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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 150, 26 June 1914, Page 7

The Postal authorities advise that the B.s Manuka, which sailed from Sydney on the 24th inst. for Auckland, is bringing Australian mails and also an English mail, via, Suez. The Wellington portion is due per Main Trunk express on Monday afternoon next. Councillor W. J, Thompson, who is about to take a trip to Australia, tvtw last night granted six weeks' leave of absence from the meetings of the City Council. It is .notified m last night's C4asSette that oysters in a. certain pal't of Kaipara. harbour may be taken by Maoris for their own use on certain conditions. Any Native committing a. breach of the. regulations is liable to a fine of £20. It is understood that the work of in* stalling an automatic telephone system in Mastei'ton will be begun almost im* mediately, and it is estimated < the new system will come into use within twelve months, Mr. E. A. Shrimpton. Wellington District Engineer of Telegraphs, is at present in Mastefton in connection with the matter (telegraphs our local correspondent). In consequence of the appointment of Mr. D. G. Clark to be Commissioner of Taxes, the following promotions are announced :— -Mr. A. E. Fowler to be De> puty-Commissioner and clerk in charge of Income Taxes ; M», E. W. Watson, first clerk, Land Tax branch. The following have been promoted to the position of sectional clerks : — Messrs. C. T. Ttout, W, H. Doyle, S. C. Lambert, J. Monahan, B. JL Hibbard, W. H. Phillips, L. Powell, and J. M. Park. When William John Quan was recently released from the New Plymouth Gaol, one of the conditions of his probationary license was that he must abstain from drink, and take out a prohibition order against himself. He failed to comply with the order, and Avas arrested in Wellington in a drunken state with a. bottle of whisky in his possession. He appeared before Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., at the local Magistrate's Court this morning, and the police intimated that the authorities deeired that Quan should be .committed to the Terrace Gaol.' This was done. \ Electric radiators for heating the rooms at the Wellington Girls' College were asked for in a letter from the principal (Miss M'Lean) to the Board of Governors, which met this morning. Miss M'Lean wrote that both teachers and pupils complained of sore throats and headaches, which were ascribed to the pi'dSeiit. Use of gss-heaters. The estimated cost of installing the radiators was about £30. Mr. J. G. W. Aitfcen, when the letter was read, said he quite agreed that the electric heaters were preferable. Whether they were deartr or not in use, they at least did not vitiate the atmosphere. The chairman (Mr. A. de 13. Brandon) and Mr. W. F, Ward were authorised to take what action they found necessary. The death of Mr. Walter Baillio, a popular and much esteemed resident of Carterton, occurred at a private hospital in Brougham-street, Wellington, last night. The deceased, who was about 40 years of age and a native of the West Coast, was in the employ* of Messrs. R. Hannah and Co. in Wellington and Greytown for some years, but for a considerable time before his death he ■ had conducted a boot " business in Carterton on his own account. He was a member of the Carterton Borough Council, took a prominent part in the affairs of the local Methodist' Church, and was also a Freemason. He recently underwent an operation in Wellington.* Deceased has left a widow and three children. Mr. David Baillie, of Wellington South, is his eldest brother. ' "I visited the Zoos in Sydney and Melbourne," said Mr. D. C. Bates, who has just returned from Australia, this morning, "and I need hardly say that th(?y arc immensely popular. I saw about 12,000 people at the Melbourne Zoo one Sunday afternoon. They had all paid a penny for" admission. They expect shoitly that the charge will be increased to threepence on Sundays." Mr. Bates continued that ho had heard of a number of animals which could be purchased, and had obtained the prices of them, and that he intended to submit the list to the Wellington City Council. The Sydney Zoo waa .almost ready for transference to Tooronga, Park, where the animals were to be confined by ditches instead of by fences and cages, on the system inaugurated in Germany. The new system robbed the Zoo of all appearance of being a prison, and made it in every way more natural for the inmates. The garden idea was strongly emphasised. Visitors would, Mr. Bates said, be taken to the Park by special steamers. Captain P. H. Hall-Thompson, the new commander of H.M.S. Philomel and Naval Adviser of the Government, has arrived in Wellington, and reported himself yesterday to the Minister of Defence (Hon. J. Allen). Captain HallThompson joined the training ship Britannia as a midshipman when 13£ years d age, and was afterwards for three years attached to H.M.S. Australia- in the Mediterranean, on the Eodney (Channel Fleet), and the training ship Pilot. As lieutenant he served on the South American Station, and was later appointed gunnery lieutenant on H.M.S. Kalownba on the Australian Station, afld Inspector of Ordnance. He was then appointed _ gunnery lieutenant on H.M.Si Majestic, and on Ist January, 1905., was promoted to the rank of commander. For three years he was connected with the Mobilising Department of tho Admiralty, and at the end of that time he went to sea again as commander of H.M.S. Medea (Mediterranean Station), and after two years returned to the- Admiralty for six months. He was next placed in charge of H.M.S. President, the general depot ship in London, and on 30th June last year was promoted post-captain. At a festival song and presentation to Bishop Grimes by the High-street Convent pupils in Christchurch on Wednesday, in honour of his feast day, his Lordship said his attention had been called to a- paragraph in that morning's newspapers, in which the Mayor (Mr. H. Holland), in an address, was purported to have leferred to the priest-ridden condition of the people of Italy (says the Press). His Lordship wanted to know what claims the Mayor had for making this statement. _ Ho (his Lordship) had spent a considerable time in Italy, and he went widely amongst the people, but he did not think Mr. Holland had. He (his Lordship) went amongst "the people to find out whether they were priest-ridden, and he ascertained that they were very far "from being priest-ridden. They were down-trodden because they were governed by men who were not fit to govern them. "I don't know why such things should be/ said here." went on Bishop Grimes ; "why one in his official capacity should go out of his way to insult other people, I am surprised at him. I don't think it fair. I don't suppose he knows much Italian ; I don't know whether he knows enough to find out whether the people of Italy are priestridden. I don't see wlvy a person holding the official position he dde 6 should yt> out of his way to insult those he did m his remarks." Concentrated effort m bringing any event to the best possible climax is evidenced in the great amount of preparation taking place at the D.1.C., in anticipation of the great winter sale. So that this work cap be carried out with tho utmost expedition, the D.I.C. will be dosed all day on Saturday,-. -Adv>,