LOCAL AND GENERAL
The MurnecV Soldiers' Clubhouse apjleal {said the Mayor on Saturday night) iiiid brought in about J;750 on the previous day. Saturday's entertainment in tlio Town Hall was responsible for another ,£250 or thereabout*, so that the total benefit from the two days' work was in the neighbourhood of Ui'lCOO. Fearing that one of the vessel's crew had been admitted to the hospital ill with influenza the watersido workers engaged unloading I lie Union Company's intercolonial steamer Manuka, at the Queen's Wharf, suddenly stopped work at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The Manuka ariyed at Wellington from Sydney on Wednesday night. The following mowing the pore health olliocr boarded tlio ■;hip, while she was in the stream, and after examining the passengers and crew gave a certificate that there was no infectious disease on board, allowing the vessel to berth on Friday morning. Later in the day a steward of the Manuka, who was ashore at the lime, complained of feeline unwell, and he consulted a. doctor. His temperature was just above normal, .and under 100 degrees,-but taking all precautions he was sent to the hospital to be kept under surveillance. llis cabin on the Manuka was on Sat.urday fumigated, and it is stated that the labourers slopped working the cargo as soon as it became known that the man had a high temperature and was in hospital. The Manuka was timed to sail on Saturday night for Lyttelton, but. in view of the action of the wharf ivorkers the public health authorities ordered that she be moved to tho stream to await a clcarnnco by them. She left the wharf about 10 p.m.. oil Saturday, and yesterday another examination or those on board was made. There was noted in the health of the officers and crew nothing to warrant the further detention of the ship and she was declared "clean" and allowed to sail at \ p.m. yesterday for Lyttelton. On Wednesday the Manuka will return to Wellington and sail in the evening for Sydney,
•As soldiers are not returning to the Dominion as rapidly as was anticipated when the restrictions of travel were imposed in respect to soldier's tickets tor fiasler holidays, the Department is waiving the restrictions. Soldiers' tickets will therefore be available for travel during the Easter holidays.
, Mw. Allison M'Morran, aged 75, residmg at No. 5 Malcolm Avenue (off Tinason Road) was yesterday found lying on lw back unconscious, in Little Pipitea htreet. She was removed to a house, and attended to by a doctor, who ordered her to be taken to the hospital. Her injuries were there found to be slight. -»''s. M Morran, on returning to consciousness, said that she did not remember how she came to be hurt.
Messrs. Cardale and Scott aovise they are in receipt of freight rates of cargo Steamers, Japan, fur hides, tallow, grain, wool, rabliitskins, hemp, tow, etc., which show n considerable reduction of recent freight rates from Xew Zealand to Japan.
Peace celebrations sic l o be accelerated in Wellington on feconnt of the latest news that a preliminary peace is likely to be signed before Easter. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) favours the idea of ii chain of bon fire? (put/ forward in these columns a week ago) as being a spectacular way of showing the people's joy at the great event, but such a plan needs organisation by sub-eommittees in the vicinity of the places where bonfires may ljp effpr'tivelv, and, nt the same time, safely lighted on the date arranged. This will bp attended to in due course. It is suggested that boroughs round Wellingi"i should take m> the Mcvor's suggestion, and co-operate with Mm in establishing the chain of joy-fires on the hills surrounding the port of Wellington.
In coniipctinn with the mining dispute between the Waihi Miners.' Union and til? .Mining Company relative to Certain men bei"g exempted from joiniivr the union a ballot was taken on Saturday as tn whether the union would accept the offer nf Mr. Charles Rhodes (attorney for the Waihi Cnmnany) to pay the contributions and all legal levies of the seven exempted nip" at let the matter remain in abeyance till November next, the dale of cxnirntion of the present agreement. The ballot resulted It a substantial majority in favour of rot accepting Mr. Uhodes's offer.—Press Association..
The London hoard of t'>e Alliance Assurance Company, Limited, have invited Mr. Walter Preedy (manager for Xe»v Zealand of Messrs." Gollin and Cfi. Piy., Limited) to accept a seat on their New Zealand board, Mr. Pveedv having :ncoepted the position will in future act sis locnl director of the Alliance Company at Wellington.
Harold St. John .Tone;, driver of tint )«->f-(ii'-e v rl(> and side-chair from vhich' Alfred Arthur Amyes was thrown near Knituna on March 25, siisbiiniiß fatal injuries, was. well enough on Saturday morninfr to attend the adjourned inquest, «"ys n. Press Association Mej.ram from Christchurch. Giving evidence, he said that whon approaching the corner of the road a dog rushed out, ard in trying to avoid the doir he swerved off the sood part of the road on to (lie shing]e, wliich ivn« pretty deeo. The cycle scftnod to elide along a, few feet and overturned. A verdict was returned thi'.'t Amyes"il'o<l as the result of an accident, and Hint the evidence negatived negligent .driving.
An'inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Alexander Anderson, a single man, aged 50 years, who died at the Wellington Hospital on Thursday last, following his 'being knocked down ljy a Harbour Boarjl motor van on March 21, was conducted by Mr. V. V. Fimer, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday. Dr. Strain, house surgeon of the Wellington Hospital, stated that deceased was admitted, to the Hospital on the evening of the accident, suffering from conclusion of the brain, and witnee* noticed a smell of alcohol about Anderson. His condition improved for a time, but later became worse, aud deatli ensued from hypostatic pneumonia, following on concussion. Harold liowntree, driver of the Harbour Board's motor van, stated that when opposite the King's Theatre he noticed deceased crowing tha road'. He sounded,a warning and reduc.ed speed. The deceased appeared to be making in the direction of a right-of-y.-ay, and witness proceeded on. whon .suddenly Anderson moved forward, and the van struck him on the side. Witness did his utmost to avoid the accident, Tim police evidence was to thn effect that deceased was a vatwsido worker, who had'no relatives in New Zealand. A verdict was relumed in accordanco with the medical testimony, and Hi.s Worship remarked' that Rowntreo was in no way to blamo for Hie accident, aud was "to be commended for the action he took •in endeavouring to avoid the accident.
"Town-planners in the more advanced cities of the Empire look with envy upon the possibilities .which exist ill all ouv Dominion cities tor the carrying out of necessary improvements to make them healthy and beautiful," says Mr. S. I'liiL'S'c Scager in his town-planning report. "An 'ideal scheme could not, purhaps, be carried out, by reason of the fuel that many excellent buildings of a permanent character have been already erected in our cities; still, if earnest consideration is at once given to the problem of reconstruction an improvement in the conditions of civic life might be reached which, if not wholly ideal, would at any rate be freed from the appalling inconveniences and ugliness which exist to-day. If there was one opinion expressed more firmly 1 than another at the Brisbane Conference it was the urgent necessity to commence work at once. There must be no delay. Every week periuauent buildings are taking tlio place ot the out-of-date structures which form the greater part of our Dominion cities, and before a single fresh permanent building is erected there should be u carefully drawn plan of the whole of the cily and its environments, on which should bo'uhown all the possible improvements for health and convenience, and no building should bo erected whicli would interfere in any way with the predetermined scheme."
A boy named Robert King was admitted to 'the hospital on Saturday mormmr suffering from injuries to his head. It appears that the lad, who resides at 22 Ghuznee Street, was on Hie road in front 'o* the Grand Opera House when he was knocked down by a motor-car. He was last evening reported to be "progressing favourably."
"These cases have been brought to impress upon the public and upon email boys in particular, that the bush at Day's Bay and Kona Bay must not be interfered with," said Jir. J. O'Shea, City Solicitor, at the Juvenile Court on Saturday, when two small boys were charged' with damaging the bush at Day's Bay. They had been staying with a lady friend, and one day went out and did some bushfellins, winch was subsequently reported to the authorities. As the damage dune (estimated at Ms.) had been made good by the lady, Mr. O'hheii asked that the charge be withdrawn. Mr. F V. Frazer, 5.11., who was on the. be'nch, agreed to counsel's application, and said' the bush at Eastbourne was the only native bush within easy reach of Wellington, and it would be a great pity if vandalism were allowed to go on. He trusted that there would be no further trouble of the. kind, both for the sake of the bush and the offenders. The Auckland City Council resolved at its last meeting to appoint, a female supervisor of children's games in the playgrounds at Myers and Victoria Parks. The appointment was recommended by the Reserves Committee, in reporting upon a suggestion forwarded by the Civic League, and it was decided that applicants must be nuulilied kindergarten teachers. In discussion it was decided that the supervisor's duties would nut be so much to maintain order as to organise the children s games on kindergarten lines, and that discipline anions the older children could .be proportly entrusted to the park-keepers. The roll of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association now contains nearly 7000 names. Over 8000 new members have been secured since (he beginning of tho year, and of this number 1120 have joined within the last fortnight. Doctors' recommend groats for invalids. When you ask for Doctors' Cream O'Groats you get the best. All Grocers. -Advt. Gentlemen who are looking for ''something a little better" in soft felt hats should see the great American Hat, the "Mallory." It leads in the States today, and we have secured the agency. Price, 395. 6d. each. Davis and Clater, Ladiee and Gentlemen's Outfitters, 212 Lambton Quay, Wellington.—Advt
The question of freights from Britain was referred to in a cablegram published the other day. A Dunedin merchant interviewed. said that the Bubiect is of great importance to New Zealand. At tho beginning of tho war freights from London were in tho vicinity or J!10 per ton. Soon after the armistice the rate .dropped to .£7. The latest advices in Dunedin by mail intimate that the rates are reduced to. .£3 10s.,per ton. Previous to the war freights were at £2, but merchants in the Dominion are inclined to think that, thought a. further. reduction will be niado, it will not be a ..large reduction, because it is realised that shipowners must work their eteamers' at an increased cost, due to higher wages, the greater cost of coal, , and other enhanced charges. At a Labour candidate's meeting in Ghuznee Street, Mr. A. L. Monleith commented on a statement of the Mayor that the council could not find sufficient money for the erection of workers' dwellings. He pointed out that the councilmeeting to which the Mayor made the (statement took a sum of £70,000, which was the profit from the lighting department, and put it out on .fixed deposit. That .070,000, the.Labour candidate urg-ed,-might well have been spent upon the erection of 100 homes. With reference to the cable message from New York stating that -prohibition had been repudiated by a quarter or a million majority, -Professor Nicholls, lecturer for the New Zealand Alliance, who left his home in , Boston as late as Febmary 17, states his opinion that no poll 'was taken. This would be unneces- , eary when prohibition had been affarmed | by'the State. The city, he says, does not- vote on State matters. It is probable that the defeated candidate tor the Mayoralty was a prohibitionist, hence the cable message. ■ "The value of land has been steadily depreciating since the war began," said b valuer at the sitting of the Alt. Eden Assessment Court in Auckland. The reason was that there had bten practically no building owing to the high costs of material and labour. Before the war 2000 building permits were issued annually in Auckland city end.saburbs, but the. average number of permits during the last lour years was 147, and most of them were for repairs.—"New Zealand Herald." Warm appreciation of New Zealand is expressed in r. letter received by the relatives of Stalf-Sergeant Slater, of Greon Lane Auckland, from a Belgian girl. Tho writer, who lives in Verviers, sa;-s-.--"I am very happy to know someDody. there in New Zealand to whom I can express the admiration and gratitude we have for your brave soldiers- To see all these young men coining from so far away to fight and"die fer our liberty has moved us more than it is possible to imagine. You will never know how much wo are indebted to them, for liberty is what we love best. 'Prom all the soldiers of different nationality who passed through Verviers since the armistice, the New- Zealanders are those who are most sympathetic to us. They goon become friends with the .population, and especially with the children, who love them. I hope you will be the interpreter of all these feelings to all your friends in New Zealand. And this opiii; ion is not only my personal opinion, but the general and unanimous one." The New York maritime strike early this year had a very serious effect on the business and life of the city, which ■was. almost paralysed. According to an officer of the. ex-German and now Commonwealth Government steamer Toromeo, an arrival at Wellington on Saturday from the Atlantic port, one incident that brought about the standstill of the city-more than another was the action of the tug and. ferry boat workers who ■were out on strike for higher wages. These men stopped the running of the ferry boats, preventing tons of thousands of people living at'the island suburbs from going into business, and for three or four days they were isolated. The gravity of tho situation was made known to 'President Wilson, who was then at the Peace Conference, and lie immediately threatened the strikers that ■unless the normal traffic,was maintnjncd by them he would have it kept moving by United States Navy men. Pending a settlement of the dispute in the Supreme Court, the tug and ferry, pien resumed work, and conditions in the big city were more smooth when the Toromeo ■ .eai'led'.on February 20,,,- : ... . The matter of petty thieving at sales was touched upon-by the Rev. IVRijJe at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Society for the Protection of Women and Children. "It is heart-breaking to note the growing evil amongst women of petty -thieving when sales are en," declared Mr. Rule. ' Many otherwise nice-looking young women had been charged with this offence. As many as four cases had come before the Court in -a single day. This was most heart-breaking for the: offenders' fathers—"Press."
A children's procesion organised by the Prohibition Party on Satnrday afternoon traversed the principal streets of the city. Hundreds of .little ones tarrying toy balloons and banners trooped along in double file, while others crowded upon vehicles specially lent for the occasion. !At the head maro'hed pipers belonging to the Caledonian Society; about the middle ■was the Central Mission Band; and not far from the tail of the procession
was the Salvation Army Band. Among the' institutions represented were:—The H'ory Street-Mission School, the Temperance Lodges, the Presbyterian schools and homes, the W.C.T.U., the Aro Street Mission School, various Bible, classes, the Central Mission, the Boys' Institute, the Church of Christ schools, the Baptist schools, tho Methodist schools, the Salvation Army schools and hoinea, the Congregationalists, and the day schools. The procession formed tip in' Museum Street between 2 and 2.30 p.m. At 2.30 it ' started, and went through lambton Quay, Willis Street. Manners Street, Cqiirfceiiay Place, and Cambridge ■-Terrace. The excellent fashion in which the whole procession was conducted was due principally to the work of tho chief marshals, Colonel Macintosh and Captain M'Farlane. In response to the request of the chairman of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board that meetings ot 'district committees should bo held to prepare for a recurrence of the epidemic, a meeting of the Kliamlallah Epioemic Committee was hold in the Khantlallah Public Hall last week, Mr. B. Anderson presiding. Tho chairman reported his a.ttendanco at a conference of district delegates with the chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Airt Board, held at tho Hospital on March 19, and explained the proposals then made. It was unanimously decided to give the board the fullest possible support in every direction offering, and arrangements were accordingly set in train. Khandallah ladies who are free to take aovautage of the proposed residential training in nursing at the Hospital for a fortnight should communicate witli the Hospital authorities without delay,- and also advise the local committee of their action. Jlrs. B. B. Gibbons and Miss Cock were deputed to make inquiries as to the prospects of forming a St. John's ambulance home .nursing class of twenty and ■upwards. Mrs. W. It-. Plimmer asked to be relieved of the group commandership, siitt Mr. J. G. Smith was , appointed in ier stead. i
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