LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the largo number of sehemi committee meetings which take place sHnUltaiKMtisly te-iiiglrt, sMrcferics. ol suburban school committees are (islced to-.kindly semi in or telephone t» this o-ffieo the rcsirifes of tlieir eleo ticus, "and any paints in eoi.iiitsetkm Witt the meetings which rniiv be of interest ' . . ' * The criminal session of the Saprerac C-otirt m Wellington opens on Mondaynest. -Tin? civil scssien is du& to coittmwice on J% 18. The citse coiieooiteg the Major Kemp , statue ts the last trbieh the ■-Court..of Appeal will take this session. Other cases on the list, ami tiao eases-for the Full Court, will lie put back till nest session. TJie reason is that several qf the Judges have to leave to open the ■ Supreme Coi-H-t sessions in their owrti .districts shortly. | A Mysterio-MS fiill-rigfred ship-, apparently abandoned, by her crew, was siphtod by the RvinJiinfi , in the -Bay of Biscay en her vo.Va.gs out from WdnJi. Tiie masts, and y-aftl-s of .-the derolfcf woro standing,-fait there,was- absolutely no sTRii of lifts aboard. A heavy sea. was TUlunjig, and salvage was «m't of tie question. The -a-nfak of t-lie tUinhine <?onkl not even discover the irawc of flio derel.tc-t. kit. he reported to Lloyd's by: wireless when and where the ship ivas sighted, The. to*™ for whfeM the Hon. B, A. liowghnan was nppainted to the Leg-is-livtivo Council exijired yesterday, and the tps-m of ajmomtnipiit of tire' Boiis. • J. Kisg and .T. Vj. Jenldnson expires •pn July 1. .The Prime Minister, state?! last evening thiit no appointments to tho Lppnr Hmiso would, bfi.nuicle nnt-il tho evf <jf next session of Parliameflt. Probably, he atldcd, such apptiintments. as were xanth tttwlcl bo aunounced- in ttio ■Gove.rn.oi''s Spoeeh.. ■ , _ A m.l-ii HMiied HafoJd Spei-jcer Cαill-: kin, who stands eliargod with the theft ef a diamond fing. vahred at £9 life., the pi-opert.y of faerih Xymaj), ef Aijct hind, was arrested fast- .ereniiig lay .jje-tastive-Sergeairt Jl'Jlvciujy. In eeiinpctiom with the Upper Uutt relief fund,, the WdiiDgtom tok-bsll AsfOciatleii hare intimates to the jlavor (Mr. J. P, Uikb) that m order to assist the fund they will play n snatch bettteeij. tiie two leading iea.jns at the Basin Reserve, next SatunJay aftoftioon..' The teams tf be engaged are the IlospitaJ (fllmmpion-s last year) and the liiistid (Chartty Cup winners;) Clijbs, and i fine game is espocted. The gross proceeds, vi'ithomt dpiliiriioH, are to io devoted to j the i'Oliflf fun<J, mitt it is Wpetl'that the Association's, gflflermte -offer will meet witli tlio support it deserves, ' ■ The rdafently-formoct Southlanct Leagne, whose main objont is. tq advanco tWintefests '*>f the district at every oppor-tm-vity; has <sSys a Press AsWoiniveij trfogram from InverenTeill) appiiinte-d Mr. Clw.s. Campbell, <j£ liivorcarrfll, to tho position of eccrotary, at a sialnry of£4oo a year. A canvass, -which has not yojs b'cen com-pMeci, Ijas resuHed , in jSuaMHi«cs to tho nnwntnt :of fioOO a VM-γ for ttto years being wbtaiiictl, iiiid this amonnt will lie conVsikWaljly inorwisfld. There were % applicatieits for M.ie post of sccrfrt'iwv, inolatliiip; several from Ptinodin, Chfistfihuroii., and WolThe Sew Zealand Shipping Company's stoftiner ttliifili . a'ttivod- in -portfrom liondmi y«sterds ; r, lad seven eases •ot measles and eight Contacts «fi htati. Tlio outbreak *a» net serious. The ies» sol was.not- qiiarantincd,'but the pfc tients wMo Isolated. Lord Derhy, speaking at the dinnet ef tho oMha.ni Oha-nAof of Co'mmeres.i'i March, said tha-fc in tlto c<as:a of strikes ami locfoout? it would ho a good thing that a recognised α-athority in a town, ■ such as a chamfer of eomiiierce, shfluld have the power to ea-M rcpresftntjtivee cF Ijoth sides before ilieiii in the endeavoiir to solve tho difficulty, Ko felt strongly that when decisions- ha 4 heen ftrrireid -.it they should 1-j.avc some bind-' ing effect β-h hoik masters and men. Respcitiug the proposed new eentf-al- ■ body to be palled tho New Zealand: Socfoty for the Preventieii of Cruelty to Aninitth, which ffas disGUssccl at Txte.3(fay wetting's meeting of tho 1oe:Vl C" 8 rt-portetl' in our yesterday's issue), tlio ehairma-tt; Mr. J. S. Jamesonij s-ajd ho was not ill favour of it,' and considered the Otago Society S-ere fully justified in tur.Hiivg.dQwn the whole proposal, as they liad and refusing to liavo anytMng to do with it, i Mr. llott-., when stating he wau-ld iia.vo ! ti vote agaiiist the motion* approving j the propositi and eamstitution as ruiici, ) etronißlj' eomroentefl -en ih& fact that, a.l- i though the Constitution,an.d -rules for- ' the prop&sec! Nov.' ZeaJnwd-.Society hnd ' iiemi sent out from the Q.fltce of tlie ' Wellington Society to the. other Now ! Zealand. Sfeeieti-cs sovoral weeks ago, ! had boon CGiisitiered and dealt with by j them, antt replies rwdh»e:d from kev* s oral, it wn-s only a few minutes [ire- 1 vionsly that the.* had been refic! to tlie i Wotlingttn Cmnteitteo for the first Uiiift, r and forth-.vith- » resohrtion had been i moved antl socoadiad in favour of adopt* -. i»g the same. That the Coiistkutjcm ? and rules should 1-rave boon Uias jield' ! back from tho local committee jn par- j lienlar until the plerentli liom- ap- f pea ml in him aw Mtaoi'dinnry proci- e flnci«. Ue h:i(] iislipd at previous meet-' f nitia for ilir'iii. 'fiwy fos'oj-cii sPvprn] ! iypeil slipplr of'f«wiknip ; rmiiiiiiiert some ' vefv drastic and far-iwrhinfi elaufos' '' and jwuiret! vor.v oan;i" u J coiisidera-' ! turn. Tlw sprretaty, in, reply to an inmiiry from Mr. Tloil, said the proposed jCrrtstitutinn atirl rules had been sent n I'M to about fifteen Kew Xealftiwi so-11 oni.v three of v \ m . Tex ,fc& 1 sßDrovißg thereof*. " |c

a Mr. H, I'roimaij, of Greytow-n, was 11 the suctessful tenderer, says ow Oartwis ton cofrospoiwlent, for tlio erection in r concrete of oilkeS ib Broadway for ttic ;, Dalcfiuld Dairy Company. The contract * s price was £13-10. . ij On inquiry at the Marine Department 3 . yesterday tlio information was filicited ,_ that it will be somo months before the " now I'glit on Ksorri Mock will ho oner- " atijig. The building of tlio foundations ', is proceeding skiwly on account of im--1 favourable weather,, as it is only in »V northerly or csstcfjy winds tiwdl * dead io calms that work can bo accomplished 6, tiro experience on* many oceasifrits lias ie imen that ereis if the wiwj }j«S befrst in tho right direction a southerly swell lias nevertheless been in evidence. ~ . In refusing costs, against, the police l 0 in a case of alleged eruelty to a Wso r recently, tlto M««ktrato (Mr, t>. G \ Cooper) said: "If it were not for tile ) «ork of the S.P.O.A. fee, Would lie t_ many more unfit horses going aWt the ' stfflfils than there arc;.."' On boint » > niuwM that although members oftiie i cj.i .u.A. were nppoarins as witnesses ic itcred to 3ns-decision. * ' ( At Messrs, J, H. Bethuu© and Co 's a anelltug homas Nos, 20 antf 11, K w ,t •- Jolin S. Barton, as agent.. The safr of ,f tl«o property in William Street! S&fc [. Mje, svliieli was te take .pbcovesterdav ri J#* n «>». hj* bow adjourned to a da^ „. whiclr will be advertised. - ■