LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 902, 23 August 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that tho Manuka, which sailed from Sydney on August 20, is bringing an Australian mail. She is due to reach here on Wednesday morning. A well-attended meeting of the Council of the Zoological Society was held last evening. The president, the Hon. C. M. Luke, announced that the Prime Minister (Sir J. G. Ward) had expressed sympathetic appreciation of the claims of the Hoo and had stated that he would use his endeavours to obtain, free of cost, a lioness from the Dublin Zoo. Now that the work of setting back the shop premises for a long section, of Willis Street has been accomplished, no time should bo lost in widening the road. With the verandah poles all ranged along the new kerb-line, the i only projecting objects on the projecting footpath are an iron rubbish receptacle and a water standard. It is pointed out that these objects would bo rather serious ones to negotiate if a horse took the bit between its teeth in Lower V Willis Street, and made south, as the iron erections mentioned are now nearly in the middle of the street.

A meeting of the Terrace School Committee was held in the secretary's office yesterday afternoon. It was reported that all arrangements in connection with the school concert, in aid of tlie schoolground funds, are well forward. A vote of thanks was passed to the Mountebank Dramatic Club for their promised assistance on the evening of the concert, ami to Messrs. Whitcombo and Tombs for their kind donation of 1000 tickets for the concerts

Several members of the Eastbourne Borough Council and a number of friends made an excursion to Gollan's Valley last {Saturday to visit the stream, from which it is proposed to draw a water supply for the borough. The party were favourably impressed with the possibilities of the scheme. '

A special meeting of the Petono Borough Council will be held in committee 011 Monday evening next to consider the question of tiie koiough rates.

Replying to a deputation which waited upon iiim yesterday' from the- AVaihi Borough Council to urge objections to the report of the Ohinemuri Silting- Commission the Hon. E. M'lvenzic (Minister for Public Works) said that he did not think there was any serious cause for alarm. It would (he continued) be some years before the local bodies would be required to find money for the proposed works which would be .carried out by the Public Works Department. The first step would be to -dissolve the • present river board. Then the Government would commence the work, but it would be some time before the'new board had anything tt> do. Mr. M'Kenzie also mentioned that lie had not had time to study the leport thoroughly yet, but ho foresaw difficulty in connection with the dredging claims.