LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 493, 28 April 1909, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The , postal authorities advise .that 'the Riverina, which left-Sydney'for Wellington on Saturday lastj'lms'on board a largo Alls-, tralian mail, which is due hero early this morning. •'■". '.. . ■ : ; ; An X-ray apparatus, ordered some time ago, will shortly, be installed; at the Otaki Sanatorium."'.';. '; ; . ; .-' Surfacemeu are guarding the spot where the slip occurred in the, Manawatu Gorge last week. ' Tho earth seems/to _ have come away in a sheet, and as debris is still falling the locality requires special attention. .' The City Inspector (Mr. J. Doyle) has issued .summonses against a number of people charging them with being tho owners ' of wandering cattle.: They will'bo called upon to answer the chaTges at -the Magistrate's Court next week.; .. . ■■■'■■> , ..■■'-■■' Mr. Henry Hayward, late of West's Pictures and manager of Maskclyne and Devant's Mysteries, has purchased the freehold of the loyal Albert Hall, Auokland, which he intends to use for the purposes of a permanent picture-, show. . ' : . /' ' : A meeting or the Police Provident _ Fund board was held ■on Monday, the Minister for Justice presiding. ~ The only business transacted was the granting of pensions to Constables Flewellyn, of Christchurch, and : l;loyd, of Picton. -■.■■■.-.■'■,••■' •:■ Pocket money allowed to inmates of the Ohiro Home is more than half the amount of tho salaries of the wholq staff of the Homo.. This fact came out at tho meeting of the Benevolent Trustees ' yesterday. Old ago pensionsers to tho number of 20, only ono of whom did any work worth mentioning, drew £84 per annum in pocket money; - The Marine Department advise that instructions have been given' to take- proceedings against tho captain of tho steamer Cygnet, for carrying moro.passengers on his vessel than allowed. The occasion of the alleged oVerorowding wae on Easter Monday, at Akaroa, when it was reported by'telegraph that about 600 passengers boarded tho vessel, which, with tho John Anderson, wae acting as tender to the Mararoa. The case- will, ho heard down south. '. ' ' A rumour having been circulated that tho food supplied to the patients at tho Otaki Sanatorium is not all that • it • should bo, the chairman of tho District Hospital Board (Mr. J. P. Luke), accompanied by several members of the Board, paid'a surprise visit to the institution on Saturday last, and proved to their own satisfaction that thoro was nothing whatever to complain of. In fact, as Mr. J. P. Luke said at tho board's meeting yesterday,' tho pudding was as good as was to bo obtained at an hotel.' Nevertheless, ho said, the'board would always be prepared to receive and investigate complaints of this nature.- ' . Y, Tens grown in different localities have different characteristics,' and oven the tea from any particular garden is not tho same in two successive seasons. Climatic changes, differences of soil, exercise influences, and it is in the art of tho tea blender to-bring-together-tho different teas and by combination to'produce-, a particular flavour. Crescent Blend lea is a choice combination of Ceylon and Indinii lens, and tho flavour never varies. All storekeepers, 2s. per lb. -~'.' ■ ..'