Notes from other Centres.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 3, 28 September 1907, Page 8

Notes from other Centres.

By Telegraph.—Own Correspondents. •AUCKLAND. Auckland, September 27; Important matters, wero to have been considered by. tlib City. Council to-night, when the ordinary meeting, postponed from Dominion Day, was to have been held. Theso included a report from tho City Engineer upon an electric light and power installation for the city, which involves an expenditure . of from £-10,000 to £50,000; and tho Mayor's scheme in connection with municipal workmens Homes. Tho meeting, nowevcr, had to be further postponed until Monday afternoon, owing to influenza preventing the attendance of a quorum of councillors. This is tho iirst timo such a thing has happened since the.present Mayor took office. The Hon. Geo. Fowlds has escaped any great rush of deputations so far during his visit to Auckland. The only one of any importance received by him to-day was on the subject of betting, at sports .meetings. The immediate incentive actuafj'g the deputation was a visit paid by them jo one of a series of Wednesday night proprietary sports• gatherings, ivhere bookmakers are to bo found actively engaged in their '.'profession," but there is no suggestion whatever-of anything like' disorderly scenes.. The deputation expressed the opinion that immediate stops .ivoro .necessary to prevent this- betting on the ground in question. The Jihister will, it is stated (tho deputation was not open to the Press) lay - the matter before his colleagues on his return to 'Wellington. 1 Mr C. H. Poole, M.H.R., who accompanied Mr Fowlds north, is to attend .a meeting of trades, union's to-morrow-'night, when the Arbitration Act Amendment. Bill is to', bo discussed. Mr. Bon Tillet, English • Labourleader, who arrived by the Nairnshire on a health tour, told an interviewer that'tho Australian trade unions did not seem to have the same spirit and. vim as they had. ten years ago. Speaks ingof Australia aiid New" Zealand, Mr. Tillet said :—" Tho workmen here -arc-no bettor off than those in the Old Country. There, the workmen have more privileges, and their, wages have a greater purchasing power than they; appear to nave out here." . He will visit Wellington. '.'■'. -'DUNEDIN. By Telegraph.—Association—Copyright. Dunodin, September. 27. The tramway i traffic on Dominion. Day was below expectations. Mrs. A. B. Jones, mother of the Hon. ,G. Jones, died at Oamaru yesterday in her eighty-sixth year. Mrs. Jones came, to Now. Zealand .with her husband - sixty years ago. .- It is proposed that tho Shipping Companies' and tho Harbour Board should join in a system:'of rewards to prevent pillaging on the wharves. In ;a speech at Waikeuaiti during ■a Dominion luncheon,', Mr.; T., Mackenzie said for some considerable timo parties had been converging on the same point,. and w;ith a few. reasonable modifications tho 'two. sides could easily unite. Thero was a-de-velopment just now of-what one might term tho . Socialistic party, in the. country, and it appeared to him that the sides in future would bo Progressive' Liberalism v. Socialism. : Personally ho eared 'more to see honest: men in office than, for political creeds, and lie was prepared, to follow, any, band of honest men-,who would go <in.,for. sound., liberal'-, legislation -on ■ economic lines, placing -the- closer , settlement of "the land and the development of our industries in- the forefrcnt of their policy. He believed that tho country now had.such', ii,' Government in the'.' AVard Government, and lie, personally, would very much like to see the sound.men. of the House and country, working in unison. ■'.••-.' ' '•■'■' FALL OF SNOW..: ■ ' '•'• ' Rcefton, September 27/ . , Thero has been a heavy fall of snow, and all, the hills arc covered.. The rivers aro high.' ; ■• . ' •:■