LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to t-he fact that there was no steamer from Syduey to Auckland last week there will be no English or Australian mail by. tho Main Trunk train this afternoon.

The Public Service Commissioner is considering the whole question of payment of overtime in tho Public Service, and before settling the regulations desires tho views of the members of the Service submitted to him through thft Publio Service Association. _ The local branch of the association is eircuTatising the various delegates to obtain the views of the members of oach Department.

'flie Rev. J. 0. Fitzgerald, of tbo Community of tho Resurrection, who has been holding services in Wellington last week, preached at St. Paul's pro-Cathedral yesterday morning, and gave an address to men at St. Peter s m the afternobii. In the evening ho held a mission service at St. Paul's, which was very largely attended, la addition to> special prayers and an instruction, he preached a deeply >nteteSUng and impressive -senium, tin the course of which he referred to certain aspeots of Christiiii! mysticism. His text was Revelation XII, 1(3: "I am tho bright and morning star. In the Diocesan Room, Mulgrave Street, this afternoon Mr. Fitzgerald will give an account of the work of the Community of tho Resurrection*

One of tiro largest land deals yet recorded in the Thames Valley took place at To Arolia during the past few days and will have an important, bcar- ' in-g upon the dairying industry in this district (says tlio Te Aroha Mail_). M,r. 0. Neilseii, representing a Danish syndicate, has concluded negotiations with Mr. Boid, barrister,. Auckland, through Mr. G. Lovegrovo, for tho purchase of a number of valuable faimnffi properties alongthe East port Road. Several well improved farms have been purchased, tho figures for the lot exceeding £445,000. 'fhe- average price paid per aero i-s £28. .

Tramway traffic was blocked in Willis Streot for a, short tiiiio at about midday on Saturday by a freight oar getting off tlio rails. The car was got hack on to tlio lines by its own power.

A serious offenco oil A child is alleged to have been committed in Hector's Lane, Pctiane, on Friday by a 30 far unidentified man,

The new Salvation. Army building, in 0-n.epn Road, Kilbirnlo, to bo used mainly for young people's work, was opened by Commissioner. Richards on Friday evening. . Tli-o Commissioner, in his addresses, referred to the growth of tho Salvation Army in Wellington. 13riga>dier Carmichael and others also spoke, and selections were played by the Wellington City and South Wellington Army hands. The hall will seat 200 people, and at tho rear thoro is a smaller hall, seating about e-igMy.

The tramway workshops at Newtown wero visited by a party of members of P'Mliataenii' o-U "Saturday morning, when an inspection was made of ills' work of converting tlio side-step tramway cars.

■ English papers report a bravo rescuo which was made by an old Duuediri boy I in the per sen of Commander Norman Stanley, of tho cruiser Europe, in tlio i upper reaches of Portsmouth Harbour. A stolcor named Whitehead fell into : the wator. Ho struck his head in bw fall, -and was unconscious. Commander Stanley dived from tho cruiser's upper bridge, a distance oi thirty feet, and eaUfpit Whitehead! .as the tide was carrying him away. The ccmniandwj. who . is a, son of tho late Rov. T. L. Stanley, o? Gtago. had already received the Royal iluinaiio Society's medal for jumping overboard in the; Bay of Biscay ana saving n, man's life.

Tho China Iflhmd Mission has Receipted and sent out three Nob' Zealand* ers as missionaries to China during the last 'three mouths,. 11. &• Bat-eman (from Hokitika), Mr. Arnolis Jlaymau {from Auckland), and Miss Mary Itoulston (from Milton).

The "Amalgamated Society of Engineers' Co-operative Society, Lid.," which runs a grocery business at Kent Terrace, Wellington, and at Pet-one, has circularised shareholders calling a meeting for November 12 to consider, and if deemed expedient, to pass, tho fallowing resolution: —"That it has, been proved to the satisfaction <lf the shareholders that tlio society cannot, by reason, of its liabilities, continue its 'business, and that it is advisable to 'wind Up the same, and that accordingly tho society bo wound hj> voluntarily, and that Mr. Duncan M'Koy, of' Wellington, accountant, bo and is hereby appointed liquidator for tho purpose of Such winding up." .

Tho Hutt Valley Horticultural Society's Rose Shoiv is to be held on Wednesday nsxt in the Lower Hutt Town Hall. Although the weathor_ lias not been altogether favourable, it is expected there will bo fl very good display. Tho. decorative classes will no doubt, as usual, prove attraative, and there has been introduced ail innovation somewhat of tho nature of a guessing competition. Visitors to tho show will be asked to name a number of roses comprised in a small collection, and tho. one most successful will receive a trophy.

An amusing episode occurred, on the waterfront at Auckland on Friday morning, whereby, according to the "Herald," an astute drainage contractor hoodwinked a. strike pieket. Ho was engaged in unloading bricks from a truck into his scow preparatory. to taking iliMii down to Orafcei. While engaged in this operation ho was told tluit a strike .picket'was approaching, so 3io started to rovcrse Mb operations, and to unload tho bricks from tho scow into ilio truck. The picket duly appoarod, and told him to cease work, but tho man was adamant, mid refused. Finally,, however, ho gave in to superior immbers, and obeyed tlio .picket's command to replace all tho bricks in tho stow. With many protests -on tlio part of tli© "contractor tliis was accomplished, the piekct actually assi.stiiijr in the operation. When all the bricks fed been placed, on tho scow, tiro coin tractor, h.a.ving achioved his object, set his motor-engino going and departed for bis- destination.

Tlio farmers in some of tho .Auckland eomitry districts aro greatly disturbed by tlip'reports thai ssmo of tho creameries in tho Wnikato aro likely to c'loso down forthwith owing to a shortage of feel and owing to tlio cold storage being exhausted, thus making it impossiblo for the central factories to reeeivo cream. Mr. Pacoy, general manager of tho Now Zealand Dairy Association, however, stated to a. "lforald" representative that there Is absolutely no foundation for such reports, but that the fuel supply and storage capacity is sufficient to enable tho company to carry •on for fionio weeks indeed, it Would probably tide them over tlio Mi-ike altogether, Ho believed that most of tho Waikut© companies vvoro in a siiwiarly satisfactory position, and that-, oortni.iily tho question of storage was not a matter for immediato apprehension to any of tkom,