TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12410, 21 March 1911, Page 6

TOWN EDITION

Mr Harry Miller, of (lisborne, who left Wellington for Sydney on Friday, en route to the Old Country, was given a hearty farewell by his Wellington friends (states the Dominion). The fall of a large hanging lamp nearly resulted m a tvr,jedy at Wanganui Kast Council meeting, a few nights flgo, according to the Chronicle. The lamp almost above the Mayor ,(\lr John Jones) suddenly parted from its chain, grazed Mr Jones' side and struck the arms of the chair between him and the town clerk. Both arose and endeavored to get rid of the burning lamp, a projection of which had stuck m the Mayor's clothes. Then the lamp fell to the floor, saturating the cane seat of the chair and flooding the floor with kerosene. • All was ablaze immediately, and there was a general exodus,. The burning chair was drpgged out, the town clerk gathered up his papers and books, and the reporter his notes, while the foreman rushed- off for a bucket of water. The latter proved very effective, bu.t the wall near which the lamp had fallen was charred for two-thirds of the way up. Mr Holloway, the town clerk, received sundry burns £o one* of his hands, but otherwise there were no personal injuries.

There was an unusually animated scene on the Queen's wharf, Wellington, oti Tuesday afternoon, when shortly before 6 o'clock the Huddart-Purkter steamer Ulimaroa sailed for Sydney, carrying over, 400 passengers. Interest M~siß lent to the departure of the vessel (states the N.Z. Times) by the fact that a- large proportion of the passengers from various parts of the Dominion had booked for London, via Sue/,, for the Coronation, many of them taking passage by the^Xoi'ddeutscher liner grosser Kurfurst, which leaves Sydney next Saturday en route Home. The Olimaroa'tt'berths had all been booked some hours before her departure, and a number of late -comers had to be refused passage The Harbor Board's officials were kept extremely busy collecting: three-penny pieces from those who desired to see friends off, over 800 people paying for this privilege. The steamer also took a heavy cargo, including butter and cheese for transhipment to South Africa. The steerage passengers comprised a fair, number of workers attracted to Australia, by the prosperous conditions prevailing just now throughout the Commonvealth. The departure of the Ulimaroa was favored by sunny weather. and a calm sea.

The Diinedin Presbytery was ..greatly exercised last week, says the Star, over the historical and denominational propriety of naming one of its colleges St Margaret's, as proposed by a"committee. Since this college is to be a residential one for girls coming, m to the .University and , Training College, the Rev. A. Whyte submitted confidently that it ' should be called Queen Margaret's 1 College, because what they wanted were queens of the hearth, and "saint" .savoured of ,the cloister. Then for 10 minutes the Rev. James Chis'>olm combated this by a brief history, of the life of Queen Margaret of Scotland, which he described w saintly, and the epithet, therefore, as allowable and, proper. The last word lay with the Rev. A. Dutton. "It is strange," he said, "that^the Presbytery should be so ticklish over thie word saint. (Laughter.) I presume that if St. -Paul were to write an epistle to this Assembly it would be addressed to 'The Bishops, Elders and Saints.' I don't see' what objection there *bould be to thia title. A saint is greater than a queen, and the fact that there rre m the calendar a great number of bedraggled saints should make us all the more willing to recognise one cf the most saintly of women." A voice cried impatiently "Vote," and the majority favored "Saint," '

The heat wa» very trying yesterday, but it's no use trying to argue that Grieves stock of rings is not absolutely the finest m town, and for three weeks he is giving a discount of 4a m the £ off everything.*