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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1914, Page 6

The Lower Hutt Borough Council la*t night accepted the tender of the Wellington Rugby Union for a lease of the Re creation Ground for the coming season. The union offered the cum of £25, and agreed to play four senior matches on the ground, the proceeds to go to the council. The League executive offered £21 and 50 per cent, of the net takings, A daily service between Greymouth and Wellington, via Ghristchurch, is be« ing urged by the Greymouth Chamber of Commerce, which has written to the Wellington Chamber asking it to use its influence with the Prime Minister, who during his recent visit to the West Coast had been favourably impressed with the proposal. The local chamber decided to co-operate with Greymouth in the mat* ter. Bicycle thefts are very common and, it is very hard to detect the thieves, remarked Chief-Detective Broberg in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, in proso» cutmg in the ease in which Bernard Steen, a trimmer, was charged with the theft of a bicycle, valued at £4. the property of John Burgess. Mr. P, W. Jackson appeared for the accused, who pleaded not guilty, holding that tlm machine^— which was supposed to have been taken from outside the Working Men's Club— was his own. He had, ho said, brought it out from England with him. The Magistrate, Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, convicted the accused and fined him £4, with costs £1 6s, the alternative being fixed at one month's imprisonment. A reserved judgment was delivered ly Mr. E. Page, S.M-., at Auckland last week, in a case heard at the previous aitting of th© Magistrate's Court, when the Audi tor- General claimed from J. L. Miller and R. V, Kernohau, member and ex-member respectively of the Whangarei County Council, the sum of £21 (telegraphs the Whangarei correspondent of the New Zealand Herald). This was the defendants' share in an amount expended by the local 'body in banqueting the Hon..T, Mackenzie on the occasion of his visit to Whangarei and in seuding i two delegates to Wellington in connection with the proposed Waipu light railway. Judgment was given for the full amount claimed, with £8 l?s 6d cosl«. The Camperdown correspondent ot the Melbourne Argus writes s— Five cows belonging to the well-known Ayr. shire breeder, Mr. W. P, Brisbane, of Gowrie Park, gave in the Government test, covering nine months, a butter return of the value of £111 12s 9d. Mr. Brisbane claims for Ida, of Gowrie Park, one of the_ quintet, that she has broken the Victorian record. Her return showed :— Date of calving. 27th March, 1913 ; date of entry to test, 3rd April, 1913; number of days in test, 273; weight or milk last day of test, 231b; weight oE milk, 10,867|1b; average , test, 5.1 j but* ter fat, 5551b; tsandard required, 250; estimated weight of butter, 632i1b. A herd of 20 cows of' the average quality of the five tested, grazing on an area, of 70 acres of " rises " country, would earn £444 annually, and the members of one family could do all the work required without outside help. An > appeal for the retention of th© additional Main Trunk express during the winter months was made by Mr. T. Ballinger at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce- yesterday afternoon. People arriving in Wellington at 7 o'clock who wanted to leave on their return the same day* had until 9.10 o'clock in the evening to transact their business. He understood that the sleeping berths on the train were taken up night after night and that it was much more patronised than formerly. At present, for instance, it was possible to leave for Te Kuiti overnight and 'return the following day, whereas a trip to Napier meant three days' absences-two days being occupied in travelling. Thesenight trains he thought should bo increased, and although in the case of the Main Trunk line it might beseemed de» sirable to run a smaller train the additional express should certainly be retained. On Mr. Ballinger's motion ib was resolved to write to Mr. E, H. Hiley, General Manager qf Railways, asking him to continue the running of tne second express. Distinguishing marks on wool packs were the subject of a. letter from the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce read at the meeting of the Wellington, Chamber yesterday afternoon, "Tho Christchurch importers of wool ( packs," said the letter, "have decided t it would be a great advantage if the various sixes were marked by distinguishing Btripes—-54-inch by a A-inch reel stripe; 48-inch, two red stripes ; 46-inch, a i-inch blue stripe; 42-inch, two £»inch blue stripes. If this is adopted much trouble and inconvenience in measuring sacks to ascertain the tare will be obviated. This chamber has been asked by the Christchurch Woolbrokers' Association to take steps to have the method adopted by all importers and woolbrokers in the Dominion, and 1 am therefore directed to ask if you will bring the matter under the notice of importers «in your district so as to obtain their concurrence. By these means ujiiformity will be attained and there will be greater probability of the manufacturers agreeing to the request." The secretary stated that ho had sent a copy of th© letter to tho Wellington Woolbrokers' Association, nnu ib had intimated that it would tho proposal at its next monthly meeting. The thamber, thereupon decided to hold the matter in abeyance until a furthefl reply was received. Mr. F. S. Pope, secretary of the Department of Agriculture, has written as follows to the Wellington Chamber ( o£ Commerce: "I have the honour to inform you that this Department is about to have prepared a new telegraphic code for the purpose of transmitting Home market quotations for, and general remarks regarding, New Zealand produce, In order that the code may be as complete as possible and that the information may be given in the form best applicable to the requirements of producers and merchants throughout the Dominion, I shall be glad to receive any suggestions your organisation may wish to make as to improvements in the form in which Mm information is at present cabled, and also any particulars concerning other products which it is considered may, if cabled, bo of benefit to producers and merchants." Th© letter was read 1 at the meeting of the council of the chamber yesterday afternoon. Mr. W. J. Thompson complained that the present commercial cablegrams from the High Commissioner were misleading, inasmuch as they contained the prices of choice quality, and nob the average prices. It was stated that copies of the letter had been forwarded to the merchants and associations interested, and the council decided to leave discussion over until furthen replies came to hand. Easter Travellers 1 Check your baggage through us. Saves yon trouble. We collect, check, deliver. See us day before. Now Zealand Express Company, Ltd., 87-91, Customhouse-quay.— Advt. Tho colossal task of taking ft census of the stars by nionne of photography is almost completed, and by the time tho linos nre rend a total of 53 millions will have been reached, the count taking two years to complete. There were 206 ne#nlives 1o bo dealt with, each roprosenhni? (weuty-live regions of tho sky and from 60 to 800 thousands of stare. The counting has been carried out by a system ot averages, as to count each star would tnko about one hundred years. Few persons fret out to count eveh thousands •">? stars, but to those people we give tho following bit of good advice :^-Get a real good wool scarf from C. Smith, Ltd., of Cuba-street. They have them from 1* to 12s 6d each.— Advt.