LOCAL & GENERAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 32

LOCAL & GENERAL.

j At a meeting of the Oamaru Middle i School Committee on Tuesday night a communication from the Education Board was read one application for tho position of assistant, in place of Miss ' Geddes (resigned). It was resolved that the committee, while recognising the fitness of, ; the applicant for the position, considered that it should have a wider choice, and that the names of other applicants should have- been sent, or, if they were not eligible from lowness of classification, tHat the board should advertise again. The sec re- ' tary was instructed to communicate with ' the board to the above effect, i The extraordinary Baker-Jamss bigamy 1 case was revived afc Sydney last week, when Conora Howard Drummond James was charged at the Quarter Sessions with, having, at Wellington, New Zealand 1 , in 1885, married Henry William James, and while her husband •was alive had contracted' a marriage with Constable Herbert James 1 Baker. The ease for the Crown was that the accused, while married to James, mis- | conducted herself with one of her husI band's employees named Barry, and they ' afterwards came to Sydnej'. and lived together till Barry (also- known as Bentley) ■went to the war. While he was in South Africa shs married Baker at Narromine. ' Tlie accused; gave evidence, and she adhered to her story that it was not she. i but her sister, who married James, anrl j that she, on meeting her sister in Sydney j with Bentley, agreed to personate her siste-r after Bentley 'had gone. Accused was found " Guilty," and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment Judge Docker commented on the -extraordinary character of the case. A number of prominent fiction-writers . have (in Pearson's Weekly) been informing j the readers of that journal about the circumstanoes under which they earned their first fees for literary work done. In telling how he came by his, Fergus Hume says: — "I fear the earning of my Srst guinea, was a very prosaic affair. Wfren I was living in Dunedin, New Zealand, in my teens — 18. to be exact, — I wrote a review of Robert Buchanan's novel, " The Martyrdom of Madeline," for the Otago Daily I Times, the chief paper of our colonial city. For that I received the sum of on© guinea, and was enormously proud of my earnings, ' I assure you. As it was the first money j I had earned by my pen. I went to a ' pawnshop and purchased with that cash, ■ and a trifle more, a George 111 guinea, whioh now hangs on my watch chain, and ' has been there for •& greater number of ' years than I care to think of. I have ' earned a groat many guineas since, but I ' don't think that the thousands have given ' me- the great pleasure I derived from the ' ] unit. The first money earned by honest * toil is like the first love of youth, and one ] can ne\er ' recapture the first fine, careles3 ' rapture' of such a unique delight." Students from all parts of the British < Empire who aim at proficiency in the '< higher branches of technical science will i (writes the London correspondent of the t Age) be induced— practically compelled— to < come to England for a finishing course of £ instruction if, as now seems almost cert tain, the project for the establishment of I a- great college at South Kensington, on the lines of the Charlottenburg School, is I carried to a successful issue. The Depart- a mental Committee, which has been ne-goti- t ating with the Government and the heads g of the existing technical schools in Lon- I don, states in its preliminary report that the advanced instruction at the new institu- c tion should be available only to students c who have received a. good preliminary t training elsewhere. The general purpose of , i Jths Louden. Ch.arlott£nbuxg_ jJumkl jwt, jmA. b

! create a national supply of technical specialists — ihighly-skilled teachers, inventors, and men capable of managing engineering works, electrical undertakings, railways, docks, and so on. Mining, chemical technology, naval architecture, hydraulic work, electric traction, lighting, telegraphy, metallurgy of iron and steel, and manufacturing oheinisfcry are j suggested as suitable specialties to be pursued on practical as well as on theoretical lines. ! After lusting just three days the Supreme Court criminal sittings were concluded on Wednesday. Albert Pyle, who was .brought up before the court again to answer a further- charge of breaking and entering and theft at Roxburgh, was acquitted on this charge also. Elizabeth Ward, who was found " Guilty '* of theft from dwellings, and whose record was bad, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. I There is apparently no end to the eccentricities of juries. On Wednesday, in the Criminal Court, a miserable woman of very doubtful character was charged on very clear evidence with theft from a dwelling. She stole a watch, and chain from a. house, and immediately (under a false came) pledged it to a pawnbroker The jury retired to consider its verdict, and after lengthy deliberation returned io question the judge. Had information in this case been given to the polios by the pawnbroker or by the person whose . pro- , perfcy had boon stolen? Mr Justice Wil- ' liams pointed out that that matter could • not affect the accused in any way, and the Crown Prosecutor gave his assuraace thafc Dunedin pawnbrokers invariably showed the greatest willingness to assist the ends of justice. On that the jury gravelj- found the woman guilty on the minor offence of receiving, and added a ' solemn rider asserting the duty of pawn- > brokers to be careful from whom they accept pledges. In the circumstances all ! this caution was quaint, and the rider was ' d&liciously incongruous. It becomes a xecognised principle that pawnbrokers do forward the ends of justice — or, at anyrate, ! ; lighten' the labours of tho police. And it ' - is simply absurd to suggest that a pawn- ] broker should refuse to accept a pledge- < from any but the most respectable per- ! sons. Patrons of the pa-wnshop do not as a rule drive up in sables or sit on church committees. Most frequently they are- ' 1 driven to fche usurer by mere force of their . '. misery and indigence. The trade of pawn- ' broker is not the pleasantest on earth, nor * the one that most surely tends to develop ! the most delicate- sensibilities; but the fast- , dying tradition that makes of every pa.*.\ii- ' broker a niean blackguard and confederate ' of blackguards is very absurd. Meantime, i it is noted that the special pleaders against the jury system, however ill-advised in the main, need not go short of barbs for their ? arguments. i It is beyond doubt (says the Wanganui ; Chronicle) thafc the men arrested recently j at Dunedin on charges of having broken j i into a number of houses are the same gang ' that visited Wanganui in Jung last. One >f them whea arrested was wearing a lady's sold chain which has been identified as ! a the property of Mrs A. Ferguson, jmi., it ! daving bee a stolen from her residence. J l Hie police have in their possession a short V piece of a gold chain with heart-shaped F nnethyst attached to the end. This is said a ;o have- been stolen from a house in Waa- ' n >-anui, but no such article has up to tho ' c present been reported as missing. j p A G-craldino lady had an unpleasant i' sxperienoc on the -express between Christ- d ?hureh and Dunedin on Friday last (says " he Timaru Post). When the train pulled w ip at Soacliff a patient from the asylum fi itciujecl into, the carriage ;n v Inch the . c:

, young lady was seated, and after mumb» , ling something vthich the passengers were > unable to understand, lie dropped a paper ! bag containing something on the scat, and l | then walked out. After the lunatic had clis- : appeared the passengers for some timo ! were afraid to open the parcel, fearing that it might contain an infernal machino or some explosive. Eventually someone had the courage to investigate the bag, and 1 found, to the relief of all, that it on'y contained a few pieoes of wood. The bag; had been carefully gummed at the top, and* on it was pasted a newspaper clipping, "To ! Dot's Little Folks." I In consequence of the general slackness in the woollen manufacturing trade, most; I oT the woollen mills throughout Iho colony ! have dispensed with their night-shift staffs, i one mill (Onohunga) having closed down j altogether until trade revives. The last of Hie number to fall into line is the Mcsgiel Woollen Company's mills, the night shift j having been granted six months' leave of absence. As the night shift is almost' solely engaged with spinning and carding operations, it is usually the first to feel J Ihe effects of a decreased output of the finished article. As it will he necessary to erect a concrete ! pier in the bed of the river in connection ' with the construction of the railway b'-idge over the Manuherikia River (third crossing), we understand (says ihe Alexandra Herald) that, as the present low state of the river favours the contractor (Mr Fraser) in the work, he intends to immediately proceed! ■with the erection of the pier as soon as the material comes to hand. The construction, of the bridge- over the second crossing is welljn hand, and the structure will be completed in ample time to allow the work of plate-laying, which is now in full swing, to be carried on. Referring to gaming offences, the PolieS Report states that there were 115 prosecutions, resulting in 91 convictions, during the year, under the gaming laws, againsfc 229 ! prosecutions and 124- convictions in 1903."The Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1881." seems to require amendment- in the direction of dealing with persons gambling on private paddodks or grounds, as the game^of '" two up " is now carried on extensively in such, places, and the police are powerless in the matter. The Builders'* Association having refused! to accept the recommendation of the Conciliation Board in the general labourers' dispute, the matter will now come before* the Arbitration Court, a reference having been filed. Several property agents in Timaru, whert interviewed on th-e Government's scheme for workmen's homes, expressed the opinion; that the scheme would materially assist working men provided the rents did noiJ exceed 12s 6d per week. The opinion was also expressed that 30 or 40 such homes could be erected, with profit to the worker 3, in Timaru, where rents for four and fiveroomed cottages range from 8s \ip to 17s od per week, very few being let at the lower figure. It is estimated that from 25 to 20 per cent, of the workers' wages in Timaru goes in rent. A few years back it used to be considered that a day's wage should cover a week's rent — thai is, fop a working man, — but to-day it takes two Jays' wages to do this. Building is said to h& dearer in Timaru than in Christchurch or Dunedin, and to this are attributed in some measure- the present high rents. The Imperial Government issued regular tions in November of last year to faoilita-Da the rehabilitation of the currency under which it is provided that the Imperial! Government will pay the coloninl Governments or their agents face value for all worn coin. By arrangement with the New Zealand Government, all the banks doing business in the colony are now receiving from the public all worn silver coin and! paying for it at face value. The coin thug withdrawn from circulation will be forwarded to the Imperial Government's mint at Mclbotu-ne. The decision of the N-evr Zealand Government to give effect io the regulation will be generally appreciated, for i/ie~prevalenoe of worn coin in recent yeara has been embarrassing. The acceptance of worn coin will be continud until 30tb November next. Captain Young, who is in command o£ tlie New Zealand and African steanw Essex, informed an Auckland writer thafc the canal had indirectly been of immensaf advantage to Manchester and the surrounding district. Taking the Essex through* for the first time was an anxious matter 1 - She is 58ft 3in wide, and seemed to completeiy fill up the widest lock, 65ffc. Then,, as the top of her funnel was 74-ft 6in above? water when she entered the canal, the cap" tain thought she would never be able td get under the lowest of the bridges, which is 75ft above the canal water level. The ballast tanks of the Essex were filled, bring* ing her down in the water 2ft, and leaving] room enough, for her to get under the! bridges. She was then drawing 24ft, and! the canal is 26fc deep. Thus the Wellington Post: — Tke outrage it Murehison, where an unsuccessful litigant? iilled himself and a spectator and damaged! he courthouse by exploding some dyn&mitei fvhich he had concealed in his podkets, hag put the court officials on the alert againsfi i-cts of violence. Their caution on Tuesday norning, when an elderly man was being on a judgment summons, was u-oductive of sonic mirth. Counsel, address--ng th-e debtor, ask/id : '"Why is it you' lonb work?" Debtor tpiritodly replied:' 'Me ! Seventy-one years of age ! Me, rith rheumatics ! Why !'' He then, umbled about his clothe*.. The magistrate 'XcliUined. "Here, here!" the Sbailiii" in-©*

pared for an emergency, but the tension T was relieved by the debtor producing a dirty piece of paper, saying, "Bead that." — (Laughter.) " I'm afraid it's no use going any further, your Worship," said counsel. "No," replied the magistrate. "No order."

The arrest of national physical deteriora- , tion is the object of a League for Physical Education and Improvement established at a meeting held last month in the Mansion House, London, afc the invitation of the SLord Mayor. The movement, which is on Btrictly non-political and undenominational lines, and is furthered by many prominent persons, including th© Lord Chief Justice and the Bishop of Ripon, is to stimulate public interest in the physical condition of jibe people throughout the Kingdom, and to start organisations for physical health *nd well-being wherever none exists. Territorial branches are to be formed in the various towns and parishes, to see that instruction is furnished on the laws of health, th© nurture and care of children, the methods of domestic and personal hygiene, and of cooking and housekeeping. Physical exercises and opportunity for open-air games will be provided for both boys and girls. The medical profession is strongly represented among those ivho favour the purposes of the league.

Mr Suttor, Commercial Agent for New South Wales in th© East, favourably commends to the notice of the New South JWalcs commercial community the Japanese system of commercial education. Japanese officials, lie says, in many parts of tho world make a special study of the particular goods in demand, also the principal exports from each country, as well as a close study of the peculiar tastes ol the people. Sainpks of all manufactures and raw products ar© "duly forwarded to Japan, and on certain days lectures ate given to interested consumers or producers. In each large city the authorities have a complete register of ■Hie principal manufacturers and consumers of imported products. When lectures are given, all interested people" are duly notified to attend. Special attention is also paid to Japanese products exported to other countries, for should it be ascertained that certain products are falling off, the reasons for the decrease are duly investigated, and samples obtained of any other similar product from other countries, and more in favour. The whole matter is then gon© v into by the ■ authorities, and the local manufacturers , are duly informed of the cajise-for the preference being given to the products, of other, countries. • Consequently the manufacturers are educated in the exact requirements of consumers in other -parts of the world.

We. have 10s 6d for th© Young Englishman's fund from John Craig, Owaka. W© have to acknowledge receipt of the following amounts qn behalf of the. Young Englishman Fund:— J. Craig, 10s W; J. H., £1; Chas. BL Tucker, £1 Is; H. North, £1 Is.

Thirty-eijjht canvassers, acting under instructions from tih& local registrars of electors, commenced on Monday a feouse-to-nouse canvass in the city electorates in accordance with the new system for securing the registration of electors. They will be required to see that every person in the North, South, and Central Dunedin electorates who is eligible to vote at the next g-eneral election is duly enrolled Forms of application for enrolment will be given' to eligibles, who must return them to the registrar of the district from which they are issued after they have been filled in and duly attested. Canvassers will also be required to keep a record of all persons so supplied, together with their postal addresses, in order that the addressees may be communicated with should they fail to forward/ the-iv claim for enrolment in due time. ..A^wi'it has been issued by Mi- Bedford. M.H.R., under which £1000 damages for libel is claimed against the Temuka Leader as a result of what appeared in reference to the New Liberal party in thaWjournal on August 5. The case will be heard at Timaru, at the Supreme Court sittings commencing there on" September 12. Mr A. S. Adams is counsel for th© plaintiff.

Our correspondent telegraphs: — "The auxiliary schooner Emma Sims has been chartered by a Wellington business man, who has made the necessary arrangements for proceeding to the Three Kings to endeavour to recover the treasure wliioh went down in the steamer Elinga,mite, which was wrecked on November 9, 1902. Several efforts have been made to recover the treasure, which is valued at between £17,000 and £18,000, but none ihas so tax been attended with success It is stated that the expedition is to leave Wellington about the end of next week. The men who have undertaken the project thoroughly recognise that it is a pure speculation, but at the same time they have spared no effort in fitting out the „ expedition. A diver from Thursday Island ■has been engaged, and everything possible dono to ensure tlie success of the venture."

The Waikouaiti County Council holds an enviable position among local bodies in aiegard to the collection and payment of its rates. At Friday's meeting- the County Clerk (Mr J. Porteous) reported that' the whole of the rates for the year ended March 31, 1905, had been paid, and that this was the third successive year in ■which the raioj had. been similarly coliectecL The Chairman > (Mr A. Kilpatrick) paid a high tribute to the county clerk for ihis efforts in securing a record which was ■unique among local bodies; and Cr Orboil, while endorsing- the chairman's eulogy, said the fact of there being not a penny of •vates outstanding for three y-eaa'S in succes-

sion spoke something for the prosperity of the settlers in the district, and -very much indeed for their business habits in meeting their engagements as they fell due.

The final meeting of the Waipori Palls Company (in liquidation) was held at tho company's office, Crawford street, on Friday afternoon, and was attended by a fair number of shareholders. Mr F. W. Knight, of Waipori, and one of the late directors of the company, was voted to the chair. The accounts, showing how the wiuding-up had been conducted and the manner in which the assets of the company had been disposed of, were received and adopted. It was also decided that the books, accounts, and documents of the company and of the liquidation thereof be retained by the liquidator for a. period o£ three months and thon destroyed. It was unanimously resolved that Mr E. E. Stark, late electrical engineer to th© company, be thanked far services rendered, and that a letter be handed to him, signed by tho liquidator, showing the reason? why his services had to be dispensed with. Several questions were asked in connection with the- various items on the balance sheet and explained to tho satisfaction of tho meeting.

At a meeting of the Scottish Society of New Zealand at Christchurch letters wero read from th<} Duke of Hamilton and Lord Kinnaird forwarding subscriptions to tho funds of the society's kilted cadet corps. The society sent congratulations to the Earl of Minto on his appointment as Viceroy of India.

There was a fresh development on Sunday in connection with tho death of Ham Sing Tong at Tapanui, a man named Thomas Stott. being arrested at Tapanui on Sunday on suspicion of being connected with the alleged murder of the deceased. Stott is said to be a half-caste, with Australian aboriginal blood in his veins.

On Saturday a tr£al was made with the Mosgiel, water supply by letting the pipes fill from a side cut near the reservoir. The j trial was in every way a success, the pressure at Mrs O'Kane's and in Gordon road, where the pipes were tapped, forcing the water to a height of over 50ft. The fact of a good, permanent supply being available will be a groat boon to Mosgiel, as for the past two months water has been ! very scarce owing to the very exceptional dry weather. \ A telephone exchange is now open and in full working order at the Mosgiel Post Office. Throe deaths occurred in the Dunedin Hospital during the week — viz. : Clara' Harvey,' Thomas Liddy, and Arthur Dixon. The number of patients admitted for the week was 25, the number discharged 28, and the number remaining in the institution at the end of the week 95. We have received the following additional subscriptions to the Young Englishman Fund: — R. Newman, 10s 6d; employees Hillside railway paint shop, 9s ; Two Sympathisers, £1 ; Six Sympathisers, £3 ss ; Anonymous, £1 ; Dr R. S. Stephenson, £1. • The Drainage Board supplies the following rainfall statistics for the past week: — August 20th, .o&sin; 21st, .OOOin; 22nd, .005 in; 23rd, .OlOin; 24th, .065 in; 25th, •040 in; 26th, .005 in. Total, .180 in. Days on which rain fell, six. Rainfall for 1905 to date, 13.968 in.

An incident which will be heard of with gratification by many New Zealanders occurred in Brisbane recently during the visit of the New Zealand team which took part in this year's Australasian boxing championships. Many prominent citizens attended the official reception tendered to the visit-

ing teams, and during fche evening Mr T. Welk.by, of Brisbane, proposed the toast of "The Visitors," coupled with the names of th© New Zealand and New South Wales managers. In placing New Zealand first, he stated that he did so becausa the sympathies of Brisbane people were entirely with New Zealand. They would never forget the kindness of the colony during the Brisbane floods, the promptness with which assistance had been sent being ever a grateful memory. New Zealand had done more than was expected, and more, indeed, than all the other colonies put together. In responding to the toast, Mr T. Roteon, the manager of the New Zealand team, expressed surprise and gratification that the incident should have been f.o long kept in memory by the people of Brisbane, and he hoped to be able on his return to make known the cordiality with which the colony *3 representatives had been received. Mr Robson returned to Chi-istchureli on Thure.day morning, and in convex-sation with a Lyttel* ton Times repoii;er he stated that the hospitality shown^ by tho Brisbane people was thoroughly sincere and almost overwhelming-.

The following appeared in the Temuka Leader on Saturday last: — " Soiled Doves. — Under this title we published in our i«&ue of the sth ixist. an article which we wrote in the heat of the moment occasioned by our indignation at the charges made by the New Liberals against the Premier and other Ministers. Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., junior member for Wellington. City, has threatened us with proceedings for libel for th© language used in that article. Wo freely admit upon consideration that the language was offensive and unjustifiable, and that Mr Fisher was actuated by what ho deemed to bo his duty to the State. Under those circumstances w© offer Mr Fisher a full and unqualified apology."

Competitors in the forthcoming competitions aye again reminded that on Friday,

Ist September, all tho entries for fame should bs in tho hands of tho secretary. A great number of entries are already to hand from all factions, but a lot more are certain yet to come to hand, and it is urged that those who arc intending to rampete should send their entries along a? e.oon as possible. Th© committee wishes to state that the Dresden Piano Company and Messrs C. Begg and Co. and the London Piano Company have kindly consented to receiveentries, and this will no doubt greatly assist a number of competitors. This afternoon a meeting of tho head ina«tors of the schools will be held in tho Town Hall, and as a great number of th© junior entries — for elocution, particularly — come from the schools, the committee anticipates, that the schoolmasters will again co-operate with it to make these sections th-e success they ha\o been in the past. W© have received the following amounts in aid of the Young Englishman Fund: — Ralph Ewing, £1 Is.; E. C. T £1 Is; P. 8.. £1 Is; N. Z., Waikouaiti, 10s. Stott, the man arrested in connection with tho death of Ham Sing Tong at Tapanui, was brought to Dtmodm on Monday evening and lodged in safe keeping. He was brought before the court at Tapanui in the morning, and charged with the murden of the Chinaman, an.il remanded to the sth of next month, "when he will be returned to Tapanui, where tho charge will be heard. It would &eein that he has been about Tapanui for tho past four years working as a carpenter, and doing p-retty well any work that came in his way. Latterly he has been engaged in stumping. He is a man of tall and strong build, and is reputed to have been at one time a black tracker. Th© police visited his place a little outside Tapanui, but did not find him at home, and later on effected his arrest in the township. On Monday a youth about 16 or 17 years of age, who is supposed to be implicated in the crime in fiomo way, wa>3 also arrested. At a meeting of the North-East Valley Borough • Council on Monday evening, the Mayor (Mr H. Duncan) created something more than mild surprise by moving- a resolution expressing tho sympathy of the council with the Premier in the attacks made upon him by the so-called New Liberal party. When the motion was moved it was received for several seconds with marked silence, and there was a look of bland astonishment on th© faces of councillors. Cr Pryor then rose and said he would second the Mayor's motion pro forma, merely" for the purpeso of entering an emphatic protest against any such resolution being- brought before the council. This was followed by another councillor rising in his place and moving that the council proceed with the next business,* and, as Cr Pryor thereupon withdrew his name as seconder of the Mayor's surprise motion, the next business was proceeded with.

The members of the Cotineil of Churches manifested no undue eagerness at their meeting on Monday evening when a letter was read from the secretary of the- Protestant "Vigilance Committee inviting the appointment of delegates for conference as to some suitable celebration of tho ter-centcnary of '* God's most merciful deliverance from the contemplated fearful outrage of November 5, 1605." The chairman's* historical knowledge was severely tested by a chorus of queries as to what happened on the date mentioned, and'lie declined to commit him-•s-slf. The matter was discreetly referred to tlie executive, " with power to investigate and act." The police cells were unusually full en Monday evening. Ono of tho occupants was John Shaw, alia? Eskoy, who was brought down from JWiddiemareh by Constable Paterson, where he had been arrested on a charge of forging a cheque, th-e forgery consisting in converting a cheque for £1 into an order for the payment of £21. The cheque drawn is au instance of careless filling in, ample space being left both in the writing and tho figures to prefix the ''two." Joseph Piaggi, alias Miller, who was some-

•days ago arrested in Wellington in connection with the> recent extensive jewellery roberrics here, was brought to town by Detective CasseK and has to answer a charge, or charges, of breaking and entering private houses and with stealing jewellery therefrom. Another offender in the person of a young man by th© name of George Henry Tyler was lodged ia th© look-up by Detectives Hill and M'Leod for having committed an assault upon a little girl at Dunedin. The platforms of all the carriages on the Government railways are to be fitted i with gatea similar to those with which the ' platforms of the imported American cars are fitted. This is to prevent passengers falling off the platform whilst the train i« in motion. As a further protection a railing is to be pttt in to prevent people falling between the platforms of carriages. By this means the platforms will be much safer than at present. Some of the carriages on the second express from Chrietchurch yesterday morning were fitted with these gates and railings. If any respectable citizen, or, say, a member of the Oiago Harbour Board, wero to walk a short distance from the foot of Frederick street towards the Pelichet Bay Railway Station, and then strike out boldly across the area recently reclaimed by the Harbour Board, he would not get far: he would bo detained against his will by th© mud. Such was the experience a young couplo who went walking that way on Sunday afternoon wi^l not readily forget. k Ths gentleman* when seen^ Lad obviou&ly

been further in the mud than probably ever in his life before, but was at liberty. The lady's plight was more embarrassing. She was sitting firmly and calmly — there was nothing eke for her to dc — hold fast in the glutinous and treacherous embrace of what should have been terra firma, "but had truly proved terra incognita. She was at length, by the u&o of much old roofing-iron, on which to obtain a footing, dragged safely from her unenviable position. Young couples will do well not to walk that way in future .

The Mosgfel Borough Council invites tenders for the purchase of 40 debentures of 100 each, having a currency of 10 years and bearing inteilcst at the into cf 11 pox cent, pov annum.