DOMINION ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 2 September 1908, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS.

-(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, September 1. The late Mrs John E. Brown, whose husband, also dead, was for some years a member of Parliament, has left about £IMO worth ©f her estate to the Otaki Hospital for Consumptives. The Wellington Hospital Trustees decided to-day to approve of the erection of a new fever hospital at the rear of' the Mount View Mental Hospital, as reconimendedvby the medical staff and Health Department. The Carterton "News" states that owing to slackness of orders, local sawmills contemplate closing down, thereby affecting 40 or 50 families of sawmill workers. The sawmillers themselves declare they have a large stock of timber lor which there is no sale. The workers are deputationising the member for the district t-> ask the Government to use native timber In prefers nc 3 to imported.

_ PAHIATUA, September 1. Tho annual meeting of the Ballance Dairy Company was held yesterday, when Messrs Croad and Matthews were elected to the directorate... The, accounts showed a balance to credit of profit and loss of £2407 Is 7d, ana'a credit balance at the bank'of £1069* 8s sd.

Mr Masses and Mr James Allen were according an enthusiastic reception at the Olympic Theatre last night. The building was crowded,, many having come a ,long distance tp be present. Both speakers dealt generally. ; }vaith l^ke policy and administration of f.tn^^.^rii ernment, which . they ■: :-:condemne<ji as! being inimical tV the interests-jofi|Ke country. Both speeches were punctuated with-frequent bursts of "applause, and at the close of., the meeting Messrs Massey and Allen were heartily cheert&ik*: ■ ■•■'"■ .■...."■

,m■-:$&: NAPIER, September 1. fesi^Ki^ increase in the rateable value thoT' borough of Napier during the 'year-is £640,000,; and the capital value now, stands at £1^630,7£1. ~Since the beginning of the present year building permitslifor. works representing £60,000 have been granted. ,-.

INVfRCARGILL, September 1. During.'JLugust only four persons were arrested for^drunkehness in" Invercargill, >all .of jwhoin obtained liquor outside the'electorate.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 1. The City Council to-night resolved that the new by-law relating to the numbering of theatre seats should not come into operation until the end of the yeai% when the present licenses pire..The Council also resolved to protest against the clause in the Municipal Corporations Act Amending Bill giving the parliamentary franchise for municipal polls.