LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

All English mail, via Suez, will arrive at Wellington from Sydney by tlie Manuka to-morrow afternoon. The Government,. law, and insurance offioes will be closed for.holiday to-day in celebration of Dominion Day. It was eight years ago yesterday since New Zealand was raised to the status of a Dominion of the Empire. The Corporation department,, with the exception of the Municipal libraries, and the publio soliools, will, also close, i A woman who has been "wanted" on a charge of alleged forgery in Christchurch was arrested in Wellington yesterday by Detective Mason and ActingDetective Tricklebank.

. Included in the passengers who arrived at Wellington from London by the Arawa on Saturday afternoon were a party of 37 domestic servants. Miss Ifain came out as senior matron with Miss MaoMillar as sub-matron. A five-roomed cottage in Hutchison Road, Newtown, caught fire by some means, at present unknown * at about 11.15 o'olock last evening. The building and its contents were badly damaged. The occupants o£ the house were away for the week-end-A special meeting of the Wellington City Council will be held on Thursday next to' consider the following busitiess: —(1) l'o > accept surrenders of Leases Registered Numbers 2581' and ; 2619 from the tenant, E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., the surrenders to take effect on November 1, 1915; (2) co grant to the surrenderor new leases in lieu of the surrendered . leases. ' The. _ lease granted in liou of. Lease Registered Number 2581 will couimenco on November 1, 1915, and expire on May 1, 1916. The lease granted iu lieu of Lease Registered Number 2619 will commence on November 1, 1915; and 'will expiro on June 1, 1916. Both new leases will contain thb same provisions as ' nro contained in the existing leases with the followine: variations:—There shall < bo no building covenant in the -new leaso; the terms of renewal to which t'ho tenant shall bo entitled shall be terms of twenty-one years, in lieu of terms of 14 yearn; tho provisions as to making the valuation of tlio rental for the first renewal period of twentv-ono years shall bo varied as tho City Solicitor thiiiks necessary." Mr. William 'Belcher, secretary, of the Seamen's Union,'lias resigned his seat on the Otago _ Harbour Board (states a Press Association telegram), giving ns his reason, in a lengthy letter, that ho has been thwarted at every turn, and that the mero fact of his bringing forward a motion is sufficient to secure its rejection. A Socialist street orator, who was dealing with the war situation in rather strong terms in-Dixon Street last evening, had the thread of his discourse broken off short by tho police. The speaker did not relish the interruption, but as ho could not tlioro and thon exhibit a permit- entitling him to speak in the street, ho had no option but to accede to the demand of the representative of tho law, who held that the substance of tho speaker's remarks was calculated to provoko a breach of tho peace.

Tho fast coining summer season turns one's mind to the pleasant thrills and joys of liio.toring, and to the ear o season—the Chevrolet. Tho sturdy and sweet-running Chevrolet cars aro attracting the admiration' of the Motorists who know.' The Dominion Motor Vehicles, Ltd., G5 Courtenay Place, are willing to demonstrate to you, so why not make an anj?p(atmeflt at oawf-Adit, • -

hcii R.M.S. Arawa was nearing the coast on Tuesday, September 14, she was struck by a particularly heavy ''green" sea on the starboard side. Volumes of water oarao over tho bulwarks, carrying away . everything movable. Doors' woro smashed, and the saloon and first-class cabins were Hooded. Mr. C. J. Hobdcn. chief steward,* happened to be attending to certain business at that particular time, and ho was caught by tho sea and washed along tho deck, t'ho port bulwarks saving him from being washed overboard. Mr. Hobden received a very severe shaking, and lie was fortunate in getting off so lightly considering the force of tho impact. Ho is still suffering from the effects of his trying experience.

Tho correspondent of a Dutch paper, in a letter "from the English front, tells tho following story of an English nurse:—"l was now far from the trenches, and was walking along a sunken road, -when, rounding a curve, I saw a bent figure slowly moving forward. I hurried up. At first I stood speechless. I saw a girl of not more than 23 years of ago carrying on her shoulder a young English, infantryman. Tho young man bad been shot' through tho _ shoulder, and, after a preliminary dressing of the wound, ho had been told to go to the nearest field hospital. , Taking a wroiig turning, ho had lost his way, had collapsed, and fainted. In this state' the young girl—she was an English nurse— found him. As it'was at least half an hour's walk to the nearest field hospital, she decided to carry him there. Tho bravo girl readily accepted my assistance. Wo made iny overcoat into a stretcher, and together carried the wounded man to the hospital. After receiving a satisfactory report from the doctor the young girl continued her walk."

A programme has now been drafted for tpo 32nd annual conference of the New Zealand Baptist Union, which will bo opened in Auckland on Ootobor 6 and continued during the following nine days. The first public meeting will be held in tho Baptist Tabernaclo 'on the evening of October 6, when the presidential address will be delivered.by the Rev. E. A. Kirwood, of the Grange Road Baptist Church. On tho second evening there will be the conference tea meeting, followed by a home mission rally. Each evening subsequently will have its distinctive feature—patriotic meeting, young people's gathering, choir evening with a performance of tno cantata "Abraham," missionary meeting, and so on. At the day sessions the annual business of the union's various departments will be transacted by. ths delegates.