LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1346, 25 January 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

»,£ ne ,, potltlon fo u P Mt tne election of Mr. M Callum for the Wairau seat, will require to be heard before two Judges of Hie Supreme Court. The procedure laid down under the Legislature Act sets out that the petition shall bo lodged with the returning officer, who in turn forwards it onto the Registrar of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice then names the two Judges to constitute the Election Court to conduct the trial. In justice to all parties it is considered desirable in such cases that the Judges shall lie selected to try the issue as soon as possible after the petition is lodged, so that the question at issue may bo cleared up without unnecessary delay. So far, apparent iy, the Chief Justice has done nothing in the matter of the. Wairau petition and no date has yet liecn fixed for the trial. The next sitting of Hie Bankruptcy Court will be held on .Monday, February 2li. Adjourned applications for releases will be heard. It is not such an uncommon thiug for a man of unbridled appetite to "soy* snakes," but when one is awakened in the middle of the night by the action ol a giant lizard crawling "painful and slow" over the'bedclothes, it is enough to cause silver threads among the gold. Such was the experience of the purser of the. Jloeraki on (lie trip across from Sydney. One night whilst peacefully asleep lie was awakened by something creeping slowly over him. In an agony of apprehension ho thought of snakes, and vaguely wondered how they could have found their way on board ship at Sydney. .Determined to know (he worst and meet his fate like n Britisher, he suddenly switched on the light, and I here, soilly crawling over his rug, was a harmless iguana, commonly known in Australian parlnnco of the way-back as a "gohanna." It was one of the family which tho Rev. 1). C. Bates brought across from Sydney for the Wellington. Zoo.