LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The returned soldiers in Wellington will hold a church parade on Sunday, leaving Grey Street at 10.30 a.m. for St. Peter's Church, headed by the Mission Band. The Soman Catholic members of the party will turn off into Boulcott Street to attend service at St. Mary's of the Angels. All returned soldiers are invited to take part in this parade.

Advice was received yesterday by the Shaw, Sarill, and Albion Company in Wellington, that the officers and crew of the ill-fated liner Matatua, which was blown up at St. John a day or two ago, are all safe.

At 10 o'clock this morning judgment will be delivered in the Supreme Court in the case, the Commissioner of Taxes r. Begg, an important claim in re estate duties.

That substantial two-story brick shop and office property on the corner of Marion and Ghuznce Streets, for years occupied by the late Mi\ Nees and the Wellington Hospital and Charitable- Aid Board (upstairs), has been purchased by Messrs. Dimond and Hart from the Necs Estate. The purchase price was £5500.

The Prime Minister asks all ttnse concerned in the production or disposal of whale oil to forward to the Imperial Government Supply Department, Wellington, an estimate of the number of barrels available for export to December 81, 1916. It :s requested that early information be forthcoming.

The Congregational Church property, in Courtenay Place, which was recently sold by the church to Mr. J. J. Williamson, realised £103 per foot, the top price paid for land fronting on to Courtenay Place. It is understood that, when Mr. Williamson takes over the property (on May 23), the church will be demolished, to make room for a substantial row of brick shops, with factory premises behind.

Owing to the unprecedented shortage of milk, and also due to the present shortago of labour, members of the Wellington Licensed Milk Vendors' Asscciation will make one delivery per day only to private houses, commencing on April 1.

An Anzac corps, composed of ex-New Zealandors and Australians residing in South Africa, lias been formed _at Joliannesburg-for service in East. Africa. According to a letter -written by Mr. W." W. Pearce, a former resident •of Parnell and Devonport, to -his mother, lie has joined this corps, which was training in a camp 80 miles distant from Johannesburg. He stated that the members of tha company, hoped to prove as useful and as brave as their fellow comrades had been at the Dardanelles. They expected to proceed to East Africa some time in February, and after that campaign was finished hoped to go to Europe and take part in the fighting thera. '

On Thursday evening (states a Press Association message from Wairoa) a party of Natives attempted *to remove ail enteric patient by force from tho isolation camp at the hospital. On the nursing staff barring tlie attempt, tlie Natives threatened to como back in tho night.' but threats of the lock-up stopped them.

Complaint was recently made to the Mayor of Auckland (says the "Herald") that two-enemy aliens were employed on tho waterworks at Waitalcero. Mr. Gnnson has stated that he has no information regarding the workmen employed on the construction of tlie new dam, for which all tho labour is engaged by the contractors. "As far as the City Council's staff is concerned," said Mr. Gnnson, "there am certainly no enemy subjects employed on either the inside or the outside staffs.' .The Mayor added that tlie conditions of the waterworks, contract did not include a prohibition against the employment of enemy aliens, but the Works Committee intended to insert such a clause in the conditions for the new market'buildings contract.

"What/becomes of stale bread?" ask--0(1 Mr. Justice . Stringer of a master baker in the Arbitration Court* at Auckland. The witness- explained that his firm did not find much bread left on its hands. Bakers who did, however, usually disposed of it to pork butchers at half-price. Several witnesses agreed that the public could not bo persuaded nowadays to take tho 6talo article.

Mr. John Baillie, who will beremembered in connection with the Baillie collection of pictures, shown in 'Wellington some three years ago, is opening an interesting exhibition of photographic pictorial work and home portraiture at Mr. M'Gregor Wright's premises, from noon on Monday. The exhibition, li'hich introduces novel ideas and extremely artistic effects in homo portraiture, will be open for a fortnight.

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