LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 906, 27 August 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The voice of protest against the Banks Meat Company being allowed to hold an 'export license which entitled it to kill away from the municipal abattoir was raised by a deputation which waited upon the Hon. T. Mackenzie yesterday. The deputation, which was introduced by Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., consisted of Messrs. W. C. Hampton (Wellington Master Butchers' Association), T. Helyer, and W. V. Little. Mr. M'Laren repeated the objections submitted to the City Council recently. The complaint was that the company, which, was killing, solely'for the local market, was enjoying an unfair advantage in holding an export license. The Minister said that he had resolved to discover the. exact legal position. sentiment would bo allowed to enter' into the case, hut he would bo guided by tho legal opinion tendered to him. Mr. Hampton said that the butchers would be satisfied with a legal opinion. In reply to Mr. M'Laren, who urged that the matter of public policy- must be considered, tho Minister admitted that public policy must dominate the position..

"Tho history, that should reinforce and illuminate the geography teaching is very often of a very nebulpus character —sometimes non-existent," observed Mr. H. A. Parkinson, headmaster of the Newtown School, during tho course of some interesting remarks on , tho geography syllabus at the meeting of tho Teachers' Institute last evening. "Tho Dictograph" is the namo of a handy house, telephone apparatus of intense sensitiveness. A service has been fitted up in the Post and Telegraph Department on the top floor or tho General Post Office. Ihe instrument, when spoken into, is so sensitive that it readily catches and transmits to any open terminus -ordinary conversation spoken in" any part of the room, and to get tho best results when speaking directly at tho instrument a tone lower than that used in ordinary conversation should bo used. The receiver, which must be placed to the ear, is constructed to give tho loudest effect and the result is that a person with ordinarily good hearing, needs to hold it a little away from the ear. In connection with tho Navy League's demonstration on tho evening of Wednesday, September 7, Captain Colomb, of 11.M.5. Encounter, has intimated to Mr. Cecil Palmer (secretary of the local branch of the league) his intention of being present. The rehearsal arrangements in connection with the demonstration have been arduous, but it is expected that the results will bo commensurate. During the evening Mr. Clarkson (baritone) will give "What We have We'll Hold," Miss HardingeMaltby will recite Kipling's "Eccessional," Mr. D. Kenny will give an organ selection, and two bluejackets from the Encounter will contribute vocal items. Mr. 11. Parker is trainiii" tho juvenile voices, and will conduct. A married woman, living in Ohilka Street, had occasion to go out ono day during tho week, leaving n child at homo in charge of the charwoman. On returning home, charwoman ami <>hild were absent, and did not show up ng.ijn that day. But the child ultimately was discovered safe, after its mother had been caused considerable anxiety. Shampooing, Clipping, rrnirdroßshiir Manicuring, I'aeo llassago, Treatment of Falling Hair, ami Dandruff. Combing mode up. Natural Hair-uads. Mrs Kollcstou (over Carroll's), i W lli a Btroot, 'Phono 1599,-Advt.

Argument on a motion to find security for the performance of the judgment of the Court, pending appeal, iu the case of Hannah v. Nodine, had been lixed for hearing in tho Supreme Court yesterday, but had to bo adjourned for a week, pending tho disnosal of cases on the list. The recent rearrangement of the Crown Law Office is working very satisfactorilr, arrordini; to the Minister for Justice (Hon. Dr. Findlay). The rearrangement, remarked Dr. FincLay to a representative of The Dominion, . has quite realised his expectations as far as it had gone, and was effecting considerable economy. . Representations are being made .by Mr. Jennings,' M.P. for <Taumarunui, with a view to having licenses issued for netting trout in Lake Taupo. There is an enormous quantity of fish in this lake, and it is considered that by decreasing tho, quantity somewhat by netting, the quality of the fish would be improved. Mr. Jennings thinks that the canning industry might be established with the fish netted. An extensive batch of by-law cases are to be heard on September.9 at tho Magistrate's Court. Tho charges deal with unregistered dogs, wandering cattle, etc., the informations having been laid during the week by Mr. J. Doyle, corporation inspector. Writing on the subject of the Ross rifle —the arm of the Canadian military forces —'referred to in a- footnote to a cable message in Tns 'Dominion a few days ago, Mr. P. Whitlcy, of Petono, draws attention to a curious error. "The .280 Ross rifle," he says, "is purely a sporting weapon, and with, a light pointed bullet of 140 grs., was the first rifle to attain 3000 ft. m.v. Tho Canadian Ross rifle takes out own .303 service cartridges, and, therefore, any slight superiority over the long LeeEnfield must bo in tho sights,, not the barrel. I may further mention, that a velocity of 3000 ft. is, in the writer's opinion, extremely unlikely to bo attained ■ by a. purely service infantry small arm." A notice appears in this week's Gazette directing that foods composed of milk-albumen in combination with casein or 'with malted or unmalted ground grain (being infants' and invalids' foods), shall for the future be admitted free of Customs duty. The consent authorising the use of the private way leading from Lambton Quay to the ■ Relburno tramway terminus was signed yesterday on behalf of tho City Council. •Mr.. Justice Chapman will, sit in Chambers this morning to hear an originating summons at the suit of the Teachers' Educational Institute v. - the Wauganui Education Board; for a judgment under the Declaratory Judgments Act, on the point as to whether the headmaster of a district high school is entitled to refuse admission to infants. Mr. Myers appears for plaintiffs, and Mr. Hutton (Wanganui) for defendants. His Honour will also dispose of two summonses—for discovery of documents and the filing of a more explicit coun-ter-claim in the case of the Spiral Steel Co. y. the Gisborne Borough Council. Application has been filed for the adjudication of John Holman Kingdon, gentleman, Lower Hutt, as a bankrupt. ■ Tho petitioning creditor is. Arthur Acheson Gray, Palmerston North, and the amount of tho debt claimed is £1104 17s. 6d. . . On the application of Mr. E. C. Levvey, acting on behalf of members of tho syndicate, Mr. Justice Chapman has granted an order in the matter of a deed of agreement of the Khandallah Land : Association, directing the District Land Registrar to remove the name of Seaforth Simpson Mackenzie, one of the trustees, from the title to' the land owned by the Association, and substitute that of Mr. Hugh Jones. The paragraph in yesterday's .Dominion referring to. a duplication of.' the mail, services l from Potone to Wellington' was not altogether correct. The Chief Postmaster (Mr. H. B. Morris) states that tho mails from Petone to Wellington are being supplemented by extra mails leaving the former place at 11.30 a.m. and 7.40 p.m., arriving at the head office in Wellington at 12.40 p.m. and 8.40 p.m. respectively. No extra outward mails to Petono, have been arranged for. '- One of the Anglican missioners from England, tho Eev. Canon Ivens, will preach at St. Paul's pro-Cathedral, Mulgrave Street, to-morrow night, his subject Heing, "The Mission—A Call from God." Canon Ivens is vicar of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, and is a wellknown preacher with wide experience among the working people of the West Riding of. Yorkshire.' t