LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

y 'People run away with the impression that the legal practitioners of the' cities make very: much.'larger -'incomes than the practitioners m the smaller towns," remarked the Hon: Dr. Findlay, . speaking on the Law -Practitioners , Amendment; Bill in tho Legislative' Council yesterday. . The' Attorney-Gen-eral 'gave his. assurance that the! averago income made by the practitioners in the. smaller towns mm much greater ■ than the average income made -by the practitioner in the 'cities. : .There were lawyers in the smaller 'places making twice as much as-our judges are paid.Later in the debate Dr. Findlay . re-,marked,-,that;;tlie. practitioners- : in ; ? th'i cities had a touch harder. struggle for existence than those practising in places like Napier'/ ; Nelson,Gisborne, ana Now Plymouth. ;' Tiie Investigation" Committee, which' is to inquire into the Hine charges, has ,-b.een called to meet on Wednesday next. It is,-however, .unlikely, that any evidence will bo taken on -that day. "v. The final korero of • the Wellington Savage Club will take place this evening. A special programme has been arranged for. the occasion. ' The annual. conference of the. New. Zealand: Employers'. Federation is to bo 'held in Wellington on October 26.' Tho conference of' the Builders' and Contractors' Federation of New- Zealaad .is 'to bo held on November B.'

A melodrama founded on the 'Grip-; pen case is to be produced in Melbourne!'' shortly by Mr. Win. Anderson. . The sensational scones. will be the; alleged murder, the finding of the/ body, tho scenes on: the Atlantic 'liner with Grip-, pen and Miss Le Neve under observa-tion,-and the arrest'and trial. Notice of motion was given in the Legislative Council .yesterday by. tho Hon. Geo. Jones of his intention to ask the Minister for Justice- whether or not the following statements (now; being .made in New South Wales in view of tho impending , Local Option vote in- that State and' based on the utterances, • from t-ko '• Bench ■: by Mr.- Day, ; S;M!) are justified by the experience ,'of. the police inspectors in the No-License 'districts of the Dominion there are more, temptations to . drink 'in - the' No-Licfense;'- districts than ' -in di-stricts having License; that liquor; is : kept ,in every house, :and. that dipsojpaniacs thus have' many opportunities for, secret' drinking." ■

, >'A petition was presented to the House yeste'rday on behalf 'of Hapo Renata and ten others asking for a full inquiry into tho title of the To Unuunu Block, in the Wairarapa dis-" trict, before the Native Land Court. ; " Our Feilding correspondent . states that the two 1 stained glass windows to be erected in memory of the late Colonel Gorton, in Greatford Church, aro now. oh their way out" from England. It is reported on very good authority that the Government intends;" to com-: mence the Napier-Gisborne railway lie-, fore nepri; election.' There is; a probability tliat a start may bo made": from both Napier and Gisborne' simultaneously, but- failing this, there is a feeling that owing to Ministerial* influence the first sod will be turned at Gisborne.- . ■ ' , -' It was complained at the. meeting of the Miramar Borough Council on Thursdayevening that- distinguishing: signs oil cars running to the borougn were not always clear, and that sometimes from.this cause a car running only to the junction was . for . one; bound for Seatoun. , Mr. M. Cable ! as-' sistant tramways engineer, admitted, yesterday that., some. slight, confusion had possibly .arisen in. this ' way. To Erovide the speoial signs desired would, owover, be too expensive. It would involve altering , all the signs in use si-nee no specialj ears were set aside for the Mirainar servico." A handy, time-, table for the Miramar section has been compiled, which, in itself, should obviate confusion.

A deputation, representative :of the Raglan County Counoil, waited on the Minister for Public Works yesterday and asked that a subsidy should be granted by the Government on the sum of £4000, which the council is raising for road-making. ■ The deputation said it would be satisfied with' a subsidy of 10s. in the £. The Hon. R. M'Kenzie said he was very willing to assist local bodies which showed a disposition to help themselves, but applications for subsidies of a . similar nature ran into a very large amount, and he could ,not grant them all. He was" inclined to" consider the. application favourably. The Minister was also waited upon yesterday with a request that a traffic bridge should be constructed across the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia, in addition to the railway bridge. The Minister said he did not think the bridge was required. •' Negotiations for the purchase of land from the Natives in the Urewera Country are proceeding. The Government agent is now at Ruatoki paying out money to the Natives and completing arrangements. The purchase of 70,000 acres has been effected up to ■ the present. ■; The elrection of a school committee for the.'South/Wellington' school district to replace that which resigned some time ago because'of differences with the headmaster, takes plaoe on Monday next, October 3. The secretary of. the board has received the following nominations Messrs. / Barnes, Clark, Howman,- Morton, Pollock, Muller, and Duff. ; By the regulations other candidates may be nominated at the" meeting.. The right to .vote extends to householders living in the district, and ito parents of children at-, tending" the ; school, irrespeotive. of. ■ dis-: trict, but only - householders resident in the district are eligible for eTectiin. The apathy, / somewhat ; IcKafacteristic. of school committee elections, will probably not be in evidence on this occasion iniyiew of the issues.at stako. ; '