LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2144, 9 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ambnlauce Saturday arrangements, will d-mxuid. an the weather again today, ' If the collection is, to bo polled, the- fact will be. notificsl by a Geneva flag flown from the Town Mall, The. Court of Appeal stands adjourned till May 16. ! J'.lio application of tho Dunodin Ships' Tally Clerks' Union for resist ration was granted yesterday. , ,In its' general' features the . union, is similar . to the Tally Clerks' Union in tho City. • Tho Trades and Labour Couneil lias decided to call a Conforonco of iinions. for June i's to consider matters in coil-. ~ licotion cost of living. People who hapjjen to hp abroad in. the streets of t'lio city to-morrow after-; noon will witness in. interesting spec-, tacit! on tho arrival at Thornaon of the Fifth New Zealand Infantry ("Wei-; lington's Own"). Tho regiment, head" ed by the band attd its drums, will proceed through tho main streets on their arrival at 3.15 p.in., in full jtiafelu'lig order, and to .judge from the excellent display they made a.s they marched .past the luspector-Ge.iieial (Sir Jan Hamilton), after tho manoeuvres On Wednesday last, they should make a bravo s'liow on iiteir return "from tho front." A >vu morons deputation of Wairarapa Maoris interviewed the. Right Hon. W. F. ,M:assey (Prime. j}ii.n)stcr)\yes.terd'a.y : iu reference to an old-standing land, claim. It was explained that in 183,') the Maori owners of the land surrounding. trbis Wairarapa l-ake parted ffitlr their property to the Government for a consideration ■of £2000 in .cash' and land at I'onkani, in the Ta.upo disfrie!. then valued at £5000 (be'inc five shillings an acre). The £2000, the. dopuiatirtnis! s stated, was paid... kit !.]r> : Maoris had not vet received the land. It- iva.s asked thai? ttiG OTiginrtl jar-gain should be carried out, interest on the former value of iho land being added to thq amount of tho claim. Tlie Prime Minister promised to have the matter looked into and to redeem whatever liability rested Q)t tlie. wot'ertiirieriti Racehorses rctnmiiip; from tl® Marl- .< borough meeting were shipped in a more expeditions way than is usual, br the Pateena at Pieton yesterday. Ordinarily horse-boxe:s. aro used, and tljeip use means time. In this instance, howcv,'r - the horses wero tr.erelv walked tin the. 'gangway and led through the rfllev. jvoys tp •• their stalls on tlie starboard ' Ride of tho steamer. In this way fifteeii. ' horses were shipped in 16 mimik>s. On reaching AWlin.ijto.ii the horses were i walked ashore in the Same riiaiiuer.. 'ilsose who I'.aco had experience in shippmir horses were loud in thoir praise ■of the efficient wav in which yesterday's work 'was. carried out. A 'nian who arrived from Auckland : : by tho Main Tninlj express yesterdaj* .i.iiarjjiftg complained bitterly to a ijj. ■ porter that when, tire passengers emerged from the station tliev found - irot a _ single traffltaar, waiting, "to take . thorn. m-to iounv. It rATiiing arid bitterly cold, and the street was sin shy. ■■ - Tho. experience, therefore, was tin unenviable one. A few lucky people; chartered the two or three cabs which \ were waiting, but for the majority there : 1 was iio such reootirco. The failure of ilie tramway authorities to post cars in : readiness for the arrival ef trains was ; J recently severely criticised by Coun- . cilloi' Fitzgerald at a City Couneil • Tii.eot.ing, and it was ihen indicated that; ' tho Tramways Committee ipotild tsiko' the matter up. : ' . Scene: A crowded fruit-shop on ' Lamhtor. Quay. Enter, two tall im.tni-: aranls, presumably off tho Ruahine. ■ Tim first, immiirrant, after a good deal •of .picking aitd diooshisi, • decidc'd oil: pears. ITe addressed the shopkeeper thus: "One penn'orth of pears, please." ■ j Second immigrant: 'Til'ave a penn'orth t o' apples." Tiro slinpkeciner; 'Fiti sorry, ,1 hut \vo doii'-t soil ne.ars oy -itpulos % 1 the pennyworth. These apples," point-. 4 ing to the liest in tho shop., "are six" f pence a fwnnd." A half-stnotliered smiie | could be seen on the fa.ee,! flf tjio op, ■ ' lookers in the shop as the liew arrivals. walked out of tho nlace, cbviouslv taken c ahaclc by tho prices of New Zealand l fruit. It must lie . ji little different: s from I.ondoti.. to which Sjiain and the 1 Mediterranean nre so near. : v Mi G. iV. lluile\ is at present in r Ifastinas, Ifawlie's Bay, endeovourinpr | to arfaitiSc for a Kyndicate. to take hb <j a. laTgo block of land in Giiilc, Soittlt ■■ ; America, and .subdivido it. amongst the t Mihscßbers, ft is Mr. Ilurle.v'g mteii- i tion, if ho Sijoeeetls, to leave sliortly' C for pliile a'eug wiih Mr. .Stratford, one S of the owuers of the hiocl;. Tho iixt.cn- [ tion is to start a sa-.a'l colony of Xew J Xealaifd'ers tm what is Said to' lift some Vi, of live rieheft land in South America, f At the meeting ef the N'gaio Sel.vpol '' Committee a resolution was passed for " transmission to the 'Weliiiigtoii Editca/ : 1 tion Roard. fliklui for an .idiliiion in the -J school buildkig, iu or't°v to uiefit the in- \ creased, number of pupils, : (

A deputation, of ca-b-drivers waited on ■the Hy-I.aws Uonvffiitteo of i.i, o . City Oouiicll yesterday to ask tlia.t- ,aii attention he made in the rates chargeable by lionised cabs in Xmnber 1 clistricl us defined in tho by-laws. They alleged that '.;!(> ay-law did jiot embody ibo ainingenmnt mud'; at a meeting<,{• jcproseiitatiyes of !ho cabmen and the Kyl.avs Committee iii. Ami! o.f last year. .At that coinercnee, tlley said, i.i «-a.« agreed that vho day-rites in Xutiiber 1 district should be one -shilling for oiro passenger and tne shilling for ■■ each additional passenger, imt iho by-law allowed only sixpence !or every j= tjslttioival passenger. The cabmen Sjivcd that as Number 1. district included Wellington Terrace, Ilobson St feet , and oilier Inlly streets, tho rate tor .extra, passengers should be one shilling per passenger. There is a mild scarlet fever epidemic in Wellington at present. Thirty-two fases, mostly children, are at present n: tho Fever Hospital. The flayer has received a number of communications approving of the loan proposals outlined by him at the. Jtayoral instriljation, Among tlieirr Was tlio following i-w* '.Allow mo to congratulate •.•on upon the loan proposals you havfi brought down, and although I'expect they will probably strike me for ■raws as badly as anyone in the city, fts J. am mixed up in so much property, , approve of the scheme, Nonci t 1 Q vorI:! 5.i in m.y opinion, can bo shewed for long, jts there is, every prospect of a boom in, WelliiniUm iii ■tho imn;e(hate future, Jam of wpinion poy should be immediately taken iii hand if \\<? wish to keep Welliiigt<jii as tlie foremost city in the Dominien. Wellington is extending very rapidly ;vt prOaPJlt, 1111(1 pOQplp who own ' liovipps JiHoiV what great demand there is at present. The increase of population during the past four or sis wmfths ■mtist havo been very considerable. 1 ■ffill h.avo. pleasure in supporting tho scheme, and if there is anything I can : a.O. to helji it along, let me know and I will do wliat I can." "fiy tlio establishment of agricultural scholarships at a district high school, those children who were successful could : bc given tho opportunity of pursuin"their course- in agriculture at the State farms," stated Mr. I{. lircwn (chairman), at the meeting of tho Mastcrtan iiousobolders on Thursday night.' "By thLs rceaijs tlio children would obtain a practical, as- well A.s ssicntilie training '» agricnlturc, and with such oxcell.jiit farms as the State possesses, those children would obtain tlio best possible grounding to tit them for tho work which they Wftuld in after life follow. It "'if be a. long time before agricultural colleges arc established, but this scheme coil.WJli : « a£ .Qiico: and. further, it will bo a simple and.iiiexijonsiye. scheme." The annual report of tho ,Tohnson.villo School Committee expresses regret that, they, have been tillable to convinee the education authorities, of the necessity of woodwork and cookery, classes. The Inspector of Schools, states the re))ort, hji:s endorsed tho. committee's contention that such classes are advisable, and ilie hope is expressed that tho Department will lie. ablo to allocato funds to inaugurato them. 'L'o-morrow nmlit at the Oiinrcli :.of Englnnd, N'ortbiand. Canon Garland preaches : on Uib'in-in-Schools.