LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court- in Wellington sias boon fixed for March 2. The Government Immigration Department announces that both tbo.Ritapehu, due on February 5 and tlio Rangatira, duo on Febnwy 24, are bringing a number of assisted immigrants. The Ruapeliu's "assisteds" are ronde up as follow2o domestics, 16 fann_ labourers, and 39 relatives; total, 75. The TlfUigatiriv's complement. is made up as follows:—32 domestics, 34 farm labourers, am! 123 relatives; total, 20J, Among the competitors at the hand contest to ho held in Aueklfliitl next week will he the WntwsMp Workers' Rami, which leaves for the north tomorrow 'light. The hand has entered for the 15 grade, ninl will use its new sot of Hessott's instruments, which came to Imnd after the sirike. Mr. R. A. Silllivnn, the conductor, will be in charge. During the Mocraki's niii across the Tasnian Kna from Sydney a concert w#s held in aid of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Fund. which benefited to the extent of £5 ss. Items were contributed hv Mrs. R. Bopc. Hen' Car! Saucr, and Messrs. Boxsiiall. Orchard, Oarlton, and Sandman, of the New Zealand cricket team'

The '■" Salvation '-'Army Workmen 1 ? Homo, Buckle Street, is proving of much utility to' emigrant* and others who .arrive at Wellington in search of employment. Adjutant tjieene is able to' give those who call at the homo niiicfi useful information as to the state of trade in various parts of the country, and especially so ahout Wellington. Tli" majority of Englishmen who take up temporary residence at the home are to all appearances n steady, hardworking clues, and do well, in the Dominion after getting acclimatised. llwt the women of New Zealand are unduly hard-worked is the opinion of Mr. T. Frnsfii'. a Cape 'town banter, ei present fishing at Tcnuilta. Mr. Fraser, in conversation with the "Press's" correspondent, said that to him, coming from a country where the. darker or inferior faces did most oi the house-work, and assisted m the minding of children, etc., the way the New Zealand women had to work struck him as strange. ' Doubtless Now Zea--1 ianders bad their objections to the im traduction of useful coloured labour, but '' it did seem curious that these oMcctions should carry so far that townsmen a,nd farmers preferred to see their wives continually working at manual ■ labour rather than employ these races which were suited to the work and would stick at it. Regarding the importation of domestic servants, Sir, Fraser said W fancied the.y would soon marrv, or follow the example of the colonial girls, and find other occupitions. He was quite- satisfied that the white women of South Africa had a far better time than' their New Zealand sisters.

Sir, IV.Hally (Conciliation Co-mmis-siuicr) relumed from Napier by last night's train. While in Nnpier, Mi-. Holly heard the dispute of.the boileimakefs, imcl the disrate of the storemeu. At the Commissioner's room, in the Labour Department, to-morrow morning, the adjourned dispute of the jewellers will bo taken, at 10 o'clock, iiiid at 10.30 the adjourned bearing fif the metal-workers' dispute will be continued.

Tho source of supply at Lake Takapuna has always been u matter for conjecture, and it has sometimes been suggested ' (says the Auckland "Star) that Rangitoto lias something to do with the underground feeding or the. lake. With a view to testing this assumption, Mr. IV. Geared, who claims to have had considerable success in water divining) r-ooeiitlv made an extensive survey on Rangitoto. Ho discovered several streams, but none of sufficient volume to indicate the existence of a big supply. The strongest flow located was O no near the top of the hill, which, he says, coald be easily tapped if needed for supplying picnic parties. Otherwise, however, lie does not- consider that WKJerjiround streams of any importance exist iu thelocality.

President Woodrow Wilson's message to the United States Congress., embodying the proposition to . iirflict penalties on the individuals responsible for the infraction'.of the anti-trust law, histoid of attempting to penalise the trust,, finds hearty endorsement from the Common* wealth Prime Minister. "In my opinion." wiid Mr. Cook, 'Trcsfcknt Wilson is dohtg the one thing that ■seems to go to the root of the whole matter. So is, applying thi> principle of personal responsibility to those who control the trests. He, evidently, no longer beiieves in the soundness of the old saving 'that a corporation has neither a body "to be kicked ' nor a soul to be danineuV Hoi apparently thinks that a trust should be represented by a lnitiMin body, which may he dealt with by legal process. It. would seem us if he k on right lines,"

Encouraged by promises from station owners in the interior of Australia, the Commonwealth Postmaster-General has /liecri •■jriviiigH-co.iadWflfion'to a' scheme under the' pfoViWotis, of which station owners will onset wireless stations -on their properties, the • Department to. erect a station, at.the end of the, ilearost telegraph or' telephone,- line to form t'ne connection. Mr. Biilsillie, Federal wireless expert, considers the scheme worthy of a trial. Tho wireless outfits which the station owners will erect will cost up to £30'!), and it is considered iliat the large souattcr, who mvest? in q plant, will, by reason of the fact that he is placed in communication j with tho commercial centres, reap a creat benefit from such a venture.

Yesterday the members -of the Wellington Education Board paid an official visit l*i the class of physical instruction for primary school teachers,- which Jurs been-conducted at Day's Bay, The teachers struck camp yesterday.

Promptly at G. 20 yesterday morning the teachers at, Day's Bay struck camp. For tiio last ton days they have been receiving instruction under the Physical Education Department, and have materially gained by the camp. Speaking to a reporter yesterday before leaving Hie bay, the teachers were loud in their praise of tho manner in which the instruction was given.' hi this respect special tribute was paid to Mr, fi. Moore, Government instructor. One of the instructors, in referring yesterday to the teachers who attended the camp, expressed the opinion that they wero the fkost tot of inch he had yet seen, and ho had experience of many camps. Many of the teachers remained behind at. the bfly yesterday morning to assist with the packing of the tents. When they had finished the picnio ground where tho camp had M Vvas cleared of every particle of rubbish, so that it was impossible to tell that a body of men, sdifto forty in number, hid -hefta for ton days under canvas oil' tl]o spot. 'Die tents "will be sent on to Hawora. whore Mr. Moore opens ft ten days' camp o>ii Pelmiarr 2. Tho instructional class for lady teichcrs nt. the South Wellington School, under the eharfe of Miss Larson., alto concluded yesterday,