NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13168, 26 July 1911, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The fortnightly meeting of the Nelson Accountant Students' Association will be Held • this evening, when various questions on accountancy subjects will "be answered. A Fremantle cable says that Lord and Lady Denman have arrived there by the Omrah. A Press Association telegram statcsthat the Palmerston North Borough Council last night decided to submit a loan proposal to the ratepayers in favour of the installation of electric trams—Edison storage battery system — at a cost of £45,000, for an eight mile route-. Christbhurch is at present experiencing qnitp an epidemic of scarlet fever and diptheria. New potatoes were dug in Taranaki a fortnight ago. The seed was planted on 3rd March. They wore the Robin Adair variety. A Gishorne telegram states that the medical practitioners there notify that owing to the bad condition of the roads attendance on messages received after 10 p.m. except in cases of otaorgency. will be charged double rates.

Patrick O'Connor, who arrived in Australia recently, looks down Upon the rest, of his fellow-men from a height of Bft 3in. ■ When he comes into the room, bonding instinctively to pass the door, the startled beholder's first impulse is to hide. But a glance at his good-natured face is reassuring (says the Melbourne "Argus"). The "New Zea'and Tablet" states that t-lip.ro are now no less than nineteen Catholic educational institutions in greater Wellington, all of, which are conducted by members of religious Orders.

Speaking to Westport pressmen on Saturday night the Hon. R. McKenzie Minister of Mines and Public Works, stated lie thought of instituting, borinaoperationsunithe Mackrey Country whi^h ft rbS'a'faed as the main coal bed of tho Bullor district. If located, the Minister stated the coal output would greatly help the Westport-"-* wn railway. Borittg Sjb Charming Oreek.on the Statfe .geddbnville proportyj lias . recently, located a ; seam ,6f hard cial^P feet. tllickj v ., Bo>ing, is. to ; Ue. continuecl wit!^ tlteidea of .asceHaining how far the coal measures extend towards .the present State Works at Seddonville. ' Anti-Bhevrings.-v-Tiie-only i'higs In • tHo world ttiac are both Galvanic and !i Magnetic. Obtainable only from Louis ,1 Kerr.* AntMlheu rings, for tho cure -• of: • rhetifflatisni. ißuy ... Oiie- vto-tlfti* from 11 Louis Eer'rl 109 T"rafalgar street.*