LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Customs, revenue; collected at the porl yesterday totalled £3124 16s. Bd. . ' The training ship, Amokura was vfc. Napiei to-day, and sho, remains there .until Monday, when sho will proceed to Wellington.' . Nominations.for two seats on.the.Plimmerton'Road Board : closed yesterday. 'The niilj nominations ■. received were the Hon. T. Kennedy Macdoriald and Mr.. C. W. D. . Morris, . and these hayo been, declared duly elected.;': To inculcate tho principles of the Nayj League amongst day and high school pupils, the League's set of 'lantern slides has beer lent'.to various, schools. They.', have just been returned from the Napier High School, and yesterday it was decided to forward them to the Vaitaki High School. .. 'i The Court of Appeal will, at 11 o'clock on Monday morning, deliver reserved judgments in the following cases:—Grey Lynn -Borough Council v- tho Assets Realisation Board, Feiiding Borough Council v. Feilding Gas Company, Bruce and others-,v. Wanganui Education Board, Donnelly y. Meinertzhagen, and the, Otekaike cases. Messrs. James Trevor and Son have secured the contract for re-building Mr. Thomas Young's phops in Courtenay Placq, recently gutted by lire. Part of the western wall will have to come down, but otherwise it is thought that the pfosont walls are stable: In the-new plans, additional living quarters are to be added at the rear. ■ " ' • Wo have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the transactions at the conference of City Council representatives on "British Seamen for British Ships," held under tbo auspices of tho Navy League in London iu February, forwardod by Mr. Cecil Palmer, local secretary for tho League. An important resolution passed by tho conference was as follows :—"That this meeting of representatives of County Councils and others is of opinion that ample assistance from education funds should be devoted to tho technical education of seamen, in accordance with the recommendations of all ' tho Departmental Committees which have from time tp time been appointed to repprt on tho supply of seamen." ' . , Mrs. 'Elliot _ Tf. (To Costa,. LL.B. (nee Miss J3tliel ill. Benjamin, of Dunedin); after practisinff for 6oijio years in that city, lias commenced practice .is a barrister and solicitor in No. G Nathan's Buildings, corner Grey and Featherston Streets, Wellington: Mrs. Do Costa has the distinction of beine tho" only lady practising at tho Bar in the Dominion. Intending clionte can dopend on prompt: and '.carofui attention at* Mra.Da Coita's hand*''

The shooting season for game'.' in. tho. Wellington Acclimatisation district opened yos.terday. A report' has. come..to the Minister for Health (Mo Hon. G. Fowldsj from Dr. Pomare that the accounts of tlic : ravages of typhoid fover in, the' upper Wanganui been very exaggerated. The outbreak is by no means as serious as stated. • It is tho opinion of a member of. a largo saw-milling firm operating in the Waimarino forosts, that the Railway Department will.be quite unable to cope with the. demands, of the industry; unless thcirpresent. stock of trucks is very largely increased beforo the., opening of the lino. In connection with the. suggested yisit of the American .fleet, to, : Wellington, reference was made to the question, of coaling, which •it- was thought could be dono moro cheaply at Wellington than at Auckland. It is estimated that the fleet will require between 10,000 and 15,000 tons of coal. .. Full information as to tho threo proposed tramway routes to Wadestown-will be given to the ratepayers at a meeting to bo held in the.Stato schoolroom, Wadestown, next. Tuesday evening. The Mayor will, explain the proposals, and the City Engineer will also be pi;esont. Ratepayers will be able to examine tho plans. . , •■/" 'The Council of the Wellington District Law . Society,'in its''annual , report-,|'states th'a,t.o copy of- the Judiciary Bill, introduced intc Paidiameut, last spssi.on, was. courteously supplied to the, Society by. the Attarney-Uerioral who invited suggestions, aud criticism. 'Ihj: Council, recognising the great importance ol : the.measure, accepted to the fullest tho, privi; lege extended to it. and baring framed, i • comprehensive report sent a, copy of- it -t< the Attoniey-General. ■' Nearly oyery place in New Zealand has i branch of the Government Post Office Savings Bank,; where the savings can be put awaj safely for a rainy- or perhaps'a sunny,; day .It is not every branch of this important State institution which has the privilege ■ of: allow ing clients to; Withdraw money with the same ■ facility-:as to deposit'it.;. Up till /yesterday this advantage was denied Palmerston; N.orth whose claims for withdrawalsi had .to, be, for > warded to ! WellingtoE\ and returned dulj checked before moneys were paid out. Palmerston North: had long resented this, restric. tion, arid-had petitioned and "motioned." .the Goyernment, time and again for its, removal The constant dropping ot water wears awaj stone, and, at last tho Government consented ■ and from May- '1 depositors, in Palmerstor North can withdraw monoy within •a' few minutes instead of waiting a day or ti\o Mr. R. B. Morns, Inspector of Savings ■ Banks, was present at the installation of'the new system yesterday. , . . : Tho.number, of solicitors practising' in. thi Dominion on March 20 was 840 as agains SOi. last year., . -. Of this number, states th annual report: of the; Wellington District Lav Society, 524 were - resident in' the. North' Is land, and 316 in tho South Island. To 1> more minute tliey were distributed as, fpl » lpws district,. .180; Canterbury 119 ;■ Gisborue,' 20;' Hawke's Bay, 41; Mar! borough, 10; Nelson, ,15. j O.tago, 123, South land, 29; Taranaki, 45; Wellington, 235; ani jWestiand, 20;' Of the.solicitors'practisipg.il the Wellington district, 125 resided in ~tb Cityf^'iii l 17 in. Palmerstoi North, 13 • ini/Feilding, 12 in : Masterto.n,,'! ili Martoli and. 'the, balance, '-were scatters throughout the: district. V It,, is, .-estimate* . that on the date ■in question there was oil; solicitor to overy,'ll63 /of the-.pppulatioi.l compared with- one to:every 1194.,1a5t, year In l?' 04-5- 51; npti.oes for- admission, wero re ceived and ' the' profession increased b.v .49 in 1905-6 the figures r were. 61 and " .1906-7,' 68, and'" 45. -"Whilst . 62 (including 9'by/;solicitors, already practis ing-for- admission as'barristers) imd 39. Tlj' notices ! were,, contributed as follows :~ Auckland 12 ; Canterbury, 5; Hike's : Bay 1; Otago, 12; Wellington, 29; and Westland ' 3. "/'":' V-;;^/"/ v '''- ■ W '.-'-/. At. the. close, of the': Native, Land/ Coming ! sion's sitting at Kaikphe, Mr." .Hone Heio MP; on behalf of the Maoris, presented b Sir ■ llobert 'Stout, chairman of tho Comrais sion, a walking-stick had been'prosente< by King William IV in the early thirties ti a Maori chief who was iin England.. Si Robert at first refused, tho;gift, and aske* tho Maoris to-koep it:.as an heirloom, ; b,ut oi being- pressed ho said that lie would keep it 'and afterwards '-hand it oyer-/, to some publi : museum. Sir"Robert;"address,ed the, Mapi: 'chiefs at some length oh their outlook, an< . ,the- Maori chiefs, •in reply, said that , thi cpiitrast.'between 'the courteous manner ii which'they were treat'ed'by the .Comniissioi coiiipared With some;' Native land courts wa: very great, and if 1 the' Commission could ohlj conio. and settle rail* their, titles and difficul; ties they, would leave'everything to'them Even when'..'the 'Commission'did not agre< 'with them, '.the 1 Commission: stated -tho'position so clearly that they were bound to agre< with ; the Commission's opinions., Tho chiefs said , that they were beginning to. see the neeil ' of higher education for tho Maoris, -Jiid-thej i .were/ sorry that they were/too poor, to send j their children to schools ito fit them for tho .University,';.: They Were only alloived to spend I two years. at St: Stephen's,. which was toe short to get them an entrance into higher schools, and their distance from Auckland and ; from 'other places handicapped- thein; Several .speeches wese /made to show that they, weire anxiously beginning farming work. Sir Robert Stoiit complimented them'on their physical' ability, and the intelligence thej; displayed 'in /managing the -.Commission's yyorkj' and', he. said that they all seemed strong aotive muscular.'men. Their climate was charming. Here they were in the month of April enjoying pleasant summer, 000 l evenings, and not overwarm days. Ho had been ill'their land in the height of summer, 'and the hot weather was more easily borne, than further south. They had a great futuro beforo them, and he was sure, from what he had seen, that their land would soon be properly' cultivated. :