LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The-Niagara, which arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon, brought an American' ana an English man. The southern portion'of the'mail is due here' by the Main Trunk express this afternoon. . ■■ :/ . His Excellency the Governor will lay, the foundation atone of the Wellington' Boys' Institute and S. A. Rhodes'® Home for Boys, in Tasman Street, on Wednesday , afternoon at _3 o'clock. .In. addition to the speech by His Excellency the Governor, short addresses will be given by the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey), the' Attor-ney-General (the Hon. A. L; Herdman), the Chief Justioe (Sir Robert Stout), the Mayor. (Mr. J. P. Luke), and the director of tno Boys' Institute (Mr. W, J. Bennett). ;

Sergeant-Major Boate, now in camp with tho Expeditionary Force at Tren« Uiam, was run over by a motor-car between the railway station and the oamp on Friday night. : He sustained a fraoture of one leg.

At the meeting of Wellington schoolmasters, held in the Mayor's room on Saturday to discuss the means of transmitting the money raised a .week ago by tho schoolchildren for tbe_rebef of tho Belgian children, Mr. W- O. T. Grundy mentioned that not only naa there been a wonderful response to the appeal for donations, but the children themselves had made great sacrifices. ■ One child in the infant's class had brought its money-box containing 10s. Anothor was in great distress because she. thought tho fund would be closed before her birthday arrived onihe Monday succeeding November 5. When it did "arrive she gave the whole of the 5s received from her parents as a birthday 'gift to .the fund. He knew of many children who had emptied their money-boxes into the fund, and who have to go short at Christmas in consequence. Mr. Blake (Maranui) also spoke of personal sacrifices made by his soholars. ' One little girl'of five years had brought her containing Gs. Bd., and anothor little girl, who haa gone roun'd collecting, wished to give her best doll to a Belgian girl. They had taken .steps to realise on tho doll, and had gained tlio consent of the girl's mother to' sell it by auction. So far it had been sold and re-sold until they had made £13, and they had not finished with it yet. Mr. Blake thought the effort had been ono of the best lessons in tho finest of virtues, charily, and in that regard would be of c roat educative value to tho children.

Instead of sending four cadets to tho Duntroon Military College, in Australia (as originally intended) the New Zealand Defence Authorities have decided to sond ton cadets. -Tho course of instruction extends over four years. Admission to the collego as cadets will be .granted only to successful candidates at an open competitive examination who have passed tlie prescribed medical examination. Candidates must be in their seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth year of age,_ and must be native born British subjects.

A man named M'Gowan was knocked down by a tram, opposite the Olub, Hotel, Lambton Quay, late on Satur-' day night. He was admitted to the Hospital, but bis injuries are not serious, and ho pill probably be discharged todag> ' : V

For the third, time within the past few. weeks tho water main broke on ■Wellington Terraoe at an early hour on Saturday morning. The break was opposite St. Andrew's Church, and the water poured down into. Lambton Quay. Mr. Mee's acid shop, at the back of his Lambton Quay shop, was again flooded out, and the building has .developed some cracks. ■ , A Maori named Williams met with a serious mishap at. Palmer's furniture . factory on Friday, says a 1 Press Association telegram from Levin. He was removing a piece of timber from a circular saw bench, when hig hand oame jn contact with the saw, with the result that the thumb of the right hand .was completely severed.. He calmly . , picked up tho severed member, wrapped it in a pieoe of paper, and put it in ; his pocket. Only when, hy was receiving medical attention did he seem to feel pain and realise tho seriousness of the accident.. ; TK® actions a recent arrival in Rotorua havo of lata aroused considerable excitement'in the town, and at about 11 o'clock on Friday night a large crowd visited a_ house and tarred and feathered the object of their resentment. •34e Mlice are taking action.—-Press Association message from Rotorua. . 'A railway camp has been established at the mouth of the Scamperdown, near Frasertomi, locating the East Coaßt lino north of Wairoa Borough,, says a .Press .. 'Association,telegram- from. Wairoa. It • is understood -that the line will now cross at Riiataniwha, sweeping in close- ■• 'to. the borough and back northwards/ 'thus avoiding a branch line.' : ■ ;r ; , jMr. and Mrs; Snowden gave addresses 3n Gore on Friday night, but wore subjected to almost continuous 1 intsrhipJions at the back of the theatre, and it Jtfas impossible to follow Mr. Snowden, 'though Mrs. Snowden was accorded a better reception. It -was an organised • 'disturbance, said to bo due to the fact, that .on the preidous night- Mr. Stewart, tho Licensed Victuallers' lecturer, .was • heclrled throughout tlio address by several leaders in the temperance movement. Mrs. Snowden said they had. never yet been treated) with such dis- ■ courte^r.—Press" Association. Colonel R. J. Collins, chief executive officer of the Dominion Rifle Association, ■ states that the annual meeting of the association will bo hold at Trentham as .'■> usual duriiw the looming year.''The pro- ■ gramme will probably bo the same as . last year, but 1 the date has not vet been • definitely fixed. " .. . 'The general meeting .of, the National Committee of the Young Men'd Christian Association of. New Zealand was •' held at the Wellington building on urday. ■ All branches were-represented - ' fixcopt four. located ■in ■ country centres. 'Among the members present wore the national chairman, - Professor D. K. Picken, of Victoria CMlege, and Messrs. C. S. Longuet (Invercargill) 'H. E. iWilkinson (Dunedin), J. I. .Roy<fe T. 'Field, E: 0. Brownell (Christchurch), R. L. Stewart (Auckland), J. F. Holloway (Wanganm).-. H.'Lascelles (Hastings), C. R. Smith, 1 W. H. George, J. £? rt > W. 10. Hemery, A. Varney (Wellington) .and A: Jameson (national • Eeoretary). ;Reports from the assocaa- ■ tions were of, a most encouraging nature. In spite of the absence of nearly ■300 members at tho front, and the ne- : , cessary curtailment of the "peace pro-, -gramme," the Y.M.C.A. was reported . to have extended its lines of service-in-many directions. ; A Teport . from the' : Sydney Convention brought forward recommendations ... which will place the foreign work, the'work for immigrants, the field service , and tTio tiaihing courses for secretaries in both . ; countries under similar rules. The na- { tional chairman and national secretary,' .who will soon be'l&aring for Australia, : received the hearty thanks, of the com- : mittee. for their efficient service, 'during tho last two and a half years, and ar- -• , rangements wore made fpr safeguarding and continuing this work which they had ' .'begun. ■

The Hon. F. M. 8.-Fisher,-Minister , in Charge of, the ..Friendly < Societies' :. [Department,.-states that Cabinet has decided that ah amount 1 of approximately £180!) shall bo voted to enable the Govt ernment to &hare in the. cost of the rein- . BUred risks "the friendly. societies have ■undertaken on behalf-of their members > •who-, have gone'.with the Expeditionary Force. - ■ v..

A new agreement has been arrived at before, the..Conciliation Council governing the conditions of employees in the AVaitara' Freezing" Works. ; The chief points in the' agreement inolude an increase from Is.. to Is. 2d. per .hour as the minimum rate of pay for labourers,' snd corresponding increases (up to Is. 4d.) in other departments. There, is \ also a substantial increase in the piece- ; work rates... Practically, the new con- , ditions represent, an all-round advance of Bs. per day. ; . Conditions other than wages are substantially similar,to those •: in the previous award. 1 The council was presided over;by.Mr; Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner, ■' of Auckland; the employers were represented : 'by -Messrs. W Pryor, : of' Wellington, and A. R. Lennon, of New Plymouth; and Messrs. M, J: Reardon, of Wellington; and J. Barnett, of New Plymouth, appeared for the : employees. Among the places have experienced rush .business.'in the last week or so is the Wellington, Trades .Hall, where.late-comers have been pouring .in for entry on the electoral rolls. One , batch of enrolment forms -. Eent to .the registrars from the Trades Hall one day last week totalled about 1000 ; and it is estimated that in the last few weeks the Hall had enrolled' several thousand people; Still, Labour officials: state that there are a large number of people who have not yet enrolled, and they give various illustrations of the difficulties of inducing many of - the people not to leave m'atters to 'ohance. For the 6econd time. fori aconsiderable number of years tlie -ceremony of the Forty Honrs' Adoration is being revived at St. i' Mary of •'''the ' Angels .: Church, Bouloott Street-, this week. The commenced at the eleven o'clock Mass yesterday morning. Solemn High Mass was then celebrated, the Rev. Father Venning being the celebrant, and' Fathers Herring ' and O'Fan-ell deacon and sub-deacon respectively. The Blessed Sacrament was then exposed on'the altar and will reroain■ so until Tuesday morning, .when the Adoration will bo brought to a close with; Mass and Benediction. The altar has - been.' beautifully decorated with flowers, and candles for the occasion. Yesterday' afternoon large numbers visited the church, while in the evening one of. the largest congregations ever present in the church attended Devotions and listened to an earnest-and impressive sermon by. tie Bev. Father A. -T. Herring. A feature of services was the excellent singing by the 1 choir under the conductoidiip 'of Mr. B. J. Healy.