LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 942, 8 October 1910, Page 4

LOCA L AND GENERAL.

;;Dominica Mpiser, whose _mother; was recently ..sentenced ito imprisonment ;for jll-treating her chijd,; is now;out of the care of the hospital, ; Mr. W. Gi Riddell, S.M,,. yesterday v made an,.order; committing \ the : child' to St,,' Joseph's Orphanage., , " ~ : "'';.'.

..." .Dingoes/ : it ■ was' remarked by ' the president of: : :the. Zoological Society,' 'in an' address to .members last evening, had at ! first seemed least interesting of all the. animals -..contained'-, in',, the. 'Newtown Zoo,; except l the pig. They, ivere, at; a casual glancei' scarcely distinguishable' from:,the domestic dog. Recent -reading' had.,:. convinced - jiim, however,' that an interesting discussion could be raised -.on the, question, "How; and when did the dingo get into Australia?" To an intelligent observer the dingoes were; as .interesting", as any. creatures in the.Park..';-..:'•,

Surfrbathors will- have; : -some time .within which; to comply with the City Council's new,decision,,, arid . proyide themselves; with ("Canadian";costumes. The,'resolution to make the new style of .costume compulsory cannot be enforced :until it has'been' put into; the form of V by-law,, and that/process will, probably take; about' four.; weeks; In;the meantime,,,,the. existing, by-law f-emains in operation. It is as follows: "No person over the age of ten years shall bathe on any beach, within' the view of any person: or persons passing along any,of the streets, thoroughfares, roads, or public;places of the .city, or within the v|ew. of; persons in any. dwellinghouse in the city, unless 'such person so bathing shall ibe properly ckd in a bathing'.,- garment '•;.- reaching from the shoulder, to the knee.; ;Ariy person offending against.this provision shall be guilty; of an offence . against this by-law.?' ';/.,.:. ;■[,

.: What is'-believed to be a record .'price for New Zealand-grown green .peas wasobtained yesterday by the New Zealand Farmers' •■• Co-operative Distributing Company... The peas. in . question came, from Nelson, and were a particularly fino lino. They sold at 4s. Id. per peck (71b.), which is at the rate 0f..7d. per lb.. ':..;. ■;, .^■^;-'.;;-.:

A man who was, "wanted" : by. the police very "nearly succeeded in getting away by the Moana ■ yesterday ,-.afterhoou. He was arrested by Detectives Abbott and; Mason, just, as. thez-vessel was.about to leave for Sydney, and this morning he will be brought before the Magistrate on" a charge of obtaining goods and ; money to- tie value of £14 by false' pretences from Edward Nicholas, of Dannevjrke, on.October 1.

Councillor Barber; has given notice to move,. at tho next meeting of the; City Council: "That a return be laid upon' the table'showing the number of properties owned by "the council'and fronting Adelaide Road,, the number let, and the rents obtained from same."

Tho Wool-classing Committee appointed by the Wellington : Technical School Board, woolbrokers, and Woollen Company, to arrange courses and make recommendations re appointment of an instructor, etc., . met last evening. There wero present the chairman,-Mr.-David Robertson, Mr. Donne, and the director. The meeting was adjourned till Monday for further consideration of the applications for tho position, of instructor.

Nursing homes where a.woman takes ono patient at a time and; so avoids the necessity of registering the. honife are, says the Wellington district agent of the Education Board under the Infants' Lifo Protection System, a menace to iufaut life.

Shampooing, Clipping,' . Hairdressing, Manicuring, Pace Massage,. Treatment of Palling Hair, and Dandruff. ' Combings made jjp. Natural . Hair-pads. . Mrs. Rollosto'n (over Carroll's); i Willis' Street. .'Phone 1599.-Advt.

A young man named ■ M'Leod was yesterday arrested by Deteotive Cassclls, and is expeoted to appear at the Magistrate's Court this morning, on a charge of theft of an .overcoat, valued at £5.

The first of tho season's shipment of Galifornian apples arrived from San Francisco via the Islands by the_Mokpia yesterday morning.'' Tlie consignment landed here consists of 5425 boxes of apples. Other fruits brought, which came to hand by the Mokoia, consisted of 5064 cases of bananas, 33 cases pines, 1341 cases oranges, 147 sacks of coconuts, and 1350 cases of evaporated fruits (from America). . " ..

Cases set down for hearing at the Upper Hutt Court on Monday next will bo adjourned until Friday;, October 14, owing to tho absence of Mr. 1 . W. R. Haselden, S.M., who is in Auckland on Railway Appeal Board business. .

"Drink, gives us more trouble than anything," says the Wellington district agent under, the infants' * life protection system, referring to licensed homes, in her annual report to thb Education Department. "We- suddenly get a hint," says the agent,;"that, a:fosterr_mother whom we like and trust is addicted to drink, although! her house is clean-and well Kept, and the baby is thriving; but, knowing how the drjnk habit grows, and the danger of a woman up,-; der its influence caring for a baby, esr pecially at night, we. feel great anxiety until we are sufficiently certain to be •able to withdraw the license.": •■ "Of cpurse,'.';the agent adds,•.."itis; only women who: are'drinkers-at home secretly who can deceive us even at first,"

There is the Christchurch; Chief .Post .Office, an ingenious yet simple deyice for informing box-bglderß when .the maiis from different points of the compass' have /.been cleared. This consists .of a' panel, pierced with j;a _ number■ of' apertiires -to;._ correspond with. the principar mails which interest box-holders. • Behind each, .aperture is .revolving cube,, which b f as , ...the\name, of one. or. other.pf the' mails.:on .both; sides (the other.: two being blank). As soon as a mail has been sorted into the boxes, the cube (which has up till that point shown a blank to the public in the box lobby) is given a turn, and the words, "English mail," "northern mail," 'or whatever the mail is which has been sorted, is exhibited, and at the same time the corresponding words I appear on the mail-room 6ide of the cube, .to indicate to the officer in charge that the public have beep duly I notified that the mail handledhas been | sorted into boxes. The idea is a good one for the public and the staff (who are worried a good deal by inquiries from tho public). The device, which is tho invention of Mr. R. B. Morris, Insiwctor of Savings Banks, is to be used in tho General Post Office, now in course of construction.

The impressively largo and handsome building of the Union Steam Ship Company on Customhouse Quay is to be thrown open for public inspection on Monday evening. There is not to be any opening ceremony—no speeches, bououets, or wine—hut an inspection of this fine set of offices will no\dojibt well repay all who can spare the fime to make it. ' It is announced that the first number of "The Mirror/' a new illustrated monthly magazine, will be issued on November 1. The proprietary state that they will follow the lines of reputable British'and American magazines, while the will also preserve its own individuality as an Australasian monthly. Its artistic and literary contents, it is aho stated, will be of a high order, and the proprietors are also devoting much attention to its. mechanical production.