LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1098, 10 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I in .Malu-no arrived in Auckland yesterday at noon with mails aboard from T," ,",!'?,• i,ml ,rom Kn ?'"»l. via Suez. J lie Wellington and southern portion of tho mails will arrive hero by the Main J runic express this afternoon.

Advice has been received at the General I ost Olhce that tho steamer Knight oi fcr. lieorge arrived at, Auckland veslorday with n .sinnll New Zealand mail irom han l'raneiseo. The Wellington and southern portion will b c brought flnwn, along with th o ordinary Australian iind English mails, by the Main Inink express arriving this afternoon.

Referring on Saturday evening t n the Iramway shelter shed at the J'ost Office, Or. Cameron said that, in his opinion, it was a. disgrace to the corporation. ' On Saturday morning, the steamirawipr Aora Niven arrived in port after 2,'°." r ty;*' trawling cruise in Cook otraiis. rile expedition was a most successful one. fur the vessel landed 3500 bundles of fish of all descriptions, including schnapper, mold, flatfish, gurnet, ami terakihi. This load represents about -■> tons. Captain Eastiek fays that schnappor is very plentiful iii Cook hlrait at the present time. Some very large shoals of porpoises and blackflsh were also seen during the cruise

110 , 1 cl now being built at Suva I'lji. by the Union Steam Ship Company jiromises (says «ho "Olago Daily limes ) to be an imposing building, l't is situated in bcauthully laid-out grounds. The verandahs and balconies surrounding it, loft.-wide, will give everv opporlunity to visitors to view tho attractive environments of the town. There \r n accommodation for fifty persons, (... D. Hall, the contractor, is now in buva, and, as the work is being pushed on us speedily as possible, it is anticipated the hotel will be readv duriii" next year s tourist, season.

I have, no sympathy with people who stop and talk on the public footpaths." said Dr. Cameron in his address at the oydney Street .Schoolroom on Saturday evening. If they wished to talk, said Dr. Cameron, they should adjourn to a side street.

In continuation of the remarkably impressive mission held last yenr by a number of Anglican clergymen from England under the leadership of Canon E. A. Stuart, special midday mission services for men and for women will be held in Wellington to-day, and on Tuesday and Wednesday. Those for men will take place at St. Peter's, Upper Willis Street, at 12.20 and 1.20 p.m.. and those for women at St. Paul's, Thorndon. at the same hours. The Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Wallis) will conduct the service at St. Paul's to-duy at 12.20. end at St. Peter's on Wednesday, at 12.20. As the. Bishop leave; for England before the end of the prc.-ent month, the chuichpeople of Wellington will not have many more opportunities of hearing him.

Ihe following resolutions were passed by p. meeting of the Wellington Operative Uootmakers' Union on Friday night:— 'That in the event of the boot'manufacturers attempting to obtain a further increase in the tariff on imported boots, .this union recommends the executive of the Bootmakers' Federation of New Zealand to strenuously oppose the attempt." "That after hearing the representative of tho conference hold in Auckland between tho boot manufacturers and tho employees, this union is of opinion that no scarcity of male or female boot trade labour exists in Auckland."

Very soon now there will be no schools iu the middle of the (own. Schools follow tho residential population, ami as the demands of commerce expand land formerly wholly occupied for residential purposes is given over to factories, warehouses, and shops. The Roman Catholic authorities bacaine aware of tho outward movement of the residential population a decade ago, ami laid their plans accordingly. Long ago now,they sought and obtained power to dispose of their central school grounds, and secure others nearer the people. For forty years past tho Sisters of Mercy have'conducted a school in Dixon Street (near tho junction with Willis. Street). This property, a.fin.e level section, 77ft. by 27' lit., has been sold through tho agency of J. Fanning and Co. to Messrs. Sharland and Co., for iI5 p ,OO. Jt is tho intention of tho firmto build an up-to-date factory, warehouse, and office building, and. then transfer the whole of its business from the present quarters iu Willcston Street to Dixon Street.

To-morrow evening, Professor D. IC. Picken, M.A., is to deliver a lecture on "Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry" under the. auspices of the Wellington Philosophical Society's astronomical section. At the conclusion of the lecture a discussion will ta)« place- on the housing of the equatorial telescope.

Overcrowding on the trams is one of the main causes of influenza, according to Dr. Cameron. The same authority stated on Saturday evening that it was no uncommon thing for- parents with children suffering from scarlet fever to take them to ami from the doctors in tho cars.

On Saturday the police received a telegram advising that a man, named Edward Reynolds, had bsen arrested at Rotonta on Friday evening on a charge of supplying an instrument for an unlawful purpose. Accused was admitted to bail in the sum of. .£IOO and two sureties of ,£SO each. He is to appear at Wellington this week.

Tho City Council will hold a special meeting on Wednesday next, at 1.30 p.m., to consider tenders for annual supplies. It is probable that tho Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.) will upon the same occasion deliver a .statement upon the financial operations of tho year just ended. Anniversary services in connection with tho Primitive Methodist Sunday School, in Donald M'Leon Street, were held in the church yesterday, when special addresses appropriate to the occasion wore delivered. The morning service was conducted by tho pastor ol the church (tho Jlev. G. A. Sims), whoso subject was, "What Shall wd do With the Children?" Mr. H. N. Holmes (general secretary of iho Y.M.C.A.), addressed the children at the. afternoon service, basing his remarks on what Lord Cromer had enunciated as the tenets of youthful learning—"Loyalty, tell the truth, and don't dawdle." A largo congregation was present at tlu , evening service, which was presided over by the l?ev. E. 0. Blamires. Special anthems were rendered by a capable choir, under Mr. Mairs, conductor, and accom-

panied by Mi;s Embury, at the organ, Tho celebrations will be continued to-

morrow evening, when the annual tea and public meeting will bo held. An. excellent programme of items by the children has bec-fc arranged. Mr. E. Feltham, the superintendent, will preside.

A tender has been accepted at X7OOO for the new Hukarere School and residential buildings at To Ante, Hawke's Bay. The buildings will be of caiuerated concrete. The Governor and Lady Islington will be invited to lay the foundation stones.

The annual returns for the Wanganui Education District show that the number of children receiving instruction in public schools is 11,21}!), comprising 7R13 boys and 6650 girls. In all classes, the number of boys exceeds the' number of

girls, except that in the Seventh Standard there are two more girls than boys. The number of pupils of private schools inspected by the board's inspectors was 803. The board derived a revenue of ,£32 11s. fid. from this inspection. There were (iO schools with Maori children in attendance, tho number of pupils being 124.

It is not. often that an experienced chairman of n local body is constrained to suggest the advisability of hiring somebody lo break the law. Yet (says the Timaru "Post") such was the liaifhumorous suggestion of Mr. C. N. Orboll nt the meeting of Hie Levels County Council on Wednesday in reference to Hie long-delayed duty of the Kailway ])e----l)artiucnt lo fence in the line between Washdyke and Pleasant Point. "Wo should, perhaps," ho said, "employ a man who does not worry about the dispracc of paol, (o drive Miren alnnj; that line continiinlly. and take the consef|uonce=, until the Departuunit is impressed wilh the advisability of fencinc; in the line." "Oh, it has been done before 10-day," the chairman added, in reply lo the General voice of protest, and he recounted » similar instance in C'v.iInil Otago, which had forced the Department .lo effect the dosired reform. The Fealherston County Council has decided to re-deck the large bridge at the foot of the Eimulakn on the Wairarapa fide; also to strengthen the first bridge ovor the Tnuherinikau Kiver, on the road to Imvtown,