LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 975, 16 November 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the s.s. Mocraki, which left Sydney at 6 p.m. on November 12, has on board Australian mails. She is due here today. The mails which left Wellington on October 7 per s.s. Moana and connected at Sydney with the Brindisi mails by the R.M.S. India arrived in London on the afternoon of November 11. Professor T. 11. Laby, of the Chair of Physics at Victoria College, delivered an interesting lecture on the subject of "The Pressure of Light," before tlio the astronomical branch of the Philosophical Society, in the Physics Lecture Room at the College last evening. The lecturer discussed, historically, the progress of scientific investigation upon the laws of 'light, from Euler to the present day, illustrating, by actual experiment, the means adopted for tho verification of certain hypotheses, and included in his address some interesting observations upon tho laws of. radiation. At the conclusion of the lecture points for elucidation were submitted to Professor Laby, and tho subject matter of the address discussed by those present. Mr. T. 51. Wilford offered a reason yesterday as to why "a creat deal, ot this extraordinary legislation gets oii to the Statute Book." Tho Mayor was welcoming to Wellington the members of the Poultry Conference. Ho stated that he was not an expert iu poultry matters, and added, "but we are expected to know about all • sorts of things." One day they (presumably members of Parliament) were dealing with tho matter of magnetic brakes on tramcars, the next day discussing whether or not a baker's cart was a shop, within the meaning of the Shops and Offices Act, and then unravelling the problem of whether a striko was not a strike, and that was a reason why they were criticised by tho experts in the newspapers. The General Manager of Railways (Mr. T. Ronayne) has written to Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P., as follows:—"With refetenco to your interview respecting the proposal of the Railway Department to take a portion of .the existing Thorndon Esplanade for railway purposes, I have tho honour to inform you that it has now been decided to take no further action in the matter at the present juncture." It is reported that Mr. F. Kissel, engineer to the Sehvyn County Council, has been appointed by tho Government to superintend the harnessing of Lako Coleridge for the generating of electrical power. Mr. Kissel was associated with Mr. Hay, late chief engineer, in making the- preliminary surveys at Lako Coleridge, and presented a special report to tho Christchurch City Council on tho scheme. The committee of the complimentary concert recently tendered to Mrs. Sutcliffo, the well-known teacher of elocution, have handed that lady a purso of sovereigns, being the net result of the entertainment. Tho expenses in connection with tho concert amounted to £20 ISs. Mr. J. S. Jamieson, president, occupied the chair at the meeting of tho Societ for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday, and seven members were present. In the matter of several cases of cruelty reported by Inspector Seed, it was decided to have the opinion of the society's solicitor respecting taking action in one instance, where it was alleged that a colt had been cruelly illtre'ated and neglected. The receipts of tho; following subscriptions were announced: —Mrs. R. Simpson, 10s. 6d.; Messrs. G. Tolhurst, A. Fitchett, and the Hon. D. JYaser, 10s. each; Mrs. J. Young, Dr. R. A. Cameron, and Messrs. I<\ M. B. Fisher, W. R. Brock, Jenkins and Mack, and E. Morris, and tho New Zealand. Bible Depot, ss. each ; Mr. Morrison, 2s. 6d. ■■■■,■■ The ways of Parliament were not by any means eulogised by tho Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford) when welcoming tho members of tho Poultry Conference yesterday. He said that he hoped the conferenco would not follow the examplo of Parliament in conducting tedious discussions. Recently, ho liao presided. over a conference of all' the municipal councils in New Zealand, and it lasted for three days. If it had been a Parliamentary proceeding it would not have been finished in three months. A danger that awaits careless publicans is foreshadowed in a paragraph from an Adelaide paper of a recent date. This records that Percy R. Bnimage, landlord of the Glanville Hotel, was fined 20s. and costs for having allowed two unregistered barmaids, to servo liquor. Barmaids are gradually disappearing in South Australia, .as the law does not allow the engagement of. any who were not registered when the prohibition statute was passed two years ago. ' The New South Wales Minister for Lands apparently sees no good in. the land agent, at least in so far as his occupation is concerned with the Department over which ho presides. He has issued the'following minute: —"I wish to inform officers in charge of branches that I intend to discourage as much as possible visits of land agents to this Department. In future they, should bo requested to put in writing their requests on behalf of clients. I intend publicly to state that there will be no need iu future for the intervention of land agents, and that any member of the public who has business 1 in tho Department can have his business attended, to as promptly by writing direct or by visiting the Department." ■ The representative for Patho Freres (Mr. E. J. Hyams) states that ho has made no application to tho City Council to hold an open-air kinematograph display oh the Basin as has been reported. Tho firm itself did not exhibit pictures, but only, sold or leased out films for exhibition. Prisoners who will to-day be brought before his Honour the Chief Justice for sentence are: John Harrison, found guilty on Monday of robbery with violence, and Ernest White, convicted on the samo day of having assaulted a girl at Wellington on September 4 last. In connection with yesterday's report of the Hutt Borough Council's meeting of Monday evening, stating that £100 had been voted to Messrs. Mason and Marchant for services rendered, it should bo explained that the amount mentioned, was tho balance of. tho account owing to those gontlemon. Tho use of an extra room on the recreation ground for training purposes was also granted by the council at Monday evening's meeting. Tho following special order will como up for confirmation at to-morrow evening's meeting of .the City Council: —"Tho Wellington City Council do hereby, by special order, pursuant to tho provisions of Clause 578 of Tho Wellington City By-law No. 1, 190S, fix the sum of ninepenco per thousand gallons for all water supplied through a meter, subject to the deductions authorised by tho Tho Wellington City By-law No. 1, 1008, as tho charge for tho supply of water for all purposes of extraordin-, ary supply." The Timaru Borough Council last night accepted tho tender of the Bavrowficld Iron Works for SoO tons of castiron water pipes, for £6054. —Press Association. Having made a careful analytical study of every phase and condition of Baldness, Mrs. PiOLLESTON has just returned from iho principal centres of Hair Cultui'o in London, Paris, an J America. Her rooms have been extended and refitted ' with tho most modern appliances for tho treatment of Baldness, i Willis Street ' (over CaxxoU'sl. Tel. 1589.-Advt.