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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1096, 7 April 1911, Page 6

The Heretaunga Mounted Rifles and the Dominion Scouts will in future be attached to (ho Manawatu Mounted Regiment. Hitherto they have belonged to the Wairarapa Regiment. Henceforth the City Council will set aside annually a sum of ,€SOO, out of the Iramwnv account, as a sinking fund for (he old horsc tramway loan of .£20,000. The City Council has concluded an arrangement with Mr. R. S. Lo Soeuf, director of the Zoological Gardens at Sydney, under which he will leave that city for Wellington 011 April 15. While here ho will visit and report upon the Newtown Zoological Gardens. -Mr. Le Soeuf lias also offered (0 deliver public illustrated lectures upon zoological subjects, under conditions to which the council has agreed. Messrs. John Fuller and Son, in respect of the Theatre Royal and His Majesty's Theatre, and the proprietors of the King's Theatre in respect of that house, have been granted permission to present aniwntod picture entertainments on Good Friday evening, and make a charge for admission. The Mayor has been appointed (0 censor the programmes selected for (lie occasion. Councillor llindmarsh, at whose instance the appointment was made, expressed his confidence that, under his Worship's censorship, the pictures would bo "most holy." The Union Steam Ship Company insert an advertisement in (Ins issue referring to (110 tours (0 (lie Summer Isles during (ho season, April to November, For this purpose (he company has now two new-twin-screw steamers, the Tofua and Atua, sailing every 28 days from Auckland, connecting from Wellington per e.s. Monowai. Tho round tour, via Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, to Australia, and back to Wellington, only occupies 35 days. Further particulars may be had 011 ap! plication to the company. A girl who was unsuccessful in an application to the I.ong Melford (Suffolk) Bench for a reparation from her husband stated that she was married a little over two years ago, when she was 15 years old.