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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 810, 6 May 1910, Page 4

A Brooklyn resident who complaine3 that his strawberry beds-were injured by the position of a public drain declared his grievance at the meeting of the Citf Council last night. The Mayor (Mr. Wilford) asked him if he could compute hi» .prospective loss for next season on th» basis of previous losses, and the aggrieved one stated that ,£lO would about cover the damage. The complaint was referred to the Outlying Districts Committee. .

With regard to the complaint that persons who engage the Town Hall for a con-, cert are made to pay again if they, desire to use the hall in the afternoon for a rehearsal, or to test its" acoustic proDerties, the town clerk states that the nail is often let by the afternoon, as.well as by the evening, and to avoid the''suggestion of iinlair differentiation • it is found necessary to make a separata charge in tht circumstances named. The hall might not be otherwise engaged on tho afternoon when the promoter of an tvening concert wished to use it, but, again, it might be, and it is not fonnd practicable to allow free use in one caso and not in another. If people care to hold a rehearsal underneath the hall, or at the back, they aro allowed do so, and no charge is made. As against this view, it is urged that vehen once the hall has been lei for an evening concert it should not be let to (someone elst for the 6ame afternoon, .and that this rule is observed in other town halls all over the world. :

' More seating accommodation is to be provided at Sewtown. Park.

Tenders are invited by the Wellinsttoa "■',y Council for the supply and delivery of three electrically-driven multi-staEe tur>>iuo pumps. Specification mar be obtained at tho office of tho city enßineor. Town .all.

Hatepayers of Makara Eidinc aro notf. lied by advertisement in this issue thai ;\ meeting will be held in tho Makara sfill Maltara, on Wednesday, Hay 18. to consider tho proposal to raise a special loan of £6000 from the superintendent, N'ew Zealand State Guaranteed Advances Ofllcc, particulars .of which ha,vo already boon advertised. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. have been instructed to sc!! by public auction, in their rooms, Lambton Quay, one of the chief warehouse blocks of business premises in tho city, and situated in Jervois Quay. On another naeo of 'this issue will be found nn advertisement containing full particulars of the «n!o, which is to UUe •■o on Tuesday, Kay 31 at 2.30 p.m. Messrs. Carter and Co., Cuba- Street, advertise in this issue that they have iurt landed, ex s.s. Tonsnriro, now costumes, coats, corsets, furs, .fancy drapery, and wool nni'crclothine. An Austrian schoolboy, 18 years at age, shot himself dead in a box during the porformnnce of an opera at tho Vienna Opera House because he had failed in Greek and Latin in u recent examination. Tobacco and snuff yield far more Customs' revenue than nny other substance paying, duty on entrance to England, htid sugar comes nest.