LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wo publish elsewhere two Government advertisements. ' Owing to the boycott of The Dominion by the Government in the matter of State advertisements these are .published at our own cost, in order that . our readers may not be penalised' by the attitude of Ministers towards tho paper. . With respect to the case of leprosy referred to in yesterday's issue, we are informed that the unfortunate sufferer and his family did cot live in Taranaki Street.-. ..... ■■■;..■' An apparently ■- demented woman was reported to have been wandering in Kelburne on Monday night, but her identity was not known, and a clear description of her was not forthcoming. Last night, however, it was reported that a woman had called, at the Salvation Army Home in. Newtown, and had behaved in such a peculiar manner that tho police were communicated with. By tho time .a constable arrived at tho home, however, .the woman had departed, and was said to have gone in the direction of Kilbirni'e. According to a .description furnished to the police last night, she is about 35 years.of age, fairly tall, with dark hair, and of pale complexion. She was wearing a grey dress and a grey tweed hat. The merry £oug of a taxicab humming gaily along Upper Willis Street last evening was-cut short with a big bass bang. As the taxicab approached a .crossing, a motor-car appeared on the corner. Instantly there was a crash, and the two vehicles stood stock still. Fortunately, there does not seem to have, been much damage done, notwithstanding that a bad accident looked probable. The taxicab had a mud-guard twisted, but the motor did not show any ill effect during a lamplight examination on the spot. The drivers argued testily about the pace they were running at at the time, and one of them produced a note-book and a pencil, and collected evidence on the spot. Evidently "more is to be- heard of tho matter." A deputation from the Merchant Service Guild is to wait on the Premier on Monday morning to urge that the owners of certain ocean-going vessels which extend their operations from Australia to New Zealand should be obliged to conform to the conditions relating to \taJ7t;s, etc., under which the Union Steam Ship Company, Huddart, Parker and Co., ana coastal steamers are running. Mr. E. G. F. Zohrab, manager of the Chatham Islands Fishing Company, has received a report from his agent at the islands (Mr: H. Lang) to the effect that the refrigerating machinery, building material, etc., to be used in connection with the company's' works have been satisfactorily landed from the Ripple. Owing to fairly good weather the discharging operations only occupied three and a naif working days. It is expected that in. from six to eight weeks the plant will' be in working order and the industry initiated. Mr. Albert Barley contradicts the statement made in a Press Associationmessago from Levin that while, attempting to establish a new record for enduranco piano-playing, he fell from his stool, after completing- 40 hours' continuous playing. He -writes.--"1, lild- nut Vail off the stool. TUe cummittee held a consultation on tho stage and stopped me. I then jumped off the stage, a height of 3J feci, and wnlktd halt-way down the hall." . . Captain S. V.'Trask,' honorary secretary Wellington Garrison Officers' Club, has received notification that his Excellency the Governor will attend the lecture to be given by Captain R. M'Nab at the Garrison Officers' Club on Tuesday,. September , 27. The subject of the lccture will be, "Military Training and the People of Great Britain." The next lecture will bo given on Thursday, September 1, when Lieut. Skelley will speak on tho Battle of Salamanca, and Colonel J. R. Purdy on a comparison of the medical service o| the Russo-Japanese and South African wars. 1

Mr. Maughan Barnett, city organist, has decided, after consultation with. the llayor (Mr. Wilford), to call a- public meeting for Wednesday, September 7, for the.purpose of discussing the proposal .to. establish a municipal orchestra. In saying that ho will do all in his power to assist all choral societies with tho proposed municipal orchestra, Mr. J. Maughan Barnett appears to have removed the last of the. objections made to the proposal. 'In'" sayir.g this Mr. Barnett is not. saying anything new. He has contended all along that the «x----istenco of such a body of organised instrumentalists must be of signal service to the choral societies, so that, his mowing with the wishes of Mr. A. M. Lewis is merely a reiteration of what has been stated before, and taken for granted by all those who'wish to see tho municipal project materialise. It lias been arranged that tho meeting of the citizens, called at tho behest of the City Council, will be held next Wednesday evening. The Mayor will preside. The only additional donation received by the secretaries of the Children's Hospital Fund is .£6 135., from the Painters' Onion. The sum banked, as already stated, is ,£6700. To-day Mr. Justice Chapman will hear an action brought by Elizabeth Anne Rose Carte, married woman, ' Muritai, against the Wellington Harbour Ferries Company, Ltd., to recover .£250 damages ior injuries alleged to have 'been sustained through the Duchess-Cobar collision, near Point Jerningham, some months ago. ■ ■ ■ • The civil action of. Cole v. llackay, a claim for £501' damages for alleged wrongful imprisonment, which _ was" to' have been heard before Mr. Justice Chapman and a common jury yesterday, was settled out of- Court. . A complaint was made in the House of Representatives yesterday-/ ,by v Mr. M'Laren, M.P., in rclerence to tho engagement of labour for such-.works as the new Governor's residence. .Mr. M'Laren said the Minister had laid down the principle that men for such works should be engaged through .the Government.. Bureau, but he had heard of a case in which a foreman made arrangements with men who we're in other employment, when men out of work were applying at .the bureaux. The Hon. ,R. M'K»rissic, Minister for Public Works, Agreed that' men should be employed through tho bureaux, and he promised to look into the, complaint.