LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Li appealing for funds for machineguns, tho Navy League points out that "the acquisition of additional machineguns would undoubtedly be the means of saving the lives of many of our gallant troops, and at. the same time help to bring about victory for our arms and a cessation of this terrible waT." The local branch secretary desires to . acknowledge a donation of £o from Mr. Charles Haines. Among the many subscriptions to tho Navy League Tobacco Fund (for soldiers and sailors) 1 are acknowledged £1 from Mr. J. Web- '■ s-ter, 355. pollened by Miss E. M. Freeman, and £2 2s. by Mr. H. A. Morris. The league is co-operating with tho Overseas Club, and ©very Is. donated purchases a, gift of 2s. 9d. < worth, of | tobacco for men at tho front. Mr. J. H. Coleman, of Hawko's Bay,' ' bas donated a further £100 to the Belgian Relief Fund,_ being his promised monthly contribution. Tho salaries of tho City Council's staff ' arc to como up for revision at the next ' meeting of the Finance Committee of ' tho council. . 1 ! Tho number of shops registered .in > tho Mastorton district this year under ' tho Shops and Offices Act is 190, being 1 fin increase of eight, over the previous - year. : . 3 The balance-sheet of. tho Masterton : Poultry, Pigeon, and Cage Bird Society ' Shows a profit of over £30 on the recent - show. This amount is being donated ! to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. 3 Yesterday, another case of theft from t Trentham; Camp was dealt With in the ! Magistrate's Court.. The stolen goods 1 were two tins of jam, worth lid., and ) for taking them tho accused, John Kelliher was fined £1, ill default a week's imprisonment, 3 An exciting miniature rifle match took 5 place at the Ma-ranui rang© last even--3 ing between ten men, eaoh of the Ous- - tomhouse Miniature Rifle Club aaid the „ Lyall Bay National ■ Reserve. , Each j side scored 631 out of a. possiblo of 700. ~ The highest scorers were E. Clark j! (Lyall Bay) 69, and Weir (Customs) 68. In a. letter written from Lady Godj ley's home at Cairo, Trooper Melville .] [nnes-Jones, 4th Waikato, Mounted n Rifles, says:—"Honestly, the Turks " can fight. I will never forget tho two 5 b'ig engagements we had. It was fight--3 ing and no mistako. I am proud to s be a colonial. The way the boys stood Up, against thousands of Turks was splendid. They came on us in- tliour sands, but not a man flinched. Our o Colonel Mackesy is a hero in his regit ment's eyes. He fought alongside of n us with rifle and bayonot, which, wo apo predated."-. b The usually august Council Chamber :- in the Town Hall more nearly rcsem- •- bles a grindery establishment at the y present during the day-time. The ladies 3 who havo worked day in and out almost . sinco tho war broke out are now em--2 ployed in making leather coats for the winter use of our troops at the Dardanolles. The latest pattern sleeveless coat fastens up in the front, not down Q tho side, as it has been found by cxt perinicnt that it is infinitely more diffi- " cult for men to fasten a coat that opens - up the side than in the front. Tho 3 dome fastoncrs are being adhered to, 0 but between each dome and socket are t a pair of oyelet-lioles that will onablo g the coat to b6 laced up if the domes , become useless. Another great improve- , ment is being made by applying to 1 the finished coat a solution that waterproofs tho leather. Tlijs is applied to x the chressed side of the leather, and is 3 said to be really efficacious in keeping j out the wet. Ono of the pieces of 2 leather from which tile coats aro being - made was treated with the solution, J and was then mode a receptacle for fc water for a whole' night, but there was t no indication of any soakage m the ] morning. Tho recipe for the solution , is being handed over to tho ladies concerned. Patterns of the coats are being sent to other parts of tho country, where similar gocd work is to bo done. Just prior to the departure of the steamer Makirini from Napier for \\ elliiigton, officers of the vessel observed that Carl Gustavo Robert Hetllund, a member of the crew, was under tho influence of liquor. When the vessel I reached here on Sunday last, tho mat- „ tor was reported to the police, and from inquiries made by Detective-Sergeant Lewis a-nd Constable Wilson five bottles > of mm wore traced to his possession, > and he was accused of having stolen 3 thom from the ship'R cargo. The accut sation was heard in the Magistrate s l Court yesterday, and Hedlund was , found guilty, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. Chevrolet.—Here is an opportunity for a 3 reliable up-to-dato motor-cur at a reason- - able price. Equipment includes only acs oeesovies of proven qualities, such as 1 Zenith carburetter, Connecticut ignition, , Altfolit.e self-starter, grey muffler. These arc only some of the splendid features 3 of the famous Chevrolet car. lull par--1 (iculnrs will be mailed you if you. coin- » muiiUmtv With Tho Dominion Motor J .Velnelw, lis Coui'tcw. Place,-Adrt,

; 111 the course of the bacon factory . workers' dispute in the Arbitration Court yesterday, Mr. W. A. Grcnfcll ; cross-examined a union secretary on the number of unions he had organised, and said that n large number of unions were 1 duo to the organising of the Trades and Labour Council. Mr. Justice Stringer ! remarked that somebody had to tako • the first step, and Mr. 'Grcnfcll replied ■ that his point was that those disputes . did not spontaneously ai'iso amongst ; the workoi's. Judging from the scraps of paper and . card 011 which letters aro being written | by the men in the trenches at Gallipoli to their friends and relatives in New Zealand, it might be a very good idea to forward parcels of stationery to the 1 front, as under tho straits tho men aro ; being put to at present to find something to write upon, it is quite possible ! that there are those who cannot find l anything on which to write a line or two that will carry through tho post. Some correspondents aro having their own . letters returned to them with the reply , superiuscribed over the original writ- , ing. One Wellington resident- received [ two letters, written in a circular form round and ronml the cardboard end of a j shell-case, and others havo received J notes on tinv pieces of brown paper. [ The Secretary for the New Zealand [ Fund for tho Relief of tho Poor of ; Great Britain and Ireland and Belgium ' has been informed that the meat sent " home for the poor has been distributed. It consisted of 1946 carcasses of lnut- : tori, 1 carcass of lamb, 18 hindquarters i beef, 16 forequarters beef (per s.s. ) Mimiro), 679 carcasses of mutton (per , s.s. Wainiate). The High Commjai sioncr (Hon. Thomas Mackenzie) informs Mr. Shullcrass that the instruc- , tions as to distribution were duly given effect to. As desired, 100 carcasses [ allocated by the Wairarapa Committee J to the Belgian Refugee Food Fund ■ were handed over to the secretary (Miss ' Holmes). The remainder of the ship- • ment was divided between the National j Food Fund and the Belgian Refugee , Food Fund for distribution. "I have. i made personal inquiry as to these chan- - liels of distribution, and am satisfied . they aro thoroughly genuine, and that ' tho distribution of the kind gifts will bo judiciously and carefully carried out," writes 'Mr. Mackenzie, concluding ! with "many, thanks to your committeo for their kindness." For some years past the ordinary horse-drawn hearse has been dispensed > V.'ith in most American citics in favour i of the motor .liearse. The fir,st local - niotor-hearse made its appearance tin 3 the streets yestttday. Tho new vehicle - has embossed glass sides and decora- ; tive features on the top. Its appearance yesterday caused a good deal of j comment among tile throngs who witnessed its procession through the main streets. No trace has been found of the missing man, Geo. Asplet, who disappear- ■ ed from (his home at Petono last Wednesday. As Asplet left five young children unprovided for, the Petone Coun- . cil has decided to open a subscription t list on their behalf. Tho Mayor of Wellington (Mr. J. P. s Luke) has received from General Godr ley a reply as follows to the cable mcsb sago which he sent last week (through s tho Government) congratulating, on be- ' iiajf of the - citizens, the New Zealand o troops on their achievements at tho ii Dardanelles:—"On behalf of the New V Zealand Expeditionary Force and all 0 their comrades, I thank the people of ) Wellington most sincerely for their kind - message and j*ood wishes, which are . greatly appreciated by all ranks who •- have fought with a gallantry unsurpassh ed in the annals of the Empire^" 'J Mr. Robert Turnbull has written to • the Defence Department offering to defray the cost of a machine-gun. The ■ Mayor is in receipt of another cheque - for £100 towards tho Machine Gun 1 Fund. The City Council has contracted to f purchase from the Grace Estate that t block of land on tho corner of Cuba f Street and Vivian Street, consisting of Patrick's drapery warehouse and the 1 two brick shops on tho Cuba Streot ~ frdntago, the price to bo the Goyemt ment valuation, viz., £16,250. The s council propose to raise this sum by way of a loau, and a special ordor sanctioning that action will bo submitted to a special meeting of the council to J be held to-morrow ovening. Tho aci quisition of the property will enable the I corporation to out a triangle off tho additional xoad space where it is badly a needed. From a tramway viewpoint, e tliis improvement is highly desirable, as s at present two tramcars cannot pass 3 ono another at that'point without the - danger of collision. 3 As a guide to the publio, the City Council has had erected at important k street junctions enamelled iron notice- .- boards giving the numbers of the various tram routes and what they indicate e when exhibited on the cars. '• Wq have to acknowledge the receipt ]• of a little booklet entitled "Everyk body's Book of the Navy," which tlio I- Navy Leaguo in Wellington are dis- [. tributing to the older members of tho G league. The booklet tracos the history d of the British Navy chronologically s down to 18'10, and from that down to o the present time gives a splondid idea > of the evolution of tho Navy, gives a o tabulated record of the vessels of the d Navy, at Home and abroad, with illus initiative- articles oil (subjects a.pperi- taining to the Fleet. First year mem:r bers are being given. a handsomely i- illustrated book (in colours) entitled if ."'Hie History of the British Navy." t- ' The general meeting of-the Brooklyn Municipal Electors' Association was , r held on Monday ovening, Mr. G. Read j. presiding. The treasurer's statement 10 showed a balance in hand of £3 10s. lOd. , s Officers wero elected as followPresijt dent. Mr. G. Head (re-elected); vicepresident, Mr. R.-C. Reid; lion, secre--10 tary, Mr. J. Burton (re-elected); hon. r . treasurer, Mr. E. Hill; committee, iS Messrs. R. Gittings and A. Turner (rcu elected), and Messrs W. C. Webb, W. Perkins, and C. A. Aulin; auditors, j. Messrs. J. Roso and A. G. Glenny. , s ' The meeting placed on record its apo preciatioh of tbo services rendered to ) the district'by Mr. M. Robinson, and e its sympathy with Mr. H. R. Vilo in o his illness, both having been members s nf tho executive. 'A new building is about to be erected o on Thorudon Quay as a warehouse and store for the occupation of the Welling- ° ton branch of Messrs. Massey-Harris s and Co.. Ltd. The building will havo K a froutago of 143 ft: by an ara'ago >f depth of 90ft., and will be in ono story g of 20ft. high. Tho walls will be of '> brick, carried on concrete pile foundar tions, and lighting, except for offices, is s obtained entirely from tho roof. Tho 9 plan provides for a cartway through tlio II building, and tho unloading of goods - will bo by moans of travelling cranes, ' which will pick up the cases from tho V carts and distribute them to any part >■ of tho building. Mr. J. M. Dawson 0 is the architect, and the contract hasbeen let to Messrs. Sanders Bros. :1 Death has removed another, of Weln lington's pioneers in the person of Mrs. - Elian Green, daughter of the late Mr. 1 Peter Christison, who carried on a busi- - ness'in Willis Street in tho 'forties, n Mrs. Green was born in 1851, and in t her younger days saw much of the s Maori troubles. About forty-five yea,rs ago the family removed to Charleston, { West Coast, during the gold rushes, . where she married Mr. James Green, s After some years she removed to Auss tralia. where Mr. Green took'up farm--3 ing, and returned to Now Zealand about seventeen years ago, and resided in Nelson. Two years ago she camo to "■ Wellington to live with her daughter " (Mrs. Cassio), at whoso house she died ' on Saturday last. Mrs. Green is sur--3 vived by her husband, four daughters (Mrs. A. Cassio and Mrs. C. H. Puisa ford, of Wellington, Mrs. Do Frore, 1 Hastings, and Miss C-elia Green, Syd- . ncy) and two sons (Messrs. Henry and r Richard Green, of this city), and «ovon,J teen grandchilclreui

— * : ' " ; tj Attention was drawn by Chief Detective Boddam in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday to tho fact that when a certain steamer, whoso cargo was pillaged recently, was examined by dotectives a number of live matches were found among the straw. This, said the ohiof detective, was a gravely dangerous sfa"te of affairs. The quarterly meeting of the Teachers' Superannuation Board • was held yesterday. Retiring allowances, amounting to £668, were granted to nine members of tlio fund on their retirement from tho education service, and allowances amounting to £111 were granted to three widows and three children of deceased contributors. Refunds of contributions wero granted to contributors on their voluntary retirement from the education service to the extent of £1045. A further refund of £672, representing tho contributions of deceased contributors (fourteen members, of whom ten were killed in action at the Dardaneles), was approved for payment to their estates. Tlio Commonwealth Patriotic Playing Cards Association has hit on a novel idea for raising funds for the care of Australian soldiers disabled in tho war. With the assistance of threo well-known Australian artists and caricaturists, Messrs. D. H. Soutor, Sydney Ure Smith, and Harry Julius, they havo issued sets of specially designed playing cards appropriate to the times, the profits from tho sales of which go to the fund mentioned. It is fitting that tho knaves of the pack should bear the features of tbo Kaiser, tho Crown' Prince, the Sultan of Turkey, and tho Emperor of Austria; while the kings are made to resemble our own ruler, the Tsar of Russia, liine Albert of Belgium, and the King of Italy. France is represented by one of the queens. The cards should prove popular and have a ready sale on their merits as well as on account of the cause they are designed to assist. A bad case of a class happily very unusual in. this country came before the Magistrate's C-ourt yesterday. Charles William Groves and Oiis wife were charged with obtaining goods to tho valuo of Is. 6d. and money in the sum of £2 18s. 6d. by means of a valueless cheque. The police secured the withdrawal of the charge against tho woman, and Mr. H. F O'Leary, who appeared for her, stated that about threo months ago she became acquainted with Groves, who, to all appearance's, was a respectable man. Threo weeks ago she was married to him, and they came to Wellington on their honeymoon. He posed as a man of means, but one day said that his draft had not come to hand, and asked her to cash a cheque for liini. She preted a £3 cheqiio at a tobacconist's, and procured eightecnpcnce worth of goods. Tho cheque was found to bo valueless, but the wife was a member of a respectable Wairarapa family, and was, not in any way an accomplice of Grpyes's. When she had, learned tlio terrible truth she had "turned him down." It was 'stated that Groves hid on soveral occasions been. convicted of false pretences. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.. who heard the oase, said that it »,'as useless addressing words of advico to such a despicable blackguard as Groves. He Sentenced hira to nino months' imprisonment. Mr. Cooper Tomarked that. the wife left the Court without any suggestion that she was , n party, to tho offence. I /