LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 540, 22 June 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

District Judge Haselden will take up the magisterial work of Mr. H. W. Bishop, S.M,, in Ghris-tchureh while tho letter is holding the Police Commission. '•■■..".-.■!■ '■.--"- '."• ■-,'■.. ..'.'; The postal authorities advise that tlio Warrimoo, which: left Sydney .on Saturday for Wellington, has on board an Australian mail, which is duo here to-morrow morning. The English and• Australian mail'-wkich lelt Sydney on the lGth instant,, ex .Mokoia) is coming through by the express train from Auckland this aftornooii. .•■,'■' An organ recital and concert was hold at St. oJavid s Presbyterian Church, Petone, last night, in aid of the choir funds. Mr. .W./H. Rennie played u -iiumber of selections, and Messrs. Martin and, Morrison contributed songs. Despite 'the weather tho attendance was largo. , : : , The past week's work on the northern portion of the Kent; Terrace Hcserve lias already transformed the' area. The uvholo of the rank grass has boon : removed, and a, considerable portion of the ground has ,been .turned over in readiness for planting. .. . ■ It is probable, after one or two' minor matters have been attended to. that tho Officers' Training Oorpe, which is being ■organised at Victoria College, will bo officially established very shortly, with.a strength' of about sixty-live. . ' ; ■ . . It is hoped that by the date of the next meeting of tlio City Council,..everything will bo in order to proceed With tlio Maranui tramway works.' The material has been in hand for sonio time, and, when the lino is completed, it will afford transit facilities to. probably the finest stretches of ocum 'beach u> the auiglibourhood of the oity.

Tho Baufcniptcy ettangß of the Supreme Court wero adjonmed yesterday by too registrar until Monday next, at 10.30 a.m.

The rail-grinding operations of ti» city tramways staff, which had to ceaeo owing to tho shortage of carborundum blocks, hae been resumed on Thorndon Quay, a further supply of blocks having come to Band.

The new tramway shelter shed opposite tho Post Office ie nsating completion, and oe it stands at present it affords a.certain amount of shelter. Th<* work of erecting tho Bholter oppoeito tho Hotel Ceoil has not Deen commenced yet, nor has the ehed at Humber Street, on the Island Bay lino, been started. ■ ~.'-.': ■ • \ A car whioh ia being specially constructed for tho Brooklyn tramway service, and which combinoa a number of improvemontii on the cars at present on the-line, is nearing completion at tho tramway workshops. Tho body of tho car is practically finished, but it will be some timo before Hie underwork ie oomploted. It has boon settled that tho direction of tho North Auckland Main Trunk railway will be what is known as tho "western" route, traversing the Bickerstaffo Estate,' which ie owned by.the Government, passing through M'Carroll's Gap ,(97 miles from- Auckland) over tho Northern \Vairoa River near Taiigitororia, north of Dargaville, and joining the orisinal eastern route in tho.. Mangakahia Vailley. , ' ■ ''■ ■, . '■■. ': . : ; - Tlio through car on the Island; Bay line, is working fairly satisfactory'after its trial of several days. This week tho car is to leave town,a few minutes earlier than it did last webki, ;The five'minutes' , service on, the Brooklyn lino between 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m: is also said to bo working well, and relieving! the Mock which hitherto existed at tho town terminus of the lino in question botween 6 and 6 o'clock. . .' ■

Tho stress of unemployment has eased up a little, within tho' past few days. The steamer Indravclli has givcn : .work tea certain number of seamen and taken them, out of the' oity, and the Government is taking some 70 or 80 single men for bushfolling, whilst the corporation has found employment out,, of loan money for a number of men with wives and families to support. The oontractor for the Solomon's 1 Knob dain also recently increased thoinumber of men on the waterworks, and now has a full-strength staff. - ; .■". V ■ ■■."■'. ' ■ • ■ '■■■■■■■:■"-.,

: ■ Several interesting books are 'now ncanng publication at the . Government .Printing Offico. Dr. Hockch's: "Bibliography/of New Zealand. Literature,'? a book,of nearly 500 pages, willboready in'a few weeks. A work on trawling, by Mr. E. U. AVaite, Curator of the Canterbury Museum,- is .very near completion, -and) a,book on.^ the late .expedition to the sub-Antarctic-regions,, edited by Dr. Chilton,of Canterbury College, will out of the printer's hands in two or three months' time.' A'work on tho mollusca of New Zealand; ,by Mi-f H. Suter; of Auckland iis also.in course'of, preparation.,

It has been reported that £ho "Government Insurance -Recorder! , .'and , the . ;"Minee ' R-ecord,'.' , among other publications of the Government,' were likely to., bo either discontinued or modified in tho■■■' interests of economy; " It. now appears that ■ the ' 'Insurance Recorder," which is regarded as an advertisement :for.thp Government, Life Insurance Department, and the cost of ;whiqh is accordingly borne by that Department, i 8 not likely, to be "'seriously, 'affected.; The "Mines Record", is a charge upon the Government Printing Office, and: what ite ? future may bo is still/uncertain. ; ;>, ■ '

The harbour ferry steamer ■• was delayed on her 11 o'clock trip' from ;Day's Bay r and Koiia Bay to town yesterday morning.,.; The cause was a "breakdown of the ma* ohraory.' which occurred when., the,' steamer was well out m.the harbour. As soon as tho trouble was known on the wharves the'-Cobar was sent out, and sho. towed!the , disabled steamer ,to the. usual ,wharf. on this, side, about an-hour and,a,quarter, late. A taxgo proportion of the passengers were ladies,.and they naturally, , ,felt some alarrnVbut no>ody -was any worse for ! ffi6- ; iriishap.' \ Had it occurred at,•night,"or when a sea'was running, there might haye-hoen another tale to-te11..:..",' ■•', '" ■■.• ' ; .;>. :. ■:^.'.. : i-■■■■;..

The Government , Printing Office is shorten-, ing hands" owing to the decrcaso of work. . Half-a-dozon compositors .and 20, .girls, left last Saturday, and some machinists will leave at the end of this week. The : amount .oft work at the office .during , the last two years has been quitqabnoraal (says Mr. J. Mackay, •tho-Government' Printer), , and the staff has been ae a consequent unusually, largo.. The Consolidated Statutes and tho-main electoral rolls for. tho whole Dominion' have been tJio :cliiof causes, of:ithe pressure,.and."how-, with those jobs out-of hand, and .Parliament not sitting, tho-staff'has to be reduced. .Most of■;the,Government Departments are cutting down tlioir requirement-s in printing and stationery, 'and: this .process ■ will obviously, ,affect.the'Goyornment-Pniitiiia:Office. ■ ; i ■ .'A! now aspect, of; the ..Goldic's Brae'controversy about the '.Wadcstown .tramway' skiemo is opened; up by the action of the City Corporation ,in Slaving a. no'jv route surveyed. : A.report is to be prepared on a proposal to .take- tlievtrani' cfo-ng : Gro-nt Eoad, through the lower part of-Queen's Park, and along the road which winds through thoneart of Goldio's Brae. If this sdhome is adopted the' line will presumably enter tho Wadestown Road at'a point beyond.Mrs. -Rjiodes's. Goldio's Brae residents and property owners, as far as can be gathered, do not favour this route. Th.dy it would destroy the quietness: of /tflioirj..suburb, and detract from its pictaresquo qualities, while the necossrvry: alterations to the euttings':alo(ng i)he road,might result unfavourably !to somo of their properties...; A large' proportion< of. tho Goldios Brae people apparently consider that the Thorndon Quay and Molosworfh Street trams sen'e them well enough, some of those living further back would pornaps welcome the adoption of the ;proposed . new ■route.-' '■. ■■ '■•:,•.■;. - \,-. '■: ■■ <' '' ■'■', '.■■ The Tourist' Department has almost completed its removal into' , its new. quarters in ' the Publio Trust Building: Passages and rooms were : encumbered'-'.yesterday with furniture that still waited'to bo put in place;, but the, processof. arrangement was,steadily, going on, , and Departmental business was being transacted all the! time. The Tourist 'Division/of tho'.Department' of- Agriculture (to givo it its new name), occupies seven, rooms on tho second floor of the newbuild--ing. Most of the apartments are spacious, airy, nud ! woll-lighted. ,■ The., director:, (Mr.; Robieson) is located /; near the 'elevator. Strong- rooms, and a large,', dark room for photographic purposes are also allotted to tho TouristxDivision. Tho remaining ' six rooms on tho second floor will probably be .used by some other branch, of the .Agricultural Department'.,'■■":'.The- inquiry ( omco of tho.Tourist Division will.pot,be in 'the Public Trust Building, but on the ground 'floor nf tho adjacent Civil Scrvicp ' Club Building, and will have an entranoo from Stout Street. .Tlie present inquiry office in Panama Street will bp rokined until tho end of this week, as tio new quarters are scarcely ready for occupation. ... ' •:.'/.' •.' "Tho advice of : one. go long.. familiar' with Land Values, as , Mr. Oardner, of Palmcrston North, who is also well known' to tho Capitalists of Wellington, should be of great valuo to Investors, Loniinp Institutions, Drid any one who wants to avoid mistakes in 1 the purchaso of land.", Tel. 545, .Palm. North.-»dvt. ... !

Tlicro are two elements,in tea—tnelne and tannin; tbeino has , the stimulating effects (or which wo alone'drink tea. Tannin produces drsnepsia; and is, therefore, injurious to tho system. The percentage .'of thoine in . ■ teas varies, and,tho variation -to the <iuality. Theino'is tho'attract frotn. tho leaf. and pure tea must consist wholly of leaf and little or nothing of ( fibre and duet. Crescent Blond Tea is all leaf; it is oxquisito.in flavour/ rich, and of full strength.. Creseelit Tea captivates, the. palato.■' AH .grocers, at 2s. per lb. '.■':■ ■ :.v ■: , ,'■ . ~••■■. ■ ■. ■. Attbceoiiplusion of'.icasp iii tho Queensland Supremo .' Court, eomniCJituig on tlio fiviJuro of tlic jury to agree, tho Oliicf Jiustitc (Sir Pope Cooper) Eaid that he probably hod tried more criminal and civil enses'before juries tha-n any other occupant of the Bench iii tho couutry, and was convinced tha.t tho time had arrived when Uiere was an urgent need for altoration in tlio law relating to a "ujinnimous verdict" of t'lio jury. Tho present system handicapped the Crown in criminal cases/ ',nnd : honest- litigants in civil cases. Ho thought tb« law : should be altered. It was jmpossiblo to properly administer justice while the law existed as a-t present, and lio hoped tho Legislftture would take uouio twtiou iu the lnaUor . . . '