LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Glover, M.P., amused the House of Representatives again last night with his famous invocation. Another member had faid something unpleasant about the city that sends Mr. Glover to 'Wellington— something about dirt.. The niomte for Auckland Central sprang to his feet, and protested against the base aspersion. His voico rang out: "My beautiful Queen City of the North! There she sits upon the Waiteinata—ray beautiful Queen City of the. North!" Members wero pleased to see Mr. Glover in his old form, and their laughter was full of good humour.

"11l the abolition 'of tho bookmaker," said Jlr. D. Buick in Parliament yesterday, "tho House has doiio sopiothiug that will entitle it to the gratitude of tha generations to come. I hopo that individual will never again bo lot loose on tho innocent population of New Zealand. 110 was a parasite on the racing community."

The offering of flowers at yesterday's market sales was the heaviest seen in tho. markets for several,years, and as a result selling values were, much lower than tho prices which have ruled of late. Jonquils, daffodils, and narcissi sold at dd. to Gd. per dozen ' blooms, violets Gd. to 10(1. per dozen bunches, anemones 2d. to 3d. per dozen, and freesias sd. to Gd. per dozen.

A member of Parliament who cannot fiud his district is surely entitled to sympathy. This is tho unhappy, position of Mr. Wilford, tho member for Hntt. Ho notified tho Government in Parliament yesterday that he would ask them. to prepare a map of tho Hutt, showing the new electoral district. It seems, lie states, almost impossible to locate it from plana or from the description in the Gazette. It was stated that the district was- bounded on tho west by tho NapierWellington railway; also that, it included tho boroughs of Petone ami Lower Hutt. As the borough of Petone extended beyond tho Napier-Wellington railway, it was difficult to find the district.

The Coronation number of the "Onlooker" is just to hand. It is beautifully got up, and amongst the many interesting features are the portraits of the standardbearers of the Empire, who formed part of the Coronation procession in Westminster Abbey—the first occasion on which India and the overseas Dominions wero so represented at a crowning of a British King. The procession and tho Coronation in the Abbey are described in a series of splendidly-illustrated articles bath grave and humorous, while the various social functions of the week are also described at some length.

Tho Worser Bay Swimming Club hold a social gathering last evening at the Worser Bay Kiosk. The cup and medals won during tho year were presented by the member for tho district, Mr. J. P. Luke.

On Thursday evening next a deputation will wait upon the Wellington City Council with the object of urging the construction of a new recreation ground upon that portion of tho Town Belt which is situated between the Brooklyn tramlino and the Ohiro Boad< It is believed that <i play ing-ground of some six acres can be secured upon this site at a reasonable cost.