LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Postal authorities advise that tho s.s. Niagara, due. at Auckland from Sydney, is bringing Australian mails only, tho Wellington portion of which is due per Main Trunk express on Monday morning.

The Telegraph Office advises thattelephone offices are now open at Waikokowai, Auckland, and llotongaro, Auckland, tho hours of attendance being 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The offices are closed on Sundays and holidays. Telegrams are delivered regularly.

The Wellington Drapers and Clothiers' Association has decided to observe tho usual Saturday half-holiday to-day, although all shops wcro closed for tho day on, Monday last. All retail premises whose proprietors are allied to the association will close at 1 p.m. today.

'Hie contract for tho erection of a new tramcar depot at 1 Onepu R-oad, liilbirnie, lias been secured by Messrs. Murdoch and Wallis. This work is the first instalment of an important scheme designed to deal more officiously than at present with tramway roll-ing-stock. The new depot will be erected in the first place to accommodate forty-eight cars. Later, it iciil be extended to house double that number, with workshops also. Tho present car depots at the Newtown and Thorndon termini are now taxed to their utmost capacity.

Tho llov. Father Taylor, S.M., of the Marist Missionary Staff, is at present conducting a. Retreat- for the Children of Mary in St, Joseph's Church, Buckle Street. Tho Devotion of tile Forty Hours' Devotion will begin in tho same church to-morrow, and a feature of the Devotion will bo the music, specially prepared by the choir, under the conductorship of Mr. Bernard Page. On Sunday night it is intended to sing .Gounod's "Do. Profundis" for the young men of tho parish who have lost their lives at the Dardanelles, and on Monday night' Mendelssohn's "Lauda Sion" will be rendered.

The Hon. J. G. W. Aitken (chairman), Messrs. A. AVarburton, Wm. Allan, and W. H. Field, M.P., were present at the monthly meeting of the Wellington College Governors, held yesterday morning. The secretary (Mr. C. P. Powles) reported that tho credit balance at the bank was £3981. The payments required to bo sanctioned at tho meeting amounted to £945. Fees outstanding amounted to £2704, including £2540 free-place fees due from tho Government. Tho rents outstanding amounted to £211.

A keepsake that has travelled far in Turkish climes was yesterday handed into the office of this paper by Driver F. G. Butler, who returned by tho Tofua, to Now Zealaud. The relic takes the form of a locket, and inscribed on the inside is tho name "Mary M'Kinuon." It is hoped that the publicity thus given, may lead to the discovery of the interested party, to whom the lockot will be returned, witn such particulars as can be supplied, on application at The Dominion office.

Mr. Barry Keesing collected £5 15s. on 'tho wharves yesterday for the fund the sports, bodies are raising to procure Christmas gifts for tho soldiers. At tho Wellington races Mr. keesing collected about £60.

It seems that wlicn the German cruisers were afloat in these waters New Zealand was short of what might be called the ingredients of tho searchliehts Professor Easterfield explained during his lecture last evening how lie had made carbons for our searchlights when tho forts woro pressed for thorn. His productions, ho added, had worked successfully.

During tho meeting of the New Zealand Tennis Association last evening, the chairman (Air. H. 51. Gore) saia that many tennis players had enlisted and gone to the front, including three members of tho executive —Messrs. P. W. Crombic, F. B. Spilsbury, and Fleming Ross. The association resolved to send the threo named letters conveying tlio best wishes of the association, and expressing tho hope that they would return safely.

At last evening's meeting of _ tlio Technical Education Board, tho Director (Air. W. S. La Trobe) made a reference to tlio Building Trades Board of Control, which is being formed as an adjunct to the school on the same lines as the Plumbing and Engineering Boards of Contrpl which have proved of inestimable benefit to the scnool, and to the trades concerned. The constitution of the now board is to be one member each from tho Master Builders' Association, the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union, and the Technical Education Board, with tho president of tho Institute of Architects as chairman, and Mr. La Trobe as secretary (with a voice at the meetings). So far only the one member of the bodies mentioned appointed has been Mr; Henry Mainland, the president cf the - Master Builders Association. Tho matter will be_ more fully discussed at the next meeting of the" Technical Education Board, when the Director will know exactly the personnel of the new Board of Control. Mr. La Trobe is satisfied that such a board will be very helpful in stimulating interest in those building trades which have suffered through a paucity of apprentices.

It was announced at last evening's meeting of the Technical Education Board that nono of its teachers came under the restrictions of tho ■ Alien Teachers Bill.

"I was appointed as sniper," said a Queenstown infantryman. "The procedure?" he queried. "Well, you get out with an observer, who carries a strong pair of glasses. You get into position about 450 yds. or 600 yds. from the enemy's trenches. We *Iyiow the distance to a nicety. You can see the light ill the loopholo of the Turks' trench. You have a 'bead' on it. Suddenly the light is jiofc there., A head has closed up the gap. 'There lfo is; fire now,' whispers tho observer, who has ' his glasses on the spot. At Monash's Gully, near Quinn's Post, tlio snipers got 30 to 50 of our men a day. They did not get any at the finish, and one Turkish' officer wo captured said that they had tlio greatest difficulty to get men to man their loopholes in this particular section."

Ono of the great featmes of the Labour Day Carnival to-day at Newtown Park will be a sheep-sheariug contest. Competitions will bo held with machine and blade shearing. Handsome trophies have been presented by prominent citizens, and it is expected that a Dominion time, record may be established for both; contests.

' A new four-page paper, entitled "The Hutt Valley AYeekly News," circulating in the Upper Hutt, Trentham, Silverstream, Horetaimga, Wallaceviile, an<3 Kaitoke districts will make its first appearance to-day at the registered office of the Upper Hutt Publishing Company, Ltd. Tlio paper contains several items of interest to local residents and > supplies reading matter concerning the Hutt Valley community.

The Ninth Reinforcements have left Trentham Camp for Tauherinikau Camp. The Eighth, who are marching from Tauherinikau to Trentham, are to reach the latter camp to-day.

The sixty men for the Hospital Ship Ma ram a have now been selected, and fifty have gone into camp at Awapuni. The other ten are at Trentham in the New Zealand Medical Corps. Each district supplied a- quota, the men being selected by the P.M.O.'s in the flifferenfc districts. Wellington's quota was. sis n:en. Lieutenant G. M. Spence will be Q.M.S. There were hundreds of applicants.

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Fritz A. Strack pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen £40 worth of official stamps while he was employed in the Health Department, He was committed to. the Supreme Court for sentence, and bail was fixed at £80.,

A man was arrested by Dotoctivo Tricklebank yesterday on a charge of having stolen tiro suits of clothing and a watch. The theft is alleged to have been committed yesterday. Accused will appear before the Court this morning.

The attention of rose-growers is directed to the appeal made in this issue for donations of roses to help tbo Wellington monster rose day, which will take place on November 12 and 13, in aid of our wounded soldiers. It' is hoped by the co-operation of the Y.M.C.A., Hod Cross Society, church organisations, and sports clubs to raise a very substantial sum for providing comforts for New Zoalanders in hospitals abroad. No flowers are to ba sent before November 11, but in the meantime intending donors should intimate to Mr. A. Varney, secretary, Y.M.C.A., "Willis Street, Wellington, how many flowers they* will bo ablo to give.

Messrs. Baldwin and Rayward, patout attorneys, of 215 Lambton Quay, report that they have filed tho following applications for pa-tents of rsew Zealand TecontlyM. 0. Fairiiurst and P. A. Wilkie, Dannovirke, aeroplane; \H. J. Kinsbeer, Palmersfcou North, internal combustion engine; 0. E. Beg", Sydney, electrical turn switch and waU plug; H. Stiles, Nightcaps, plough; C. A. Wragg, Melbourne, Victoria, aeroplane; S. E. Green, Sydney, hand-operated washing device; K. B. Smith, Perth, wheat or grain bulk loador; F. B. Marton, Michigan, puffed cereal flakes, etc.; M. A. Jlulrony, Sydney, wing power motor; Koenng Cyanidiug Process, Ltd., Detroit,_U.b., metal recovery, from their ores; T. lv. and N. R. Gillman, Auckland,_ flax fibre production; C. S. M'Lean, Wellington, flving machine; W. Stovoloy, Hokitiko, picture support; F. Nicholson, Auckland caliphont; R ■ J. Diplock, London, vehicle; W. S. Dudson, Gisborne, wool* press; C. E. Clows, Paeroa, sash fnsU ener and anti-rattler; A. P. Westbury, Huntlv, wire-netting weaving; I'. J, Swaiiston, Christchurch, gas lamp lighting and extinguishing.