LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2744, 12 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

JTlie Postal authorities advise that the s.s. Wimmera, which sailed from Melbourne on April 8 for Wellington (via, Hobart), is . Australian and English mails via Suez, and is due here on Friday. Reporting from Samoa under date, April-10, Colonel Logan states that the health of the troops is good. Pte. R. Young is suffering from abscess ; Pte. L. Thomas from phlebitis; and Pte. A. Eastgate from lymphaig gitis. - . . "No change in the position," was .yesterday's information regarding the Petone Woollen Mills' trouble. It is just four weeks since work ceased at the mill, and according to our Petone correspondent there are indications that to-nigljt's meeting of the union will, in all probability, help to bring about a settlement of the trouble. The members of the Board of Trade pro expected back in Wellington from the South Island to-day. Only .77 of an inch,.of rain fell at the Wainui reservoir during the time rain fell on Friday and Saturday last. The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. G. W. Russell, who is also Min-ister-in-Charge of Hospitals, has recognised the value of a supply of good literature for the recreation of inmates of the recently established King George V Hospital at Rotorua. At the Minister's request, Mr. Charles Wilson, the Parliamentary Librarian, has purchased £50 worth of books some 580 volumes in all, the majority, of course, of the books being fiction, but history, biography, and ' high-class literature, also being represented. The books have been catalogued at the Parliamentary Library, and with them have been sent to the Hospital, the necessary registers, a complete card catalogue, a set of circulation cards, together with full directions and suggestions for the proper working of a lending system. It is, perhaps,'worthy of note that since the war began close upon 2500 books have, ou Mr. Wilson's suggestion, and witli the approval of the Library Committee, been takon out of the Parliamentary Library and placed, in batches of 50 or 100, on the various troopships others being sent to Trentham Camp and to Somes Island for the use of our soldiers. Ladies, let nothiner deter you from ordering Is. pnekase "No Rubbing Laundry Help" in time for next week's washing. Result will delight you. Wellington Grocers.—Advt. Winter is here. You can get what you desire in overcoats from 325. 6d. to 905.; Raincoats, 455, to 90s. At Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street.—Advt,

Ernest Devoin will appear _at the Magistrate's Court this morning on a. charge of attempting to murder Louisa White in the Nairn Street Reserve on March 27. The polico will apply for a further remand in the case. Messrs. Swan and Swan, F.N.Z.1.A., architects, have accepted the tender of Mr. J. L. M'Millan for the erection of a four-floor brick ' building in Dixon Street. Tho building, which will be used as a factory, is to be constructed of brick and reinforced concrete, and will be fireproof. The accommodation provides for store, offices, men and women's luncheon rooms, and a largo flat roof.' The contract price is £4530, and the time for completion four months. It has been arranged that the deputation to urge the adoption of the wet canteens in the Expeditionary Force camps and the early closing of hotel bars will bo heard at 12.30 p.m. -to-day at the Parliamentary Buildings. The Hutt Valley Building Society allocated a loan by ballot last evening, Mr. W. Baudinet, of Wellington, being tho successful shareholder. As he is an owner of four shares ho draws £600. According to the report of the director of the Petone Technical School- to the board yesterday, the attendance of students at Upper Hutt was unsatisfactory, and it was stated in the report that unless tho Upper Hutt Committee guaranteed that tho expenses would be met the board would bo most reluctantly, but strongly, advised that the Upper Hutt be closed next quarter. The Wellington General Labourers' Union is approaching the local bodies and other in the Wellington district, drawing attention to the recent recommendation of the Court of Arbitration in regard to the granting of alO per cent, war bonus. In,his letter to the local bodies, the secretary of the union, Mr. M. J. Reardon, states that since the wage for labourers was 'fixed at Is. 3d. per-hour in 1915, rents and prices have increased very considerably. Three New Zealand cadets who have graduated at the Royal Military Col- 1 lege, Duntroon, Australia, for commissions in the New Zealand Staff Corps, arrived by the Riverina from Australia' on Monday. They were Lieutenants K. L. Stewart, L t G. Goss. and D. H. W. H. Donaldson. After a period of leave they will be attached to the Reinforcements training camns as follow: — Lieut. Stewart, to the Mounted Rifles at Featherston; Lieut."Goss, to Lieu-tenant-Colonel C. R. Macdonald. Chief Infantry Instructor: and Lieut. Donaldson, to Captain'Purdon, Chief Mus--ketry Instructor. Five more Duntroon cadets, who have completed their course, are expected to arrive next week. It is with regret (says' the "Dahnevirke News") that we record the death of Mr. John D. AVatson, M.A., headmaster of the Waipawa District High School. The late Mr. Watson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. _ He was educated at Edinburgh University, where' , he graduated in 1880. Ho went through ' a four-year theological course and a post-graduate two J'ears' course in philosophy, and for many years acted as a college "coach." In 1895 Mr. Watson came to New Zealand and settled--in Hawko's Bay. For some years he was headmaster at Norsewood. Later he was appointed headmaster at the Waipawa District High School. Deceased leaves a widow and two children. So proud are Australians of the word "Anzac," so simple yet so full of meaning, that it is to be used for a variety of objects. The latest suggestion is the most original of all. It is that the familiar indigenous bird known as tho magpie shall be re-christened "Anzac." A movement is on foot to give fresh names to certain Australian birds that bear inappropriate or unwieldy titles. It is in connection with this good work that a birdmau in Queensland speaks up for -the Australian feathered "Anzac." "The present name," he points out, "is far from satisfactory. The true magpie is a European bird, with feathers of black.and white, and there the similitude with our bird ceases. All Australians know the latter well for he is found all over our island continent. He has a magnificent carol, a fine appearance, is very sociable, and is a bold and brilliant fighter. The name of 'Anzac is known all over the world, and it will be for ever associated with the name of Australia." ■ •

Messrs. Baldwin and Bayward. Patent Attorneys, of 215 Lambton Quay, report that they have filed the following applications for letters patent ■of Now Zealand recently:—J: H. Cdney, frentham, cleansing bucket; J. Rose, Sth. Melbourne (VTc;). comers of weatherboard buildings; A. F. W. Gidley. and B. J. Ball, Sydney. N.S.W., cleansing under"liquid pressure; P. Lanigan, Auckland, reinforced concrete wnjdras construction; H. D. Atkinson. Welhngton. time sheet; J. Hutton, Fife, Scot, land, seed-sowing .machine; H; Bur< rows Auckland, boots and shoes; J. F. Wiles, Ballarat, Vic, camp oven and hot-water and steam .generator.; H. _E. Willsie Cramford, U.S.A., lee-matorfK machine; T. C. M'Dowell, Sydney, N.S.W., hydrocarbon gas lamp.