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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 7

The inspection of Senior Cadets by Major-GensTfal Godley, officer commanding the No* Zon!aad Forces, has been fixed for Tuesday evening next, when the various Cadet companies will parade at, the Garrison Hall at 7.30. At tthis parade th© Championship Cup; won. at Christchurch 6V the V.M.C.A. Company, will probably be presented. Tiie Provisional Dominion Executive of the newly-formed Catholic Federation is meeting every week, aod arrangemente are in full swing; for the routine matters in connection with the formation of the various branches throughout the Dominion. At the meeting last night it w&s announced that the inaugural meeting for the formation of a branch of the Federation at Auckland was attended by 900 people, and that the proceedinge were marked by the greatest enthusiasm. Tram-conductor M'Gtura met with an accidofit this morning, which will prob*bly keep him off duty for some days. He was in charge of a-/ palace car travelling; through Kflbirnie at 7.30 a.m., .and as it was rounding a corner he was jerked oil the side step, landing heavily on the road. He was bruised about bhe hands and knees, and tvleo received a severe shaking. After being attended to at Dr. Tolhurst's surgery, he was aent home. It ia worthy of note that the accident occurred on the Very spot a* which Conductor Aitber, also on a palace car, sustained injuries which caused his death a few years ago. Mr. Hugh D, M'lntdsh, who purchased the interest in Rickards vaudeville circuit soflie time sinco, has floated the business into a company, to be called "Harry Rickards Tivoli Theatres, Ltd." This company Will have absolute control of the big circuit from Ist March next. The company, has been registered with a capital of £260,000, and Mr. Mlntosh is governing director. Sydney will be the headquarters, and new theatres are to ba erected in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth. The governing director intends to work the circuit in connection with a big circuit in London and another in South Africa. Annual trips will be made to America and ftarope in search of new specialities. There are on view in the window of Messrs. R. and E. Tingey* ManfleMstreet, two photographs that should be of interest U> the members of St. John Ambulance Brigades. One is a group of men and women of overseas divisions who took part in the Royal review held by. King George V. at Windsor Park in June last, and to each of whom His Majesty has given a copy. The second picture » an autograph copy of MajorGeneral J. C. Daltoa, Chief Commissioner for the Brigade Overseas, a copy of which that gentfeman hae given to each member .taking part in the Review. Both pictures are the piapetfy ol Mm. G, W. Bariferop, who represented ihe Wellington Nnrsxog Division. It was stated at the Waanate County Council meeting test week that under the Act of WO it votM cost three times the amount of rates' that could be levied to recover rates from the GienavE Maoris, The deric illustrated the various difflcttlties, and stated that even if judgment wan secured oa such claims the process would necessarily be slow. The European settlers on tiiese reserves Jbad all paid tip, hat th© Maoris were mdiffereoty and one bad invited the clerk to "*h* «#«y.» Membeta agreed that the Aab, however beneficial in some parts of the North Island, iraa of little practical tsm in their case. The actingchairman (Mk, Hart) reported on a remit that had been dealt with at the Counties' Conference- / The proposal read that- all rated on Kathw reeerae feeovaabte ande* the, j&aw Aob he paid hy the Public Trustee, tfrespeotrve of^the source of his payment. Needless to mesfaoa, tftf§ tilt) TtSn**e Herald; meidbeb had a frttgh at this suggestion. The Navy played an important part fn the early history of the Dominion, this is borne out by "An Episode of the New Zealand War/ written by 'Admiral Sir Edmund Ftemantle, at the suggestion, of the local honorary secretary of the Navy League, and appearing in the current issue of the School Journal. It , is over » sixty years since Admiral Fremantle served in the Burmah expedition, but he is still hale and hearty, and is regarded as an authority on naval matters, His father was one of Nelson's captains at Trafalgar, and the present admiral may well be described as a link with the glorious past. When Mr. Palmer was attending a Navy League dinner in London in 1806, he had th» pleasure of meeting the admifal, who narrated to him several incidents of New Zealand escperieiwes. On one occasion, when cruising in Cook Strait, a gun brig, of which he was second in command, was struck by a 'terrifically heavy southerly squall. " All hands aloft to shorten sail," »was the order given, and Iremanfcle himself accompanied the bluejackets in their perilous task out on the yardarms. The present episode deals with the rescue of Mr. Grace, of the Church Missionary Society, and some friendly Natives who were hold captives fcv the fanatical Hau Haus at Opotiki. The then Lieutenant Fremantle, in charge of H.M.S. despatch boat Eclipse, of four guns, with Bishop Selwyn aboard, after some exciting experiences, was successful in resetting Mr. Grace and the friendly Natives. Li a letter to Mr. Palmer, the admiral' writes'. "My time in New Zealand was a very interesting one. I had Sir George Grey on boaM my ship the Eclipse several times, and was able to do him a good turn in going into the King Country, then in the hands of the hostile Maoris, and bringing down William. Thompson and the Maori King to confer with the Governor at Hamilton. I ran considerable risk, and Sir George hesitated a good while before ha made Up his mind to let me go." The apparently lifeless body of a man lying on the beach between Petone and Ngahauranga caught the eye of a guard ©n the 3.30 p.m*. train from Lower Hutt yesterday afternoon. The guard reported the incident to the stationtrtaster at Ngahauranga. and the police were communicated with. Sergeant Foster, of Petone, and Mounted Constable Pearson, bt Wellington, were instructed to search the beach, and this they did thoroughly. It was not known till this morning, however, that a passenger on the same train had seen the supposed corpse lazily stir its head and arms as it lay sunning itself on the beach.