WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 20 February 1908, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(Special to Times.)

.WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. . On the Stock Exchange on Monday '.Waihi shares sold at £9 3s and Gear Meats at £2 9s. There was inquiry for Bank of New South Wales shares at £43 10s, and for Bank of New Zealand shares at .£9 12s. The “Taumarunui Press” says that a local contractor recently paid a bricklayer £1 per day and board, while a plumber received 22s per day, but the men were good hands, and the employer seems to be perfectly satisfied. Contractors reckon that there is a good opening there for a resident bricklayer, and he would be sure to be fully employed. Budding operations .are said to be go_•ing on apace all over the Taumarunui district, and carpenters are in great demand, and are unprocurable. Messrs. Keene and Reid have arranged 'to supply Tauranga with gas for a period of 30 years. A modern plant is to be erected to supply for fighting and cooking purposes. The Borough Council also considered a proposal to erect gas-works made Mr. C. 'Henry Suggite. gas engineer, of Auckland, but Messrs. Keene and Reid’s scheme includes the placing in commission of two, steamships to trade between Tauranga and Ellington, and the residents of the Bay of Plenty cordially welcomed tins part of the proposal. ; ' ' Dr. TV. B. Tripe, M.R.C.&., who died on, Sunday; aged 85, was a wellknown figure in Wellington for many years. He arrived at Port Chalmers in the shin Gloucester on Christmas Dav, 1858, and he practised at Rangiofa. for some time. On one occasion ho was summoned to attend a case 100 miles from Rangiora, and although he had then been working all day and all night, he mounted his •horse and rode away to give the sufferer the benefit of his skill and experience. The journey, which own-’ pied three days, • was one attended with considerable discomfort and no little danger. Jhe weatliei ■>- not of the .best; several deep i-.n. which had not been bridged hud .negotiated; and over a good j- , < * the. ground covered there was not slightest semblance of-a road. Hey 11 ltangiora in 1871 for Pioton, and yeveu years later he came to \\ elling- ' ton* Dr. Tripe, who was married layears ago, is survived by his wire and ji family of nine sons and Uo (laughters. The sons are:— tMr. W-_ -V Tripe (TV. and G. Turnbull ind c.j. s staff), Mr. Dudley Tripe tlkljik <>.* ' New Zealand, Wellington). Mr. 1Tripe (Union S.S. Co., \\ elliugtop), Mr. Joseph A. Tripe (0. ¥. Un>e and Young, solictors), Mr. wivnaK. Tripe (denta 1. surgeon. Eki rani.. >). Mf»r. a U I C, V 'tnvc, who \! .; <L Milford who was y- * s-'raif Of the ]!( . v and the othei lb y () | \1 -eterton. A. M. Johnston, \ tai , <>f Sf ■ who is about to tMv , -p,. , Murids Pins .. »' Jp' <,{ I). Tripe and Wanganui, are bi ohm i • the deceased gentleman. _