LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

; The first civil sitting of tho Magis- ■ tratc's Court this year is set down for : , January 15. , It is ever feeing made clear in tho . Police Court that jobs are being lost almost daily through the abuse of alco- ; holic drinks. Among the few offenders who occupied the dock yesterday morn- ; ing wore two whoso positions had vau- • ished their sobriety. One was a ■ seaman, who, in these days when soa- ■ men's jobs aro scarce, ivas to havo signed on to an American vessel yesterday morning, hut, instead of doing t so, ho spent the day on Mount Cook. • The other was a. young man, who be- , came annoyed while the "wino was in" . and used language which caused Chief- ( Detective Broberf; to' transfer him to . Lambfpi) .Quay police,, Station.,. It was stated in Court, nasi morning that tho accused was twenty-two years of ago, and had fourteen previous convictions. The young man urged in extenuation ■ that all his other convictions had been recorded before his was twenty-one, and that ho had already lost his job on the wharf through being arrested. He was fined £2. Yesterday morning a Chinese named Shoo Shing was, arrested on a charge of having committed a serious offence : on a, yonng girl at Wairoa, Bawke's ■ Bay. The alleged offence took place in November, 1912, and since then Siting has been wanted by tho police. The ac- , cused at one time kept a shop at Wairoa, and his arrest in a shop in Motesworth Street' yesterday was effected by Detective-Sergeant C'assells and Constable Fraser. The charge will be preferred against Shing at the Court today. Tho damage dono at tho Telephone Exchange by fire on Wednesday morning had'been repaired by midday yesterday, and tho system was in full working order. Tho Firo Brigade received a call yesterday evening to an outbreak of "re which occurred in a, small shed adjoining tho Railway Department's Buildings, in Featherston Street. The outbreak was suppressed before much damage was dono. A Woman was arrested by DetectiveSergeant MTlvenoy and Detective Ikiley yesterday on .% charge of stealing clothes, etc., to tlte value of £6 7s. 6d., the property of John T. Harrap. Quite a number «f registrations of now unions under the Arbitration Act havo been dealt with by the tabour Department since tho middle of October. Up to the present 20 unions havo been registered as a result of tho strike, and in addition there aro several unions which have not been connected in any way with tho industrial trouble, I'arades for Territorial companies commence in Wellington next week, ttiien arms will he reissued. Drills will commence on January 19. The woman who died suddenly in Lambton Quay on Wednesday evening was not Mrs. Reynolds, of Tawa- Flat (as the Polico at first believed), but Sirs. Henry Forbes, of Woodlands, Invercargill. Recently Mrs. Forbes resided at Chatham Islands, and just prior to her death sho had been staving with Mr. and Mrs. Blackott, of Tawa Flat, The mistake in identity was wade through n letter addressed to Mrs. Reynolds being found on tho deceased. "Homo work is largely the resort of tho unskilled teacher, who, instead of giving illuminating lessons which fix /' tho subject matter in. the boy's mind, sets him lessons to learn at h0m0.," said , Mr. H. Mittics at the Educational institute meeting at Auckland. ■ "If : school-timo be properly utilised," ho "it should be quite enough to deal with, all lessons suited to tho capa- ' city of the child, and his spare time should be devoted to tho cultivation of ' his hobbies." ! Tho hull of tho wrecked steamer i ' Tyrone at Tainroa Heads is gradually i I being broken up by tho ceaseless smash f of. tho sea, and is'now in two piece-;), i Nevertheless salvaging is still sufii- < ciontly payable to attract the salvagers } to the wreck whenever the weather in * sufficiently favourable for them to j worlc, uml it is said that these opera- J tions may be. carried on for weeks to t como.'. • :■ ; ■ ■',; )■ •■' A great deal of interest was taken in p the arrival of the oil steamer Havre at s Auckland on Friday evening last from f Singapore. ' The llavrc is a different *' type of vessel from the usual cargo ',] steamer, and her spotlessly clean ap- ~ pointments give her tho appearance of 0 a pleasure yacht, instead of a cargo- j; ..carrier,' She is simply an oil-carrying n 'steamer, and, staves the "tlcraid," she ( ■■is^the.first vessel to visit Auckland with 1 jVfiill cargo of benzine. Her funnel and o 'machinery are situated right aft, while n her-high hatch combings and gas-tight £ "Uoeß coverings, and tho presence ■ of "j ■inany'sleam jets on deck aro only a part i ■ofj.the ingenious arrangements installed j, i'for'.the saie handling of her highly-in- „ jha'mmable.oargo^.',x?v,;.j:;..,.,.■;■,!.'. ■.■-,,.':'.„■.. \

■^Tiiei;aj]»j»;bc.-avbi B ra li y 0 f Bov beoutsiiir-Meluourno from January 16 i,to,U9;.',nntl. it- will, bo attended In- representatives from every Stato in tho Commonwealth,'' as' well, as representatives from New Zealand districts. Altogether some 10 lads will travel by tlio jMaungamii from New inland to "Melbourne this trip. District'Commissioncr Benjamin, of LyUeltoii', will lie in charge of the New Zealand section, and ms assistant will be Assistant Scoutmaster Tapp, of Green lslaiid, Mr White-Parsons, of Lytto'lton, diijiriab secretary, also accompanies the troop. Four representatives for the North Island aim one from the West Coast left, Wellington by the MauiiEiituii jester- : day. Their names are as follow:—Ellery, Gisbornej L. Tompkins, Hamilton; Kciidrick, W'angamii; Hodgkinson, Napier ;. ami Arthur, Wostport. Tho remaining eleven members, representing tho South Island districts, will join the Maunganul. or .her run down the coast. . Tlio' value of wireless telegraphy for summoning medical aid in cases of illness on. board ship is being more and more appreciated (says a»"exchange). Only recently the operator on the b.s. Empress ot Asia reported a ea.se. where a fireman on board tho White Star cargo steamer Uevic was medically attended by wireless. On the receipt of information regarding tlio symptoms of the _ patient ami the contents of tho Cevic's medicine c'host, tho doctor of tho Empress of Asia diagnosed the illness, prescribed tho proper medicine, .and continued to watch over the invalid's welfare till his aid was no longer required. Whether some parents are misled as to the actual destination of their yoU-B.g daughters who may be going rot- a holiday, or whether they display a criminal Jiegligonco as to their intentions, is not known, states a southern paper, but certain facts which have como under the notice of the police should certainly be Given publicity. Tiio residents of a certain seaside resort not many miles from Dunedin noticed that a party of threa young girls were "baching" with a similar number of youths, and as one t*i tho girls appeared to be under tho ago of sixteen, information was given to the police. .Investigation showed that the whole party were sleeping/in thesix bunks placed in one.of the rooms, and that the girl referred' to was under tho ago of sixteen. There is no allegation of immoral relations, but the girls were at onco taken back to their homes by tho police. It is asserted that this incident is not by any means an isolated one. Thirty-six uniformed police, 23 of them mounted, Maintained law and order in Huntly on Tuesday, and they will remain in the mining township until normal labour conditions are resumed. At least twenty men who live on tho outskirts of tile town, and who wished to return to work, wcro unable to do so on Tuesday morning (slates the "Herald"), because tlio protecting parties of police, did not coruo out to their houses, and they feared to pass tho homes of militant strikers. Other men who wished to work, and who did not care to march through tho streets escorted by police, were to be seen taking carefully-selected routes to tho mine, through paddocks and along secluded lanes. What was probably a pioneer motor trip nas made during the Christinas holidays by Dr. Simpson and Mr, F. W, Johnston, of Christchurch. They left the city on Saturday, December 27, in two motor-cars with their families', and proceeded to Greymovith ..cross tho ranges. Thence they found their iyay up north to Nelson town, and from there across to Picton, and then south to CliristchuTch via Blenheim, Ward, and Kaikoura, allying baek on Simday. The. party "Stated b.y. tho "Press" to bo loud in thoir praises of tlio trip. They iiad a non-stop rim throughout, and averaged one hundred miles a day. The roads throughout were in perfect order for motoring, and though in places narrow and winding, yet nothing to Stop a motorist taking his car over them. The new stone coping to encircle the. ChristcVmrch Cathedral grounds is about, to bo placed in position. The coping is the gift to the Cathedral Chapter of the Hon. H. F. Wigram, and when erected will materially enhance, the beauty of tho Cathedral surroundings. Like other educational bodies, tho North Canterbury Board of Education finds that teachers are bard to get. It is stated by the "Press" that there is a considerable- shortage of suitable applicants for assistantships, a number of which positions arc vacant. An unusual incident occurred at the north end of High Street on Sunday night, states the "Bnimcvirko News," when a motor-ear .locally owned, while travelling along the street precipitated a stone about a pound weight through a J-ipch plate-glass window in „tho shop occupied by Mr. A. H. Ross, 'tailor, The distance from tho road where tho stone lay to the window was about 30ft., and tho missile must have risen about two feet in its flight, When ascending a hill on the Gisbonie side of Tc Koinga on Saturday, Mr, ,). S. Cooper, of Tmiroto, by mistake touched tire reversing gear, with the result that his motor-ear ran backward over a bank, where it was fortunately hold up by a large tree, .Mr. Cooper was pinned under the car for a couple of hours, but ultimately was taken for medical assistance by two Natives in a gig, His leg was badly jammed, but still no serious injury was sustained. In Victoria thero is a law -or frus-tom that anyone who has been a Minister of the Crown should, on retiring, be entitled to A free pass on the railways for tlio remainder of his life. Tiio Ehnslie Government was in oilice for a week or so only, and never had a ehaneo of Setting a majority, being twenty strong ail told, but nevertheless all the members of that short-lived Ministry will in future ride on the Victorian railways free, and will also have some traditional claim for the recognition of their passes on the lints of other States. "TRIUMPHS" SCOOP THE POOL IN THKKE DAYS' TRIALS AT CHRISTCHURCH. ... One of the strongest points about the "Triumph" motor-cyclo is the consistency ;of its performance. Other "10115 suits of the "Triumph" are reliability and economy. We are in the happy position of being able to offer abundant proof of these assertions. Last year when the results of the North Canterbury Motor Cycling Club's annual reliability trials wore worked out it was found tliat tho "Triumph" riders wore first in Uio private owners' v-lass, first !in the trade class, first in the petrol consumption test, and first ii) tho teams' competition, sweepill)? (lie board. In this year's trials, nm on January Ist, 2nd, and 3rd, over a 465. utile route, .including the steep hill at Ofcain's Bay, and the Zig-z&g., with the roads in bad condition, there was a field of twenty-seven riders, and all the leading makes of motor-cycle wore represent-' oil. There were no fewer than nine of thnse bijf twin-cylinder machines, Wo have Ixieu told recently, that those twins arc mighty economical on petrol, but, on this occasion, tho "Triumph" upheld tho honour of tlto singta'cylinder brigade' by getting lowest petrol coftsimiptioii. Yon sea this time tliero was an official Kit for ix'lrcl consumption. The result hoard runs as follows-.—l'rivate Owners' Class*V. Coiichuian, "Trii.impit," i ; II Pcaree "Triumph," 2. Trade Class—ft. HiworHi! '■Trmniph." 1 j G. B..Brown. "Triumph," 2; J. H. Michael '"J/niunpli." 3. Tenuis' Comnctition-F. Hnworlh, 0. B. Brown, and ,T. H. Michael, "Triumphs." 1 I'clro-l Consumption—P. rlaworth, "Triumph," 1. It is unnecessary to point the moral or adorn the tale. Thorn is a bijf shipment of the latest "Triumphs" mtivlns shortly, and intending purchasers will bo well advised to book their orders early. Adams, Ltd.. fl'sh Street. Chriitchurclr, Depots at Palmerslon North and Wanga. nui. also Tourist Motor Co., tlastinss: mid Sutherland and. Kankine,. Mercer St',,. Wellinttnii.—Advt. ■■■■'■. ...■■ .-;■ . '