LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A tWtolcss messago hns been received by tlio Post Officio officials statins: that the Wim-mero from Sydney was to arrive at Auckland nt about 7 o'clock last evening, and would connect with tho Main Trunk express, loavini; for Wellington at 9.16 li.m. She brings an English mail (via Hues) awl Australian mailn. Tlio Wellington, portion of tho mail should arrive litre this afternoon.

Lynll Day boro <|iiitc- a holiday aspect in tlio mmshine of yesterday afternoon. All,liou;rh tliero wan an "edge" to tlio northerly \)rco7/3, tliwo wore several hundred surfers disporting themselves in the breakers, in the presence of some two or threethousand fipcHjtntoiv). The <o»:ic was brightened by a displu.y of gaily-wlourcd bunting, llown from the dilfercnt club houses on the Wch, and tho City Bund (under llatwliiinf.to.T Herd) discoursed music from the bnndstand on tlio parade. During tho afternoon the Life-saving Clubs, augmentt'd by the Sydney swimmers, pave an inlore.uinjf exhibition of lilo-saving.

A bnd motor cycle accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, when Mr, L. E. Tin/(joy, a foroiiKin in tlio firm of Tinttcy, Ltd., tell off his maohino on the Hutt Itoad. His injuries consist of a scalp wound and a broken leg. Ifo is a married man, residing at Wallace Street, Karon. ■

Tho fame of Ifarry Lauder, the Scotch singing comedian, oxecedcth that of princes. When Mr. Frank 'fait arrived in Palmerslon North a few days ago, he war? informed by a local pressman that it had been rumoured that the Tait management woi'o going to pass by Palmorston North. Mr. Tait denied the impeachment, but added with no little subtlety that if tho Palmorston. people did not turn up to hear Madame Kirlcby Lunn they would not get Harry Lauder. Tho pressman printed the statement, with the result that tho Kirkby Lunn box plan bookings received an extra fillip when it opened from many, .possibly in apprehension that tho managerial threat would bo made good in. tho fullness of time.

On Saturday morning the City Fire Brigade were called to No. 175 Tinakori Boad. The fire started in tho washhouse, and a defective chimney is said to havo been the cause. A good deal of the wall was damaged by tho time tho flames were extinguished. Mr. F. A. Staples owns the building, which is occupied by Mr. Peareon.

Transfusion of blood by a direct connection with the heart is the surgical innovation and Ms own discovery announced by Dr. Alex. Carrel, of tho Rockefeller Institute,and has caused doepintorest in medical circles in America. He recently illustrated his new method by lantern slides before the Academy of Medicine. A silver tubo is inserted into tho heart and the other end is nlaecd in an artery in tho patient. Dr. Carrel demonstrated that thisS blood coming directly from the heart is far superior to that acquired by tapping a vein. Ho said the experiment had been tried with complete succes9 on animals and one man had successfully submitted to the operation to save his wifrt life.

The new convent building for tho Brigidino Order was formally opened at Pahiatua yesterday. The Very Eev. Dean O'Shea, of Wellington, presided at the opening. During the present week Bishop deary, of Auckland, who is on a visit to Wellington, will deliver a lecture on the Bible in schools question.

"To Kooti" was an, alias of a European "firet offender," who appeared before Mr. G. Newett, J.P., at Dannevirke last week, charged with diunkcnmess. Ho was wearing a Napier Hospital shirt, having been an inmate of that institution to undergo an operation on one of his eves. Asked whether he thought that drink might be better for iiis eye than an accused laughingly admitted that this might have had something to do with his departure from the hospital. "Te Kooti," who had not been up before for twelve months, had previously collected 30 convictions in other parts. .'