LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1929, 11 December 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"There is a. typo of Maori hoy I have mot," said Bishop Averi'i in an' address at the St. Stephen's School at Auckland, /'who is generally to ho seen with his hair parted in the middle (not that there is anything very wrens in that), wearing a very liislt white collar, and always a short distance from a billiard saloon. Such hoys are no credit to their race, their country, or themselves."

The secretary of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the following donations to the Christmas Fund at the Wellington Hospital:— Messrs. Crichton and M'Kay, £'2 25.; "Friend," Messrs. Mitchell and Goodwin, Smith and Smith, Ne.v Zealand Dental Company, Briscoe and Co., D. W. Virtre and Co., E. W. Mills and Co., Dresden Piano Co., Blmulcll Bros., New Zealand Trawling Co., Ditthie and Co., T. Balliugsr and Co., Singer Company, Bannabync and Hunter, Messrs. C. and A. Odlili, Westport Coal Co., J. 8. MacEwan and Co., Quick, Ward, and Wvlie, Nelson, Moate, and Co,, and W. ii. Turnbull' and Co., £1 Is. each ; Messrs. Tu rub till, and Jones, Young's Chemical'Co'., Lairs a'hil Mannirig, Rowe end Sons, Office Appliance Co., I*. Ha.vjuaii and Co., 10s. 6VI. each; Messrs. F. N. R. Meadows, Ltd., Messrs. Conlis, Culling awl Co., 10s. each; Messrs, Roid and Reid, Castendyk and Focke, ss. each.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner ltualunc, which arrived at Wellington yesterday from London, brought 120 assisted passengers. Of these 21 aro domestic servants and 23 farmers, while 36 aro the wives _ and children of workers, and 49 relatives of immigrants who have arrived by previous vessels.

Detective-Sergeant Ciissells and Detective Ma-iscm arrested one Charles Pearson yesterday on n charge of the theft of Vu overcoat from Mr. W. Hornig. mercer, Cuba Street, on October 1, and. the theft of a Gladstone bag from Mr. Jacob Spolsky on October 18. Pearson will appear in court this morning. At one of tho Hamilton churches on Sunday .night the minister had just read "the lesson when a voice rang through the building with a clarion distinctness, saying; "You loft out three verses," ' The interjection caused some merriment, in which the _ preacher, after acknowledging the omission, joined.

•'How do you pronounce your name?" asked Mr. Treadwell of a witness with an uncommon surname at the Supremo Court in WaniKuiui on Saturday. "It depends whether it is North German or South German," interposed Hiss Honour, Sir Boborfc Stout, who is known as a verv capable linguist. "1 am Welsh, Your Honour, and we come from Wales." was the rejoinder of the witness, that drew broad smiles from the occupants of tho court.

A young man named Ernest Harien came* near to losing his life in tho mill dam (savs tho Waverley correspondent to tho "Patea Press"). With a number of others ho went down for a. bathe, some of tho others offering to teach him to swim. Harlon and his brother were tho lirat in tho water, Harien wearing water-wings, which became displaced when well out jn the dam, and he was soon in difficulties. He had been down twice, and was sinking for tho third time when a. young man named Fitzwatcr came to his assistance and put a stick down. Harien clutched it and "was drawn to tho surface mid then to the bank, where he lost consciousness. It look considerable time to restore? animation.

According to a cablegram received by Mr. D. Anderson, of Dunedin, it would appear that Mr. May has made defmito ntrangomciits in connection with the attempt to salvage- tho treasure of tho General Grant at the Auckland Islands, slates tho "Otago Daily Times." Tho cablegram advised that he would be leaving San Francisco 011 December 10 and his intention is apparently to make Bluff his headquarters. A letter received from Mr. Anderson a few weeks ago indicated that Mr. May was busy in sotting together up-to-date machinery for the salvage operations. A diver had been down in San Francisco Bay a distance of 110 ft., and, the letter stated, could have gone down 130 ft. or more. A feature in connection with tho expedition on this occasion will be tho fact that a series of motion pictures is to be taken in connection with it. It is the intention to reproduce part of tho wreck on tho Pacific Coast Mr. .Anderson states that the shareholders originally connected with tho expedition, ace still interested in it. 1

A travelling correspondent of Use "Otago Daily Times," who lias Icon on tho voads since 1806, says the present season lin.a boon ill!- wettest in Ilia recollection in South Canterbury, as there nro rarely two days in succession oil which there is no rain, and tiie effect is seriously to delay the shearing operations, On one station in the hipji country there nro—between shearers, wool-waslicrs, ami- shepherds—over '10 men to keep, and a professional cook and two helps in tlio kitchen are cniwnod to provide, for their rcrjuireineiils. "There is no talk of strikes there," the correspondent says; "it is against 'the clerk of the weather' that the, grievance, lies.'' On another station cverytliinc has been in rendiricss for shearing for a fortnight, but Um wet weather, has prevented a start being made, and there is no sign yet of an improvement,

At Tuesday's meeting of the Hutt County Council a deputation representing tlio Hutt Va'lcy Sawmillers' Association waited on the council 10 suggest tiie erection of a new forro-conwote bridge on the Aknlarawu-Wnikanac Road to replace the two old bridges now doing service. 'J'he complaint is that the present bridges will not stand tlio strain of a heavy load, and consequently the loads arc restricted and the cost of handling the outputs.Jroni tho mills is increased. The association is. prepared to give £100 towards a new bridge. The chairman of the council (Mr. M. Welch), in reply, stated that tlio donation was too small, but the council was prepared to go into the matter, as it recognised the need for a new bridge. It was finally decided to leave the matter hands of tho chairman find councillors for the riding, v.'ho will confer with the niillowners. The president of Pearson's Fresh Air Fund, Sir. C. A. Pearson, writes as follows to tho editor, in acknowledging the contributions forwarded from New Zealand through Thk Dominion :—"I want to offer yen the most sincere thanks of myself and of all who work for the Fresh Air Fund, for the interest which you have shown in it during tho past season, and for the substantia' help which you have afforded it. It is exceedingly gratifying to receive such spontaneous and friendly co-operation from so far away, and many littlo ones from the worst -slums of our groat cities have, (o thank you for pleading their cause in the columns of tho influential newspaper with which you are connected. 1013 lias been a very successful season for the F.A.J''., and as you will see from tho report which the hon. secretary will forward to you shortly; we have boon ablo to increase our sphere of activity,, and to put somo money aside for a rainy day as well."

Three sm.ill hoys attracted quite ft crowd of passers-by in Cuba Street about 7.30 last evening by their dating feats on tlio top of tho front wall of Messrs. George and George's old building. For somo little time now workmen have been busy demolishing tho building, and about al! that is left is tho front wall. The boys managed by Mine moans to climb to tho very top of this, and for several minutes they wandered up and down in the most free and easy style. The onlookers were apparently frightened to admonish the lads lest they should make any falsa step and fall. Eventually, after one of tho youths ha'd performed a sort of tiaJcn on top of tho wall, alt throe descended,

A piece of kauri gum of the record weight of 241!b. lias been brought down from the North of Auckland district by Mr. F. H. 13odle, who intends exhibitinc it at the Dominion Show of the Auckland A. and P. Association, says the

"Star." The- finding,of the big specimen came about in a somewhat remarkable way. An old digger, who, by tho way, is said to average an income of £1 nor day, decided to try his luck on. a piece of gum. land near Hciensvillo which was supposed to have been worked out. It is a belief among diggers that gum does not exist- below sandstone. There was a six-foot hole on the field, with a sandstone bottom, but the digger in question noticed that it was somewhat broken, and so he sunk further. At a depth of twelve feet he unearthed the 2411b. prize, ««d in all removed 7cwt. of gum from the holequite a valuable find with gum at about two shillings per pound.