LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.'the postal authorities' ad'viso thai s.*. Maheno, which sailed frani Sydney oil ■February $ for. .Auckland, has -on .board Australian mails ■and English., mails* via Briudisi. 'The Wellington portion is due per .Main "Trunk express- 'oil .Monday next, ■ Arrangements are being made by tho Government to name, th.at part e'f tho,' Tiuakori hills on which the Wellington '■ wireless station is erected, '(Mount Wakefield," in order to perpetuate tho memory of .Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the founder of Wellington. _, Tho civil session of the Supremo Court in Wellington was to have oeeh opened ■oil Monday, but as the Grinvinal calendar will hot bo.exhausted 'by that day, it is expee'ted that tho civil business will 'bo set back for at least s'Omo days. A postal clerk who gatfte evidence,, lit tho ,Sup.ro.mo Geu.rt yesterday '.said that it was not ■■unusual,"hut very ■.cq'mm6'n, for people, to make application. at'..this lotte'r-oounter to recc'ivo. the Tetleiß '.of Others, and .for people, ■'tp..iseud'',alp>ig Orders asking the Post Office. Ho "'deliver lottors to bearer.'' s The' crns.o he*, fore the Court at tho time .w'a.s Olio in which a young woman was,'alleged to have, written an "authority 1 ' for hcr■seif' to. wcojtfe another woman's, let* ters. Tlio letters of Captain Halsey, of H.jI.S, Js T oW_ Zealand, "to the secretary to the Admiralty, and letters from prominent persons at the ports at which tho Now Zealand called between February Q and December 8, which tell tho Story of the vessel's cruise., have h'ocn published as a British Parliaiueiitary paper, the paper concludes with a letter from Sir W.. Graham Greene to •the ■DovOtipprti in which ho says': '''■Tlio Secretary of State for the Colonies has iiitiima'ted'tb TheirLordships his appreciation of the s.cr-f vices which Captain H-alsoy .has Tender- ■ ed to the Colonial Office, Sly Lords .have much plcasuro in directing that Captain lials.oy is- to be : so informed." The Wellington Shipwrights' Union is ■seeking a conference with the employers to discuss wages and conditions of work generally connected With the "industry. A minimum wage of Is. Pd, per hour is sought by tire' 'men. jilts date for ■the cfflnfereit.ee h-a'.s been, suggested by the union as Monday evening next,. A ■ge.neral.-meet'iug of tlio ;Wol.iingto:ii Wh'arf ; in the Skating fti.uk/'tO-.day-jVa'n-d in view of recent 'requisitions and '"protests," it is not ij'nli.keiy tha!t the proceedings Will ho interesting'. It is -.probable that the- meeting will be apehto tho Press. ....-',- The old Siirbqiir Ferries' Countess., which sailed for Napier/after ■her'aimual overhaul to resume ■trawling, worlfci caught 1500 bundles of terakihi, niOlc.i, Bchjiapper, and gurnet oh. her way doWn to- this' e.ity.. Oh' account of'hotter f acilv ties aiid cheaper h'andliiig, tho- Countess was ''moved lip 'to wliero sho is dbing cx'tel.leiit work, ifcr daily ■eatc.'hc's reacn tlio Hawkers Bay Fisheries Cpmr pa'ny's shop in Courte'iiay Place in e'x■celleh'l con.d : )*tip'.n. f and tho IfiSt of lleldowji4rip' successes' werO 'beijig.' well marketed up till yesterday morning. Amongst other odd fish.caught for tho company this week ih : .Cook Strait was a big bass weighing ]t2.Qlb/., and -.several smaller specimens-of Hi-is fiiio fish,- wjricn in Aiustra'lj'a'u waters have, topped even Sciyt.j andwhoii./hung-reached nearly ■si's feet in longibii.-fro'iii..tho floor. Bass are mora plentifully found in Paliisof Bay tliaii any other hear vicjhity to' Wcllingto'it.fbut not so plentiful as fjßhermen would wish; J.le.sS.rs. Meek ,and von Ifaas.t, state \liat the 'judgment for £24 !()?• ,2d ( and costs i.u tho . cilso the Commercial Agency., Ltd.., Sssigii.ee, and W; aiid.G. Tufiibull' and Co., I/td«, assiguors, 'against D, Dathie, in the Magistrate's Court on Tlru-rs.d'iy., wJis, OWiiig to.all. oversight, entered in error.. A, Special meeting .of .tho W.'ejlingtou City Gouncit will be held oii: Thursday evening aiext to -consider the; iiow de■inands of tho Tra-hiwaynioh's TJnio.iv. ■■ llio Pr'iuib' Minister .has issued ,-in'structiqns for itivo : settini up 'of .a Deiiatthienta)- ■eont.m.is.sion t'O classify thogiim land's and siniik.r areas, "in. tlio North Au.ckiand district, Recently. :a good deal of attention has. .-been at> trfl.c't.ed to poor fiiid. ".'jMfactor-j" la'tld'S-, and they are j.n .Goiis'i'dorahio dciriand.for settlement. Much land of,, thi.s -class is.at present tied up uudoi: .gutrtrresofva-, : lion, biit to a great cStoiit tho gum has flow booh, 'extracted,, and '(ho-.cpni* mission Will. i.nyestiga'to tho 'po.sitid'tt with a vjw to lifting the re'sbrv.ation where it ,no'* merely ope'rates -Sa.'a- '.baTrier to sotUoh-jont, s With tho ..m'6'derii. de'velopni.feiit of frwifctfarwnjg, hiO'cks 'Of land similar ill charae.ter to 'tho : guni reserves liavo been eagerly taken up and it is hoped to. .gfeatly extend .this ' class of set.tle'uiehi In the 'Supremo 'COuf't this 'niOrhiiig tho Chief Justice will deal .witli'tmo.or tli.o shorter .strike case's,., and ''wiuV.pn.BS ■sentence upon the.folioiyiiig'ptis'Oiiers:-*-■Cliarlos Fi .'Bcauinon't', Carl' Johnson, Antonio St-iiparicV Albert Anderson, Thoma3 Ackl'ahd,. (GpOrgo J'olinstoh', 'Walter Burton", Patrick;. H'assett,. and Ed> W.ar'd Golciough (all.-of wliohi .'stiiflia .oohvicted of ta&g part in riots'), Max Wolfe -(assault and. oh'seoho, language), •■ Robert Stephens, 'and William Parker (Wilful- damage),, John Troy (assault), and .R, J. a Seal (bfcakiiig a wharf barrier). There was a largo .gathering at St. Aniie'ti Ciiurch Rail, last night, When the Inverpargitt. Hiberjiiari B'and miderod an excellent programme ■of mi'tsie, including the twO contest w lections which arc included in, th.o. Auckland B\hibition Band Contest The proceeds fiom last nhjlri's conceit are to assist the band m pajmg «u»r exrinses to tho content. Tho bind lf.nes ' foi AucK'vid by to-day's Irani. _ 'v eoiiisioti bctAveon n' motor-car deInen \an and a light cart, tho piop P rt\ ot the 'lo Aio Meat Companv, occiiisod \cstciday moinuifi at tho cornel of BucUoand Taranaki Strwtv Ihc hoi so aU..rlied to the cart had one ot its, (melius biol.cn iubt .it tho Knee, Aiul .i"; tho Incturo was one which could not bo succossfullv set, the animal had to to destiojcd. Kiri.caldip's Great Summer Silo - two excellent hpestnes, t'Tha Fnghsh Houses ol Piiluniont" and ' Tho Town Bridge," size 70 x 30 niches, usual puce 32s Gd, 'lie puco ll>s fid.; also smaller picturo designs in tapestries, usual t ince 7s 6d , sale price Is lid — Ad\t,

T A' somewhat unusual incident occurred yesterday aftonioon at tho corner of ..Willis and -Mercer Streets.. 'Ono of those vehicles used for carrying great / lengths of rails, logs, otc, drawn'by •wo horses, and carrying a load of. iron oars, was negotiating .the corner when an account of the angle the front portion of the vehicle twisted over and jammed the front carriage. WMling hands offered from nil sides, to assist in lifting this, with its huge load, back to its position, but tho weight was too ... much. Within a few minutes trams, motor-cars, oarts, and pedestrians blocked tho street, and trouble; loomed When the suggestion was made to unload the vehicle. This, however, was avoided-by the use of an improvised lever,' for with its aid tho load was righted and traffic returned to normal. Tho demands of tho Wellington Dairy Employees' Industrial Union of Workers were filed yesterday, and will come before the Conciliation Council on February 17. Thirty-oight employers have been cited as parties to tho dispute.! A seven days', week is included in tho demands, but .the hours of labour aro not to eKceed 50, and work is not to commence earlier than 4 a.m. on any day. A minimum wage of £8 por week is sought. ,A preference clauso is inserted in the demand filed, and Messrs. ,H. Vauoy', P. Jost; and E. Kennedy have been appointed as the union's assessors in the hearing before the Con- ...- ciliatipn_ Council. The Milk Vendors' Association is holding a meeting on February 11 to consider the demands. 'A peculiar case occupied the attention .of Mr. J. G, L. Hewitt,-S.M., at Beef-, ton on Tuesday, when a man was charg- , cd with obstructing Constable M'Mahon in the execution of his dutv. It appears that' the constable was approaching a hotel on a Sunday,' and the accused, when ho noticed the constable, threw a ftouo on ,tho roof of the hotel. ■ Immediately afterwards five men made a hurried exit from the licensed, premises. Insupport of the prosecution the'sergeant • of police cited an English case in' which, tho Chief Justice held obstruction proved where a motor poh'ce "trap" was sig-nalled-to other motors, and that obstruction need not be physical. The magistrate agreed that obstruction had been proved, 'and inflicted a fine of ss. Whilst on,the beacll at Ballina, New ' South Wales, in October last, a lady found, half-buried in tho sand, a bottle, in which was found an envelopo bearing ship's flags and the message: ''With love from George,"- also the address, "Miss Matthes, 50 Sandy Hill Road, i Plumstead, Kent, England." There was nothing to show when or where the message had been consigned to the deep, but in order to discover whether it was the remnant of some tragedy of the sea, the finder enclosed it in- another en.velopo, and posted it with another letter • to the address given. By a 'recent mail she received a letter dated December 11, 1913, from Miss-Minnie Matthes: In -. the letter Miss Matthes stated she was -shortly coming.to Australia to marry "George," who was a purser'on a New South Wales coastal vessel. She also .stated that, he had told her that ho wrote messages to.her and dropped them , into.the sea." .' ,/■ ' Most of tho bands which intend competing at the Dominion contest are now on- their way to Auckland. Two from, the South—the Timaru Garrison and Invercargill Hibernian—arrived in Wellington yesterday morning by theWahine, and the former, in company with the local Waterside Workers' Band and the ■ St.' Kilda Band . (which arrived from the south on Thursday), left by the midday ..express. Tho Wellington City Band.proceeded as far as Feilding by the New Plymouth express yesterday, and • will give a concert in that town .before going on to Auckland. The . . Wellington Tramways Band went north s by last night'd Main Trunk express.. ,: ' The. /meeting.of the/Wclling,v tori, bj-anchrof thorNem ZealajjdyAimateur Wireless .Association was; held at the residence of the secretary,' Mr. J., G. B. =:Fulton,-last evening, Mr, R. T. Joyce, '..president,; rcad/a paper on ;tho. relation ,-wtwee incapacity and inductance; at the tame time showing a Blitzen wavc.'aeter. Mr. G. B. Dall showed a hotwire ammeter, an instrument used for i~lining wireless waves. Mr. Fulton also >howed"a Marconi wave-moter. During .'tho. (evening interesting experiments were carried out comparing.the Blitzen and -Marconi wave-meters by means of small sending and receiving sets erected ,in different rooms of Mr Fulton's house: The different experiments were watched with.the' keenest interest by /the members of the association, and altogether a- most-enjoyable and appreciable evening was spent.' : INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS OF THE 4-HiP. TRIUMPH -AT CHRISTCHURCH. ' . The first shipment of the new 1911 model "Triumph" motor-cycles, consisting of forty-eight standard 4-h.p.'• three- • speed machines, arrived in Christchurch on Thursday Inst. By 1 p.m. on Saturday no less than twenty-three had been sold, and orders aro still flocking, in. „ We hatt- been *led to expect something of • especial merit-in the-1911 model; but tho reality has surpassed both our own exneetations and thoso of our clients. The running of the new 4-h.p, model is a per- . feet revelation, 1 even to those who had experience of the flexibility and ready re6ponse to control of the 1913 three-speed ' '"Triumphs." The .increase in engine power provides a very big reserve of power For the side-car user, and excellent as the ■ BJ-h.p. "Triumph" was as a side-car machine, the 4-h.p. model is still hotter. As a solo machine it retains all the vir- ' tues of tho lower-powered . models,-and embodies several improvements, while it is also capable of a higher speed. Of "Triumph quality in Reneral we need say nothing. It has been proved in open competition in New Zealnud on scores of occasions, the latest of which .vrns the .winning of the North Island Fifteen Miles Championship Race, conducted -under the auspices of the Manawatu Motor Cyclists' Club -on January 22. Wo can give immediate delivery of the 1911 *-h.p. "Triumph"'.fitted with 'tho celebrated/ Stiirmey-Archer three-speed gear, and also o£ tho famous "Canoelet" sidecar; 'Adams, Ltd., Agents for "Triumph" Motor-cycles, High Street,.- Christchurch. Depots at Wanganui aDd Palmerston. . Agencies, Sutherland and Bankme, Wellington, and Tourist Motor Co., Hastings