LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3034, 22 March 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A stor.y to the following effecTr is told: A southern lawyer enlisted, and was rojccted by tho medical men. Later ho was drawn in tho ballot. When ho was again oxamincd, ho wag passed as fit, though he protested that that could hardly bo tho case. Howovor, ho was ordered to go into camp, so ho sold his business, and did so. At tho camp ho was rojccted as totally unfit for active service. Ho returned to his town and prosecuted the doctor who' had declared him to bo fit, and tho matter was sottlod out of court through tho payment of a sum of monoy.

John Dome, tho convict who escaped from Mount Cook on Saturday, was still at largo at an early hour, this morning.

A Press Association message from Sydney; states that the operation of tho Daylight Saving Act will ond at two o'clock on Sunday morning. There is every indication that it will not be rovived.

Th« total number of wen out of work in New Zealand last week was fifty, if tho State Labour Department reflects the truo position. There were sixteen unemployed in Christehiircl), seven m Auckland, twenty in DtinefTin, lour in Wellington, and several in the smaller centres.

Somo littlo timo ago an Australian girl camo across to Now Zealand, mid in a while became engaged to a young New Zealandcr. Witn the arrival of l.er twenty-first birthday she became entitled to the handling of ar, inheritiiiice limning into five figures. The pair irera married, anrl in the next bal'loii the mail was drawfl to sorve at .the front.

There is a lino story told im the authority of a, wounded Australian. H says.tho bravest man ho ever saw was

a military chaplain. Ho was on olio of tho barges which worn landing men from our troopships at tlio Dardanelles. A. man was shot down. The chaplain niado a dash to tcsouo and bring the wounded soldier .back to safety, but a Roman Catholic priest standing; near grabbed hold of him, saying: "You must not think of it. Jt is madness. You aro going to certain death." Tho Protestant chaplain shook off tlio restraining hnnd, replying: "I havo got my orders, and thoy como from a higher command; lam going." Ho went and was struck by a bullet wliilo in tho act of beginning his service of love and mercy. _ Instantly I,ho priest sprang aftor him, but tho oflioor in charge of the landing party railed oubt "Stay where you are. I forbid your going. We aro losing too many men." Tho ipriest calmly went on, turning Ins head to say as he passed s "Did you not hear what my Protestant comrado said? I, too, havo got my orders from tlio higher command." Within a few moments lie lay dead besido his brothor of the Cross.

There are not many hands at present on tho books of the State Labour Department as requiring work. Yesterday it was reported! by the head office that Dunedin had four whom it wished to place, and that Wellington had one.

A! solioitor was fined £10 at Invercargill yesterday for failing to cause his trust account to be audited.—Presß Ass.ii.

The Conciliation Council at Auckland yesterday, after a sitting of ten days, arrived at a settlement in the dispute filed by the Timber Workers' Union. The . settlement affects over two thousand men, and involves a substantial increase in wages.—Psss Assn.

Yesterday morning a batch of about, fifty South Island men arrived in Wellington to go into camp. They were provided with breakfast at Buckle Street barracks, and afterwards went on to Trenthaniy Camp.

If last week's Labour Bureau figures are a guide, there is not much surplus labour in Wellington just now. During the week thirty-five men applied in the city for work, and thirty-one of flTem were placed in employment. At the end or the week there were only, four men retained on the books as in need of work.

John Archer, charged in the MajajistrateV Court at Cnrisfehimjh with betting at totalisator odds and betting in the Gladstone Hotel, was fined 40s. on each of the first two charges, and £20 for betting on licensed premises.— Press Assn.

i The City Inspector .(Mr. James Doyle) and his staff are at the present time conduoting a raid on unregistered dogs in the oitv. It may he true, Mr. Doyle says, that every dog has his day, but it is open to considerable doubt as to whether 50 per. cent, have their licenses, and oollars to prove it. The time for registration elapsed on January 14, and now, as sufficient latitude has been given dog-owners, proceedings are to be taken at once against them if their canine friends are not brought within the law. A batoh of summonses have already been issued against lax owners, and the cases wiH come before the S.M. Court next week.

The Commandant of Trentham Camp (Colonel H. R. Potter) has notified the secretary of, the Returned Soldiers' Club that the services of the Trentham Camp Band will be available for Anzao Day, April 23. The N.Z. Kennel Club has allotted the championship for smooth-coated collie dogs to the Wairarapa P. and A. Society for its next show.

I 'At the anniversary of the Brooklyn Baptist Sunday School on Tuesday the ! annual report stated that all th© Dial© teachers and all the officers of the school, including superintendent, secretary, treasurer,. and librarian—had enlisted, and were all serving with the colours, except one. Being a grand.fatter of some years' standing, he was turned down as too old; but he is\represented by a soil now serving [in France, who lias been awarded tho D.C.M. Thirty-three had gone from the sohool and ohnrch, of whioh number, two had made the .supreme sacrifice.

Mr H. 'A. W. M'Kenzie has been asked by councillors and ratepayers of Eastbourne to allow himself to bo nominated for a seat on the local Borough Council, and has promised an answer in a few days.

Some response has already been made by Maori settlers to tho appeal issued by the Minister of t Internal Affairs on behalf of the National Historical Colleotion. Only a few days after the appeal Nm posted, one of tho recipients landed 111 a copy of the proclamation and speeches made at the instal lation of Mahuta, the present Maori "King." Suoh 'doonments as these expressed In paper are certain to have but a fleeting existence, and in the course of another decade or two will probably be unprocurablo. In another fifty years th© idea of a Maori will be so foreign to existing conditions that the details of suoh a coronation will be a valuable commentary on the social history of the most loyal and intelligent coloured race acknowledging British sovereignty. There isno doubt that it only needs the interest and advocacy of a fow'Maori chiefb and gontlemen to awaken a wide response to the needs of the National Historical Collection.

All members of the Jewish persuasion in tho camps, as far as is possible, are to ho given leavo from April 6to April 13, for'the .Jewish holidays and passover.

A draft of over forty men from Wellington City and suburbs were dinpatohed to camp yesterday.

With the approaoh of winter, Rugby is again being arranged for. The annual meoting of delegates to the tWellington .Busby Onion is to take place on April 17.

Shooting stars aro a common occurrence, but usually only last a second or so. Shortly after 8 o clock last ovening a particularly brilliant raoteor was observed moving from the southern skies to tho northward. In the nrst part of its flight it appeared to shod numbers of very small bright particles in its wake. Once or twico it was obscured, |>ossibly by clouds, but again appoared on the same route, a , nd nnaUy disappeared from sight to the north. It was estimated that tho meteor was in sight bewcen sovon and ton seconds.

Tho Minister of Defcnco has written to the Christchurch Dcfonco Committee iu .reply to a. letter urging for consideration tlio claims of men who voluntarily enlisted"and lrere rejected as unfit for the ISxzSfidilioiiary Force, and then, subsequent to May, 19l0i married, b.ut aro still in the First Division of the Reserve (says the 'Lyltelton Times"). Inter alia, the Minister writes: —"I noto your suggestion that tlift Military Service Boards should he asked to regard men who emuo within this category as belonging to the Second Division, and to adjourn their appeals sino die, so that they way wnsMercd when tho Sco ond Division "Reservists are being oalled up, Jiii! I am rcforrinjj it lo the Recruiting Hoard for consideration."

On Saturday, March 31, & man will I.raverao tlio principal streets of this city and present a half-sovereign to oaohl person who, od request by him, can produce a. Rod Cross art union ticket.*

NV.wil Wjn.linc continual rise? ' in prii'f* oT leather; we cau still quote good, (.tout Men's Boots at 19s. 6d., 245. 6d„ 27p. 6d., and 30s. Geo, Fowlda, .Ltd.— Ad»fc • ' i

Maintaining: that all the men who desirei! to volunteer had already done so, and tliafc tho present system of voluntary enlistment was both costl.v and wasteful, mom bars of tho Auckland executive of tho Farmers' Union Dii/ssed a motion uruing the Government to do away with the voluntary system. Mr. R. D. Duxlicld, who proposed tho motion, said men enlisted now because they knew it was only a maLtar .or time before they would he called up, and therefore tho original spirit of volunteering had been lost. Major I/usk urged full conscription. Mr. .P. J. Kcegan referred to tho expense of maintaining recruiting offices in districts where all tho men who intended to vojjmtivir had. 'lone einco loft for tho front. Captain Colbeck, whr> also uphold tho resolution, considered that the work of the Efficiency Board would bo greatly aided if the resolution wero put into effect. Moreover, ho did not ceo why men .who had successfully "dodged" several ballots should still he enabled to rank as volunteers. Mr. ,1. Boddie expressed tho only dissentient view. He considered there was yary_ little chance of tlia union effecting its object, and that in passing the resolution it would ho going farther than was necessary.

A" point of interest to landlords and tenants was montioned at the hearing of a case in tho Supreme Court at Wanganyi. His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards said many,. oven among tho legal fraternity wero of opinion that if a tenant paidi ront by the weok he was entitled to only a week's notice, but that was not the law. Unless thero ! was a special agreement as to what length of notice was required, a tenant was ontitled to a month's written notice. Tlio caso was one in which a (landlord, wishing to rebuild, gave a tenant a week's notico to leave a house, but the latter claimed a month's notice. The landlord thereupon pulled down two chimneys and the verandah, and tho iJenant entering an action, 1 received £50 damages.

: The value of X-ray photography was sliown in a striking manner in the case of Menco v. the New Zealand Shipping Company (says a southern papor), which case was tried at Invercargill on March 7 and 8, before Mr. Justice Sim and a jury. The plaintiff sustained injuries on tho Bluff wharf hy a hale of goods falling on liis back from the slings, ex the s.s. Remuera, in June, 1916. Ho did not iccover quickly, and an X-ray photograph, taken soine months after the accident disolosed, for the first tiine, tho fact that a small piece of Mence's collarbone lad been proken off close to tho shoulder joint, and thus had made the joint stiff and painful. _ After seeing the photograph and hearing medical evidence, the jury found for the plaintiff for £950 damages, for whioh sum judgment was entered'accordingly, with costs on. the highest scale.

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