LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 November 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a special meeting of the City Council to be held on Friday evening the consolidation .and revision of tho Wellington City Corporation By-laws, 1907, will bo considered. Tho Customs revenue collected at Wellington yesterday amounted to £3948 14s. 9d. Tho banks throughout New Zealand 'will be closed on Saturday next, St. Andrew's day. The Karori Borough-Council is offering: a reward of £50 for information which will lead tothe recovery of tho money recently stolen from the Council's office. A deputation from the New Plymouth Harbour Board and Borough Council will wait on the Premier this morning concerning a local matter. "? ' , About fifteen Roman Catholic priests attended 1 tho Theological Conference of the Wellington deanery at. Otaki yesterday. Dean M'Konna, of Masterton, presided, and Father Schaeffer was-proponent. A Wanganui Press Association telegram states that the body of an old man namod William Lewis, aged 72, who had been missing since Saturday last, was found in tho river yesterday afternoon. Detective Gibson, of Christchurch, arrived from -Sydney by the Mooraki yesterday in charge of a man named John A. Gregory, arrested in Sydney on a eliargo of deserting his illegitimate child. Tho detective and his charge left for the south last night. The Govermont steamer Tutanepai sailed for Onehunga with ' tho vice-regal household party at 10 a.m. yesterday. On her return she will proceed with tho laying of tho new cable, between Lyell and Whito s Bays, already stowed in her forward tank. x " You did quite right in drawing my attention to tho fact. You will be excused from service," observed His Honour, Mr. Justice/Cooper, -yesterday morning when a juror who was being empanelled to hear criminal charges against a bankrupt explained that he was a creditor of prisoner. Tho Volunteers are to havo a lield day on Saturday afternoon, when the forces will turn out to defend the city from a raiding party which is to land at Houghton Bay. Tho raiding party will be tho Post and Telegraph ltilies, and the balance of the city forces will act on the defensive. It is understood that the battalion will parado at Newtown Park at 2.30 p.m. Mrs. Ethel R. Do Costa, LL.B. (neo Miss Ethol R. Benjamin, of Dunedin), after practising for 6ome years in tliat city, has , commenced practice as a barrister and solicitor in No 6 Nathan's.Buildings, comer Grey and Featleiston Streets, Wellington. Mrs. Do Costa has tho distinction of being the only lady practising at the Bar in tho Dominion. Intending clients oan depend on prompt and careful attention at Mrs, De Costa's hands.

I lie tender of Messrs. John Duthie and Co. lias been accepted by the City Council for the supply of water pipes needed for the installation of a water supply at Kolburno. According to advice received by the police a New Zealander named Fred St. Clair, who had control of Messrs. Cohen Brothers' business at Auckland, has boon arrested in Sydney on a warrant issued here on a charge of theft of £15 from his lato employers. Detective Connolly will leavo for Sydney on Friday to bring accused back to New Zealand . "I am only one man, arid I've only got two pairs of eyes,"' remarked, defendant in a case at the Magistrate's Court yesterday when asked if he had seen a certain article which a couple of witnesses had given evidence about. The same defendant informed the- Court that ho had pleaded guilty to a particular charge because ho knew the Court would not believe the true story if he pleaded not guilty. Further particulars received by the police concerning the death of Nicholas Egan, who was accidentally killed at Levin on Monday, show that Egan was engaged in a gravel pit filling trucks for the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, when a quantity of earth fell without 'any warning <ind covered him. "Whon the man was released he N was in extremis, and died within a few minutes. • Early this morning a Dominion reporter/ trudging homewards along Manners Street, saw a flicker of light in a barrel of rubbish near Messrs. R. and E.' Tingey's establishment. As this particular reporter's vision, usually encounters, at this hour ; nothing more formidable than a: furtive policeman or a belated reveller, his surprise aroused his curiosity, dispelled his drowsiness, and moved him to investigate, the matter. It was a conflagration in embryo. He apprised the brigade of the fact. The firemen promptly 'responded, and. extinguished the blaze " in one act." ' One hundred of the folk who ate their dinner in Wellington last night ate it with their hearts boiling with indignation. They had been spending the afternoon in Miramir, , and, instead of arriving home before 6' o'clock, they did not reach town until about 7.30 p.m. ' One would hardly believe that, ; in spite of the new " recorderson ; die tramway routes, and in spite of tlio notorious fact that Miramar is a very popular place on a half-holiday when the weather is perfect/ 100 people should bo about an hour and a half lato in getting back to town. When the 5.15 car left Miramar it was packed, and 100 people had to sit by the wayside and wait. They waited a long time. Fivo, ten, fifteen minutes, half an hour, went by, but there • was no sign of the next car. The castaways grew restless as the shadows began to fall. The, suggestion that the car would come by: the time " Wonderland " was opened for. the -night was met with open doubt.. Somebody' that it was no use looking for acar: it would be better to look upwards, for by the time help came electric cars would :have been superseded by the airship. Now and then a wave of excitement stirred the crowd as somebody said he saw a car far away. " Light-headed through hunger, that's what' ho is," said one surly sceptic. - Many ;of the people were , ladies with very young , children, and they looked very tired. At last, at a quarter past six, a casual way- . farer strolled out of the sunset. Had he seen an airship ? No, but there was a car off the lino',ti l mile aWay. Tho weary army, which had just begun to think of camping for tho night, gave up looking for likely couches in the grassland began the walk, hieguiling tho march with opinions on the tramway management. - A mile away a car 'was,, indeed, off the line, and a couple of tramway employees were trying to replace it by means of several miscellaneous pieces of firewood.. After another wait a car hove in sight, and' the peoplo who had planned to leave at 5.15 p,m. started off at a quarter to seven.- It then dawned upon them that .the tramway authorities had not thought it worth while to let them know, as they waited, that they: should walk to the obstruction. It was purely by chance that they are not still.waiting this morning.'