LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1699, 15 March 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The office of the Registrar of Electors, at which the roll for the electoral district of Wellington East is kept for,, public inspection, has been removed from: the Civil Service Club Buildings, at tho corner of Stout, and Ballauce Streets, to the General Post Office building, opposite Queen's Wharf. • ;

, • It is reported on good authority that the .officers of tho Lands Department, both in the headquarters, office and in tho local district office, have been, notified by circular to prepare for an examination within three months. No information has been supplied to tlie officers, it is stated, regarding the character of tho examination mentioned in tl)o circular. There is reason to believe, though no official statement on tho subject, could bo obtained yesterday, that the circular was issued by mistake; This view of tho mat-' ter is supported by ttys,fact that.on Wednesday list,, after a paragraph had appeared in a local paper stating that "various heads of Departments lmd reoeived a memorandum .from the Publio Service 'Commissioners' instructing them to inform their staffs to prepare for a certain examination within three months," , tho Public Ser/iM Commissioner, on being applied to. replied that Jie had no knowledge of the issuo of the memorandum referred to. It was possible, added the Ctmniissioner, that someone had misunderstood a notification issued recently regarding the examination prescribed for ceitain officers of the l'ost and Telegraph Department. This examination was merer ly a continuation of examinations which had been held for years, and which were rx>w made easier in several directions.

Fully : 250 visitors had tho pleasure of witnessing a fino display by Pohutu Geyser, Rotorua, which played from S o'clock to a quarter to- 6 011 Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday morning Pohutu played at 0 o'clock and ceased at 7.80 o'clock. In the afternoon it again became active. At times the shots wero fully 100 feet high.—Auckland "Herald." ' •

The Australian Postmaster-General is determined that the now postage 6tamp with a large kangaroo sitting within a small map of Australia shall continue, whatever may be said by critics. Ho still believes that the design will appeal to the aesthetic 6ense and the patriotic spirit of the mass of the people. The only defect ho thinks is fho colour scheme. He may change it, though ho is not quite sure whether h© will or not. Indeed, lie hesitates to perform any act t'hat would destroy an "artistic conception, quite without a parallel in recent years.'

Maurice Flahive was returning in a wagon from market at ' Melbourne on March G when ho camo in contact with a live electric wire, which had fused and broken awAy fromi overhead. 1 He was thrown down, but the pony, which trod on the wire, was electrocuted. While Flahivo was endeavouring to release the pony, he received some shocks. Mrs. Flahivo, in attempting to pull him away, got a slight shock also. The wiro was submerged in a water channel, and part'of it fell 011 tho roof of an adjoining sliop. The electricity was transmitted to tho ceiling, and a gas pipe was set on fire.

The sittings of tho Bankruptcy Court were yesterday adjourned until March 20. Four prisoners will come before Mr. Justice Chapman for sentence in the Supremo Court this morning at 10 o'clock. They are: Horace Leslio Davis, William Freeman, and .Tesso Thomas Atkin, housebreaking at Nelson: and Kenneth Green, bag-snatching at Wellington.

The Waterside ■ Workers' Band will play at the Newtown Park at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon (Sunday). A collection will bo taken up in. aid of the Wellington Zoological Society's fund for the purchase of flamingoes.

THE "TRIUMPH" STILL ON TOP. The . Christchurch-Kaikoura-and-back rrcord still stands to tho credit of Mr G. B. Brown and his full roadster' "Trii umph," and tho new record made last Thursday has been buried almost, as soon as it was born under the crushing weight of two hours and twenty-one minutes The principal features of Mr. Q. u' Brown's great ride on Saturday have I»en given full publicity. On Bth February ho vodo alone. Some capital was made out of tho fact that on a previous occasion ho was accompanied by another rider, and, though tho precedent thus set has been followed in tho subsequent attempts upon the record by tidors of machines other than tho "Triumph," Mr. Brown decided to demonstrate his faitli irt "Triumph" reliability by .riding alone He rode the same full roadster thrSospeed "Triumph" as ho rodo when he established tho record on January 17. Tho only difference in the conditions was that ho knew tho road. It must be remembered that this Christchurch-Kaikoura ride was suggested by "Triumph" competitors presumably as a courso on which their inabilities had a bettor clmnco against the "Triumph" than any other. Tho course evidently does suit their machine—when their machino is going well—but it quito as evidently suits tho "Triumph" just as well, and a great deal better. So the result of this little sporting controversy has been to establish tho "Triumph" as the best "cross-oountry" motor-cycle, as well as tho best speed machine, the best machine for reliability, and tho best for hill-climbing. Tho .latest "Triumphs" aro now to hand; prices: fixed engine, .£7O; free engine. «£SO; three-speed, 4'87 10s. Adams, Limited., Chnstchurch. Branches, Wanganui, I'atmwston North. Agents, Sutherland and Kankiue, Wellington, and Tourist Motor Co., Hastings.— Advt

A 6omo(vhiit alarming statement was n.ado at the dinner of the Auckland Dental Association, on Wednesday night, llio teeth of 1857 children, in four of the Auckland public schools, were examined by the association. These children had between them no fewer than 7G39 decayed permanent 'teeth. The ages of the cliildien exo.j)in:d ranged between livo and fifteen years. Parents were furnished with reports on their children's teeth, and much good jvas done by . attending to tho l»d teeth. Tho prevalence of these, it was pointed out, was a danger to fcjie children's health. A noxious germ, for instance, once lodged in a 'hollow tooth, multiplied very rapidly, and might cause infection. Such u germ taken into A healthy mouth, would probably do no harm.

The annual report of the New Zealand ltejerees Association to be presented ct ti iA? . mec ting on March 21 states chat the past season lias been one of continued success in the affairs of the association. .At present there are twenty active associations affiliated, and if is likely that several new associations will apply for afliliation shortly. Thus practically the whole of tile active Rugby referees 111 New Zealand are now banded together lor mutual support and advancement. The finances of the association, it is reported, are still in a sound position. The association has now been a self-supporting ■institution for several years past, and the balance of assets over liabilities of .£1)1 Is. 10a. must bo considered, as saiisfactory.

A handsomely' ample case of apples arrived yesterday as a contribution to Tup Dominion. Tho sender, Mr. G, L, Paeon, who grows fruit' at Moutere Inlet, accompanied his pleasant gift with a note intimating that they were sent "in appreciation of your efforts to enliven our laborious days." TJio apples, which are Cos's orange pippins, are more like tho apples one dreams of than those one usually can buy—firm, juicy, and of a delicate flavour. Mr. Tacon says they are tho beginning of a great output, and the staff gratefully, trusts that twenty years henco Mr. Tacon Will see realised his expectation that probably millions of cases will go abroad annually from tho Moutere Hills. ( * % Many people are' looking forward with keen interest to hearing the address on "The Empire," which is to be delivered by the Hon. G. E. Foster (Canadian Trade Minister) in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Wednesday next, under the auspices of the Navy Ijeague. Mr. Foster delivered an address in London on November 12, 1912, to'the Eoyal Colonial Institute, upon "Some Problems of Empire." At the close of tho address, Earl Grey, who presided, said that he doubted if there had ever been presented from that platform a more able statement as to the laws which regulated the growth of Imperial evolution. Tho Hon. A. L. Sifton (Primo Minister of Alberta) spoke of Mr. Foster as a man whose reputation as'an orator had-spread throughout the Dominion, and had now become Empire wide. "Tho Times" correspondent at Toronto, writing op January 2, 1913, of Mr. Borden's naval proposals,'said: "Mr. Foster i$ by common consent the most effective platform and Parliamentary speaker, in Canada. . His defence of tho Government's proposals ranks with tho greatest speeches ever made in the Canadian House of Commons." ;