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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 16, 19 July 1915, Page 6

The Onelow Borough Counofl will meet on Wednesday afternoon to consider the constitution of the proposed Board of Control for the Hutt-road. The annual conference of delegates of the various branches of the Public Service Association will be opened in the Public Trust Bnildings, Wellington, to morrow. Telegrams from other centres show j that the wounded soldiers who canie back to the Dominion by the Willochra were enthusiastically welcomed on arrival home. The steamer Tofua, which the Defence Department has taken over for a troopship, will be fitted up at Port Chalmers, where the work can be dohe more 6Xpeditiously than elsewhere. A meeting of the Mayor's Patriotic Committee is to be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday to deal with general buri' ness and report in regard to the reception accorded the wounded and invalided soldiei's last week. "Is it not a fact that the profit on confectionery is S(T per cent?" asked counsel of a witness in the Magistrate's Court to-day. "No," said the witness. "There are some lines on which there is a profit of 100 per cent., but on some there is a profit of only 2i per cent." "Defendant is under the impression that his wife is dead," said counsel in a maintenance case at the Magistrate's Court this morning. "He has received a letter informing him of her death and enclosing a memorial card." As the complainant did not appeal" his Worship struck the case out. A taxi driver, Maurice O'Kane, in the employ of Fitzgerald and Fearce, while driving down Jervois-quay at 1.30 a,m. on Sunday morning to meet the Pateena, collided violently with a tramway standard in the middle of the road. The car was practically wrecked, and the driver was thrown against the standard. He sustained injuries to the head and internally,bbutt t is progressing favourably at the Hospital. Two calls were received by the Mre Brigade during the week-end. The first, received at 10.10 p.m, on Saturday, was | to No. 100, Wellington'terrace, occupied by Mr. T. Churchward, where a window curtain had caught fire from a candle. The second call was at 8.7 p.m. on Sunday, to an incipient fire in Evans Bayroad, near a beach boatshed owned by Mr. Collins Ford, of Haitaitai. In neither case was the damage serious. A novel way of obtaining patriotic funds was adopted on Saturday by Toza-rt, the "vagabond artist," now appearing at His Majesty's Theatre. Tozart dTew eight pretty scenes in chalks on the windows of several shops, and took up collections from' the interested spectators. In this way he obtained £6 16s 3d, which will go towards the cigarette a-tttt tobacco fund. Since he arrived at Auckland three woeke ago, Tozart has raised £25 in this way. A few months ago cabled advice was received from Sydney to the effect that Mr. J. B. Adams, of Christchurch, 'the inventor of a novel life-saving raft, was asked by the Board of > Trade to return to London in connection with his in* vention. Latest advices state thatafter only six weeks' residence in London Mr. Adams has been successful in getting it passed by the Board of Trade. The raft is 10ft by 4ft wide, and 9in thick, and is composed of _ three floats, made of a buoyant composition much lighter than cork, and will support 200 people when thrown from a ship. One of the several tests made was tTiat of placing 16001b of iron on it when it was thrown 25ft into Bft of water. Mr. Adams leaves London shortly for France, ancl joins a boat at Marseilles en route for New Zealand. The London Daily News, of 3rd June, referring to an exhibition, of small oil paintings, which Mi-, Cecil W. Jameson, the young New Zealand artist (son of Mr. J. S. Jameson, of Wellington), was then holding at his studio, said : — "The pointings are mostly' (studies of sunlight or twilight, uiany of them ex. quisite little masterpieces, eloquent with i the atmosphere _of the River Thames. Mr. Jameson is fond of portraits in coloured chalk; one of them is of Major Morrison Bell^ now a prisoner of war in Germany, while another is a fihe drawing of Lord Plunket, an ex-Governor of New Zealand. It was Mr. Jameson who did the portrait of the Coalition Minister, Mr. WaJtei' Long, which the Primrose League presented to the new head of the Local Government Board last year.'' A prize bulldog has been presented by the Central Club, Wellington, to the Trentham Regiment (The Earl of Liverpool's Own) as a mascot.