LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Government advertisement, inviting tenders for tho installation of wireless telegraphy within the Dominion, will be found elsewhere. The advertisement is, as usual, published at our own cost in tho interests of our readers, the boycott of this paper by the Ward Administration- in the matter of State advertising still being in force.

The postal authorities advise that the WarrijnoD, which left Sydney on Saturday, is bringing an Australian mail. She is due to reach Wellington on Wednesday.

In yesterday's Dominion it was announced that the Maheno had arrived at Auckland from Sydney,at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, and that her AVellington mail wouid arrive here last evening. This information, obtained through' the usual channel (the Post Office), was incorrect. The fault did not lie at this end, wo are informed, as such a message was telephoned through from Auckland on Sunday afternoon. The only explanation offered is that the Auckland officials must havo been advised of the arrival of a steamer at the time mentioned, and assumed it to be the Maheno from Sydney. According to a telegram which we publish in anot'her column tho Maheno was reported to have passed Cape Brett at 4 30 p.m. vesterday, and she was not expected to 'reach Auckland till midiiiiht The southern portion of her mails cannot therefore reach AVellington till to-morrow evening.

Polliii" dav in connection with the Auckland East by-election has been fired for Thursday, June 16. Nominations will be received np to "Wednesday, June S.

According to the Hon. J. A Millar (Minister for Railways) the work ot refitting the Pelono Workshops is now well in hand. Several of the orders in connection with new machinery that is to l,e installed have already been sent abroad. In due course other orders will bo given.

The Public Service inquiry in connection with the charges made against Mr. V Hcve-s Commissioner ol taxes, coneluded" on Thursday night, but the commission will not have lis report ready for presentation to the Government for at least some days.

In response to a request from the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association of Knglnnd, officers commanding military district" have been asked to supply lists of' memorials—both public and privateerected in their respective districts to the memory of those who lost their lives in the late war in So" 41 ) Al r ™> ~ o' "other with such additional 'information —rank, regiment, photographs, drawings, etc.—as may be obtainable.

The Chief Justice, reserved judgment vcslerday in the insurance case, Prosser v the Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation, Ltd., a claim for the recovery ',(' .Cl7O on « policy covering furniture. The case set down for hearing to-day is that of Alfred James Skinner v. James M'duinness, a claim for .C2G.I Bs. .'ld., under n contract.

Shampooing. Clipping, Hainlrcssing. Manicuring, Face Massage, Treatment of Failing Hair, and Dandruff. Combings made up. Natural Hair-pads. Mrs. Eollestou (over Carroll's), 11 Willis street. 'Phono 1599.—Advt.

The ever-recurring question of a municipal market will be raised by Councillor Hindmarsh at the next meeting of the City Council by the following motion:—

"That a site for a market between Tory Street and Taranaki Street, or near thereto, lie purchased or taken under the Public Works Act, or that a part of the block of land near the Te Aro Railway Station, known as the corporation yard, be forthwith sot aside for a market, and the works now carried on there be distributed among other suitable places."

The annual conference of representative delegates from the various trades and labour councils in New Zealand will open at Auckland on July 18 next. Eight councils will be represented. Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch will each send four delegntes, and Dunedin will send, two. The representation of others is not yet available. For the representation of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, eight nominations have been received, and a, ballot will therefore be necessary. The election will take place at the council's meeting on Thursday next.

A big Native gathering, at which tho chief matter for consideration will be theNative laud question, is to be held at 'Huntly later in the week. It will be attended by the Prime Minister (Sit Joseph Ward), the Hon. J. Carroll, and the Hon. A. Ngnta.

We have to thank' the Chief Executive Officer of the Dominion Rifle Association (Colonel R. J. Collins, V.D., 1.5.0.), for a_ copy of the official, prize list of the New Zealand Rifle Championship meeting, which was heW at Trentjbam in JlaTch last. Tho little booklet is neatly got up, systematically arranged, and should bo a handy reference for riflemen generally.

Dealing with the second ballot in his speech at Rongotea on Saturday evening, Mr. E. Newman, H.P., said that be hail always been opposed to it on the ground of the cost and the opportunities it gave for improper inlluences. by Ministers. What occurred in the second ballot in the Rangitikei election confirmed .all the worst /ears that had been expressed in this connection. As was generally known, Mr. Hockly, the Opposition caudidate, won at the first election by a large majority. At tho second all the evils and abuses of the system were apparent, the speaker detailing the action of the Ministry in the electorate whilst the second ballot was still pending. Mr. Massey and others helped Mr. Hockly, but this, he thought, was a mistake. Reference was made to tho strong influence . that • Ministers could wield whilst the Opposition was confined to its arguments. He would vote for the repeal of the Act which induced such strong assistance from Ministers.in support of a man who was a keen freeholder, and this afforded the spectacle of a leasehold Government fighting for a freehold candidate.

Speaking at Hid meeting held last night to make presentations to the headmaster and chairman of the committee of the Clyde' Quay school, Dr. Elliott laid his finger on a weak spot in the primary school system of education. He was afraid, he said, that he could not extend the same amount of praise to the system as to those who carried it out. While the chi|dren who went through the schools were very forward in nearly every respect, ho was afraid that they did not have. the same acquaintance with their mother tongue, and desire to read good literature, which would improve them after they left school, that they might hitvo. 3f ehiidreu, .vhen they left, school, had no desire (o extend their stuck and to read the best class of hooks, for "all practical purposes their education had ceased. Whit- there was much to he said for the primary school sysl:'in, it seemed Hi him that a good proportion of tho pupils after they left sch'iol, only wnnied to read the opt.rting news in the paper, or the football notes. They appeared to him to he a want of kniwladgo of the "well of English uudefiled."