LETTER CONDENSED.

Evening Star, Issue 9772, 31 July 1895, Page 3

LETTER CONDENSED.

‘•Ax Employe” desires us to correct one of yesterday’s wo ather paragraphs by stating that the Morningtou Tram Company’s service was kept going all day up to the last joined pointed Professor) to Cava'sham bating Society was Mr M‘Lean Watt Hokitika, died yesterday. A social in connection with ton Wesleyan Bible and- Mutual ment Society was held in the Friday evening. Songs were given Messrs Joseph Holgate, JT. Sandford, and W. A. Smith, a reading by Mias R. Luscombe, a glcj by Misses Hughes and Lambourne and Messrs J. and T. Holgate, and a dialogue by Misses Hensley and Hughes and Messrs Hughes and (Smith.

The ‘ New Zealand Times ’ states that the arrears of rent (i‘226) have now been paid off by the tenants on the Cheviot Estate who were in arrear o i June 26.

The St. Kilda Borough Council met last night; present—the Mayor (Mr Courley), Crs Dent, Farrell, Culling, and Mitchell. Mr d. Ashton’s application to have a ditch covered in Cutten street was granted. In conscqmnoe of the overcrowded stale of the Wellington Lunatic Asylum, Dr MacGregor has been instructed to inspect Mount Cook Gaol witli a view to its being utilised as an asylum.

Tin Rev. Dr Cook, of Boston, told the New Zealand Alliance at Wellington yesterday that Prohibition iu the Prohibition Stales of America had icdnoed drinking at least SO per cent.