LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An English mail, via Suez, and an Australian mail, arrived at Auckland b.v the Mahciio from Sydney yesterday afternoon. The southern portion will reach Wellington by the Main Trunk express at 2.40 p.m. to-day.

Reserved judgment was given by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., on Saturday iu the ease against Samuel Bray, of Island Bay, charging him with cruelty to ' ft horse. The case was dismissed on a technical point.

In a oivil claim heard at Christchurch, the Court awarded Olive Buick. a machinist, £200 as with costs, against John Whitty, taxi-cab driver, and Whitty's father, who is part-owner of tho car. The plaintiff had been seriously injured as £he result of a collision between Whitty's car and a motor-cycle and side-car, iii which slio was a passenger.—Press Association.

The Napier Borough Council has discussed the foodstuffs question and passed a resolution recording an emphatic protest against the way prices are being advanced, and calling upon the Government to exercise the powers invosted in it by regulating the prices of common necessities within the bounds of reason, checking the cupidity of the few, and protecting the well-being of tho wholo.

Tho Auckland Chamber of Commerco (states a Press. Association message) has decided to urge the Government to set up without delay a Commission to go into the improvement of the main roads between Auckland and Wellington.

Bertram Bunn, who was a candidate for Riccarton at the last election, appeared at the Police Court on Saturday charged with attempt to procure abortion. He was remanded till Friday next, bail being allowed in self £300 and H surety of £300._ The case is the outcome of evidence given at an inquest on the death of an illegitimate child last Monday.—Press Association. The tender of Mr. W. L. Thompson has been accepted for the erection of a large brick motor garage for the Colonial Motor Company, on the corner of York and Taranaki Streets. The price is about £6000. The main municipal electors' roll, which was confirmed by the City Counoil last week, has been printed, and official copies are now to be_ seen at the Town Hall. Copies for disposal to the public will not be available until towards the end of this week.

Gun practice was indulged in by the crew of the Shaw, Savill liner Tainui on the run up from Lyttelton to Wellington- on Friday Evening'. Each gun fired two rounds, but owing to the failing light, it was impossible to tell whether the shooting was effcotive.

Some good fun and £30 in hard cash were realised as the result of a happy thought at the local bowlers' diniler to their Christchurch visitors on Saturday eveninfc. One of the Christchurch players (Mr. Helliwell) was wearing a very handsome grey shirt, which attracted sorte attention among some of the sportive members of the Wellington Club. One offered the visitor a guinea for it. As there was nothing doing, he proposed there and then to cell the visitor's shirt by auction for the Belgian Fund. Though nd one except the owner know the size of the shirt or its quality there was some spirited bidding, and after it had been sold over and over again it was finally knocked down to tlie owner, who was thus enabled to leave by the 11 o'clock boat with "a shirt to his back." The sale realised £30. Mr. D. F. Skinner acted as auctioneer.

A man will appear before the Petone Police Court this morning on a charge of alleged assault in the grounds of the local Working Men's Club on Saturday afternoon.

From April i next, states an official announcement by the Telegraph -Department, cable rates to the Argcntin© Republic, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay. Peru, and Uruguay, via. Eastern, will be reduced as follows Ordinary, 4d. per word; British Government, and deferred, by 2d. per word.

The Pope's prayers for peace were recited in all tho Catholic churches of the city yesterday, the day appointed for tho recital in all places outside Europe. Two deserters from merchant vessels will appear beforo the Magistrate this morning. They wero arrested on Saturday by Detectives Andrews and Cameron. A sitting of the Railways Appeal Board will be held in the Court (upstairs), at 10 o'clock this morning. We have received a list giving full particulars regarding the identity of the parsons who were either killed or subsequently died of injuries received during the' German cruisers' bombardment of Hartlepool (East English coast), on December 16 last. Wo shall bo elad to answer any inquiries from people who may have had relatives or friends in that vicinity at the time of tho bombardment. Justices of Peace in the Wellington jury district are requested to attend a meeting of Justices to revise tho Wnllincton jury list. The mcotin; will bg held on April 7*