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Evening Star, Issue 12928, 26 September 1906, Page 4

Residents of and visitors to the Flat can now find their way about without any trouble, for the St' Kilda Council's streefclettermg scheme is perfected, and the City Council have put up street plates right through the new wards. This, by the way, finally settles the new naming of certain thoroughfares, as King Edward street for the main road to the beach and Onslow street for Albert street at St. Clair It is almost a pity that whilst the authorities were about it they did not do some more renaming, so as to relieve us from earplagueing pronunciations of which " Grozvuncr street" is about the worst example. Percival John Hughes was arrested by Detective MftoheU last evening on a charge of falsely pretending at Balciutha to be a doctor of medicine, the maximum penalty for which is a fine of £SO. The case will be heaxd here to-morrow. A wonderful but sample labor-saving machine is doing good work at the four central post offices. We had an opportunity of seeing it in operation in the Dunedin office yesterday. It is an ingenious American invention for stamping letters at the amazmg rate of 600 per minute. This means doing the work of six stampers and keeping nine sorters going. On 'Frisco mail nights, when from 25,000 to 30,000 letters have to be put through,-the machine ■is a great assistance—the men get away reasonably early, and the public are supplied quickly. The machine is driven by an 1 electric motor, the power coming from one of the poles in front of the office. Mr Cooper saw it in use on his trip to the States some time ago, and its introduction has proved a blessing. An important feature in the electric stomping is that it makes a very alight impression, so that the contents of the letters are not in any way injured or marked—that is, when the contents are such as they should be. When an envelope contains anything hard, such as a key, or a coin, the letter is apt to fly up, wherefore the public ought to refrain from posting such articles in the guise of a common letter. The machine is not unreasonably fastidious, but it may be excused for jibbing at frying-pans, clocks, and anchors. The managing editor of the 'London Tribune " directs our attention, in the course of a courteous communication, to the " remark able blunder" that crept into a cablegram of June 25, which read as follows: —"The 'Tribune' says that a thousand meetings have already been held' demanding the release of Miss Billington, the suffragist agita-' tor, who went to prison rather than pay a fine for assaulting a police officer. The paper condemns what it terms the; magiitrate's vindictiveness, and demands Mr Asquith's resignation." The managing editor points out that the last clause is not theirs, that the ' Tribune' expressed no such opinion, and that it is opposed to the position the paper had editorially assumed in relation to the ladies who have brought odium on a good cause by their extraordinary procedure.. What toe message should have said was that resolutions had been passed at these meetings condemning the magistrate for his vindictiveness and demanding Mr Asquith's resignation. The 'Tribune - ' merely recorded the fact that such meetings had been held. We are sorry that our London contemporary was credited by us with opinions that he never held. The trout fishing season opens on Monday morning. Saturday no donbtS a large number of fishermen will be betaking themselves to their fishing grounds—the Shag, the Waikouaiti, Silverstream, and the WaitatL It will be rather hard for some of the more ardent to keep their rods from the streams over the whole of a good fishing Sunday, but they had better do so. The Acclimatisation Society are adopting extraordinary precautions to catch transgressors, and are quite determined that fishing shall not start until after midnight on Sunday. Fishermen, beware! During the past six weeks tlie Acclrmatvsation Society have built nine additional weirs on the Leith, making a total of twelve, all of which lie between the Papermills, Woodhaugh, and the Clyde street Bridge. Three weirs were put down two years ago as an experiment, and examination shows that they are as sound as ever. The nine recently laid were tested on Saturday, when there was a flood in the stream, and the Executive on inspecting them yesterday found them standing firm. There is now good fishable ground for 3Coft or 400 feet above each weir, with an average depth of from 2ft to 4ft, so that fishermoa will agree that Ihe £SO voted for the construction of weirs has been well expended. Mr R. S. Allan designed and constructed the weirs. The ordinary meeting of the Harhor Board will not be held to-morrow, as a number of the members are remaining in Wellington to give evidence before the Public Petitions Committee in connection with the protest re the Harbor Board's endowments. The Board will meet next week. There may be something amusing (says the ''North Otago Times') in the annoyance that young men occasion one well advanced in years, but the amusement must surely be limited to those Who perpetrate the joke. The other day several young fellows took advantage of the absence of the driver of a cart to fix the vehicle up in such a wiy that when the old man tried to drive erf the cart capsized. If old age has to suffer these indignities from youth it is about time the police stepped in and changed the lang'h to the other side of the face. A reference to the text of the Papal Encyclical to the archbishops and/ bishops of France, published in the Home papers of August 16 last, shows that Pope Pius X., in decreeing the absolute impossibility ol recognising religious associations, did" not advise, as stated in our cables, the formation of some other sort of legal; and canonical association. The encyclical distinctly declares that it is not permissible to try any other kind of associations "as long as it is not established in, a sure and legal manner that the divine constitution of the Church, the immutable rights of the Roman Pontiff and of the bishops, and their authority over the necessary property of the Church, particularly over the sacred edifices, shall be irrevocably vested in the said associations in full security." The omission of a single word has on several recent occasions given an entirely opposite meaning to that intended. This afternoon's meeting of the Benevolent Trustees was attended by Messrs W. J. Talboys (chairman), Jv Hazlett, A. E. Tarjper, T. W. Kempthorne, W. Burnett, and Captain Easther. Accounts to the sum of £129 18s 6d were passed for payment. A parcel of books for the Institution was received with thanks from Miss Blakely. The Town Clerk wrote declining to make a reduction in the rates for water summed to the Institution. Thirty-one cases of outdoor relief were dealt with, i

The annual meeting of the Dunedin Amateur Club will be held in the Trades Hall, Moray place, on Friday evening. For premature greyness "pf the r hair, beard or moustache, gentlemen will find "Kolore" an ideal preparation; restores to natural color. Hendy, hair specialist, sole agent.— [AdvLJ The Kaikorai Presbyterian Church will render Caleb Simper's cantata 'The Rolling Seasons/ followed by a sacted concert, in the Wakari Hall on Friday evetring. : JSheuniatism, lumbago, apd siiatica aTI yield to the powerful, penetrating effect of Witch's Oil. 1109] A meeting of those, interested in" the teachers superannuation scheme will be held in-the Technical School on Saturday next at U amMr Morris, artist in photography, gives special attention to portrait studies in bridal costume, wedding groups, etc. Long experience, combined wifh * most perfectlyequipped studio, enables him to render the texture of light draperies to ihe best possible advantage. See specimens, studio, Princes street.r-fAdrt.] We have received the following contributions for the Logan fund;— Collected by Can, tain Stewart-A,L. 10s, Mrs Stephenson, Dunedin and Suburban Coal Company Gilmour Bros., and H. J. Crawford 5s eachtotaj, 30s. > As winter approaches no house should be without Tussicura; stops the cough immediately.— [Advt/j • All those interested in trout-fishing and sport of every kind should write to Messrs hj. Reynolds and Co., Ltd., 74 to 76 Willis street, Wellington, for a copy of their 50page illustrated catalogue of the latest in fashing rods, tackle, and sporting goods. A glance at the firm's advertisement in this issue will show that for 30s and upwards a fishing rod and complete outfit for fly-fishing can be obtained. When writing for the catalogue please mention this paper. —LAdvt.j Constipation cured by taking Dr Elisor's Tamer Juice; one trial will prove its worth