LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 884, 2 August 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that tho s.s. Jlceraki, which left Sydney on Saturday, has on board an Australian mail. She is due to reach here on. Wednesday morning. Yesterday the Clydo Quay Wharf was opened for shipping, and the steamer Kennedy/ frem West _ Wauganui, was berthed there. ' ; - ■ The chairman of the Wanganut Education Board (Jlr. Fred. Pirani) statts that notices of motion for the conference of education boards, to be held in Wellington on August 23, are coming-in freely, anil there is every . pro mi su of the gathering being one that will prove important in its results.' ,' » A big staff of domestics is now making speed with the interior arrangements, of Government House, ami out ot doors the grounds are rapidly being reduced to neat and trim order. A great deal, however, yet remains to be done.- The wide, open space in front of the building is still a comparative waste, although it has. b'een levelled and a commencement made with the work of laying down plots and pathways. . . ■ ' • . The executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ol New Zealand met yesterday, at the society's rooms in Woodward' Street, the occasion being their quarterly meeting. Councillors from all parts of New Zealand aro present, and the proceedings are expected to last a week. The local branch of the Royal Insurance Company has received word from its head office to the effect that its new building in JTeatherston- street is to consist of five stories and a basement instead of two stories as originally intended. Messrs. Cricnton and M'liay.aro tho architects. At tho Supremo Court at 10.30 this morning, Mr. Justice Cooper will hold a sitting in Chambers. Tho Dispatch Foundry Company, of Greymontli, has (says our local correspondent) offered several valuaole prizes lor tlie best students of. the engineering class conducted by Mr: J. Ranibioton, at the Greymoutli Technical School.. The stock of models in this school has recently been supplemented by tho Groy Jimiuation Board, to tno. value of H'-i, so that tho. class is now fully, equipped in this department. ■ A : deputation from tho Johnsonville Town Board and Makara County Council will be introduced to the Minister for Public Works by Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., at 3 p.m. on Thursday, in regard to the transport of road metal from tho Ngaliauranga quarry by tndtor wagon. Tho Jlaknra County Council recently passed a by-law prohibiting the propelling of heavy traction engines over /bridges and culverts in the county, and the object of tho deputation is to ascertain the precise powers of. loqal. bodies in rtgard to. regulations of this kind.. A St. John Ambulance Homo NuTsing Class, instructed by Dr. Gunn, will bo examined on Wednesday, evening by Dr. Hogg, and a class of tramway students who, had been instructed in first aid work by Dr. M'Gavin will bo examined next week by Dγ, liowerbank. A class in , first aid for women—the second started this year—is meeting on Friday evenings in the Oddfellows' Hall. Soveral complaints regarding the increasing number of pea riHes owned by boys, and the constant, danger to Hie from the indiscriminate use of these weapons in public places,. were received tit last meeting of tho Thames Borough Council (says an Auckland .exchange). Evidence was given of several recent narrow escapes by residents when walking along Ihu street:, within the borough. It was decided to'. inako representations to the Government in regard to the steadily increasing danger i from this weapon. .-'•.'■ . : ' Among the list of offending inebriates who appeared in the dock at the Police Court yesterday was a youth of eighteen, who walked forward with a smiling .countenance aud admitted his .guilt. The magistrate, after adm.inishing him, fined • him Ids., with the alternative of twenty-four hours' detention. Regarding Dobson monumental stone, .which comes from the West Coast, our Greymouth correspondent remarks: The current week will see the completion of tho order for Dobson stone for the base of the Wellington Post OTice, and it is gratifying to note that its qualities have induced the Government to provide for Its use in the,base of the new buildings ■ which are soon to be erected in Cathedral Square,-Christchurch; It was decided at a meeting of the council of the Academy of Fino Arts last night that the annual exhibition will be ,icld on October 1. Pictures for the exwtiou will be received up, till within fqurtesn day's of the opening of the exibition. ; . ' A young man whs arrested by Detective Cameron last evening, and will appear at the Police Court this morning. • will-be charged with the.theft of a Mcyclo, valued at ,£5, the property of H. Jarrett. Inquiries are being made by the fiettlers interested in the drainage of the Whaugawjjimi) Swamp, Waikato, ' as to liat steps should be taken to get the work put in hand. ' The "Undor-Socretary for Lands is.writing to inform them that the first step to be taken is the formation of a River Board under the River Boards Act, 1908, which will give them power to strike a rate. The next step will be to have levels taken which will not. bo. an expensive matter. The River 3oard will have power to proceed with i deepening' of the.river, which is essential to the drainage scheme. A firemnn out of employment was responsible for sonic excitement in one of the Lambton Quay hotels shortly after six o'clock last evening. It appears that he first visited a tobacconist's shop on the Quay, and purchased a pocket-knife. He then opened blade and put the knife up his sleeve, at. the same time remarking to the tobacconist: "You read' the papers to-morrow," and hurriedly left the premises. Tho tobacconist followed him out, and watched the would-be-sensation-alist enter,the hotel in.question.. Tho drink was refused him, and this led to an altercation, but before this bad prooceded far, Sergeant Kolly arrived on tlie scene, and arrested the man. Shampooing, Clipping, Hairdressing, Manicuring, Faco Massage, Treatment of Falling Hair, and Dandruff. Combings made up. Natural Hair-pads. Mrs. Kollestou (over Carroll's), i Willis Street. , 'Phono 1599.—Advt.