LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

English and Australian mails, via Auckland, arrived at the latter pott yesterday by the s-.s. Biveriisa, and will roach here by tho Jlain TruuK express this afternoon. Tlio short-weight (lj ounce) tins of tobacco arc i|ow on the retail , msrimt ia AVelliiisKiu. Hitherto the standa-n!-cu-t tobaccos lmvo been parysycd in tins containing two eimces UrcU rftobacco for oho sbiiliug. Now 'bo viiimo price is being jxiicl for 1-J ounces (net), wliieli will Ro doubt h> quoted as another factor in tile increase in the cost of living bjf lovers of the f r ai»r,int ivood. Disciissiiiit the matter reeuli tv v , Mr H. H. Partrlilise. tire Auckland tobacco Merchant said that it vras a ciirious fact that whilst more mild Uihrjcrn lvas being smoked to riit.v thai! ever before, foss of that variety vjs b>ini2 produced , owing to climatic conditions. That habit is sccofid iiatn'ro is recognised by many as an axiom, and such people would have bad their views on this subject ftirtfrsr strengthciusd if it. had feccn •■ thoir fortune to witness a certain inocenrrod on a city j3%iiiggrouiid on SatunJay. tiftcrnoon during] the progress of a football nintcli. The j poallipcpar of 0:10 of the tosims concern- I od fulfils in llio more sarioias battle , of life the duties of .1 poiiecman. On anoccasiou in Ent orday's contest what almost amouiitct? to a scuffle took plaoe between two players of tkt? opposing teams. Villi business-like mien tlio policeman strode fofwanl. Poi'gottftn whs the fiame, and lie was as ii; wore back' oil liis city brat. A. bwacii of \\w law had tnkpn placc, and was not lip tho pro- j Fervor uf {lip Kinji's peace? But fotp iiitcn-ori'-d, [or, lipfore \w pet in tlio wono of file confiirt, 1 tlie rotcwe's wli'sllo . blmv, aiid that ofTirial siopprd in 'time into tlip broach. With -tlw call n]' Hip ;vhiMle flip citv heat fudcrl from ih(> vision of tlif> stnJi.vnrl. preserver of I li<> psaw, and he. resumed'his pnsiiion ist the goal-post lo an abromp.inimeiit of laiigljjci- from tho "bai>k,""te many ■*f (viitim the goalkeeper's "lot" was well known.

A Canterbury farmer who travelled through Tarnnaki the , other week took hack to Christchuruh with limi as cui'i« ositios the toll tickets that he accumulated (liii'iiig a day's tour in a. motorcar. There were- three slips, reprusentinu. toils to tho amount <,i : IDs. Cd. I'hs Hawera County Com-ieii ha-rj chru'ged him 3s. to pass through its (.ale, the Tanuinki County Council had "col\ected 55., and Uμ Eltlnitn Comity Council had been content with a modest half-crown.

In a few verbs' time- tlio Sfidkntl Railway on the East Coast sido will bfl opsined to traffic to Beaky Flat, thtss redueiug the enach journey to Otira by Ihreo raiies, I'liis (says a Greyijionth will enable the train service on the West Coast to bo remodelled. _ slwrteniiig the timo oeenpwd mi tho jouruoy by nt least an hour in Soatember, and for tlio sMnimrr months .a daily, service to and from Ohristekiifch will be inaugurated. . At Hanmer Springs recently a meeting of representatives of that place was convened for the ptifnoso of calling a public mooting to olee't a cemnijtteo toforiis mi association entitled "The Manmer Springs Advaiicemoflt Lftagire." The obiccta in view arc* to pronwto tbc welfare of the residents and visitors by fttiV means net incoiisisteut with tlio regulations of the Government.; t<? fester ft feeling <if unity ajid go-od fe.flowship among its niemters, . and create

various funds for tire tewu in gwicraL .Amoiiß- the .itetsis discussed was t-lio Ecvwral beautifying of the place, fire brigade, and lighting, and a- novyl scheme for advertising in such places that aro not provhlcej with 3. tourist tificncy. A full eofflfflitteo Was f-orm<:d to carry out the decision <nf tlie roeetuiE, and tho wish was imnniniQusly espressed that tlreir eiforts would i:ie sucCGSsfitl, especially-in catering more efeiboratelv for tourists iukl visitors. At the meeting of tlje lactone Bor\iush Cotindl this evening Coum/Jlor Anderson will move: "Thftt i-ho i]iestion o£ a garage site ho rc-opencd, and It lrecessary the resolntfert) passe-d at tk- last meeting rescinded." Messrs, Longtu'.wo ,imt Go., as re.presontntives β-f the (iraeo I'rastees, iiavo sold to Mr. Kobart Hannah tie iaiul in Mnnners Street on which is circled a wooden building oqoiipie-il en tlie ground floor b) , Gurncy Biros., 'sliss Coojwr (iJerJst), and Mr. Walling (tobacoonist). At the rear tlwro is a wick hwildiiig, occupied as a factory by Messrs, Hason , and Eo-Ssß-r. Tlio frontage to Bl'anners ' Street is 50ft., and tho α-epth nv-cragos 130 ft, Kio purcliasti money for the land : and improvements was in tho vicinity of £13,000, which wovlcs put ai about 1200 per foot for tlio frcotiold a!on«.

Besides stamp-Tending auwlimcs, there stands in the vestibiila of tha General Post Office a machine which wothices two hajf-pefiny post-cards hi return for a penny inserted in the slotAs showing how delicate" the wijiist-fn-njit o.f the tnedwHisvn is in this iiiacliinc. it was found to' bo blacked last evening, and when oxa-miiwtl lay the kiBpoetor it was discovered tlifit snwfcnnii had tried to secure post-cans} by iiisertiiiß a ten centime piece (a copper coin jiist a tiny fraction smaller fn diameter t'linii n penny) which had bocorno_ jammed in" the first nvetnl shoot, 'Jflio inspector said that it *as wot \\\\- uswil to find half-pennies in ihj ujtuchine through people supposing thai, if they could get two post-cards for § fjoimy, on© would ho produced for -.x halfpenny, ivjiielt, of course, is not the, case.