LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1729, 21 April 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlio . s.s. Maheno, which arrived iu Auckland from Sydney at 1 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, brought an English mail (via Suez) and an Australian mail. The southern portion of the mail is dub in Wellington this afternoon by tho Main Trunk express. Tho celebration of the Jewish Passover commences in the Synagogue at 6 o'clock this evening. "A civilised Harden city like Christcliurch should have a town hall," said Div Thacker, a candidate for the Mayoralty of Christchiirch, in an address on Friday night. "It should not be necessary for Dr. Chapman to . erect a tent to carry oyt his evangelistic mission. Wo should have more enterprise, and squawk as loudly as the squeaking baby of the North Island—Auckland. She squawks and squalls, and they try to a put a dummy in her mouth, but sho won't have it. She wants to hiivo tho real bottlo and she will get it. She is just taking away from 11s the battleship New Zealand, which we ought to have." The Presbyterian Church of Now Zealand has decided to unite with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in sending a joint delegation to the New Hebrides to inquire into the, condition er tho natives and to confer with the Mission Synod at its meeting in June. Tho delegation will probably spend three months in visiting all the stations ill the New Hebrides, and in due course it will present a joint report to the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand and Victoria. Tho Public Workers Department has received the'following 1 list of tenders, for tho undermentioned works:—Erection of storekeeper's residence, Pipitca: Accepted —J. L. M'Millan, Wellington, .£GG9. Declined—W. Lowerjy Karori, ,£G76; J. M. Meyer, Wellington, J2G76; H. H. Knight, Wellington, <£(j9S ; G. L. Wakelin, Wellington, c£732; Thompson, and Sons, Wellington, £772; A. Seamen, Wellington, .£777; J. and A. Wilson, Wellington. '.£BSO. Installation of water supply ami drainage. Wakapuaka Cable StationAccepted—T. 1!. J. Grimmett, Nelson, A'GS2. ■ Declined—H. J. Flatt, Nel. son, .£091; Robertson Bros., Nelson, .£779. A petition signed by about four hundred sportsmen of tho Ellesmero district (Canterbury) has been sent to tho Minister for Internal Affairs, through the member for tho district (the Hon. R. 11. Rhodes) asking that one mouth's duck shooting should bo granted this year.