LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The 'Postal authorities liave received advice from London that a mail was dispatched for Now Zealand on November 12 per Paparoa, via the Panama Cajial. The s.s. Toyo JlaVu sailed froin Newcastle on November. 13 for Wellington. She carries a small Australian mail. The Secretary, General Post Office, has been advised that normal time has been restored in Turkey. "Tho social side of our nature, and especially that of our young- people, must receive attention, a fact that, raises the question, What are jve doing?" remarked the Moderator, the Hov. S. W. Carrie, M.A., ill the course of his inaugural address last evening licfore the Presbyterian Assembly. "Are our church UniildVngs," he continued, "fulfilling their function in opening twice 011 Sundays niicl iKissibly once or so during the week? Should every congregation, even the smallest, not have a social linll for its young men and women, and Christian men and women, as volunteers, to arvange for and supervise such healthy amusements as tlie young folk rightly expect? As tilings arc at present the question, I'm well aware, is a somewhat foolish one. But it shouldn't lie. If Ini visht in magnifying the importance of amusements, and in claiming tnem for tho Kingdom, there should be no dearth of volunteers to make these amusements bright, and clean, and helpful. line hotel we have, to a large extent closed down. What have wo provided to take its place? The fact is we are too niggardly, and too In ay, and too indifferent to take up tho work as we should.

Speaking at tho civic reception to him in Christcliiirch on Saturday, the. Gov-ernor-General said: "I feel that the Boy Scouts' Association is a tiling .which ib « D iii", in tho future, to establish unity m the Empire as a whole. The boys who join the Scouts are at, an impressionable age, and- if we can put into their hearts patriotic feelings and love of their country—lovo of this beautiful-Dominion -mul "footings of unselfishness and com : radeship, we can go a long way towards solving the problems of reconstruction which lie before the Empire. I think that of all the things that have been <lone in roccnt years to liolp forward tho spirit of patriotism—that spirit which led the men'of the Empire during the late war to give up everything foi the «ko of the" Empire—amongst _ those things I feel that the spirit which the Scout religion tends to inculcate is 0110 of the finest of all."His Excellency coneluded with reminding his heal erg of the great debt of gratitude which the whole Empire owed to the Chief Scout (Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and to all who had in any way assisted him i.n the Scout work.

Following a fall from a traincnr in Lambton Quay, near . "WariiiK Taylor Street, yesterday afternoon, a man named William Sullivan was admitted to the Public Hospital suffering from injuries to the.face and head. His injuries are not' considered serious, The Eight Rev. J)r. Liston, of Dunedin, will be consecrated CoadjutorBishop of Auckland at Dunedin on December 12, nnd at the same time ■ the Kight Hev. Dr. J. AYliyte, of Sydney, wil] be consecrated Bishop of Dunedin. Dr. Liston Was bom i.n and after a long period of clerical service in New Zealand, Australia,"and lfome, was some fifteen years ago appointed Hector -if Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, which' position* he occupied up to the time of his appointment to the episcopate. Dr. IVliyte was parish priest of Stanmore, Sydney, and is described by a Sydney newspaper as a lover of philosophy and literature, nnd as one .who has proved himself a successful administrator and a solid business man. He was born some 50 rears ago in Kilkenny, Ireland, and ordained 111 1892. A few months later lie went to Australia and was appointed to a professorship at St. Patricks ColUnjn. Manly. Later he was appointed assistant priest nt. St. Benedict s and St. Mary's, and subsequently held the position of Diocesan Inspector of Schools, Administrator, and Chancellor of the Arch-Diocese of Sydney. Whilst prosecuting his historical vesOnrches in Svdney the Hev. M. A. Rugby Pratt discovered the original nmiiuscupt notes of the lectures and addresses given in England by Hie Hov. fnmuel when lie was advocating the establishment of a .Methodist mission to the Maoris. This mission was subsequently begun by Mr. 'Leigh in 1822. Mr. l*ratt also had (lie opportunity to peruse and make extracts' from the original manuscript journal of the Itev James Watkin. the hist missionary to the South .sland ot l Zealand. This journal covers the lii't rour years of Mr. M'atkin s work in i\ew S'.ciitaml. Mr. Veilch. M.P. for Wanganui, received a cable message 'rom Suva 011 Momtuv <<tnliii(! that ulwut H« Indians had arrived there, and were contcniiilatinjgr deimrtura for Auckland at the first opportunity. Mr. Veitch has tetcgiaphcd to the Minister r.f, .Immigration, slronglv recommending that immediate action be taken to nrcvent the Indians euniing to Ncw Zealand.—Press Assn. The comicil of the New /ealand Motor Oarage Proprietors - Association discussed llie proposal to voniniomorate victory in UW war bv formats ;i national highway through tho Dominion, i.nd passed the following motion:—"That this council emphatically approves the national principle of the projected Victory Highway in concrete through the two islands of New Zealand, n commemoration of tho whole of New Zealand's work.for victory."—Press Assji. At Monday night's meeting of the Pctone Borough Council, the following resolution, moved by the. Mayor (Mr. J. \V. M'Kwaii), and seconded by Councillor W. Cox. was passed: "That, in the opinion of this council the timo mis arrived when a rosidont manager should lie appointed for the I'etoiin branch of tho liank of Now Zealiiml," The Mayor said that the matter wne one of interest to tlie business people of Pctone, and it had been demonstrated to him that the business of the hank warranted the apI poiutuieut of a resident manager,

Tho cost of an especially heavilyluaoured cable for telephone work between tho North and South Islands is, according to authorities, admittedly very heavy, aud with the cost of bringing it out by n, special steamer which would lay the cable, and keepinpj it in repair it is not anticipated that it will ever Pay. Reading Mr, E. A. Shrinipton's (Chief Telegraph Engineer) remarks on the astonishing progress of wireless telephony, a correspondent ("Civis") asks wliother it would not be wise for the Government tn withhold its hand as far as ordering the cable vs concerned, as another year or two's investigation may make cable telephony altogether useless. A quantity of cement i 6 to be made mailable by tho Hoard of Trade for the City Council in order tat certain important work in connection with tho renewal of rails in Conrtcnay Place should be unileruiKPii at the earliest possible moment! At ,tho Sydney night refuge and soup kitchen, during the past year 54,726 men were supplied with meals, and 24,675 were given beds at the reffige. This is a daily average of 149 meals and G7 beds, and shows an increase of 24,310 in the in®., ber of meals' supplied during the year ; and B(J£ in the number of beds. Women io the number of 1338 and six children have been fed, and' shelter has been given to 577. This Is some indication of 1 the poverty existing m the Australian city. Messrs. Thomus Cook and Sons liav* just received information that tho members of tho New Zealand Olympic team are on board the Nestor, which is duo in Sydney on December ,0. ' They will' bo leaving Sydnoy by the Manuka on December !), and due in Wellington on December 13. At a special meeting of the Auckland Juicing Club Committee yesterday afternoon, it was decided to donate the profit received from the Royal llace Meeting in May Inst, amounting to something like. .I*sooo, to the fund for the Auckland War Memorial Museum—Press Assn. . At a meeting of the Wellington Motor Club, held yesterday, Mr. Stuart .Wilson moved, and' Mr. 11. W. Lloyd seconded: "That this meeting approve of the principle of the projected 'victory* road through the two islands of New Zealand in commemoration of New . Zealand's work for victory, and expresses its willingness to co-operate with other bodies for- the achievement of this ideal." First-hand information as to the lamb-, dug in the interior of Otago is given by an expert who has just returned from, a tour which took in tlfte remoter districts and the high country. His report i» that the births are quite lip to the average. and that Ui* lambs are doingi well, the only peculiarity oi' tho season being thai it is very late on the high lands; but that is not to be wondered at when considered in relation to the fact that on the mounain slopes of the interior the narcissus is just coining into bloom. Dairy cattle are selling at high prices in the Middlemarch country, says tho "Otago Daily Times." _ Last week, at Otaut.au, a man who is shifting away sold his herd at an average ol' J.'lo per head—a big price for a mixed lot Inht would have averaged JCl'2 or Jil3 before tho war, and jEJO a, year or two ago. The Tramways Military Band will play at Oriental Bay at 8 o'clock this evening.