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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 32

Wardell Bros, and Co., the well-known grocers, announce that their premises will be closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday i 24th, 25th and 26th inst., for the holidays. The example thus set by the firm in giving their employees ample opportunity to enjoy the Christmas holidays might well be followed by other tradesmen. . , , Office calendars for 1895 are to hand from Messrs W. and G. Turnbull and Co. (Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Co.) and Mr Alfred Gilbert (Mutual Life Association of Australasia). , ' ~ The Customs duties collected at tne port last week amounted to <£6861 12s Id, and the beer duty to .£230 10s 6d. • The City Council last week granted permission for the erection of flag-poles at Te Aro House, and it was resolved that in all similar applications during the next ,30 days the City Surveyor be authorised to consent, providing that no flag-pole is less than 25ft above the footpath and that tht r j is a verandah underneath. The Hospital authorities acknowledge the following donations towards the Christmas festivities Kirkcaldie and Stains, Hall, Is; G. Wilton, chemist, ss; G. R. Wilton, 2s ; and parcel of goods from Sharland and Co. A telephone office is now open at Brooklyn, in the Wellington district. The Doric, which arrived on Saturday afternoon from London via Capetown and Hobart, brought 26 first-class passengers, 42 second-class and 97 steerage. She has 1450 tons of cargo, of which 615 are for Wellington and 550 for Lyttelton. Sir Robert Stout has written to the City Council suggesting the widening of Adelaide road. , A popular member of the police force, Constable Whelan, is about again after his illness. The constable, who is well-known along the West Coast, joined the Armed Constabulary in 1870. Previous to that he served 21 years in the Imperial army, ten years of which were spent in New ZeaThe weekly meeting of the Trustees of the Benevolent Institution was held on Tuesday afternoon. Present Rev. H. van Staveren (chairman), Messrs F. Biadey, J.

Collins and G. H. Baylis. - A vote of 7s a week (rent), rations and a pair of shoes was made to Mrs Gosling, wife of the man seriously injured on the wharf the other day. The Chairman stated that Mr Hannah had told him he would supply boots to the value of £2 2s if required for the deserving poor upon production of the chairman’s order. The secretary reported that Mr E. Barber, butcher, had undertaken to provide Christmas joints of meat for 100 poor -families. A widow who wished to go out nursing wanted the Trustees to take her three children off her hands. It was arranged to do this on condition that the woman consents to an order being made against her in Court for 15s a week. Rations and rent (until after the holidays) was -voted to a poor ill-clad woman, who has four children and with a husband out of work. Parcels of clothing were announced from Messrs J. K. Harty and Benjamin, and it was stated that Mr Routh had printed tickets free of cost. Votes of thanks were passed. A woman named Mrs Ward was stated to have died at the Home yesterday morning of internal cancer. A former inmate of the Home just from the country and desirous of spending his holidays in town, and unable to pay for board and lodging, was sent temporarily to the Home. ' ' The following days will be observed as holidays at the Corporation offices : —24th, 25tb, 26th and 31st December and Ist January. The usual fortnightly meeting of the committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held in the Loan and Mercantile Buildings on Tuesday. Present—Mr J. Gr. W. Aitken (in the chair), Mrs Lingard, Revs J. K. Elliott and H. Van Staveren, Messrs A. R. Atkinson, J. Ilott, A. G. Kemp (hon treasurer) and J. S. Jameson (hon secretary). The inspector reported that he had enquired into the following cases : —Three of cruelly handling poultry, five of working horses with sores, one of flogging a horse, and one of overcrowding sheep in transit. The Secretary stated that he had written to . Bishop Julius asking him to give a lecture in aid of the fuiMs of the Society. The Treasurer reported the receipt of the following sumi Per Mrs Lingard—Mrs Mason, 10s; Mr Tregear, 10s; Miss K. Campbell, 2s 6d; Mrs Pynsent, ss; Mrs Snow, £1 Is; Mrs Soulby, ss. Per treasurer—Mr Ilott, 10s 6d; Mrs Ilott, 2s 6d : total, £3 6s 6d. It was decided to hold the next meeting on January 15th.