LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2851, 16 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The postal authorities advise that tlio s.s. Moeraki, which sailed from Wellington on August 10, carrying mails for Australia aud the United Kingdom, via Suez, arrived ill Sydney on Monday morning.

It is stated, says our Masterton correspondent, that an. old ago pensioner who is an inmate of tho Solway Home in Masterton has definitely established hie claim to a sum of £62,000, which has been in Chancery for a number of years. The man has notified tho Hospital authorities _of his intention to leave the institution in order to proceed to England, an amount of '£500 having been placed to his credit to defray his expenses.

The date for receiving applications for tho War Loan commenced on Friday, and since then the Post Office has received applications from a considerable number of small investors. Every day the business increases, and generally it appears that the loan is considered an attractive investment by persons who wish to invest small amounts, up to £50. The banks also report encouraging inquiries from clients for both large and small amounts.

At last evening's meeting of . the Rugby TJnion Committee a case was mentioned where a man who was single, of military ago, and who had not enlisted, liad played in a match. It was decided that the secretary write to tho club concerned, and ask for an explanation as to why tho man was allowed to play. The rules prohibit such a man playing.

Yesterday was tho second anniversary of the departure from Wellington of the advance guard of tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which occupied Samoa. An official farewell, was tendered. to the troops at the Basin Reserve on August 14, and the next morning tho Moeraki and Moana slipped quietly out of the harbour. Colonel Logan commanded, and Lieut-Colonel C. Harcourt Turner was in charge of the infantry section. Tho force' was largely composed of Wellington men, tho following units being represented: "D" Mountain Battery (Wellington), New Zealand Engineers, No. 4 Field Company (Wellington), sth (Wellington) Regiment—Macfiine-gim Section, "A'"Company, "B" Company, Band; Wireless Squad; New Zealand Railway Engineers; Army Service Corps; New Zealand Medical Corps; Motor-boat Engineers.

The patriotism of Labour was acknowledged and commended by tho president of Che Wellington Employers' Association (Mr. W. J. Thompson) at tho annual meeting. "Although wo aro at times in strenuous opposition in industrial matters to large numbers of the workers," said Mr. Thompson, "it is gratifying to be ablo to bear testimony to the fact that when the great national crisis arose our workmen proved they woro Britishers first and unionists after. Wo gladly rccogniso that Labour has done and is doing its full sharo Goth in tho supply of men and by co-operating with employers and the authorities in all that concerns our military. Those loaders of Labour who nave set an example to the rank and file of workers by joining tho Forces are especially to bo congratulated." .

We make bold to say that every prosperous grocer in Auckland now stocks "No Rubbing Laundry Help." likewise every wholesale merchant. The run is ou tho Is. cartons.—Add;. No need to be shabby even thouph your money may be short. Good Suits 1 reduced to 275. 6d., 375. 6d., and 455„ at Geo. Fowlds, I.td., Mariners Street.— Advt. !

Tho Post Ofiico recently' approached various persons in businoss in' Wellington who have suitable windows and asked them to exhibit a poster directed to possible small investors in tho War Loan. Tho response in many cases wa6 most gratifying, but in a number of instances, we are informed, excuses wero mado or tho posters were accepted and not displayod. Apparently there are shopkeepers whose patriotism does not go the length of exhibiting a poster .in tho cause which all are supposed to have at heart.

In the cases against Edward Foreman and Henry Hudson Perfect, charged with indecent assault, heard last week, and in which the juries disagreed, now trials have been fixed for Monday next by Sir. Justice Chapman. Perfect was admitted to bail on his own recognisances, and Foreman on the same bail as previously.

A lad, aged 15, who was charged in the Juvenile Court yesterday with smoking oigarottes, informed the Court that he "had been smoking cigarettes bo long that he found it difficult to give up the habit." In convicting and discharging the boy, His Worship advised him to make a big effort to leavo tifE smoking.

An enthusiastic meeting was held in Suva on the anniversary of the declaration of war. Bishop Twitcliell, of Polynesia, in a speech, said: "As a minister of the gospel I say there is something higher and greater than peace, and that is justice, and liberty, and the triumph of right and the victory of human freedom. You and I are going to express our determination that a nation which stops at nothing, which sets at naught tlio elementary principles of honour, right, and life, must be taught, whatever the sacrifice of life or money, by the only method that they themselves can understand, that tho way of tho transgressor is hard, and that ho who does and teaches such things must perish from tho earth."

The licensed victuallers of Auckland decided yesterday that retail prices should not be increased,' but that the quantity of spirits usually given when a sixpenny glass is called "for should be reduced.—Press Association.

A portion of tho ensign mast of the battle-cruiser New Zealand, struck by a Germae. shell during tho action with the German High Sea Fleet .in the naval battle off Jutland on May 31, has been' exhibited in tho window of the New Zealand Government Office, Strand, London. Tho spar has been presented to the people of Now Zealand by the officers and men serving in the ship at the time, and lias been temporarily placed in tho midst of a very fine display of the wool industry of the Dominion.

A Rugby football match'between a team from tho Seventeenth Expeditionary Forco Reinforcements, now on final leave, and the Auckland representatives, was played at Eden Park on Saturday, in aid of tho Children's Hospital Equipment Fund, and the Regimental Fund. Despite the showery leather, fully; 3000 spectators were present, and were rewarded with an exceptionally good game, even in the unfavourable conditions. Tlio Auckland representatives, who were chosen from teams playing in the restricted competition, won by 24 points to nil. As the result of the effort, it is expected that over £100 will be 'available for division and allotment to the funds mentioned, in the proportion of twothirds to tho former and one-third to the latter.

Several months ago it was reported that Anton Lang, the well-known Ohristus of the Passion Play_ at OberAmmergau, had been killed in battle, hut in a few weeks the report was denied. All doubt now about his being killed in action recently has been dispelled ,by the receipt of a letter by Miss Isabel Brown, president of the Socity of Applied Scienco, St. Louis, from Innsbruck", 1 Austria. Lang's death, the letter says,, was tragic. Ho had been sent to the front -with the German army, and the scenes- he saw were so terrible that he broke down and had to return to Bavaria. After recuperating lie was again sent to fight, and was killed in action. His trado, was • that of, a potter, and his pottery was known all over tho world. Lang had been seen in tho part of Christ by millions.

At a meeting of tho Central Committee of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Monday, a communication was received from the ln-spcctor-Gcneral of Hospitals, acknowledging receipt of a letter suggesting tho centralisation of cases of infantile paralysis needing prolonged treatment, and stating that such a scheme was being formulated. The idea is to send all the serious cases to tho Wellington Hospital, each board contributing a proportionate cost of the cases sont. To prevent confusion of identity it should'be stated that it is Captain Asa N. Whitney, of the mercantile marine, who is interested and active in tho organisation of motor-boat patrols. Some of our readers have thought that it was Mr. Cecil A. Whitney, attorney and manager,of tho Colonial Ammunition Co., Ltd., who was concerned in that movement, but such is not the case.

Tile South British Insurance Company directors. have resolved to apply lor £100,000 worth of the New Zealand War . Loan, says a Press Association telegram from Auckland.

A horse was recently sold in tho Otaki pound for 4s.

The Canterbury Employers' Association is calling tlic attention of its members to Clauses 40 and 41 of the Military Sorvicc Act, 1916. These clauses read i—"Employers not to employ reservists unless enrolled. Every person shall bo guilty of an offence, puuisliablo on 'summary convictions by a fine not loss than £20 and not more than £100, who at any time after tlio enrolment of any division or class of tlio reserve lias been proclaimed and directed employs in his service, or continues in sucb employment for more than seven days any man who belongs to tliat division or class, and who is not enrolled therein, unless'the defendant proves that he believed on reasonable grounds that the man so employed or retained in his service did not belong to that division or class, or was enrolled therein."

On Sunday afternoon a motoring party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. D. Shaw, of Leithfield, an elderly couple, tlieir son, a young man, Mr. E. Shaw, and a motor expert from Christcliurcli, liad a narrow escape from 6erious injury in a motor-car accident on the Sefton-Ashley road,- reports a Christchurch paper. Mr. Shaw, sen., had purchased the car a few days before. It was a five-scater, and the expert was teaching Mr. Shaw, jun., to drive. They bad been for a long run through the Weka Pass and were dosconding Houghton's Hill, tho steepest incline of the road from Sefton to Ashley, when, it is stated, the steering gear jammed. Tho expert called to tho driver to put 011 the brake, but unfortunately the accelerator wa6 prossed, with the result that tho car bounded forward, sworved to tho roadside into a deep declivity, and struck a willow tree stump with great force. The occupants were thrown out, but escaped l with less injury than might have beon expected. Mr. Shaw, jun., and the expert were thrown through the wind screen and both were badly out about the face, and tho former sustained a broken rib. Mr. Shaw, sen., and Mrs. Shaw were badly bruised and shaken, but 110 bones were broken. Tho car was badly injured, the front part being completely wrecked.