LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2908, 21 October 1916, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Postal authorities advise that the s.s. Manuka, which sailed from Sydney at noon on Thursday for "Wellington, carrying Australian mails only, is due here on Monday.

At the request of the Navy League, the Union Steam Ship-. Company has, says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch, consented during the continuance of the war, to.grant return tickets •at single fares to _ members of tho Royal Navy travelling to and from their homes oh the Zealand .coast on the.production of a certificatefrom a responsible officer of. the Naval Department. . •', .-.,» ■

To be a civilian in a training camp' on the days when recruits are being mobilised, is not as comfortable as it is on other v days, when .every. man in civilian clothes is known to be a privileged visitor. A cheery recruit who was waiting outside the attesting office to "be marched to the quartermaster's stores, saw another civilian approaching and bailed him with, "Well, cobber, how goes it? Now you're in, how do you like the view ?" The other civilian passed on without replying. "What's, up with him?" the recruit asked the n.c.o. in charge. . "Ain't he an ordh> ary recruit, or is he going to' be an officer?" "Heaven knows wjjajb he's going to be, son," the sergeant replied, "but anyhow he's not your cobber."

A series of prosecutions under the regulations prohibiting "shouting" will be heard in the Auckland Police Court next Wednesday (says a Press Association telegram). These will bo the first cases brought by the police in Auckland. The cases concern four hotels, and in all 32 informations have been laid, 18 being iii respect to one hotel and four in respect to each of three others,

In tho Magistrate's Court, at Cbristchurch .yesterday, James Faith; chargod with using premises in High Street as a common gaming-house, was convicted and fined £10.

' The managers of the Mastertou Technical School have received twelve applications for the .of home science instructress, •;-rendered vacant by thff.resignation ; pf, Miss G. .G.-Arm,-. strong. The applications;.have-.been referred to a special committee".'

An inquest was opened at the Hospital yesterday afternoon by ; ' Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, Coroner, touching the death of David' Stockbridgc, who collapsed whilo linger chloroform. After hearing." .pa'rfc'pf 'fchq'.ovidenco'j the inquiry was adjpurned. until Tuesday, next, at 2.30 . p.m., "when" Br! Faulke's evidence' will bo taken.. ■ .... ~ '■'

It was resolved by the Trades Council on Thursday: "That the Management .Committee be instructed to '.inquire into the conditions under which places of public entertainment' arc run, with a view to finding put whether further supervision and control is desirable in the public interest."

Passenger traffic on the railways to the Hawke'sßay Show showed an increase of 1200 over last year. The number carried between Napier and Hastings was 3200, as compared-with 2000 ■ last year. The traffio .returns from various districts on: the-line.'show a similar increase. • •-•• ■■••• • ••

Last year a. vote of £250 was'passedon the Estimates for the encouragement of scientific research. The Minister of Internal :Affairs, when advising the New Zealand Institute concerning the grant, stipulated that the money must be spent on researches likely to prove of "economic valne-to New Zealand. Yesterday a /deputation from the standing committee of the!lnstitute waited-upon Mr..- Kussell 'to - ask ,that the • condition relating .to- economic value- be not too rigidly- enforced. "As members pointed out it has beenafact in- science .-discoveries that very few of those researches which have proved.of greatest value to the been undertaken with the idea or object pi finding out something of commercial value.- The scientist seeks■ the exact truth by exact means, and it 6o happens that he often discovers truths immediately -or potentially- of value. So the Institute urged that it was not-pos-sible to draw, a clear, boundary lino between pure- science.-.- and applied, science. A scheme for the -control of the expenditure of the grant upon the advice of the Institute was submitted, rind the Minister expressed approval of it. Another point raised was the lack of books for students undertaking re-searches.'.-The Minister"-undertook' 1 to do all he could to assist investigators" with the purchase of books but of the money voted.

The managers of the Masterton Technical School'.haye decided that, provided satisfactory arrangements oan- be made with the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Association, classes for first aid and homo nursing bo conducted at the Technical School next year. - ■

.During the bearing'of milk prosecution bases at tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr. M. Myers, who was appearing for a defendant company, said, that it was of no use tho Health -Department'prosecuting a milk vendor for something which was not under his control. Thorc was an outcry in Wellington at present, he continued,, and instead of harassing the vendor tho Department should helpjiim. The case under review was one in which a milk company was .being prosecuted for having sold milk not up to standard', and the defenco was that tho milk had been obtained from a dairy farmer and passed through several bends before .the vendor recoived it. , When' ho did the inspector had found that it was not efficient. The Act stipulated that the onus is, on the vendor. ~

Everybody's praising "No Rubbing Laundry Help" because it washes all clothes clean without rubbing or injury to • hands or fabrics. Is. carton does seven weeks' washing. • We give .£lO guarantee that it will not injuro hands or finest fabric. Edwin A6hby—Advt. Tho "Sports'." .Suit, is the suit of ..comfort;, allows freedom of. action.. 425. 6d., at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street— Advt. •■■.-■■■■

"The police have been placed - on I point duty at three places in the city ] to protect the public," said Mr. J. O'Sliea, in the Magietrate's Court yesterday, when two men were fined for riding round Stewart Dawson's corner on motor bicycles at a greater speed than six mijes an hour. Continuing, the city solicitor said that thesomotor. cyolists were, a danger to the public, and furious riding in the city streefej. must bo put a 6top to, otherwise there would he a serious accident one of 'these days'. In the case in question the cyclists were travelling at such'a high rate of speed that the constable on point duty did not have time to put up his hand for them to stop bofore they were past him. The Magistrate (Mr. h. G. Reid, S.M.) also remarked upon the dangerous'practice''..

"We understand,"- says a Nelson paper, "that by the late Lieutenant Atliol Hudson's will he has set aside the sum of £200 to be expended by ■the Council of Victoria College, Wellington, in chemistry research work; also £1G for' a challenge cup,, to be handed over to the- Now ..Zealand Uni-. versity Athletic Tournament delegates for the three-mile foot race. It-may bo mentioned that this is -{ho .race in which lieutenant Hudson.held the record prior to his enlistment and his time for it, wo believe, is still unbeaten."

There is a danger of the sea encroaching on a certain .part, of the Oliiro Road, and persons are helping, it to a great extent by removing shingle, etc., from the spot. Two men were fined for this particular offence in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. According.to Mr. J. O'Shea, city-.soli-citor, the corporation has already spent hundreds of pounds on this road, and it will cost from £500 to £1000 to renew the road from its present state. He stated that there was just as good spoil further Tound, but as it was difficult to /get at people would not go there to lift it.

Twenty-ejght of the. original members of New Zealand's First Contingent | to go to the South African War met together la6t evening for their annual reunion. It proved to be a, most successful evening, 6ong and story_ and a "big talk about old times" being the main features. Colonel Hughes, D.5.0., presided, and there were also present Major. Morrison; Major Ncave/ Captain Mitchell, and men from all over. New Zealand. Captain J. F..Rockstow, N.Z.S.C., acted as secretary of the function in the unavoidable absence of Mr. C. L. Jewell, secretary of the First New" Zealand Contingent Association. Mr. Frank Thomas, well known In musical circles, was at the piano, and the fun was kept going, till. a. late hour, i ' . . A very handsome gift has just- been made to the Dominion Museum by a former resident of this country, Mr. Hugh Handysido? some time of Taulaue, Hawke's Bay, hue now of Dun Aluinn, Aberfeldy, Scotland. He has forwarded to the Director two old and rare books dealing with Scottish "The Black Book of Taymouth," and "Old and Rare Scottish Tartans," both by Donald William Stewart, F.S.A., date about 1850. The Black Book deals very fully with land transactions in Ikecdalbane, and contains a great deal about the family of Breedelbane, one of tlio oldest and the greatest of Scottish Chieftain families. There is a section on old Scottish Heraldry, which is illustrated with coloured plates. The script is Roman, and the book is an uncommonly fine example of old .typography. The other book contains samples of all tartans' known in Scotland. The volume's have been handsomely rebound and are in excellent preservation. ■

: Testing milk was the subject of:a" discourse by, Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. He had been told in evidence that a certain firm had tested its milk supply to customers every day with the lactomoter and the Babcock test had only been applied onco a week. His Worship held the opinipn..,that^JhisJ was not enough. The'.milk,.hq'said', should bo tested by both : instruments daily.

A letter, has been, received by tho president of the Overseas Club, (tho. iloii. Arthur M.'Myers), from Mr..,Eve-' lyn Wrench, the hoi}.' secretary, and. organiser of the cliib in London,, acknowledgingreceipD of the Auckland Aeroplane Committee's contribution of £2500, cabled Home on Ist ult. Mr. Wrench states that he will at once get into touch with- the War Office, with the object of arranging for an Auckland, pilot, to take .charge of tho machine, photographs of which will duly bo sent out to Auckland and will be placed on exhibition on arrival. The Auckland aeroplane is the 75th unit to be presented to the War vOffice by the Overseas Dominions, through the medium of- the Overseas Club, although, of course, large numbers of additional, aircraft- have-been contributed '"' them through' other sources. On October 17 Mr. Myers was requested to cable through to' the Overseas .Club a further sum of £262 125., being balance of subscriptions for the purchase of the aeroplane: so that the total amount collected and forwarded to. date by -the'Auckland-Aeroplane Committee is £2762 12s„ with which ; will be purchased the "strongest, arid .'best., mar chine_ procurable,'to represent Auckland in our flying services at the front.