LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2224, 10 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, The weekly overseas mails, English and Australian, arrived , in. Auckland at 7 o'clock yesterday morning by the.Maheno, and should arrive here by the Main Trunk train this afternoon. Tho Telegraph Office advises that telegrams 'for Switzerland can bovaccepted : only in plain French. The Telegraph Offire advises that tho Pacific cable notify that owing to pressure of business the conditions applicable to the transmission and delivery of deferred and week-end telegrams are suspended until further notice. Sneh messages are only accepted at sender's risk and subject to abnormal delay. In tlit Supreme Court.in Chambers on Saturday, His Honour 'Mr. Justice Edwards heard an interlocutory proceeding f .n connection with the.action in which Robert M'Nab is suing the Wellington Publishing Company to recover the sum of JUOOO as damages for an alleged libel in Connection with a letter published in The Dominion'. Plaintiff moved for an order directing the. defendant company to answer certain interrogatories, and tho motion was opposed. Sir John'Tiiidlay, K.C., anpeared in support of the motion, while Mr. T. C. A.Hislop opposed on behalf of the defendant, company. Decision was reserved. Ml'. H. C. Dawson and Mr. T. J. P. Wilson, QM'okoniaru Bay. arrived in town mi ftitunlux jvml «ro staying at the maw HowL ;

• A number of citizens have kindly offered to make good the damage done to Mr. Eberhardt Focke's office, in Harris Street, on Friday night, and the German ViceConsul, who is a much-estctoied citizen, has accepted the offer in the spirit in which it lias been mode. In the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last evening Mr. C. W. Leadbeater delivered a lecture" on "Life After Death." The lecture was given under the auspicos of the Theosophical Society, and was well attended. I ■ Tho body which was found on the rocks at Evans Bay during the week has been identified as that of Christina Lyne, who was employed as a maid at Dr. Hislop's, Deceased was twenty-nine years of age. Her parents live' in Scotland, but 6he has a relative at Featherston. There wis a large attendance at the' City Band's concert in Hi 6 Majesty's Theatre last evening. The programme was as follows:—March, "Old Comrades" (Toiks), City Band; air, "Honour and fArms" (Handel), Mr. Hamilton Hodges; contest selection, "Satanella" (Balfe), City Band; song, "My Dear Soul" (Sanderson), Miss Mai Fontanne; cornet duet, "Lea Perles" (Kline), Messrs. Shardlow and Cole; song, "In Happy Moments" (Wallace), .Mr. Hamilton Hodges; intermezzo (with bell effects), "Minola" (Brown), City Bond; song, "Life's Thanksgiving" (Hemcrty), Miss Fontanne; quickstep, "Harmonic" (Hawkins), City Band; "National Anthem." At a meeting of Socialists in Everybody's Picture Tlmtro last evening, the following resolution, moved by Mr. T. Brindle and seconded by Mr. P. H. Hickey, was carried: "That this meeting or Wellington citizens places on record their keenest sorrow at the regrettable death of the distinguished internationalist, Jean Jaures, of Franoe. We recognise that through his death the working class of the world have not only lost ono of' their most brilliant members, but the cause of international peace a most gifted champion." In the opinion of the Wairarapa branch of the Teachers' Institute, the "Institute Journal" needs remodelling along mora active policy lines, and that its place of publication should be Wellington, and its editor a member of the • Dominion Executive of the Teachers' Institute.— Press Asociation. A cablegram has been received to the effect that Mr. A. A. Corrigan, of Wellington, left Canada on Saturday for England,