seen mainly in butter, cheese, beef, mutton, wool, and oats. The. total vnlw» for tho period is £1.166,094-, compared with £855,870. Velveteen* are \eiy fashionable, atiil some remarkably sniat't coats ai'id t-Uii t« can be turned out of thit, material. Kirkcaldie and Staine, Ltd. All tho nowe*t velveteens,— Adyl,