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LOCAL AND GENERAL

A deputation of residents of Island Bay waited on the Tramways Committee of tho City Council to urge upon tho council tlio proseoution of the Jong-promised duplication of the tramway track between Berhamporo and Island Bay. Mr. E. J. Colley spoke of the urgency of tho work, and the manner in which its accomplishment would aid (he mnmpulation of cars on tho section in question. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) mentioned, in reply, that he agreed that the work was one that should be done as early as possible, and but for the intervention of the war. it would have been in hand before. The most urgent work, however, in connection with the tracks was the relaying of tho Lambton Quay line. When that was attended to he promise;! that .the representations of the deputation would be given attention.

The Labour Department has made four permanent appoin .meats of women inspectors of factories. The appointees anil tho centros to which they will 'be attached are; Miss M. S. Ilale (Dunedin), Mrs. A. Wa.Y (Christchurch), Miss E. M. B. Emerson (Auckland), and Miss Faram (Wellington), Miss Hale and Mrs. Way have for some time been in charge of the Women's Employment Bureaux in Dunedin and Christchurch respectively. Miss Emerson has been an oilicer of tho Labour Department for some 13 years. Miss Faram has been a member of tho Education Depa.rtriient's staff. She saw service abroad aa a nurso during tho war.

"The motor-car and taxi drivers in Wellington are not observing tho rule of the road and the by-laws generally on Lambton Quay," said Mr. ,T. O'Shea, City Solicitor, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. "They drive at a dangerous pace and indiscriminately."

The statement recently cabled that Enver Pasha and Talaat Bey had been ■sentenced to death in their absenco does not, in tho opinion of Mr. Justice Chapman, mean much. His Honour is of opinion that they are probably stowed away in some neutral country," safe for the present. In any case, the sentence is not so deadly as it looks. By Turkish law, as under most systems save our own, a criminal who,does not appear on his trial may be condemned in absentia. This has really very little effect. Under that system there is a period of limitation for every crime, and if a man is not arrested within that period ho cannot ho tried. Limitation for criminal prosecution is. save in a very few cases, unknown to English law. When a man has been condemned in his absence under Turkish law his subsequent arrest annuls the judgment so passed; its value is that it has,tho effect of stopping the running of limitation, and that is tho Teal Teason why tho Courts are asked to pronounce it.

"I lovo Die streets, and I find them more intereotiug than any book I have over read." declared Bishop Julius at the peace thanksgiving service in tho King Edward Barracks at Christchurch on Sunday. His Lordship want on to sneak of the interest that one- felt in the people moving in tho streets and then raised ft laugh by remarking that when he was moving along the streets he felt in himself that ho was also supplying .amusement lo others—from the crown of his hat to his gaiters. Tho streets, ho added, were full of the comedy and tragedv and interests of human life. Wo walked along tho streets, and wo camo upon tho soldiers broken in health, and wo came upon those mourning the loss of one who would never come back again. And then our orators said wc must make it un to them we could nover make it up to them.

An advance of 2s. per easr> of four dozen tins has been mado ill the wholesale price of New Zoaland condensed milk.. The increase came into operation on Friday. Condensed milk, being in tho schedule of articles the prices of which are controlled by tho Hoard of Trade, the advance was not sanctioned until after evidence had been given in support of an advance of 2s. per ca?e. Tho board, being satisfied that tho circumstances disclosed justified the increased price, thereupon permitted it to bo charged. Tho wholesale advance in prico is equivalent, to sd. per tin.

A e«ablegram dated London, July IG, received yesterday by Messrs. Brown and Dureau, AVellington, reads:—"Cotton risen another 3 per cent. Still further advancing."

With regard to the statement regarding (lie activities of the Coal Trade IJepartwwit published recently, the lion. Arthur M. Myers, .Minister in Charge, desires to point out that the output of 1,820,1 it tons for 1918, mentioned in his statement, referred to the principnl mines only. The total output from all mines as since supplied by the Mint i Department is 2,03-1,250 tons. Tho output of hard (bituminous)'coal for the same year should be 1,122.308 tons instead of 965,175 tons, as Quoted.

The closing hour for the firm of Kirkcaldie and Stains after tho end of next nionth is to be 5.30 p.m. instead of 0 p.m. This is one of the concessions announced by Mr. Sydney Kirkea'.dio at tho peace gathering .of the firm's staff last week.

A returned soldier named Archie Smith, who belongs to tile Wairarapa, missed his footing when crossing a fonco at Karori yesterday, and orieot' bis knees was injured. Ho was admitted to the hospital.

The mine-owners of New Zealand have consented to meet representatives of the miners on August 1 to discuss tho miners' recent demands, and arrive, if possible, at a Dominion agreement.

In contrast with the long "list" of inebriates at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, there was only one case, to be dealt with at the jiouut Coolc Police Court. This was a first offender, who was convicted ami discharged by Mr. Herbert Smith, J.P.

While standing on a lire escape cleaning windows, early yesterday evening, Mrs. Lees, fo years of age, of 76 Ghuznee Street, slipped and fell to the ground. She received, an injury to her back which necessitated her removal to the hospital for treatment.

At the last meeting of the Eastbourne Bcftough Council it was decided to hold a special meeting to consider what steps, if any, should be taken in connection with the raising of fares on the harbour ferry steamers (consequent on tlio increased working expenditure). The question, of considering whether or not the cargo service per Aorere should be continued will also come under consideration. '

The shabby and somewhat grimy state of the various rooms which performing artists have to use at the back of the big Town Hall ha 6 been brought under the notice of the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) by Mr. Scott Colviile. Mr. Luke was thoroughly sympathetic, and promised'to look into the matter with a view oi eifecting much-needed improvements. The managerial office connected with tho Town Hall is ridiculously small find inconvenient, cornered with such offices in other theatres and halls, and an extension of the accommodation in that respect would greatly add to the value of the Town Hall. ■'

An assault was committed on Mr. W. B. Gougli, the Petone Borough inspector, at Petone yesterday m.orning. A man named William Evans, whose horse had been impounded in tho borough pound, went along to have the animal released, and arrangements had just been made to release the horse when, it is alleged, Evans turned ou Mr. Gou?h and violently attacked him. Mr. Gougli, who is a small man, suffered severe injuries to his head and face, and one of his eyes was very badly cut. about. When Mr. Gougli arrived at the borough offices ho was in a state of cijllapse, and aiter first aid had been applied he was attended to by Dr. Harding.' The particulars of the caso were reported to tho police, and Evans'was arrested by Constable Canning. Ho was brought before Mr. J. Kerr, J.P., yestorday morning, and was remanded fur eight days. Bail was allowed.

Anions the women passengers recently "stranded" in Sydney who returned to Auckland by train last week were several whose indignation was divided about equally becween those responsible for their long detention in Sydney and those at whose door they laid the culminating hardships and inconvenience of the long train-journey from Wellington. "As if we had not been hard enough put lo it over there," said one, "without having all this delay and discomfort when we do get back! I haven't had a square- meal for weeks," she exclaimed. "We just had to manage >18 best wo could on the way up. Wo telegraphed for rooms at Taumanmui, but couldn't get them, and some soldiers gavo up their beds to our party, else I suppose wo would have had to sit in tho elation. One old inun was charged half-tt-crown for a scat in front of a fire."

Reference to the housing conditions of tho West Coast miners was made by Bishop Julius in his sermon at Christchurch Cathedral on,. Sunday evening. II is Lordship had been referring to socini abuses. If we did our duty, he declared, hundreds of abuses would be swept away. "The other day," he said, "I wa,s on tho West Coast, and I looked at some of tho miners'' houses. We are very anguy with the miners; they won't work, the.y get big wages and wo don't get coal; we are vexed with them. But there is another side to the case. Those miners do work that not many of us would put our hands to, and they live in houses only fit for pigs. You say they get good wages. So they do, but the circumstances they livo under forbid them making uso of thoso good wages."

:\t a meeting of Christchurch limbless sfuldiers tho statement was made that only forty-iivo limbless men had returned to Canterbury. This, remarks a returned soldier contributor to the "Star," seems riither out of proportion to the number of New Zealanders who have lost limbs in tho war. I have been informed that the number is somewhat in the vicinitv of one thousand altogether, and when I was ai tho Oatlands Park Hospital in England last year there wero about three hundred and fifty "limbies" in the lio?nital at tho same time. The education scheme was not compulsory with them, but they were olfej-ed certain privileges if they accepted instruction, and verv few declined to avail themselves of tlio training and the privileges offered. It is small wonder that sinco returning t'i New Zqaland tlio majority of tho "limbics" have successfully repatriated themselves. At tho meeting only one of sixteen present was out of employment. A keen desire to go on the land was evidenced bv some of tho men, and the suggestion was made that the "limbies" should be given preference in ballots for sections specially suitable for them.

Mr. J. 11. Burgess, Staveley, shooting in the Mount Somers district, brought down a fine stag. The head proved to be n particularly fine 12-pointer., The measurements were 40} and Mi inches lone for the branches, GJ beam, 9? cornet, '131 brow tine, and 34i inches spread.

'Rib fortnightly of the City Council will bo held on Friday instead of Thursday evening of this week on account of the holiday cn Monday last. At meetings of the Finance and Tramways Committees held 1 yesterday, fiio salaries of , tho various staffs came up for revision. A special meeting of the Finanoo Committee is to be held on Thursday .evening to consider tho question of revised salaries more fully than opportunity has permitted up to' tho present.

The flag that was in most insistent demand in Christchurch on Friday afternoon and evening was that of Scotland, and the majority of tho would-bo purchasers failed to secure what tlioy wanted One loyal Scot who had delayed too loug to buy llags for the decoration of his verandah went to nine shops in search of the Scottish standard, and was unable to secure a siuglo one. Others had much tho samo experience. Tho simply iu this case was quite unequal to the demand.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 6

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 6

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