LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1623, 14 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho postal authorities adviso that tho s.s. Muheno, which fiiiilcd at noon on tho 11th instant for Auckland, hus on board nil Australian mail, also an English innil, via Suez. Tho Wellington portion h duo to arrive hero by Main Trunk on Monday next.

Tho passage of a foreign body through human flesh was strangely illustrated by a enso which occurred quite recently in Wellington. A man was engaged in moving u roll of linoleum in a shop, and nllowing tho roll to fall against -his shoulder before- ho lifted it, ho was alarmed to feel a sharp paan ns though a kuifo blade had been inserted in the front of his shoulder. As the pain recurred, ho (,-ot someone t;o feel all round tho spot, with tlio result that something was located. A slitflit insertion-with the point of a keen-edged pocket-knife was made, and about an eighth of an inch under tho skin a fish-bone, three-quarters of an inch in length, was located and extracted. How the fish-bone got there is a mystery, for the person concerned could not remember over liavinp had trouble with one, and even if he had swallowed one, how did it find its way into his- shoulder?

_In regard, to the catlo message published yesterday having referenco to tho seizure by bailiffs of Kubelik's violin in satisfaction of a claim by Mr. Hugo Gorlitz for .£1250, a slight error was recorded. ICubelik did not tour Now Zealand under Mr. Gorlitz. The claim was for nioiuys alleged to be- due to Mr. Gorlitz in connection with an American tour of the violinist, dp which the plaintiff was interested, which caso was heard by tho Supreme Court of New Zealand during Kubelik's tour of New Zealand. Mr. Gorlitz (wlio is the husband of Miss Amy Sherwin, formerly known as "the Tusmanian Nightingale") was settled' for eonip time in New Zealand. Ho was for a time manager for tho Dresden Piano Company at Timaru, and subsequently managed the concert tour of the Ellwood trio. Mr. Gorlitz left New Zealand on business connected with the Sheffield Choir. Cabinet yesterday voted .£ISOO for the Elani School of Art in Auckland. By 42 votes to 10 the General Labourers' Union of Wellington decided not to cancel its registration under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Two other proposals, of which notice had been given —(lj Secede from the United Labour Party, and (2) Join the Federation of Labour—were withdrawn without beiilg put to a vote. Furthermore, the union declined the invitation to be represented at the conference called by the Federation of Labour for January 13. Meantime tho union has circulated'new claims involving various increases. For tunnel men and shift men and all workers employed underground 12s. per shift is being asked; for pipe-layers, Is. Gd. per hour; powder-men, labourers engaged in drainage and like works, Is. 3d. per hour. Overtime is being asked for at the rate of timo and a half for tho first two hours and double time thereafter. Double pay is also being asked for work done on New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday,Labour Day, the King's Birthday, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day.

The late Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was taken oS at the age of 3?, did not make much money out of music Tho composer of tho "Hiawatha" trilogy, "A Tale of Old Japan," and other notable works, Professor of Composition at Trinity College, and conductor of the Handel Society, who died intestate, left estato of the gross value of .£874, of which the net personalty has been sworn at j>756. Letters of administration of his property have been granted to his 1 widow, Mrs. Jessie Sarah Fleetwood Coleridge-Taylor. When the last mail left London a big conoert was being arranged, the proceeds of which are to be handed over to the composer's widowv

Now that the Government has appointed a custodian for our embryonic National Art Gallery, the premises in Whitmore Street are to be thrown open, to the public daily from 'to-morrow^(Sunday) afternoon. 'The hourson Sunday will be from 2 p.m. to 4 s SI) p.m., and on week-days from 1 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. The pictures purchased from the Baillie collection, and others presented to the gallery, now adorn the walls, so-that a really fcne.gallery of (*ood pictures will always be open for public inspection. The local Academy loaned some of the Baillie pictures to Dunedin quite recently, much to the delight of tpe artistic -of the southern, city. These have been returned, and havo been hung as well as the limited space at tho disposal of the Academy permits. The colour line has been rigidly drawn at Port Pirie, in . South Australia, by the local hotelkeejrers. The team- of American negro miustrols that" some months ago toured Now Zealand, were booked for a performance at that town. When they got off the train, however, and the proprietor of the hotel where they were to stay saw them, he told the manager that he vras not going to have "those coons." They wont to the other hotelj and were Kb own to their rooms, wtlofs they took their baggage, and went down town. In the meantime the landlord met the other hotelkeeper, i.nd learned that he had refused the blacks. Thereupon ho went straight back and turned tho minstrels out. Practically the same thing occurred with one of the boareinghouses. Finally they batched in the public hall. "We have followed our profession throughout the whole of the United States," said one of the group, "and neither there nor in Australia have wo been treated like. this." "I don't know nothing at all about it," said a aailor from the Cambrian when he appeared in tho Magistrate s Court yesterday charged with having celebrated his shore-leave hy consuming more intoxicants than were nccessaxy to keep him sober. "That is all I havo to say." There was another charge against him, and he was asked if he wished to be tried by tho magistrate or by a jury. "Just as you want it to go," he replied. I don t cave. Subsequently he elected to bo tried by his Worship, but, as is tho oustom in the cases of man-o'-warsmen, was handed over to the naval authorities to bo dealt with by them.

Prisoners cannot always choose the form of their punishment, and this a woman who was before the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning discovered. "You will be convicted and ordered to be' placed in the Salvation Army . Home for six months," said Mr. W. Ci. Kiddell, S.H., to the woman in tho dock. "I don't want to go to the Salvation Army Home," retorted tho woman. "I will go to caol." "I have ordered you to tho Army Homo," Baid his Worship laconically. "Call the next case." There are 391 passengers on board the New Zealand Shipping 'Company's Kuapehu, which is due at Wellington from London this afternoon. Of this 'number, 85 uto in the saloon and 20G are travelling third-class. The Government have assisted 50 immigrants, and 11 adults and 9 children were nominated by friends and relations in New Zealand. The High Commissioner approved of 27 adults and three children. Among tho "assisfceds" are 11 farm labourers, 9 farmers, 12 domestic servants, who ojto under the charge of a matron! while fiye wives aro coming out to' rejoin their husbands. Announcements of Sunday Boryioea will be found on page 2 of this issue .