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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL "" ■ <+ " A summer's day in summer at last! Here was a glad surprise yesterday for Wellington people who had despaired of sunshine. Clouds did arrive for the daily conference, but there was evidently some disagreement among them, and the sombre delegates dispersed for the day. At first the people were inclined to doubt that they were to have a respite for even a few hours. The impulse was to distrust the senses, and to fancy that the eye was deceived by the strange spectacle of the sun in blue and white company. But at "length people did believe that the sun was actually shining, and an excitement was in their minds and hearts. It was like a glad Christmas Eve in the afternoon. Women ahd girls' were abundant in summer finery, and their faces Vere as radiant as their raiment. Pleasant, iolly people brightened the Btreets, which had long been drab and dismal. The city was like a garden that had blossomed suddenly, delightfully, at the touch of a magician's wand. Pessimism welted away in the thrilling warmth; hard hearts were softened. " Man is soon de- ; prest," wrote Wordsworth,- and the converse is equally true. He is soon highspirited, if he is decentiy encouraged. The lead of the skies, that hated grey* ness and blackness, had sunk into the city's soul, but the sun yesterday was ah alchemist to transmute the lead to gold. If tho population had been French, instead of British, probably embracing would have been general in the cheerful streets and by the sparkling waterfront, to which people gladly thronged. And some of the embracing would have been welcome enough to the hearty admirers of the various visions of loveliness, long denied the chance to be all-conquering in this season's creations. At eventide the amateur gardener was sure that the cabbage had picked up much heart, and the roses gave fragrant thanks. A reception pill be tendered to His Excellency Sir George. King-Hall at the Missions to Seamen Institute on Monday next, at 2 p.m. A male passenger who arrived in Wel> lington by the Aorangi from San Francisco this week was not permitted to land, as he was consumptive. He returned by tho Moana yesterday. In Battalion Orders issued yesterday, Lieut. -Colonel Harcottrt Turner, of the Sth (Wellington) Regiment, impresses upon officers commanding companies the importance of carefully examining the rifles and bayonets of their men on every parade, special attention being paid to the following: — (a) That the bore of the rifle is kept thoroughly clean and oiled j (b) that the magazine is. kept free from dirt and oil, and in good working order j (c) that the face of the bolt-head and fric. tional parts are lightly oiled and free from grit, etc. ; (d) thai the sights are in good order; (c) that each man is in possession of a pull-through, oil, and liannolpttp ; and (f) that oayonets arc not allowed to become rusty. Kirkraldio and Stains, Ltd., haVe a special announcement iti 10-day's wmi^ which will interest all classes of Christmas shopper«."-Ad\t. Furniture lemowd, packed, and stored by reliable men. Apk for cslimatrs the Colonial Carrying Company, Ltd., 107-109, Cnstomhousd-quay. fc>hip« ping and Forwarding agents to jill part* of tho world.— Advt.