LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1528, 26 August 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

9 Tlio Maheno arrived at Auckland from •Sydney at 11 a.m. yesterday. The vessel had on board American n.nd Australian mails, the southern portions of which Kill arrive in Wellington by this afternoon s Main Trunk express. Tlio Uomaii Catholic authorities have piircliased the house and land nt the Lower Unit of the late -Mr. 11. J. I?idditord for the Sisters of tlio Notro Dame :les Missions. The price paid was ,£OSOO. Tlio local Arts Club is to bo addressed >y his Excellency the Governor on the subject of "Town Planning," on a. date •et to bo arranged. This subject has been n refill J v studied by Lord Islington at lome. Our Masterlon correspondent stales that Mr. W. Terry has received an order for lionincy sheep from the Argentine. The desire of drivers of motor vehicles lo (jet free of the slower horse-driven traps and carts often leads to trouble. Not content to travel safely in the wako of nil express in Willis Street at 9.15 a.in. on Saturday, William Burgess, the driver of a Post Office motor tricycle, keen to push on in His Majesty's Service, shot out on to the tram-track in time to meet a down car. Before the motorman had time to "make way for his Majesty's mails" the small vchiclo had received a bump which crumplcd up the front of the motor tricycle, and unseated its driver, who, fortunately for himself, was located behind. By tlio Admiral's instructions, the lion, secretary of the Navy League has been advised cf the positions and proposed movements of the vessels of the Australasian Squadron. 11.M..5. Drake, H.M.S. Cambrian, and H.M.S. Psycho will bo at Moretou Bay, Queensland, until August 21, when they proccod to Sydney, thence to Jervis Bay for battle practice, finally returning to Sydney. H.M.S. Pioneer is at present at Lyttclton. H.M.S. Torch left Sydney for the New Hebrides on July 29. H.M.S. Fantcno is surveying nt the Buccaneer Archipelago, and H.M.S. Sea Lark is carrying out similar work at the Solomon Islands. H.M.S. Encounter is still at Sydney. A motor-car, witli two occupants, ran over the embankment in Oriental Bay oil Saturday night. Tlio ear was considerably damaged, but neither of the occupants was hurt. Somo idea of tho disabilities undoT which residents in tho ICaikoura district labour owing to the absenco of efficient means of communication was given oil Saturday by Mr. J as. Davidson, one of the speakers in the South Island railway deputation, which waited on the Prime Minister. So bad were the district reads at present, he stated,, that the Wairnu mail had not been through, for tho Inst four weeks, and it would be another four weeks before a coach got through. The 'Whalesback" at tho present timo had ;is feet of snow on it. Coincidently mails From Cheviot were interrupted for eleven lays during the recent bad weather, and :here had been no outlet by sea for eight lays. It was impossible to go north or louth a distance of moro than seven miles vithout being blocked by Tivers. A motor-car driven by Mr. Pilkington, >f the Scott Motor Company, had a colision with a butcher's cart oil the Pliin-ncrton-Paikarariki Koad on Saturday. J riving into town on his right side, Mr. .'ilkington met the cart at n sharp bend n tlio road, aiid a sharp glancing collision took place. Tho cart was overturned, and the two, men in it were bruised and shaken.. - / The motor-car was slightly damaged, but no one was hurt. Tho corner in question is a very sharp one, and it is thought that notice boards erected on cither side of the turn, warning drivers of all classes of vehicles to "go slow," would prevent such accidents as occurred on Saturday. A deputation of poultry men will wait on the Primo Minister at 2.30 10-day, to, solicit tho Government's support in establishing an export trade of eggs and poultry. A largo amount of support, is baiug guaranteed in tho matter of sunplies, and it is expected by tho pronioters of the movement that the poultry industry will rapidly develop in New Zealand ■with an outside market as an inducement to producers. In tho award list of tho Wellington Kennel Club's annual show, published last week, "Gun Rock" was given as being second in the English setters open class. This was incorrect, Birkeland Eock was first and Mr. H. Walker's Kock's Astonishment was second. Says our Palmerslon correspondent:— An explosion of gunpowder caused serious injury to two liltlo children, aged four mid five years, in Palnierston on Friday, The little ones—children of Mr. F. j. Dempsey—found the powder on a shelf during the temporary absence of the parents, and ignited it with a match, with tho result that they wcro both severely burned on the face, and it is feared that one of them may lose his sight.

lesterday Detectivo Mason arrested a young man, who will appear at the Magistrate s Court to-day on three charges of indecency. Eeginald Cox, a married man, 2i yeaTs of age, was admitted to the Hospital on Saturday ovouing suffering from injuries to his back. He is a butcher by occupation, and resides at Porirua. He sustained tho injuries by falling from his cart. Assisted immigrants to tho number of 53 arrived in Wellington by tho Turakina. from London on Saturday morning These included 31 adults and 22 children. All the adults were women. In addition to the "assisteds" thero were 200 other immigrants, including botween 20 and 30 girls desirous of taking up domestio service. Altogether tho Turakina brought two first-class, 28 second-class, and 250 third-class passengers.

1 Ono of tho most loyal Churchmen of Now t South Wales, Mr. C. Hardy, of Wagga, un- . oxpectedly fired a broadside into the , bench of bishops at the Anglican Synod, \ Sydney, on August 15. Ho was speaking of the proposal to' review tho dioce«an l boundaries, and ho assured tho Synod that • it was a layman's proposal, with no cc- [ c esiastieal wire-pulling behind it. When . tho laughter that this remark provoked , had subsided, ho exclaimed that thev ' had in this reform received only discouragement from tho bc'shops. Ho then > approached the bishops' tnfilo with tro- [ nidation to point out places on the map. ■ Uhile in their territory ho said: "In tho } three country centres where there are bishops tho population has decreased" 1 Synod laughed immoderately at tliix, aiid tho speaker followed it up with thestatei meiit that in Goulburn, Bathurst, and' Hay, tlio thi-eo cathedral centres, there were 1800 _ people less in 1911 than in 1901. Having dealt with the bishops, tho uncliivalrous delegate proceeded to reflect on tho ladies. Ho said that where there were more women than men it was a sgn of a non-progressive centre. There were 800 more women than men in Bathurst, Hay, and Goulburn. Mr. Hardy then returned to tho attack on tho bishops, and exclaimed: "With all duo deference to bishop's opinions, give, mo practical laymen." When tho laughter had somewhat subsided, ho turned upon some of his critics, and cnitxl: "Tho more I see of Church courts, the more am I inclined to pray: 'From diocesan selfishness, good Lord, deliver us.'" THE "TEIUMPH"-THE CONSISTENT MOTOB-CrCLE. One of the qualities upon which tho owners of the world-famous "Triumph" motor-cycles plaeo most importance is (ho absolute consistency of these beautifully built machines. A "Triumph" doesn't havo its, good days and its bad days'— : t : gives one style of service all tho "time ' and that the best possible. As a JittJo ' corroborative proof of this assertion let < us consider the "Triumph" record in Iho 1 British Tourist Trophy liace. As every i motor-cyclist knows, the Tourist Trophy ( event is the classic event in molor-crcline 1 It carries with it tho blue ribbon of f motor-cycledoin. In 1910 the "Triumph" < filled tho eight first places in the single- 1 cylinder class. In 1911 it filled tho first 1 four places, aud in the 1912 event run I last Juno at the Isle of Man, the "Tri- t umph" scored first, second, third, fourth' e and fifth places. In each case the. "Triumph" was pitted against Hio bo;t midlines tho other motor-cycle manufacturers could produce. On each occasion the v "Triumph" gained an overwhelming vie- r torv. lioliability, durability, economy ~ and consistency, these aro tho four car- f dinal virtues that place the "Triumph" first anywhere and overywhere. Call and see tho latest models ot tho world's best " motor-cycle. Free engine model, X'Sfl- ■' fixed engine model, .€7O. In stock at ' c Adams, Limited, Palmerston North aiid Wanganui, also Sutherland and Kan- a' kine, Mercer Street. Wellineton. Tourist ii }Wy C».. Hwtlnui., and Skenlcs and n Wluto. Auckland.--Advt. li.