LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1685, 27 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As- Wirths' circus is leaving Aucklandfor Sydney on Monday next Mr. GeorgO "JtVirth ; has written to tho Town Clerk, asking that the amount of .£IOO for the lioness in the Zoo be forwarded by that date instead of the original date stipulated, about ft week Inter. The amount is .£IOO, towards which About ,£BO has been subscribed by voluntary subscription. The Town Clerk states that be would be very glad to receive any further subscription's .towards the purchase of the lioness as it is desired that the.whole of the pureWemoney Should come" voluntarily from, tho citizens. . ' ' *'■' Included amongst tho numerous policv measures which are - being prepared by tho Government in anticipation of next session is a Country Workers' Accommodation Bill, which has Veen framed as the outcomo of a conference between the Secretary'for Labour (Mr. J. Lomos) end Die head of the Lniul Purchase Department (Mr. J. D. Jtitchic) and representatives of various organisations interested in the subject. Assisted immigrants to the number of 70 nro due to arrive in Wellington by the New /Tealimd Shipping Company's Buahino from London on Tuesday next, lliey include IS wive;, who are coming out to join their husband?, children. 25 domestic servants, and 10 farmers. Five farmers and 211 ohildr-m were nominated bv relatives in N'c-w Zealand. The Rtiahilio hns about .450 third-class nassengers on board- ' ■ "

Ten pounds has been voted by the Wellington Harbour Board to th* Wellington Hospital Saturday and Sunday fund. The chairman of tho Harbour Board (Mr. R. Fiotcher), who moved the'grant, 6aid that a good many injured men were sent to tho. Hospital frorii tho water-front. Messrs. C. T. l)aniell, M. Cohen, and. A. Macfavlano '(country memfc'jivOj.' and Mr. C. W. Jones (shipowners' reprcsanfative) against tho vote. < They 1 regretted to raise tlicir voices against such a pro* posal, but', they said, they, did so oil principle. The country members' reason \vas that tho boards- funds»\vi»re drawii from tho whole district, and that the bro-j posal was to take money, from those fund.'i tor one particular hospital; The motion was carried by seven votes to six. Aves i Messrs, Trevor, J. Cobbe, M. Cohen] J. E. Fitzgerald, R. Fletcher, J. 'Hildreth, and J. W. M'Ewan. Ko.es: Messrs. C. T. Daniel!, R.i C. Renner,P. C. Freeth, J, I G. Harkue«*» C. W. Jones, and' A. forlane. . ; 1

rhe new-Maori "king,'* Te Rata, accom. panied by a retinue of 40 Natives, journeyed. froiu'Waalu to To Koup i on Friday last/ There they were received in a? large meeting-house, which had been ! specially' erected, flags being hoisted, and. guns fired iii a'snluto of >velcouie. Since Iriday a large gathering of Maoris'has. been feasting and drinking/ 'and the korcro will 'frobably continue .while tlie supply of food liolds but. Resolutions nave been adopted to' drop drink, and to-: muigaism and embrace Christianity. .Prominent among To, Rata's following ' are Rawhiti (private , secretary), Ahuriri (ptimo minister), Herewine (brother of the late Major Te Wheoro), and Taingakawa, (son )>f William . Thomson, . tho '"lung-maker:?) .—Auckland. "Star.-' •

Com plaints, having bsen made about delay in connection with the'erection of the new infant sshool at lvelburne,':he Hon. A. L. Herdiuan, as hiember for the dis-' trict,. has instituted inquiries. The position h that tn■ Octobar23, 1012, the Education, Department made a grant of 24370 to the Wellington Education Board for the erection of ah infant school in connection with; the projected Trainihg epilogs at. ICelburne. The school'is to be of brick, and in; accordance with plans approved by tho Department of Education, The grant is intended bo cover, "the'cost of preparing is and forming.. theschool grounds and architects''' fees,'' but - not furniture, etc.;,; Further action in • the matter rests with, tho Education-Board, . lc ! 1 „ ls to'.call, for competitive designs for the no\y infant school..

_.Tho result of the ballot taken by. tho united labour Party.to! determine'which' members shall be nominated. as .caridi* dales for the City Council, ' Harbour Board, and jrWelhrigton Hospital . and Charitable. Aid Board ivill bo announced at the' lycekly :• meeting of' the Trades and Labour Council, to. bo held' this.evening. ■ ''A man' who arrives (it' the age of 40 ana has riot', ni'ado some mark in business life, or has li'ot set out in something good for himself, is no good at' all.'.' This remark!was passed by Mr. Richard Stan--tori, of Sydney, in advice. given to his young staff at! a dinner tendered them. Continuing, his said: "A man who sets out in lifte, or.Jias any. enterprise'towards business succeiss, .must be thinking .when he is 30, thinking harder when between the age of 30 and 40, and when, the letter age. is reached : his .-object. must bo realised.' ' IT® impressed his yoixnjf staff, and concluded by adding, "I hope, wlien all of you reach the age of forty you will have tlone something for .yourselyte.;- > The B«'y. S. 0. Yarriiigton, secretary' ,o{ tho. Mission Zona Fund, speakinjf at a meeting in connection with the fund, held at tho Chapter House, Sydney, a fe'iv days ago, referred to • tho (juestiou of ..opium dens, and 1 their existence in tlie mission.' zone area... Although Mr. Flowers, -/as. Chief Secretary, .ridiculed his previous statement and oske'd him .to 1 apologise for |iia assertion regarding opium dens in the; city, : yet thoy had recently had' definite proof of the existence of these' dens in. Sydney. Several cases.had' been^bl,flight; to the - police courts, and mien - had. .'been 1 tound.guilty of.!keeping-such- deiis. .MoreoveiV.'whlto. girls ;,aud'.r white men[--«nd Chinamen had been .fined 'for snioking opium. ' ".'■■■ . .„ A_brave net of n boy iiamed Hobby Lees is reported from. Doublti'Biiy, •New South .Wale's.-' 'An infant, . .Slaiiey Burton, fell olf the jetty into the ivater,' and Bobby..-wad-id in up to his chill and pulled her to the bank, where she lay'unconscious until his' mother and u medical riian arrived anil uttended to her. Mr. Carinichael, New South Wales Minister for Public '.Instruction, questioned regarding the appointment of Dr. Willis as medical superintendent of,schools, sa.id'lie was not prepared to diseuss'tliat ap|ioiiit-; merit or the noa-appointmeut of Dr.'; Gertrude Halley.. "Ail I will say," remarked the Minister, "is thai we wanted amnion ! for the position/, and we secured.ouii.' 1 don't _ think the charge* of beingVantifeniiuist'ean lie iiustaiued against'th<! 'pre-, .sent Oovcrnraentl" ■' , ' ' i'-j '. ! /Students attending the -'Wellington! College will, for the future, be'afforded the opportunity'of gaining at least'a primary knowledge of thej heavenly l>odles.'Thanks to the liberality of past arid present'studetits and friends' a 51-inch Yeis£ telescope has .been purchased and' equntorinlly inounted at tho College, and when thoroughly .tested will be formally, "oper.ed." The telescope oast; .€3OO, towards which the Government contributed a '£ for £ sub- I sidy. ' '] ■' A. very striking feature of the year on which we have just entered is tlie 'early occurrence of Easter f-oys the London ' "Observer"). It-ihas not beeri <latf-il so. early for fifty-seven years. Of coursd, as everybody knows,' the niaon is. responsible, and also an Act; of Parliament, which prescribes that Easter Day Shall always fall upon the fiwt Sunday after the full moon which happens'upon or next sifter March 21. So it Ironies about that Good Friday this year.'is on 'March' 21 mid I'Eastor Sunday on the 2.3 ix!. It is not likely that many i would favour the suggestion now being-mado of a' fixed 'Easter. These fluctuations of date help to furnisli that., interest of 7 Change' arid', variety which redeems to; some extent the worser' aspects of our nofthern clime. Charles Dunbartoh, of the' New South Wales Service,' giving evidence in. the "Arbitration Court iii Melbourne, in replv to |- ,Mr. "Wrout, said that ivheri. working'the I telephone board ho did not know what I caused the shutter;to drop. Mr. Wrcut: "Didn't you lcn'oiv that' it meant that a subscriber had turned a handle?" Witness: "I was too busy wntbliirig the clock for knocking-off time to bother about it." daughter.) further examined, witness said he- knew practically' nothing' Shout lath work. Mr. 'Wro.ut: "Weren't yon one j( of the examiniiTs in lath-work recently?"—VYts." ' "Yet you say you know uothin<: about it?"— Sydney "Daily Telegraph." . ' . • ' : Kirkpa!die and Stain's, Ltd., have just opened a; new, stock of Gauntlet RingWood "Gloves in Heather Mixture, Lovat jind White, at Is. ijd. and'2s,'lid,'a-pair.' —Advt. ■ ■ -t " ■