LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 35, 5 November 1919, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tor the week ending Koveinljer .1 I lie total number of case? of infections disease reported in the Wellington Public Health District was (17, cnimmrod with 7.1 for the previous week. The numbers were made, up as follow, the figures for the previous week being given in parentheses :— Scarlet fever, 2 ((!); diphtheria, 22 (2!)); enteric fever. .") (!i'i; tuberculosis, I (ill; cerebrospinal meiiinsilis, 2 (—); influenza. 22 (12); measles, I (7); pneumonia, (i (6). Diirinu the previous week one ease of septicaemia and one 'ease of hydatids wero notified. Although the influenza returns reveal an increase of tfl as compared with the previous week's Inures, the great majority of I lie en-cs were of a mild description. Following are the localities in which intlucir/.a was reported:—Wniroa, 2 mild; Pulceliou. 1 mild; Dannevirke, 1 mild, 1 pneumonic; Knpongn, (i mild; Munain, 1 mild: Palmerston North, 1 pneumniiio; Wellington City, 6 mild: Upper Hull, I severe; Marlon, 1 mild.

The total number of applications for employment received by the Labour Department Bureau, Ghuznee SI reel, during the inonlh of October was 200. Positions were found for 190 people, of whom 21 were assisted by red need fares. The AVellinglon radio station, on the Tinnkori Hills, last evening picked up an "5.0.5." message, which, on being answered, did noi respond. An inquiry made at the station at an early hour this morning brought tho reply that nothing further had been heard of the mysterious message. ' The shortage, of dried fruits was mentioned in the Hon.-u of Representatives bv Mr. C. 11. Poole (Auckland AVest), who said that: Australian firms were refusing, on account of the Federal Government's embargo, to make delivery on orders that had been lodged many lnonlhs ago. It was .suggested that the firmi were taking advantage of the fact that prices had risen in the meantime. Air. Massev said he woulo' suggest to the Australian Government Ihat the embargo should be lifted from goods already on order. But ho could not promise that hip representations would have effect. He was not always successful when lie asked the. Australian Government to do something for New Zealand. Before n court-martial held nt Palmerston North, Clifford was charged with desertion from the Forces. Accused was attested ami pas=ed ns fit on September R. 191.7, but failed to carade. He was sentenced to two years' hard labour. Tho work of shifting the eoal from tliv. Cit.y of Winchester was continued yesterday. Tho watersiders have reached a level where the bunkers arc very much heated, and the hose had to be called into play several time- yesterday. AVhen all the coal ha.s been shifted it h intended to thoroughly ventilate the hatch. A start will then be made to work the moat cargo, which will most likely bo. transhipped to another vessel. In the Supremo Court in Banco yesterday afternoon. Ilis Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Boboft Stout) delivered reserved judgment on an originating summons in the ease of George Orme Bayley t. ' Henry Russell Gnisford and others. Three questions were submit led to the Court for delerminalion, namely: (I) Whether a sum of ,tW, being commission on the sale of part of a trust properly, was payable to lho lenanf for life, he having sold (he pronerly. (2) AA:hethor the sum of .£1309, beiwr moneys belonging I"' the tenant for life and used by him in the purchase of trust proiiortv. should be refunded to flic tenant for life. (3) Whether a sum of .£1909 exnended by the tenant for life in erecting building and in other improvements on the trust nronerty, was refundable lo the tenant for life, on the sale of the tni>;t property. Ilis Honour answered, the first and second questions in the allii'iii.'.'tive, and the third in the negative, holding that in the case of a tenant for life spending -moneys for the benefit of a trust oslale the Court had. no jin-Mic-tion to recoup him for the expewliliro. At the heaving Mr C. P. Skerretl. K.C.. willi him Mr. P Kennedy, nunenred for fl 0. Bavlev. Mr. M. Myers for If. It. dais'ford.'and Air. AV. Pen- for the infant children of If. 11. Mai=ford.

Ansfnlia has been regarded by ouite a number of people as excelling all others in regard lo its industrial disturbances, but an Australian who has been vHliro America considers Australia a paradise compared to the hitter country. "If is industrial warfare ef the most, bitter and <lel"rmincd charact-r, mid nothing but strike after stride is trhmr place. You people in New Zealand, .and Australia have no concept ion of what is taking place here," he writes in one of his letters.

A decided improvement in the Senior Cadet uniform has been made by the addition of hose tops, with the coimmi',7 colours. Another improvement will H the provision of a badge for the hat. each company lo have its own d"sio.n. Several units already have those badges, which jiive a very smart appearance lo the ha:. Caps which wore bein;,' issued (o «<dels ore now being; withdrawn in favour or slouch hats.

During the past few days tho Wellington public have been daily informed of I hi! progress of the suppression of Hie fire on tho steamer City of Winchester I).V Hid use of "002" pas. What is "t'o2"? The question lins lieen a-'kod a hundred times on Hie viilerfroni, with liltln satisfaction 1.0 the imiiiircr as ti rule, "(X)2" is a simple, preparation nf bieiu'lionate of soda, sulphuric acid and water, which is kept in retainers or cylinders and is ojeek'd therefrom on to the scuit of the lire from such otintnineis at n pressure of from SO In 1001b. to tho Miliar* inch. The ineHiuil of fire sunpresdon luloptcd on the City of Winchester, where the heating of'the bunker coal had tired Ihe granulated cork in.siil.ilioii, wits to bore a hole throuyli (lie jilato whore there w;is any sign of lioutiiiK, put the noz'/le of the niaehine through and then apply the pressure. Tn this ease special nozidcs. with hends in I hem, were made, ho flint Hie titixluve (which is 70 per cent, liquid and :W per cent. ;;as) could bo directed to any point.

Mr. \\. ir. Field (Otaki) nsl;cd"in tlio House, yesterday when the Minister of I'ailw.iys would lake into consideration Hie proposed deviation of the railway between Plimmcrton and TAieltakariki. Mr. Massey replied Hint the mutter would ha taken into consideration by Cabinet as scon ,is the session ended.

Mr. W. J. W. Philsoii. Auckland manager of The. Colonial Sugni 1 Helming Company, Ltd., has 'been granted twelve months' leave of absence. He joined the service of Hit; company in ISS3. During his absence, the. present nctiny-mnnuger, Mr. Richard Gulhcridjje, will have charge of the firm's Auckland business.

Some particulars of the tragically sudden death of Sydney James (of Strollers fame) at Karachi, India, are furnished in a letter from George Hurdle, pian'st of tho show. Under dale July 7, Mr. Hurdle wrote: "We have had a terrible misfortune, and I dare say you have had tho news already. We finished our season at. Bombay on Sunday last and caught the boat for Karachi on Monday at 1 p.m.—n -I"''hours' run. The weather was awful, and the whole crowd had to turn in for the trin. James did not feel his: first tiain till -1 o'clock on 'Wednesday morning, ■ and Wednesday at 'i o'clock he died. under chloroform on the operating table—acute peritonitis. The terrible lossim; of the boat undoubtedly killed him. The doctor Mid that if he had been taken ill in Bombay ami been attended to there, ho would have been saved. He was a» healthy mid as lively as could be in Bombay. i*d also when we sailed. The Feildiii" and District Patriotic Society is anxious to get into touch with any returned soldier who left from Fcilding or the district and has not been pnid (ho gratuity given by the society. Tho society also wishes to communicate with returned men who arc suffering from wounds or ill-health caused by war service. Returned soldiers or Ih.-ir friends acquainted with any such cases arc re-riuc-sHI to communicate «'""> ,lle S(,(,, '°" vary, Mr. E. IT. Fisher, Hox'9B, Feildiug. Complaint was made at a meeting of Ihe Moi'rinsvilio branch ol the r'arm'T* Union recently, reports the "I'iirliie/s rnkin Advocate." that a soldier settler who hud financed himself was not en titled lo the privil"gfs given to soldier Thiers who had been financed by Hie Stale in that h" was not give'; a reV'lo on Umber purchased front the State mills. The position was described as unju-;-Tt was rn;nlv*d W lunvi.nl fc wm , <« Hie sub-prnvineiiil "secutivt nrmng Hint Government a-.tion he taken to remove the anomaly. To-night, commencing at 8 n'cicci;. the New Zealand Natives' As-«-ia< mi Tw.;d will remior musical ileitis at the Basin lleserve.