LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2915, 30 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

X tireless message received from tlib captain of the Moeraki last evening stated that he expected his vessel to arrive at Wellington, from Sydney at 8.30 a.m. to-day. The Moeraki is bringing an Australian mail only, and' she will berth at the Queen's Wharf. The mail steamer Makura is due at Auckland from Sydney this morning. She is bringing the northern portion of the mail, which consists of 83 bagß. The Hon. J. Allen has received advice that the 16th Reinforcements have arrived safely at their destination. \

Two Rhodes scholars are to bo selected in Mew Zealand this year. One will take" the- place of Lieutenant Atbol Hudson (killed in action), and the other selection will be made in the ordinary course. The Selection Committee is to meet at Government House on December 1. Victoria College' has nominated Mr. H. A. M'Kenzie (son of Prof essor. Mackenzie) and Mr. A: F. Meldrum (son of Lieutenant-Colonel Meldrum). Both Mr. Meldrum and his father are at the front, and Mr. Mackenzio is going into camp. The Otago nominees are Messrs. A. M, Rhinesmath and J. W. Hinton, while Auckland has nominated Messrs. W. J. Plat£ and H. E. RoynoMs. The Canterbury nominations are not yet announced.

At a'special meeting of the members of the Wellington Licensed Milk Vendors' Association hold to discuss the queHion of ffie proposed municipal clearing-house, the. following resolution was passed:—"That this .meeting favours a milk station for tho city of Wellington which has for its main objeot the-treating of all supplies arriving for distribution in the city. That half, the cost of treating the supplies at the clearing-house be debited to the farmer. That the clearing-houso bo under tho control of a board consisting of representatives of the Wollington City Council, the Vendors' Association, aud the- Farmers' Association." ■

During the past year the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals dealt with 315 cases of cruelty or alleged cruelty. Of these by far tho greater number related to tho .maltreatment of horses. There were no fewer' than 104 oases of working lame horses, 65 cases of working horses with sores, 100 ill-treatment by flogging, 11 overloading, 11 skin disease, and 18 underfeeding. Among the animals destroyed by the inspector were 27 horses, threo cats, fourteen dogs, and one monkey. Of the seventeen cases brought before the Court, only two were dismissed. The fines amounted to £44 4s. 6d. In two cases the offenders were given fourteen .days' imprisonment, without the option of a fine.

An alteration of some importance to members of the legal profession has been decided upon by the Judges of the Supreme Court in connection with the Court at Gisborne. The Court will in future be presided over by a Judge from the Wellington district, and all interlocutory and ox parte matters awaiting attention will be forwarded to Wellington instead of to Auckland, as heretofore.

Colonel Logan reports from Samoa as follows, under date October 21, on the health of the garrison:—"Lieut. J. B. Watkis, not yet diagnosed; Ptes. W. Young vertigo, Wrixson dog bite, Andrews haemorrhoids." ,

A sensation wu6 caused at Hik'urangi railway station on Friday morning (says the Whangarei correspondent of the "N.Z. Herald"), when a uumber of poeple witnessed a remarkable escape from fatal injury. Mr. and Mrs. Perry left the early train from Whangarei at'Hikurangij'and while Mr. Perry was collecting parcels Mrs. Perry, with a baby ten months' old', in a go-cart, and a boy three years old, started across the line for tho township. As they sot out no truck apparently was in sight, but on passing tho end of the goodsslied a truck hit the go-carfc, carrying it and the baby through tho shed. The screams of thov mother soon brought help, when it was found that tho.baby escaped injury. : Tho go-cart had ovi-' dontly run on ahead of the truck before the baby was thrown out. Tho go-cart was smashed to pieces. The boy, who was holding on to the go-cart when it was struck, recoived a scalp wound and a bruised wrist. Mrs. Perry escaped injury. * At a meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board on Friday, it was decided to send delegates to the conference convened by the Wellington Board to discuss tho question of the purchase of hospital supplies. Mr. J. D. Ritchie, chairman of the Land Purchaso Board, will inspect on Tuesday certain properties in the Mattel ton district that are under olfer to to the Government for settlomeut by returned soldiers.

Owing to the wet weather on Saturday it was found necessary to postpone the opening of the Wellington Tennia Club's courts.

A giri aged six years, tho daughter of Mr. M. Sullivan, 26 Martin Street, was admitted to the Hospital last evening suffering .from burns about tho head and face. The child fell into an open fire while playing in her parents' house, and suffered considerable injury. v

"The Hal of tho'Season." Wo fit the Straw Boater to any head—ls. Gd. to t2s. fid., at Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Stroet.—Advt.

We sivo champions for No-Rubbins Laundry. Help in Is. cartons becaueo it is a. wonderful boon to thrifty housekeepers, Hill Bros.—Advt.

The Mission Band played in the Hospital grounds yesterday afternoon. A collection in aid of the Hospital funds realised £1 6s. sd.

Tho gymkhana and festivities which commenced in Napier on Friday evening and terminated on Saturday night, iind which were organised in aid of tho Christmas Gifts Fund, were successful in every respect, says our Napier correspondent. Up to the time of telegraphing about £1000 had been accounted for. The Commercial Travelers' Association were mainly responsible for the sucqess of the, proceedings. .

Many of the soldiers reported to be suffering from various ailments in the military camps aro being given treatment in,tho new inhaling rooms, where the patient breathes a 'strongly antiseptic vapour, and the results aro reported to bo very good. During last week 183 cases were treated, and of 'these 162 wore cured, 6 are described as much improved, and 10 no change. They aro divided into tho following cases:—-(a) Carriers of cs.ro. —8 treated and 8 cured: (b) contacts c.s.m.— treated 68, declared free after treatment 68; (c) sore throats—treated 105, cured 86, much improved 5, no change 8; (d). influenza—treated 2, no ehango 2." General Henderson, Director of Medical Services, mentioned on Saturday that there was now oniy_ one caso at Trentham seriously ill, this being a case of_ cerebro-spinal meningitis. 'Tho others in hospital were doing -well, and otherwise the health of tho men in camp was good.

A prolific source of dust in tho vicinity of Courtenay Place and Manners Street during last week's blustering gales was 'that block of land recently occupied by the Manners Street Police Station. The' site has been left strewn with broken bricks,, disintegrated plaster, and brick-dust, which whirls up in great eddies when the currents of wind volley together at tho corner. ■ This section should either he entirely 'clean(xl up, so as not to create a nuisance, or the city authorities might make an arrangement to keep tho block well watered. At present the amount of grit that flics from the section is a source of annoyance to citizens and a nuisanco to business people in tho vicinity.

It' was intended to open the i cricket season on Saturday afternoon, but on account of the wet weather the openinghad to bo again postponed.

A fire occurred in Mr. Claude Collett's furniture store-room, at tho rear of his premises, Jackson Street, Petone, on Saturday morning, about 9.45. Some flax tow was being weighed, and, in order to see the weight registered on the machine, a match was struck, and apparently dropped into tho inflammable tow, which was quickly ablaze, setting firo to a mattress and several bales of.kapoc. Several members of the Fire Brigade were quickly upon the scene, and the outbreak was speedily checked. Tho building was not 'damaged, and the loss on the stock, which was uninsured, is estimated at about £20.

"No part of tho educative work of the Workers' Educational Association will be more important than that hav-. ing for its object the teaching of workers that, to make up for tho wastage of war, there must be greater efficiency and more strenuous effort," said Mr. K. K. Mnlgan at the Workers' Educational Association Conference in Auckland. "The Empire will box in the position of a family that finds its income greatly reduced, and realises that it will have to work harder if it is to pay its way. The education of the worker, if it is to be of real and lasting benefit, must convince him of the necessity for more highly developed mental, moral, and physical faculties, the development of which will produce greater all-round efficiencyNThcse faculties can be developed only _by_ a sound system of education beginning with the child and continuing with the youth and with the man."

An- instance of how the study -of the language of a nation gives an index to the character of its people was furnished by Sir. F.' V. Frazer, S.M., in the course of-a speech at the annual dinner of the Pukckoho Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Frazer said that the English language was a polyglot language, and included words, phrases, and definitions borrowed from the vocabulary of other nations. It was significant that three words now largely employed by English-speaking peoples were of German origin. They were plunder, swindle, and loafer. There were other words also derived from tho German, but they w,ere mostly terms, and names of metal, such as zinc and cobalt. In the German language, however, there was one word peculiar to German use alone—schadenfreude. The word meant a malicious enjoyment in the injuries and misfortunes of others, a spirit that was apparently' rampant among the German people at the present time, added tho speaker. One of the head employees cf a Dnncdin clothing business which since the outbreak of the war has turned- out thousands of uniforms lias given some interesting information. the chest measurements of "he yc'ung men of the Dominion. He showed a chart which went to prove that in the very great' majority of cases tho chest measurements, over the clothes, ranged from 3-lin. to 36in.—equivalent to 32in. 1o 34in. next the skiii. J3f course, said the informant, from about 25 years onward the men may get fatter round the chest, and thus recced a bigger chest measurement, but fr's does not mean au actual increase in lung power, tic went.on to remark that the plvysjquc of the boys now coming under his observation was much better than was the case some years and that tho cadets, for instance, were showing a gradually improving development. When asked for an explanation of the cause of the improvement, tho clothier said that in his opinion it was the result of two thincs. In the first place the conditions of life in New Zealand some 20 to 26 vears ago were very much harder than tliev have lieon since, and the offspring of tho parents of that period were as a consequence not so hardy or virile, speaking generally, as they should have been. Tn the second place the boys and girls were now better fed and cared for and given greater .opportunities to go in for physical culture, snirl they wore beginning to show the effect of that *aro and culture. Bny-s of 18 or 10 years of age to-day were noticeably better developed than boys of oven five to 10 years ago.