LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Picnickers who visit Lyall Bay on Boring Day will be deprived:of ono of the. least ploasurablo phases of picnic life iii that' they will not have to collect, fuel to.bbil their kettles.. Tho City Council hug made arrangements whereby: visitors will- bo 'supplied with hot' water free of ehargo. The hospital 'authorities advise that theoutpationts department will lie closed On Monday, December 27, arid Monday; January: 3. ■ The ophthalmio surgeon will not bo in attendance next Tuesday.- All'urgent cases will, however, bo attended to at tho main hospital. '■

As indicated from several quarters, .there is' a.good deal to bo desirod regarding the railway service between Napier and Wellington via Palmerston North, The fruit merchants complain l that consignments of fruit from the Hawke's Bay district are'not delivered here as promptly as they might bo, and further allege that, owing to- weigh-bills not arriving with tho fruit; merchants cannot obtain fruit consigned; to them until the afternoon following the day on which it arrives, which is a Benous matter in the case of such perishable produce. , The. representative of one firm states that, on no fewer than three occasions during tho past week- the non-receipt ot the weighbills by tho railway peoplo has delayed tho delivory of fruit from Hawke's Bay a day, and as a consequence he was selling fruit yesterday which had arrived in; Wellington on Tuesday evening. Not only did this inconvenience tho merchants' at thjs end, but it hit the growers, as fruit quickly deteriorated in storo, and as a result realised less at auction than would be the case if it. were sold'a day earlier. Another ..complaint :is 'that delivery cannot bo. obtained from tile Thorndon Station, where the fruit arrives, -but, is shunted on to tho Lambtori Station, causing what is deemed an unnecessary, delay, ■ ;

'- The tourist- traffic this season is reported to bo better than in previous years as regards internal travel, but tho" influx from: Australia is not so largo as - usual, owing to the strike. Up to tho beginning of the month tho visitors to liotorua were not so numerous as last year, but the local traffio has since equalised the position. Tho acoommodation at Mount' Cook is fully booked for .tho. holiday season, and the indications: are for busyj. times 1 nt tho tourist resorts generally, - Dotoctive Cassells urrestod a man yesterday on two charges of obtaining money by false Ijrctences by means xif valueless cheques, The man will bo brought before the Court this morning. ■

The first trial run of the trauway luggage .' care augurs woll for tho success of tlic experiment. : The luggago car which mot tho 7.20 . P'll. train an' Wednesday night carried 87 parcels back. The'rovenue produced was only lis. 2d.,,th0 luggage hdng: catriod at passenger,.) rates, but this it> satisfactory, inasmuch as the' tramway Dcpartmont doo? not aim at making. l»6 profits so much as it dues at. keeping the wssengor cars froo of luggage, so facilitating' tho work of its employees and-tho comfort '.'f passengers. ■ '. . .■. " '

A return of tho traffic on tho Lyall Bay tram cxtousion on Sunday Inst shows that 3201'passongers \vore carried in tho ' afternoon and. evening. Tlio tickots issued from town to Sea. toun on Sunday aftornooa numbored 932, and' ttiMiramar 442. The special morning cars, tho returns from, which have alroady. been published, are not included in tho abovo • .'-A fresh supply of 100. "hot point" olectrio irons has just beeh< received by tho City Electrical Department. Something over 70 of the 101) havo alroady 'been ordorcd, • but another 100".will conio; to hand in a-few days, '' . Tho showroom attached to the City Electrio Lighting.Department is becoming'an attractive corner for ambitious housowivos. A further shipment of tlio latost inventions'in electric hoating came' to hand yesterday, including ' aii -electric glue-put, a shaving pot, a toaster,'.'. ami a new stylo of kettle.. The toaster is an attractive piece of wurk, and siraplo withal, a wire fraino which' holds two 1 pieces of bread rising out of a'porcelain baoo.: The contrivance is such that it can be .operated on a breakfast tablo, nud its construction givos it the upPtoranco of something liko an ornament. Theshaving mug is another neat piece 6f work, 'an< can bo licatcd'in about three minutes.; •'tho substitution of metallic filament lampi for tho old carbon lamps has been proceeding apaco uhdor the Electric Lighting Departi rirnt*s superintendent of late, :but a halt , has >■ been called for, tho present pending a further supply of lamps arriving. The latest streets to- ho fitted with the metallic filament lAiups ore' Jilelnido Itoad, ■ Ci-awford Strcot, Wright .Street,;' Wallace Street; -Kins Street, Hospital ltuad, Druuininiul Strcat, Grant ]?oad, Goldio'F Brae, 1 Ifnbsun Street, FilzUcrlwrt Terrace, Tinakoii'lliiaJ, and Wailestnwn Road. ; : Tho suburban lighting which was commented'. by tlio city at tho beginning of Doownbcr i» slated to bo working very, satisfactorily,- Sines . , the lighting was started several further lamps l have been erected at'Kelburnc, which liaa nlco been supplied with metallir iilamejit lamps place of tho old carbon lamps. The rail prrnding . operations on the Ijyall , -IJivytramway' extension luivo bean coniiilotnd'. byj tho Tramway Dcpartmbnt. A large party of people connected iwith' the,, local Baptist Churches are going to Ohakuno' for ihe nolidays. They will camp out, but .. they intend to live laborious days. Ohakuno; wants a Baptist Church, and they are., poing' ,; pto build it. Tlioy hope to have' if praotically'. finished'' before they return. , V: : ! , Lost in Lambten Quay, two young bey . and - a girl, aged nine years, and seven; years respectively—were taken to, the polict, , station, on Wednesday evening by a sympa- - •thetio . constable.. The. story of the. children. who • gave their name. as : Hargreaves, is that - they arrived from Nelson' on Wednesday .in. charge of a man and his wife,-that they wen) ■■ sent to, buy soroo fruit, and that, oh conlinj out of the shop, they could find no trace ;ot; their guardians. '■ . ..• 'Three trustees of a Brooklyn church sought,. - out : tho moneylenders ot the'city on a recent' ■Wednesday altornoon, with a view to raising i ' . a loaii for'the erection of a vicarage. -.They..'.. : ''reported progress" last night, and one of . tho parishioners asked: VWhy did'you not try tho Advances,to Settlers.DepartmentP 1 ' "Wo did," said : the,'chairman,' "but, Could: get nothing. We were told that forty applications for money were coming:, in daily, and limitations had. : boon made, one of which was that no money .. would be lent' oil .church property.", "But," pursued the parishioner, "1 thought.'that, Sir Joseph Ward s now scheme was going to provide plenty of money lor everybody." "And you'see," responded the" chairman, "that thoso forty pooplo por day think the same thing.* v , (Laughter.) i

\wauguuu,/'. I , ... . ; Yesterday's passenger traffic to and fronr tho port of Wblluigton. was again heavy. The Wimmera,-which arrivod from Dunoditt Dad Lyttelton in l , the early .morning,' brought , 60 ; passengers,.- and tho Mararoa, from, Lyttelton, brought, a total; of 278.,> In- the evening, close Upon 1000 . porsonß loft for Lyttelton by th« • various steamers. Tho Mararoa got away a low, minutes-' aftfer B.ip.m;,iwith,.'Soroe', .4flo people'; on board, . and tke Moauka,, which. followed.j holf-an-houij latferjiitflbk yust,:a'i;;fes;<Bhort of! o:n that number/rwhile-thb: Tarawera,' leavmg after ; 9 o'clock, added about; 100 to tho. total. The traffic in .the Wellington-Pieton-Nelson servico ■ was ■} also much lifcavier • than usual. ■" Thß ' . Takapupa'arrived from Nelson 'aid: JPicton 'at 1 a.m. with 111 passengers; and left at midday ■ for Bcton, with 100 excnrsionistS;' .She-reaohed port: again, from Picton shortly' after 0 p.m. - -with - 31 . passengers,-/and' 'sailed' tor Nelson . v 'direct:at half-past ten o'olock,:taking 180' ex* '' cursionists. -v.- v, At the last quarterly ' meeting of the West. part branch ot tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants,'the'secretary' reported that as .the previous: meeting , had lapsed , for want .. yof a quorum; he placed , the books in the cup* • board in the meoting room. . They ■ had since ! been stolen, and, although the matter'had been placed in tho hands of the police, no trace ot< them had yet'been discovered. The following hours will bo observed at the Telegraph Office on the. public holidaysi during the next week:—On' Christmas 'Day, December 25, 9.80' a.m., to 10 a.m. and 5 p.m."to 5.30 p.m. • Boxing Day, 'Monday, December 27, 9 a.m. to I .p.m; ana 7 p.m. to midnight. New Tear's '■ Day, January. 1. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and' 1 p.m. - to' 10 p.m.! l'ho telephone exchange will be open continuously. ' ,;v , In respect to tho hours to bo observed by shops on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eto, we are officially , informed by tho■ Labour * Department that in .the casei of thoso shops' whoso hours of olosing are fixed by requisition ' under the Shops and Offices Act,:such feqiiisi-' tion bo read Bubjeot to Section sor the < Act-wlndi. fixes U' o'clock as the' hour for 1 " "Late closing on Christmas Evo"; consequently : ;all shops:, ere; at: liberty to remain open till .■ II p.m. on those occasions. - The secretair; of 'the Hospital Trustees ao- ' knowledges further contributions' to tho patients- Christmas-Cheer Fund,' vis.:—Rov. .Father. O'Shea, - S.M., £2 25,; Messrs,' Brisooe ' ■ and Co., Ltd., Prouse Lumber, ■ Ltd., A. S. Paterson and Co„ .£1 Is. each; J, A, Packer and Son,: dEI;.S. AV. iurbidgo, New Zealand Consolidated. Dental Co., 10s. Gd, eaoli; K'-N; ' B, Meadows,. Rouse, Blaok, and.Son, -Simmonds - and: Osborn,; 10s, eaoh: "E.J." and "H.A<F„" , ss. each i. C. Ridding, Ss.; "H.A.5.," 2s. 6d.j also a box Christmas. toys from the 1 junior boys,, Y,M,C;A.,' Levin'.

■ For three years past tho Hutt School Committee, with the member for tho district (Mr.' ■' Wilford);; has been agitating for' the crectifln . of a side school at King's fioad, Lower Hutt,upon a pieco. of' land already owned thero by the •; board. ■: Departmental and Education Board's objections havo, however, prevented this from; being carried out. Early this month : a nutation; was put on,the ordor paper by Mri' Wilford;' asking- for ;a- sufficient sum for.' the :< erection of the school; . Ho pointed out to the i Minister that the';-School .Committee; at; the Hutt had written to the Education Board agree- 1 ing to the'erection of any building according to the Departments suggestion, this concession removing any- objection ; that-,-formorly was raised.',/ The Minister last night informed that XI2GO - had been •• granted for tho erection of a school at onco. Shampooing/ Clippings, Hairdiessing, Maniounng, Faoa Mdbsuge, Treatment of Falling 1 Hair and Dandraff, Combings made up. ' Natural- .Hair-pads. Mrs. Uolleston (over Carroll's); U \\il.'s Street, 'Phono 1699.- ' Advt.