LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho postal authorities advise that. s.s. .W3ilaei»a.left.%dive-y at 8 p,.iiu qn.,May 2. The-vessel is bringing,7o hags of mail matter for Wellington, and is due in port at 4 p.m. to-day.' ( Tho postal authorities advise 'that s.s* Marama left Sydney for Auckland *it' norm on May <L fho vessel is bringing Australian and English (via Naples) mails, the Welliinjton portion of which is due per Ma.ii;- Trunk express on Saturday next, at 6.60 a.m. .The mails which left Wellington oil March 2", pet s.s. Moe-raki, ami- connected with tlio Naples, dispatch per Tt.M'.S. Ora.ma, arrived in London on May 3, ow clay lato. ._ Mr. J. P. Luke, Mayor-elect of Wellington for tlio- year ' 191.4-iS, will be formally installed into offl.ep at a special meeting of the- City Council at iiooh to-day. At the contusion of the raeet-. ing the Mayor will entertain moAiWs of the eoiineii and tho heads of departments nt luncheon ia the Concert Chamber. To-day the Court of Appeal will hear the ca-so of Frank Harris and Co. f Ltd., and another, v. Bora Batovrai.i, a case which concerns .the wortoftauship of a states ordered by Hnkaraii, who proposed to erect it to. the, fnomory of the late Major Kemp. Tha statu.fi ifSelf will figure, in court. The mass of detail to be dealt with by the Prime Minister and other Minis- , tecs of the. Crown may to gathered from the fact that during last financial year it «as calculated that Mr. M-nss&y . must have signed his name 34,000 times'. Before leaving the parftdo gra-uncf at Timaru oil Thursday* General HainiJiQn was waited upon, by one of the Besservo Corps, Mr. .P. Thomson, who produced an Indian Cross earned in iho Gwallor campaign by Privato' Patrick Harnett, whose son, tin?, holder of tlio infidai, is a farmer at St.. Andrew's, Sir lan, who knows India- well, at once reeo.g- ---; nised the medal, awl bis eyes lighted up as ho turned it over. Ho was asked ; to appraise, its value, .hut' he was not ; : .prepared to do so rashly. He said that it would probably fetch $13, but ho . adx : tsed'tho owner to keep jt for its ; sentimental value., which was beyond . more money. Sir lan added that white-.» in Melbourne he had seen ofte of the ' best prtva'to collections of medals in tins \ world. Tho cross, winch ; is of silver ] and bronze, is a MsharajpoQ? Star, s given for an engagement at that place j on December 25; 1&3. j The removal of tho gaol f coin Pa-hper-ston North was discussed by tho members of the Palmerstoji North Chamber ; : of Oomnwrcs at their monthly meeting on Monday, droning. The chainnaA stated that ho did not know whether the inspector wanted to increase bis 1 business at Wangai'ilii, Tho new scheme J meant that they would employ two eon- ' stables at 9s. a day, and -.hese men. , would live on the trains four days a ~ veek, and this would mi in £ls7. in , the year. Ho found that 30-19- meals j. wore given in tile gaol during the year, s whicli alone wqsihl bo a loss to tho \ tradespeople, Palnwrstoit was more o central than Waiigan'tti, titid it s-ccmoc} 1 absurd that a man remanded for eight j* days should be sent up to Wangnijui l and then bran.aht back. If was unani- T mously decided to enter :>' protest " through Messrs. Baick, Gutisrie, and | Robertson, M.P.'s, and ask them to f j bring tlio matter before the Minister of i ; Justice, ' H An application by Maurice Leon t Maris lor a pawnbroker's Jic6n.se was Sl planted at the sitting of the Mogis- S trate's Court yesterday. ' jj Informations charging sixteen Ghiiicso ii with being found in a common gaming- b house, No, 18 Haiiiing Street, will bo J heard bftforo Mr. D. 0. A. Cooper.. S.M., b at tbe Magistrate's Court to-morrow, ? TVmfors linye been accepted by the a Wellington EdncathiH ooawt as fallow: 'I —Erection of schoolmaster's residence Y ar. Mutaliiwi, W. J. Wise; paintin.ij and < ~ repairs at Groytowu, K'. ti. Ifeird; iwintiug of school property at Dyer, .iL Tiiyior; stationery, Whilco-mbo and Tombs; printing, the Wellington Pub- ) li'lting Company. '■' Otir Painwr'ston cwrespondeiit- states 0 : that the fund for the proposed radium iustituto iit that centre now appears to t be stationary at £2560. I

Will there be a change of chairman m the Harbour Board?'is the interesting point that,will be dsciii-ed at the ,- animal meeting of tho board, timetabled for 3 p.m. to-day. . Mr. Robon, Fletcher, who lias Isold the position for four tonus, is once more- desirous of cuidiiiK tho destinies of the board. On this occasion ho is to be apposed by Mr. 3. G. Harkness, tho (kiverni'i'Msn't '.nominee on the board, who has just snort:edod Mr. W, T. Hildroth. "Mr. Harkness. who is the secretary of tho National Dairy Association, was a member of tho board from February. 1808, until April, 1913. After the 'public meo-ting addressed . by Mr. E. P. Bunny at Lower Butt last night, Mr. Orton Stevens moved that. Mr. Bunny should ha heartily thanked for his address, and he went cm to spea.lv in tonus of praise of Mr. Bunny V work for the heroiigh during his term as Mayor, Tlio resolution, was carried rinaivimo'ttsly. Mr. Bunny said i that during tl le five years he had 'held : the office of Mayo* he had done tho best he.could, and ho added, that lie- was , retiring with a great deal of regret. Ho i welcomed criticism of big Work, as ho. , did not expect everyone to agree With him. Me thanked tho electors {.or the ocnitdonco they had shown in him bv ' returning him at tbo lxcatl of the- pail at the various elections lie had contested. | On Saturday last (as already indicated ; by Press . Association message) tho Wangamii branch of the Salvation , Army opened a new citadel yonng peoplo's hall, and, officers' • tets in Wicks ted Street, Tho hmMi-ngis are erected oh a contra! block of land : taking a frontage of 6if t. ,'b.y a depii of ■ 365 ft. Though the weather was bad ■ the- hall was -crtiWdsd, and tho ceremony , lacked nothing in. enthusiasm,, the eerc^ many was performed by tho Mayor, Mr* G. 18. Williams, jvliilst the Army liea-i, quarters was represented by Mrs. RicV 1 ftrds (wife of Commissioner R.ichards) ■. ■ IjicnteiHtitt+Oelonel Eowicy (national secretary and acting-commissioner), and Brigadier Bray (head of tljo A.nftV's social activities). , At tho meeting which followed tho speeches were made by Mrs, Richards, tioUtenantMGolouei Powley, B-rigatlief Bray, Mr, \Y. A. Veiteh, M,l\, the Rev. Mr. Jl'Kenzie, and the Mayor, ' The Sunday services at the new citadel were erouxled. Yesterday afternoon, Dejsective-ger-goant CasscH-s arrc-st-e-d-a mail-win charge of haying assaulted William Geddaf d a.iitl robbed liiin of 15s. in Frederick. ■Street mi the night of May 1, The ease will be called at the Magistrate's Court this Kiorning, when the man arrested yesterday will be charged in conjunction with another parson who is tin remand. Wood-bloekhig-ift Lower Cuba Street (as far north as the .intersection of Harris Street, where a junction-Is jitado with tlio Jfsrvois Quay Vood-blaeking) is almost completed-. ' Foll-ewiitg this improvement comes the work of substituting the existing tramway centrepoles by side poles, erected just isi-skje the footpath k'crbiiig. Tliis is a costly work, but it will leave an iinpMtant city thoroughfare free from o:bstructi<W. Numerous cracks in. the ceilings of the City Engineer's quarters in the Town BaH—-mostly caused by the last ■eartkqtiake-*-have necessitated coiiside}'* able repairs. Rather %&h renew tlio plaster, the whole of the ceilings in tire City Engineer's and Assistant Engineer's offices aye being- -removed, and stamped steel ceilings -a.'re- to ho siihstituted, as in the. case of other offices in. tho satno lnii.l-di.ug, In the sehcoMe of the nets'■ loan provision ia also tiding nia.de for the erection of a-ii 'addition to tho Town Hal) offices. The City Eit-. glneer's staff, ivhiqh has been cramped for room for same- two years, wiH rfioit? ly be strengthened; to copo with theworks which are proposed (subject to tiin sanction o 'f ratepayer at the coijiWg poll).. The added, members to tljo Staff will, ho ac'conijixodated in. the aieW part of the bwidi-ngi Mr. John Forbes., the- well-known Christeh'Urdi spm'tani-an., has' (says an ONchange) just rptiwued from tho head of the? Hunter River with a .bag which ha has liß't equalled for in'aiiy tears, the heads being as good and- eteii a lot as Were over obtained in the loe-al» it-y, The bag consists of four heads, three .of thewi M-pointers, an.d one a royal. The H-'pointers may bt> dascrifeel as follows;—(.!) WeiHlerfullj' even head., with exceedingly heavy liffrn considering the district.; (2) mot qaito so weli .prdportioiiei, a very good spread., and a wendcr-M bow j (3) eftm'bining all tiro good - qfl-ifilfes o| tho others, with a few extra esceljences that make it,thl best head e.f the three, Tlio royal is well proportioned., has a good Sproad. and a very fine bo\y v A resident «f A-uekl-awd, o.n route by the Stain frnrifc line .for,thei_ soutli., Jmd a rather unpleasant cxpefie-nco ivhen on his journey ciio daj' last week (says tho '"Star"), _ While the train stopped for a few -minutes at Mercer a rapid search was made for ait alleged escapee from Costley Howe, who was believed.' to bo on bnird. The- A.ti.eklaiider was' believed to bo the man "wanted;," ah<J he had to. Submit to a very sovero cro.js■oJtaminatioti at. the hands of a aiiaU in' ' uniform as •to his .recent movements., : oeenpatipn., dcstTnation, etc., iiiiich to the bewilaer'ment both of the person : elilefly interested and also of a earriage lull of passengers, who evietently believed that the person being.so aggressively interrogated was soriito daring Criminal, aiteinpftog ta escape. Eventij.'ally the man who was "-wanted" was -discovered, and detained. A strong pro* tafc hy (Jis hidigiiairt trftvcltor hrougl.it an explanation and apology from the Railway Department. -. - The <jiiestieii of providing ni-unieipal golf Jinks is ocoupyii-i.g tlto a-tteiitimi'of a sub-coinntittco spf tire Reserves Comnvittee, consisting of Councillors lii.i.ekie, Biiddle, and MMionzie. This sub-coni-m.itteo have, received the suggestionthat- certain Town -Belt land lying _bo-t-ween the old disused fes'ef hospital and -Rev. Mother Au-be-rfc's Bopie at Island; may provide a sttita.blo a.rci. They intend to ohtain the atjrice of several authorities on -golf, and will go over the ground in detail before submitting a report an the Waiter. n ' -