LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2788, 5 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An Australian and an English mail, via Stiez, will arrive in Wellington by the Moeraki this morning. A wireless message received from Captain Collins, last owning stated that ho expected to tnako port at 10 a.m. The State schools of Wellington will be closed for holiday to-day. The. Mayor has been advised that the j Athenic,. with troops from England, is due here to-morrow morning. A reception will be accorded them at 10 a.m. (to-morrcw). In tlio course of his racy address at tho clnmSi parade gathering in the Town Hall, Chaplain-Captain G. KnowlesSmith coiitrived to combine humour with high-tone patriotism. He carried Miia audience yith'him when lie suggested that if the!' men of the Dominion did not wake up hSstory would repeat itself, and they would see a regiment of limazons formed, arid the women would show them how things;-were done. If they had a few Maori ladii! amongst them tho war would not'last long. Speeches' opposing the Military Servico Bill were mnde in tho Alexandra Hall last evening- by Miss Adela Pankhurst, and outside the hall by Mr. H. Holland. The latter sneaker denounced tho Bill lock, stock, and barrel, yet admitted that the great majority of the peoplo tvere in favotir of prosecuting the war, and that if t|ie Germans -came to t&ko Nfew Zealand tfiey would all fight. In tho meantime he argued that every man possessed tho right to his own life, and therefore should not be forced to go to the front by sufeh a measure as that now before Parliament. Tho speaker was heckled from time to time, and a family party- in a house opposito tho speakei caused some amusement by singing "Tho Soldiers of the 'King" and other patriotic eongs at intervals. Owing to the confusion arising out of the duplicated bouse numbers in Ohiro Goad, th 4 follc'tring alteration in tho i name of the road lias been adopted by the City Council i "Ohiro Eoatf' shall remain the nanie of. tho road from Aro Street to Tanera .'Crescent, Brooklyn. The road from Tanera 1 , Crescent to Ohiro Bay shall bo named ~;H appy Valley Koad." This decision wits'; not arrived at without much debate. Csrtain councillors desired to liave tho trfrreet numbers altered, and the whole wad named "Ohiro" throughout. This was strenuously opposed by others, w'hio argued \hat, though Ohiro Road appear eil on the n.lp, in the memories of old inhabitants the portion of the road over tho'- .hill bad always been known as Happy V'aJUey." Mr. C. W. Babbagti has received a very interesting letter frcnu Mr. H. I. Babbage, the well-know))? artist, who. 6ince the outbreak of the war, has been engaged in home defence ii) England, his particular work being' tho guarding of an important railway 'viaduct, states the Wanganui "Chronicle." In spite of his military duties, Mr. i!Bi'bbage has found time to ply his artistic,- vifts to such good effect that a picture, "'She Viaduct," has been hung "011 the liimi" at the .Eoynl Academy this year. IK'r. Babbaje, by the way, has been elect ed a Fellow of the British Water Colour Society. An extract from tho letter '.referred to will be read with great inter's t by many people in Wanganui. Mr. 'B;tbbnge recounts that when at St. Ives- fyt Cornwall, he dined with a friend who- is an inspector of coastguards. This friend recounted how he had just taken a camera from two suspicious men. Invin'-ligation proved that the supposed spits were Messrs. H. B. Watson and Atkinaan, late, of the Waiiganui College staff. tr. Babbage. of itourse, was a personal of "these gentlemen, and, vouching ;so>r their bona ftdes. they wore soon in possession of their oamera and enjoying the .incident at' a happy and unexpected reunion. Tho speaker at the church, jlarado gathering at tho Town Hall yesfcivday (Chap-lain-Captain Knowles-Smith) is no ' believer in compulsion. He !Svtid plainly lie hoped tho Compulsory Service Biil would not lie required. Ho thought tho average Briton was like liim-ja If. When a youth of tender years his jmoud father took him to a professor of -phrenology to see what ho was good for. e bumpologist said that the boy resieiubled a donkey. He could be. led, but ■no t driven. ,At the .same time he made it that those who. would not obey t'hltfi call of Empire willingly should be lmrtlb to realise their responsibilities. Ladies, Listen!! "Xo Help"- washes all rlotlms clean; without rubbing or injury hi hands or fiiuo-st fabrics; Is. package, sufficient for se\>eu weekly washings,. Win, Ouajbell, Lt, tl,r-Adv-t.

.f ■ ' i * ! i The Fir B Brigade received a call at 10.39 on i. lat/Urd-ty evening to a fonr- ! roomed hot iso in Hopper Street. The outbreak prov fed t° be in the ltitchen, and was got umntf ' in five minutes. The con. tents of the . kitchen were severely dam. j aged. Tho oa oupants of tho house tvero i absent at the time. : Tho Mnyo.t \( xf r. J. P Luke) has re- * reived the b; ilai ice-sheets in regard to the Patriotic Fin ids lle is dealing with. Tho Ijalance-slicet if;. the War Distress Funds, | audited by MA. A. T. Clarke, was sub- ; mitte<l on Tusai > a y last to the committee concerned and approved, and a copy of it will be senti! on to the Government i auditor. Mr.X).uke lias received ilr. A. S. ,'s audited report of the accounts of . the Mayor's Patriotic Fund. Mr. Luke -is calling: a meeting regarding this fun 4 ear 'y this week for the i purpose oi subiu W-in? the audited report, and also to deal —t>th the question of tho scope of the f work. 13, v way of rous ini.' selfish patriots to a senso of duty, Ch; IP- Uiiii-Captain KnowlesSmith, addressing •, t:lie citizens at tho cluircli ])arade ga tli ering at the Town Hall vesterdav. sai d that if tho Japanese Fleet'had not been .Randy v,lien German vessels were dangc, y.visly near tlie coast ; of New Zealand thrt< result would liavo been a bombardme. at', that would have ; done more tlian ai V? tj}i n ? c '. £c to wake up the men of Nov t 1 Zealand, who hod i 'not yet shown tho -spirit of practical j patriotism. A box of chocolates a quantity of shortbread recently a: *ved at the residence of Privato Loc tvood, of Petone, i who went into action * iwith the Main ; Body of the reinforce; to-nts, and was ; wounded last September i. fn° chocolates ; were forwarded soon af the reinforcements left New Zealaoc I, And practically ■ "chased" the one to vlfi-ifCt tliey wero addressed in all his travels*- v o ®}, E|»ypt to the Dardanelles, and> p'- 'jr battlefields, exposed at times to tropi "d weather, for something like nine moi vtihs, the parcel continued to follow the oi T\ !er > arriving everywhere "just 'ioo late. Jnnally it returned to the i taldier s home, and considering all tilings 1 tlie contents were in excellent conditio;,.) • The first move towards tl w construction of the two new Auckland iritt nicipal market buildings has been mad p 'V th® con ; tractors, Messrs. Fletcher. Ltd., of Dunedin. The tenders, .£9590 V and £28,406, were accepted by the Cit j - 'C<rancil_ on May 1, and already the « nwractois are on the ground. A Boot for comfort—Glace JM, no toecap, 245. 6d., 265. Gd. Geo. 1 Wwlds, Ltd., ■Manners Street.—Advt.