LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 48, 20 November 1907, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. The Wellington drivers' dispute has been referred to the Arbitration Court for settlement. . Mr. W. Rogers, manager! of the Anchor Shipping Company, arrived from Nelson by the Tasman yesterday. The Post Office advises that Spain is to bo deleted from list of countries participating in the international reply coupon service previously advertised. The Wellington Amateur Athletic Club intends making application to the City Council for the use of the Basin Reserve for a sports meeting on December 21. There are half-a-dozen locally-built car bodies awaiting under-trucks at the Newtown car-sheds. It is anticipated that these will bo on the track by Christmas time. The motor-brougham—another nail in the equine coffin—has come to Wellington. The first of its class to travel the city was observed "doing" the main streets yesterday with an air that made the horse cabs and hansoms look quite old-fashioned. " Things are up so high now that it takes us all our time to live," said a judgment debtor with a wifo and sevon children dependent on him, who.appeared at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. Mr. W. W. Bird,, Inspector of Native Schools, returned to Wellington yesterday from a tour of annual inspections and examinations, which took him within six miles of tho northern extremity of this island. The Government steamer Tutanekai is at present berthed alongside the New Zoaland Shipping Company's steamer Opawa, transshipping new cable for Cook Straits. The cable is about 56 miles long, and is to bo put down between Lyell Bay and White's Bay.

The following charges will not come on for hearing at the Supremo Court until next week: —James M'Ellion, attempted murder; Waka Waka, Hopere, rape; and William Burford and Annie Wbitaker, unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure miscarriage. Mr. G. A. Troup, Office Engineer of the Maintenance Branch of the Railways Department, who has been ill for about a fortnight, is still in a serious condition. A long sea voyage, as soou as ho is well enough to leave home, will be necessary to set him up in health, and it is not expected that he will return to work for six or oigbt months. The Marine Department advise that the Government training ship Amokura will leave on a cruise about the end of the month. The destination of the ship is Stewart Island, but calls nt Lyttolton, Timaru, Oamnru, Akaroi, Port Chalmers, and the Bluff will be mado on tho voyage.down, if weather permits. On Boxing Day tho ship will bo at Port Chalmers and on New Year's Day at Lyttelton. The lads are very enthusiastic about the trip, thoir recent sea experience having in no way damped their ardour. Mrs. Ethel It. Do Costa, LL.B. (nco Miss Ethel R. Benjamin, of Dnnodin), after practising for Bomo years in that city, has commenced practico as a barrister and solicitor in l*o. 6 Nathan's Buildings, corner Grey and Fontkeiston Streots, Wellington. Mrs. Do Co6ta has tho distinction of being tho only lady practising at the Bar in the Dominion. Intending clients can depend on prompt and careful attention at Mrs. Do Costa'e hands.

The Customs rovenuo collected at Wellington yesterday amounted to £2263 10s. 10d. The mombers of the Arbitration Courc, which has just concluded its sittings in Wellington, left for Napier yesterday morning. To-day and Friday the Court will consider the disputes filed by the Timber-workers' and Butchers' Unions. The Court will sit at Palmerston North on November 2G. Mr. P. Cloary, of the Government Life Insurance Department, has been transferred ro Christclnirch. Previous to leaving, he was tlm recipient of a presentation from his fellow-workers. Mr. Clcnry was a Wellington representative footballer last season, also an Oriental Club player. He will play fo" the Merivale Club in Christchurch nexe season. The phaeton carriage owned by Mrs. Valentine, of Oriental Bay, collapsed in Courtenay Place shortly before 6 o'clock last evening, owing to tho main supports of the undercarriage giving way. The only occupants of tho phaeton were tho owner and the man who was driving, neither of whom sustained any injury, thanks chiefly to the docile behaviour of the horse. While driving down the steep part of Roxburgh Street yesterday the horse attached to a cart belonging to Isoac's bakery had a bad fall. In kicking to free itself of the weight of the bread-laden cart, tho animal smashed a shaft and splintered the footboard. The horse bled profusely at the nose, and sustained a few superficial scratches, bnt otherwise seomed uninjured. The seventh annual prize meeting of the Wanganui Rifle Association will bo held t.z tho Putiki Rifle range on Thursday and Jj'nday, December 26 and 27. This is an important event, being the ftorth Island Championship meeting. There are 229 cash prizes valued at £190 6s. 3d., and trophies to the value of £60.

What is the ~meaning ,of the term "balancer"? queried Mr. Justice Coopar during the hearing of a criminal case yesterday. Counsel replied that the word was used to describe a man who does not pay when ne loses a bet. His Honour: Well, I didn't know that. Most people would have thought that a " balancer " was simply an. acrobat. The Court of Appeal will sit at 10 o'clock: this morning. Reserved judgmont in thp case of Townsend v. the Commissioner ai Stamps will probably bo given at-, a latar date. It is understood that the application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the case of Turia Paki and others v. Konncth Kinlayson and others—which was heard at the recent sittings—will be proceeded with. Out of the nineteen original applicants for fifty years' leases of four new workers' dwellings in Coromandel Street, only nine were found eligible to take, part in the ballot, held in the District Land Office last evening. No--1 dwelling was allotted to Mr. James Pottit without competition, under clause 3 of the Workers' Dwellings Amendment Act, 1906, : ani tho other houses fell to Messrs. B. Uilh berd, James Galvin, and B. H. Penridge. With growing monotony tho City Council announces it's, intention that at to-morrow evening's meeting it will deal with, the confirmation of the resolution passed on March 14, 1907, adopting The Electric Light Fitters' By-Law 1907, and the resolution passed on May 23, 1907, adopting tho Consolidation and Revision of Tho Wellington City Corporation By-Law,, 1907. /Tho Council has spoken of .doing this for. some.montbs past.

Addressing a Jury yesterday, counsel for the defence declared - that a woman- could conceal her feelings so well that it was more difficult to tell whether sho was speaking the truth than in the case of a man. Conimenting on this remark at a later stage, His Honour said that tho experience in courts of law was that women wcro just as likely to be truthful as men. Counsel informed His; Honour that he had been taken up wrongly. All he had meant to convoy was that a bad woman was worse than a bad man. Tho widening by the Government of the Hutt Road, in connection with the railway-widening operations, will necessitate alterations to the City Council's, water main from Wainui. The Wainui water supply will therefore bo cut off on Thursday, probably all day, and dwellers on the higher levels will bo wise to take the precaution to procuro a supply of water sufficient to carry them through Thursday. The Karori supply will, of course, be maintained, but the pressure will probably not be great enough to supply more than the low levels. The handbook, published yesterday, descriptive of tho Labour Department's eshibit at tho recent New Zealand International Exhibition, is a very complete and interesting piece of work. The valuable statistical charts and diagrams tlvat were exhibited by the Department are reproduced in a form conveniont for roference, and incidentally much information is given on the subject of this country's labour legislation. An introduction by Mr. E. Tregear (Secretary for Labour) states that many inquiries were made for copies of the charts during the Exhibition period, but this want could not be supplied, as no duplicates wcro taken at the 'time. The present publication is attractive in form, as well as informativo and interesting in respect of its contents. A Street Scone—4.3o p.m.: "Boost, her up, Ginger I" cried a ruddy-faced street arab to a comrado', who fondlod a battered football. "Ginger" carried out the instruction, and tho ball narrowly missed tho hat of a portly citizen pursuing his stately way on the footpath, and ended its flight by striking a horse belonging to a butcher who was taking an order in a neighbouring house. The horse, rudoly wakoned from a day-dream, pricked up its 1 oars and sot off at top speed along the road. The portly gentleman was obviously angry, tho butcher furious, and in less time than it takes to tell, the offending "Gingor" was tho centre of an excited, gesticulating group. The butcher threatened, the outraged citizen spluttered, "Gingor" and his follows were the only ones in the group who did not appear to bo perturbed, for this was only one of the many similar incidents which go to make up a boy's life. The runaway horse was at length led back by a strangor, and tho air cleared, until "Ginger and Co." wore loft in possession of tho street again, none tho worse for tho escapade. Photographic post cards of the " Compassion Homo" workers, military tournnmont at Palmerston, Dominion celebrations, Tnrnkina firo, etc., etc., on salo at ZAK'S PnOTO DEPOT. 24 Willis Street (price 4d. each). C6tt A fashionably attired woman needs a porfoctly cut corset, artistically moulded to tho "human form." C. Adams and Co., 35 Cuba Street, have a most up-to-date corset department, and a lady expert is .ilwnys in atteudnnco for the purpose of "fitting:." C. Adams and Co. aro agents for the Messouccr Corset Manufacturers. Your measure is ttiuon by an expert, fitted and made to your order within a week. Inspection invited, CC44 If you aro contemplating removing, the first thing you should do is obtain a quotation from J. Keir, 12 Foatherston Streot. Hβ has liad many years' experionco in this class of work, and is in a position to pack, $toro, and remove any description of furniture. Ho also clears goods through Customs, and despatches packages and. parcels to any address m tho world. Telephone, No. 1180. CSSfI

'A report on the proposal to extend Jaoknon- Street, Petono, has been prepared b/ H. Cook, engineer to the Borough Council. , Mr. Cook states that tho extension will-'.be about thirty-oight chains in longth, and. jWill ..pass through tho Gear Company's Jandfor'.tho greater part of tho way. Tb.3 cost'.. is cstimatod as follows: —Earthworks, metalling, pitching, flannolling, and curbing, £2702;: extension of culvert, fencing, and cattle-stops, £760; land, £400; drainage, man., and lamp holes, £424; total, £4280. Loss' sundry works, £300; plus engineering and legal charges, £308; total, £4384. tt has been decided to hold a public meeting oil Monday, December 2, and to take a poll on Iho following Wednesday. The hurtling dust of windy days in WolEngton; that dries up all the softer feelings Df human beings, is to be seriously combattod ilong! those streets travorscd-by tho electric cars. The electric water-sprinkler ordered by,the City Council some time ago has beon delivered at tho Nowtown car-shed this woek, wd after boing fitted with an under-truck, jtandard and trolley-polo, etc., will be available for service along the dust-blown car routos; Tho "electric-sprinkler," ■as it appo'a'rs at present, is just, a solid-looking horizontal steol boiler, mounted on the steel frame, which fits on to the under-truck, and so far has not been fitted with the apparatus that is to'spray the : water. The sprinkler holds ,1800 gallons of\ water, and tho spray will hayo a Bpread of sixteen feet on each side.of the rails along which it travels, or, including, the track,, will water tho road to a width of thirty-six feet. Tho sprinkler should tend to make lifo a little moro oniurable. on dusty days. The boilor for the "sprinkler" was mado by Messrs. Hursthouse Brothers, of Petono.

-Details of an oxtensivo building schome contemplated by Mr.- Robert Hannah, to cdver.that gentleman's valuable proporty on 1/ambtqn Quay; wcro published in The Domit HioN some, weeks ago. Since then, tenders have been received, which were a good deal higher .than/'anticipated,-, and the building operations aro to bo gono on with now on a'somewhat modified soale. In place of the eix-stpry building that. was to have been erected on tho Lambton Quay frontage—taking in .those properties between (and including). Orr's" pharmacy, and the shop at pre-sent-'occupied by Messrs. Whitcombe and Tdmbsr—there will probably bo a four-story building;. The proposed alterations to the faotory' behind have been abandoned, and slr; ; Hsnnah has decided to orect a now factory •Altogether, covering a block of land ISOvfeet by 50 feet, behind tho firm's Cuba Street, premises (next the Masonic Hotel). Thei.wholo of the plant will be transferred to tho^new ; building, and the present factory vriirbp let as a warehouso, for which purpose it is admirably adapted. Mr. Hannah has not yet dropped tho idea of utilising his frontage to the Wellington Terrace, but tho work has been postponed until tho prosent building scheme is under way. Messrs. Penty ■ and Blake aro preparing tho plans for the four-story building for Lambton Quay end the "new factory in Cuba Streot.