LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. It k<|B been ofijcially decided that Parliamout shall meet, for t>lie transaction of business en June 2s: Government House at AucSvta:tjd, which was_ recently the- of. a. fire, is, to, bo immediately repaired and restored by the Pub!ia Works Department. It appears thai tiro dirtna.go is by no means so extensive as was at first pppogsl, 'Jo make good ths damage by fire alone will not cost more than abmtt £230. The flags of the various shipping and commercial houses &ikl tho Harbour Hoard were flow at hali'-niasi, yesterday out of rospedt to tlio liie.iiipry of Mr. J. .H. N. A. Blirnrs, Sate Welling-' ton manager for the Nesv Zealand Ship, ping Company. The annual conference o£ the Execu-tu-o Council oi tlio Public Son ic? AssociatioK consDiftnoes on Tuesday, July 7, and sections are to J?g isdvisfed. that remits must-be in the bands' of the general secretary by Julio 7, and thai in accordance with, the rules delegates to tlio conto'enco' Jnust> bo elected this JilOlltil. 'Hie destination signals "Government ■ Stations'' and ".Jlan.-nvatu Sfaiion" on ; the city trams are to be doiio away with in favour of "Lamlrtsii Statioli" ; aiitl "Tiwrudon Station."

Mrs. Aitcfcsoa., ii Wellington 1 resident, is olaitfiii'ig £1100 damages from ftp City Corporation as damages, fe injuries alleged to Irave been stistoiwod through a fall in Ad&ins Tcrraoo, s'oM t<j liavo been occasioned tiiroifgii slip, pfng oil an «*posod watffr pipe on tihs footpath* Iho caSo is to be heard in the Court- to-morrow. ' Tlio Pfiraft Minister ropois'ed a far days ago tile Warrant conferring -upon him .the ■ appointment of a Privy Councillor. It is an unostentatious <toou-j inent, neatly printed upon a whiteground. The seal in the earner bears.the Eojai Arms and tito name' and titles-of King George, The headlines "of".tie Warrant tends "At tile Court oti Windsor Cmitlo. 'flic Sist day : of January, 1014. Present: The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council." The i. bod>; 'of the warrant runs as fallows "This day the Hon, Viiiiam. Ferguson Mftssey, Prime Minister of the Boininion of New wstp by liis Maj- ■ esiy's command appointed a member of his Majesty's privy Council." Tiro warrant is signed by Sir Alnwrie Filmy,. Clerk to the Privy Council. In response to a request by the Ota-go sect-kin of the Public Service Associa-

tion,. the executive of that body has deckled to ask tha Conuftissiouer whether he will direct that casual bfllijliiys shall as a genera] irulo be alls-wed in oaStss in winch the niayor of the- town has invited citizens to observe a holiday.

Tha l'rimo Minister informed' a to* porter lust c von-i'.V-t tl-ui-t tbfe <il Commission upon iniaiid wa'tenvpys iu the Auckland district, of wrneli Mr. \V, Fi'rgnsom (mansn.ging director of the Wellington Gas Company) has been ap•pointed olifiirnisii* would jirooaolv not mate a start .upon'its mvestsgsitions for go ma months. Quite a number of matters have to bo arranged, a-ftd information nhdw various heads haS to be prepared before the inquiry can b® eoinlftcnced. ' . Bff. Harold Asliton, the oianai'msi; director in South Africa for the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., ■owtorpris.es m thn-fc eowrirv, records' sfltne vinnsttal ox-peric-nocs in' connecliiw with the Gilbert; and Sullivan Opera- Company's season iu Johanuesbv.rit. "Two larffirs put ia an aptrearaneo one night- when 'The Mflindo' was riniiihiiS in Johannesburg." jfr. Ash'ton wrot-6, "and paraded in tho dross circle vestibule in a lordly man* ner. They were ,-ordered away, but refused t6 le&vo. ' Ono of the natives presently produced a roll ef notes and declared* hi« intention of tinying the two very best seals in the bouse ft.ntle.n--joying tlte show, which he described iis a '.T»p<m fum\.v -sing sanp play-.' lie lmd just advanced to the tiekot-lws in' spue of my protests when the persistent. Tjaflir. ami bis companion wei'-e srizp.i by a detective, and hustled a\Vay, '1.1). ft.' was' the -wuly explanation -die notire ofiicoi' Rave me as he passed with his captive.'i. Yen doubtless know that the letters mean 'Illicit diamond I'ntvinj;, 1 The natives «ore wanted by iiie police for receiving stolen cliiivntiiuls, purloined by the natives wording at the mines, and were tried and wntcneed to a long tern of im. : Driscamcct,,"

The Harbour' Hoard notifies that in tho ovaufc of t-iio low light at row being clatnaged by coiimsmois, spliu-t-ers. or otWririso thrmigll tllo bunifiardnwnt of tiio wreck of tho Devon by guns of Fort- Dorset to-morrow, tne' light will not, 130 availaMo that niciit. Shipmasters a-ro accwtt-iii-Kly notified" of the possibility of the lew light fniHnrr tfie-m on Friday aiight.

A woJl-atteudffid meeting of the Imgtou South i'l-'ogressivo Socioty' was held last ©veiling. Sir. j. C-asthi presicted. was resolved to ask the Llty Council t-a construct and felwc n tf'ijok from .Mail' Si i re:, to K iibirnia ; in coMioetion with ti-ee-plaiiting operations, and alsn to solicit the «;oorwration of tbe Hataitai and KilWnuV Katepayera' Association, and rosiikn's of those d'istric'tß, with a view to nials* in.ee a monster effort- on Artmr ]>.iy. It was dccidcd, to ask the TcteplWe Bo-■pai-tment to crect. fl. slot t'oie-plioii-e at WolHiieteit South Post Oiliee. Considerable discussiofi took piaco regarding tlra City Council's loan proposals. Tlio society protested against the proposals beins submitted ou Moo, and ais.a jieainst- ttie proposal to ertet tramsheds at- Adelaide Ik«xd,, as it was considi-rcd that there iva-s plenty o-f room for toi-isio-ii at the present site at- tlie Newtown tsorhiiinvia, and suggested that the! Adelnido Road sito_ could ; bo hotter utilised for a technical school.

Lady Holder, widow -of the late Sir Frederick Holder, Speaker in this Federal Parliament, MolboUriie, -who is just returning front a tour of Great Britain and Atiiciiea in connection With t-ho W.C.T.U., 1 was iiuesti.o;i(>d as to her attitude on the Bibk>-hi-schoo!s question. -She- Hated that at olio time sins and her husband felt that the State ichonl was net tiro placo far the t&ieliiiijj oi religious oducation. -Bti't- to* day, with tiio drift of things.,' and the fast that so little Bible-teaching is ■done in the homes, while attendance Sunday school has -grown less., her litts■band and herself iiay-e coma to sec t-lnvt the cKiJareu ought- to know more about the Bible. '-Ais t-o the -right of entry, sbo thought that any little sectarianism that wight bp engendered would bo nothing compared with the great good doiio by lessons -from, ministers

A meeting of the geological section of the I'Mlosdpjiical Society was to have boC'ii held fit Victoria Oollfigc- last evening, but it was found necessary to jwst-. pone it, and 110 how dalo has j'«fc bftne teed, 'i'iio .main society is to meet nest Wednesday evening;., when Professor Laby will deliver an address.