LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2260, 21 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The weekly English and Australian mails arrived in Auckland by the- Maheno at about 2 p.m. yesterday. They connected with the Main Trunk tram, and should arrive here this afternoon. The Education Committee, of the House of Representatives will probably conclude its deliberations on tho Education Bill this week. Tho City Council Fire Brigade received two calls yesterday, one being to a gorse fire at Newtown in tho morning, and the other, in the evening, to suppress some burning rubbish at Wadestown. t At a meeting of the Hairdressers' Union last week, Mr. W. S. Ingram was elected president, and Mr. J. Oarrulhors secretary. There wore three candidates for each office. / Tho New Zealand Club will entertain Mr. Frank Hurley at luncheon to-mor-row. Mr. Hurley was tho official photographer of the Mawson Expedition, and is going in tho same capacity with tho forthcoming Shacldeton Expedition. Ho will relate some of his experiences in Antarctica, Northern Australia, and Java.

An inquest is to be held to-day at 4 o'clock into the death of George Thomas Goldsmith, aged 33, who died last week while under an anaesthetic at the Wellington Hospital. , The first meeting of creditors in the estate of Alice Wilson, tobacconist, of Wellington, who was adjudged, bankrupt on Saturday, will be held on Tuesday, September 29, at 11 a.m. At a meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council on Friday night it was decided on the recommendation of the Ferry Board not to recognise any liability in connection -with the claim for compensation in respect to .a collision between the Duchess and, a fishi*.g launch, which occurred some time ago at Rona Bay. A five-roomed house situated at 31 Danube Street, Island Bay, and its contents sustained severe damage by fire a little before one o'clock this morning. The house was occupied by' Mr. A. T. Miuin, but tho owner's name and the insurances on the house and its contents were not available up to the time of going to press. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) is making an appeal for financial aid for tho many families which have been stricken by tho coal-mine disaster at Huntly. 'He has been assured that the amount duo to the sufferers under the_ provisions of the Compensation Act'will not suffice to relieve all who ar'o likely'to suffer from the loss of their breadwinners, and though there have been numerous calls on the citizens of Wellington lately, he feels sure that they wiUcome forward in the present trouble with the same liberality as in the past. •The mission steamer Southern Cross, which returned to Auckland on July 14, will leave for Norfolk Island next Friday, her stay having been considerably prolonged by causes arising from the war. The Bishop of Melanesia will leave in the steamer. Ho preached at Auckland yesterday, a very special anniversary in tne Mission, -for it was on September 20, 1870, that Bishop Patterson was murdered. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Automobile Association •at Carterton on Friday evening, the following motions were carried unanimously: (1) "That the New Zealand Association be, requested to urge motorists to boycott German and Austrian cars, tires,, and accessories upon the:termination of the war; (2) that : n anticipation of such boycott, this association request the Prime Minister to instruct the High Commissioner in London to draw the attention of English manufacturers to the large trade of German tire manufacturers in the Dominion in -the past, and ask them to take early advantage of tho prospective boycott and conseqrent wider scope of business arising in this Dominion." The results of tho Schools of the Empire Shooting Competition for 1914 show that the Otago Boys' High School occupied the 28th position on a list of 45 schools, with,a score of 445 points out of a total of 560. The positions of 'the other New Zealand schools which competed wore as follow:—New Plymouth High School, second; King's College (Auckland), 17th; Auckland Grammar School, 18th; Waitaki Boys' High School, 20th; Wangamii College, 31st; Palmerston North■- High School, 33rd; Christchurch High School, 36th. In the junior competition the Otagb Boys' High School was third. From London the New Zealand and African (Federal-Shire) Line has learned that the British Governhient has fixed the freight at which mutton should be carried 'from the River Plate . to the United Kingdom at Jd. per lb. Tho ordinary fates current in New Zealand for beef are id. per lb, and for mutton 9-16d;!*por!lb,>for,:a voyage.of over twico the distance.