LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There will be 110 or Australian mail Arriving from Auckland today, as no boat arrived at tlio latter port from Sydney yesterday. The Urindisi mail was to iinv-o left Hobart on Saturday, and in the ordinary course of events should arrive hero about Wednesday next. The postalViuthorit-ies adviso that the s.s. Waijiori, which sailed from Sydney for Wellington via, Newcastle, on Decern tier 2, lnis on board an Australian mail. She is uuo to arrive hero on Tuesday morning. A rather curious accident befell a mail named Kielurd Bealo at Island Hay yesterday afternoon. He- was lying on the hillside, reading a book, when the heat of the sun made him drowsy, and he fell asleep. While asleep a Leetio crawled into liis ear. All efforts to dislodge the insect failed, and the man had to undergo an operation at tiro Hospital last 6* cuing to havo the trouble remedied. Detective Andrews arrested a man on Saturday evening on a eliargo of stealing a hamper containing wearing apparel valued, at £6, th"o property of .Mm Bundy. Another man was wrested by Dctcctivo-Scrgcau-t llawle and Detective Cameron on Saturday night for allegedly assaulting a woman at Auckland. But for a much crumpled stern ami after-deck, the wrecked ship Devon is holding together wonderfully well. About half a dozen men are at- present : quartered oji the vessel, engaged in tll-o operation of "stripping" her. Proposing the toast of "The City of Wellington" at last Saturday's dinner of the Wellington letter-earners, Dr. A Iv. Newman. M.P., said that Wellington was ono'of the healthiest aiul best* ventilated cities in the world— (laughter)—and it was tho ditty of every citizen to do his best to make it mare beautiful. The Mayor (Mr. J. I'. Inike), who responded, said that, Wellington had many natural advantages which tins City Council was endeavouring to <;■:> bailee by many works. . Tho peogJe of Wellington were optimistic, and were a!wavs prepared to put. their hands m their ]wl<cts for the improvement- of their eiiv. The adoption of a universal half-holiday would necc-ssitato tlie provision of more recreation grounds, but if it bocame necessary the citizens would foot the bill.

Consulted with respect to tho procedum likolv to bo taken in connection with tho alleged murder mt the high seas of 0110 .Japancso by iinotrlso)' oil two steamer Kwanto Maru (now at Auckland), Mr. T. Young, Consul for Japan, states that- tlio fact that the uuuvKi' was committed on tlie high seas nn:l under tlio Japanese flag is as though tlio deed had been doiio on Japanese soil. Hoforo anything could be dono respecting the accused, Hagasiiibara, the wish "of the Japanese Government would have to be ascertained. If _it says that nothing is to he done, nothing would bo done, but if further action is tn be taken, he would have to apply to tile Governor for an extradition order. In the meantime the accused man is being kept under lode ami key" on tlio Kwant-o Maru by order of the Consul. "I cannot let any pliast>_of Government entrenchment on the rights of tlio municipality go by Without a protest." said the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. .T. P. Luke), at.'lhe letter-carriers' dinner, on Saturday evening. Ho to tho action of the Government in taking to itself tiio right- to erect public slot telephones in any part of tho city without conMiKitii: tho local authority. lie hoped that the Government would not take such a- lino of action for long. A nice compliment was paid to His Excellency the Governor at the Opera House at'tho conclusion of tho performance of "Tho Geisha" on Friday evening. His Excellency happens to he tho patron of the society mid to mark his visit the curtain was raised'aftcr it had fallen on the performance, and tho massed chorus and principals—nearly a hundred in number—sang the, National Anthem, accompanied by a full orchestra.

Tho public lias been given to under•itatul in a son oral Kin<l of way, writes a. correspondent, thi.t the City Council lifts decreed tiifit tho regulation bulbing dress to 'io worn by bathers on the oily loaches shall I)o the 1 'neck to knee" eosliimo (for both sexes), lb may b* news to the members of tin; council ami these 1 csponsible for tho adminis! ration of its by-laws Ihat no one batlihtpc «l Lyall Bay yesterday—Mid ther.o were many hundreds—wore the "neck to knee" eos}time. Only in one solitary care wan there a costume worn w'hieh extended down to 11 io knee, and that was a child of nboni, three or four years of «.?<;, who' was at tired in pyjamas, tn almost ever? rase tin- ba tli I lis oostmnes finfehed at n point bulf-way between the hip ami ibe knee, lli.it bf>i«« npparenllv flm type of rosin in b usually sold in Vi'ollinf'lon. '!Vrn anpeirs to bo nmplo room for r-uperrision of the costumes worn on the nin'ro wmnlous benches &t all events.