Local and Genera!.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10453, 31 October 1904, Page 4

Local and Genera!.

.—4 Sylvanite won the Derby, Lord Fitzroy second and Billi- gsgate thir:l Great 'Britain's demands on Russia have been agreed to. Russia, hasi found thati she ciannot squeeze the lion's tail too often! Proipiertyi has; slumped badly at Wellington—that, is), speculation* in property. Property upon property has heen .put up at auction within the last few months, only—unless it be something within, the means of the mechanic looking for ai home of his own—to .be withdrawn a. long: way below the: reserve, and no amount of booming seems to faring along a, bidder. Our Paeroai correspondent writes: The Roman! Catholic, bazaar, which i was held on Thursday, Friday, and , :Slatuirdj'ay last was a 'gnoait sulcitjess, and a large sunn, will be added to the funds of the church in consequenceThei Catholics Young Mew's Club >n Wellington intend to perpetuate the iniamoiry off Brother Mark, who recently died in- Auckland, by offering' an annual sidio'larsihip for competition^ amongst the scholars of the Marist Brothers! School- ; The third race in connection! with the Thames Flying Club was flown from T'aumarumr, a distance of 135 miles airline was won by A. Plant's bird Welcome Kate in -lhrs 4nuins 2osee«; J- L- Walton's bird General second, in 4hrs -19mins 325-ecs; A. Peu.rse's bird The Chief third, in -lhrs 40mins 43sees. Mr H- T. Gillies, the proprietor of the Waitakaruru flaxmill, is certainly progressive. He now has the mill lit with acetylene gas?, so that the night shift can work in comparative comfort and in a, splendid light. lie also intends; to lay an extensive tramline., and a premium is to 1 be given for early completion.