LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

_ There arrived in the Dominion. dur* iftg October a total of 4{>62 person h, and, i as tlio departures numbered 2049, the 1 net gtrin m population by immigration . for the month was 261.8 persons. . ®iis is slightly better titan tlio figures for . October of last year, when tlio excess of arrivals over departures was 2503. ! This two principal sources from "which ' .population was drawn were the United 1 Kingdom and New South Wales, whiol.i together accounted for over 3000 of the total.. . ,Thc porta of arrival of the ira'migranta wor6' J ffiMV:—AVeUingten, ■ SlOi; Auckland, 1272; Invorcargill, 4'30. ■ T!i<> departures Wore distributed thus: j , Bunotliiij 1 j Wellington, 819 j Auckland, GQO; InvorcargiU, 440, | Sir Walter Huebar.an is asking tiro ! i .Minister for Agficxrlture whether he will ! i abolish the Customs duty on. imported stud stack. 'Fifty-threo Chinese, including eleven j women, arrived in the Dominion last I month, and seventy-one took their departure from tho country. A sum of ten shillings in 'postal notes 1 ~ has been forwarded to tho Minister of .lustieo from an unknown penon in ■ 'payment for articles .pilfered from tailway stores. ■■ In tho Legislative Council yesterday j tho Hon. J. Dufhio gave notice to move J 'or a return'setting out tho following ! iartieulars in respect to tho toad which s being constructed between Waimarino ;nd Tokaanu: —(1) Tho total mileage, iiid of that completed and fit for wheelsd traffic; the length of unmetnllod or it.herwiso uncompleted formation, and ilso what distance remains on which no fork has as yet been done. (2) Tho irobabte date by which tho road be- ■ ween tho two centres will bo fit ifi lunimer for wheeled traffic throughout., A cable Message receive® by Mr. Chonuis Quinlan in Sydney last week ioiitain.ed' a flattering otfer from tho lirectes of the. New (Millionaires') .'lieatro, Now York, for ft Wagnerian : estival at tho theatre by the Quinlan Company, commencing in April next. j t was suggested that the complete :vcte of "Tho King," together with 'Tristan and Isolde," should ho prelented. Tho company is much elated at. :he compliment implied: by the offer, md tlio scheme is being considereci; by dr. Quinlan. Half a dozen French sailors Wore on Wellington yesterday. They are >n route from the French Settlement at Tahiti to Sydney by tho Willochra. By notification in this week's Gazette Jie post-wasters at Makotuku. Mauriee,'illo, Waipultnraii, iCerepehi, Taomafo, i.nd Tokaanu are authorised to take tnd receive statutory 'declarations, A' list of the registrars of the. births md deaths of Maoris appears in last sveiiijig's Gazette, Tho services of the Ekctaimna Do'enee Rifle Club have been accepted by .lie Government; Regulations for tho use of "official" jver-prmted stamps appear in last light's Gazette. ' It is provided that ;lio stamps shall only be used for olFr* :ial cotrespondenco or telegrams end m jaymeiit of tho onarges'". o'l official niToatt commumcatioiis, nrJ no officers ir other person except a postal officer idling stamps to tlio public at -a pest ifiieo shall exchange "official" stamps: 'or cash, or for stamps of the ordinary ssue. Any person in the employ of' ;lvo Government using "official" stamps itherwise than for payment of postage in postal packets on His Majesty's Service or tno charges on telegrams or iiireau communications oii the same sor<ico shall bo liable to a fine of £5 for ho first offence, and to dismissal for my subsequent oifenco. "Official'' overprinted stamps may be sold to tlio pubic npwi {tahiand oil tho miderstaftdiug ,liat they cannot bo Used for prepay* ttent of tho charges on private postal jackets or telegrams of bureau commmjeations, ■ or for ether purpose conlcctex'l with the Post and Telegraph Dc« sartmont. In the House of Representatives yeserda.v, Mr. IT, G. Ml ga.yc notice to isk tho Postmaster-General: Whether io will givo instructions for 2d.-iu-the-ilot telephones to lie placed in tho icighbmirliood of tlio Molesworth Street office., Wellington Nortli (corner •f Park Street ami Tkiakeri Pond), Northlands (near .Northland:?, Post Mtice}, Kelburnc, ItaTori, Newtewn, To \r<i, and Wadestown ? Tlio number of :alls registered at tho above offices for i period of thirty flays, ho stated, were respectively 6, 4, 4, 14:, 3, 10, 12, which is a- clear indication that tho public #ro not tnl.jH.ig advantage of those bureaux, and points to the need of providing the public with cheaper and continuous j telephonic facilities. In thy districts named the- public have no telephonic i facilities after 5 p.m. &r before 9 a.m., J or on Sundays anil' Post Office holidays, j

When the Union Company's chartered! steamer Willochra was seven days oufc from San Francisco to AVelliuEton she was hailed by the four-masted uarquentino James Tuft, bound from Newcastle to Vancouver. The captain of the sailer asked that a member of his crew, who was ill, should bo taken oil board the JViUonhra for medical treatment. A boat was dispatched to the vessel and the sick man was brought to the Willochra. Dr. Tamp, surgeon oil tlie- niftil steamer performed an operation, with tho result that the seaman—Griphan by; name—is .now on the road to recovery. Tiii> Fire Brigade wore called out yesterday afternoon .to suppress an outbreak ifhieh had occurred at No. 44 Revans Street, in a two-storied miilding occupied by Mr. 11. A, Parsonage, as an undertaker's establishment. Tlie firs started in a. kitchen at the .real' of tho building, which was used as ft workshop, and beforo tho blaze ivas extinguished the contents of this room were badly damaged. Several other rooms on the ground floor suffered somewhat from lite beat. The cause of tho outbreak is ascribed to a lighted match winch had been carelessly thrown away, after a gas. stove had been, lighted. The owner of the building is the Public Trustee, in theDrummoiid Estate, and the insurances are £400 on the building, in the State Office, and £100 in the Guardian Office on tho stock.' An amendment to be proposed to the Footwear Herniation Bill by the Minister in charge (the Hon. F. Jit. B, is that the Bill shall como into operation o.n July 1,1914. Fire yesterday morning destroyed art unoccupied house of seven rooms at tho T.mvor Butt, owned by Mr. J. T. Hawthorn. Tho borough brigade made an unsuccessful attempt to save the building. It is thought that sparks froin fireworks may have caused the outbreak. Mr. Hawthorn is array, and tlie insurances Were hot available yesterday, Lambton leases were recently the subject of arbitration at sittings at tlie Town Hall) and awards were announced quite within the, past few days, The City Council called a special meeting yesterday afternoon to consider these awards and their effect upon tlie public. It was decided to obtain a legal opiuion, which will lie presented at the council meeting, and action will then bo taken. _ k Social Comir.ittee. consisting of tho following, was elected Quartermaster Adams. Sergeants Hobbs, Bay, Lewis, and West; Corporals Zueher and Wright: Trumpeter Adams, find Sapper Bradley.

The following Were elected a Shooting Coram it'teeiQ.'Uartormaste.r _ Adams, Sergeants Hobbs, Smith, Lewir, and Day, Corporal Mansfield, imd Sappora Cornwall, Shannon, and .Dixon, Soy gcant Lewis wits rc-elccted secretary.''