LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

!T!ic tender of Messrs. Campbell and B'urkn lifts heeu accepted for lie creation in Manners Street of Hie slew Grand Theatre (ftn the site of Fielder's furniture warehouse). 'Die Contract price is £10,198. Ofcliot t<Htdef& received iv-ero as follow:—P. C. Watt, £10.31)2; Hunt and M'Doiinld, £10,520; Howio niid Jfattheivs, £11.240; 11. Tlurrel]. £10,530; Sanders 13res,, £11,206; M l ' Lean and Gray, £ll r s-lo; Murdoch and WalIrtes. aßlliO-94; "Watts Bros., £12.0i'9: Wilkooing, £12.K50. The erection of t-ho theatre (which has he.ett designed by Messrs, Hoggard,.Prtmsi>, and Summer) mil be conimcncnd at eneo. It will lib completed in tiflie t& open next Christmas. At 10.30 this moron?; tlib Court of Appeal will deliver jiidtniont in . the eases Hrttriek <uvd Go.' v. ,T. A, Ueftpath and Son, John Batgcr v.' .Tiohertwn Brosi, and 'William Nielvol v. Thomas A.fting. The Dominion Esecnt»*o of the New Zealand l'olitienl Reform League met in WcJltHiilon yesterday. It war, decided to arrange for the animal confef<.uc,i of the bronchos to lie hel<f in Wellington an Tlinrsflay and Friday., July 16 niid fiati.ifaetory reports tfero presented by the organisers. Further arjjwhieftt in the e'a&e of T?% pntii Kanipiri v. the Public Trust e* will h,v heard in the Court ut Appeal today. CoHneiiior Bell's resignation from the Miramar Borongh Ccuin.il creates an extraordinary riieatiey to fill, .for which a poll will he taken on Msjr 27, and a notification appears elsewhere, . At mvo of tlie luniscluildws' meetings 1 in connection frith the schrtot' wmsii'itt«\ eleetifiiis held last evening all seven ■of the comniitteefiwn elected were closely related to ev.o another.

"Boxing the compass" tt'Us tlio term applied by tln> headmaster of Iho Newtown School in Ills annua! report lust night, referring to tho reversion to physical training in tins selsoois in place of J military drill, "llie feature of the J year," he said, "has been tho substi- 1; tntiou of a course of physical drill for 1 the more decidediy military drill of the e cadet system. This is ft return to tlio t system oi : . m'aijy years ago, ait-d it is a 1 Rood example of the boxing of the edit-j } cational compass. Ths change will do' i good, a'.id tlio only thing to bo com- 1 plained of is that its beginnings were j abandoned some twenty years ago." InqM-ry-'Yvas fflade yesterday rcspost- ( in.g tho Mayor's statement on Wediics- j day that tho City Council bad acquired $ Hall's Turkish Baths in Mariners Street, q and intended to tiling then) up to date. < It was ascortaiiied thai the rftiimtiider of Mr. Hall's lease was acquired .last year by the corporation, iij order that t that scet-ion of Manners Street' | may be widened _ when thu Star- ' k'et Square block is being dealt with j as proposed by tho Mayor. It ie not , th® intention of the CUty (Council to tin- • derinke tlio custody of tho baths, but: ' after the readjustment tlie.y will pj-ob-ably be let to tlio present. tenant on terms satisfactory to bath parties. : .< Tho mtsch-disetissed subject of atjrad- j nrdisation of books was considered at , tho muwjjl meeting <;f the Terrace ■School householders fest- evening. It . was stated that .a child leaving a school , ' in one; district to enter that of another was faced with the insk* of adapting bimsaif to a new reader—though still in. tho. same standard. ;AH mariner of means were suggested to obviate tho difficulty, and ultimately the following ' resolution ifos passed"That- it he a. locfinniiendatio.i to. the Education Department frota this meeting of householders assembled at the Terraci? School that tho list of hooks from which tho • selection is road* be reduced in order that greater uniformity liiav be obtained." A supplement to the Gazeito published last night contains a list of employees of the Post and Telegraph service. with salaries of every officer at March 31, 191.4, and also, with elassiliI'alion and salary for the year ending Mart 31. 1913. 1 Regulation's are gazetted tegardiitg the purchase of the fee simple of land comprise?! in 'leascs-r.i>pct'peti(.tty of settlement land. These rcgulatiqns arc marie under Part 4 of tlvo Land Laws Amendment Act of last session.*' Notice in the Gazette published last night nnnoUiicos tho dates for the Public. Sorviee Kntntnco F.xanimatiftn as .November 1.7, 1014., and following days, awl for the X'-wb'lic Service Seiitef ®x« . ftiniMtran, Jswary 5 and the following days.. ■ , The diiferencij in earning power of the North and tho South Island main lines am! branch railways is shown by ft table published in' tlio Gazette last night. The revenue from tho North Island main lino and branches for tho period ending March 31 was £'JO7/>7f),- ! as Con;ir>a.re<il with ,-CL 8 4.!!62 for the corresponding period of last year,' and for the 'South Island main lino and branches £136,050, as against £141,971 for tho samn period of 11)13. Awl thcfSb are 1368 miles of railway it* tho South Island section open for traffic, and only 1(15)2 in five North Island section. The heaviest rainfall recorded in New Zealand during the month of March Was ' •"t Summit, where the _ fall was 21 ol) inches.,- Tho heaviest in one day trnS ft,34 inches, on March 15. Tho" rainfall for Wellington, as shown- by the gauge at Karori Reservoir, was 2.39 inches for tho month. ; The commftn&er of th© TrafrsatiaiitiG tir;cr La Prove lice reports a very curious effect which lie observed in the course of his. last -voyage- .(says'eii English paper), :He writes: ''S.O".n alitor quitting New- York we ran into a violent west-north-west blizzard, with a huge fled iwd fog, -preventing ug;-f.rotis dis» tihguishin-g anything more than Wift.' ahead, tho teinperaiuro being 15deg, ■ I'nhrenhcit. Wo were obliged fro in tho ■ start to take a southerly course to avoid the steamers -and ictiberccs signalled in the neighbourhood of tho' Flemish Bonnet. At one- time. ■Sailing in tho -Gulf' Stream for several hours, tho tempera l - : turo of the water rose to C2c!ng, Fahrcn-: lie-it, waking a di'lTereiiro of 4.7dsg, he- ■ f weeu water and air. At the same time, ] - as tho sea Was throwing off vapours, % few feet a:bcs>e -t-h.6 surinco it looked as if it. were seething, These vapours formed .a very dieuse Driven by tho ieinpcst, and in -the midst of a whirlwind of foam iiiadp by the crests and liollws of t'lio waves, which wo could Hot distinpnish from tho bridge, but wliidi brolt.o With deafening lioise on the. decks, - we wore given -the- fantastic . -impression, of being boiled in a liugo' i cauldron, _ aiul yet slteririg with cold ■ nil tho time." ' "I should like,." said Mr. G. Scott, ■ ' chnirnian of the- Ohristchmcli Technical: ' Colli?,ga Board of (Jovornors, i'n bis ■ monthly statement, "to 'bring be.fd.ro' . your notice n practice in coiMiection vfith otlwr Technical Colleges which ■ might with advnntago bo introduced in Christclnrreh. I refer to the enlist-. iviont, of tho actual co-operation of prominent men in trades, industries, and ■ .professions. In the London l'olytccb-' utoj for instance, addresses are 'given 1 1 from time to time by experts to the ! menibeis of certain -classes, such as I building Eans-trus'tioti., BUjaneering, tvpo- - Craphy, chemistry, olectricity. Sucli ad- : dresses coulcl not fail to ba of ini.n-.enfo i benefit to tho students-, while at tho , fame time they bring tho- college into. j closer touch with the outside worlds I feel oort-fide-ut that there would be -no . difficulty in seeming sufficient honorary . [ -lecturers -from this district, and w'fl: 1 havo for tho purpose a. well-equipped ' lecture-room, aiid a good lantern for the ■ display of -films-." It, iyas decided (thp : ''Lyttelton Tiflics'' 1 states) to refer t-lio l matter to tho Appointinonts' Commit--5 too for cons.'der-ntion. ; A man wits arrested by Detective ': Cameron yesterday on .a charge of having stolen a biey-cle-. 11.0 will np.po-:i.r heforo tho llagi.sl-rak's Court, this woming, . 'At the Lower Hutt Police Court yesterday, beforo' 51cssrs, Holland and j -James, .T P.'s, 'Martin Coogan was sen* tcnced to fhrco aionihs' iiiiprisomnciit j for vagrancy.