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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 123, 26 May 1914, Page 7

Mails which left Wellington on 24th April per R.M.S. Mouua arrived at London, via San Francisco on the 25th instant, and those which left here on 17th April per s.s. XJltmsroa. and connected with the Brindisi despatch per s.s. Malwa. reached London on the 22nd instant. Mr. B. B. Williams, manager of the Stoics Department iit the Union Steam Ship Company's Heud Office, arrived fiom the south by the Maori this morning. A. well-known South Canterbury farmer expresspd his firm belief that bread will be a penny a loaf dearer next winter than it is at present. Asked how he arrived at this conclusion, the farmer said it was inevitable, because the high price of farm labour, and the difficulty of getting it at any price, would cause very little wheat to be grown next season, and the price of wheat and flour would go up accordingly. After performing evolutions over Hobson's Bay, at the landing of the Oov»i> uor-General last week, Lieutenant Harilsort. of the Commonwealth Aviation Corps, tuok Major Whyte aB a passenger for a journey of "over 200 miles. The last 110 miles of the journey were put past without a stop. The engine performed in great styic, and the machine travelled over sixty mile 3 per hour. Major Whyle dropped a despatch into Queenaciiff forts when passing over thetti, For having rescued one of their fellows from drowning in the Wainui River during the Easter holidays, two iKelbunie Bo\ Scouts. Jasper Baldwin and .E. W Platts-Mtlls, have each been awarded the Scout Sifver Cross of Merit. The presentation is to be made in Wellington on the3rd June by Colonel Cossgrove. This is Scout Baldwin's second act of gallantry, he having earlier in the year lesenud a child from the Boat Harbour, For tills act he is to be awarded the "Tatum M medal. A clortn made by Annie Matene and other Natives against Annie Deckston for £28 9s 3d, rent of land leased by defendant from the Maoris at the Hutt, came before Mr. W. Gr. Eiddell, 'S.M , at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Defendant held a lease signed by some of the Native owners, to whom she paid a proportion of the rent under the lease, the Natives who iiad not signed not re ceiving any portion of the rent. The case was argued on legal points, and adjourned by the Court till the 9th June, to enable accounts to be 1 taken. Mr. 0. Beere appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr. T. C. A. Hislop for defendant. , Three cases set down for hearing during the present (session of the Supreme Court at Wellington disappeared from the list this morning. Two of them were jury cases fixed for hearing to-day. These were Bertram 1 A. Booth v. the Union Steam Ship Company, a claim for £500 compensation for bodily injuries, and T. W. F. Marsden v, Harcourt and Co.. a claim for commission. The third is M. H. Oram v, the Hermann and Weger Manufacturing and Contracting Co., Ltd., a claim for a. debt of £506, for which no hearing date had been fixed. All the cases have been' settled. The divorce case, Brennan v. Brennan, which was set down for tomorrow, has been adjourned sine die. High praise is given Mr. T. P. Mills, manager of the Presbyterian Orphanage, u 1 the annual report of the Orphanage ! and Social Service Association, Mr. Mills, it is recorded, made frequent visits to the Hospital. Gaol, Ohiro Home, and j Kome for Aged Needy, and his app.'intment as Probation Officer under the Ci mes Amendment Act 1910 has widened his sphere of usefulness amongst those w/k> are liberated under the supervision ' tot the Prisons Board. The Juvenile Court ' snakes many demands upon the time of Mr. Mills, between 50 and 60 lads claim'■njf his, guidance during the year. His t'ffnrts in this direction have had warmly appreciative references in the report iqjon the Juvenile Criminal Court recently submitted to the Minister of Justice by Mr. W. 0. Hiddell. S.M. Sincere thanks are accorded both Mr. and Mrs. AiiUs foi their work. The Petonc Borough Council has completed the negotiations with the A.M. P. Society for tne payment of £30,000, being the balance- of the sewerage loan. The conditions provide that the loan anall be in debentures of £1000 each, and shall have a currency of twentyfive years j the "ate of .merest shall be 5 per cent., payable in Sydney, N.S.W., free of exchange to the society, and tho principal shall also be payable there on maturity of the loan, iree of exchange to the society. There shall be given as a security for the loan a special rate over the eastern portion of the borough sufficient to pay interest and sinking fund, and there shall be a sinking fund of 1 per cent, per annum of the loan. The society is to pay the amount in three instalments of £10,000 each, the first on completion of the papers, £10,000 in six months, and £l 0,00& in twelve months. A burning oil well is an entertainment which is too costly and usually too ill<titnt<d to be regarded as anything but a spectacular disaster, This morning a crowd of spectators was treated to the spectacle without the disaster. A large quantity >? light petroleum oil, a byproduct of the distillation of kerosene, had accummulated in the railway premises at Thorndon, and in order to get rid of a kind of rubbish which is dangerously inflammable and of very little use, it was burnt. The still barrels were rolled out upon the reclaimed ground, emptied, uheir Contents making small lagoons on the day and amongst the grass. The oil was sufficiently Volatile to flash almost explosively upon the ap* plication of a light. | and, in a moment an enormous volume ot opaque black smoke was rising. The spectacle was magnificent wlule it lasted, and the sight of an enormous column of smoke climbing into Mie air and drifting towards the Tinakori Kills made ' many people fear that a destructhc blaze had seized somo ■valuable city pioperty, \h: M. L, Reading, associate-editor of the Mew Zealand Times, who is leaving Wellington in a few days to assume I'd'torial control of the Lyttelton Times, «fi=s_ presented last evening with an ili'i initiated address and a purse of sovettMgns. _ Mr. ft. Fletcher, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, presided at tlip gathering, and amongst those preset.', were Sir Joseph Ward. Leader of tin; Opposition, and Megsrs. A, H. HindmarsJi, M.P., and C. Parata. U. v . Mr. Flct'-licr said that he had known Mr. Heading for the last eight or nine years, not only as a journalist, but as a citizeh, and had como to know bow valuable ni3 work had been. Sir Joseph "Ward said he had known Mr. Reading for iiiiiiiy years. Ho was well equipped for the ir.ijiorti.mt position he was about to under l.'ikc. Mr. Reading had done a t<re«t deal to li«jp on public question 1 ) of the day, and lus friends wished him all prosperity and happiness., Messrs.' J. A. Lougiinan, A. H. Hindmarsh, M,L 3 ., and others also spoke hi appreciative firms of Mr. Reading's ability' and tvoith. Sir Joseph Wiwd presented Mr. Heading with the addres-s and a purse of sovereigns. Suitable acknowledgment was made. The s.s. Corinthic, which left for South America and fiorulon on Friday ]as>t, took a furthor 5640 cases of apples. Before ilia Juvenile Court yesterday a youth was charged with theft of jewellery, valued at J316 6s, from G. and T. Young, jewellers. He was remanded till 2nd Jiin^. i Mr. H. W. M't'ttrthy, 146. Vivian-streot, ' advertise" his bookseller's and statioiiur's j butiiiW for Kile. , , j