LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following members of the No. 3D Company Senior Cadets (Wellington Technical Sishool) have passed as non-commis-sioned officers iu the rank indicated:— Loloiir-Siergwint, L. ]•'. Jones; Sergeants, C. Crane, .\. Jlewton, R. Honiblow, .1. M'Ahster; Corporals, L. J. Wnwrn V \V Johnston, 11. T. Hartley, T. J. Wilkesi Lance-Corporals, T. Lynncbcrg, \. D. Johnston, li. 11. Martin, 11. Davis, and H. Corrigan.

The chairman of the Harbour Board (Mr. E. lletcher) considers that it would eltect a lnrge saving annually if it possessed its owu electric light installation, -lie aslterl members yesterday to consider the advisability of providing such an installation during tha coming year. At tho present the board is denendeut for current upon the City Council.

The meetings of the local Christian , Endeavour Union Convention commence this CVPIIIII3 in the Webb Street Primitive Methodist Church. To-night's meeting is to bo a missionary rally, and will be addressed by two members of the China Inland Mission.

The recent camp of the Seventh Bo«:i----ment at IYestoe cost approximately •£2OOO, of which pay to the men accounted for .£IOOO.

Two young women who were recently committed by the magistrate to the Safvation Army Home, in Wellington, disa|i]iearcd from the institution on Saturday, and lave not been traced since. 'Jho girls' names are Gertrude Hilda Xeak-r imd Sylvia M'Jntyre Seymour.

Warehou are again very plentiful in the harbour. It if. estimated that between 2000 and 3000 h'sh were captured on Sunday between Lowry Bay and l'ctoue.

II is estimated that the number of departures from X«w Zealand will exceed the arrivals during the present month. The Moana, which left Wellington fur Sydney 011 Friday lust, was a full ship, and tiie Warrimoo, to sail on Friday next, is now fully booked up. Tho lonic, sailing for London direct on Thursday, will also take a full complement of passengers.

That additions to (he Day's Bay wharf will lxi required in the liear future is indicaled by the Harbour Hoard .Engineer (.Mr. ./. .Murt-hbanks) in his annual report. "The striitturo," lie states, "winch wa:> originally built by' the then owner of tho ferry st?ainers, is of lighter construction than that adopted by the board. Jt is no.v 100 small' for the traffic on busy days. Provided the board could obtain si'lfieivnt revenue to pay the interest on the addition, I'would recommend thai this wharf be lengthened and widened, and that the approach be altered to make separate provision for uariengers entering and leaving the wharf, apart from the carl-wav."

There was a full attendance at the first rehearsal of "Tho Golden Jrfg-jnd" by the Wellington Musical Union held in St. Andrew's .Schoolroom last evening. The performance of this work (by Sir Arthur SullivaiO is lii bo given in especial honour of Mr. Kobcrt Parker, the veteran musician and conductor, who has dono so much for music during his long residence in this cilv.

Mr. Henry Vibart, the ghost in Mr. H. B. Irving's production of "Hamlet," relates a quaint incident which seems lo prove that Shakespeare, is uot so well known as is generally imagined. Three, of tho members of the company took n walk into the country out of Invcrcargill last week, and feeling ho' and dusty, rested at u wayside caravanserei "across tho border." There they fell in with some of the local residents, to whom they admitted being among tho Irving players. As they were chatting, the strains of a concertina broke clamant upon the ear. "D'ye hear that?" snid one of tho residents. "He's a clever chap, that—often goes into town to the shows, anil comes right back, and plays us all the 'toones.' 'K'l be at your show to-morrow, to pick up the 'toones. , " "But we're playing 'Hamlet,' and there are no tunes in it," explained Mr. Vibart. " 'Hamlet,' is it— oh, yes, that's where they bring in a '«ad on a plate, ain't it?" Mr. Vibart admitted that it probably was.

The tender, of Messrs. Muir and Eose has been accepted for the erection of a three-storied building of brick and concrete in "Willis Street, for the trustees of the late Mr. A. A. Barnctt. The plans liavo teen prepared by Messrs. Pcnty and Lawrence.

Quite a lot of people patronise the taxi-cabs in Wellington. Some pay and somo do not. Those who do not are mostly people who at the end of the rido inform tho driver that they have left their money in other clothes, and follow it up by giving a fictitious name, which the taxi-driver usually accepts, having no alternative. A case has been brought under our notice where a young man took quite a long rido in a nice smooth-run-ning taxi, and when the timn came for paying up, snid that ho had not bulucient money on him, but it would bo all right, he was so-and-so, brother of so-and-so. Having waited a day or two for his "fare" to turn up, the driver made inquiries of the "brother," who informed the driver that he only had one brother, who was living in a country very remote from Kow Zealand. Such cases make it hard for those who are genuinely short of money, and have not the slightest intention of practising such, acts of petty fraud.

Tho Exhibition Committee in Auckland has unanimously decided ou tho Domain ag tho site for next year's exhibition. A special Act of-Parliament will bo required before tho reservo can bo so used. On tho motion of Mr. G. Elliott, president of tho Chamber of Coinmorco, it wns agreed that nny surplus should bo expended in beautifying tho Domain or in nny other public purpose.