LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 998, 13 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the [ s.s. TJlnniiron, which sailed from Sydney at 6 p.m. on December 10, lias on board I an Australian mail. She is due in Wel- • luigton to-morrow (Wednesday) fqraioon. • Major-General A. F. Godley, C.8., : Commandant of the Now Zealand Forces, . entered upon his official duties yosterj day, and spent the greater part of the , day at general headquarters, Alexandra ' ii? rr ?, clcs ' m conference with Colonel A. Sv^Y'■£■£- Chief of tho General Staff. All officers of the Wellington Garrison are requested to assemble at tho Garrison Officers' Clubroom this 1 ■ evening at 8 o'clock to meet Major-General Godley and the other officers who accompanied him from Sydney. Dress: Undress uniform with belt; no swords. ,„ T jl? unavoidable postponement of 'the i Wellington Amateur Athletic Club's . sports carnival on Saturday left that body in an uniortunate position, as it had gone to considerable expense in making preparations. To postpone the meeting to a date later than Saturday next was impossible, as many intending competitors will shortly bo departing on their Christmas holidays. Yesterday, Mr. J. H. Pollock, on behalf of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Association laid the position before Mr. M. Luckie, chairman of the Cricket Association Management Committee. Mr. Luckie, with the concurrenco of his colleagues on the executive, agreed that cricketers should waive their right to occupy tho Basin Reserve on Saturday next. Later Messrs. Luckie and Pollock obtained tho consent of the llesorves Committee of tho City Council to this arrangement. The members of the committee responsible for organising the sports meeting desire to express their gratitude to tho Cricket Association for the consideration it has shown. A sheep-farmer who was in the witness Bland at the Supreme Court yesterday, stated that having lately realised on a property he sent a sum of .£35,000 to the Argentine to be loaned at 9. per. cent. ■ Another largo sum he invested in Queensland and a smaller amount he invested locally in horses, because, as he put it, "they are not taxed." "Probablv," his Honour interjected, "the Solicitor-General will now turn his attention to horses." It is anticipated that tho sittings of tho Supremo Court at Greymouth, over which Mr. Justice Chapman is presiding, will not conclude until December 20, when the long vacation commences. His- Honour intends spending a holiday -in the glacier country. A second-class passenger by the Eotorua which arrived here from London on Sunday is suffering from lunacy and has not been permitted to land'by the Health authorities. lie is detained on board the vessel for tho present. A person who purchases liquor with tin? intention ot taking the sanie into a No-Liecnso area must inform tho vendor of the liquor of that intention, and hand him his name and address ,in writing. For neglecting this little formality—it was a matter of two quarts—a man named John Delaney was fined 405., with 7s. costs, in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. Tho option was seven days' "imprisonment, and he was given no extra time wherein to find the money. As from yesterduy, the railway station for so long known as Oroua Bridge will take tho name of Kangiotu. The jubilee number of "Blue and White," the St. Patrick's College magazine, forms an excellent souvenir of the 25th anniversary of that institution. The history of the college is told in a wellwritten article, illustrated with portraits'' of promoters, benefactors, rectors, professors, and "ex-I'ntricians." There is also an alphabetical list of students wlio'i have passed through the college with their present addresses, besides a great deal of other personal matter of great interest to those connected with the college. . The usual records of recent college happenings are also included, and taken altogether -the issue reflects' much credit on those responsible for it's production. It will be eagerly read and carefully stored in ■ many private archives. Souvenir copies, specially bound in green leather, bearing the college device, have been presented to Archbishop Redwood, Bishop, Grimes, tho Hon. D. liuddo (Acting-Minis-ter for Education), the Mayor (slr. Wilford, M.P.), Mr. Martin Kennedy, and Mr. Maurice O'Connor. Mr. K, A. AVright, M.P.,- will address his constituents on Friday evening next at St. Thomas's Hall, Riddiford Street, Newtown. The chair will be taken at S p.m. . ' A petition, signed by over one hundred lady residents of Petone, has been forwarded to the Borough Council asking for increased bathing-shed accommodation on the beach. A lengthy discussion took place at the meeting of tho Petone Borough Council, held last night, over the adoption of the new by-laws concerning drainage, sanitation, and gas lighting. Councillor Piper moved a number of amendments, many of which lapsed for want of a y seconder. After he had proposed several other amendments and had entered upon a prolonged explanation of his ideas on gas and gas-fittings in general, he was pulled- up by tho Mayor exclaiming: "Is Councillor Piper going to speak' all night, or is ho going to givo anybody else a chance?" This caused a temporary hastening of 'the debate, but at a late hour tho new by-laws were still under consideration. In the Magistrate's. Court yesterday a man named Henry Grell was remanded until to-morrow on a charge of breaking and entering a dwelling by night and stealing seven bottles of whisky. Yesterday Detectives Abbott and Mason ■ arrested a man named Percy George Hester for alleged complicity in the samo affair. He will appear 'at the Magistrate's Court to-day.