LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1334, 11 January 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

— 6 rJl i Vi lU ', ersfx,ot !,, t, Y at a ncw Anglican Bean of Sydney will shortly be appointed At ,a recent meeting of the Cathedral chapter the matter was considered, and it is stated, that an offer was mmlo to a gentleman in the diocese of Manchester, a friend of Archbishop Wright. _A house belonging <o Mr. Robioson. at i.otorua had a narrow escape from bein" burned to the ground on Saturday last. Airs. Kobieson was boiling somo turpentine and beeswax, and left the room for J tw minutes. On her return she found that, it had boiled over, and the woodwork of the mantelpiece was ablaze. Mrs. Kobieson showed plenty of presence of mind by tackling the flames with flour salt, and mats. These stayed the progress of the fire, which was finally subdued with water. The mantelpiece and adjacent woodwork were- charred a quarter of an inch deep, showing how narrowly the house- oscaped. The Maoris in the back blocks of Waikaremoann, says a Poverty Bay pnper, aro to bo seen in their more primitive state through their not having come so often into contact with the white man. Somo time back a number of Maoris were reported for poaching trout at Waikaremoana out of season, and the ranger set. off on horseback to sec the offenders. It was a moonlight night. As he approached their resorl there was a report of a gun and a bullet, whizzed past the nose of his horse, and at the same time a Maori wns seen to dive into the bush. The Maoris of late, however, have had .the position regarding poaching and takinp trout out of season more fully explained to them, and there has been' very little poaching so fnr this season. The Shipwreck Relief Society continue? to do good work among sailors, in Now Zealand. This work has - again come into prominence in connection with the wreck' of the schooiiOT Clyde. .A man from-(his vessel landed in Wellington a few days ago quite destitute. His «i«> was brought to the notion of the Society and assistance was wired immediately' from the headquarters at Dunedin. The local secretary of the society is Mr. F. S. Shell of the Missions to Seamen.