LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1588, 4 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Maheno arrived at Auckland from Sydney at 2 p.tu, yesterday, with Australian and English (via Suez) mails." Tho Wellington, portion will arrive here by this afternoon's Main Trunk express.

On account of the lato eeaeon and tho consequent temporary block in shearing operations in tho Wellington district, th» wool sales arnounged for Tuesday next have been postponed.

At tho conclusion of its touT at Palmersten North on Thursday evening next, tho I'limmer-Dcmiiston Company disbands, and tho members retuni to Sydney on Friday by tho Moeraki, Mr. PHinmer, in partnership with Mr. Allan Hamilton, will OTganiso another company early in tho New Yoj.r to. play a long season at tho Palace.Theatre, Sydney. Cosmo Hamilton's fine play, "The Blindness of Virtue," will probably bo tho first play produced. Tho new firm has also bought tluj Australasian rights of Henry Kistemacloer's play, "The Turning Point," adapted by Mr. Peter Le Marchant from thes French play, "La riambee," in which Mr. Georgo Alexander, in association i?itli Mis Btliel- Irving, lias been a. success at St, James's Theatre, London. .This play was only produoed for tho first tint© in English, on October I.

There will bo a Chamber sitting, of the Supreme Court at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday before Mr. Justice Si.n.'

Mrs. Jane Hoy Allen, a widow, was found dead in bed at her residence, 61 Tinakori Bead, yesterday morning. She was last seen alive on : Saturday night by Charles Borok, ij.. wharf ■ labourer, who resided in the same house, 1 About 11 o'clock yesterday morning fiorck discovered that Airs. Allen had not risen, and _lio was unable to rouso tier. . Dr. Pattie, who Was summoned, found life extinct, but declined to state the cause of death, and tho. body was therefore 'removed to. the inorgtte, where .an 'inquest Vi'ill bp held to-day,

Two prisoners will tome before the Chief Justico (Sir Robert Stout) for sentence in the S'tipWime Court' oil Monday morning. They are William Thomas M'Evoy, forgery, theft, and false' pretences; and George Leo, bwaking. entering, .and theft, tind. being in possesion of liougebreak'ing implements.

The late Mi® Eleanor Vauso Walker, of Wcstbourno Road, Scarboroieh, bequeathed a sum of ,£IOOO to the Melancsiali Mis' sion. There will be eomo delay in settling affairs So that the whole legacy can bo paid over, but the executors propose to pay. two-fifths of the amount at oncel The Key. Charles Wcodhoise James, of lladeley,. Staffordshire,, left 4100 to the llelanesian Misiioji. We have had a wonderful year for unexpected gifts.—"The English Log/*

The adjourned meeting of the St. John Ambulance Association is to;, be held at 5.10 p.m. on Friday next at Mr. J. D. Avery's oHioe,

James Peterson, a resident of Mt. Plea'sant,. Mitchelltown, was the .'victim ■of a pga-rifle accident yesterday. A friend of his was loading the rifle,, When it went off, and the bullet lodged in Peterson's leg. Ho was taken to the Hospital between twelve and one o'clock, and his condition last night was stated to bo .satisfactory/ , .

Several calls were recoived by the Municipal Fire Brigade on Saturday. Just after 9 a.m.. their services we're required at Newtown, where a fire had,broken but in the old fever hospital building on the hill above "the general hospital. The. place, was used Only as a store-room,' and the damage was confined to a number of crates containing netf .bedsteads.' . 'The brigade soon extinguished the blaze: ,On. Saturday' afternoon a call was received to a fish shop ih A.ro Street, where tho only trouble was a burning chimney-pot. A third call to J/ambton Quay proved to bo still less important—a false alarm.

On Saturday, Detective Bailey arresteda man named John Coolie, who will be called upon to answer a charge of theft df a rug, the property of A. Phelan. Tlie alleged theft is said to have taken pldco in Pahiatua in September last.-

'i'he Union Company's steamer Atua, which arrived at Auckland on.Friday from Sydney and Island ports, brought 100 OOOi't. of lumber, whieh was itaofcea oil the vessel's deck. The timber was Salvaged from the wrecked steamer Knight of St. George, which .was 'Wrecked oil i itS off tii© entrance to-Nukualofa some tinie'ago. Tho hull of the yes&sl is still, intact, but all hope of refloating her has been abandoned. Tie 'timber,, is much darkened as a result of being- washed by tho .seas which 1 broko over tho wrecked vessel, but tho Atua's Shipment, appears to be in a good state of preservation.

A man named — Hoper fell off a horse nenr the Basin Beser\o on Saturday, and sustained concussion of the. brain; He wis removed to the Hospilalj where he is doing as . well as oan l)o expected.

The Gerrum cruiser Cormoron, under the command of Captain libert,'will shortly arrive in Now Zealand waters from Sydney. Slio is expected ..at Auckland, some time in December. -An.' influential committee of 'mentors of the, German Club, and of leading citizens, is, being formed to arrange :i wdcome to the visiting olticers. This will probably take, the form of a complimentary dinner and a dance in the Town Hall. ,

"Too thiil a. talei" remarked, the magistrate (Jlr. Payten}, mj; the Water Police' Court in Sydney on October 25, after listening to the defence of Thomas Cook, who tfas charged with having travelled on the steamer Maheno- from' Auckland without having paid his fare. According lo Cook, one oi the firemen, invited him into. his cabin at Auckland and told him to wait there awhile" until, he returned. When the fireman returned the vessel.had cast off, and it was t<;o late for . him to go on shore. He didn't- want to come- to Sydney at all. The police prosecutor added .that the. youth's parents lived-.about 100 miles from Auckland., The magistrate said he did not believe Cook's story-; It was 24 hoars after tho Malieno 'sailed before he presented himself on deck. He would fiuo him £5 or two months in gaol..

On Saturday afternoon, a carter* named James Driver, residing at 187 Adelaide Boad, was admitted to the Hospi.ta-1 suffering from injuries caused through a fall from a vehicle, He is progressing favourably.