LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1310, 13 December 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the s.s. Tahiti, which left Sydney at 2 p.m. on December 11, has on board an Australian mail, also an English mail via Suez. She is due to arrive in Wellington on Friday next, December 15. Owing to the unseasonable weather, the summer show of the Wellington Roso and Carnation Club, which was to have been held to-day, has been postponed until December 27. The show will be held in tho Concert Chamber of tho Town Hall. Under tho auspices of the club, Mr. Trevethick is to deliver a lecture on tho cultivation of sweet peas on Friday evening next at Godber's Rooms. Tho Telegraph Department advises that tho new deferred press messages to tho United Kingdom arc sent via Pacific only. The word "deferred" must bo included in tho address, and be charged as one word. Auckland's new Town Hall is to be formally opened by his Excellency tho Governor at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Part of the ceremony will consist of the presentation of memorial medallions to the exMayors of tho city. In the evening an organ recital will bo given by Mr. Maugban Barnctt, of Wellington, Over 3000 invitations haw been issued for tho ceremony. The New Town Holl at Miramar will be opened on Saturday next, at 3 p.m.

The son of the First Lord of tho Admiralty and Mrs. Winston Churchill was baptised in the crypt of Hie IToiise of Commons on October 2G. Ho was given tho names of Randolph I'Tedcrick Edward. Tho sponsors wore Sir Edward Ctrc-v, Mr. I'. 10. Smith, uud Viscountess Kidlcy, for whom the Hon. Venetia Stanley stood proxy. Four persons, two nf them children, lost, their lives in a tire in Walworth (JinglnmO on October 2.5. The outbreak occurred in a newsagent's shop in a street off the Walworth Hood, and f.ho victims were Mrs. Xicholls and her two children and a girl relative ai;ed sixteen, ilr, Nir.holls was badly burned, Gallant but unavailing attempts «ro mads at rcsona.