LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlkj postal aeflsorilies advise iii.tt fiia s.s. Manuka, ulvch' sailed i'rmn Sydnoy on .June 10 for Ati'-kj.iwl, is bringing Australian mails and alro an Kngjislj mail. via lin.iuiixi. jho Wellington portion is dun per istafe Trm.k express or Monday afternoon

Tlio Up]K>r Hint To'vu. Board lws received tiw> folltnyiiK: •"ujJ.lkv. donations toward i'li.o Hiitb Ifr'jlef I'uiid:—o. Coliott and E. Greenwood, £3 IGs.; J. Kemp, £2 2i,: Hi! 1 side Branch Amalgamated ;CD os, firi ; Dr. Hector, i 5 Ss-.' ■: Dr. I'tirdy. £-5 ss.

Two seamen off the liner Indraliavah aWcfs'ttd ytetetffla-y p.a> a charge of rm!:osi;!iiir, a jwrtion of the ship's carpi. t« %vit six dozen cakes of soap, Valtied. at ".'ls.

By proclamation ift tins week's • Gazette, ili.o Wdiingten Citv Coil noil has nrov vested in it tin? rc'>-«iinp!o of the. ■retftai'ni.irg iattd iKeesfmry !•) Ire taken for the widening of Willis St reel between Hnrbonr Stiee; ■ ami Mtrcer Street. The council will -he in -j position to proofed wiitli tjii? 'fork on July 18 next, the date on which i'ho lease of Deadnnll's blods ■Falls due,

Major-General Godle.v, : G.ni'c.cr Cmi)•mandjnji th.o Forces.' stated yesterday Utat two New Zealand officers wero ai present heitjß trained in aviation at Home, and when one of them, T;iev.tonani. Hum. returned to New Zealand towards the. end of 'the year, it wm probable. that lie would take the aeroplane Britannia out . of thei Defence Stores, where it i? ::iow-deposited. and use it. The Commandant ha 1 no'hint; ■to Sty ;it -present TO£otc]ine; Ike. Cestui}lishment of an aviation school in .fey Zealand. ..

In connexion with the case of Ah Gon, who was recently fiiied. C2.'i in the Map.'sfraio's Court cn a cii.irf'.o of.'eonu ft'.eneing a. lottery, notice of'appeal iihs bpen en en by iris solicitor (Mr. J. F. V. Dickson L

Sponkiuj; a I the Drivers' 'Union social last night, Mr. :A. H. Umdniarsh, M.IV, said fclin'fc TriS osiMi&iieft ill tlin iabour movenioiii in 'frelHiikton had been a very sad cue. lie found tho Labour I'a.f.ty to-dafy split, into factions bccaiiso.of tile iairo.it spereiaries who rJ:i.cta'ed to The unions b.v whom they wcro employed. Ho said thai lip had. known the secretary of' the Drivers' l.'nioii (Sir, A- Parlaitc) for a considerable timo and Jig. did not include liiin ninong tl:o secretaries tp whom lie thus referred. Ho hoped t.lint iii. iho future unionists lvmrtd conduct tlioir own. business mid not allow tlioir secretaries to tell tlicm what, tlioy had. to do.

: o\yifig to the impassibility of securing the public, ball at Kaikoura oil l''ri'.d'fly .evening iipx| s: tiljo Hen. W* "FraSP'r will deliver a political address ir. 'that iown on. Thursday ■cycti'ii.i'g instead of on Friday as. he had planned.

•. In yesterday's. Posnxro.s- a telegram was p'ubfishnd, fron) Auckland, s't&ti.iife. that the. profit on the Auckland Exhibition had been, returned lit over £29,000. This wn.s referred t.o yosterdnv by J.lh 15. C. Brown. a .moniber of tile executive of tho Exhibition, who is nSw in. Wellington. !!« saTd that- a great. deal, of Hip. credit for such .-it success was due to tho president, of llio executim (Mr. Elliott), who was 'uvstirinj;- in his efforts to make the uiukn-tekiiri* a credit. Vq tho .City, When a cvwinenicinpnt. was made with the buildings. for tho Exhibition, ii)R : ny business people were kppptieal of success, 011 account of '.ho ■size of the structure' proposed. Soon, however, t.sio demand.- for space exceeded tl.io capacity of the si fid nil krldiiiniia! wine had to. lie con.-, slrnoted. The -smallpox «ea,Se., and the industrial strike, fame ii* a "facer'' for the- executive, but. Mr. Elliott imbued all the wiiibers. With snch a spirit of eoerjry that the .uu<]orlakiii£ turned out the lin'H.iUif. succosft indici-ted by the 'telegram.

pb'iffimli<of T. 0. A, tjisloj; has givfn notice ol His inioi'tion I<> movo fli'fe. Hi® tiweiinS of tilift City ■C«?uiTcil'.-~ "Thai tb<* fcsnteiaoji passo'l at ilio sporial lupo'.inc, of tlio Coiiii' v :) Tieii] to oonsklor tlffi Icon ■jifpjrpsnjs thai. ' tho |ri\i!K>s.nls to borrow ino'.iov Si ftxt'o.iid ijuiii vificommOcliYtion bn submi'lo;! to tho M! opavors in c!obo li'o: toscHmcfl. a'.nl that tho said proposals be siiifiiiittefl seriatim." ,