LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'('ho postal authorities nil vise tliat (he s.s. Manuka, which sailed, from Sydney nt 4 p.m. on November 1!, hits on Ixiiirii ah Australian iiiiii), She if( due to irrrivp hw'o this morning. The limits which loft Wellington on Strptcmhfrt- 20, per s,s. Jlaiwku, nni-l on September per s.s. Ulliii>arc>a...conficcted with tho Naples mails jxy ii.M.S. Orsovn lit Sydney, nnil arrived in London on November I), The memory of Guy I'nw.kos'fl, attempt to destroy the British Houses of Turluimmit in th(i long "go tl'i ps hard. I'rom an ently lrour yesterday youngsters paraded. the streets in t|i« residential pari# of tlto city with ridiculous etfi'gicsj begging pennies "for the guy.". That th<js'o were forthcoming there is tittle doubt. For a couple of horns Inst t-yofffntf tevoral streets' wero utilised. as firework grounds, <md the calin evoniiig atmosphere was rent with flaming rockets anil (.'hooting stars, whilst here aiid there on the surrounding hills fugitive fires destroyed tho effigies. Strange iiS it may seem, tlio celebration of the Fifth of November iB to a very largo extent kept alive by tho Chinese shejkeepers. Sevoral. of th.fr • stewards and. engineers on the ill-fated Titfuiic were prepared for confirmation by Bishop Cr.ossfey. His Lordship mentioned the fact in the course of his address to tho confirmation candidates at St. Patil'ii Church, Auckland, on Monday night. "I am proud," he said, "to belong tii the race that produced sneli herpes as the engineers on the Titunic," The Bishop wont on to say that duty was .".'iroetimps hard, and he instanced: the action of the engineers" in- the engines going as an example of devotion to duty. In connection with tho proposal for the establishment pf a municipal golf coursej the Mayor (Mr. D. M'Laren),'. accompanied,by Dr, Cameron and about twenty golfers, including two .professional's, paid ft visit of inspection to the proposed course' yesterday afternoon, it' stretches front the frail Street track: (Newtowii). leading to Vbgeltowii, along , the Town : Bolt, to the Home of '.<Jorijj)nssittn,' Island Bay. The golfers ' .present " expressed favourable opinions- of the coinse. Messrs. Sanders 8r05.,, contractors for the new'. theatre to be erected in Manners Street East b.V tire Wellington Opera House Company, have started to clear tho site Which, GO years ftgo, was 'the, locale of Kebbell'S flour- mill, situated at the .side of the stream which in. those days .used to meander from Polliill Gully across Te-Aro Plat, and find its way to- Mother Ocean at the back: of the mill. 1 This stream was at one time a large bfte,- and in stormy times dangerous. In relating his experiences immediately after the big earth* quake, of IS4B, the late *Jtr. John Plimmer s'ays' in his boolc, that: during the storm ho received a message from Mr. Pitzherbert slating that the,culvert, near the. ga.s-worl:s had been washed ' away, After inspecting the damage he goes' on to say: "When I returned to the stream where ICebbell's mill was afterwards bhiltj I did not kiioW how to cross it; I got on to a high i)ank for the pilrnose' of taking a running jump, but the bftnk, being undermined, gave way, and threw roe in the middle of the stream. . I rolled over ' and over like a..cork for perhajs, 28 yards lvhei.i the rushing waters threw me nn the ri?ht side in a very miserable state." Some o;f the old trees which surrounded 'Mr. Kebbeltfs house', afterwards erected'tin the Site, -wore cleared away; yesterday.''[iii.d f the old . corrugated iron ..stores, which it is understood, were at one time. itsed as stofe-roows iii connection with the mill, are now being demolished. 'The .'floor boards and joists ate still remarkably . sound. According to statistics contained in the animal report of tho Chief (Jfiict-r, vaccination i« evidently going out of favour. Though the births in the Dominion were 20,351.in 3IUJ, only 1078 -vaccinations wero performed, or I.CO oi the total births, whereas- the eSemption. certificates numbered jtci fewer than G7.M. In view of ■ our increasing trade with the East, this neglect oil the purl: of parents t» huve their children ■ vaccinated, states Dr.; Valmtine,_ becomes alj the more, serious. TJ>e Dominion has liad one or two warnings of the danger it is" incurring-ie.g., the Knight of tho Garter during the. past year. It will not always be possible- to discover smnllpoic patients before' they land in the country. . The annual report of the Chief Health Officer states that the. liames.Qf 74 -mid. Wives ivere added to the. register. last year, 55 having been .trained.- in the Dominion. There is now some hope, the report Continues, of meeting'the needs of the Dominion in this particular brunch of work, especially ns during the- -ensiling year three additional t'r'ami-ng' schools lor midwives may bp provided... The total ivtimper of midwives jiqw oil the register is 1097, of whoin 415 are fully .trained and 682 untrained. On .March 31, .1907., the number was 891, of .which 10'2 were trained and • 789 untrained. The' St. Helens Hospitals Continue to do good work, and the demands on these institutions are jncreisiiij} every year. . Tho actual cost to . e J.nJ. 0 'f 68 ,? f°ur mhternity homes was iEIB2O, excluding capital expenditure. Some firemeii and .trimmers wero responsibly for , delaying the New Zealand ?,l u PJ ln ? Company's steamer Dakaia at Wellington, yesterdnv. The' vessel ljnd completed discharge here, mid was ready to srut for Lyttblton in the nftcrnooii, but shortly kfore She iVais Teady to e«st off fovir firemen and two trimmers walked ashore, apparently, without any. other reason save that they had been ihilueiiced TO certain men on Shore, The firemen and trimmers in question had signed on the vessel at Sydney for the run Hoine, arid were receiving «filo a mcntli as wages. 'Tlie Eakara moved Out to an anchoraee in the stream, and there she is obliged to remain pro tem.

Ori n, young inm.tjr of the department of J/Mtt-'Ofirwiwi (I'l-aiicc) a very daring ojifcratlo/i v/n.s performed, viz,, that of eri-fif-oly rlitriwing the <tomnc.ii ami replacing it by (i, portion of tho int.cs.tine. Tb# operation tfus completely successful, and !li« yolliiji farmer was flisrnif.sed as cured within a aileiid.'tr month. No sootier had ho left tho lio-ipitiil than he wont to the mtari'sl. bar ami tested the streiiffth of his licw ifi'gan with Mich thoroughness that tic was airesied the same evening on a Charge of drunkenness, 'J'lie action in which William Mozart Nitol claimed JJlOiti) damage'*, through his niu'ni, William Ifolt, from the hypntitist, Melviu fl, Norwood, for altered breach of contend, Wits disposed of in the Practice Oofill at Melbourne sin Delete Si.i. Tho action u-ns coiiiiricnced last July, and Norwood told I lie Court that il-011. hud since left for South Africa, ivliorf the plaintiff lived.. The plaintiff's solicitors htijl stated that they did not intend to further proceed. with the e-nso, and they therefore asked that it bo dismissed on Hie wound of waul, of prosecution, Mr. Justicu Cnfiseii ((ranted tliii njijiltotfun. The '{iluinliff in tin's caso wm "Nrkcla," the WHjriror, and lh(i defendant Norwood, who appeared at the Opera Ttmifso litre a few months ago.