LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1666, 5 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise Hint, tho s.s. Warrimbo, which sailed from Sydney at noon on the Ist instant, has On hoard nn Australian mail. Sho is duo to aVrivo here this morning. \

Cabinet has not yet taken definite action in tho matter of .calling tenders for tho completion of tho Otira tunnel. Probably, however, intending tenderers will be invited to inspect the works on a given day, and to tender on the basis of completing the undertaking from tho stage which it hos then reached. Any work dono by tho. Government after that date tho successful tenderer will bo required to pay for. . ) . .

No decision has yet been arrived at by tho Government in regard to tho tunnel contract at the Lake Coleridge hydroclectricnl .works, which is. at present under review. Responsibility of determining whnt is to 1m dono rests upon the Hon. W. Fraser (Minister for Public Works), who stated yesterday that he hoped to molso his decision known in a day or two. '.'■■'■■•'■

To-day- being Ash Wednesday, the first dny of Lent, special services will bo held in the Anglican and Roman- Catholic churches. . , ; ■ ■

Over 1,500,000 Bullous of highly-iuflnm-mnblo oils wcro brought from New York by tho steamer Cupe Finisterrci which arrived at Auckland lato on 'Friday night. The vessel's cargo includes the largest quantity of cased benzine yet shipped by one steamer from the American port, anil the freight (2s. o{d. a case) was tho blithest yet. paid for an oil freight. The Gape Finistcrrc's cargo is consigned to Auckland, Napier, Wellington, LyltoHon. Timaru, and Dunedin, and the total nf i,I!JS,GOO gallons was carried in ' IGj.OOO case* - . The consignment reached .Auckland without accident, ami although the enreo shifted slightly as ihe result of tho bulletin!; which the vessel received during a heavy gale crossing Hie Son|]i"rn Ocean, it. is in -:or 1 condition, 'ihe 1G5.1T30 nates ennsi't of 125,000 gallons of petroleum, CG7.MO gallons of beiijiine, 512,-fOO mllons of naphtha, and 14.4-00 callous of turns.—Auckland "Herald,"

.\n 11-yeur-old Ijoy, who was alleged in be beyond parental control, npnearal before Mr. M. C. Cutten, S.M., at'a silling of the Juvcnilv Court, at Auckland on Saturday. The boy's father plated that tue lad refused to stay at a school where i» had been sent for his education, and had run away time after time. Work was "no pood to liiui" lie had boasted to his friends, and he had run away from various places where he had been employed. Iho magistralo committed the boy to. the Ueroroa Home, and ordered his .father to provide for his maintenance at the rate r m. 10s. a week.

The January -takings .constitute another record for the Wanganui Corporation 1 ™ m ]«>.V6, Icing £1757, ns compared with noi3 ol ' *' K> eamc month last vear, and .iSbO tor January, 1911. After "the usual payment to the Borough Council for power, the (lonville-Cnslleeliff Tramwav n?SJ llns . a. surplus for the month of Al3O over its section of the system.

Residents of Koro-Koro recently forwarded an application.for a daily "postal. deliver}-, to the Postmaster-General, through their district member (Mr. T. M. Wilford). The Hon.-R.'H. Rhodes has now lorwarded a Teply stalinir that the.reWuest will be. granted on condition thnt-Koro-Koro residents provide boxes by the roadside. \ ..

Tlnwilling evidence was given by some of the witnesses in tho Supremo Court yesterday in a case in which Albert John udy was found guilty of blowing up a house. A number of tho witnesses were relations.or friends of accused, and their lock of testimony iii important matters of tWoil formed tho subject of remark in Cimrt.

A series of lunch-hour services for men will bo held daily in the Auckland Chamber of Comnicrco during Lent,'which extends from to-day till March 21 (Goodl'riduy). The speakers include the Bishop of Wellington (Dr.Sprott), the Rev. H. G. Kosher (Palmcrston North), tho Rev. A. H. Coh-ille (Now Plymouth), the Rev. K. U. Burton (Christ-church), and the Bishop of Melanesia (Dr. C. J. Wood). Special .open-air services will be held on the Qiieeh Street Wharf, Auckland, between March 10 and 14 (inclusive), and March ,l'.,aiul. 20, nt 12.50 p.m., when addresses will bo delivered by the Revs'. G. Wells Smailes and W. G. Monckton.

Councillor A. Grigg will move'at tomorrows meeting, of the Miramar Rorough Council: "That on and after February 15 th 3 fares on-the Miramar Borough tramway be one penny for, all' cars." A. special effort is to be made' by tho ■city inspectors of the corporation to, reduco tho number of unregistered dogs in tho city. The names of tho owners of a number of. unregistered .-'canines have already; been secured;; and unless thay ai;a registered forthwith court proceedings will lo taken. .-' '.' -. .-'-. . -

Cabinet sat all day yesterday, b'ut little in the shape of news,was given out after the meeting.- 'It is expected that several appointments to the Legislative Council will-, be made shortly, but no announcement on tho subject was',made yesterday. In all likelihood Cabinet will meet again on Saturday. .

In the caso of large pipe organs such as aI 'JJ to bo found in churches' and town halls, it is customary to give them a complete overhaul and cleaning every seven years, in order to keep them reasonably tree of dust. It will bo seven years next month sinco the local Town Hall' organ was opened, and Mr. Tustin (representative for tho makers, Messrs. Norman and Beard) is at present engaged in overhauling tho big instrument. ' He has already been engaged on tho work a fortnight, and will bo nearly another two'weeks ill' completing tho work to •be done. The dust; is being removed from tho interior of the organ by the Vacuum Cleaning Company, whose plant has already, succeeded in sucking up ' several bucketsful of dust. . Mr. Tustiii's chief work consists of dismantling and cleaning tho whole of tho interior pipes., For this reason the organ will not <bo available . for recital purposes' until tho middle,of, the' nnnch. Messrs. Norman and Beard aro at sent supplying a three-manual organ for the .Nelson. Schobl'of Music, and' two manual for. St.', Mary's 'Church (Anglican), Hawera, aud the Presbyterian Church, of tho same town.;,. ; '[ : ■'."•■■