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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1913, Page 6

The Postmaster General announces that an Act has been passed by tho Imperial Parliament providing that newspapers published in British possessions can bo registered at the General Post Office, London. Tho effect of this will be to reduce the postage for New Zealuud newspapers, if registered in London, posted in the British Islands for delivery within tho Islands, from per 2oz to id per copy. Generally, the conditions for registration are the same as for registration in New Zealand, with the important exception in tho English law that newspapers cannot bo registered if they are published at intervals longer than seven days. Therefore, New Zealand newspapers published fortnightly or i monthly cannot bo registered. The fact of registration at tho General Post Office, Wellington, does not necessarily, oven in the. case of weekly or more frequently published journals, indicate a right to registration in London. The registration fee is 5s per annum j and the registration has to be renewed from year to year. Registration as a newspaper may be refused of a publication printed and published in a British possession unless arrangements have been made to the satisfaction of the Imperial PostmasterGeneral for maintaining a responsible representative of the publication in tho United Kingdom. Largo attendances were a feature at the various outdoor holiday attractions held in and around Wellington yesterday. Some 3000 porsont made the trip on the ferry steamers to Day'u Bay and Rona Bay, the largo majority attending the big Labour picnic , at the former place. Favdurdd with fine weather, the picnic was a complete success and was a most enjoyable gathering for all concerned. The railway passenger traffic was heavy, a total of 6400 persons being booked from Wellington. At Lambton Station over 2000 first-class and 1160 second-class tickets were issued for the Trentham racecourse. The tramways were also kept very busy throughout tho day. Many small pionics wore held at Belmont, including one organised by members of the Wellington Esperanto Society, at J;ho invitation of Mi's. Dormer, ol Belmont. _ "They want to boom their Exhibition,' remarked Mr. J. G. W. Aitken at the Education Board meeting to-day in touching upon tho proposal of the Auckland Board to hold a conference of education boards at Auckland in Janu ary. The proposal was condemned on all sides, members considering that on account of its position Auckland was not a suitable venue for tho suggested conference, which should not bo hold tit tho extremity of New Zealand. The board resolved not to entertain the idea. In the boxing contest at Gisborne last week between Cook and Hanhan, after tho fifteen rounds had been completed the referee, Mr. O'Connor, declared the contest "no fight," and disqualified i Hannan. His reason for doing this was because he' did not think Hanntm had been trying. Personally, he conBidered Hannan the better boxer, but he had not made aufficient attempt to fight, while Cook had done his best to make a fight of it. Both boxers protested against the decision. Cook declared he was not "v fighter, and never claimed to be one. He was a boxer pure and simple, and claimed he had boxed well that night. Hannan stated he could not fight a, man who kept running away. He had fought Cook six times, and Cook knew his stylo', us he knew Cook's. Cook had kept away from him, and he (Hannan) had done his best to make Cook fight. Hannan declared he had never fought an unclean fight in his life, and he considered' he was ' entitled >to the / decision, as Cook had never landed a blow which counted. Australians are already beginning to realise some of th© benefits that they hoped for when the compulsory system of military training was brought into force. "The Australian 'sloucli' is al-,\ ready disappearing," the Melbourne Ago says. "Our boys are acquiring a briskness of gait and a dignity of carriage fresh to experience. > They are less inclined to lounge at street corners, smoking and spitting , and , 'guying' peaceful passengers. A new spirit has inspired them. They are obviously improving both .in body and in mind. Their native independence of character is being tempered by discipline and chastened by a dawning percipience of patriotic duty and honourable purposes. In short, they are developing in manliness and consciously qualifying to be men j and inBtead of merely 'growing up' as selfindulgent units of a listless and spiritually unambitious mass, they are taking an active interest in the Bymmetrical. development of the various latent faculties which the system has revealed to their notice and imposed on their consideration." Those at the back of th© General Grant Salvage Syndicate are not going to allow their scheme for recovering tho General Grant's gold to die without a thorough ,trial (says the Southland Times). A letter was .recently received from Mr. E. C. May, managing director, stating that ho baa purchaeea a vessel at Honolulu and was fitting her out at San Francisco to make a further attempt to get at the gold of the Genoral Grant under tho overhanging cliffs of the- Auckland Islandr, where she met her doom in 1866. News has been received by Mr. Bannerman, of Bluff, that Mr. May expects to reach Bluff early in December. He considers tho vessel a fine boat of six hundred ton* not register — a threemaster with one hundred and fifty homepower auxiliary engine, capable of ton knots per hour— and specially fitted for salvaging. Continuing, Mr. May says: "I shall bo in Bluff about the first part of December, or as near as possible to that date-. 1 am not going to make any other port in New Zealand on my way down to the Auckland*— only Bluff, where I whall tranship all of the stuff 1 have at Dunedin, and also got th© necessary provisions for my crew. I shall havo tho most complete salvaging outfit, ready to do any kind of work by land or uoa anywhere. I am coming back to finish tho job, and I can assure you I will give some of tho Now Zenlanders somewhat of a joltl" Tenders were accepted as follow by tho Wellington Education Board to-day : Belvedere, porch to residence, Arcus and Sons; Kohinui, outbuildings, repairs, and painting, C. E. Clifton; Makomako, outbuildings, W. F. ' Sayers ; Nikau, school painting ? W. E. Greaves ; Johnsonville, painting infants' school, R. Turner; South Wellington, shelter shed,, Humphries Bros, j Koputaroa, drainago to residence and tubs, N. C. Young ; Otaki, fencing, W. H. Olliver. No time is wasted when you employ our motor to remove furniture in town or out of town. Work is done quicker and better. Tho New Zealand Express Co., Ltd., 87-91, Customhouse-quay.— Advt. Test, teet, tost. This ia tho testing ago —the practical demonstration of tho survival of_ the fittest. Applied commercially .this testing "principle bos brought a considerable doal of profit to Now Zonland, and judging by the rapid expansion of our trade is destined to bring a groat deal more. It how truly this principlo acts in its ovoryday economy. Take anything— or tako C. Smith, Ltd., for liroforonce— and apply this teet to their drapery values. This is only another way of illustrating tho survival of the fittest, C. Smith, Ltd., aro offering 150 pieces of puro, bright, unblemished Tussore silk at tho extraordinary prico of 1b 3d a yard. It is safo to say this Bilk will not Burvivo tho onslaught of thoeo who know our remarkable Bilk values. One addrew ody—C, Smith! 96, Cuba,-6tr<!©t.-Adyfc ' . *