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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2303, 10 November 1914, Page 5

'At a meeting of the Wellington Canary and Cage Bird Club, held last week, it was deoided to' add a gift class to tho sohedule in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund.' Already, it is stated, some rd birds and oats have been given, is the intention of the club to sell these by amotion at tlhe show to he held on December 19, the proceeds to be given to the fund. The State schools of the Wellington • Education Diatriot mil _ disperse for the long' summer - vacation on . Thurfi- ■ ijay, December 17. The day of the general elections will be observed as a, holiday throughout the district. • Mr. R. J. White, manager for Now Zealand of the Guardian Assurance Company, Limited, has beep advised by . his head office, London, tnat no fewer :than one in three of the head office, staff ,ito already serving with the col- . ours, and arrangements have been made ' Whereby the married men . shall, receive their full v salary and unmarried men lialf their salary'during their absence. There is no limit to the duration of absence named othor than the termination of the war. The company has also given particularly liberal amounts in contributions 'to the Prinoe of Walea Rational Relief Fund and the Belgian •llolior Fund. . , The Hospital authorities reportedlast Evening that Jaines O'Brien, who was the victim of a railway accident at the ■Upper Hutt on- Saturday,, and whose laor had to be amputated on Sunday, was doing as well as oonld beexpected. ' | The Prime Minister on his arrival in Auckland yesterday afternoon was welcomed at the station by a large num'bor of peopled Cheers for Mr. Massey wero oailed and- were heartily given. Mr. Masses will address a meeting at Howick this evening. , | May- Gibbons is a most; familiar ." figure in and 'about the Magistrate's Court;- her- main characteristic being a pronounced and rather unfortunate ten- ■ dency to shatter other people's windows. Her latest victim was a Chinaman, a resident or Haining Street, named Jack Gaw, a window of whose house was Shattered by the deadly'ann of May Gibbons on Saturday last. When arrested May Gibbons was very drunk, .' and eaid-'that Raw had pat his finger to his nose, so she bad broken the window in retaliation. She appeared in: the Magistrate's Court yesterday and ontoredlier usual plea of not guilty. Two (Chinamen, hdw'ever, after extinguishing matches" in characteristic fashion, swore otherwise. She was fined * 405., or 14 days' for drunkenness, and 10s., 12s. 6d. damages, and costs 18s. Cd., or three days, on the second chargo. ' An original idea: has been put for- •" ward in Auckland and is being widely taken up in connection with thef Belgian ''dothing week" movement. - It is-a plan to sew penny pieces in the pockets - of'those articles intended for children's wear. .The: idea has caught on, and will Do doubt provide pleasant surprises for the unfortunate youngsters, for whom they are intended, : _