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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 108, 7 May 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL » The Postal authorities advise that the Zealandia. which sailed from Suva al 3 p.m. on Saturday las>t for Auckland, has on board English and American mail 6. The Wellington portion is due to reach hero by tho Main Trunk express to-morrow. Tho Warrimoo, which sailed from Sydney at noon on Saturday lust, has on board an Australian mail. Shp. is also to reach Wellington to-mor-row. Representations were made to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday in the direction of getting the Telegraph Department to give receipts for cables sent outwards. This arose out of a caee where a, Melbourne firm had desired receipt of ,a cablegram. It wae suggested something was necessary to protect legitimate business. Tho secretary reported that a communication had been sent to the Post and Telegraph Department, but that no reply liad yet been received. When the Prime Minister was in Oatnaru recently Mr. George Livingstone pressed upon him the advisability of utilising, as an experimental form, three (sections of the Elderslie Settlement Block No. 2. which were not applied for at the ballot. It was pointed out that the land i& t well adapted for the purpose, that it is in a. position central to a large and an important agricultural district, and that it is within about three-quarters of a mile from tho Elderslie railway station. The Prime Minister promised to consider the matter favourably. "Now that railway reform is in the air," writes "Traveller" to The Poet, "I would like to make a mild suggestion. At the present time, to book a berth on the Mam Trunk express a person ha* to go to the Manawattt Station, which involves come time. This could be a-voided if a Bmall office was set up in a central position in the city, where the bookings could be made. I would not suggest an expensive office— the department will have quite enough on its hands to meet the heavy demands now being made — but a small room in a convenient locality, where the necessary bookings could be effected, would. I am sure, be appreciated by the travelling public." Very kindly references were made to the late Mr. J. E. Nathan, it the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The following motion was paused afc the instance of tv« president ;■— "That the chamber learns with deep regret of the death of Mr. J. #. Nathan in London, and desires to place on record its appreciation of his valuable work as a member of the chamber for focty-seveu years^-from 1865 to 1912— and as president in 1881-1882, also as a representative of this chamber at the Congresß of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in London in 1900 and in 1906; that a letter of condokifoo be sent to Mr. D. J. Nathan with a request that he will kindly convey same to the members of the late Mr. J. E. Nathan's family." Three more camps are to bo held in the Wellington provincial district before tho end of tho present military year (31st May). All of them have been arranged in order to give Territorials who did not attend the regular camps already held an opportunity of putting in the requisite amount of drill. The camps will be held as follow ;— Wellington Infantry, 7th Regiment, from 17th May to 25th May, on the rifle range, Wangrmui ; let and 2nd Battalions of the Wellington Infantry, 9th Kegiment, from 17th May to 25th May, at Masterton ; Wellington Infantry, sth Regiment, from 18th May to 25th May, at Trentham. On 7th June the Wellington Mounted Brigade will go into camp at Palmerston North, and will remain under cauvas ■until 15th June. Seventeen years ago the question of insurance rates agitated Wellington. Referring yesterday at the Chnnber v>f Commerce meeting to the death of Mr Nathan, one of the speakers reminded those present that at a meeting in 1893 Mr. Nathan moved — "That the council take into consideration the best meuaures to be taken with a view to «ecuring ft reduction in the rates charged for fire insurance in Wellington." The speaker also quoted the following extract of the chamber's annual report of 1894 : "At tho last annual meeting attention \va» called to the high ratfs "of premium charged in Wellington for fire insurance. The underwriting companion shortly afterward* revised their tariff and mado conclusions equal to a reduction of about 10 per cent, on block risks. U U believed, however, that rates aro still higher in Wellington than those charged in other of tho chiof cilice of tho colony." The Petono Municipal Bund, formed about eighteen months ago by the anialStagnation of the Citizens Band and the ?etone Draws Band, has made very little progress. First of all, it lacks funds, and still owes something on a set of instruments pin chased some time ago. In the second place, there is, with one or two exceptions, a luck of interest among the members of the band, and no bupporl coming from the public. Tho band has struggled along us beat it could under the circuuiHtances, but i« seldom heard in public, for tho reason that difficulty ix experienced in getting together a iair muster. There tire, of (loui'fco, some enthusiastic ir> embers, an* thebo intend to do their beat now to improve tho condition of the band, both financially ami numerically. Tho band is in receipt of an annual donation from the council of £15, but this is not by any means MifHeienl. Attention i«, therefore, being given to other means of raising money, and to this end a uerk's of j-acrod conceits in bi'ing iirvungod. It is hopi'd thnt thi* public will conic to tho assistance of the band, and show rnoio piactical inUuvst in its affairs than hns been the cusp in the past. Owing to iU inability to obtain scoutmasters, tho Khandnlhih troop hrns been dfcbnnded, and the, funds in hand paid in to the executive, Over 300 men continue to find employment on tho railway construction work between Otoko and Motu, in tho Poverty Cay district. To-ijionuw (\Yediie6dav) Kiikcaldle und ytdin«. Ltd., will offer. .\t »\wh\[ ink ob, Ahliiu'lum und Curiu-ul Jackots. Drews Skirts, Jubots, 6Qojdt> Silk and 100 paiu LudkV Shqes.wAdvU