LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2814, 4 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The postal authorities advise that tho s.s. Wimmora, which sailed from Melbourne on July 1 for Wellington is ■bringing Australian mails only, anil is due here next Thursday.

The Secretary, General Post Office, lias teen advised bv the International Bureau of Telegraph Union that legal time.in Italy has been put forward one hour from June i. ... Tt is interesting to note tliat the two Salvation Army chaplain;; on activo-ser-vice during the Gallipoli campaign Willi tho Australian anil New Zealand troops, have each received tho Military Cross, Caotain (lion- Major) Greene and Captain M'Kenzie. Tlie latter, who was formerly tho editor of the New Zealand ' War Cry," was on Gallipoli throughout the campaign, anil was very popular. The Studholme Junotion Hotel was burned down at 2 o'clock yesterday morain!,'.—Press Association. On the subject, of taxation, Wanganui's representative at the' Council of Agriculture next week will move:—"That this conference express its emphatic protest against an export tax on produce." An institute similar to those established in the various New Zealand training camps lias been erected and equipped ly the Salvation Army for the uso of Now /eaiamlcrs 111 France. Chaplain-Captain Walls, who left with the Ninth Reinforcements, will control this, the other necessary workers being supplied by the Salvation Army International Headquarters. All the expenses in connection with tho institute will be met by the Salvation Army in New Zealand. Many .other buildings ot a similar character are already in full use in France, working among the British and Canadian- particularly. 'The Wairarapa. delegates to the Council of Agriculture, which sits in Wellington next week, will bring forward the following remit; —"That the Agricultural Conference bo asked to t»ko steps to urge upon the Government lite desira&lencss after the trar of the opening of ports in the United Kingdom alt'* Europe to the stock exported tihs Dominion in the interests of the i«u lming community," For your Hoys—We are" showing two good lines in iiovs' and youths' Boots, filu-ome, toe and lieel plalo, J3s. Gd.;box calf, lis. Gd. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street. -Advt. There is no need to pay fancy prices for Records by Caruso, Affre, Kosina Buckinan, Chor';. ; ,'.vsky, Ada Crossley, Peter Dawson, .Tfimieson Dodils, or other artists of special merit, a 6 PATHEPIIONE JtIiCORDS by these artists are procurablo at UNIFORM PRICES, according to size, 10in. at 35.; llin. at 55.; Min at 7s. fid.; all double-sided. Call at OSCAR HEWKTT AND CO., .Pathe Showroom, 56 Cuba Street (just below Btink N.Z.), and hear tho finest records the world produces.—Advt.

This afternoon the executive of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce will meet for the purpose of discussing tho Mudget. The subject was before the Chamber yesterday afternoon, but it was decided to withhold discussion until tho full proposals of tho Finance Minister were known, and it was understood that they would bo made known last night. Two young camels for the Wellington "Zoo" were on board the Riverina which arrived from Sydney yesterday.

"That in view of the fact that the Australian Government proposes to immediately plant largo areas of forest by returned soldiers, our Government be asked to set aside an area for planting by similar means," is a Wanganui remit tb come before the Council of Agriculture in Wellington next week.

A question in regard to the proposal' to segregate the single unnaturalised Dalmatian gumdiggers at Parengn was put to the Prime Minister in tho House last night by' Mr. Payne. The substance of his inquiry was whether the carrying, out of the proposal would provide the' Parenga Gum Company with free Austrian labour. Mr. Massey said that the proposal had nothing whatever to do witli. the providing the company: with free Austrian or any other -labour, j Tho men sent to Parenga would be allowed to work on exactly the same conditions as other Austrian or British dig-; gers ou tho Hold were working:, f hey j wou.ld pay the same .royalty, and would! have tho ri"ht to sell their gum in the open market. >. i The annual conference of the Amalga-j mated Society of Engineers began yester- j day (states a Press Association tele- j f ram from Christchurch). Tb6 /proceedings arc not open to the Press. I

The new Soldiers' Club is to provide a j room for the monthly meeting of th'B; Veterans' Association, and willalso, pro-j vide space for the keeping of Maori \var j relics. : At next week's conference of the Coun- J cil of Agriculture, the followiiig remit • from Northern Riingiora will be ffioved':! "That the University of New Zealand be urged to make agriculture a degree subject."

The fifty-third anniversary of the landing in Auckland of tho Socond Battalion .of the Eighteenth Royal Irish Regiment vriiU be celebrated tq-Uay by a reunion of surviving veterans at the Queens Statue in Albert Park. The original battalion of 700 oSicers and men. landed nt Auckland on July 4, 1863, and during the next seven years uras engaged in active service against the Maoris in the A\>aikato. Of some 300 men who remained in New Zealand when tho main body of tho forco loft in 1870, only a few arc• still alive. Sixteen veterans assembled -at the jubilee celebrations in 1913, there'-woro 19 present at tlie reunion in 1914 and 15 assembled last year.

A question was asked in the House Inst night about the German ex-Consul, Foclce. Mr. Payne asked the Prime Mm* ister whether he was still at largo. Kr. Massey said that so tar as he .Knew Focke was not at large. He had -heard nothing of his release from Somes. Island, and did not think that lie had been released. ...

Councillor W. T. Hildreth lias given notice that he will move the following at the next meeting of the Wellington City Council:—"That this council sho.uld tiiko into consideration the question of acquiring land at Lyall Bay for the purpose of building cottages for tbo tramway employees."

A vigorous expression of opinion, in the course of a discussion on the teaching of civics to children, which took place at the conforonce of headihastors and spectors in Auckland, was made by-Mr. ,T. Armstrong, of Devonport. He said he had strong convictions on civics, and ho could not bear the idea of turning out of schools little men and women at the age of 11' years. It was liis wisli tmre children should leave school as children, and not aS little "prigs," who klVew all about chairmen and votes and majorities and all that kind of thing. The knowledge of the correct-method of placing a folded paper in a ballot-boi was not going fo make a good citizen. If schomTS were turned out of school imbued with tho idea of freedom, lionesty, and truthfulness; if they-were taught, that they belonged to a free race, thpt-their forehad died for freedom, what was meant by justice and fair play; then those children were, turned out good citizens, whether they knew.liow.-to vote ornot. • 1

A Press Association telegram from Greymouth states that many instances of disloyal utterances have been reported lately to the police. Inquiries led to three men appearing in the "Magistrates Court. A cliarge ,against an Italian employee of the railway workshops was dismissed. Frank Marshall, employed m tho State Mines, was fcomlcted and lined and Nicholas Petersen, a naturalised German, employed in Blackball (wi - Intensely disloyal utterances and obserw langunge), was convicted And sentenced to two months'-imprisonment for obscene language, and ono month's iriTpnsonmont tor "disloyalty.

The Canterbury representatives on tho Council of Agriculture have been authorised to bring the following proposal before next week's conference of the council "That.. the A. and P. associations of the Dominion Tie asked to start, and vigorously promote, a movement for collecting fuftds for tho'settlement,on'the land of ruined Belgian farmers."

"Mr. W. B. Bell, who is at present 011 a visit tp Dunedin from Iveleunfein, Malay Peninsula, describes the gift by. the -Sultan of Johore to the British Government of a squadron of freighter aeroplanes, costing as one of a munificent character,, oven although the revenues of the Sultan have been greatly expanded through the development of the rubber industry, says tho "Otaso Daily Times." The Sultan of Johore has, Mr. Bell says, given practical proof in various ways of his sympathy with Great Britain in tlio present war.. Tho, most notable occasion was that of the rising «)f tho Fifth Light Infantry—an Indian regiment composed of Moliammedans-in Singapore, when he placed his armed forces at the disposal of the authorities, and thus assisted materially in quelling an outbreak which presented an exceedingly disquieting aspect. His 111 this' instance was tlio more noteworthy, and, from the British point of view the . more gratifying, inasmuch as, being himself a Mohammedan, eithor his pathies might have been expected to be with the mutineers or, at the most lie might have remained passive. Mr. Bel! adds that it is erroneous to speak of the Sultan as an Indian. The Malayan and the Indian aro two., distinct typiK.

The Wanganui Chamber of Ccmmerce is arranging a conftJV'etice of repiesenlAtives'of local : iodics . between Ohskuno and Wanganui, alfo of Parliamentary ltpresentatives in the area affected, to discuss the possibility of buiUiug a railway lino between Raetihi and \\ augniuii. This is a Sequel to the intimation of the Minister of Railways that a trial survey of the route could not bo earned out owing to tho number of surveyors \\lu have onlisted. The conference will discuss tlie question of building the raihyay r.i;(er tho provisions of the Local hallways i*ct, in the event of tho Gowsniw-nt x-ot beiug prepared to carry out tlio \hia. Press Association.