LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

' The postal rttiihorities advke ; that tho mails which-left * New. Zealand, on May 11 arrived in London on. tho night Juwo 20. The s'M. Riverina, -.vhich sciieil' from Sydney atnoon on Thursday for AVcllington, in bringing mails fiom tralia, also United Kingdom, via Suez,' und is due in AVcllinslon. on Monday. >

No petitions in bankruptcy were fil?d; in-Wellington-during the month of June.' The body of a man was found floating ii, tlia harbour yesterday near the Thorndon Baths by Constable Thompson. The loan was apparently GO years of a?e, and he was. w-earius a blue vicuna coat and vest, light" striped shirt, with soft collar saddle tiveed trousers, and. stout laced boots. Two receipts mado out to "J, Wilson" were found in, the pockets. .Deceased is believed to have been _seen iii the vicinity of Thorndou Esplanade ou Thursday morning.

At a meeting of directors of the Wair'arapa Earraers' Assn. Co.-op., a donation oi j125 was made for a billiard table for the Returned" Soldiers: Club; now being built in Wellington J-also. XIOO. to go to tho fund in aid of the dependants of the sailors lost in tho.^ayal.battle-off Jutland. '. ' .1 '. .

Owing to an epidemic of diphtheria, tho. Hawke's 13ay -Education ; Board '.(states our Napier, correspondent) has closed. several of its schools .-for a period ;ot,.t.hree weeks., • , - - \ .remarkable - phenomenon-■ is-, reported from Huntlv. Ovet..'a',vwe.ek ago,.the., kowhais came,out,'in-bloom. - Iho bloom?, in" of-the lcowhai is-generally.-wopwsed; as"the-first herald .of spr-insr, .tnd seldom occurs .earlier .than the .first week m August. Wo have to acknowledge from the secretary of the Recruiting Board a boctoct containing a series of tho celebrated cartoons by the Dutch artist, I.nuis Br.-inac-kers. A supply of-these booklets lias ncen received from the High Commissioner, and the Recruiting Board is of opinion they should prove a useful aid to recruiting as.they show clearly, rnd forcibly 'what the people.of this country nav expect should the German arms triumph, and nlso front exactly what into tho eligible- manhood "f the Dominion are • °cd to : protect . their women-fok ami children. Copies are being seiit to every local' authority in the Dominion for frep. distribution amongst the. peoplo cf each [istrict. "A German in Wanganui.ivho is receiving superannuation from ilie Govern* meat told me himself that'he iad aunu-. ally sent to tho Fatherland r.onev as a contribution to tho Gerinan navy fvnds, - said Mr. T.' K. Williams at an niti;Ger. man League meeting, reports \fce Via-: I liganui Herald." -Mr Williams wfnt.on to say that he had'himself brought tho matter under the notice of tho suthorities but no action had been taken. The M to Z Petitions Committee yesterday concluded the hearing of evidence in the several petitions received aiking that hotel bars Ijo closed atJio._clock.duriii" war time. The • connnitteo vill-pio-Übly report to the House next .week: At a meeting of tlio Wellington Trades and Labour' Council tho following motion was adopted unanimously: "This council expresses' its profound astonishment at learning, on tho au- ' thority of tho Hon. James Allen, that up to'and including the Eleventh l\einforcements only 3159 married men were inoluded in the force, and that the number of dependants was only as the liabilities of the Government are so much less 'than the conscriptiomsts have led the public to infer, wo call upon tho Government, to increase the soldiers paj by 7s. per week, thus bringing it up to tho Australian standard. the Government ma;? think, we contend that tho New Zealanders are as good soldiers as the Australians, and arc entitled to equally good treatment If the Government -is not prepared to accordtheiu this treatment, we suggest that it modifj. its embargo on the emigration of men of militarv age to tho extent of permitting them to go to Australia for the purpose of enlisting there." ' The application of ethics to law has proved' at times somewhat risky, even although it is alleged that the host lawyers have been- distinguished by high principles. ' When, speaking of what ho regarded as an attempt. to ■ evade the le''acv dutv in a case before the Appeal Court yesterday, the Solicitor-General observed: "There is no reason why a person should not <levise a scheme for the purpose of -evading taxation. It. lurni-v one of the highest pleasures oLem-v lo tr al mM," «iiul tho Court, highly amused, expressed its aiua/.enicnt at such a declaration coming from the SolicitorGeneral, who, st.-eing the double-edge of his remark, joined in the laugh, adding, "My own position, of course, excepted!"

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' The vital statistics recorded in Napier last month, as compared with the corresponding period of 1915, wero as under, the previous year being shown in parentheses 15irths, 37 (44); 'deaths, 17 (13); marriages, 7 (10). . ■ •

In. tho House : yesterday, the Eon. V. liuddo gave notice to ask the Government whether they would liave prepared' a daily budget of . Home news to be forwarded to our soldiers at the front on similar lines to that proposed to be provided by 'the Tederal Government in Australia: '

A simile used by the Solicitor-General in';a legacy duty case at the Appeal Court yesterday raised a ripple' of laughter in tile. Court before its actual conclusion. Describing a feature of the case to an . advising solicitor, tho SolicitorGeneral . observed: "'l'he ; difficulty was how to!get out of ,the frying-pan of, the deatli , duties, without, falling 'into tho fire," and the Court . laughed; but'tho "fire," of course, meant was that of tho gift dut.v. Subsequently a legal light with a glimmering knowledge of tho classics averred, that what the SolicitorGeneral could have said was that in endeavouring to escape the Scylla of the death duties the solicitor struck upon the Charvbdis'of the gift duty.' Metaphors are like wild cattle; difficult to handle.

A member of the crew of tin- Knramea, lying at the Glasgow Wharf, had a Barrow escape, from drowning last night. The'man, whose name is Hans Niitsen, was determined to desert, and after having once been returned to his ship by the police, .endeavoured to reach, the.shore again by sliding down the wile stern lines oT the ship, lie had slid some twenty yards down the ropes when he was noticed- by the poiice, who - .were standing byi Being somewhat'under the influence of drink, the man lost his balance. when within, a few. yards, of the ivharf, and had itnot been for Constables Baskin and Swnn reaohing out, and with considerable difficulty dragging liim to safety, he would - .undoubtedly have 'dropped into the water.oThe adventurous man of the-sea was once more returned to his ship.

~ In regard to the case of Onhston, the man from Australia who is stranded in Auckland through lost' It's passnort from' Sydney..-to - Vancouver, the Hon.,G. W. 'Russell- states' that Ormsto'n was a ; through passenger for Vancouver. He arrived in possession of' a passport issued by the' Commonwealth Oct eminent, which 'requested the New Zealand Government'to secure the passnort. Ho was therefore .intercepted on the departure'of the' Kiagara, . .and kis passport was collected, hy the police. Nob being in possession ol' a" permit _from tii© New Zealand Government to leave this ccuiitry.. lie had : to reniain" in, New" Zealand. The Commonwealth j Government was communicated' willi, and informed that .its request had been complied t?;th, ana tils'passport .secured. /In reply, a cablegram was .received.asking that tie passport should be sent back. tr> the ["Minori-ties'ill-Melbourne, and this is:-being done.

■iccordirig to plans published in v. ew TYork- in-April, the .Inter-Ocean Submarine Engineering: ..Co? "Will: shortly .commence the'worlc of salving cargoes of butlion' and other, valuables, from vessels sunk' as tferesult.'bf .the/European \\ ar\mon'«t th<i .numerous' -vessels to receive the-attention of this enterprising ■will bo the'Lusitania, and'altogether it is estimated that a total of ,660,(100,000 worth of goods can. lie. recovered,. from vessels which are 'not more than 400 ft. below the surface.' The president of the corporation is Rear'-Admiral Chester, U.b.iN. (retired)/ and many prominent American bankers, including Mr. Geoige ]?. Baker, are providing the financial backing. The moving spirit in the pterprise is ChieN Gunner Stillson, U.S.N, (retired), who devised plans for raising the America* submarine 1?4 from .Honolulu waters awl who is credited with several invention* t.o facilitate, deep-sea salvage and operations. The -orapany plan* to wort in: conjunction with the marine unde - writers who have *paid losses on the sunken vessels,-to'whom it is d t0 _ pay.B to-10..per,cent, of.the >alues re covered."

-Sir E- T. Ellingham,. a member of the Woili'ngton Land Board, has been granted leave of absence to visit Australia.

Frank Fhilpot,-aged about 10 years, a son of "Sir. Frederick •Phdpot-, pnnters machinist,' 1 residing cent,' was -kn«ked dow* aWmf'iSO-' yesterday*.in .JUt- • birnie. It' - appearsthat -.-the • boy was walking across the tram of an approachm?: car, when he hes tatcd and commenced to run back. Before the accident could be averted the car struck him, and he was thr w n ™" lentlyrto the ground. Dr. H- A.-Dfr-Uu tour was summoned,-and on- examjna tion he found, that Philpot J 5 "®® in" from a severe cut oil the head ana concussion. The boy was removed to the Hospital where, on .inquiry late last night, it was ascertained that he waS progressing as well as could; he expected. iT a leaflet published in. the United States, Mr. George L. Fox, principal of the University School New Haven, Connecticut, makes the following comparison of crime in Germany The population of Germany is to that of England as sto 3. "As.to crime, the proportion of bigamy, is 1 to 2 nearly, m incest, about 13 to 1; in procuring it is 284 to 1; in procuring abortions it is 29 to 1; in unnatural offences -it is I to 1;' in sexual crimes -it is ? to 1; in murder, manslaughter,- ana other death-causing crimes it is 5 to 1; .ill arion it is abont.4 to 1..gard to-divorces it is M ,to 1- >s to illegitimate births,it is o to ;; l. the number of suicides is four times as. great as in England. ■. These rfieures will not surprise .those familiar with the religious condition. of Germany anrt ,with the materialism that dominates -its .ruler,.. They indicate that the criminal brutalitj that has-characterised the German treatment of defeated foes is just- ; what might have been expected.. As. a nation we can "et little satisfaction out of our own records of' crime, .but perhaps it may afford- some consolation to know mat them are others worse.

"Messrs. Baldwin and Kay ward, patent attorneys and consulting engineers. 01 -15 Lambton Quay,-report that recently they filed the. following applications for letters-patent of New Zealand:—A. h. Blade, Auckland, killing weeds; D. A. Haivkeiv, wire-strainer and knotter; it, Baevertz. Auckland, knife-cleaner; C. N. Blake,' Wellington, parcel fastener; J. Petersoni' Seattle, transmittingpower;,T. K GasMn,' Woodford, reversible boats; JohnWtanville Co., ( New York, v' firs extinguisher; L. 3. Amp*; reinforcements: A. nn<l T. ujombo, Perth, hold-up clip; It; T - Mai-ha.i, 'Wellington, .periscope... The house of "Fowlds" stands for quality, just remember .this.w.hen you insnect our barcain suits at 2/s. 6d„ 355.. and- 425. 6d.. Geo. I'owlas, Ltd., JUnners Street.—Advt. . '" Ladies, Listen U "No Rubbing, lanndrc Help" washes all clothes clean without rubbing-or injury to hands or finest fabrics; Is. package, sufficient for seven weeklv washings Wm, Campbell, Ltd, -Advt. " '