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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 51, 28 August 1914, Page 6

Matters of moment to the > Native race will be discussed at a Maori congress to be held in Wellington next week. Ghristchurch master bakers, in view of the increase of £2 10s per ton in the price of flour since sth March, are urging the Government to remove the duty from flour for six months. Newtown Zoo receipts in July totalled £40 10s 9d, but from Ist August to 26th August were only £27 12s 6d, the decrease doubtless \being due to the fact that the public interest is centred on the war. The London shipping journal Syren understands that the new steamers which are building for the Federal and Shire Line will maintain a service between Aus>kalian and New Zealand ports to New York, via the Panama Canal. The civil action in which J.G. Bruce and G. D. Gray are seeking an injunction against the Wharf Labourers' Union to restrain it from using the funds of the Union will be resumed to-morrow at the Supreme' Court. Two defended divorce cases are also set down for hearing. Mr. Satherly Crozier, of Marton, a composer, has composed* and arranged for bands it patriotic march, "Our Empire Defenders," dedicated to the Expeditionary Forces and presented to the band accompanying the second contingent. Half the proceeds of sales oi piano copies will be donated to the Patriotic Fund (states a Prtss Association telegram). At last night's meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Football Association a letter was read from the Premier (the Righb Hon. W. F. Massey) heartily thanking the members of the association for then* large offer of assistance in connection with the present crisis. (The Premier also forwarded a letter thanking the council for the offer of_ an ammunition wagon for the Expeditionary Force. At a meeting of the Wellington district branch of the New Zealand Educa tional Institute this evening, Mr Tamb' lyn will move :— "That the Senate of the New Zealand University be asked to amend th« honours course so as to include education, and, further, to bo alter the conditions of the Doctorate of Literature as to allow the presentation of a thesis embodying the results of original research in educational practice of literature." The question of contribute ing to the Empire Fund will also be discussed. Some time ago— nearly two years now '—the Public Works Department took a section of land at Seatoun. with the buildings thereon, for the purposes of the Post and Telegraph Department. The land, comprising over 3 acres, belonged to the Miramar Borough Council, which claimed > compensation to the "extent of £550. The claim was responsible for much correspondence and many private interviews between officials. Last night the council was notified that the Muiister could not recognise the claim. The matter is now in the hands of the borough solicitor. > About two months' supply of oil fuel is held by the Miramar Borough Council at it* power-house. Consequently the council was a little concerned when the Federal authorities adopted a measure prohibiting the export of oil from Australia, which, it was feared', meant that shipments in Sydney and other ports intended for New Zealand were held up. So representations were made to the Government, and the Premier has since repKed that the embargo on oil cargoes hae been removed. Mr. B. E. Bennett, Town Clerk, at last night's council meeting, said that he was not sure that the original decision affected New Zealand. Mr. Acibon Adams, at the annual meetting of the National Bank of New Zealand, Jield in Londoh, feaid he wont to New Zealand in 1830— some sixty years ago. He said emphatically, ' "No other banking man ih New Zealand is .so popular as Mr. James Coates, the General Manager, He has won his great popularity by his tact and general management. I know Mr. Duthie, the Acting General Manager, and I spent a week with him at Rotorua three years ago. 1 had a long conversation with him about ithe prospects of the bank in New Zealand, and I am confident that the boai'd are quite right in selecting Mr. Duthie as Acting General Manager during Mr. Coates's absence. I agree entirely with the chairman about the general efficiency of the staff." Several of the distinguished scientists who have been attending the sessions of the Science Congress in Australia will shortly visit New Zealand. At Professor Bailey's lecture last evening, Professor T. H. Laby stated that it had not yet been decided what course would be followed in regard to lectures, but a programme modified from that originally arranged would probably be followed. Sir Ernest Butherford would probably deliver an address on the same lines as that with which he had created a powerful impression in Sydney. Among the other visitors would be Dr. Davenport, a leading authority on evolutionary biology] Dr. H. B. Dixon, the eminent chemist; Professor W. E. Brown, the mathematical physicist ; and Dr. Thornton, professor of engineering, and a specialist on refrigeration. The first case in the Wellington Court* affected by > the moratorium recently established in New Zealand by the Government was heard before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. John Bateman Harcourt and Charles James Stanton Harcourt_ sued Robert Barttett for £74 3s sd, being the amount of principal and interest due on a mortgage of £200. Mr. P. W. Jackson, who appeared for the defendant, said that under section 3 of the Mortgages Extension Act of 1914, which came into force on 14th August last, a mortgagee cannot, so long as a state of war exists in New Zealand, cftll up or demaad payment of the principal amount, or part thereof, without leave of the Supreme Court. Interest could be demanded, but the Court had power to say in what manner it should be paid — immediately or by instalments. The Magistrate intimated that he would reserve his decision on the point raised. The number of connection* made with the Miramar water service to date is 330, while 250 connections have been made with the sewerage scheme. " Britons All," the Territorial camp song, written by Mr. Bert Royle and composed by Mr. Frank Crowther, has been published by Charles Begg and Co., Ltd. The song was first sung in public by Mr. Ernest Parkes at the patriotic matinee in the Grand Opera House. Neglige shirts of neat and varied patterns, sound material. 2s lid or three for 7s 6d. The shirt we have made popular. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Man-ners-street. — Advt. Letters praising our care in furniture removing stream in. We move furniture in town or out of it by motor. Quickness, safety. New Zealand Express Co., Ltd., 87-91, Customhouse-quay. — Advt, The daily reports of the war are causing considerable anxiety among qtuite a large number of our people. Still, we hope for peace in n_ very short time, and then all will be looking on a brighter outlook. Till that time &vnv«s, however, we advice everyone to get the best values in their purchases possible. Wen rabies, are among the most important things to consider, and we have no hesitation whatever in advising our readers to purchase thoir clothing and general drapery from Mesere. _C. Smith, of Cuba-street. They are giving tho very best value poe«ibletheir goods were bought, paid for, and shipped before the trouble b«gaia.— A-dvt,