LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2116, 6 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English mails via Suez and 3.11 Australian mail arrived at Atickfaiid from Sydney yesterday ay tb« Malieim, Tlic Wcliiligtoij and southern portions of the mail will arrive her© by tho Jlaai Trunk express tJiis nftenwon. The judgment, of the Supreme Court in the corporation leases case will lie delivered this morning. Derision will also lie ."iveil in the tsase of llobertsqn v, Douglas. .By vlie cvidwitk organised hostile dpijioriStfation that. mw Accorded Mr. David M'La-rep J;y jnen allied, to the tenets of the Federation of Labour ill iDixQU Street on Saturday evening, it, was obvious that* the representatives ml the United La.kmr Party, ivhic.li 'Stands for evolutionary and - lawful progress against rcvohttionary and unlawful methods, is held in just as had odour hy ike "Heu Fe;I :j fiiomeiri as the representatives of the iSovcrjimeHt. Sir, M'Larwi' was svibinittc'd tii slater, yel'lSj groans, and hosts for a considerable twifij during which the Labaiii on-

. dniaie for Mayoral honours was provent«l from being heardi Mr. M'Laren was elia.fgcd with being a supporter of the Literal Party rather than a Labour man, and although he. hotly denied that ho had nuytlraiu to do witli tho Liberals lm irciispi? rcfus"d to accept JjN assurance. Sit; Joseph Ward is to deliver a political address at tho Town Hall on Wednesday evening. ■Tho ..Jliau'stflr. of D.fifoiif!? {the Ban. J. Allen) wa- asked in Aue'ckuid what will be done with tlie monoplane Brit;in, ilia, now on view at the Rxiiibilian., "'hen the Exhibition closes. The Minister is reported to have said that 110 dercisioM on the subject had been ai rived at- by tho Government, but its wa» iiofc likely that much usc.wfluM be madis of the macJiicie before the ra.tii.rji -of Ijfcittejiaut Burn, tiw ,\'<>w Zealand officer, who was _ now unciergoim: a course of training in aviation in England. The recent, strike was dealt with as follows by Mr. J, I?, Laurenson in his presidential address at tho annual ijieetmg_ of tlio Christeliiireh InAistrial Association . . It was foredoomed to fa fee. It was a ■disfcirasi.ngiy illadvised attempt by a very small minority to establish a precedent which, if ■ successful, would liavo enslaved ©very ■niaq. and wcjm.ail Hi the Dominion lit a bondage more cruel and unriist than nfly state ife the history of Ilic Empire. Just j

in proportion ns the strike !;eU-ayod the weakness of tlia La bom Waders, ifc established once and for all tho extraordinary. unanimity afl'd solidity qf tlio vast iuajority of" the people. Nothing was so cheering and inspiring as the response to tlio-call for law and order," la Auckland on Thursday £218 10s. ■4d. ma collected in two iio'ttrs (or 3(k a mihTjte) in tho campaign 'for funds to provide' tho hospital with uiotor-ambu-lances. At tostiefrow Gveaing'ji 'meeting ef tlie Wellington Provincial Industrial Association, Mr. 11. 11. Soaion is to rcad u paper on "Tho Diamond Fields of .Smith Africa." During tlio evening tlie Cummireioiiors. representing tho National Manufacturer.-,' Association of AflwricA will-visit the asspeiaklon. Considotation will also bo. given to some recent awards of the Arbitration Court, winch, it instated, threaten to serimisly interfere with certain of the industries of iho Dominion. The art union in connection with the Citizens' Carnival is to iiio drawn in the Mayer's room at 9 o'clock to-moriow evening. ■' Hank holidays to bo observed at Easter frill bp Good Friday awl Saturday |p| this week) Qi.id Easter Monday and Tuesday. Several persons who waiehed tho progress of the Terry stca-flief "Waliino as slip oaino up tho channel from the. south yesterday morning wondered wiiy she drew in towards Kawka Bay, and then turned out toward'; vßay's 'Ray, before slto rounded' Point Baiswell. "it was

thought by many that someone had fallen overboard, or -that a small boat had capsized ill the vicinity, but, such was lint tlic ease, The vessel's course Wils altered to e<jns.ums time, as .she wiis in a little too early to lie berthed. Mr. .Tillies Conro.v, a Mow South ! Wales mail guard, who Some years a)S:o reeeived the Jmpetial Service iiiedul in , recognition of Ms public service, lias had ! about- forty-four years of continuous . night work. Ho. was a driver for (Vol) ! And Company for ten years, driving fifty-sis miles six iii.iltts a ivcelt.' front Miitagoilg to G'onlbuw, sa that lie drovo ovosp IOQ.'OQO miles in tltn dark. While iii the service of the Postal t)epqrtrowvt—thirt.v'lmt.r years*-jfa> travelled HSO miles every other niijlrfc, ITfiO miles a forfiiwht, d#,fio9 miles a year ; ami thus ! miles in the ihir'.vfmir years; a distanec equal to 107 times from Sydney to or 62 times round the earth, or sevcii times. fin tl;er tlian 'ho morns. is from the e:a th; ami in nil t!rat time he has never wen ail eerfdent, and has never been iined ft .cbiHiaj*. The ißitliajrjmetit of Ae- Sew Theatre ; in Manners Street lhis. been resumed by Mr. Charlts MacMalwn, who o.rtjjiuftH.v controlled the* iittlo theatre which was ] the pioneer of •.•ontinuous pipftji-© sl.wws. in woltiiigto.il. It is the intention of the coJDPiUijr to bring the ptece. snf'o liiic with other uji-ta-dato pfetiire tttettire.fi : in Wellington, mui with tlint object in view the tlicsit.re ir, to be enlargcr) .nsfj refurnished, and the olitralieo is t.o ■ lie. -extended try tralshtg in pile of the exislbif; shops on lire Mmners Street fronta^6 v This will h» briifiMtly lighted. bv "lectrirify. tn all other tcsjifcts the I theatre is to he. modmifcd on the most ! approved plan.