LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It Is estimated that the Mayoral election on Wednesday next will oosfc the city about iSoO. Some 3G booths will bo used, and between 80 and 90 returning officers and assistants will bo employed. Heavy supplies of flowers were eent to the Blair and Allen Street mnrkots yesterday for 6alo, and fairly good prices were realised. Tho bulk of tho offo-rinss consisted of oosmeas and violets. Tho latter sold at from Is. to Is. Gd. per dozen bunches. A deputation from the Flaxmill Workers' Union will wait upon the Hon. G. Lanrcnson, Minister for Labour, next Friday, at 2 p.m. To-morrow evening, in St. John's, Dr. Gil.b will take as his themo "Thoughts suggested by the loss of the Titanic." Appropriate musio will l>c rendered by the choir and on tho organ. A collection will be taken in aid of the wives and children of the drowned seamen and other members of the crew of tho Titanic. Inference to the disaster will also he made by the liev. J. Gibson Smith, at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, at the evening service. The system of fire alarms in their district does not satisfy tho Hntaitai Ratepayers' Association. They havo hud a serious tire out in their suburb recently, which forms a good background to their representations to the council to have something donn to make tho alarms surer and better. As the president said la't night at tho meeting of the association, people at llatnilai have the idea that they have only to seek out an electric (iliirm, break the .class, nnd ex|>ert tho brigade along in the course of a. few minutes. As :i mailer nf fact, the alarms were connected with the Kilbirnin station onlv, and Iron: there nil ofliecr had to call up'tho Central Station. What the. as>o-<-mt.ion want now i» Hint ihi>ili»trkt "hall lv» joked, up viib Uio oitj ftw &IMW traltm.

After a vacation extending over the summer months llii' Wellington lirothorhond will upo.i its 1912 session on Sunday at .'I p.m. in Hip New Theatre, Manners .Street. A pleasant •Sunday afternoon will he held, a musical piogramiuo being provided. ,Mi<.s Ena Ward anil .Mr. 11. Plnpps will he the soloists the latter rendering "The. Son of Uoil Goes l'orlh to War," and "The Toilers." The Silver Hand Glee Parly will render a glee. The president's (the llev. K. 0. liUuniros) opening address will bo upon the subject "brotherhood and Social Questions." The proceeds of the collection will be devoted to the fund for relieving the distress in England occasioned by the recent strikes, i'or this purpose u retiring collection will also be taken up alter the evenin,'; service of the Central .Mission in the New Theatre. At this service tho subject will be "The Wreck of tho Titanic." Mr. T. C. Newton will sine; "The Wreck" and "Drifting," and the Silver "Hand will render the funeral march "The Garland of I'lowers."

The movement in favour of forming n branch of the Legion of I'roiitirrsmen was successfully inaugurated at Auckland on Thursday (writes our correspondent), at a public meeting in the Town Hall, when a provisional committee of wellknown citizens was set up to proceed with the work of organisation. The movement was warmly commended by the Mayor and several members of Parliament, the opinion being expressed that New Zealand could produce a l)ody of frontiersmen second to none in the Empire. Tho organisation will shortly be commenced in other parts of the Dominion. The organising otlicer reported that commands had been formed throughout the United Kingdom, in Canada, British Columbia, Brazil, West Indies, Samoa, Transvaal, Capo Colony, Fiji, Egypt, Manchuria, Hong-Kong, Burma, and other eastern stations, and in several parts of Australia, and the legion was attracting support from nil parts of the world, wherever Britishers gathered together. It now published a newspaper devoted to its own interests. It was entirely self-supporting, asked no aid from either the Imperial or colonial Governments, and after the manner of pioneers and frontiersmen was independent of any but its own control, and governed only by the British love of country. It was designed to come to the help o"f the regular forces in time of trouble, and afford that help that was so ncccssarv that only men of resource used to fre? open life could render, and it asked no reward. The only prize frontiersmen sought was a piece of bronzo —tho Victoria Cross.

Fifty Thousand Mail Orders were received last year by Smith and Caughey, Ltd., Auckland, from all parts of the Dominion, customers everywhere being delighted with the excellent value, and service. Smith and-Caughey, Ltd., pay freight or postage on all orders for drapery, clothing, or boots to any address in the Dominion. On cash furniture orders exceeding i!7_ (seven pounds) in value, freight is paid by steamer to Wellington, or to any railway station north of Taihape, reached direct from Auckland. A post card, addressed to Smith and Caughey, Ltd., _ requesting samples or catalogues will receive immediate attention— Adyt.