LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1188, 25 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that tho s.s. Moann, which left Sydney at noon on ■July 22, has on board an Australian mail. She is due to arrive here to-mor-row morning.

At a meeting of the ratepayers of Khandalkh, held in the Anglican Schoolroom lust evening, it was decided to take a poll on a proposal to raise by loan tho sum of .£ISOO for the erection of a hall in the Khandallah Ward of the Onslow Borough. The meeting, which was well attended despite the weather, was presided over by the Mayor (Mr. i'rank Holdsworth), who alter outlining the proposals put the following resolutions, which wero carried i—"( 1) That this meeting approve tho desirability of erecting a public hall for Khandallah Ward of tho Borough of Onslow. (2) That the council take into consideration the question of providing a floor which can be used for rinking. {■J) That the council take into favourable consideration the spending of the full amount authorised."

Yesterday Detectives Hammond and Kemp arrested a man, who will appear at the Magistrate's Court this morning charged with theft of a ring and tic-pin, valued at .£6, the property of Edith Berquist. Detective Lewis also arrested a' man vesterday on a charge of stealing two parrots, valued at £20, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company. The parrots are alleged to have been stolen about April 12 last from It.U.S. Aorangi.

The Napier "Telegraph" has established a, record in mis-statement. In an editorial note, headed "Mr. Massey and Mckau," in its issue of Saturday, it actuallv says:-"He (Mr. Massey) complained that tho Hon. James Carroll signed the Oider-in-Couucil he alleged. If that had been so there was nobody else who could sign it, as Minister, and in any case, unless moral oi legal wrong w;i3 suggested, the utterances of the Leader of tho Opjiosition wero without point. It now turns out that there was no Order-in-Council at all, that the company purchased from a Hawke's Boy syndicate which Bad the property in tho open market looking for a sale, and consequently, if there is anything wrong about the purchase from tho Natives, we in this'district have to find the culprits in our midst." If the Napier "Telegraph" will turn to the Government Gazette of March SO, 1911, it will see the official publication of tho Ordcr-in-Coiincil which it tells its readers does not exist.

A telegraph office at Parliament Buildings will be opened from to-day.

On the motion of Mr. J. AY. Macdonald, the Supremo Court yesterday granted to the Public Trusteo probate of the wills of tho undermentioned deceased persons-.— Enoch Allthorpe, late of Avowlalo, farmer; Patrick Thomas Fair, late of Palinerston North, farmer; James Muir, late of Karangahake, farmer. Orders to administer were also granted to the Public Trustee in respect ot the estates of the following-.-Joseph Skeats, late of Cobden, boilermaker; John M'Dougall, late of Oamaru, shepherd; Augusta Catherine M'Manawav, late of AVhakatalvuri, married woman; Frederick William Benn, late of Cheviot, brewer; Alfred Ernest Kirkby, late of Ngnrunwahia, grocer; George M'Auley, late of Rotorua, general mechanic.

Mi. Evan Parry, who has just arrived in the Donfinion to take charge of the electrical water power development scheme, is to bo the guest at a New Zealand Club luncheon on Thursday.-

In connection with the charges of theft from city warehouses, pending against several defendants, who are on remand, the total goods, mentioned in the charges as stolen from Messrs. AY. and 0. Turnuull, are valued at JcU'i 6s. 6d.

AVest's, Ltd., showed pictures of the Coronation procession and scenes taken in London on Coronation Day (Juno 22) in Sydney last evening—only ;U days after the "great national event. This is said to be it record in the transportation of kincmatograph films from London to the Antipodes.