LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1624, 16 December 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As the Union Company's turbine steamer Maheno arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday afternoon, the English and Australian mails she brought will reach Wellington by the Main Trunk express this afternoon. At the recent meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council ono of the councillors complained about the unsuitable times during which some residents lighted rubbish fires. The by-laws should be enforced. The Eastbourne borough by-laws require a permit to bo obtained for lighting fires in the open, and such fires are prohibited on Sundays and after sundown on ordinary da}'s. This is not generally known. Tlio secretary of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board desires to acknowledge the following further donations to the Christmas fund:—Mr. S. Gilmer, one guinea; Messrs. Wyatt and De In Tour, half a guinea; Messrs. It. H. Wilson, Laws and Manning, 10s. each; A. H., G. E. G., Tolley and Son, W. F. S., ss. eoch; W. H. D., F. F., 2s. 6d. each. And goods from Messrs. Lacry and Son, E. T. Taylor and Co., J. Smith and Son, F. T. and Co., Te Aro Hotel, E. Arnold, A. H. Eaton and Son, and R. Brown and Son. The City Council's tea kiosk at Newtown Park is rapidly nearing completion. The building, which is ereoted on the hilltop of the left of the park, commands a clear view iof the green. The council is calling tenders for the lease of the building in an advertisement in this issue. Tho adjourned sitting of the Wellington Licensing Committee will be resumed at 2.15 this afternoon to consider the application for a' transfer of the license of the Clyde Quay Hotel from E., W. Moir to C. A. Sohauer, who at present holds a temporary license. The officers of the German warship Cormoran have nearly all left Wellington to view the sights of the North Island. 1 One party' is visiting Lake Taupo, and another is exploring the picturesque Wanganui River; The vessel was thrown open for inspeotion yesterday, and visitors were cordially received by the ship's company. The following dates for annual camps of brigades and units are .approved in the latest District Orders by Colonel E. W. C. Chaytor:—Wellington Coast Defence Troops, February U to 22, "1913, at Wellington; Wellington Field Artillery Brigade, March 7 to 15, 1913, at Oringi; Wellington Infantry Brigade, April H to 20, 1913, at Oringi; Wellington Mounted Rifles Brigade, May 5 to 17,1913, at Oringi. We have to acknowledge, the receipt of £1 'Is., forwarded by Mrs. John Thompson, of Brooklyn, towards the funds of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. ' On Saturday afternoon John Collins, a_ seaman on the Komata, was admitted to the hospital suffering from a badlysprainod anklo, -the result of a fall. Collins is a single man about thirty years of ago, ;\ ■ ' At 8.57 p.m. on Saturday, the Central Fire Brigade received, a call to the Nutricia Milk Company's premises in Cornhill Street, where a fire was suppressed after it had done trifling damage. Tho Petone Borough Council has received word that the-well-known firm ot Messrs. Lever Bros., soap manufacturers, have definitely decided to open a factory in Petone. The firm have completed the purchase of three acres of land, on the western side of the railway line, just at the foot of the Koro Koto Road. Messrs. Lever Bros; will employ a large auniber of men. Two polo ponies arrived by the Ruapehu at Wellington from London on Saturday evening. They belong to Lord Liverpool, the Governor-Designate of Now Zealand., Several of the offioers of the Gorman cruiser Cormoran left Wellington on Saturday for Wanganui for the purpose of going up the AVanganui Riveri The. warship was engaged in.taking'in 200 .tons of Westport coal on Saturday. A conference is to be held in Wellington to-morrow between representatives of the Shipowners' Federation and representatives of-the Marine Engineers' Institute with reference to the latter's demands for increases in. the rates of pay, holiday-leave, dvertinje,-. and.qther matters. - : ■",". '"' '-V ' ; '. ' . Mr. J. C, Yorke, Inspector of Factories for the North Otago District, _ had a miraculous escape from serious injury— if not death—last week, as the result of an accident on the Slip Road, Hakataramea. He was driving witn a friend along this road, wlien, without warning, tho horse went over the side and commenced a precipitous journey into the valley below. Mr. Yorko's friend was thrown clear, but he himself was not so-fortunate,-aa horse and trap crashed right over him, but fortunately without any injury other than a severe shako of the system. The downward course of the horso and gig' was eventually retarded by Borne thickgrowing scrub, and an examination revealed that tho former had come through its sensational ordeal without injury, and that the latter, had suffered • very little damage.—Oamaru "Mail." •'.'•"