LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A recent War Bogulation provided far the protection, of soldiers against judicial and other process. An amending reflation issued yesterday in a Gazette Extraordinary stipulates that the earlier regulation shall tie given effect only on the recommendation o£ a. Stipendiary Magistrate.

Some flays ago Mr. J. W. Macdonald, solicitor to the Public Trustee, made certain statements before the First Wellington Military Service Board respecting a solicitor with whom the Public Trust Office liad had some negotiations respecting the solicitor's taking an appointment in that office. A gentleman appeared before tho board yesterday and said that he wished to make a statement on the matter. He added that Mr. Macdonald had had plenty of opportunity to be present and had' not availed of it. He wished to refute Mr. Macdonalds statements. Tho chairman of the board: "Well, if that is so, I must have him here." After some discussion it was decided to give Mr. Macdonald and tho gentleman -who wished the matter mentioned an opportunity to appear before the board at 2.30 to-morrow afternoon.

Probably the most serious injury done to city works by the heavy rain-storm on Saturday night was on the Wilton Road, at Wndestown, near the residence of Mr. Justice Chapman. On previous occasions there havo been floods at this point, and to cope with, them an 18-inch storm-water drain was laid eomo eighteen months ago, and the road above it was solidly filled in. On Saturday evening, however, the big cast-iron drain became choked with debris, and tho water piled up behind, until by. its sheer weight it scoured out the big nLling, leaving the pipo exposed and opening a yawninp: chasm in the middle of the road, which makes it dangerous to trainc. The work of effecting repairs will be put in hand as'eoon as possible.

"Things in the United States just now are rather unsettled owing to the fact that wo are entering upon this world war, and we have gob' to go through a, period of readjustment," says an Illinois farmer in a letter to Mr. T. G. Sargeant, of Wellington, dated May 10. Dairy products here are bringing high prices. For example, laet month on my farm, where I separate cream, I received 45 to 47 eent3 a pound for cream, based on butter-fat content. The price is now down to 40 centg (Is. Bd.}. Hogs have been bringing 1G cents (Bd.) a pound live weight. Potatoes liave been about 1 dollars 'a bushel, wheat 3 dollars a bushel, and corn has Teached the un-heard-of price of 1 dollar 50 cents a bushel. The wheat crop this year is not "oing to be as largo as last year. Iho acreage planted to other grains will be larger than, over before.

The thunderstorm on Saturday night has had the effect of making vehicular traffic in Makara County diffioult m places. Tho bridge across Takarau Eoarf, between Makara and Ohariui, has collapsed and communication between the two places is impossible. There are numerous slips on the Toad also.

The Wellington Industrial Association has established a scientific research fund with the hope of raising_i!so from members during the year. The suni of Ss. has already been, sent to Professor T H Easterfield, of Victoria College, and it ia hoped that this amount will be doubled by the Government subsidy.

About 11.30 a.m. on Sunday a middleaged man named Thomas Brown left his brother's house at the Upper Hutt and •went into the washhouse. Immediately afterwards the report of a pin was heard, and deceased was found clasping the weapon, and the side of Jus head had been blown away. BTown, who was a eingle man, had been a sufferer from insomnia. .

Tho following honours to chaplains are mentioned by the "Guardian ':-Tho Military Cross lias been conferred -upon the Rev. W. H. Fawkes. C 1 ,., curate of Bngloy, Yorks., who "displayed- great courage and determination in rescuing soToral wounded men under very heavy fire." The Ecv. B. G. C/Eorke, who earlier in the war was a prisoner for ten months in Germany, has been awarded the DSO. Ono specially interesting caso is that of the Kev. Konald Irwin. chaplain of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment, who hns been serrvng in Mesopotamia. The- King conferred on him the D.5.0., the Military Cross, and a bar to attach to the Cross. The Rev. K. F. Ashley Spencer, vicar of lylers Green Bucks., who served as naval chaplain with the Grand Fleet for nearly sixteen months, has received from the Aflmiralty a silver war badge in tccosnition of his services. The King of Serbia has awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Fourth Class, to Dr. H. MT3. Price, Bishop of Full Kien, ami late temporary chaplain, and to the Mr. A. C. ,E. Jams, C.l' , . Tho same (Trder of the Fifth Class has been bestowed upon the Her. C. L. H. Beardmore.'C.F-., and tlie Order of KaraKeorge, Third Class', has been awarded to tho principal chaplain, the Eev. A. V. C. Hor'dern, C.IT.G. Tho following temporary, appointments have been approved by the Camp Commandant at Featherston:— Dvr. W. H. Kail, P.E.A.S.C., to be corporal; Sorgt. ,T. Cleary. Headquarters Camp Commandant's Office, to bo orderly-room clerk; Scrgt. B. D. Christie, grooms and orderlies, to bo quartermaster-sergeant. Maintenance Department.—To be sergeants: Pto. H. Harris, Corple. A. .T. Palmer, J. Pooloy, and J. ,T. Fitzgorald. To be corporate: Ptes. J. .T. Boulton, T. L. Davis, W Kohloff.vW. Watson, G. W. Cook, A. Cliell, G. LVStacoy, I' , . E. Dunn, and Lce.-Corpl. W. Matthews. In the course of an entcrtainine lotter from New York, describing the rush of Amoricans to onlist last month, a rcsidont of tho United States, writing to a friend in, Melbourne, tells a good story of tho grit of a young cleric. Tho lad, ho writes, submitted himself for medical examination at tho enlistment depot. He passed in all points except one— weight, in which the boy was 41b. short of the standard. The young American left the depot, immediately "loaded himself up with water," and then returned to tho depot to find that this time his weight was correct! Lieutenant the Rev. "Rl Bramirell Saycr, of the 11th Itoyal Fusiliers, was wounded in action in France on February 18 and died the following day. He was minister of the Herne Hill Congregational Church, London. Preaching at the memorial service. Dr. Forsyth, Principal of Hackney College, told how he first camo in contact with Mr. Saycr, when ho presented himself for entrance at Hackney College, whero ho studied for iivo years. Aftrwards ho went to South Africa, "hardly n place for a temperament so sensitive and a character so gentle," commented Dr. Forsyth. However, testimony has been' borne by those who knew him best in South Africa to the high esteem in which he was held there. Mr. Sayer ministered at Herno Hill from tho new year of 1915 until he felt it his duty to join the Army as a private, "ne hated war from the bottom of his heart, and yet ho went, and 1 incline to think that there have been few instances of more genuine bravery thau was shown by Mr. Sayer." Dr. Forsyth referred to tho hot fighting in which Mr. Sayer had taken part, and read extracts from his letters, including the following:—"To men with imagination and (pniperainent it is a veritable hell. 13ut there, I would not bo out of it. It is worth it, avory bit. It is good to know that 1 am doing my little bit to clean tho world."-