LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The City. Council has accepted ' the |tender of Messrs.-P. R. Baillie and! i. C 0... for the supply. ■ of' 400 ; > alternatingcurrent meters, ..the price, being. £537 Bs. 9d.. Unaccepted tenders: Turnbull and Jones, £63-1 7s. 6d. • H.:S.'King, £662 ISs. 4d.; G., T. George, - £679 55,: i Cederholm and Tolley, £698 12s. Id.; A. and T./Burt ) /£717. -■.■'- ■'/// '■~■-; I The. formation of a Wellington district branch of,the/New Zealand Lai'boiir party is tlje business for. consideration at. a-meeting convened for September 14 by the Wellington '/Trades' and Labour Council;// ■■■■■. , " , This morning, in the Supreme Court) before Miv Justice Chapman,; iThos; Finnerty will como up for sentence for breaking- and* entering aiuT theft, and Jas. Henwood for burglary. , ■ ■(,'.-' When an : assault. case was called in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, the complainant failed to respond, and his solicitor suggested, that the ..next•'witness for the prosecution should go : into' the box, but this man: also failed"'-.to answer the call.' / Two .other witnesses were called, with the same result; The solicitor then told,his clerk, ;in a/stagewhisper, ' .to., ."run over to the hotel." About .five minutes later the-clerk returned,:/and stated: that ■ he' had discovered '.the /witnesses up : - the street, and then the case -proceeded. ~; Yesterday Detective. Kemp arrested a man fqr:alleged' theft, of clothing, the property'of AVilliam'Flack, one of the sailoss of the/Indraghiri.' The arrested man will .also be: charged with, making a .false declaration to obtain, a seaman's permit. .., .. .•. - ':•■■ f ;■ At the Artillery Officers' Institute last night Captain Richardson gave. a , very interesting paper on the "Progress of Gunnery. ' For the first time lantern slides--, were used to. illustrate the. development- in - arms- and armament, -particularly during the last few years. This system of instruction originated here with Captain Richardson. The fourth annual dinner of the insti-. tution. takes place nest:week. . A male passenger by the . Mokbia from Rarotonga came under the provisions of the Immigration Restriction Act yesterday. He came from. San Francisco, via Melbourne, Sydney, and the/Islands', and is ''suffering from delusions. He has been declared insane. A bond has been entered, and .it is the intention' of the authorities to.place him iu the mental hospital in the meantime. .''•'. ■• . ■ Yesterday, Wm. Joseph Brady, painter, filed a petition in bankruptcy. A meeting of creditors will be held on September 13. ./■':.. •'. -. . At a well-attondod meeting of the Wellington Railway Mutual Improvement and Social Club, held last evening, an -instructive illustrated lecture was delivered by Mr. J. H. Wynne upon the subject of inter-locking, signalling, block and block working. The lecturo was followed with interest, and tlio speaker was tendered a hearty vote of thanks at its close. ;