LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Victoria, with an Australian mai OH board, arrived at .Auckland ' frnn Rvdnoy' at 7 o'clock last evening. Tin Wellington portion of tho mail will ar rive by Main Trunk train to-day. The Post Office advise that to-day (An niversary Day) the letter-carriers* wil make one delivery only in the morn ing. As is, well known, the present Chancol lor of the New Zealand University (Si Robert Stout) frowns upon the 'traili tinnal capping ceremonies at the colleges "Capping ceremonies." lie remarked ii his address to the Senate 011 Saturday "were conducted at the four Universii. college centres during the past rear. Not withstanding that the management wa left to the local councils and professoria Itoarrts, at one or two of the coremonie there was still much room for reform, was able to be present at Auckland onl.v and there was 110 fault lo be found wit! 100 conduct of the students of the Auck land University College." 111 a Tress Association message put lished 011 Friday, relative to the openin of the .new ferro-conerele bridge acros the Ruamnhunga River 011 Thursday, Mi AY. C. Buchanan, M.P., was reported a having said that it was the first strut ture of the kind in the Dominion. Tlier are nt least three other bridges of th same construction in New Zealand, tw in the South Island and another ono i: Hie Whakatano district. What Mi Buchanan did say was that the bridg under mention was the first of its kin in the Wellington Province. Dr. Henry Coward, who so ably cor ducti-1 the Sheffield Choir during tliei recer.i world's tour, has stated that th enterprise resulted in a loss of £40,000. Effort is being made by the Maranu Life-Saving Club to obtain permissio from the City Council to put up a she on the beach, and they are organising deputation to wait on the City Comic: next Thursday night in support of 111 proposal. If they obtain tho council sanction they will find tho cost. Yei terday afternoon they gave two oxliib tions" of hie-saving, under tho snpei vision of the captain and sub-captair Messrs. Minifie and Neil, which wo watched by a largo number of the pul lie. "There seems to be a spirit of nnre; amongst the nurses," remarked Mr. M J. Coyle nt the meeting of the Aueklan Hospital Committee on Thursday, when number of resignations were being cor sidered- Mr. Coyle thought the connnil tee should know what were the relation between the nurses, the matron and th medical staff, and he suggested a repor should be submitted by the matron. R< signations, he said, wore coming i wholesale, and he considered that i many cases the committee did not get th true'reasons. Mr. Coylc's suggestion tha a report should be presented was not suj ported, and the matter was dropped. The three Labour members of the NV South )Valos Parliament who are tourin New Zealand with the Totalisator COll mission, delivered addresses 011 the Lr bonr movement in the Opera House la? night. Mr. E. Trogear presided, and th speakers were: Messrs. H. J. F. Peter; M.L.A., R. Hollis, M.L.A., and the Ilor J. Wilson, M.L.C. A young man named Pain was admit ted to the Masterton Hospital on Satui day, having sustained a severe injury ti one of his hands, by its coming into ccn tact with a circular saw at Matnhivi ]t was found necessary to amputate twi fingers. The officer commanding the Wellingtoi Coast Pefcnce Force (Colonel G. F. C Campbell) will meet tho officers of th sth Regiment (Wellington Rilles) at th' Garrison Hall 011 Wednesday next at p.m., when the organisation of the nrv command will be explained and th future policy outlined. Mr. Vernon Redwood, an ex-New Zea lander now resident in Queensland, re presented the New Zealand University a the inauguration ceremony of the Queens land University. "I feel sura that tin Senate heartily congratulates the State 0 Queensland on its establishment of : University, and wishes every success an( prosperity to this now sister institution.' said the Chancellor of the University ii his address to the Senate 011 Saturday. In Australia (Tiere has been a Triennial Inter-University Conference The Registrar of tho University of Melbourne has intimated to the New Zealand University that the next meeting will be held in Melbourne in 1914 during the time of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. A visitor to Sydney from thie country. Louis Truyan, has been the victim of "a novel form of confidonco trick. He >vns sitting recently in Hyde Park, wailing to call at the appointed hour 011 a doctor whom he wished to consult for a g'i'.iy foot. Three well-dressed amiable, men entered into conversation with hint, and afer a drink persuaded Truyan to !ei himself 1m? examined by a fourth man, who was introduced as a doctor and a friend of Ihe others. It was Said that out of good fellowship this doctor would make 110 charge. All the men repaired to an hotel, where in a private parlour Truyan undressed at the "doctor's" direction and was examined. Then (he man gave him something out of a small bottle. Truvan remembered no more till he found himself lying undressed in the hotel parlour. His gold watch and chain, .£2l in money, and a gold ring jrero tni&suifi.