LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

According to a wireless message received last evening, the.Victoria, from Sydney, is not expected to arrive in Auckland until 1 a.m. on Monday. This means tiiat her mails will not reach Wellington until Tuesday evening. J Newspaper vendors on the Wairarapa I trains are quite assured that they have :1 the best run in any part of New Zoav land. The reason they assign to Bio fact r that as the trains trawl so slowly, paa- ' senders find ample time to peruse several papers, not to mention a magazine ; or two, on the journey.—"Age." * "Mothers' Day" is boin? celebrated in J , Wellington to-morrow by some of the t religious organisations. It is n, practice s crowing in popularity in Australia and . ISoiv Zealand to wear ft white flower as f an emblem in honour of "mother" on ' one Sunday in the year. Special celebra- ■ tions will be held in connection with the l Brotherhood and Y.M.C.A. Tho Brother--3 hood Men's Own Pleasant Sunday after- - noon wall be addressed by tho Hon. G. j j Laurenson and Dr. Plntts-Mills, the latter speaking on tho "Evolution of Mcther-'h-ood." The members of the Methodist 5 Bible Classes of Wellington will attend " this mooting en masse, and Mr. Doust > will occupy the chair. A musical and cl«v . cuticnary programme vrill bo rendered, I Mrs, Williams and Miss Lulu Arnolc contribntin?. At tho Y.M.C.A., Mrs. Mills will bo the speaker. The evening • service of the Central Mission in the New i Theatre will commemorate Mothers' Day. Tho Sixth Contingent Magazine, just to > hand, is a bright collection of chatty ' notes, personal, jottings, and readable ro- ■ lniiii.vconces, tho whole being a credit to r its editor (Mr. P. E. Beamish). Tho eighth annual reunion of the Sixth Old , Comrades' Association will be held at Godber's on the -evening of King's Birth- ' day (June 3). The amount of <£6 Iff. U. hss been sub--1 Bcribed by the scholars of the Clyde i Quay School towards tho purchase of a ■ picturo for the National Gallery, The first batch of prosecutions in con--1 nection with the new by-law framed to ■ regulate the size of hatpins which the ladies wear camo before the Sydney Central Police Court a few days ago. Annie Kelly, a very timid-looking noman, who was wearing a sma.ll black hat—or cap— ;hrough which was a very carefully-pro-tected hatpin, was tho first of the four called. When asked how she pleaded, she timidly answered "Yea." The hatpin, it was explained, protruded Bjin. A fine of ss. with Gβ. costs was imposed. Three other women were similarly dealt with. An official statement was issued in March (eays the London "Times") in the following terms, and signed by Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman of tlie Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company:—"l observe in various newspapers very precise allusions to certain negotiations in which it is alleged that this company are engaged for combining thecr business with that of some other company or companies, under arrangements of a-n extensive and ,farreaching character. This rumour must be of the nature of prophecy with which the press is credited in its .intelligent appreciation of tho future, because up to the moment at which I write I have absolutely no knowledge of such negotiations as those so particularly referred to." During a heavy etorm at Hobart, the ffablo end of a terrace of houses was blown out, and the debris smashed through the roof of a cottage on to two beds, whore a man. and his wifo and two children were sleeping. The occupants were buried by bricks and mortar to a. depth of sft., and how they escaped serious injury, if not death, was miraculous. The wife .and one girl were badly cut about tbo face, and suffered severely from shock, but are now improving. The Matt&ra County Council, at its meeting yesterday, endorsed the resolution of the Pnlmerstan North Chamber of Commerce in support of compulsory military training , . Says pur Wanganui correspondent :—The CastiCciiff Town Board and tho Waverley Town Board have passed resolutions approving of the attitude of the Hon. A. M. Myers regarding tho compulsory clauses of the Defence Act. At Maramii, last evening, Mr. E. Tregeat stated that some sparsely-built suburban Ftreets were well paved, while others, in which houses were much more numerous, had received much less attention. Mr. Tregear premised to do his best to have this matter rectified in tho event of his being returned to the oounoil.

Mr. H. Okey, M.P., for Tamnafai, who recently wTote to the Sinister for Hallways (says the "Taianaki Dally News") regardins tho absence of -a. dinins car on tho mail train between New Plymouth

and Aramoho, has received a message .from tho Hon. A. 11. Myers, who etatos that ho will inquire, into tho matter, and will again communicate with Mr. Okey. Tho Constable Street Congregational Schoolroom was well-filled last night, when the Rev. Archibald 13. Hunt, of Timaru, gave a dramatio recital. Mr. Hunt showed considerable rniißo of elocutionary power, and was equally at home in tho heroic and tho comic vein. Following was his programme:—"ThD Revenge" (Tennyson), "Jack «nd Jill" (Mel. B.- Spurr), "Tho First Settler's Story" J (Carleton). "A Lesson in nistory" (,T. ! Hielcorr Wood), "Tim Old Cremona" (Merrill), "Mrs. TiiUlcbury's Now TTnt" (Carter Plat's). Songs were contributed by Miss Hcarn and Mr. Oalcoy. Critics of tho eilfr trnmwa.v administration have been eo'ntoiulitis of Into that it will shortly ho necessary to reviVw Hio conoossions which have boun granted with a view to obtaaniisS on increased revenue. '.This view apparently does not ooinmend itself to Mr. K. Trcpca-r, at any rate, not in its entirety, for in sponkinx at Jfarnnui Inst evciiinK ho ndvoriitcd an exlpnsinn <>f (ho pxislinu concesiions to workers. It was not eiiotifrli, ho contended, In prant ooncossions to workers who rrnvcllrd by early mprnins ears. There wore itirls employed in shops, and other | workers who started work .it nine o'clock, who were entitled t» lrainwi>r "MMiwsriionfi miml <U»1 tint HMnplvo thiuu luulor U«i Mitt.