LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 894, 13 August 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. The Maheno, which left Sydney- on August 10, has on board Australian mails, United Kingdom via Suez mails, and also United Kingdom and American mails via Vancouver. The Wellington portion of tho mail will reach here by tho Main Trunk express on Monday next.

At a meeting of the Mission to Seamon, Workers, and' Seamen, in Port, held last night, the following resolution was carried unanimously: "That this meeting of the Mission to Seanieu,. Workers and Seamen in Port, most emphatically endorses the actions taken by the Revs. Dr. Gibb aud J. J. North in condemnation of the play, "The Girl from Rector's"; -it expresses its eon.vietion that Mr. Hutxh Ward has failed to refute the charges made as .to the character of the play; it further expresses the' earnest hope that the newspapers of the city will -not fail ,to protest against any play which: holds up to laughter the. sanctity of the marriage tie and the purity of women; and ithopes that tho law'will be speedily altered to secure. an efficient censorship of all public performances."

The work of preparing rock specimens for microscopic examination, as carried out by. the experts of the Geological Survey, is of the utmost' delicacy, and the resultant slides are in many cases of great -, beauty. A thin flake of rock about ''an inch square is first brought, to ,a high polish upon one face. This is cemented to • the glass slide with Canada balsam. The specimen is then ground down until only an exceedingly thin film remains on the glass. In most cases it is transparent, or nearly so. In a specimen of this kind, placed under the lenses of a powerful microscope, the. various crystals ■of which it is composed are readily'distinguishable. The form of microscope used : by geological experts is \fitted', with a number of prisms and other appliances intended to control the vibration of light rays: Tho play of light on the greatly magnified • specimens makes it comparatively easy to identify with exactitude the materials of which they are composed! . ~.,'.

A yoang woman in domestic service was arrested yesterday by Detective Kemp oil a charge of stealing-£9 2s. 6d. from a fellow employee. ( At the invitation of JXr. Hugh J. Ward- thirty nurses from the Welling-: ton Hospital were present at the. performance of "The Fencing Master", last evening. . '. . The 'Wellington Butter Committee has been re-forined. The retail price of butter, locally has been advanced, and now stands at Is. 2d. per lb. "A New Zealand • Politician Through a British General Election" is the title of the subject Mr. Robert M'Nab has kindly cni".onted..to sneak ..upon at the first gathering of'the New Zealand Club's visaing season; to be inaugurated oh Tuesday next. Under the circumstances, a full attendance, of the club , ? members is assured. The club is to , be honoured with the presence of His Excellency the Governor at an early September gathering, and full particulars will appear in due course. A meeting of the executive committee of the club was held yesterday, , when matters relating, to arrangements for the annual meeting to bo held shortly were, discussed. . The St. John's Literary and Debating Society's meeting last night took tue form of an oratorical contest. The characters taken- werei-Rajau Brouiiu, Abraham Lincoln/ Bismarck, Robert Clive, Hannibal, and Edward G. Wakefield. Dr. Gibbj who was in the chair, placed E. S. Watson (Abraham Lincoln) first. ..The little baby boy "Jack/ , who was , >found. in a parcel on the doorstep ot\ the Wellington Receiving Home by the mat-roil' , on Wednesday evening last, will bo brought before his Worship at the Magistrate Court this morning, at 9.30 o'clock, in order that an order for his commutment to some institution may be mado. ,

-At B,o'clock 'last night, Detective Cassolls arrested a woman on a charge of having stolen a gold diamond ring, valued at £5, from Charles Franks, oh August 8. At.ll p.m. the detective apprehended the woman's husband on a charge of having . received the ring, knowing it to have been stolen. The alleged theft took place iu a housp on Thorndon Quay, Wellington.

About 40 officers-were present at .the Garrison .Officers' Club last evening, when very interesting lecturettes wero given by the officers of the Wellington Garrison Artillery Division on the subject of "The Fixed Coast' Defences of Wellington 'in Time of War." Tho Officer Commanding the Division (LieutColonel G. F. C. Campbell) led off with an interesting review of the strategetical points .of tho naval situation-in the Pacific, and the tactical considerations attaching to the coast defences of Now Zealand on mobilisation.. He was followed by Major F. J. Courtney, who discussed the duties of the fire commander by day and by, night during the period of mobilisation. Then Major Menzies dealt with the work of the battery commanders, while Capta'in Bcvan devoted himself to a reviowof tho conditions attaching to tho examination service in timo of war. A keen discussion followed upon tho conclusion of the lecturettes. Shampooing, Clipping, Hairdressine Manicuring, Face Massage, Treatment of Falling Hair and Dandruff. Combings uiado up. Natural Hafr-pads. Mrs llolleston- (over Carroll's), 4 Willis Street. 'Phono ISM.-Advb