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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1913, Page 4

There havo been two bankruptcies in Wellington during the month ending today, as compared with one bankruptcy in January of last yonr. Two officers of the Public Service have been convicted of embezzling £3004 11s 5d and a levy of Is per cent, is how being made under the provisions of tho Public Spnico Act to rnnkp the amount good. A magnificent black bass, weighing 172 ib, was cap lured by Mr. Roger Lucena, last %veek, while fishing otifcsido Tory Clipinvl. in Mr. Borg'n launch (states tho Picton Press). This Ls probably a record catch in the.'>o waters, the fish being considered tho biggest of its kind yet hi> tiled i" on ft line, and the launch party found (he Uw>k of landing the monster by no meaiiß a light one. Thp workmen ut the destructor on a recent evening hud the somewhat sensational experience of being "undor fire.' 1 It appears that some careless individual had deposited among rubbish a consider* able number of ball and blank LeeKnfield cartridge 1 ?. According to ono informant, bullets whizzed past him dangerously close, and when he and. his fellows, who weie sciving the fires, guessed that they u oe feeding tho flames with ball cartridge, they prompt ly shut the door, and h»ard at inteivak the bullets thudding on the inside. It is said that upwards of one hundred shots must have been discharged. Unfortunately, there aro no means now of ascertaining where the load came from. Pillaging, according to the Duuedin correspondent of The Pout, is repotted to have been very bad in connection with the cargoes on the last three or four boats that_ arrived at Dunedin from Great Britain. Several merchants say_ that they have not known a worse period than the past six montliß. The evidence as to the extent of the pillaging clearly proved that it had been done— -and sometimes very cleverly done —at Home ports. So bad" has this filching overseas become that many mer« chaius aro beginning to insure against loss through pillaging. If a loss is discovered before a consignment leaves the wharf the shipping company pays, but if the discovery is made at the warehouse, hhop. or store, the loss is mado good by the insurance company. A prominent luminary in Australian politics, during the course of a recent conversation, told a _ Southland News reporter that Australian visitors to New Zealand got a lot of fun out of the Dominion's racing legislation, in bo far as the prohibiting of the publication of totaliaator dividends was concerned. The totalisator records, which were being beaten at each succeeding meeting in every part of the country, were proof conclusive that the absurd restriction 1 laced on the newspapers was not tending to reduce the public's betting propensities. The absurdity of the whole business was further emphasised by tho fact that, while Dominion newspapers were prohibited from publishing divi« dends, the figures were cabled to Altstralia, published there, and duly circu* lated throughout New Zealand by Aus* tralian papers a week afterwards. The issue of the new Federal notes, to take the place of the temporary notes countersigned by the Federal Treasury, will, it is reported, begin in March. Tho delay js explained by the late arrival of the machinery. The process of printing and drying being a slow one, it will tako probably to the end of the year beforethe banks are supplied up to their ror« nial requirettieiils. It is intended to issue the notes in all the ordinary denominations from 10s upwards. Tli'u existing mtsrim system of notes is admitted to be "exceedingly •unsatisfactory, as well as inconvenient, to the banks and lh© public, and there will be general satisfaction when it is superseded by a note in each denomination of a paitieular and promptly recognisable type. About £4,500,000 will have to be printed before the ordinary necessities of tho banks have been met. The automatic colleo tion of tho present notes, which is effected by the presentation at the banks, will, after Ihe first lots come in from tho metropolitan areas, take months and even years. The temporary Federal notes havo now got into circulation all over the Commonwealth, and they wilt have to filter slowly into metropolitan centreß before they can be wholly replaced by the new issues. 1 Up to the present the State Govern* ment's heroic acquisition of Government House and grounds has landed them in much the same state of embarrassment as that of Mark Twain's pauper, who became possessed of o million-pound bank note, says the Sydney Telegraph. How to negotiate it is an abiding difficulty. The grounds have proved popular enough. Thousands of people have availed themGelves of the beautiful • water-washed slopes' of Government House grounds, ana enjoyed the magnificent seascnpei which they reveal, and have benn won* dering. no doubt, what is to be done with the old, historic, noble residence, which sits in silent gloom, flagless and untenanted, in the centre of the Inner Domain. The Government hns at last realised that some show of active policy is called for. and the Cabinet has now decided to open the jwrtals of the ViceRegal residence for the inspection of the democracy. Only the ground floor is to bo made available for sight-seers, who will bo admitted on Wednesdays and Saturdays between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., and then only in limited parties under the direction of trustworthy guides. Tho ground floor, it may be mentioned, is heavily furnished, and tho bric-a-brac, which the Government) values so highly, a-nd which might tempt» the covotoustwss of light-lingered plebeians, is to be removed to Uio uppeJ solitude*. It is officially slated that consideration of n mmc comprehensive scheme for thp utilisation of the buildings has been indefinitely postponed. One effect of the power to purchafio fee- simple Riven to l.i.p. tenants last session was disclosed in a case before the Wellington Land Board. Previously a selector had applied for leave to transfer, but had been refused, the board not approving tho proposed trans* feree. This time the selector put forward another transferee, and cut tho ground from under the board's feet by giving notice of intention to purchase. the fee simple. With this notice given, the board liad r>o power to refuse a transfer, whatever they might think of the transferee. A loan of £50,000 ha* been raised by the Auckland and Suburban DrainageBoard at £94, the rate of internet, being 4£ per cent. A sum of £5 sent to the Treasury by some person unknown as "conscience money" hns, it is notified in the Gazette, been "paid into the Railwaya account. The scramble for ba.egage, the woiry with it! Avoid both by checking th-iough us. We will call for it, check on. and deliver. The Now Zoaland Expi ess C->.. Lid., 87, Cuelomhotißc-quay. — Ailv'. A solution wai caused in Cuba -street when it was known, Umt C!. Smith, Ltd., had ■-tai'lcd flir-ir summer sale. Tho firm, in mnking: their announcement in tho lending daily paper*., would like to im* press, on tho public, of Wellington the- fact that they hold two sales ctich .Voar, tho sutiinuM wl(» ,ukl the winter Halo, nnd thai thej aro pemin-.o sale*. Kvery mall, wotn.in, and fluid in Wellington should M^il (his ?iilr>, ami "-"r- (ho imguins that vii* offcied in e.ich dopartiuout. Don't miss I his opponiniilv ol ".mint,* money iiiul Ihi'M 1 nppoifuniti"'. .uv .-.corrp. ColiU' •iiK'irj, at 1, ,v i »ni.' »L'\ while tho ki\* is Li in'n.j.if. . U nil l p.iT \ou. Don't delay, 'I'hr ?:ilo h, nt C. fcunithS Ltd,, Cuba-it, — Ad\t.