LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The appointment of Lieutenant-Col- \ onel Henderson as censor of telegraphic' 1 messages at Bluff is revoked by a Ga-> zette notice published on Saturday. The reason assigned for the revoking of the warrant of appointment is that the necessity for the appointment no longer exists. According to arrivals from England yesterday the New_ Zealand Expeditionary Force, on arriving in England, is to go into training on Salisbury Plains for two or three months. The following report regarding., the health of the troops in Samoa has been received by the Defence authorities:— Hie health of the troops is gopd. Artillery: W. J. Forbes, suffering from dengue, and P. Milne, from hernia. Field Engineers: A. S. Andrews, ton-i silitis. • Railway Engineers: A. Black, dysentery; G. Keoble, dengue. Sergeant Matheson, carbuncle; Private Gj Sirett, dengue; G. Winder, dengue. Auckland Regiment: Lieutenant Tole, abscess; Privates D. Comber, dysentery; G. Hay, dysentery. Wellington Regiment : Sergeant R. Cook, injury to head; Lance-Corperals H. Foley, dysen* tery; E. Gilmore, dengue; Privates H. Lawrenco, synovitis; G. Aston, dengue; Sergeant 'W. Duff, dengue. 'Army Service Corps: Private J. Juggins, abscess. : Medical Corps: Corporal F. Carr, Privates E. Dean and H. Leeompte, dengue; Private M'Millan, jaundice. Machine Gun Section Corps: Tomline, dengue. Signal Company: Lance-Cor-poral Proude,; dysentery.

One of the long steel jibs oh a crana on-the new' Parliament Buildings works came down yesterday afternoon, but by the greatest of good fortune nobody was injured, and little damage was done. In fact, ■ the only damage done was to the jib itself, which, being constructed of comparatively light steel, was bent and twisted beyond repair. How the accident happened is not at all clear. It is thought that it was due to a casting carrying away, but the strange part of the business is that the jib carried away at a time when it was at rest, and when no'load was on it. A man was being lowered in the box in which stone and other loads are usually carried, but he escaped without" the slightest hurt.- No masonry was damaged, and the rest of the crane and. gantry stood firm.

The New Zealand Moderate League are calling a publio meeting to be held in the Town Hall to-morrow evening for the purpose of reviewing matters arising out of last Friday's Prohibition meeting. Mr. A. Gray, K.C., will pre-' side. Speakers will outline the league's attitude towards the Prohibition and No-License questions, and also in order to give the promoters of last Friday's meeting.an opportunity to remedy what is claimed by the league as an omission on their part, and fifteen minutes will be provided' at the opening of to-mor-row s meeting for Messrs. Atkinson,, Mazengarb, and Cornish to endeavour to justify the advertisements of the Pro* hibition meeting. Failing thhy a resolution will bo put to the meeting calling upon those concerned to publicly apologise to the Moderate League executive and its members. Notice is given that an official amendment to this resolution, if forthcoming, will be accepted. ■ A shortage of labour is being experienced in Napier, and for the first time within the past ton years' the local gaa company has hatf to advertise\for men.,

The men at the Trentham military camp are being instructed in the use of the bayonet. Complete sets of bayonet, fighting equipment arrived in New Zea-< land recently, and have been issued for use in the camp.

The noxt sitting of the Arbitration* Court in Wellington has been fixed for 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 3. The following cases are set down for hearing :—Disputes — Napier Carpenters (partial settlement); application to add; parties to award, Northern, eto., plumbers and gasfittors (two applications)} compensation cases—James Harris (Mr. 11. Kennedy) v. Wellington City Cor* poration (Mr. J. O'Shea); Joseph Dowsett (Mr. P. J. O'Regan) y. Union Steam Ship Co. (Mr. P. Levy); Frederick James Banks (Mr. P. J. O'Regau) v. Union Steam Ship Co. (Mr. P. Levi) j Amelia Maria White (Mr. H. F. v. His Majesty tho King (Mr. H H. Ostler); John William Presling v. Poplar Flaxmilling Co., Ltd. En-i forcement—Bolland v. Gibbons and Co. During the month of there* were two bankruptcies in the city, mat* ing in all eleven for tho eleven months of the year. Tho numbers for tho, »imUar periods in 1913 wore ono and nine respectively. "The most frightened and . anxious people in London during the crisis immediately before the declaration of war," says Mr. Geo. Swan, who returned from England yesterday, "were the Americans. They all seemed to be afraid that once war broke out they, would not bo able to get back homo. There were several Americans staying at our hotel—tho Strand Palace —and on the Sunday preceding tho declaration of war (August 2) thero was a big gas. explosion in the vicinity. _ When it happened one young American, girl,, with her face ghastly palo, said: 'Good-v bye, mother, the Gormans have come I And sho honestly believed it. A re* days later tho American contingent began to dimly realiso the real power an* resources of good Old England.