LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the as. Victoria, which sailed from Sydney at noon on Wednesday for Auckland, Ims on board an Australian mail. The Wellington portion is duo to arrive hero by Main Trunk express on Monday next. A message from Captain R. N. Davey, the officer who commanded the Canadian Cadets who recently toured New Zealand, has reached tho Prime Minister. Following is \ the text of the message.:— "Please convey to your Government the sincere appreciation, of the Canadian Cadets on account of the generous • hospitality extended to us during our pleasant profitable tour of your prosperous Dominion." Tho Wellington City Council is advertising for a city organist at ,£240 per annum in tho "Musical Times" of London. A little child aged about two years had an exceedingly narrow escape from being killed in Jervois Quay at noon yesterday. It appears that the child, a little hoy, had been left by its mother (Mrs. M'Node, of Mastorton) standing on the footpath opposite to the Band Rotunda, whilst sho went out on to the road to be directed to a certain building. Quite unconscious of any approaching danger, the little youngster wandered out on to the road, nnd was knocked down by a double-decker car bound for tho railway station. People who witnessed tho accident considered that the child would eertainlv have been killed if it had gone a step further. As it was, the child escaped with a ehaking and bruising.