LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The liostnl authorities advise that the s.b. \Vt,llochr.i, which sailed from Sydney on May 16, is bringing Australian mails only, awl is etaio' to-morrow morning. The postal authorities edvise that tJw mails which left Wellington on April 0 uer s.s. Ma-ungalmi, and connected with the Naples dispatch per K.M.S. Ovsova, arrived in London on May IG. Tho Wellington Boys , College, ivWch has bean closed for a fortnight's , tern holidays, reopened yesterday merning. There were over 100 farmers present at a meeting on Wednesday to reecivo ! the report of the provisional (!i».cters' in connection with the proposes! establishment of frnefclnj* works at 'lailiapfi. , A motion to tlto effect tlwt a company bo registered for the jwpOTO of erecting freezing works at a cost of £30 t CU0 was carried unanimously. Tho Town Orlc (Mr. 3m. R. Palmer) wishes it to be rsloarly. tiiador- , stood that the civic rofcejrtioii to be .'accorded to General Sir Inn Hamilton is a. public one. No tickets-of aamisS sion fof Friday afternoon's function [ (tro boinj* issued, bvtt invitations to he I present linyo been cxtencTctl to the Min*. istcr's of the-Crown niut their families. The lions. H. D. Bell, Win. Fraser, and R. Honteh Rhodes have already intimated their intention of being present. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J, P. Luke) will prfcsid-fl, and Sttits will be proviticcl o« the platform for tli.o members of the City Council and tyif icives. and for military officers n-ftfl their wives. p fhe reception V\>?H tnke, place at 4 p.m. in tho large Tovra Hall, sifter which the honoured gm-st nml the offieial party will to entertained at afternoon tea,

'i'he pctrol»ck'Ct.rre motor railway carringo recently constructed at tlifi l'ctoiie Workshops was given another trial run on Saturday, a»d travelled from t'otone to Knitoke", and then down to Wellington with a heavy carriage attached by way of a trailer. The experiment is nsported to have proved successful. Tim wall of tlie To»v« Hall viUiin the Wakefteld Street jwrtico is fceins: pierced to provide space for a sinall door—a private entrance to tho imiMinii for tho mayor, councillors, and chief officials of the corporation. v The two ligiiikamo ebony and silver shiolrjs which were presented by the Christeliurch Press Company in 1906 for competition in I'ilte shooting among the Junior Cadets of the Dominion worn wan a.gmn this yonr by thn Hntt. ans.l Pneroa" District Higli Schools respectivolv. Tho following wove the scores of the Hntt teatii:— Sorgeant A. Clifford, 8u points; Private A. Oliv-ecronii. 8?; Private A. Odium, 78; Private H. Jonncr, 77; Lanco-Cornoral J- Fake, 7G: t»anepCorporal f. Ch.n.pinan. 75; Crilosir-Ser-p;pflnt S. Wilson, 75: Private 11. Trtistr, t3; Private W. Adams. 73; Pi-ivato U. Swayftlnnd, 73; total, 7G7. ■Over an hour of the Majw's time y«s-tf-rday afternoon was occupied in signins; i 11r> rorlifinatps that are beiiipc ntrardecl'io tho winners of tho events at the Stni.o sohool sports nireting held in onnw'oiion .with the t'itiison's (.'arnival. TJio certificates will l»i< distribulod by tho serretary (Mr. Anins) dtiiii.ss tite urcspiit «-(M?k. A meetiug of tho Now Keakml Atliniipc. nnd-w tho auspices of tiic W.C.T.U.. was lipid at Nijaio last evening. The Mayor of OnsUiw (Mr. C. C. C'niriin>- pvosick'd. Tlw Rev. J. Dawsoti i;;'vc an address in which he oiatllnc/l tltc of the Alliance nnd tho jmispi>cts for ill" comilia poll, Ho ni'};e<l lliitl legislation should b> introthu-nd early irt t!if> sossinn removing the threefifth's handicap from tlip people's voto fin tho liquor r|iii'?tk))i, At the close of tin* mooting a Iwarty vote of thanks was pnssatl f.-sr the. Eev, J. Dawson, and the !. chair aiatt