LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 955, 24 October 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails from England, via' Suez, and from Australia, arrived; in Auckland yesterday by' the Maheno at 2.45 p.m.' The Wellington and' southern' portions of tte: mails will arrive this afternoon by the Main Trunk express.'.; ; The annual Domkion Conference- of the.New; Zealand Employers'. Federation, which opens at "Wellington 'on Wednesday, will be attended .by ..fiftythree' delegates;;.- a"larger number .than has attended any previous conference. ' It is stated that an'.'unusually : heavy: border" paper will: beY submitted .to- the, delegate's,-and'it .is .'anticipated :-that their discussions will bo of an ; important character'.; ;;.;-;; '.A special meeting; of ;.th_e' Wellington Hospital and: Charitable. Aid Board will be. held.;oh Thursday';next, to consider t-her;.amended: plans .of the . Children's. Hospital, and. to accept tenders for the milk supply and;furaishingTof 'the new Infectious Diseases . _/' . : '■' -The: Queen's Wharf on : Saturday nightwas the.scene of a bolt of-sensar tiorial -character.; Just as the Pateena was being berthed at: 10.5 p.m. a horse attached to- an express belonging to Mr." M'Herbert... suddenly, took; fright and bolted. The wheel of the. express was'- well chained, and the scraping of the tyre; on 'the, wooden blocks added ': to the'., animal's v . iright.The horse traversed'the wharf:at, racing speed,.past the tolls office and alongtowards the- Customs Buildings, 7.A little past the office the wharf is being repaired, and at that time this, spot was barricaded'off,: leaving only .a, narrow passage: just wide ; enough to ' let horse and vehicle' pass.■■': Somehow, it was negotiated,, and an awkward corner •. some distance. further on was also passed in safety.- The runaway finally terminated' its: ; wild.career-:at the: head of the-Eailway Wharf, where it trip-. ped, came down, and-wasi secured >by Mr.> J.'. tlwhah,'i, nightwatc'hinan: for the Harbour (Board; pone: the worse : for its experience. ~' : -. v ; ;,y;'- 7,-V., v '. Captain Scott's lecture on the Antarc- ' tic at the: Town .Hall on, Thursday night is., to be '/undea' the. patronage : of' the Navy League/ and it' is. expected that a large number,':of/"Leaguers".will be present: oThero is .to be a concession to juvenile members" of .the, league, of 14 years and under. 'The latter, wearing their, badges,- will be admitted' to, the Is. seats at half, price, but there are to be.no other concessions. ■ ■-■[:. ■ "Old Born Drunk'' : was the; title; of a stoiy recital, depicting '.'the? reformat tion of a character in the London slums, given by the Bev. E.; Q. Blamires, of the Central Mission, ,in ; the-King's Theatre last' evening.' The :singing, led by tho children's choir, -was marked by good expression, under Mr. W. E. Howe, and Mr, . Geo. ..Baker's solo, "I SliallKnow Him," was nicely sung., ■■•..-.' The number of applications to the Advances to Settlers Department during the last two years for loans of over £500 was 795, the total amount of the applications being £832,712. - The number of loans granted 'was' 129, and' the amount £98,165., '-..,-". . , A district order just issued by Defence | Headquarters -at Christchurch states; that a supply of 1000 copies general regulations for 1906 (which cease to become effective after the end of February, 1911) has been received from general headquarters at Wellington, and copies will be supplied, gratis to any officer or member of the Territorial forces requiring them on application to the local Defence office. A similar bundle of this now- literature has been sent down to District Headquarters at Wellington. Residents of Hanmer - Springs, are complaining, states a correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times," thai the; health resort is not receiving sufficient consideration at the hands of the Government.. They urge that more expenditure should be made to make the place attractive, and that the Railway Department should give cheap week-end trips to Hanmer. Tho residents ,aro also displeased at the decision-of the Government to proceed : with;; the Lake Coleridge power scheme, in preference to tho Clarence River scheme,' which. they hoped would ho thought bo inost : promising of the:proposals before tho- Government. •'■■:.' .'. • Mrs. Eolleston, Hair Physiotan and Toilet Specialist,- has returned. , Appointments, may bo booked for the latest and most scientific Hair and Face Trcat"ments. Electrolysis, etc. .English,- American, and Continental experience. 4. Willis Street, Wellington. 'Phono 1593.—. .Advt, •'■ ■-. . •■■•'