NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The new weir "at the waterworks, is low completed, and the Mayor invites he public to inspect it between the hoursi of 2.30 and 4.30 p.m: to-mor-row and on Saturday. . The monthly meeting of the Cham■jer of Commerce will be held, this ovening, when a full attendance- ot Members is requested. At the Rabbit Island on Sunday a party of fishermen captured a shark, which measured ten feet in. length and six feet in girth. The shark wasclose in shore, so that bathers should take warning. The annual meeting of the Albion Football Club will be held at the Rechabite -Hall to-morrow. (Wednesday) evening," at half: past; seven o'clock.. A full-attendance is desired. ' The usual monthly meeting of . the Southern Star Lodge will take place this evening. Members of the Victory Lodge are reriiinded of an official visit to Southern Star Lodge this evening, at half past seven. . It is understood that the Government will erect a monument to the late Mr Hone Heke, M.R., to commemorate his services to the Native race and to the Dominion generally. Russell, Bay. of Islands, is spoken of as a probable site. Tho monthly inspection parade of the Ist Nelson Infantry Battalion will take place to-morrow evening. .Town members of the Stoke Rifles are ordered to' parade at the railway station at 7.30. After the parade members o fthis- corps will be measured for their new uniforms. A similar notico is given to the Nelson Rifles. The monthly meeting of the Nelson Retailers' Association will he held tomorrow evening. Recently the Old Boys of Nelson College 'attached to the staff of • the EasterirCable Company, donated a cup valued cat sixty. guineas;for. the swimming; championships of the Boys' Col-, lege. The first competitions for the trophy will take plac&. in the; swimming baths "at the College to-morrow. . A tender has been accepted for the erection of a. Maori carved house at Whakarewarewa for Maggie papakura The building is to be 40ft long and 22ft wide, and. will be built after the-Maori style,of architecture, and will -be* embellished, internally with panels of Maori carvings, reeds, and other ornamentations. The annual meeting of tho Nelson Football Club will be. hold at Henry and Co.'s tea rooms on Thursday evening at eight o'clock. A full muster is f]es*ired.. At the Magistrate's Court at Mo--tueka on Friday last Mr H. Eyre Kenny, S.M., fined Hugh Williams* £5 with costs £1 Bs. for neglecting to control codlin mo.h and mussel scale';. The Magistrate remarked on the seroiusness of orchardists allowing disease to spread to their "neighbours' orchards, and Jntimated that the practice must be stopped, and that he would continue ... to inflict heavy fines. Mr C. ~&. Fell appeared for the Agricultural Department.