Or J. H. Walker will address electors in Eussoll Street Mission Hall this evening. Speight's ale and stout are acknowledged by the Dominion publio to be the best on the market.—[AdvtTj Mr J. ITDcraald will address electors in the South Dunedin Town Hall to-morrow evening. Undivided attention to details-is the power, ful factor that counts in the making of our portraits of ladies and children. Acme Photo. Company, George street.—CAdvt.] Mr J. 3. Harlow will address electors in South Dunedin Town Hall on Wednesday evening. . While it is generally recognised that the portraiture by Morris is about the best in Now Zealand, many people have the idea that only the ino3t expensive work is executed. This is a mistake. Mr Morris will give you the best possible photo 3 at one guinea per dozen.—{Advt.]
j- T £. an& CO P e with the outbreak of diphtnena at Kaitangata an isolation ward is being erected right awa.v. Mr J H WMkei; has arranged with‘Dr Fitzgerald and Miss -Thompson, in charge of the hospital there, to supervise the arrangements and obtaan nurses locally. A number of new buildings to be erected in King Edward street when videned should add to the architectural appearance ot that part of the city 41ready a contract has been let for the erection of a hotel for Mr Heffernan. ■ It wiL be a brick building, consisting of seventeen rooms, with bath rooms, and all the latest sanitary appliances. The ordinary weekly’ meeting of the Benevolent Trustees, held this afternoon, was attended by Messrs A. E. Tapper K T h vr Ch n H ' L: ' Cren - D - r.arnach, Gall ?t wa - V - Til ' Secretary reported tl at Jhomas Rennet (aged 74), an inmate ot the Home, had died during the week twenty-four applications for relief were cieait wjth. The Special Committee appointed to consider the condition of the “sleeper” met on Saturday to consider the report“of the two_ experts. Vvc understand that it was decided to get another report from an expert from Australia, at present in Dunedin, and that the Committee will meet again to-morrow- night, when it is expected that a report will be drawn up for presentation to the Council the following evening. ‘ ° The coal trade in Otago is brisk, and work goes forward with reasonable smoothness ali things considered Orders are plentiful and merchants are pleased. v.ien there is so much complaint abroad about dull times and scarcity of money—die latter is always with is pleasiim to know that some people have tlieir hands lull with business. Several members of the Dunedin'Gun and .Sportsmen’s Association are making strenuous efforts to obtain the same com cession granted to,. Southland sportsmen in Tho s^® otli }g paradise ducks. A, + p" lr,a£ u- T !° r r^ urlfite was approached on the subject, and he has wired a pro™lse L ° P ut matter before tho Hon. -Mr Ducldo. Local sportsmen have reXT tbTl fr ° m “ uatr J' P la «* to the chect that there are large flocks of ducks m the wiids this season. This afternoon a deputation ot gun sportsmen interviewed tho mayor, asking him to place then- request before the authorities. It is thought that there is no reason why boon d I!0t b ° tTeakd 36 Southland has Inquiry this morning at the Government ■Labor Bureau shows that there is nothin** very acute in the unemployed difficulty in Dunedin at present. As is usual at‘this time of year, a number of men who have m harvesting are flocking to Dunedin, and some of them have as = vet been unable to obtain work. Carpenters and other skilled workers unable to find work at their respective trades have wisely taken up some other form of employment to tide them over the slack season.* * A meeting attended by over 300 people at Lyttelton on Saturday passed the following resolution:—“ That this representative meeting of Lyttelton electors desire to express their hearty approval of the oner of the Kew Zealand Government to supply a battleship to the British (Navy, and desire to leave the discussion of the constitutional aspect of this offer to the representatives of tho people in Parliament to consider, being convinced that they will settle that question in a manner which will uphold the absolute right of Parliament to tho control of public expenditure, and will at tho same time be in consonance with the upholding of dignity and the’ supremacy of the British people ” M’- G Laurenson, M.P., the Rev. E. Elliot Chambers, and other speakers supported the motion. Lieutenant Shackleton’s book on his visit to Farthest South will be published simultaneously in five countries —Britain. America Germany, France, and Spain—and ' will contain a number of photographs which have not yet seen daylight. The manuscript has to be delivered during July, and tho book will be published durum Scntem ber. = - r There will bo no half-holidav poll in Wellington, the necessary 10 per cent, of the electors not having signed the requisition promoted by the Trades and Labor uouncil. Consequently Wednesday will continue the statutory weekly half-holiday in Wellington. At a meeting of the Benevolent Trustees this afternoon it was decided that in future no money for rent be granted to applicants for aid, but that the money be paid to Mrs Ansell, who would' pa‘y the landlord. . v L J The mistake in a member of a benefit lodge allowing himself to become unfinancial was clearly demonstrated when a man incapacitated for work through ffiiurv came before the Benevolent Trustees this afternoon _ applying for aid. If he had kept up his lodge payments the man would have been in receipt of a pound a week. For watch clock, and jewellers’ repairs A L Shaw 13 Rattray street, is recommended. Absolutely the best in Dunedin.—fAdvt.l The first concert of tho year in connection with the Dunedin Bums Club will be held in the Early Settlers’ Hall on Wednesday evening. * J Cr J. Campbell, candidate for the K.E. Valley mayoralty, will address electors in Barron’s Hall to-morrow evening. Wilkinson and Son, chemists, stock Dr Cathell’s remedy for corpulency and obesity. In boxes 3s 6d, by post 3s 9d.—[Advt.J The Caversham Rifle v olunteers will parade for inspection to-morrow evening. j
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Evening Star, Issue 14037, 19 April 1909, Page 4
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