LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 551, 5 July 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• Tho Moltoia, with an Engli&h and Australian mail an board, , was not, at latest advices, expected to arrive in AuckjaiicLfroni Sydney until midnight last night, consequently the Wellington portion' of her mails- will not airiyo'Until'to-morroW| evening. ; _ The Polioo Commission will begin its sittings at Inve'roargill on Wednesday. The Police Commissioner (Mr. W. Dinnie) leaves for the south, this evening.■' Instead of £250, which it . was hoped to raise by tli9 Y.M.C,A. carnival last week, tho amount realised was slightly above £300, A special gift sorvioo was held in the Donald iVLean Street Primitive Methodist Church yestorday, find the Collection for the day realised £<U ss. A gift service is hold twjco a year. ~*■ . : - Thoso'interestedm the result of tho recent investigations in the South l'oljtr regions should he well rewarded by ijttendiiig tlio Rev. J. T. Nott's leoturo on .'The Lost Lauds of Long Ago," in which ho will deal witlrtho discoveries .'of recent travellers. Tho lecture is ojio of tho library. free lectures, and will bo given in the now hall attached'to'tho' Newtown Library, to-night. Oood progress is being made with the harbour work on the ..South' Spit (says tlio "Waiigaiiui Herald"). An 80ft.: wharf: has now been built, the planking being completed a day or two ago. A start has been miido with tho piliwlriving in connection with the lmildiiig of tho mole. The lino of: the mole vi'ill converge towards tho north mole, making a jiozule-liJio entranoe calculated to yi'oduoa tbs bost 'Mflutlng eii'oot. : ■■ , ■ •

j On Saturday tho harbourmaster at Hckiianga telegraphed to tho. Marino -Department ;at Wellington: "Two largo punts, one loaded with timber, drifted tp sea during a heavy galo last night." Tho N.Z. League football players, who hare been touring A.ustralia, loft Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Saturday (according to a Press Association cablegram), and will reaoh Wellington on Wodnosday. '

A final settlement with reference to tho case of tho oonsumptivo seaman on tho s.s. Waipori, who was refused permission to land, was arrived at ,on Saturday morning. It will bo rotnombored , that, the ground :on which ho was debarred from landing wbb that ho was not domiciled in New Zealand. Upon investigating tho matter, the Minister for Public Health (Hon. D. Buddo) found that although tho man had originally shipped at Sydnoy ho had, on at least two occasions recently, entered on ships' articles in Now Zealand ports j that ho was a registered elector in New Zealand ; and that ho had shipped on several occasions on boats belonging to , Neiy Zealand, oompankss, In view of tho circumstances, tho instruction to prohibit l tho man from landiDg was withdrawn. ' Mr. Young, secretary of tho Soamen's Union, assisted Dr'. lfrongley to havo tho man landed, so that ho might get medical attention. It was arranged that ho should be snipped to.bis. homo on the upon which he has been-employed. • : v monthly meeting of. tho Council of tho N Institute of Surveyors was Held on Friday afternoon. There Were present: Hon. G. 1 > Rlohardson (president, 'in the chair)/ and Messrs. P. I. Lodger, J. .W. Dans, A. P. Mason, and J. E. Fulton. .Tho application of Mr. A. M. Roberts, of Wanganui, fot ad-, mission as member; was approved. ■ On the motion of the Hon. Q. Fr Richardson, it was rosolved; that tho congratulations of tho council, should bo extended A to, two of tho oldest members of the institute—Mr. John Strauchon, who-has been promoted' to tho position of Survoyor-Goneral, and Mr. Wm. C. Kensington, upon whom has been conferred th 0..1,5.0. Reference was;made to ; tho; com|)laint that .'the settlement of. tho Dominion is being retarded on account of; the lock of surveyors to undertake the neoosaary survey work. 'The members pf, the oouncil expressed regret that tho withholding of .'the work. is retarding .settlement, the council, being [firmly there aro plenty of surveyors available, wh(| aro.capajjlo of doing iuiy class of work required by tlie .Government,- wr •

. Speaking at College on the subject of "The Wist Coast Road," Mr. It Speight mentioned that the upper portion of Brokon ltiver waS' romarkablo for the fiiw limestone it contained. Unfortunately, this limestone was hot on : the line of, railway, and was not' likely to be worked for many years to come. The question naturally arose—how did j that limestone get.thereP The answor was 'that -many millions of years ago all that,, basin was an arm of tho sea, iuicl fcho limefitoiio forniation was tho remains of : the' coral; reofs : formed in, prehistoric times, - Not, only ooraj,' but every marine organism - had gone to produce '.this- 1 ' limestone, and perhaps; no happy hunting ground for tho discovery : of' fossils coulo be found than the Caatlo Hill .basin; Under| neath' this' limestone fotaatfon. V said %'q lecturer,, thore ,wero beds of coal, but not in sufficient, quantity to bo : payable.,' In addition .to 'these: features^': there" were signs 'of 'submarine voloani'o action, as.asljb^'and' vol-canic',-rook -had' been' found mixed with the limestone, y: : ; '« k - t '--v '- -■

>Despite' the' peltingi rain, the Boys' Institute Hall was well filled last . evening, '. when a memorial •; was unveiledtothe late > Mr, Harry Drumnlpnd, who met' bis death by accident about eighteen months , digo,-.', Mr, .Drummond was in ohargo of tho .institute's work - when the' old hall wps tekeni rover ?by the; City Council for tramway purposes, and helped to carry on'the' work' afterwards, first in the Forester's Hallj.' and latcr at tlio Mofant Cook School. ■' 'A number of addresses were given yesterday, in which these facts were recited, and roferenco was 1 made to' Mr v Drummond's good' work' for'the 1 boys'of WoU linetoii, particularly' in connection fl-itli .the institute. .Thoiriomorial consists' of'a marble , tablet framed; in l jarrai, ! with« a' hantlsoniclyCMved pediment; and bearing 'tho fbllowing, inscription 'in red lettering:—•'ln liiomory of Mr.. Harry Prap^pnd 1 ,, ,y?hosc,'; work '■ in oon- f npotion with this institute will never be for," gotten, pad . Whose death', F wa& : tho result 'of an ' .accident''mbt. whire ,? plap'ng?oriokot with; the, boys of tho institute. Born 187/>. diVrI"IQO7. 'Ho being dcadj.yet spcal oth Mr H. (Jlovor, a former.class'follow; of tho late Air; Drummond, obtained* the Btono pnd did the: lettering as'a. laboiir:'of love.',:' :A specially," fine enlarged photograph of the late Mr. Drummond has also been.orectod.