LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 176, 21 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wellington Police Headquarters on Saturday night received advice that Constable Dick, of Mnrtinhorough, had effected tho capture of J. J. Slijn, one of the German internees who escaped from l'oatherston Camp. No details of the incident were given. A' wireless message states that the hospital ship Maheno is.a "clean ship," and will arrive at Auckland at 7 a.m. on Tuesday (to-morrow) morning.—PrjMs Assn. A waterside worker named William Payne, residing at Cottleville Terrace, was discharging timber from the steamer Kamona at Clyde Quay Wharf, when a sling of timber fell on his foot and crushed it. Ho, was admitted to tho Hospital at 10 p.m. on Saturday. Last winter the cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria in Diinwlin were very numerous,.but with the incidence of the influenza epidemic the numbers dropped to & low level. At present the diseases are becoming very prevalent through the city and suburbs (states the "Otago Daily Times"). .Strange finds are sometimes made in the intestines of animals slaughtered at the city abattoirs (says the Dunedin "Star ). Nails of all kinds, wire, tacks, and pins are wet with every day, but last week the find was unique. A young heifer was found to have swallowed a Bank of New Zealand ten-shilling note. Tho note was almost a new.one, and in a good state of preservation. While playing Association football at Miraniar on- Saturday. Emas Long, aged 41 years, living in Ghuznee Street, fractured his right leg. He was removed, to tho Hospital for treatment. The "disruptive revolutionary element" in tie Labour movement is fiercely denounced by Mr. P. Hickey (vice-president of the Victorian Labour Party) in a pamphlet which he ' has just: issued (states a Melbourne telegram 'to the "Sydney Morning Herald"). "These reactionaries," he says, "—and reactionaries they are, for their pose as revolutionaries would deceive no one except persons of weak intellect—sneer at union constitutions and rules, jeer at the, organisations responsible for the conditions under which ,they labour, brand as traitors ail duly-elected officials, ana bask ia. the sunshine of their own glory as uncompromising rebels and SimonPure revolutionaries. I'or the most part this group is composed, of young men who have had little or do industrial experience, and have no settled calling or place of abode."

On Saturday afternoon' Mrs. Blood, living at Miraniar, fell and fractured a leg, necessitating her removal to the Hospital, where she was admitted at 7.10 p.m.

An exhibit of considerable interest is to be seen in a pastrycook's window; in Christchurch (says the' "Sun"). It is a loaf of bread brought from Germany by Mr. Gold, of Balclutha, who was a prisoner there for some time. Its composition is said to consist chiefly of sawdust, molasses, and meal. In order to secure thin whole loaf Mr. Gold had to forego some of his ordinary daily cations, and also to perform certain other condescending acts by way of recompense to the German authorities.

Mr. Charles Melvin, who has been managing Everybody's Theatre for the past three years, has been transferred to tho Empress Theatre,'where he is to introduce an American idea known as community singing. Mr. Jaeger, who has been managing the Empress Theatre, has taken over the managership of Everybody's Theatre.

Speaking at a meeting held to further his'candidature for the Mayoralty, Mr. J. Read (Labour) criticised the repeal by the City Council of a by-law that had made it necessary for the employers' of electrical' workers to employ .only fullyqualified journeymen upon the installation of electrical fittings. The by-law, he said, had upon the pretext of "war conditions" been allowed to become practically inoperative in 1917. It had remained, so for somo tinjo, and the Electrical Workers' Union had finally waited upon the oouncil to ask that it be enforced. The employers opposed the request, and succeeded in persuading the council'to repeal the by-law altogether. Mr. Read urged that the action of the council 'was fraught with menace to the public safety. It was notorious, ho 6aid, ••■hat faulty wiring was an abundant source of fires,.and if he were returned he would advocate that the by-law bo restored.

' The Dunedin Arbitration Court has filed an award in the flourmilleTs' dispute, to include Oaniaru employees. The hours of work remain as at present, and wages are fixed in conformity with tho rates recently arranged in Auckland.— Press Assn.

The "Otago Times" ins the following:— Mr. Samuel Turner, who has been an Alpine climber for tho past 23 years, and who, it will be remembered, recently climbed Mount Cook without a guide or companion, has returned from a preliminary visit to Mount Tutoko, in the Milford Sound district. Mr. Turner intended to start on his expedition to the Tutoko Mountains early in the year, but he was forced to wait for Mount Cook to get into climbing condition, and consequently ho was somewhc.t Into in reaching fiordland. The Tutoko Mountains are situated about 10 miles from. Milford Sound, and two attempts had previously been made to reach the summit. Mr. Turner succeeded in reaching within a short distance of the summit, and .hopes to return next year and complete the task. ■He will endeavour to secure the services of two surveyors, with a view to preparin» a more detailed map of the district. Mr. Turner explored the head of the Tutoko Valley, which he found to be a series of precipices with hanging glaciers about 200 yards wide. An- interesting discovery was made at the Maori workshop at. Bowentown 'by Messrs. E. W. Bell-and S. M. Hovell, of W'aihi (says the "New Zealand Herald'). Westerly 'gales had moved the sand and exposed a portion of this ancient workshop. A further investigation was then made, with tho result that an almost complete 6ot of stone and bono implements associated with Maori work was found embedded in the sand. Ultimately about 200 stone adzes, gouges, anvils, and hammers, together with a number of pieces of moa and whalebone'implements and greenstone articles, were unearthed. The curator of the Auckland Museum, Mr. T. F. Cheeseman,'who had already visited the recently discovered workshop, snvs that the articles will prove a valuable adjunct to tho museum which it has been proposed to erect in the Auckland Domain.

A discussion on the manners of colonials, compared with the "cockneys" when viewing a - procession, occurred at tho last meeting of the Processions Committee in connection with the peace colela.itions in Ciiristcluurh (says the "Press"). One representative asked why the colonial would not remain on th& footpath, like the Londoners did when a procession was passing, and allow all a fair chance of viewing the display. The reason was advanced by another delegate that it was because every colonial wanted to got in front of tho other fellow. The meeting then discussed how best to keep tho crowd on tho footpaths us the procession passed by. It was said that policemen were too few, a mounted guard too dangerous, and soldiers in arms would he out of place at a peace.eclobration. Somebody then remembered that the pen was supposed to be n.ightier than the sword, and it was agreed to call in the aid of the newspapers. , The meeting's resolution was that the editors bo a6ked to advise tho people not to crowd right up to the procession aa it passes aloug, the streets.