LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 2 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The hours to be observed at the telegraph office to-morrow will be (is follow*:—9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; evening, 7, p.m. to midnight. The telephone exchange will lw open continuously, and there will bo tho usual midnight cable eervico.

Although a good deal of work has been dono by the Marine Department in preparation for the -erection of tho projected lighthouse on Karori Bock, no start has vet been made upon tho rook itself. Mr. Froser, who supervises this class of work for tho Government, is still in the Auckland district. He has been supervising repairs to The Chickcns' light, and before returning to Wellington will make arrangements to start preliminary work in connection with tho crection of a light on The Watchman, an island off " Cape Colville. It is proposed to instal there an: ncetons-ncetyleno light, similar, to the one which is to bo placed upon Karori Kock, but smaller.. Like the Karori Rock light that upon The Watchman will be of the un watched variety, tho beam rising automatically as darkness falls, and sinking with the return of daylight. After seeing tho work upon Tho Watchman started, Mr. Eraser will return to Wellington to superintend tho erection of the Karori Rook light.

A« from yesterday (Jlino ]) the price of milk in Wellington has been raised from id. to sd. per quart.

A representative meeting 1 of tlio Catholic community of Wellington, was hold yesterday iu St. Joseph's, Buoklo Street, to consider what stops should bo taken to mark tho occasion of the consecration of Bishop' O'Shea, which takes 'placo in August next. Dean Regnault presided, and thene were from 200 to 300 people present. A committee representative of .all tho Wellington parishes was set up to make the nedtssary arrangements. It was left with the committee to docide what form tho colebmtions should tike.

"That a universal tram fare should bo adopted in Wellington" is to l>o tho subject of a debate to bo conducted in No. 1 Committee Boom at tho Town Hall this evening under tho auspices of the Greater Wellington Municipal Elcctois' Association. Tho affirmative is to be taken by Messrs. H. G. Hill and Hector il'Leod, and the negative by Messrs. J, S. Barton and W. Appleton. There is miro to be lively interest takon in the dobato as tho proposal it embodies has been suggested as a way out of tho high suburban fares, which tend to nullify tho inducements for living well out from tho city. In almost every American city tho universal faro is the practice. It is five cents (2Jd.) if a passenger rides a block, and tho sain© if ho ridos twoniy blocks. It has been suggested that a universal twopenny faro would load to a wonderful development in suburban lands.

Yesterday evening a woman fell off tho Queen's Wharf into tho harbour. The constable on duty at tho wharf (with tho assistance of some of tho Harbour Board officials) pulled her out safely. Sho was arrested, and will bo charged with insobriety at tho Magistrate's Court this morning.

Whilo Wellington citizens art exercising their minds over various schemes for beautifying and otlicrwiso improving tho Town Bolt, it is interesting to nolo that tho Christchurch Domains Board last year planted seventeen ncrcs of Haglcy l'nrk with potatoes, which crop has now been lifted, and returned a profit of about wESOO. ...

Practically all the principal hotels and bonrdinghouscs in Auckland aro full to overflowing at present. Largo numbers of peoplo arrived in town during lost week, most of them for the purpose of attending tho Auckland Racing Club's winter meeting, and our correspondent states that those visitors who fnlled to mako arrangements for their accommodation prior to their arrival have had considerable difficulty in securing a roof to shelter them. Several have had to be satisfied with somowhat make-shift quarters.