LOCAL AND GENERAL
a The postal authorities advise that the S.S.- Manuka, which left Wellington on Friday, April 21, carrying mails for Australia ami United Kingdom, via Suez, arrived at Sydney.on-Tuesday afternoon. [Reporting from Apiaunder date April 21 on tho health of the garrison at Samoa, Lieut.-Colonel Logan says: "Private L. Thomas is suffering from phle- ' bitis, Private Hi.' Liglitfoot from cyst foot, and Private S. Scott from a trouble not yet diagnosed. All are progressing favourably.'' Numerous cases of diphtheria have been reported in the Napier district during the past few weeks, says our special correspondent, and the disease is in a very serious form. Most of the cases tiro from the low-lying districts. The following.extract,-taken from a letter received by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. James Allen), speaks .convincingly of the improvement that lias been brought about in the mail service between the Dominion and New Zealand soldiers on active service. Tho letter was written by the mother of a soldier who, in expressing her appreciation, says: "I.sent some Christmas packages io my son in Egypt, and just prior to the time they were, due to reach their destination, my boy left for the Dardanelles. 1 was naturally anxious to learn if he 'receivod tho packages. After an absence of. six months, my son returned from Gallipoli, and found that the boxes, together with several newspapers, had. been carefully placed for him. It is gratifying to us all to learn of this. My son states that everything possible is done for the welfare, .and comfort of the^soldiers, and their presents are carefully guarded." An anti-"shouting" league.has been formed in Hokitika. Members who infringe any of the rules. governing the league aro to he fined £1, which will, be handed to the local patriotic fund. The league was formed as a countermove to the decision of the Wostland Licensed Victuallers' Association, the members of which have published a revised list. The league's membership i is reported to be already in the vicinity, of forty. Another branch has just :)een started at Hastings of the Now Zealand Association of His Majesty's Veterans, making'a total of 10 'branches. By tho s.s. Arawa, from Lyttelton, were shipped 15 cases of Bed Cross goods from tho St. John Ambulance Association/Christchurch, eight addressed to the Mt. Felix Hospital at Walton-on-Thamos, and seven to the. British Bed Cross, St. John's Gate. The goods are valued at approximately £500. The following is an extract from a letter received from one of theY.M.C.A. secretaries in Egypt:—"l would suggest that you make some appeal for music. There are hundreds—yes hundreds—of fellows in camp who can sing well, and there is practically; np music. Singers hesitate to bring their cherished copies of songs from home—they are reserved for the home-coming celebrations. The consequence is that when ono tries to gob up a concert the men have to sing without musio, and the result is frequently disastrous. Nor can we purchase popular music in Cairo. If our people only knew how much they could help us in this way, I'm sure they would come to light, and if only some kindly Liedcrtafel Committees would, pass some of their old male part songs on to me, I'd promise that they will Be well used. Will you try an appeal, please?" Gifts of song books may bo sent to the Y.M.C A., Willis Street, for immediate transport to Egypt. "One'of the evidences of the increasing popularity of the Boy Scout movement," said the Ohief Commissioner when in Dunedin recently,' 'is the friendliness of the schoolmaster \ When tho organisation first came into existence we could not get our schoolmasters to support us in any way. Now a largo number of teachers- and masters are officers in the movement." An unusual occurrence was witnessed at the Waikaka .Valley' coal mine last week* Tho proprietor was absent at Punediii, and' as ho held the mine permit tho coal miners were, unable, under the mining regulations, to work the pit.. Four farmers and a contractor were waiting with teams for coal,_nnd strong endeavours were used to induce tho minors to load them, but all to no purpose. One farmer was most insistent in his appeal, but tho men refused to undertake tho work, and aftor wasting practically the whole day the drays had to return home empty. At Napier on Tuesday the sum of. £81 was raised for tho Napier Soldiers' Club through tho salo of Anzao buttons. Chilled steel tramway wheels, which were imported from Krupps before tho war, are being made by a Christchurch firm, Waddell and Sons, to the order of tho Dunedin tramway authorities. Hio wheels, which are a striking instance of what can be don- lonallv. aro on view ill the Industrial Exhibition at the Colo:scum. I Arrangements are being made by th» Petone and tho Jlntt and Pctonc .Railway Uniis of the National Eoscrvo to hold a combined church parade-on Sunday evening next at St. Augustine's. As this is the first function of the kind ever held in Petone, it is naturally creating considerable interest. Tho P,ev. G. B. Stephenson, at whoso request the parade will ho held, will conduct the services. The worm dr'ive now seems to "io unlrorsal in the better class Petrol Motor Lorries. A splendid example of fine workmanship and design can bo witnessed by an examination of the Petrol Vehicle now on show at The Dominion I Motor Vehicles. Ltd. Garage, C 5 Courtennv Place. This machine, apart from its perfect finish, has many accomplishments which must appeal to users, and intending Purchasers will lie well repaid for any time they may give to a personal iljsp'ectiou,—Adv , '
After considering a request from the Wellington City Council for a conference in connection with the proposed new patent slip in Evans Bay, .tho Harbour Board last evening decided that there was no necessity for such a conference, as the Wellington Patent Slip Company was being asked to carry out its agreement vitli the board without further delay. It was announced at last night's meeting of tho Wellington Harbour Board that an aero and a seventh of land of the Waterloo Quay reclamation (to the north of the Post and Telegraph Department's Stores) had been (eased to Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co., and that the firm intended to build over the whole of' tho block. At last evening's meeting of the Harbour Board, it was decided, on tho recommendation of the Wharves and Accounts Committee, to-grant the following applications, for the use of the board's sheds for.exhibitions, subject to the usual conditions regarding insurance, lighting, and responsibility:— Wellington Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society, July 5 and 6, and the Dominion Canary Specialist Club on June 30 and July 1. Mr. Q. W. Palmer, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, has been handed a letter received by Mrs. Wilson Ir'om Mrs. Gertrude Coohiane, mother of Lieut.-Commandei. Cochrane. Mrs. Wilson's son, Leading Stoker Archibald Wilson, originally joined the New Zealand training ship H.M.S. Pioneer, and afterward ho was selected to go to° England to complote his training. Eventually he was posted to the Australian submarine E2, and then to E7. Tho latter, after ,very successful operation undertaken witli great daring under Lieut.-Commauder Cochrane, went ashore, and tho crew, including Wilson, were made prisoners of war. In the course of the letter, Mrs. Cochrane says:—"l am afraid.it must take a long time for letters to reach you from your son. I heard on December 24 from Lieut.-Commander Cochrane, dated December "'2: 'All well and cheerful—weather very fin e, with frosts at night.' They are in a high, healthy part of.Asia Minor. New regulations , have just come out for addressing letters. Your address should bo:—Namo of prisoner, from Submarine E7, British Prisoner' of AVar in Turkey; c.o. the International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland. I hope, that soon we will be able to get parcels through to them. I- think they have got all actual necessities, as money has been sent out for the use of the crew, but they must want books and games, and a parcol from home they would like so much." Mrs. Wilson, who-is a widow, sixty years of age, has two , other sons serving tho Empire. W. Wilson went from New Zealand with the 7th' Reinforcements) and J. Wilson joined the A.I.F. -at Brisbane, and is now in a London hospital •recovering from wounds. A company has just been registered in Invercargill under the name of Southland and Otago Co-operative Timber Company, having its capital limited by guarantee. The subscribing members are: Messrs. J. Loggat, J. Hensley, W. Timpany, A. Halliday, T. More, A. Macpherson, and B. Gee, end tho "Southland Times" understands that the bulk of the sawmillers have, intimated their intention to join. Owing to the increase in wages, the increase in all commodities used by sawmillers, the increased cost of and difficulty in working tho bush, and the greajt cost of producing, marketing, and distributing timber by individual sawmillers, the company has been floated with the object of applying the cooperative principle in marketing and distributing the timber, minimising the cost of delivery and working expenses, and guarding against gales .to purfliasers who are not financially sound. It is well known that for a considerable time past many sawmillers have been giving heavy trade discounts off the trade price list, which has entailed losses upon them, and that.generally speaking the timber trade has been utterly disorganised. There is no talk at present of raising the price of timber, but the formation of the new company, it is stated, will have the effect of reducing or abolishing the trade discount, and adhering to the original list price. ; At the Spiritualists' Convention, held a« Christchurch on Friday,, the follow, in" resolution was passed: "That wo Honour the bravery of the soldiers who fouglit for their country" and fell in tins great war; •'■of those ' who have been maimed for life; and of the devoted nurses who have cared for the sick and wounded'; and we also express our sjtupathv with the widows and families bereaved by the loss of their loved ones Ml the present war." ; ' Mr. John Dias, a well-known Australian Labour man, who has been appointed delegate from Australia and New Zealand at tho sexennial conference of tho Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners at Manchester m June, has completed a tour of the Dominion prior to leaving for England by way- of VVancouver. The /'conference which Mr. Dias is to'attend'is representative of 98,400 members/grouped in 1086 branches in the British Empire and the United States. Tho Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners is not ' merely a trade federation, but provides contributing members with a comprehensive series of benefits, covering sickness, accidents, tool insurance, unemployment, superannuation, funeral ._ ex, nenscs, etc. Sinco its formation in IBol), ?he society has paid out £1,289,000 in •benefits to its members. It is with the object of directing tho society s affairs in conformity with the changing legislation of the various States in. winch branches are situated that the sexennial conference is held. It is hoped, says Mr Dias, that after tho war operations may be extended, to France and other allied countries.
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