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LOCAL AND GENERAL

The old grandstand at the Southland lacecourse was destroyed by tiro early yesterday morning. The insurance only amounts to £333. The club is/ a heavy loser.—Press Assn. The Wellington and South Island soldiers who lately arrived' at Auckland readied Wellington yesterday afternoon. Altogether there were *about sixty officers and men for Wellington ! and adjacent districts, and quite a £ rg ? uuraber for the south'. Among the large crowd of people on the Thorn- i dou railway station platform to-wel- j come tho soldiers back was the Mayor '■ UUr. J. P. Luke), who had special ' tramcars to convey the returned men ; and their friends up to the city. Motorcars were provided for those who need- •- ed other means of transit. The sol- ' dicrs were given an enthusiastic wel- : come, and beautifully fine weather add- : ed to the pleasure of .their homo-com- ! lllrr. -.....;

News has been received (states an exchange) of the New Zealand conscientious objectors sent to. England by tho military authorities. Private H. Patton, of Cobden. (Greymouth), writing before the.last mail left, informed the. English ' Friends' Service Committee 1 that the objectors had been well fed, four of them bad been sent to France, while four others wero to follow, including Private L. Kirwan (Holutika) and himself. Other reports indicate that at least one objector agreed to work in France as' a stretcher-bearer.

There-is an acute shortage of capable pick and shovel.men in Wellington at the present time. Some months ago tho Lower Hutt Borough Council undertook to road some 63' acres of land at' the .Waiwetu. for., .the . Government, land on which it is proposed to settlo some of the returned soldiers. This work would have been put in band some time ago, but it was found diflicult to get suitable labour, and though the council is now advertising for labourers there is little or no response. The Borough Engineer will seo applicants at the offices of tho council any morning.

The Marist Brothers' Order has decided to constitute New Zealand a province. Hitherto.it has been attached to Australia; now' the Dominion must depend on its own resources, which means that ftie' ranks of. tho Brothers is to be recruited bore. To do this a Novitiate will be built., to educate and train the future Marist Brothers and also to furnish a homo for those who, through ill-health or old age, require rest and comfort. It has .not .yet. beeiv decided in which' part of the Dominion it will he-erect-, ed. It will embrace necessarily a fair. ■ly wide area of land and" extensive buildings.' In this manner, states an exchange, the centenary of the Order will be' fittingly commemorated ill New Zealand. <

Tho tender of Messrs. Mitchell and King has been accepted' for the erection of a warehouse for John Chambers and Son on that block of.- reclaimed land facing Cablo Street, and Jervois Quay (opposite Odlin and Co.'s building). The big garago and motor works for Messrs. Ingiis Bros in the same block, but facing Lower Tarnnaki Street and Cablo Street, is to be erected by Messrs. Hansford and Mills (tho firm that is erecting the new Parliament Buildings). Messrs. " Hoggard, Prouse, and Guminer are the architects in both cases.

A good joko at St. Clair (Dunedin). In two acts. Act the first': Big boys bursting with merriment as they removed two gates from seaside residences on Monday night, .It was ■ a hard job, and took a while, but it was great fuiu Act tho second; The samd boys, four of them, dejectedly toiling with the gates the following morning, carrying them back and rehanging them, the local constablo acting- as the prompter. One of tho gates had to bo brought back from the surf-line abreast of the St. Kilda, dressing-sheds; Tbo two acts fitted together very nice ly, • thanks to tho policeman's knowledge and tact, and St. Clair was amused at/the comedy.

Tho total number of cases set down for hearing _in the Dunedin Police Court for the past year was 2613, as ngajhst 2917 for 1916. These are not all*! criminal offences, by a long way, as they include summons cases, such as maintenance, Defence cases, . bjvlaws, prohibition orders, .mid breaches of orders, and also mental cases, etc.. Tho number of arrests for drunkennessfor the past year shows a considerable I falling of? compared with 1916. The returns have not yet been finally checked, but as nearly as possible the total arrests were about 630, as against 804 for the previous year (including 706 in tho city alouo). ■' .For the past month during the period of "6' o'clock closing there wero >forty inebriates' taken into custody. A point worth noting is that for December, 1916, when 10 o'clock closing was in force, the arrests only totalled oho more (11). The past year was probably a record for "clean sheets" in the Police Court.

"If the methods of some of .the inspectors in conducting proficiency ex-, animations wore made known to the Minister somo of tJio inspectors, would bo on tho carpet without delay," observed'a delegate to tho teachers' conference yesterday. At tho Magistrate's Court in Christchurch yesterday 'Alexander- Gilbert Hare and James Madden were each sentenced to a month's imprisonment for a breach of the War Regulations. Tho offence consisted in booking passages by a steamer other than in their own names, evidently with tho intention of oyading their military responsibilities.—Press .Assn. | "If you are a friend of .two or three members.of an education board you have a chance of getting the y:h, but if you are not ." An unfinished but well-understood observation by a delegato at yesterday's conference of teachers. Probably not many peoplo in New Zealand know the Gold Coast very well, and certainly few could givo the names of tho leading soft goods firms there. .But there is at least one man in the tropical Crown-colony with the enticing name who knows of the principal 'Irsvpery houses -in ISevr Zealand: The manager of a Wellington estabI lishmenfc was the recipient of an inquiry for certain, ppfids the other day, and tlm writer headed his letter. "Tafo, Gold Coast, West Africa.". 'The.-in-quiry was for lines advertised. in. Tnß Dominion, and.'this was expressly stated.in the letter,, .. ■■■

Advice has been received by the Hon. A. Myers, in Auckland, that permission has been granted by the Imperial authorities for the shipment to New Zealand of hoops and studs required in wool dumps. Twenty-five thousand bales of the new season's wool have already been delivered into the Auckland stores, the. weather having been exceptionally favourable for shearing.—Press Assn.

Constable Cowan,' of Ractihi, arrested a military,desertcr on Friday, this latest arrest'bringing his\ tally up to thirty. / ' A gold m>gget weighing 3£ ounces, found by Miss Melba Sargison in the vicinity of the Howard Goldfields, 18 miles from Glenhope, in the Nelson irovincc, was produced for inspection at The'Domikion oflic6 jmerday by Miss Sargison's father, who reported that frequent finds ru'iTie neighbourhood mentioned demonstrated the goldbearing nature of the country. The rainfall at Otira Gorge on Mo>i? day totalled 9 inches, and at Grev< month 5.8 inches. At Hokitika it was 4.25 inches. The ten brothers of Mrs. W. E. B. Froggavt, Ashburton, Have made an excellent record, as far as personal service in the war is concerned. Of the, ten, nine are at the front, while tho remaining brother has tried many times to get away, but has been turn-, ed down as medically unfit. The electric light service came into operation at Raetihi last Saturday night, when a number of business premises and one street light worn served. A vast improvement in the appearance of Seddoti Street was the result, says the "Call." Mr. 0. D. Flamank, of Dnnedin, has resigned fronvthe executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute. He has attended the conferences of the institute for 18 years. At yesterday's conference reference was made to Mr. Elamank's good services. The teachers' conference resolved lust evening, "That in the. establishment of new schools in country districts the minimum area of land to be acquired shall be ten acres, and a portion of this sufficient to provide for the keeping of a cow and a horse be set aside for the teacher's use."

From inquiries made'tho retail business done m Wellington in the classes' of articles usually _ purchased before, and'during the festive'season—to wit, toys, fancy goods, jewellery,' drapery, boots and shoos, refreshments, books, etc.—was, if anything, better than tho previous Christmas. One dealer in books and toys said that his_ turnover was twice as much again this Christmas as last, and another mentioned that the .Christmas Evotasiness had been particularly good this year, more than making amends for a rather slumpy New Year's Eve. Many shop--keepers were not afraid to say that of all nights in the year the one most likely to be affected' by tho six o'clock closing of 'hotels' was Now' Year's Eve, and several of tljem attribute tho drop in business on that evening to the fact that a salutary restriction had been placed upon that form of conviviality associated with Hogmanay. It. was the quietest,/soberest New Year's Evo ever experienced in Wellington—and, incidentally, it was disappointing from a business point of view. There aro those who say that their returns would have been greatly augmented if an arrangement had been made to keep open on the Saturday afternoon and evening before Christmas, as then tho city was crowded with people keen ou buying, and not able to do so! .Tho drapers generally Teport. a real good Christmas, and further say that tho increased prices of many lines did not prevent the public-'buying as generously as ever, and more so.

"The time has arrived when . tho teachers of New Zealand should .'form a union in order to. place', thein" 'upon an equality with other organisations.", —This was among tho motions-ietdowii' to be discussed by the teachers' conference last evening. However, the m&tter was not touched by the conference, but referred to the executive.

A shooting trophy, known as the "Waihi Rooster," was wort by the Thames Rifle Club at the-meeting of tho Auckland Rifle Association, at Penrose, on Wednesday. A strange his-' tory is attached to the trophy. At the rifle meeting, held at Waihi in 1902, the Waihi Club had no trophy to offer to the Victoria Rifle Club, who won tho teams' match. As a result, members of the Victoria Club went at midnight and' appropriated the galvanised iron rooster which served as a weather cock on the top of the Waihi Club's shod. Since then this historic trophy has been competed for at every annual rifle meeting.

At the conference of the Educational Institute yesterday the executive reported that it had had before it correspondence which showed that certain boards had on several occasions disregarded tho provisions of the Act in the matter of appointments. It recommended that a strong protest should be made against tho action of boards iii. defvinß the provisions ,b{ the Act, and that-the Minister should he strongly urged to have Sub-section 7 of Section: 71- of the Act repealed.

An interesting point was decided in Sydney recently in an action heard before the Chief Justice, Sir AVni. Cul en, and a jury of four, in which Arthur J Mather sued the Bank of New Zealand to recover £100. Counsel for the plaintiff'said the case' was without precedent. Having received a crossed' cheque for £100, Mather forwarded it to the| Bank of Australasia at Petersham, with instructions that it he placed to Mrs. Mather's account. Subsequent inquiry elicited that the chequo liad not been received by the Bank of Australasia, but had been presented at the defendant bank and paid across the counter. As the cheque had been erosstwo somewhat- light- parallel lines running transversely across, tho .cheque —it was contended that tho defendant hank should not have cashed it. The defence was that tho; cheque did not appear to have been crossed, and as it was duly endorsed it was paid as an open chequo without negligence on the part of tho The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for the amount claimed..

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 6

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 6

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