LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 838, 9 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ministers' Association of Wellington, at its last meeting, resolved to send a hearty invitation to Dr. Wilbur Chapman and llr. Charles Alexander to visit the Dominion and conduct a mission in I'Jl'J. Arrangements are being made for similar invitations to be sent from all the leading centre?, Dr. Chapman having intimated that fornial invitations in each case are required.

Some time ago several iiniom; withdrew from the Wellington Trades Council, and others threatened to do likewise. Mr. ii. J. Carey, president of the council, told a Dominion reporter yesterday that this tendency had been stemmed, and most of the unions which had seceded had siuco returned to the council. Within the last two months, the local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the Building Trades Labourers' Union, the Timber Workers' Union, and the Slaughtermen's Union had come back to the fold, and the Carpenters'. TJnion was considering the matter. The Letterpress Printers' Union and the strong Typographical Union were shortly to be approached, and afterwards the Seamen s, the Butchers', the Bakers', and the Furniture Trades Workers' Unions. If those came in, tho Trades Council would then represent tho whole of organised labour in Wellington.

Tho New Zealand Pharmacy Board continued its conference at the board room yesterday morning, nil members being present. Further consideration was given to proposed amendments of the Pharmacy Act. Amendments dealing with the assumption of titles by unregistered persons, and amendments to further protect the public from the operations of unqualified persons in the sale of poisons, were considered, and efforts will be made to place them on the Statuto Book. Professor Eastcrfield, the board's examiner in chemistry, attended the meeting, and gave the board much valuable information on the conduct of the practical chemistry examination, which will bs introduced next year at tho October examinations. The board will sit again today.

The auxiliary ketch Snark, the vessel upon which Jack London and his wife made a trip through the Pacific, lias just been sold at Sydney. The vessel has been purchased by Captain C. A. Newgreen, of Saiuarai (Papua), and will iu future be used as an island trader and recruiter.

The motion of Councillor Ballinger in favour of a.municipal market, consideration of which was adjourned at tho special meeting of the City Council on Monday, will be moved by him at the next ordinary meeting on June IG.

A special meeting of the Finance Committee of the Git}" Council has been called for this afternoon to consider the' estimates tor the coming year, and also to consider suggestions which will be made by the llayor in connection with the proposal to form a new street from the corner of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street to the corner of Sydney Street (ind Museum Street, taking in part of Museum Street. It is understood that tho new Mayor is in favour of extending the proposals to the Government for the improvement of the city in this quarter, suggested by Dr. Newman.

During his brief stay in Palmerston thin week, tho Premier, who was en routs to Auckland, was waited upon by the Jlayor, Mr. If. Haydon, president of tho Chamber of Commerce, and Councillors F. Mowlem, Clausen, and O'Reilly, and asked on what date he could receive a local deputation in Wellington on the proposal made by Captain'' Preecc at the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce with regard to harnessing Lake Waikarpmoana for electrical energy and ligh't, also on the question of the opening up of Native reserves iu the town for settlement. The Premier said ho could not fis a definite date for receiving the deputation, but it would probably be some time next week.

Judging by tho nature of tho training which the Wellington Navals aro at present undergoing, it is probable that the newly fortified position at Dorset Point will bo manned by that company.

The Council of tho New Zealand Society o: Accountants met at the Chjiuhcr of Commerce yesterday, for the purpose of discussing various matters connected with the interests of the profession. The proceedings, which were conducted in committee, will be continued to-day.

Mr. J. C. Williamson lias secured a lengthy lease of the Theatre Royal, Christchurch, and will enter into possession of the property this month.

A general meeting of the Penguin -Belief Committeo will bo held to-day, at 11 a.m., at the Town Hall, to receive report and balance-sheet.

A man who arrived from Auckland in custody last night will appear at the S.M. Court this morning on a charge of theft, in February last, of £2 10s., the property of W. A. Morrison.

The Chief Justice will hear to-day the case of Karl Basmussen v. Editli Dorothy Ellis and John Eli Ellis, in which an injunction of the | court is sought.

"Yes, I should say the railway lino will be extended to tho Hope well within niuo months," said Mr. B. M'Kenzie, Minister for Public Works, .when approached by a press representative at Nelson ou Monday. The work was proceeding steadily, and ho felt no fear of it' not being completed in the period mentioned.

A meeting of tho International Club was held at the Hotel Windsor • Inst night, when there was a fair attendance of members. Mr. Alcock gave an interesting account of his travels in Switzerland and Germany, and other members contributed several musical items to tho evening's programme.

M. Bertillon has made another startling discovery that will till the criminal classes with terror. The eminent director of anthropometry has just completed a now apparatus which, he calls "dynamometro d'effractions." Up to the present the police and others had only a vague idea of tho efi'ett that tho traces of. a burglar represent. It is claimed that M. Bcrtillon's dynamometre measures exactly the muscular effort brought to bear in breaking open a door or win-, dow, or in forcing or breaking a safe, box, or other receptacle. By a system of classifying these forces ho can tell whether tho effort was that of one man alone, or of two or more, whether it was that of a man or woman, or of one young or old. Tho dynamometre is in two parts—one to measure effect by pressure, the other that of drawing or pulliug. The traces that this person leaves of his movements will give liis, weight; liis muscular strength will bo shown in the character of the chips or splinters that ho breaks off a piece of wood, tho pressure that he has been able to exert on the tools to break a safe, and his power of pulling, shoving and shifting. If,' as is commonly tho case, he has forgotten tho tools that he used to commit tho robbery, the whole scene can be reconstructed by means of these measurements. The instrument can be turned in any direction, or used in any position, so that the police can use it for every surface without disturbing the condition in which they find the place of tho crime.

Tn answer to the question of a Kilbirnie deputation with regard to powers of reclamation in that suburb, the Mayor has referred the deputation to Sections 7, 8, and 9 of the AVellington City Reclamation and Empowering Act of 1908. Section 8 provides that the sea-wall in such eases must be constructed "in advance of, and so as to protect from the action of the son any filling that may from time to time bo deposited on the land." Tho cost of the sea-wall required for 'reclamation at Kilbirnio would probably be .025,000, and fho council is not likel'v to be in a position to spend this sum'on the work for years to come.

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Miss .Tovissen, tea kitchen, Hannah's Buildings, l.auibtou Quay, makes homemade cakes to order. The Mnnawalu Auctioneers' Association will bold a stock sale at Pahu<?rston North to-day.

Mr. V. dej. Clere. architect, invites tondors for the erection of a Parish Hall for St, James's Church, Lower Eutt.