LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 913, 5 September 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The s.s. Victoria arrived in Auckland yesterday,'- at 2.30 p.m., with English and Australian mails aboard. The Wellington and southern, portion of tho mails will arrive by Main Trunk express this afternoon. In the following concise statement tho Christchurch "Evening News" sums up the proposals in .tho Public Debt Extinction Bill:—"For every pound the Dominion has borrowed, it proposes in all seriousuess to take a halfpenny out of its annual revenue and lend it to itself, with a view to earning tho money to repay the pound somewhere about tho.end of the century." This is not quite correct on one point. Tho new provision out of revenue is one sixthousandth of the debt. To ho quite exact, "one' twenty-fifth part of' a 'penny" should be substituted- for "a halfpenny" in the' sentence quoted. A runaway pony attached to a gig created some stir in Jervois Quay on Saturday. . The turn-out, in charge of its owner, Mr. J.. W. Ferguson, of Petone, was .driven into.Sargobd, Son and Ewen's yard. Here the driver alighted, and the pony immediately, afterwards took fright at something' and bolted. ■ He was seen by a constable on duty galloping across the street in front of the General Post Office, ultimately coming into collision .with expresses on the stand. At tho shock of,contact,'the traces broke, and the. gig was left behind, little tho worse. The pony was - stopped soon: afterwards. "■ , ,-.:■..' '■: .',\. The "Otago Daily Times" : remarka that the value of the Hocken Library of New Zealand books is not to be.confined to Dunedin, for the librarian haa lately been in communication'-with-Mr. Lindsay Buiok, North Island, the author of "Old Marlborough" and "Old 'Manawatui" Mr: Buick is now engaged in compiling a biography of the famous Maori warrior Te Jtaupnraha, who was known as the: Napoleon of.. the Maoris, .and-.in response, to a letter from him the librarian has forwarded some extracts from Hunt's '.'Twenty-five Years' Experience in New. Zealand, and.', the Ckathams," in -which reference's; are made to Te Rauparaha, with,whom the author lived for about a year. A. sailor, who. had deserted '. from' the Iridraghiri, was brought before Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M., on Saturday, :on a charge.of theft and a'charge.'bf making a false declaration':'. The magistrate inquired. of the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine as to the whereabouts of the ship, and suggested. that tho man should be placed on board,.as 'he^was'not- wanted in the Dominion,. The Superintendent; stated that tho man could not be returned to. ;the ship, as; ho _ had : already been; written . off the' articles as 'a deserter.:' Mr. Haselden remarked that tho'position-was 'a very ■unsatisfactory one,-and"'.pointed oufj that if. a man was arrested as a de--serter. he ..w.as .usually placed aboard the: ship, she, sailed : from the Dominion. .:■-.'/.;.... -.;.';

. A' feature of. the annual Navy League demonstration,. to be held in the. Town Hall next Tuesday! evening, will be.'.the singing by a choir of more than 600 ■juvenile members'; of the league. *A final rehearsal :will be held to-day. His Excellency the Governor will deliver a short address during the evening, and it is expected that officers of many of the branches of the Navy League in. different parts of .the Dominion will be present.' : The programme. will include and other, items .by Vmen-o'-warsmen- in port, "and shore talent also will; be ; well .represented., '. .'..' ; The. much-needed and' long-desired tramway, waiting-shed outside Lambton 1 Station .has at last begunto. materialise. Ten strong jarrah, posts', have ;beeri planted in the sidewalk adjacent, to the Public Works Department's carpentry shed, and within a very few days the wall,, seats; and roof will ho doubt be added. _. The delay in starting the work is attributed to difficulties that cropped up in connection with the .preliminary negotiations, between the City, .Council and the Government; '. : ._ ■.■;. :. :. ! ;_"! .don't, think that, the people, of this city realise the significance of. the remarks,made/by the Minister.for Public Works in regard to Lake Coleridge," Mr. T.E. Taylor, M.P,.said to a reporter in. Christchurch last week. '.'The Minister declared that he would begin with. the. power scheme immediately bV is authorised to raise the money. Arrangements are so far advanced that he can start within/three 1 months of the time when authority is'given. This means that 10,000 horse-power Will be placed at the disposal of-the industries of.-North Canterbury.and Christchurch, and may also be used for. tramway traq-: tion and for the electrification'' of ■ the Christchurch-Lyttelton railway line. The ; scheme is full .of possibilities in regard to the comfort'of the Deopleand : the industrial.progress of.tne district."

; :At the Mount Cook Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., Thomas Trudgeon Watte pleaded guilty to; being ! intoxicated in • Courte-' nay Place., and. was' 'fined .■ ss-.; with -the■' ,usual alternative. Harry Gilbert Clark (alias Heunings Gilbert) pleaded guilty to being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner in Webb Street. As the police reported that he was incited accused wasonry fined 10s., or 48 hours' incarceration. : Edward John Harvy' pleaded guilty to being drunk in Kent Terrace aud he 'was-mulcted in the sum of, 55., or 24 hours' imprisonment. A public meeting in connection with Mr. .Maughau Barnett's ' proposal '•to establish a municipal orchestra will be held in the Council Chamber of 'the -Town HaH'on Wednesday evening next.: I; ■'■ The Mother Mary . Joseph \ Aubert i Golden '• Jubilee. Executive ..Committee :will .hold a meeting at Mrs. 'T. G. M'Carthy'si on Tuesday next, at 5.15 .p.m. The business is. to make arrangements for one. of'the functions to :be held in- connection with the jubilee'. '■ A meeting of the Children's Hospital Eund Committee will be held -in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall this afternoon. His Excellency the Governor, Lord Islington,, will attend. The following additional subscriptions are acknowledged:—Collected by Mrs. E. G. G'orrin, 55.; Parliamentary orderlies (additional, per Mr.'Howe), 17s. 6d.; Mr. H. N. Holmes, Y.M.C.A. class and strangers' tea, £4; Good Templars (per Mr. Petherick), £3 10s. ' ' The Hutt Licensing meeting takes place at noon to-day at the • Magistrate's Court, Lower Hutt. Representatives of the Christchurch Tramway Employees'' Union visited Wellington last week for the purpose of givmg evidence before the Labour Bills Committee of Parliament in/ regard to the Tramways Bill, but were unable to do so (according, to the "Evening News"), the committee's time being occupied in bearing the evidence ~of the .representatives of the bodies controlling tramways in the Dominion. The' employees' representatives returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning.