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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 612, 15 September 1909, Page 8

Complaint- is -still; made liero .-■ (says . out Feilding 'correspondent) that', the.: name of Feilding has-been omitted from the railway time-table, as" a stopping-placo for tho: Main Trunk trains', and. 1 this' after a'. , -Ministerial promiso:to ha.ve tho matter reclined. : '

'.. Municipal contrasts, for- ■■■. (a),.tram-rails, spikes,- and bonds; (b) insulated .wire; and< (c) chimney, for: tramways recreation • room have been signed by the successful ■tenderers,. Messrs. J. Duthie and Co., Ltd., A, and.T. Burfc, Ltd., and W. Hall-Kennßy; respectively. Tho Het o£ tenders is as follows:—Tram-rails,, spikes, and bonds: J. Duthio and Co., v£S9? 9e. 3d- (accepted); Samuel Brown, LtoL, '£Wi; P.- B. Baillie and Co.i £971 2s. Insulated, w'ire: A. and;T.. Burt/:£G7 J6s.'i (accepted).; Dnthie and Cb., XGS 175.; H. A. Smitb nDd.Co., £U; F. S. Greonshieldsand Co.;. j^B , ls.; Turnbull and Jones, XOG; A. D. Biloy and Co., Jcnkine and Mack, 1 , . B." Baillie. and Co., X 135. Chimney for tramways recreation room: Wi Hall-Kenney, .£35 lOa. (accepted); Cooper Bros, J3B 10s.; P. O'Hogan, £ii lOs.r.Owen I)i1r ££l;, Adams and Smart, X 52.105.; Humphnai Bros., X 59; Maco and Nicholson,! J875 aid i, Priddy, '£84. . ~: : . ; v :- - ,-

' Twenty pounds wherowith to pay his debta, food and lodging;for three months,,fifty pounds; wherewith, to bring out a book on' tho eubieet of "State Control 'of Liquor Traffic,", andfa passage to England, wore tho; constituent vtoine of on application. ivhich was considered by the Beuevblenf Trustees at. their meeting yesterdu? afternoon. It was an unusual case. The applicant had "no basis of living," as ho himseif expressed it, no money, and practically,- .no .prospects, To further complicate the situation,- thcro wort a wife and' three children, to protido .for. The applicant was questioned kindly, but' search* ingly. Ito was, lie said, a graduate,-in arts.'ot Cambridge' University. ,;. Since: ,liis ' ar.. rival in Now Zcalhud,; about-, two . years ago, 'he had had no settled'. position, liuring the summer months .he averaged about £1 ■ a week by ; tho salo of pamphlets. Ho had endeavoured,' without, success, to", enter the teaching profession.- and having nowhere else to turn, now, appealed to tho,trustees for help, The' trustees granted "ratipns. .. They >cr< hardly nllqiyed; in' fact—to .advance-'.'money, -'either., as.', a loan/or as .a.'.BTßht, for.relioJ. '. ■(\ ..'.; ,-' , ■':';, .'.■.; , .r