LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2547, 23 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An English mail via Brindisi, and an Australian mail are due to arrive here to-day by the Ulimaroa. x English and American mails via Vancouver should reach here via Auckland to-morrow. The Postal authorities advise that the R.M.S. Maitai, which sailed from San Francisco on. August 18 for Wellington, is bringing American and English mails. She is due at .Wellington on September 9. Three hundred troops arrived at Greytown on Friday morning by train, and proceeded to the Papauai Camp, whero they will receive instruction in shooting. The Papuai camp, says our Carter-* ton correspondent, is to be a permanent camp during the war, and as each draft of three hundred completes its shooting instruction, it will be replaced by a further body of equal strength. A further reduction in the price of butter was mado on Saturday. Butter is now being retailed in Wellington at Is. sd. per lb. A further fall is anticipated early next month.

There is still the liveliest demand for four, five, and six-roomed dwellings in Wellington, and instead of there being a fall in rentals, tho tendency is rather the other way, particularly for houses on the city side of . the encompassing hills. Tho demand is still keen for houses in close-up suburbs, but at tho Lower Hutt there is an easement. Some house agents report that several sales have taken place during tho past three months, owing to people not being able to secure suitable nouses by tho payment of a weekly rental. This state of things reflects the condition of trade in Wellington, which is described as quite normal, and in some instances tradespeople are finding things better than for several years past.

'An officer of tho sth Reinforcements) writing to a friend in. Wellington as tho sth wore re-embarking in Egypt for tlie front, states: —"Wo have at last landed in the land of tho Pharoahs, in a very fit and excellent condition. On tho day after disembarkation General Maxwell (Officer Commanding in Egypt inspected us, and was very pleased with our appearance. Next day we marched six miles, and the next ten miles. Considering the great heat, tho men showed how fit they were. Wo aro to embark at once. We feel very proud of them all. The mounted rifles wcro not so stalo as the infantry, as tho hard work with the horses kept them busy. I suppose the 6th will run us close, but thov will never beat us. Just going nboard."

Mr. Huali Morrison has received a letter from Major Hart, D.5.0., stating that tho Regimental Fund donated by tho-Wairarapa has been of great assistance in providing tho wounded with comforts and nrticlcs of clothing, as most of them have lost all their kit. Tho fast coming summer season turns olio's mind to the pleasant thrills oiul joys of motoring, and to the ear of tho season —the Chevrolet. Tho sturdy and swool-ruiining .Chevrolet cars aVo attracting the admiration oi the Motorists who know. The Dominion Motor Vehicles, Ltd., 63 Courtonay Place, are willing to demonftrab lo you, so why not moke a.q appointment at e.nwfcAdiU

Many people in Wellington are of opinion that tho cabled report.of tho destruction by fire of the Newtown Stadium, Sydney, refers to the big Stadium crected by Jlr. Hugh D. M'lntosh prior to tho Burns-Johnson fight for tho championship of tho world. That is not so. The bij* Stadium is situated in Rushcutters' Bay, on the road which leads from tho city to tho South Head. Tho seating accommodation of the Newtown Stadium is mentioned as 6000, whereas Mr. M'lntosh's Stadium (also managed by Mr. "Suow.v" Baker) has a capacity of something like 20,000. "Hotelkccpcrs have a pretty hard time of it in dealing with drunken men, and I am going to help them as much as I can," remarked Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., to a man named Claud Martin, who was charged in the Magistrate's Court on Saturday with assaulting Richard Dwyer, licenses of tho Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. According to the police, Martin, who was under tho influenco of liquor, had been refused drink by the licensee of the hotel. On l >eing refused, Martin had struck tho licenseo on the face with his hand. When asked to apologise by somo onlookers. Martin said he would. Instead, however, he went up to Mr. Dwyer, and spat in his face. . Martin was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment.

. An inauest will be held at the Magistrate's Court at 4 p.m. to-day into the death of Alfred Jeffery an old man who was found dead in his room at 291 Tinakori. ltoad, on Friday morning. A young mounted trooper a miraculous escape from injury in Tinakori Road on Saturday afternoon. The horso ho was riding, took fright, and bolted, colliding with an express coming in tho opposite direction. The rider was thrown heavily to the ground, but escaped injury. The horso lie was riding was killed, while the express it collided' with was damaged.

Among the numerous letters received from the front by friends and relatives of thoso who aro fighting for the Empiro in Gallinoli is one from Private William Juriss, who enlisted in Christchurch,'' and whose brother, Mr. H. Juriss-, is well known in motor circles in this city. Mr. William Juriss- was formerly deputy-captain'of tho Christchurch Fire Brigade, and is known among the .yachtsmen of tho estuary as tho man who designed and built the To Arai, said to be the fastest craft in tuoso waters, so that he knew a good deal about sea craft, and had the inventive faculty well developed. The sequel is a letter which has been received from iiim by his brother in Wellington. It reads as follows: —"I have not enough writing paper to write to' all of you, so when you get this, send it on, and tell the rest. I will write more fully when X cau get somo paper. I havo mado a small model of an invention of mine for locating tho presence of enemy submarines. and on exhibiting it 1 was sent to 'somewhere,' to see the Admiral, wlio is going to witness a trial soon._ I was sent by my major. * The Admiral though it would work all right. I will let you know later whether it succeeds. I cannot explain its working to you, as 1 this latter might go astray.'

Saturday (September 4) has been decided unon as the date for tho grand assault-at-arms and military tattoo to bo lield in Newtown Park in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund. Application may be made at tho City Recruiting Office by men willing to serve as permanent medical orderlies,' cooks, kitchen hands, iwa-rdsmen, sanitary inspectors, fumigators, vatmen, clerks, and storemen. The men aro required for tho military hospitals. Preference will be given to applicants over or under tho military age, married men, or to thoso who havo been rejected as, slightly unfit. In thirteen years the Borough of Potono has almost doubled its 'copulation. According to official records, at March 31, 1901, the population was 3780. whilst at the same aato last year it had increased to 7263.

Only £250 is now required to complete the Hawke's Bay Overseas Aeroplane Fund. It is understood that this 'will bo forthcoming by. Tuesday, says our correspondent. The vigilance of Police Constable Mitchell l-'ito on Saturday night put an early end to a fire which, it is considered, would otherwise have proved serious. Just before midnight he observed smoke and flames issuing from a house on tho corner of Hawkestono Street and Tinakori Road. He alarmed the Fire Brigade, awoke the inmates, and finding a hose attached to a tap played it on tho flames with such good effect that when the brigade arrived the outbreak was well in .hand. Tho liouso was occupied by Mrs. Ness, and owned by Mr. David Anderson, of Molesworth Street. Convalescent homes for wounded soldiers.aro practically completed, both at Epsom and Devonport, Auckland.

It has been, arranged that the men forming tho northern portion of the Eighth Reinforcements will leave Auek- 1 land in two detachments ' to-morrow. The first, consisting of the men of No. 1 Group (Auckland) will leave under.Colonel Cummiug by special train at 2.50 p.m.. 1 and the. second, consisting of No. 3 Group (AYhaugarei) will leave under Captain W, H. Feldon at 8.50 p.m. Sergeant Eric Bowley, ■ formerly of tho R.N.Z.A. at Devonport,' and one of Auckland' most prominent oarsmen, has been invalided from Gallipoii, after six weeks' service there with the Divisional Traill. Writing to a friend at Devonport, Sergeant Bowley states that, after being removed to Malta, he was taken to Engalnd in a hospital ship with Australians, Now Zealanders, and Englishmen, and upon reaching Southampton was put on board a Red Cross train and taken to a hospital in Exeter, Devonshire. "We are looked after here as though we were officers," he writes, "and liavo visitors all day, who como to view the New Zealanders, and also to leave strawberries and Devonshire cream for tho bovs. Old New Zealanders look us up. and since I started this letter Sir Thomas Acland, who spent some time in Canterbury in the early days, and who has still a host of relatives there, called to see us. .Ho has asked us out to his place next Wednesday, and wo will have an opportunity of seeing what an English country residenco is "like.- He tells us he will take us through his park, which is said to bo verv fine. General Bailor's daughter also called to see about- taking us out to a big' farm in tho country. You can 'see. then, that the 'heads' hero arc taking'plenty of interest in pur welfare."

On Saturday week (September 4) ii largo number of members of the Wellington Savage Club are to pay a fraternal visit to Mastertou. Dr. A. K. Newman gave notice to ask' the Prime Minister whether he intends this session to bring in legislation closing hotel bars at six o'clool; p.m. till tha end of the war, as desired by so many petitions presented by himself (Dr. Newman), the Hon. Mi;. Myers, and many, other members. A silver challenge cup has been presented to tliG Wellington Technical Coir lego Cadets by Mrs. Hugo (mother of the lato Lieutenant L. \V. A. Hugo, killed at the Dardanelles. Tho lato Lieutenant Hugo was very keen on musketry. and ivas himself an expert shot; it was therefore decided to allot the cup for shooting. Mr. Veitch, member for Wanganui, has asked the Minister in Charge of the Frieiidi.y Societies Department what provision (if any) lie intends to make to help friendly societies to meet- tlieii abnormal expenditure in connection with sick pay to such of their members as are returned wounded soldiers. An Invercargill correspondent states that what lias every claim fo be considered. as a record for domestic servico in this country is reported from an Otapiri (Southland) farm/ Twenty-five years ago a young girl entered the employ of Mr; and Mrs. Andrew Cowio. Sho remained in their employ until she was married, and her sister then took tho vaacnc.v. In due course she, too, took a husband to herself, and a third sister assumed tho domestic duties of tho Cowio household,. remaining there for eight years. Sho in turn was followed by tho fourth and the youngest sister, who has just completed four years of service, making a- total for; her family of twenty-live years of unbroken service, a record that speaks well for both employer and employed. The all-the-year-round activity of tho dairy industry in Taranaki, and what it means to the. province, maj bo gauged by the fact that, quite apart • from'the ordinary butter-fat payments, suppliers' bonuses during last year totalled £100.000 from the factories within a seven-railo radius of Stratford alone. During last month, perhaps the deadest month of tho season, one of the Stratford factories paid out £20,000 to its suppliers.—Exchange. Messrs. Baldwin and Rayward, patent' attorneys, of 215 Lambton Quay, report that they have filed the following application for patent of .Now Zealand recently:—S. F. 'Perrett, Palmerston North, vohicle wheel; C. P. Eden, Hastings, die for sheet metal blanks stamping out in patterns; Tessevman ana M'Guire. Palmerston North, concrete building; A. G. Percival, London, steani boiler feed water treatment; A. E. Blakio, Invercargill, razor; C. E. Pago, Christohurch, roof covering;. E. W. Hursthouse, Lower Hutt, pump; T. Roberts, Waihi,' clothes washing fork for lifting clothes; A. F. Sykes and S. Ford, New Barnefc and London, electric relay; E. Waters. Melbourne, unsaturated fats or .oils hydro-genacion; J. Jackson, Sydney, oven for domestic purposes;, U. T. Lane. Hawksburn, rotary hydraulic variable gear rotio box; W. E. Hunter, Auckland, wire strainer ; F. E< J. llatclilfo, Masterton, wire straightcner.