LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1166, 17 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evidently there is money to bo made out of growing (lowers. A Ilutt resident sent to (ho market yesterday jonquil blooms sufficient to about fill a banana case. The price realised at the auction was over £7 10s. In the lot there were 52 bundles and the figure at which they were knocked down to the florist was 2s. lid. a bundle. As the bundles contained about 30 blooms the buyer paid a penny and a sixth per bloom. Violets sold at the same sale at from is. Bd. to 2s. id. a dozen bunches. The magisterial inquiry into tho circumstances surrounding, tho recent collision on the Jlaiuuvatu liiver between the steamers Himitangi and Wairau will open at the Magistrate's Court at 10 a.m. on Holiday, June 2G, and will bs presided over by Dr. A. JPArlluir, S.M. Captains C. Post and P. Black have been appointed assessors. Messrs. Pindlay,' Dalzicll and Co. have been retained for I'll* owners ol the Himitangi, Messrs. Gray and Jackson for the master of that vessel, Messrs. YY'ill'ord and Levi for the owner of the AVairau, and Messrs. Herdman and Kirkealdio for the master. The. evidence of Jtr. A. H. Woodnutt, first mate of the Himitangi, was takciii at the Wellington Hospital yesterday afternoon, as that witness is shortly to undergo an operation. Suez Mails: Our Jlaslerton correspondent states that, at a meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, aresolution was passed strongly supporting tho Wellington Chamber in. its proposals concerning (lie Suez mails. There was a large attendance at' the Garrison Officers' Club last evening, when very interesting lectures were giveu by Major J. G. Hughes, D.5.0., of the General Stall' at Bea/lduarters, and Captain A. A. Corrig'an, of the sth Wellington Killes. Major Hughes's subject was: "How to carry out the musketry training of a company." In the course of his remarks ho drew largely upon his observations at tho famous ll'ythe School of Musketry, to which ho was for some time attached

when he was in England for instruction. Captain Corrigan continued the scries of lectures which arc being given by various officers on selected actions in the RussoJapanese War, basing his remarks on tho battlo of tho Yalu.

About 300 juvenile members of tho Navy League visited (he Cambrian yesterday.

On Sunday, June 18, Mr. R. Coupland Hiirding,"'of ( Wellington, completes his fitly years as printer and journalist in this country. On Juno IS, 1801, ho was bound apprentice to the "Hawkc's Bay Times," the first daily paper to be printed between Wellington and Auckland, and remained with that paper until 1871. Mr. Harding has now been a resident of Wellington for many years.

Councillor J. B. Fitzgerald lias Riven notice of his intention to niovo, at Hie next meeting of tlio City Council, that tlio sum of .£2OOO -bo placed on the city estimates for the current year, to bo expended in planling, improving, nml extendiue the Kilbirnie Recreation Ground. Councillor Fitzgerald told a reporter yesterday that, upon searching the draft estimates, ho had discovered that no provision whatever had been made for expenditure upon the Kilbirnie reserve. General Godley is to deliver a. brief address at' the Orphans' Club this cveniw. Tlio programme will bo of, a patriotic character in honour of tlio Coronation. Thursday next, Coronation Day, will be observed as a bank holiday by. the .banks throughout the Dominion. Dr. Arnold Izard will give an address toi the women of Wellington North in the Sydney Street Schoolroom on Thursday, June 2D.