LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 845, 17 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The postal authorities advise that the Mahfiuo which left Sydney for Auckland on June 15 is bringing an Australian mail, an Knglish mail via Suez, and an English and American mail via Vancouver. The Wellington portion is duo by Main Trunk express 011 Monday, June 20. Authorisations were made at the meeting of Cabinet yesterday as follow: Roads and bridges, J^OOO; railway construction, ■£40,000; railway material, ,£7500; and post and telegraph material, ,£B9OO. A public notice has been issued by the Customs Department stating that as claims for refund of duty on goods found to be damaged after delivery cannot be entertained, importers should satisfy themsolvefe as to the condition of their goods, particularly those subject to higher duties, prior to delivery from Customs Control. ' A crowded order paper was before tho City Council last night, and several mattors had to be adjourned for consideration at a special mecti-n;, to be held on Thursday next, at 4 p.m. The council sat till 11 p.m., and disposed of its most urgent business, before deciding 011 t-hds course. The mutters lie-Id over compri.-x; notices of motion by Councillor Ballinger (in reference to ilie establishment of a. fire board), Councillor Devine (municipal reform), and Coiuneillor Luke (improved access to Jlirainar). In future all persons joining the tramway service will be required to belong to a benefit society. A recommendation to this effect was brought before the council last evening by the Tramways Committee. The Mayor explained that it frequently happened that tramway employees who wero not members of a benefit society wero disabled by an accident not "met with in tho council's service, or laid aside by illness, and though thero was no legal liability tho council, 111 tho goodness of its heart, so to speak, felt obliged to make them a compassionate allowance. If these employees were members of a benefit society the council would not be called oil to assist them. The' tramway employees hail n benefit society of their own; the committee did not ask tliem to join it, but it did what was dono in many other places, in asking them to join some benefit society. The recommendation was adopted without dissent. The values of the principal exports from Wellington for the first half of tho present month are; Butter, ,£1079; cheese, ; frozen beef, *£'18,513; frozen mutton,' JCXI.S3S; lamb, ,C1t,122; llax, .£10,93-1; tow, .£1029; hides, ,£9:1(U; skins, .£8959; tallow, JC15.825; wool, .£18,906. / By Gazette notico yesterday the operations of thb Noxious "Weeds Act, 1908, have been extended to include capeweed and peimycress, or Canadian stink-weed. Money order and postal correspondence for J. A. Macarthur, Sydney, and for Derlc P. Yonkerman Coy., London, is forbidden by Gazette notice. Amended regulations relating to the Maori Land Hoards have just been gazetted. They provide inter alia that notifications for 'general business be notified ten days before being dealt with. Tho new rules have reference to tho meetings of assembled owners. An important amendment is made in connection with the fees which are, generally speaking, altered in amount, but now require to be paid on the lodging of the applications. In the course of his address to the Dunedin Synod on Monday last tho Primate of New Zealand (Bishop Nevill) referred to the coming .General Mission to New Zealand. lie said the efforts of church missioners are not directed towards the excitement of a spasmodic emotion, but rather to the conviction of all tho elements and attributes of those to whom they speak, that is the highest glory and most blessed privilege of man to live close to God—not for one week only, but throughout tho earthly life. It may be pointed out that while, by the nature of the case, emotion must he transient it has yet an important function to perform. It is tho proper function of emotion to excite the reason to examine earnestly the realities of the subject matter which emotion so vividly presents. Reason, so employed, shouid arrive at convictions as to the paramount importance, in the case of - religion, of that which it has examined, and reason and emotion combined forcibly present these conclusions to the will and affections, and thus the passing emotion is translated into the motive principles and active habits of a daily life. This recognition of the primary objects and methods of omission should enable us to brush aside as altogether irrelevant and unworthy tho objections which have been put forth, founded upon tho supposed theological views.of this or that member of tho mission.

The enthusiasm with which a number of Tinakori lioad boys have entered into tne task of perfecting themselves as footballers has led the district constable to step in and warn the lads that they must find a playing ground other thai] the public street. Drop-kicking, placekicking, shooting, and heading, and evenother means of propelling tho round or the oval football 011 public streets is frowned upon by the authorities, and a batch of youthful athletes will be called upon at no distant date to show| cause before Mr. Eiddell, S.M., why thev should not be convicted for a bread; of the by-laws in that they played a game, to wit, football, 011 a public street. A resolution was adopted by the CityCouncil last night to obtain an order under the Declaratory Judgments Act, I'JOS, to define the legal position of the council in tho matter of the Northland adjustment.With reference to the representations of tho deputation from tho Brooklyn Municipal . Electors' -Association, tile Tramways Committee recommended to the City Council last night that tho Electrical Engineer be authorised to arrange for the sale of tramway concession tickets at such places and 011 such terms as should bo deemed advisable but that tickets should not be made transferable. The lessees of Town Belt sections who have not cleared their sections of gorso and scrub are to be given fourteen days by tho City Council within which to commeuco clearing, failing compliance with which legal proceedings will be taken. Repairs to the Wainui water main were completed late on Wednesday night, and the supply was available for the city yesterday. Shampooing, Clipping, Hairdrenins. Manicuring, i'ace Message, Treatment of Falling Hair, and Dandruff. Combings made up. natural Hair-pads. Mrs. Kolleston (over Carroll's), 14 WillU iSti'cet. TUouo luOD.—Advtt

The City Council decided last niglifc to inform the -Minimal' Borough Council that it cannot see its way to erect a tramway shelter at the city boundary at present. It was decided at the meeting of the City Council last night to. inform the I'etone Borough Council that the council havo no objection to their making the necessary application to coino within tlio Wellington city abattoir area in terms of tlie manager's report. The following remit will bo forwarded by the City Council to the forthcoming Municipal Conference: —"That borough councils be authorised to make a charge for admission to all sports grounds 'zoos' owned or controlled by thcui." The following tenders for municipal supplies were accepted at the meeting of the City Council last evening-.—Oarani lamps, J. JJutliie and Co., Ltd.; Ja t lie and drilling machine, John Chambers, Ltd.; sliaper, J. M'Lelhui. The following tenders were received by the City Council for cross-arms for the electric lighting department'.—Accepted, Stewart Timber Company, .£lO4 3s. 4d.; rejected, S. Brown ami Co., ,£135 18s. Dd.; Odlin and Co., <£IS7 10s. For the supply of a cool and ventilating inlet for Nugget Point; Lighthouse the tender of Messrs. Jenkins and Mack, of Wellington, has been accepted at ,£52 10s. The unsuccessful tenderers were Messrs. W. A. J. Dutch, £oi; J. Anderson and Co., ,£65; and A. and T. Burt, ,£75.