LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2306, 13 November 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good deal of interest has been taken in the matter of tho arrest oS'-Mr. P. E. N. Gaudin, an Auckland city councillor, who was taken into custody on Monday night on the arrival at Auckland of- the steamer Navua from Samoa. However, it was not until yesterday that the reason for the arrest was made known. The Defence authorities state Mr. Gaudin is charged with having carried correspondence from ■Germans in Samoa to Germans in New Zealand and elsewhere, thereby avoiding the Samoan censorship on correspondence-. Ho is being.held a military prisoner until further particulars are obtained from Samoa.

His Excel'enoy the Governor, the Earl of Liverpool, as patron of tho Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgium Relief Fund, forwarded the first instalment of the fund's contribution to England, and yesterday received from tho Secretary of State the following cablegram:— "With reference, to your telegram of November 5, His Majesty's Government is most grateful for contributions to Relief Fund." According to a correspondent, 40 per cent, of the officers of the London office of the National Bank of New Zealand have volunteered for. 6orvice at the front. Conscience money to tho amount of 10s. has been forwarded to the Treasury Department by somo person unIcncwn, and- is to be paid to tho Public Account. A Press Association telegram from Invercargill states that Robert M'Lean Johnson, single, 31 years of age, employed as accountant for a firm of solicitors, has been missing since Tuesday morning. Tliero is no trace of him so far. Authority has been granted for the servico of notices cancelling the Town Belt leases affecting tho Municipal Golf .Com*« nroiwsaL

_ The total to date of tho various patriotio funds in Wanganui is as follows: —Expeditionary Force Fund, £5665 2a. Bd.; British, food, £1403 16s. ]ld.; Belgian food, £852 19s. 9d.; Reginifjital, £518 16s. lOd.j Mayor's local'relief, £642 6a. 10d. Total, £9173 Iβ. oa. "With donations in kind the total Wanganui contributions aro estimated at £13,000.

The subject of hosing house gardens was again before tho Wellington City Council last evening. The counoil resolved:—"That tho recommendation of tho City Engineer ... bo adopted, viz., that the present system of Wring meters be discontinued, and that owners and occupiers of properties bo permitted to purchase metore from the corporation at cost price, pins tho cost ot fixing (the Engineer estimates the cost of ' purchase and fixing a jin. meter at £3), and that suoh moters be paid for by instalments of 6s. per annum, the purchaser to be responsible for tho proper protection of tho meter, All the meters to be of standard patterns, carofuUy tested, and left in good order by tho corporation."

Ninety-nine acres of .land, bounded by tho Makohine-Mangaweka Road, in the Hautapu Survey' District, nae been, reserved under tho Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and is to be knovm ag' the Mangaweka Scenio Reserve.

Cooking utensils coated or lined witH lead or with alloy containing lead are the subject of a notice hi £his week's Gazette. His Excellency the Governor, by Order-in-Council, has prohibited the , importation of such goods.

"Mossre. George and Kersley shall-: be informed (without prejudice) in re-, ply to their application for an extension'' of the time within which, to erect a,\ building at Lambton Quay, that the - counoil will waive the present covenant •. requiring the erection of a building by July 1, 1915, provided they enter inter another' covenant undertaking to erect a building worth at least £10,000 not' later than July 1, 1917."—Wellington;; City Council decision last evening.

The New Zealand Tourist DeMrk ment has entered into a contract witE thef Wellington City Council for adrertisV ing on the corporation tramways.

. Six sambur deer (five hinds and ona stag) have been turned at large in thef Rotorua acclimatisation district. Ac cording to this week's Gazette, tie deer and their offspring are. deemed to be the property of the Minister in charge of the Tourist Department for a period of iivo years. I

With a. view to facilitating swimming on- certain summer evenings the Baths Committee of tho Wellington City, Council lias appointed a small siib- * committee tc make inquiries as to the' advisability of reconnecting the eleo' trie light to the Te Aro (men's) Baths.

In connection with the caee in which Wm. Faulkner ie charged -with assaulting George Blake and the latter with' assaulting Faulkner, the police have been successful in tracing WiJliam Faulkner. The case in which it is alleged some senous allegations will be made will probably , be' taken oa November 20.

The request of the Island Bay Life Saving and Surf Club for the erection of a bathing 6hed on the Island Bay beaoh, exactly similar to the shed erected for the Maranui Club at Lyall Bay, at a cost of just over £200, was agreed to by the City Council lost evening. The Island Bay Club will contribute £40 of the cost/aM the work will be put in hand forthwith.

At a poll taken at Whang&rei on Wednesday on the rating In , unimproved values in tho Whangarei' County, the proposal (eays a Press Association telegram) was carried by a large majority.

A man named Frank Addin, who appeared on remand at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday morning oharged with drunkenness, had apparently for some weeks past been indulging in a caroußal. According to the solicitor appearing for him, he nad been spending £10 a day. His excessive libations had so affected him that: when arrested he was remanded for a week for ourativp treatment. The Magistrate adopted the wisest course under the'ciroumstancos and ordered a prohibition order to be taken out against defendant, and to pay 17s. 6d., the cost of medical attention.

The request of the Onelo-7 Borough , Council for a reduction in their water account of £239 13s. 3d. for the month, of September, to the average previousmonthly consumption; was agreed to by,, the City Council last evening, as the oounoil considered that the excessisq registration was due to a broken pip«f under the road.

' A Marlborough family fa being well and worthily represented in the Em« pire's defence (states, a southern ex«.) change). Mr.' J. C. Ohaytor, of Mareh* lands, Spring Creek, has four sone aft the frontr-Coionel B. 0. Chaytor (Wei* lington), Lieut.-Coi. D'Arcy GhaytoS (England), Mr. Alfred Chaytor (England), and two eons-in-law, Messrs. Bum rell (England) and Mr. Laurence. Ohayi tor (Marshlands), who has joined thg Expeditionary Force. A son of Mr* Arthur Chaytor, of Farnliain, has also joined the Expeditionary Forces

Authority has been granted by th<J City Counoil for the extension oftnej sir main, erection of ejeotors, earthenware pipe sewers, etc., for the drainage of the distriot in the vicinity of Apu Cresctfit, Lyall Bay, at an estimated cost of £13S0. The Mayorstated at la* evening's City . Counoil meeting, that some of the money would becoma a charge against next year's account: ] Wishing to turn into Lambton Quajf from Feathorston Street, a well-knowa motorist found himself spread across th 4 tramway track at right angles just as ai 'tramcar came whirling along. Fortun--ately the conductor saw the motorist «• difficulty, and'pnlled up linlf a dozen' yards away. Then the motorist, having stopped Ins engine, stepped out of the' car, and forgetting that he had thrown the roverso into gear, gave the crank a turn, which sot the engine going, and' immediately tho car Lacked on to the pavement -opposite the Central Hotel, leaving its owner m the middle ot thS road. Luckily no speed was developed,! and those on the sidewalk were ablo to: save the hotel or the car (or both) fronj damago.

Permission las been granted by tier; City Council ,to tho Roseneath Sohoo! to take up a street collection on Saturday morning, December 12, in aid of tha Belgian Relief Fund.