LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 694, 20 December 1909, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An English and Australian, mail ; arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday morningby tho Maheno. Tho ..Wellington - portion -of- the mails:will arrive hero by this -afternoon's Main Trunk: express. ... . . 1

An English,and American mail arrived hero yesterday. (Sunday) morning by the Hanroto, and was sorted' into the during the day. "... .-'■■■

Included among the arrivals by the Hauroto from Karotonga, yesterday, were two Germans,. a Swiss, a Russian, a Greek, and a Hungarian. All of them satisfied the Custom authorities. as to ' their right to admission to tho Dominion.

Tho Christmas.influx to Auckland is.beginning to set in (says our special correspondent), and cheap holiday fares were' responsible for a considerable increase in the passenger traffic on tho railways; l on Fridny.Y The express'' train for llotorua comprised hrelye carriages, all comfortably filled; whilo tho morning oxpross for Wellington had eleven carriages, accommodatiug'about 200 people. Tho inward traffic was correspondingly lieavy. The express .train; which arrived from Wellington at 7 a.m., had a .large complement :of passengers, and the afternoon train brought somo' 250 people to Auckland, ' biostly from Wellington. Tho inward liotorua oxprcss was -, also largely patronised, arriving hero with: some 300 passengers. Other trains, nlso carried larger' complements of passengers than usual.' : Heavier traffic is oxpected this week.

Scouting, and-skirmishing wero practised at Irentham by: the Dominion Scouts on Saturday afternoon, Tho .'idea was, that; an enemy had been located by an Advance patrol of scouts; A , skirmishing line, was 'accordingly moved up, .and a. shooting, line established, tho suppositionbeing- that this shooting lino should hang on" to tho enemy until it could bo thickoned by reinforcements, and a regular engagement A good deal of attention to ; .real service conditions was paid in working out the exercise. ■

The fruit cargo'which arrived by the Hauroto yesterday, included nearly 3000 cases of American oranges and .1100 cases of' American Papeete ush 'W cc ? fr° m the Mariposa at

"■ i ! wilo * a 8 on Queen's Wharf last' .night with her parents, straved too near tho' edge near No. 3 berth, and fell backwards into tli6 ; water. Luckily the ocoumnco was observed, at once, and her, father jumped in alter hor. A bystander, also lent assistance .and-in- a few minutes father: and child landed on the wharf in safety. After receiving attenUon.uj.tho Unrbour.-Board's offico the littlo girl left for home with her; parents, and was apparently none the worse for : the mishap. On the present trip to Now Zealand waters the steamer Clan Ogflvy is manned bv a wliito crew, and has a complement of 'thirty-three' hands all told—all Britishers. When previously in Now Zealand she carried Asiatic sailors'to tho number of fifty-seven,' and with the officers and engineers added, sho hild n complement of something like sevonty.' fhis serves to emIf 1 rwr capabilities of the British Bailor, and the JUiatifl,

..A friend of:tho children :liaa handed. to tlio • Shirer . tllo sum of, JJlO.coUcctoJfrom ni X v"f IX subscribers, to 'be' used to provide yliristmas comforts for littlo children in need, irrespective of : religious denomination.' , Some of the' problems of . mission work in In*! ■ uia. were explained by ,tho Rev. Dr. Hooper in the course of a most interesting address in' St. Willis Street, fast night. Dr. Hooper has spent some 48 years in India, andean therefore with authority on this subject. lie described in n very clear nnd sivo manner the effect of tho doctrine of tho Deity of Christ on the Mohammedan and tha Hindu mind. It shocked the who at first regarded it sis equivalent to teaching that there wero two Gods, whereas tho i'til accepted it quite naturally, ,and'saw little objection to placing Christ among ; his numerous other gods. Referring to tho unrest in India about which so much is heard nowadays, Dr. Hooper said that though associated with much that was bad; 1 it was the outcome of the desire, largely unconscious, for a better and higher national life, which in his opinion could only be satisfied by Christianity. Tho : address was in many respects a striking one, ( and showed that tho preacher tvas a thorough' master of his subject. , ,-■ : . " ' A resident of HuntervilU, says tho "Hunter. < ville Express," reckons that he lias discovered by acoident a now way of ripening fruit Having a splendid crop of .cherries still in tho green.stago, and desiring .'to hold some of the bunches, from ripening too quickly so as tor have them for tho horticultural show in February ho enclosed several: bunches in muslin bags a few days ago.; Mnch to his surprise, on visiting -tho trees a few days, after, he, discovered tho enclosed cherries red ripe, whilst' tho_ ethers .are still quito green. Now ho ! in' trying the mnslin i on some of his, plumß. ' Enterprise occasionally seizes school teacher* as it does othorfolk, but tho committeo of a certain school under the' jurisdiction of'the Auckland Board. liave ! takeu. somo exception to the commercial 1 &pirit : ,-, displayed by their' school teacher, (says the "Auckland Star''). According to the complaint, this ; gentleman baa erected a studio, or photograph: shop of somo sort, ;on the school ground; and there iflij.; poses of the fruits of his photographic ability for a reward, as the Actnath it. It waS. de-, cided ask the studio proprietor for an explanation. It was not tho, intention of th« Department, explained the chairman, \that, teachers should enter into competition in tho outside labour market. They were paid pretty liberally, and had, , moreover, the Dencfits of superannuation, which tho general public did not possess. .. . - - ■' ■ Shampooing, Clipping, Hairdicssing, Mtorfouring, Foco Massage,. Treatment .of PaJlinjr Hair and Dandruff, - Combings mode up Natural Hair-pads.. Mrs. Itolleston (ovel Carroll's), 14 W illis Street, 'Phoho 1533.-: •Advt, . \ .. /■'-