LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Niagara, which is duo at Auckland to-day from Sidney, only has on .board an Auckland portion of an' English .and an Australian mail. The Wellington and southern -portion of tlio English and Australian'mails, via Suez,' should arrive, here direct by' tiro. Uliinaroa. which is due hero to-day. The whoic of tho athletic sports scheduled for Saturday .were postponed owing to the bad weather. \ estorday Constable ■ Rovell, of the Maimers Street Police Station, arrested a man.on a cliargo of stealing a.rug valued at 20s. from the Bote' Bristol. The,charge will bo heard in tho Magistrate's Court this morning. A cow owned by Dr. Dewly, if Clande'boye, lias given birth to a calf with two perfectly 1 formed heads and two tails (says "tlio Timaru "Herald"). Tho calf was brought to Temuka and two or three citizens saw in it a means for raising monoy for Red Cross, work. Tho right to use a vacant shop was easily obtained, and shortly after the show was opened 15s. had been taken iii sixpences by Mr. T. Tilbrook, who had cliargo of the door. . .. Tho National Reserve drill competition arranged to tako place at Newtown. Park on Saturday, did not eventuate owing to the dolugo of rain. Tho Patriotic Society, however, have decided to hold tho competition on Saturikiurtfeetnofln noxk
Seaman Sawkins, a Naval Reserve man,, belonging to Wellington, who on tho outbreak of tho war was ordered to report' himself for • duty, "arrived hero on Saturday afternoon by the Corinthic, having been invalided home. On being approached by a Dominion reporter, Seaman Sawkins produced ail official letter. which had been handed to him on arrival, stating that he must on no account givo any information to newspaper 'reporters about H.M. ships or transports, and he took that to be an instruction to givo no information whatsoever to the Press. _ As soon as ho landed, Seaman Sawkins went to the Town Hall, where his baby (which he had never seen) was boing honoured as the Baby Queen of the Carnival in the presence of Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool. Whatever tho reason of his being invalided was, Seaman Sawkins appears to'be now in his normal health, and in answer to a request from Mr. David M'Laren, the director of ceremony, lie was invited to step up on to tho stage, and tliero tlie Baby Queen was handed to him amidst great enthusiasm. not unmixed with smiles at the curious manner in which he examined tlie offspring • he had never beforo set eyes upon. Mr. M'Laren made some appropriate remarks on the good work thatvwas being done by the Navy, which wero received with applause ana cheers.. Rehearsals in "connection with the forthcoming performance by . the Wellington Amateur Operatio Society of "Les Cloches de Cornevillo" are progressing favourably under the direction of Mr: BernardPage. Now that tho Carnival proceedings have liberated a number of the members full - attendances will be the rule. This evening a start will be made _ with the -important second act', in which thero is a good deal of interesting work for the chorus. A large attendance is requested. A deputation from tho Featherston. County. Council, consisting of the chairman (Mr. A. D. M'Leod), the.-treasu-rer-,(Mr. John Martin), and Mr. Q. Donald, will shortly wait on the Minister of Public Works in regard to the adjustment between the various'ridings of. the annual cost of. maintaining the district road (between Featherston- and Maryborough). The question; of ..the upkeep of the Rim-utaka Road will also be brought under notice of the Minister. Mr. Robert Bums, chairman of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, stated, ou June 23, at a deputation from the Auckland district to the Prime Minister to ' protest against the inadequacy of the insulated space allocated to Auckland, that:the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co.,' Ltd., and the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., were jointly interested j ill mortgages in'a Canterbury freezing 1 company to the extent of £80,01)0. Mr. Burns,\on July 3, further stated, to an interviewer in. an Auckland . paper, that "lie understood that both these advances have now been, paid off." Mr. James Findlay, tho New Zealand'representative of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Ccmpany, informed a reporter oil Saturday that the mortgages, referred to had been paid off many years ago, and Mr. .Burns had been placed in possession of tliS actual facts, so tliat he might be in a position to make a correct statement of the position.
While inspecting a generator on board tho coastal steamer Kapuni yesterday morning, Captain Gibson suffered injuries to his face through tho generator, bursting. The vessel was> on its way from Patea to Wellington, and on its arrival here Captain- Gibson received medical attention. \ .• .
Mr. J, E. Purchase, M.A : ., a member of the staff of the Christchurch Training College, and assistant to. the Professor of Economics and History at Canterbury College, lias been informed that lie has been elected a Fellow of -the Royal Ecouomio .Society (England).
It is ratlier a coincidence that at both the opening and. concluding recitals given by the Cherniavsky' Trio, tho snapping of a wire in- the piano and: a string of the 'cello should have been responsible fos a temporary : abandonment of numbers then being played by members of the trio, 'i'lio piano wire, snapping at the opening recital, interrupted Mr.' Jan Cherniavsky in the latter portion of his pianoforte solo, while Mr. Mischel Clierniayeky's 'cello, as though 'resenting the liiigraceftil act of /the' larger instrument, held it up .at Saturday night's- recital by _ breaking towards the close of a Tschaikovsky trio. '
At the Police Court, Invercargill, last Thursday, before Mr. Hutchison, S.M., a young man named Clarence Fields, who is undergoing a period of reformatory treatment. in the Invercargill • Reformatory, was charged with having on Juno 24 assaulted Warder Baldwin by throwing a stone at him arid kicking him. Mr. Gideon, who appeared for the Department,: that at 11 o'clock on the day in, question the prisoner had had an altercation with other prisoners working at .the estuary, which was quelled. After luncheon he was seeri;to place a piece of metal in his; pocket wliich ,he afterwards threw at Warder Baldwin but missed. He was then seized, and while he was being held down he kicked the_ warder. The prisoner, had on four previous occasions boon punished for unruly conduct. No provocation was given ,tlie prisoner by the warder. After hearing the evidence of Warders; Baldwin and Durilop, ; the Magistrate sentenced the prisoner to a term-of ten days on. bread and water. "What about potatoes F" asked a Dunedin "Star" reporter of a merchant on Friday morning. The merchant gave answer thus: "The position is that the embargo on export had the effect of stopping all speculative buying and flattening out the market generally—nobody wanted to buy; but it is anticipated that when the present Australian contracts' have been shipped; and merchants relieved of their holdings - thoy will be prepared to operate again. When th 6 ombargo was put on potatoes were at £7 10s. a ton here,- and. they at once came down to £6 10s., but now they are showing slight symptoms of recovery. As showing the sensitiveness of tho market, and how any State interference with commerce tends to hurt somebody, I may mention that while the ombargo cheapened' potatoes in New Zealand, it made the Australian consumers sit up, for the price in Melbourne immediately jumped up to £10, and in Sydney to £11."
A' slight smell of gas .being noticed in Mr. Acton Adams's residence, Littlebourne Road, a plumber was sent for (says the Dunedin "Star"). James Leckie, an experienced man, went there, and was taken into the room. The lighting in that room is by. a gasolier .that works without water. Mr. Leckie lit the gasolier| and it was all right, \but. suddenly an explosion occurred, and lie was blown oft the step ladder. Evidently the leaking gas had accumulated be-, neath the ceiling, and tlie disturbance of'the air caused. by the movements carried tho gas to the light. Mr. Leckie's face'was scorched side and the skin partly torn from his hands. The explosion also set the curtains on fire, "iind they ignited the wallpaper.
Tho secretary of the - Manawatu "Queen" Carnival Committeo informs us that the date of the drawing for the 5seater Ford motor-car will tako place at Levin on July 21, and not. on- July 16, as stated in the advertisement of a few days ago; The winning number will be published in this paper on or about Jul}' 22. .! ,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2511, 12 July 1915, Page 4
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