Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 28 November 1907, Page 19

Interprovincial

» ■■ — The Parliamentary session was brought to a close on Monday. . ' The Inverdargill Catholic Club closed the session for the current year with an oratorical, competition. --Five competed, the winner being Mr. J. Sims. A few evenings ago. Constable Edwards, of Port Chalmers, was presented at the "Dune-din" Police •> Station with a '-marble clock, bearing- the following- inscription : 'Mr. Edwards from" the D.unedin police, on the occasion of his marriage.' A portion, consisting of 3829 acres of " the -wellknown Springfield Estate, near Ashburton, was sold by auction in blocks on Saturday for "a total of £82,990 . 10s— an average of £21 11s 10s per. acre. The sale was the best held ' there for many years, the bidding being exceedingly brisk. " A return showing the receipts and expenditure of the recent Exhibition from the 271h of May, 1905, to the 31st of October, 190.7, was . presented to. Parliament pn. Saturday. The total expenditure was £239,970, and -the (actual loss made goad by -the Government was £877617, ' '" " ' • ' The khaki-colored slouch-hat of the postman, - born .of the jingoism of eight years ago, is 'doomed- (says the '-Dominion'), and not before its time, as it never was a neat type of head-gear for an official. The Postmaster-General has practidally decided upon, .the adoption of the postman's - shako -as worn, by the let-ter-carriers ' in the. •British service.- This is 'a- wellshaped shako, somewhat akin to those .worn by the 10l cal police, ma«dp of dark- blue cloth,' on a- stiff " shape, and having, the straight,, glazed .peak "in front" and -the drop behind. Each shako will be braided with black ribbon piped red, and will bear" the brass letters ' P. 0.-" in -front. . ' —