LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1559, 1 October 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wellington branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia will be opened for business this morning. Mr. E. 11.I 1 . Yaldwyn is the manager, and the offico staff will for tho present consist of five. The new municipal fish market in Jervois Quay is to be opened on Friday next. The trawler Energy, which operates in Cook Strait, arrived in port last night, .will leave again this evening, and will probably arrive again on Thursday night, in time to stock the market. The catches of fish and crayfish in tho vicinity of Wellington have been very satisfactory of late, and it is anticipated that there will bo a good assortment for sale on Friday. Poor old battered "conscicnce" has now apparently been dropped, in Wanganui as a plea for jiot attending parades. Our Wanganui correspondent states that seven youths were before the Magistrate yes-, terday under Defence Act charges, and various please wero made out. "Six re- ! calcitrant? out of the seven brought up were asked to face fines varying in amount from ss. .to 205., but no ono essayed to : tell the Magistrate that ho liad a "conscience." Under the auspices of the astronomical section of the Wellington. Philosophical Society, the Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Principal of St. Patrick's College, Director of tho Observatory • and Curator of Instruments, will deliver an address on "The Use of the Equatorial Telescope," on Thursday evening next. As there are 1 no seats in tho new Observatory, wlioro i the address is to bo delivered, those attending are aslted to bring their own camp-stools. No bankruptcies were recorded in Wellington during September. , On the subject of the handling of frozen meat, Mr. E. W. Ralph (managing director of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operativo Association of Christchurch), who has just returned from England, said that New Zealand producers on-visiting 'London frere struck with the unfavourable appearance of the meat at the London end. In New Zealand tho meat is handled with scrupulous care, but hitherto the system of handling at the other end has been anything but satisfactory, tho result being that tlio appearance cf the meat was. affected. However, overtures wero madej and a large meeting he'd of all those engaged in the trade, with tho object of seeing whether a .'.-tier system could not be devii-ed by thi! meat | would receive better aandliug. The London Port Authority g.ive their assistance, 1 and a large store is to be erected in one ' of the largest docks whtro consignments can be placed direct from the ship's side, . -and which will obviate the sorting out and extra handling involved in tho old system. It was felt that the new scheme ' would go a long way towards remedy--1 ing tho grievances which existed in the 1 past. ! ' ! "This association "wants livening up a 1 bit," said Mr. David Robertson at the '<■ annual meeting of tho Wellington Prpyinli cial Industrial Association last evening, j "It's been in a dying condition of late." , Mr. Robertson added a suggestion, which ' ho subsequently expressed in terms, of a : motion, that the members of tho commit- ' tee should l>e photographed by the lion. - treasurer of the association (Mr. R. J. . Hardie-Shaw), and tho photograph reproduced in the weekly illustrated papers. ! "There's nothing like a littlo publicity , for stirring up interest. Therefore I move J that we all roll up in our best clothes— - (laughter)—and get photographed." This ' ■ was agreed to. "Get it stuck up in front i of the Post Office," suggested a facetious , member. , ' Another speaker suggested l Suuday as a suitable date for the occaf sion, but Mr. Robertson wouldn't hear of I it. "No," said he, "I'll have none of ! that." So it tfas agreed to meet at noon r to-morrow. ; 'Tho annual exhibition of the New Zea--3 land Academy of Fine Arts is to lie openr ed on Saturday afternoon, October 12. A fine collection of paintings, fTom most of " the leading artists of New Zealand, and 3 some Australians is promised. To-day r and to-morrow are the receiving days r for exhibits. Constable Patrick Joyce, stationed for ' many years at Otautau (Southland), died ! on Sunday afternoon from heart failure. —Press Association.