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Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 4

Tho collier Kuiow. which left Suva yesterday for Auckland, is bringing the NewZealand portion of tho English and American .mails ex tho mail steamer Makura. from Vancouver. The Kurow (reports an Association wire) should reach Auckland about Wednesday evening. The vital statistics for this month till neon to-day were as: follow (the returns for July btet vcar being given in parevithctes) : —Marriagcv 45 (49b births 155 (loft, deaths 7tf (78). So far this year the birth* total 1.028, or m more than the number recorded at the same time last year. The deaths total 471, an against 51.5 for the corresponding period hist year. The average daily attendance at the Carnegie Public Library for the week ended Saturday, duly 29, was 704 persons. The imiiird. movement from the country is expected by the railway oilickk_ to tieeomo pronounced by the late trains tonight 'and to-morrow morning's train. Littie or no extra accommodation was required on the trains arriving this morning and early this afternoon, but the numbor of pasr-e'ngei-s was somewhat in excess of the- average at this time of the year. Our Tapnmii correspondent wires:Many vi.-ilors to the Winter Show at Uunediu'ate leaving the district. The weather k line, .-titer Tight lain showers. Good farming lands arc in great demand here. Early this martiing Mr 1). Ceddie and his cellea-iues •■•t.trted to judge the cheese that has been sent in to the Otago Winter Show, and throughout lite day the interior ~!' this vast iraihling has resounded with the. din of hammers, ' all the. exhihitoie, beittf bucy with the putting up of fixtures timl "other preparations for the proper staling of what promises to be a great dkpiay. The show is to be opened by Cue Coventor at M.50 p.m. to-morrow. '.! he mail service hot wren Canada and New Zealand, subsidkrd by the New Zealand and Canadian Governments, begins this week, the Union CompanyVi Mamma being the first eteamer. The Marama was to leave Sydney to-day. she is due at Auckland af daylight on Friday, and will' sail af 2 p.m.. 'the same day for Suva, Honolulu, Victoria, and Vancouver. She is tine at Vancouver on Arguet 22. We bear that a requisition asking Mr T I 1). Red find to contait Dunedin West against- the Hon. J. A. Millar at the next ([etieral Ejection is Vising taken round for riuniiture.

"1 don't like a matt coming 1 efore the hoard." said the commissioner (Mr Jannxi M'lvenzk) at the meeting of the Wellington Land Board, "with a view to trafficking in Crown land. You got a section." he told an applicant for a transfer, "a ye-tr or no ago. and after holding on to it 'for a 'few months you sold out at a rise. And now you want to do it. again. Y'ou propose to'lake this land and ler.oe it to somebedv else. That is not the purpose of the La lid Board. There is too littk Crown land for that business nowadays." The application wa.-. vefc- cd. ft is expected that the Gas Committee will have a report to bring up at their meeting this week in rv.spo.-f to the muchdelayed gasholder foundations. It is said thai' a majority of the committee are opposed to the shifting' of the holder.

/dr rUae.Mami.s h;:.< the names of some 30 mc-nip'oved .-ail! on the bcck.s of the General Laborers' I'iiiini. There is a certain .nmoun: of wotk otl'erit:,g in the country. At ths> present t'.nv liic-ie it; no prospect of any mere, men being ( alton on by the (,'iiy Corporation, who have a iron (J y found job's for about- 15 married men. A St. Kilda housolioidiri- had to pay 5s io the Court this morning for t!;c privilege of trying :: patent chimney .sweep, tht> operation of whiih (whether through rarele.sulvci?- or other cause) i«_jiiitod the flue, and led to the parade of the local brigade. A movement, is on foot in West Harbor to try to irakue the Covin-anient to eon-.-tract the hj jig-proposed railway station bcnreti Isurl,es and St. Leonards, or ei.-e to 1,, t the cxisl.ii!« station at liurkes and the one at St. Leonards put into Mich a stale ao will edenuately seive the leqnirements <:f the district. These, iwo stations are .'".aid to hold ;hc distinction of being the mot ancient and inconvenient railway stations in any settled portion of the* Dominion. The residents of the district are rousing tlymiselve.; to ia'cute what thpy de-em "fair ('lay" in the matter of railway facilities. Thero is no siding at JSurkcti for the unloading of goods from truekii. and c:!::«ef{U€nt!y, with tin; exception of .such allien:; aw can be conveyed in a guard's van, the residents have to gel their supplie-i by cart from IhinedU). It is further ailegid that the passenger anomii'cdation at the s-'atH)'.) is m> meagre that the tir.-t eight, or ten pa: renders to anive at the station iill file tiny waiting 100 m, and on wintry mornings a "number of intending passengers have ore;u:ionai!y to stand in the rain awaiting the Uai'.i tnat is to take them to their daily woik. At S>. Leoniuds. which is merely a flag station, there is a siding for good?, but it is m> i;:ienvenk'nt that only one truck can be unleaded at a. time, and <-o much labor iicvpiired ;o hoist the. material ui> the hiidi bank from thy truck io the cart that the eivt of traiudt- of goeds is almost prohini tive to peopi■> of mode'.a.e means. II is claimed licit all these inconveniences would be :-.upc-';r led by facilities that would pro. mote closer settlement of this hai'oor-dde eubiirb v.v-'.o the proposed new elation erected on the fiat, ground about halfway h<>fweu the existing stations. where- there t;

:;;.,),!.- .Ron: for :v TW vcus-k for ert'cti:;:; ;i - ; i::-\v fbithjn ;il this place ;iro r.i> I'liip't'ivi.!.--'. liolh from resident i;il a.nd d:'pail.iiieiii.'d p'inN- of view, that- further delay .seems an in just ire to ali concerned. 'l'll- . i-iy objection 1,; th'it a iVw of ill? nshh'iito'would have to walk a. little t'urt'ni :n tilt 1 r.tation. They object. The (tovei iiiii' i'i friii;.' tlnil ;i. new s billion shiM not In- cn-ito! until the residents of tno district are vnanimciis as to the site, anil that ine;i!itim.i> liothhic. shall be done to improve the p;'c.~eiit stations. The majority (if the rcsitl-eiit.s want the now Nation, mi I they t=-iy tlmt theirs is lhp only rase o:i iceoivl where n whole community ifi penalhsed he.eiiu.se they share that comniou trait of human nature---a difference of opinion. An effort, is about to be made to uet ma Me..? altered. The !'enciliation C'op.imir sioiier, Mr Tri::".:.--. will :it to-mornnv mornini? in take the Diini-rliv. tinsiiih-b;.' dispute, in whh hj a- f.r.rlv lar-e nemb.r of workers are o-vi-lu-a.' It i* expected that the ;-pc>id;ei. when the Hei:-e reawend ! es ( ,n Tu-.i-day niVrit. will he cfh'fhiily advised of m--' vacancy in the lepmeiiiilioti of I'hrH church .\o;-ib <.i-i."ed by the of Mr T. !■!. Taylor. Tlu> write "will be i&ni'vl at c.iec. and be returnable within 21 day< ; . Mr Paulin's forecast :- -Heavy \.K. lo S.E. to S.W. ,!,-a!e.< : heavy vain. hail, and saw." over the J-'-outh Island between today and the 4th prox.

Speight's ale and stout are acknowledged bv the Dominion public to be the best on the market,—fAdvt-L I'he animal return card i.Hiriiamcnl, between Unify Lodge. L0.0.F., and C'averJiiiim Lcdje, 31. U., will be held in the Kensington Oddfellows' Hall this evening. Ju Ilie letter from Mr A. Moritzson on Saturday re Otago Centra! Railway die iiaurcs 7,000 bushels (last year's gram yield) sliould have read 70,030 bushels. • No softer or more beautiful effects in photo portraiture can be s»en anywhere than in the showcases in vestibule of Morris, photographev, Princes street. Telephone 853. [Ailvt.] A ltaturc of this week's issue of the 'Weekly Press' will be a fine portrait-sup-plement of the late Mr T, E. Taylor, M.P., cleiaih of his recent illness, and a report of yesterday's funeral ceremony. Wallace's Dreadnought Sale of high-class men's wear successfully launched. A great victory scored on Saturday. Hosts of bargains for this week. Genuine, good goods, not warehouse sweepings Come and see for yourself. Everything reduced in price. Country visitors and patrons specially welcomed at ilie Golden Hat Shop, Piincis street. face Wanted Knowns.—(.Advs'.J

Points whera we score—pose, expression, and finish of photographs, accompanied with moderate charge for work. Acme Photo Co.. George street. 'Phono 965.--TAdvt.l Extraordinary bargains in house furnishings arc now en view for a few days only at I'Var.cl V. Martin's, Oetagoa, just, prior to r,io.~k-tiiki;ir; and the a'tcrations to our premises. New. don't forget to call and see for yourself.—[Advt.j Messrs Thomson and Co.. cordial manufacturers, Crawford street, as in "former years, will throw their factory and stables open for public imorc-.imi during Show Week. This orivilege has been eagerly taken advantage bf in the past bv town and country folk alike, and the up-to-date machinery and methods and the general air of cleanliness t>ervadinff everything about the place have been freely commented on by visitors. The stables, with" their 20 prey horses and 14 waggons, should especially interest visitors from the country.