LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 34, 3 November 1917, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho csliil.fi of Mr. i.'. I'. flreciielade, n [l.mcdiii, has liM'H worn ,nl ' probate at about, .£KI(l,0(KI. There are no public bequests.

A iimi! niirond Silk was yesterday engaged in coaling a vessel in jhe harbour when he wnsslruck heavily by a basket of- coal. lie was removed-lo -llie-Hou-pilal suffering from "• mil; °" '*'"> ' , ' ,, " , ami a broken collar-bone. Dr. Hlackmnre, director of the Christrhimdi tuberculosis institutions, reported to tho Hospital Hoard that a. man WHS admitted into the Coronation Hospital on September 17, by order of Dr. Chcsson, under the powers vested in him lv the Public Heallh Act I his was fho first time in New Zealand M)i. Blackniore believed) thai. a. coimimptivo had been compulsonly segregated. . n •mneared to denote the initiation of a S policy Willi regard .«,, tho ej.inpi.mn against consumption on the pa tot tie Public Health Department ami it*•*• likoly to have very Jar-reaching effects. The man died within 481 hours of hw admission. After hearing the circumstances the board expressed its approval of DiC'hesson's action. The-licensee {A. R. Durrant) of tho New Commercial Hotel was charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday,, before Ml W. G. Riddell, S.M.. with permitting drunkenness. It appears that a drunken man caino in from. the.street and drifted into a convenience in tho hotel yard.' He was seen by a- barman, who immediately looked round for a constable, and seeing nono -asked a friend - to tell -the first constable he met to como to tho hotel. An hour later the balaa told tho licensee; and he. latter immediately had the man ejected. Ino Magistrate held that tho man.v,as allowed to remain on the P™> '«100 long, and convicted and lined the detondant M and costs. Tho following almost is narrated in a recent London Opinion/' A British officer, following up tho German retreat from the Somme entered a church and found a blacky secured bv a wire to a crucifix. J. he noor starved animal was . screaming, niteously The officer, without thinking 'ofTiwthing but tho cruelty, to the poor -beast?ordered one of his men to cut he wires and release it. The- man cut the. first wire, and an explosion immediately followed, blowing the man the cruchx, and tho cat into fragments.. The boys «' tbe Mo K nt . C r?° k V wk°e are giving up' this vcar their Guy Faivkes c lebraHo's and arc donating the money to the fund for the erection of a heo kindergarten school in Taranaki Street For yhve bovs have been granted per. iMb bv the Mayor to collect money in sealed 'boxes on Monday. A Press Association 'telegram .rom fireymouth states that there is organisi - i„.r a movement to oppose the Labour candidate for Mr. Webb's seat. . - Messrs. H. F. Toogood and C. TempHn have been visiting Mastcrtan durin" tho week, making mvestigatioiwIn view of the proposed hydro-electric scheme for tho district.

In a letter to the Mayor oMUnga u (Mr. Macvay) Lieutenant-Colonel U - ningham tells how Sergeant L. . Andrew won the .Victoria Cross. -h . battalion was given a difficult and un portant task to carry out. he iro.e "and did all that was asked of. it. to the complte atisfaction of the higher comHera. Andrews's company was deal led to tackle the most ticklish part of the business, and lie was given command of two sections with instrnelions to capture a Hun machine-gun post that had'been previously located On Im ran unexpectedly into .anoiuei machineVin, which he capture Ming some Bodies, and the balance i••«*<*£ This little unrehearsed fight rathei <lisoanised his two sections, and be eononly find four men to go on to -the other, post that ho had been told to take. He found the PMI-WT- strongly held. »nd had to work round to the rear ot it. .Throwing boßta and Hem up with, a tu.li, Sergeant. Andrews ad £ entisfaction of capturing the gun, hin fffour of the, crew, and seeing some dozen other Bodies runmng for, tin lives, as his party rushed the post, not n o machine-guns were bromrhl-in.and will in due course reach Wnnganiu,. I lope I have put in t the usua claim foTihem, and have asked that they be Rent' to Lieutenant-Colonel R. HugUes, Wanganui, to whom I am cimsifmijs, »U trophies captured by my battalion, "Once a German, always a^ German. The strain is there,''..commented Sir. H. W Bishop, S.M., chairman of the Second -Q,n.«S Military Service I oarwen an aopeal bv a cook, living at Lytlellon, ealne up for hearing at Chnstchurcli. The man claimed exemption on the ground that he was the sole support o hii father and mother, and that lua father, a German, had been refused work since the outbreak of the war Ihe father, however, who appeared «i«> N' c . reservist, said ho' was not a German, he had been naturalised. The reservist s mother was English. It was then that Mr Bishop made the remark quoted, adding that lie had very strong views on the subject. It appeared in evidence that the appellant had worked as a cook in Territorial camps "These men ought to be made to work for the benefit of the country," was another remark by the chairman. The appeal was dismiss- • ed, leaving it open .to the military authorities to use tho man for any work thev think fit. . .'. ' ■ The Tramways Militarv.Baud will play selections at Island. "Bay to : m6rrow •afternoon at-3 o'clock. ..... ". '. . s

' 'Messrs. Baldwin and liayward,.- patent attorneys, of 215 Lambton Quay,, Wel- : lingtnn. report that'recently they-acted as agents in filing the" following applica-; tion for letters patent of New Zealand :— '4. E Stroud; Long Eaton, vertical looms; A. M. Foldt, Grafton, securing carpets; Amalgamated Wireless, Limited, Svdnev, self inductance coils; E. £■ Andreas,' Leura, fishing reel; H. ■ Baddy, Auckland.'loading sheep; H. Gill, Auckland, pufteo roller; E. Sandow,-. London, chest expander; C. H. Smith, Auckland, oil engine; Simpson and Simpson, preserving meat; .1/M'Lean, .Wellington, oyster opener; G. Johnston, Auckland, storing lipid fuel; T. Walsh, Sydney, bath. . ' ■■• ' •