LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1104, 18 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the Warrimoo, which left Sydney at 2 p.m. on Saturday, has on board an Australian mail. She is due here on Wednesday morning. Owing to adverse weather conditions, horticulture has not flourished as is usual in the Ilutt Valley this autumn. As growers all round have suffered, tho Hutt Valley Horticultural Society has decided to abandon its chrysanthemum show, which was to have been held this month. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Anglican Church at Karon will be performed by the Bishop of Wellington (the Right Rev. Dr. Wallis) at 3 o'clock this afternoon. This will bo Dr. Wallis's last official .ceremony in tho diocese. Hs -leaves for England on Thursday. As a cab containing a bride and bridegroom left a certain church in Wellington yesterday, it was greeted with yells of laughter. The merriment grew as the cab proceeded down crowded Cuba Street. A sccond cab containing the bridesmaids started out hotly in pursuit, but could not draw up close. So the bride's cab went gaily on to its destination, the blissful couple all unaware of tho fact that, attached to tho glossy back of their vehicle, was a big placard of the "Bad Girl of tho Family." A conference of Government District. Valuers was commenced yesterday at the Valuation Department's Office in Wellington, the Valuer-General, Mr. F. W. Flannagan, presiding. Tho object of the conference is to assist valuers, in arriving at a common basis of valuation. The homestead of Mr. Fred. Roberts, r. farmer of IConako, Pohangina (20 miles from Palmerston North), was burnt under somewhat mysterious circumstances on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts left tho place at 11 a.m. to visit fome neighbours, and on returning at 6 p.m. found their home in ashes. Everything, was all right when they left, and Mr. Roberts cannot conceive how the fire originated. The building was insured.