WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2188, 12 May 1908, Page 1

WELLINGTON.

(Special to “Times.”) WELLINGTON, May 11. -COMMERCIAL. The Gatoms revenue for last -week shows a big drop as compared with the corresnionding period of last year, the figures being £9901 and £IG,'623 respectively. Business 0 n the -Exchange was dull to-day. There wia® a slight decline in quotations for Wellington Gas and National Bank shares. The only sales were AY<iilii’s a/t- £9 lls and Waihi Consolidated at Is lid. AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM. The i -Government -has decided to use the commodious drill shed near Lambton Quay for..,the purpose of a colonial -agricultural niuse-uin. ’This morning the Hons. Dr. Findlay and -AlcNah accompanied with Air Hamilton, curator of the colonial museum, visited- the Alexandra Barracks at Alt. Cook (Newtown) with a view to deciding as to -their suitability for the -purposes' of a colonial museum. VALEDICTORY. Air -Geo. Boston, Crier at the Supreme Court, has -been ,presented' by the members of the Wellington bar with a -silver tea -sot. The president and secretary of the Law Society sent the following letter with tTie gift: “The legal practitioners o-f Wellington desire you to accept this -gif't as a slight token off tlieir . appreciation of the couteous efficient and dignified manner in which you have performed the duties -attaching to your oflico for the il.a&t twenty-two years. Whilst- they regret- your resignation from the, office you have so worthily filled, they recognise that your retirement is -well earned and they join in hoping that you may he spared' to enjoy many years of leisure.” -AIEDICA.L CONGRESS. Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer for New -Zealand, will he prr.-jdeut of the Public Health section at -the Australasian; medical congress, to be held at Melbourne on the 19th October.