LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 927, 21 September 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Shortly after 8 o'clock last night, a Constable Street jumped the jjointt at t-liQ intersection-of Elizabeth Street and Kent Terrace, and caused some delay to traffic on that route. The car was successfully jacked back into place about twenty minutes 'later. The annual meeting of the 'Wellington Industrial Association will be held on Tuesday evening nest. < . The Arbitration Court will commence its' Wellington sittings at 10.30 this morning. The Chief Justice will be engaged today with the hearing of an originating summoris in the dispute between the Feilding Borough . Council and the Feilding Gas Company. A. deputation from the Wellington Hospital Board, consisting of the chairman (Mr., J. G. W. Ait-ken), the Rev. W. A. Evans, Messrs. R. C. Kirk, and G. T. London, will wait upon the Reserves .Committee of the City Council at an ■ early date to further urge that a Bill be prepared for Parliament for the purpose of allowing the ' council ' power, to convey to the board that strip of Town Belt. situated between Salamanca, Road and the frontage -to the board's sections. On the motion, of Mr. J. W. Macdonald, solicitor to . the Public Trust Office, the Supreme Court has. granted: to the Public' Trustee probate of the wills' of. the undermentioned deceased pfersons:—John Scott, of Windwhistle, Canterbury, farmer Agnes Drummoiid, of Wellington, married woman; Charles Eustace 1 Wilson, of '■ London, solicitor; Miles Watkins, of. Christchurch,.. carpenter ; Thomas Jeffcoat, of. West Olive, Napier, settler;. Hugh M'Kay, of Broomfield, Canterbury, farmer; Elizavbeth Campbell, of Totara North, Auckland, widow; Augustus Philip Mason, of Wellington, surveyor; Thomas: Alfred Aldridge, of.Rotorua, stationmaster; Ferdinand Theodore Wahren, of Whangarei,. plumber; James Middleton, of Groymouth, hotelkeeper. Orders were also , granted for the' Public Trustee to administer the estate of the following, :viz.—William Mansonj of-St: Leonard's, Diinedin, retired electrician; William, Yuill, of Roslyn, Otago, ! carpenter; and Jbhn Thomas TVhite, of Wellington, labourer. ' -. Included' in the passengers by the Tongariro, due from London; to-morrow morning, are 62 assisted immigrants, of whom ,44 are adults" and 16 - ' children. Those following farming pursuits: are m.' the'majority',.while several.wives are;rejoining. their husbands;; .Domestics are also included in -the list. : The immigrants bring capital ranging^.-from £25 to £200 per capita. :■ . Messrs. Baldwin and : ' Rayward, patent : -agents, - 'Wellington,", report that they have ■ filed . thefollowing applications '- for ■ . patents' of New Zealand .during the week ending September: : -21: —G. Bertmshaw, ■ TV Wilson, and J; Hutcheson, Wellington, an 'improved postal'pillar box; J.,.Liggins, Wellington, improved: apparatus for: scutching flax; : Qriffiri and Eustege, Wellington, improved apparatus ' for, heating .water and the -like; ,J.. Johnstone, Transvaal, ( improvements: in pulleys or'idlers for conveyor .'belts,' also applicable for other purposes ; A. Gray, Sydney, closet seats; R. M'Gaffin, Hastings,, trip apparatus for flax-catch-ers';' A. Stewart, , Hunierville,.. ; pot scraper and brush; L. M.- .Moiiteath, 'New -Plymouth, flax preparation; " Although the property market ha-s .been /fairly. quiet during the past year,; there, are, signs ofj a gradual rev-ivaHn interest on the part, of ..the investing public; There.have-oif late been a mmher of changes in the ownership .of city properties, some of which already been noted' in these columns, notably,, the-,purchase by Messrs. 'F.-. J. Pinny, and Co. of a' large;. block of the old Heath- Estate Street, arid the' purchase of a valuable.section in Willis, Street by , Mt. Crav'eif,- photographic' ar- : tist, -'from, Mr. Geo. Oliapman, of the Hutt. The latest.,:change affects that 'portion ; of the Heath Estate which fronts Manners' Streets / .A'yery'.yalu.able';block, having a frontage to that, busy- thoroughfare of 66ft.by a dejith varying from 80ft. -to' 64ft., on which are ' erected shops . occupied by Mr.. .Frank; Shaw ; (chemist); Messrs. Giirnej Bros. (basket-makers), and S. Gordon (picture, dealer), ' lias been purchased, from the syndicate (which acquired'the estate some'three years ago) by Messrs/ Towns-end .and Paul, well knpwn in connection with the'wholesale ,fruit and -produce business of the city. . The sale is subject to the existing leases, which expire in June next; It is pretty safe to conclude that the : disintegration- of the Heath' Estate, will ...lead: to/.a good deal of building within the next year, or .two.-'-' >•' - There .are at present : 257 patients under treatment at the Wellington Hospital, .three less, than for the corresponding period',of last year.' Forty are in the', victoria Hospitalj .17 in the Seddon Hospital,. 36 in; the Children's "Hospital, 13 in the Fever Hospital, and 151 in the General Hospital. : Outdoor relief -"dispensed.'-, by the Charitable' Aid Committee of the Wellington Hospital. Board during the month, covered : assistance to .81 cates.Contributing causes;of destitution were classified . as follow : —Lack of employment, 12; no inale support, 22; sickness, 24; physical defects,6; insanity of : breadwinner, 1; imprisonment of same,- 1;'. desertion: of same, 1; intam : perance, '2; old age, 12. -: The number of inmates at', present under , the ; care of the Ohiro Home is 152. Relief was also dispensed in cases of destitution in the Hutt Valley, Hutt County, and Johnsonville,. sub-districts. The younger State School children of the Wadestown portion of: the Wellington Education District wlio are at present being instructed in St. Luke's Anglican, Sunday School, owing to lack, of accommodation at the Main ..School; were yesterday considerably interrupted, and also somewhat frightened, by the lifting of ono corner of the • roof during a particularly gusty wind. The momentary anxiety of the'children was, however, dispelled by the teacher. The weak spot in the roof was, subsequently nailed down, and, as a further safeguard, it was roped over.