LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

| The Mnnawatu Health Inspector i our Palmerston North correspondent) re- ' ports scarlet ferer in Otaki,. Levin, and Fox- | ton. Fortunately, the cases are riot numer-' ous. j ■ r ; The Customs revenue collected at Welling-' ton on Saturday amounted to £1708 Os: 6d:,' nnd the total collected during last week was £21,546 2s. 3d. Tho amount collectcd; for beer duty, last week was £285. ■ I - ; A meeting of the Native Land Court was held in the. Sydney Street Methodist room on Saturday morning,' Judge Jackson . Palmer presiding; After a number-of applications for succession titles' had been dealt; with, the, Court adjourned until this morning at 10 o'clock. * His Honour, Mr. Justice Button,' has 1 granted probates of the wills of the IntoRev. James Duncan, of Foxton; . William Humphries; carpenter, of Wellington; -and Joseph Mitchell, builder, of Turakina: His 'Honour has also granted letters of administration in the estate of Sarah Duncan,, of Papanui (deceased). The ceaseloss chatter of one party, in tho dress circle. of;tho Opera "House on.Saturday evening the cause of much annoyance to several'people in their vicinity. It is really the, play that most peoplo vjsit the Opera House to hear, not tho conversation of those -uninterested in what is taking place upon the stage. , The following v notico was placed in 1 the window of a • Wellington --restaurant last Bight"Owing to the concentrated' attendance and abnormal appetites of the Australian Squadron now in port, our cuisine is temporarily depleted. While heartily • thanking them, we regret our inability do caller than shut down to-night, and for to-morrow's supplies." :' ■ 1 i.'M •: The band of H.M.S. Challenger played in the Hospital grounds yeaterday afternoon'in th 6 presence of a , largo number of the general public. Tho band's artistic concert gave much .pleasure to visitors and patients alike, and a number of the bluejackets who the hat before visitors and intercepted trams raised nearly £12 as 'an addition' to the Hospital funds. The 'Regatta Committee of the men-o'-warsmen in the stream? have given their decision, on the cutter ra«e~~as follows i—First, Prometheus, 28ft. cutter; second, Powerful's first, 32-ft: cutter. This disqualifies the Poworfnl's 28ft. boat, which sailed into second place, but was protested, against for not completing the course. A committee meeting of tho P.N.Y.O. • will be hold itonight, when the prizes for this race will be duly .allotted as abtfVe. , ■• . - \ \ A .ballot taken in connection with the biennial election of a general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand has resulted in the defeat of, Mr. W. J. Edwards, who has held the. position for eighteen years, ,hy Mr. M. J.' Mack,a guard- on the AVaikato section. Mr, Mack's majority is about three to one. There were'no other candidates. Tho election , has to be confirmed at the biennial conference of the society in Wellington towards the end of nest month. . < ' ' / V " The Journal i of the Department of Labour just issued (contains .the now'features that have boon announced as a departure' in tho make-up of the publication., Jhis consists of a number of special articles clipped from other papers, among which are articles on " Emigration from' the United [Kingdom in' 1906;" and " House-letting\ in Scotland," from . the " Board . of- Trade Labour Gazette"® "iThe Health of Printers," from the " Now York Labour Bulletin," and "The Agitator—His Function in Social Evolution," from." Tho Arena." i " The following contracts have been let by tho Railway' Department (Wellington District) for three years,'commencing March 31 nest: —General ironmongery, ' furnishing ironmongery, bolts,, nuts, rivets, ironmongery tools, plumbers' and gas-fitters' iron-: mongery, explosives, iron and steel, leather, etc., and ship chandlery, Briscoe and Co,, Ltd.; galvanised iron and tinware goods, A. and T. Burt; chemicals, drugs, etCi, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.; oils and. colours, Smith and Smith; drain, pipes, H, Hill; bricks and fire clay, P. Hutson and Co.; indiarubber goods, A. R. Hislop. ' At 12.37 on Saturday afternoon tho Fire Brigade received a call to Elizabeth Street, where it was found that a fire among some, grass was damaging n fence on the vacant allotment owned by Mr. T: W. Young. A quarter of ail hour later the Brigade received a. call to Messrs. Chambers and Son's establishment, No. 34 Jervois Quay, where fire had broken out in a rubbish bin on the basement. It was, however, extinguished by the employees prior to the arrival of tho Brigade.' Last night, at 6.25 o'clock, the services of the Kilbirnie Brigade were requisitioned to extinguish,a fire among grass and gorso in the neighbourhood of the Patent Slip. * The letters and figures that one sees in the corner of New Zealand official Government and Parliamentary papers may be mere cyphers to tho ordinary public, but they are as whole title to the habitual user of such literature., They constitute the classification of the various departmental documonts, and enable ail immediaio placing of the hand upon any subject sought for. The classification may be interesting to readers. A refers to papers connected with the office of the Ministor for tho Interior; B to Treasury papers; C to Land and Survey; D to Public Works, railways, and immigration; 'E to education; F to postal and telegraphic matters; G to Native affairs; H to miscellaneous.