LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Moana, which is duo. from Sydney to-day, is bringing -43 bags of letters anil 97 baskets of parcels from Australia.
The Postal authorities are advised that the 5.6. Mahana sailed from Newcastle for Wellington on August 28, and carries six bags of mails for Now Zealand. Tlio s.s. Kauri sailed from Sydney for Lyi'telton on August 2S, and has on board 25 bags of Australian mails. The s.s. Waitemata, with 140 bags of mails, including 12-4 parcel receptacles, sailed from San Francisco for Auckland on August 20.
Tho Post Office advises that the E.M.S. Tahiti left Vancouver on August 21 foi Auckland, with 1i75 bags of mail (w New Zealand and a similar number for Australia.
Another nine orders amending awards have been filed by the Arbitration Court with the Deputy-Ecgistrar at Wellington, The orders take effect as from May 1 last. In all cases they are designed to bring the wages clauses into line with recent pronouncements of the Court regarding increases due to the workers on account of tho rise in the cost of living. Following are the unions affected:— llawkc's Bay district operative butchers, Manawatu district operative butchers, Wairarapa district operative butchers, Wellington (25 miles' radius) operativo butchers, Wellington industrial district saddlers, harness-makers,- collar-makers, and baginakers, Wellington' industrial district retail shop assistants, Wellington City Gasworks' employees, Wellington industrial district manufacturing jewellers, Wellington (25 miles' radius) hairdressers, hairworkew. and wigmakers.
A good deal of the Satsnnia ware thai conies into this country docs not, according to Mr. T. Shailer Weston, who recently returned from a trip to the East, represent the real 6pirit of Japanese art. Prom a little impromptu speech that Mr. Weston last night delivered by invitation to numbers of tho New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, it was to be gathered that there were two styles of Japanese art— tho one the style that was essentially Japanese, and tho other the stylo that was intonded chiefly to attraot Westerners. Ecal Japanese art excelled in the depiction of single objects or very simple groups of objects. It did not crowd a number of different objects into the picture. Satsuma ware with lavish decoration consisting of many figures and an abundance of gilt was, therefore, .not a true Japanese production. It came within the category of work done for foreign sale and not for tho delight of the Japanese eye.
The supply of gas continues to be wretched. It, was so poor yesterday that many industries depending on it had either to cease or use supplementary plants, and domestic cooking in several quarters was out of the question. The Gas Company's representatives were sorrowful and sympathetic, attributing the poor quality and low pressure to tho bad gWproducing qualities of tho coal they .were burning. Every effort was l>eing made (o obtain better coal, and not until that is accomplished!will the gas supply be improved.
For some timo pa6t the main street of Petone lias been promenaded by almost as many stray dogs as residents, and the animals have become a decided nuisance. Tho number of stray cattle is also on the increase! A general "clean up" was decided upon at last night's meeting of the Petone Borough Council.
"I hope that when I leave the old school I shall not degenerate," said Mr. (!. E. Bevah Brown, headmaster of tho Christchurch Boys' High School, at the annual dinner given by the Old Boys to the school's first fifteen, "though in race week I had doubts about tho matter. On one day when I wa« coming back from a meeting at. Canterbury College, in a car in which a friond was giving me a. lift, we stopped in the Square, and a man rushed'up and askod ma tho winner of tho last race. On another occasion I was mistaken for a gentleman who sells race books."
A deaf mute's fear that he would lose his only companion, another deaf mute, when the latter became engaged to he married, led to the appearance of George Makins, at Nottingham Assizes, on a charge of attempted murder. "Fingor evidence" was given, and Makins was tentenccd to eighteen months' imprisonment. The sentence was spoken by tho Judge, but Makins still waited expectantly to know his fate. Then in a dead silence the sentence was interpretcdj and Makins quietly loft the dock. A dramatic story of a midnight fight botween Makins and his former companion, George Pykett, was interpreted in court Makins and Pykett, it was stated, were the closest of friends, and had lodged together for some, years. They got on well together until Pykett became acnuainjed with a girl l who was also a deaf mute. >She and Pykett became engaged. It was suffgested in the earlier 6tngcs of the ease that Makins was jealous. Later, however, it was stated that he did not desire the girl for himself; all ho wished was to retain the company of his onlv friend, whom ho would loso on Pykctt's marriage. He never censed to remonstrato with Pykett on his engagement, and finally became obsessed. While Pykett was asleep one night lie attached a long piece of tube to the gas let, placed the other end on Pykett's pillow, and waited bv the bed with a razor to end his own lifo as soon as Pykett "■as dead. Pykett awoke, however, and in a struggle with' Making ho was badly cut.
The 25 scarlet fever patients from the immigrant ship Mahana have all been dischargee! from tho Somes Island quarantine station, with the exception of a Loy, who will bo released to-day.
Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M., heard a civil case in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, in which Kathleen Gawne, widow (for whom Mr. H. F. O'Leary appeared) sought to recover from F. Fanning and Co., Wellington, land agents (represented by Mr. J. O'Donovan) the sum of .£l5O paid as a deposit in respect to the purchase of an hotel. It was submitted on behalf of the plaintiff that on May 21, l!)2(l, the defendant, as agent for tho plaintiff, received from J. Shea tho sum of c£lso, as a deposit on tho purchase of the Eltham Hotel, such purchase .being subject to certain conditions, which, it was alleged, could not be complied with, whereupon plaintiff claimed that the deposit wns returnable to Shea, and applied to tho defendant for the amount, but without succe<*. For the defence it was contended that the authority given by the plaintiff contained an undertaking to pay the defendant a commission at the rate of 5 per cent, on the. price obtained, and that, a sale to Shea was effected bv the defendant for the price of -KSOO. The defendant claimed that tho plaintiff was indebted to him to the extent of £125 for commission and ho counter-claimed for this amount. After hearing evidence the Magistrate reserved his decision.
Greymoulh butchers complain of difllculty'in securing meat supplies locally, and'say flint stock growers are seeking M per 1001b. The. 1m tellers are sending n. representative to riKier districts to buy on thpir behalf. Tt is contended that tthe Board of Trade sliould the mntter.—Press Assn. The lion, secretary of the New Zenland Shceixiwnors' Acknowledgment of Debt (o British Sennifn Fund advises having received a donation of ,£SOO from Messrs. Wilson and Cnnltfim, Ltd., Auckland and Wellington. Messrs. Wilson and Caiiham. Ltd., also donated £1000 to the Navy League somo little time ago. In the opinion of a lending Dunedin merchant tho lifting of the embargo on potato export to tho Commonwealth will come too lat/ 1 (reports an exchange). The merchant savs: "If tho Australian repreponlativo, when he comes across, finds that any of our districts are clean as regards scab, we will probably be allowed to sliip, but that permission may not end the difficulty. There must be_ delavs in making the report, and, even if it is favourable, a little time will bo taken up in getting ready for shipment. I am afraid it will bo Hie end of September before we can get potatoes actually on hoard a ship, and by that timpsnme sprouting may have commenced. I. that should happen, and it is likely, and tlw potatoes have to stand in a warm hold for a week or ten days, one cannot be sure that they wiH bo in marketable condition when they arrive. My point ts that it is a question whether relief is not coming too late. I hope not, but there is a doubt, Ono thing quite sure is that Uun is an ampte supply to drew ftwa to CtotOTteny.
A discharge from bankruptcy was yesterday granted James Lewis Coy, who was adjudicated bankrupt upon his own petition in 1905. The application for dischargo came before the Chief Justice. (Sir Robert Stout), and was unopposed.
Tho Telegraph Offico has beon notified by tho Eastern Extension Company: "Resume acceptance of traffic for United Kingdom, via Eastern."
Captain Dickson, of the Canterbury Aviation Company, who flew up from Christclutrch to Blenhoim and across Cook Strait to Trenthani la6t week, took advantage of a spell of Due weather to rocross the Strait to Blenheim on Saturday afternoon. Tho aeroplane left Trontham at 3.10 p.m., and completed the return trip in 65 minutes. A Press Association message from Blenheim states that he raced a bank of clouds on tho way, but otherwise made a fine passage. Ho proposes to return to Christchurch. probably to-day or to-morrow.
At a meeting of tho Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union at, Jlarton on Saturday it was decided to strongly support the Afforestation Bill now before Parliament, and also to draw the attention of lhe Board of Trade to tho drop in the prices of hides and tho high prices still ruling for leather goods, such as boots and shoes. The meeting decided to protest against the Mean Tin ■ Bill now before the House, as detiumntal to the interests of farmers and country settlers.
An extended playing area for the Terrace School is now assured. Mr. J. P. Luke, M.P. for Wellington North, has received lhe following letter from the Hon. C. J. Pa it, Miuister of Education:—"l have pleasure in informing you that I .have approved of a further grant of .C 903, which, with the sum already authorised, will enable the Education Board to purchase Blunclell's properly of 3 roods 27 perches for the purpose of extending the Terrace School site." The property to be acquired lies to the north! of tho school, and is owned 'by Mrs. Henry Blundell. An increase in the 6calo of war pensions is desired by returned soldiers throughout tho Dominion in order that disabled men and tho dependants of deceased soldiers may be better nble to meet the Increase in the cost of living. .Tho matter was considered at last mrnte meeting of tlio W.E.S.A., when Mr. E. B. Bell moved: "That Hris meeting of the W.E.S.A. 6trongly urges on the Government tho necessity of imriediately increasing the scale of pe'.sions on tho lines laid down by the N.Z.R.S.A. annual conference, held in Wellington in June last." The motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. G. Jones's proposed conversion of the old Petone Methodist Church into shops and dwellings was before _ the Petone Borough Council again last nieht. when the opinion of the borough solicitor (Mr. E. C. Kirk) was rend. Mr. Kirk reported that bo had carefully examined the plans and specifications, and studied the by-laws bearing on the proposals, and had come to the conclusion that the engineer would not on any account bo justified in granting o permit. The whole plan 6howed fa etructara which would be a veritable deathtrap m cac e of fire. On the motion of thq Mayor, it wns decided to forward a copy of the opinion to Mr. Jones, and inform him that the council could take no further action.
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