LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1014, 2 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Maheno arrived in Auckland- at 1 p.m. yesterday, with mails aboard from England aud America via Vancouver,. from England via Suez, and from Australia. Tho Wellington and southern portion of the mails will arrive by Main Trunk express this afternoon.

Tho Rev, P. C. Bales reported last evening ns follows:—Strong north-westerly winds, stormy and showery

The To Aro and Thorndon Baths will bo open all day to-day.

The Anglican Bishops of New Zealand have intimated that it is their desire that no clergyman be married within three years of his ordination to the diacouate. The "Church Chronicle" aho states that the Bishop of Wellington desires that no marring® be celebrated in private houses, except in cases whero both aro living, at least six miles .from a church or church-room.

A feature of the New Year celebrations was the total absenco of anything approaching riotous disorder in the streets. Special police patrols had been provided, but their services wero only slightly requisitioned in maintaining order.

Much interest is being taken in the forthcoming examinations for admission to tho Australian Military College. Tho examinations will bo of a competitive character, and the ten highest in the list will ba chosen to .enter on a military career. Already tho defence authorities liavn made application to the Victoria College Council to conduct the examinations some time 1 about the middlo of February. .Candidates from other parts of New Zealand, it is understood, will be required to come to Wellington.

The two stained glass windows in memory of the 1-ato Colonel Gorton will shortly b: erected in St. Martin's Anqliean Church, Grentford. It is hoped that tjift Bishop of Ihe- diocefe (Dr. Wallis) will be able (o dedicate them.

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Although the bays and beaches were particularly alluring in the warm sunny weather oi' yesterday, a large number of people visited the Botanical Gardens, where an open-air concert by the Gamton Band was a strong attraction.

Mr. George Todd, the diver who has been engaged in salvage operations at the wrcck of the Wnikare in Dusky Sound, has been in Dunediu, and ivill bo returning shortly to take out the boilers and steering gear. He told a "Daily Times" reporter on Friday that operations have so far been very successful, but it is feared that tho owner, Mr. F. Crockett, will have some trouble in disposing of tho pumps and other gear. Tho copper nnd brass salved left the Bluff by tho Ulimaroa for Melbourne, where the propeller was also disposed of. The silver of the Waikare was sold in Invcrcargill last week, and the liquor in the vowel found a buyer at the Bluff. Sir. Todd's opinion was that there was no chance of floating the vessel. Tho damage which she received when she struck was nothing counured with what she snstaiaed after submersion. Tho fore part, which was lying on tho rocks, is lieyond repair. Tho diver says t-liov work of salvage has been tho most difficult one he has hitherto had' experience of, for tho reason that everything taken out had to he extracted in the opposite way from that by which it went in.

Two Australian visitors, Messrs. R. W. Meiklejohn (Sydney) and Jas. Meiklejohn (Brisbane), who are at present staying at the Royal Hotel (says.. the Auckland

"Herald"), report excellent trout fishing at Lake Taupo. Til one day they sccurcd 31 fish, weighing 2161h.'

According to Mr. W. A. Prickitt, United States Consul-General for New Zealand, who , has returned to Auckland aftor a visit to America, that country is in a very prosperous condition just now*. Mr. Prickitt went so far as to say that thero is no unemployment, and every man who really iviints work can obtain it—"Herald/

It had been tho custom of the New Zealand Shipping Company for years past when one of their liners conies to \Vanganui, to send men up from Wellingto load the vessel, the reason given for' this being that the local . wharf hands were unsuitable (says the Wanganni

"Chronicle"). Tliey seem to have changed their mind recently, for when the Opawa was loaded in the roadstead' sho was loaded by the local men, who proved capable in every way. . The lighters, averaging 2GO' bales of wool to the trip, were each discharged in two and a-half hours, and 110 bales wcro loaded in ono hour and fifteen minutes. This compares, favourably with, if not better than,. the tiino taken by the Wellington men sent up to, do the same work. The men who loaded. the Opawa were , not specially fielectcd, so that it goes to show that, tho local men compare more than favourably v.;ith those from Wellington. It may be mentioned that , the Tyser Line is also in the habit of bringing men from other ports to load its vessels;