LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Union Company's turbine steamer Malieno, which arrived from Sydney yesterday afternoon, brought 537 bags of European and Australian mails. The southern portion, consisting of 287 bags, is due by the Main Trunk express this afternoon.

At about 11 o'clock on Saturday morning tha Fire Brigade was called to No. 15 Wallace Street, a five-roomed house, owned by ■Mγ. Alexander Dunn, and occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Michael. Tho lire is supposed to havo keen caused by a spark from a copper furnace igniting a heap of rubbish. Very litiie damage was done. Tho house is insured in the Sun Office for ■£300 and the contents in the same office for 4J270,

A tribute to the success of the system of boarding out destitute or neglected children was paid by tho Rev. Joshua Jones, vicar of Lower Hutt,.in his speech at the opening of tho Boye' Rescue llomo on Saturday afternoon. Seme time ago a good many children, he said, wero placed out in tho Hutt under the boarding-out system, for which the Government was responsible, and ho found on visiting them that in very many cases one would not have known that the homes they wero in wero not those of their own parents They came.to the Sunday School, and there was nothing to mark them off from other children. The Hon. A. M. Myers's programme of four deputations for to-day has bet-n reduced to one, as the Pahiatua and Poug'ij roa residents who had intended to wait upon him havo abandoned the idea. The number of half-day parades to !hj carried out. by tho Fifth Regiment before May 31 has been reduced to two half-dav ! or one whole-day parade, instead of four hnlf-dn.Y or two whole-day parades, as originally ordered. There seems to have, arisen in sj me quarters a mistaken idea that kcaus» Mrs. Webster s lectures on Italian art are held in the Girls' College Hall, tl>ev aro confined to students of tho college This is not 'lie case. The lectures are open to tin? general public. They attracted large audience; in Auckland ami flic Australian Stoles. The lecture to-night i-- on Raphael mid Michael Angelo, both subjects fiill oi interest. Then , i> an extraordinary demand fur coal, which the We?' Const minors ji ( . quite unable In supply (says the West, port "Times"). So l;ro{! t« the demand that it is plated by iho.se in a. position to know that, tho whole of the cutimt of certain mines in the Grey district'for the next five weeks Ims been purchased in advance. The position is so acuto that roil companies and contractors Fire at tucic uiu uui* to. &mui£Q ion lauiyiipa. :

.1.-nmrs WiKiik of Wellington, ox-hotol-liieiuT, now ii wilier, lias lirt-n iidiud»Hl ii bankrupt mi his own petition, tiio firsl. iihvjliiik ill , his cri-dilurs is set down I'm- Alny Mi, :i I || a.m.

Tim .Marine 1 >i-piti-linfill: lms htv.n ml-vim-iI I hat t.n; mm.-oii'u unlpiil of Auckliind riKfk iiyhlers will bo about, (jlllin hicl^ *'" 'I "Ml Immls 111-. , Kl ill clll,c,|, !,;|vi|,,; pnilly well depleted !,v l«sl SK ,son's Pickup. In sumo cases lln,' depldled beds lIIVO l.ffll riMllfilllslKHl illlll it |« cv,,,,,;!,.,] llin,(l»'.V wii l Uc ,vac(.y f, ir pidiiiij; u Mii in in. I lie exinniliun of lour wars.

»\illi In. iidvpiil »f i!i... in,,,- fn |,| c winch will sunn |.o biil helivoea Auckland and Sydney, it is slated (write "u .Norn.ili 1.51 i,,,,! ,: ( ,, T( ...|«,,i.1cn1) licit Ilio slnlt heiv will lie. greatly reduced. Tins nnv uilili! will tnlii) over nil tl, (1 N,.,,. /.ealiiiiii )in»iiii-.8, ;,nf|, i.f cniir.sif, will very iniieli diminish !h<> work Its h<: done hero.

Wl.inl. is lii'ii<n-od lo Iw ft gnuiiino relic oi Caplniu Cook is in Hie possession of si we.ll-liiiown Xutivn ri'sidiMit »f who holds it ns a imiMiml heirloom. It is an ancieiil axe, wliicli, neconlinj,' to Maori Ir.uiilioa. was ijive.a hv Cnpt.iia Cook lo uii-imi>orlniil Jliwri ciiieilain o! tlio Miiliia IViiiiisiilii in 17011. Wany Niitivcs were liviiiß at Jlnhin lit the timo, lii(! thrwi leading; chiefUinn rcstieiitivclv lining Wlioiniiiriri, Kahulia, and Powlmro. II is roititad dial (ho luHcr, coii.sidorinit (Jnptain Cook to )m intrely tho chief of ii sl.raiißo war party, desired to put him to death, lint wan restrained I>y tire other two chiefs. To the, lultor CVi'ptniii Cook madn a jiiM'scnt, of an axo each, vliile to his would-be iixc'culioner ho Landed fioino i;al)l>in;u siwilh. II is nno of these ii.vch Hint is cluiined lo lie tlio historic family heirloom held by a direct deEce.iidiint of Whe.nuariri.

A ready respoiiK) lias come to tho appeal of Mr. .James Wilson, secretary of Die KrJhiirno l'ire iiriijadc, for voliin'eers, mid h 'iricetini{ is to iju held on Tuesday at the Kolburne Fire liriijadu S'atioii, at which tli!. , new members will bo enrolled. Others who may have u desire to join will bo welcomed.