LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Dominion will not be published tomorrow (Christmas Day). Tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Athenic, due here about Decomber 31 from London via Capetown and Hobart, has over 700 passengers for the Dominion. ' it is expected tnat the compensation case in connection with the Compulsory acquirement by tho Government of the Corrington Station, Carterton, will be heard early in the New- Year. There have boon 252 entries throughout the Dominion, for the Civil Service senior examination, to be held from January 6 to 18. Wellington has 105 candidates, Auckland 35, Christchurch 18, and Dunedin IV. The yachts Waitangi, Muritai, and Ngaira are at present cruising in tho Sounds. The two first-mentioned boats will bo away for about a fortnight. Two or three of the local launches are also over in tho Sounds for' the holidays. ■ All the pictures purchased for Wellington, with tho exception of Frank Brangwyn's fine picture, are on the Athenic, which is duo here on December 31, and.thoy will bo hung immediately after their arrival. Tho Brangwyn picture is being exhibited in Amsterdam, and will not arrive in Now Zealand till 3ome weeks later. Circulars have been addressed to all the Civil Servants of tho Dominion, sotting forth the conditions and advantages of the. now Superannuation Fund, and containing forms of application for admission to the scheme, with a request to make the necessary deduction from the applicants' pay from the date of ontry. \ . Tho postal authorities advise that the Wimmora left Sydney on December 20 with an Australian mail, which is expected to arrive here on December 25. The postal authorities advise that a steamer left San Francisco for New Zealand on December 20 with seventy bags of mail,' which is expected to reach here about January 11. For some unfathomable reason the policeman is often an unpopular person when he interferes in a street brawl. This fact was' brought out during the''course of the. evidence of a"witness called at the.Magistrate's Court yesterday in connection with a brawl on Lambton Quay on Saturday night. The witness iiiiquestion remarked:'"!'could not stand by and see a man hit on the bead withva.bottle —policeman or not." In connection with the derailment of a car on' tho Brooklyn section of the Corporation tramways on Sunday, the City Electrical Engineer, Mr. , Stuart Richardson, wishes to. emphasise tho extreme danger which is likely to arise from thp' senseless. practice of placing stones on the tram-lines. It fortunately happened that the accident on Sunday happened to ! air lip-car. Had the same thing occurred to one. of the down cars the consequences might ha\ - o been very. serious. It is understood that the police are making enquiries with, a view to the detection of the authors of the causes which contributed to the accident.

Mrs. John Cameron, residing in.theTenui district, a student of the St. John Ambulance Association, had occasion to put her practical knowledge into use last week. She was riding along in a gig when the horse shied and capsized the conveyance. Mrs. Cameron, who was accompanied by her husband, regained her seat, arid it was found that she had broken her leg, and the exertion of. getting back into the gig caused a compound fracture She gave her husbandinstructions as to how the leg was to be bound up, and after the injured limb had been attended to, the gig set out for Masterton. On arrival at the hospital the doctor remarked on the clever manner in which the injured leg' had been bandaged. Mrs.' Cameron is at present in hospital, and is making satisfactory, progress. ; : ; ■

While returning from a visit to Pentridgc Gaol the other day, Mr. Bent, the Victorian Premier, was tho victim of a painful mishap. Mr. Bent and the Minister for Water Supply (Mr. Swinburne) were riding in the Government motor-car, when a boy on the roadside cast a stone, which unfortunately struck tho Premier high up on tho cheekbone, and just under tho eye. Beyond a swelling of tho injured part Mr. Bent suffered no ill-effects, but, as he bathed his eye at Parliament House, he observed: "I'd like to get that blooming boy, I would." The juvenile stone-thrower was forgotten in.tho immediate concern for the welfare of his victim, but half-a-dozcn members of the Parliamentary party, on loarning subsequently of tho incident, expressed regret that they had not had an opportunity of pointing out the error of his way in the approved fashion. An outbreak of fire amongst somo kapoc in tho teasing room at Messrs. Scoullar and Company's factory on Thorndon Quay was responsible for the fire brigade turning out at 3.15 yesterday afternoon. Tho services, of tho brigade were not required, tho outbreak being suppressed by the omployee's of the firm.

Mrs. Ethol it. Do Costa, LL.B. (nca Miss Ethel E. Benjamin, of Dunedin), after practising for 6omo years in that city, has commenced practice as n barrister and solicitor in No G Nathan's Buildings, corner Grey and Featteieton Streets, ■Wellington. -Mrs. Do Costa has tho distinction of being the only lady practising at tho Bar in the Dominion. Intending clients can dopend on prompt and careful at tention at Mrs. Do Costa's hands. We aro 6einng Jlicycle Tyres and Inner Tubes at lowest possible prices. In addition to this, wu aro, for the next four weeks, presenting overy purchaser of a Tyro or Tube vitli a now Bell, free of chargo. A. B. luwnall and Company, 20!) Lambton Quay. Ladies' Tailor-mado Costumes (ready-to-wear) at a special discount during December and January. Plenty Travelling Costumes, Skirts, and Blouses in stock. Siogel's, No. 1 Manners Street. 6353 . You will find a display of such dainty holiday frocks, morning dresses, pretty blouses, charming millinery, etc., at Mrs. Mathowson'e Molbourno Houso, Lambton Quay. Tho prices will enable every lady in Wellington to look really smart and well dressed. Remember the address: Lambton Quay, opp. Bank N.Z. 6117 Photographic post cards of "Hospital Saturday " collection, Parliamentary Buildings, firo series, and other interesting events, on sale at Zak's Photo Depot, 24 Willis Street (price id. each)- ■ j

The Customs revenue collected at Wellington yesterday amounted to £4762 7s. lid. The. Government has approved of the following grants to the Wellington Education Board: —Infants' School, Johnsonville; £550; enlargements for Levin District High School, £430; Dyer Settlement School, Martinborougli, £300; and sums for technical classes at the ■ Training College, Greytown District High School, and various purposes. The Labour Department has Cliristmas presents to give away in the form of jobs, but so far there has been no rush of applicants. Farm and general labourers are in most request, but a marine oil engine driver, a notor-waggon driver, married couples, qunrrjmcn, and other workers are also wanted. Sixteen immigrants by the Paparoa applied, for positions yesterday, and they were all suited. Most of them .were farm labourer.). A sudden death occurred oh board the s.s. Talune during the passage from Sydney to Wellington. Early on Friday, morning, an able-bodied seaman, named John Dawson, dropped dead, owing to heart failure, and the body was buried at sea tho same evening. , Deceased was a single man, thirty-five years of age, a native of Cardiff, and joined the Talune at D/inediii about ten days ago. The receipts tin the Corporation cars for Saturday and Sunday last reached record figures. On Saturday the takings amounted to , £517, while the receipts for Sunday reached £305. ■■>... "The Paper King," who appeared before a small audience at the Opera House last evening, was evidently conscious of. some shortcomings in his show. At one stage he came forward and explained that it was a one-man show. "I am tho one man. I was riiy own advance representative, and my own bill-sticker, and I have beeir working up till tho lasj; moment, and feel fit to drop, but am still working." Later on tho curtain failedj to fall after an exit, and coming back he was understood to say that ho had been made a fool of, and there was no one. , who know whon to lower the, curtain. -From those trifling circumstances it will be readily uudorstood that.the king's reign. last evening was a somewhat harassed one.