LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

•The postal authorities advise that the s.s. Maheno, which sailed from Sydney at noon on November 16 for Auckland, lias on board an Australian mail, also the English mail via Suez.' The Wellington portion should reach hero by the Main Trunk express on Monday, November 21. ' So numerous are the entries for the various events in tho band contest to be held at Palmerston in February that difficulty is being experienced in. securing an adequate supply of music, although a much larger quantity had been ordered than for any previous contost. The annual dinner of the Wellington branch of the British Medical Association was held at the Hotel Windsor last evening, Dr. J. E. Purdy being in the chair. About 35 members of tho medical fraternity were present, and song, story, ,and personal reminiscence helped to while away a very pleasant evening. A Press Association message states that a violent earthquake occurred at Waipawa at a quarter to S on Thursday evening. On tho arrival of the Monowai. at Napier yesterday a passenger was arrested on a charge of alleged wife desertion at Wellington. Prisoners still to be tried at the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court, now in progress, are Arthur Wilson (assault), Cornelius Moloney (arson), John Griffiths (housebreaking), Wm. Watkins (bigamy and false declaration under tho Marriage Act). In reference to the Public Holidays Bill, Mr. William Pryor, secretary of the No,w Zealand Employers' Federation, has written to the Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Internal Affairs, stating that the Parliamentary Committeo of the association expresses general apI proval of its terms, but tho federation is of opinion that so far as bank holidays are concerned they should be still further reduced. It is submitted that tho observance of Saints' Days, which arc not observed by other portions of tho community as holidays, is unnecessary, and is frequently tho causo of I considerable inconvenience to business 1 people. It is therefore hoped that tho Minister will see his way to delete from tho list of holidays to bo observed by the banks: St, Patrick's Day, St. George's Day, and St. Andrew's Day, and to secure tho support of Parliament to that end. Having made a careful analytical study of every phase and condition of Baldness, Mrs. KOLLESTON has just returned from tlio principal centres of Hair Culture in London, Paris, am! America. Her rooms have been extended and refitted with tho most modern appliances for the treatment of Baldness, i Willis Street ,i (over Carroll's). Tel. 1599.—Advt. ]

The Nelson branch of the Navy League has -written to Mr. C. W. Palmer, secretary of tlie Wellington branch asking him to endeavour to arrange with tho Flag-Captain for a visit of the Nelson juvenile, members of tho league to H.M.S. Powerful during her forthcoming visit to that' port. At tho Mount Cook Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. S. Lambert, J.P., Minnie Brown, arrested for insobriety in Sages Lane, had been bailed out for 10s. Not appearing, she was fined the amount of her bailfin default 48 hours', imprisonment.'- William Dugley and John Mills each pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness. They were each" fined 10s., in default 48 hours' imprisonment. A first-offender, in a similar charge, was convicted and discharged. "Though some 26,000 infants are born every year in the Dominion," says the Chief. Health Officer in his annual report, "only 5 per cent., are vaccinated, tie majority of parents do _ not oven trouble to apply for exemption." "I cannot advise a repeal of the present law," adds Dr. Valintine, "but I would most strongly urgo that, if it bo decided that the law is not to bo more rigorously administered than heretofore, it would be better to repeal the law, and, in the event qf an outbreak, provide by Order-in-Council that all persons within a certain area be_ vaccinated unless they can show satisfactory evidenco of recent vaccination." Mr. Raymond Priestley, who was engaged on geological survey work with the Siiaclckton Antarctic Expedition, and'is now one of the members of Captain Scott's Expedition, from Sydney on Wednesday, en route to 1/yttelton. Mr. Priestley was. only 21 years of age when he joined the previous Antarctic venture, and. except for , h\a ttvreos assets tA BnfeVi wiytctsfty, iaA formerly dona. Kttfe •'jTSfcttca 1 work in geology. Discussing with an interviewer his work in connection with the former expedition, Mr. Priestley remarked that tie most important geological discovery was that .of the I archaeocyathimae limestones on the Beardmoro Glacier. These were the ancestors of the corals and sponges, and l>elong'to the claim of life. Certain existing conditions enabled us to name the ago of the rocks with a fair amount of certainty, even though we might secure only two cubic inches of the limestone. Another feature of importance was that the same formation was also found in South Australia, and this emphasised the close resemblance between tho geological structure of South Australia and that section of tho Antarctic. ■ . i. On Sunday next both services at St. Poter's Anglican Church will be. conducted by the Ven. Archdeacon Harper, tho nowly-appointed vicar of the church.. Mr. James Knight, of Feilding," who returned from tho Argentine and England by the Ruapehu yesterday, tells of the unfortunate experiences of Mr. Ernest Short, the well-known Breeder of Romney sheep. Mr. Knight states that' Mr. Short had only been a fortnight in Buenos Ayres (just time enough to see his prize sheep judged nt. the big show) . when he was attacked with a kidney trouble which laid him ,up for a time. More trouble followed in England; where Mrs. Short, who followed her husband Home, became . ill with rheumatic'fever. ' Mr. and Mrs. Short are returning by the new steamer Rotorua in about three weeks' time.