LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 194, 11 May 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A charge of committing an unnatural offence will be preferred against a young man at the Magistrate's. Court to-day. :'The. police, .made, a raid;.on premises in Courtenay Place yesterday on suspicion of sly grog-selling. Some liquor was. seized and a prosecution will'follow. - . An .outbreak-of measles occurred on the steamer Paparoa; during. l the voyage from London,. The vessel had 116 passengers on board, but the outbreak was confined to three' children, oach case being isolated in the ship's hospital as it was discovered. ■ Mr. W, 'H. Field, M.P.., .lias been informed by the Government that it has been docided to provide additional telephone communication between Wellington l and Qfcaki. This will relieve the congestion at present existing. The following cases of infectious disbase Were reported to the Health Department during the week ended on Saturday lasts — Wellington: Scarlet fever,.2l; diphtheria,' 4; enteric, 3; tuberculosis, 4; blood poisoning, 1. Hutt County: Enteric, lj diphtheria, 1. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones stated, in reply to a question 'asked by a Dominion reporter bn Saturday,' that' he knew nothing beyond what had appoared in the Press in regard to the proposed issuo of an imperial supplement to the London " Standard." Ho could not say whether the New Zealand Government was likely to follow tho oxamplo of the Commonwealth and* Canadian Governments and subsidise tho paper. A special meeting of tho Wellington branch of the New Zealand Socialist Party was hold yesterday afternoon to discuss' the sending out of organisers. It was decided to await the decision of the various branches as to the. action taken by the Easter Conference before settling the mattor. The reports from the branches will be in by tho end of May, and it is expected that offioiaL organisers for the party will be appointed for the centres and eventually for tho whole Dominion. • v Mrs. Ethol R., do Costa, LL.B. (neo Miss Ethel R. Benjamin, of Dunedin), aftor practising for soino years in that city, has commenced praotico ns a barrister nnd sdlioitbr in; No. G Nathan's Buildings, corner G{ey and Foatherston Streets, Wellington. Mrs. Do Costa has tho distinction of being the only lady, practising at tho Bar" in the Dominion. Intending client# oan depond on prompt and careful attention at Mrs, Do Casta s hands,

Tho criminal sittings of the Supreme Court will be formally .opened this morning, and then adjourned until Monday next. The Customs revenue collected at Wellington during tho week ended Saturday amounted to £9964 Os. Id., and the beer duty for tho samo period was £311 15s. Saturday's Customs revenue was £1690 13s. 2d. Threo men who were fishing from a dinghy attached to a launch oft tho point near Karaka Bay recoivod a sudden shock yesterday afternoon. The ferry boat Admiral, coming from Seatoun, ran into tho dinghy just beforo five o'clock, precipitating tho three occupants int-o tho water. As they were wearing oilskins, they had soil® difficulty in keeping themselves' alloat, though fortunately able to swim. One mail, assisted by a.n oar which was flung to him from' tho launch, reached the dinghy and olanibored into it, and the other two were picked up by) tho launch, one of them not without somo trouble. They were none the worse for their immersion, and apparently the dinghy was not damaged. The Rev. J. J. North had to answer somo awkward qutstions after . his address, to workers on Saturday night in respect of tho attitude of some professing Christians to certain business speculations. ' Cjno speaker Suggested plainly his disbelief that any ,man would keep free from such speculations, provided ho was sure that they would pay. In reply, Mr.' North said: "There is one man in this city whom I honour . almost above any other man in it,' and ho was rejected for tho Mayoralty. I. honour him chiefly that, while ho might have made a great fortune by speculating in land, yet, bccause he thought, that land speculation was a bad thing, he never touched it. And he was too great! a man to tell the public so in the recent election." i ■ i. . ' . What is a worker? The other day a local medical man and two or three typical manual worljfers after some difficulty found places on a crowded tramcar. Quoth one of the said labourers to the doctor, calling him 'by his name: " It seems that presently, Dr. ■ —y there won't be any room on these cars at'all for the workers." ■ "Well," said tho doctor, "I am a worker as well' as you." . "You!" replied the other; "you never did a day's work in your life." Said the doctor:. "I have done, and am doing every day, more tryihg,work and for longer, hours than you ever did.", The passengers Wero amusod, and the "worker" was somewhat confused, but the incident shows that, according to somo of the horny-handed, there are no workers' outside of- their own class. What-is allogccl to be a form of New Zea-. land Tattorsall's consultation ms stated ' le have been unearthed by the local detectivo staff,- and it is expected that several persons will be haled before the Magistrate's Court at an oarly. date to answer charges of being concerned in selling tickets 'purporting to:be for a sweep of the kind . It'is .the scheme was • to have had a big scope extending: from otto end of Neiv Zealand to the other, and Detective Oassells, who has had the matter in hand for some timo'., past; has sucoeoded in obtaining . the evidence upon which action is being taken. It is understood that the alleged 'sweep was got up on the Wanganui Steeplechase, to be ! run on May 23, and that tho prizes offered) were as follow:—First' horso £750,. second; horso ■ £300,' third liorse SiOO, 'tiio,.''other ( : horses to • divido,',£2ooi and tho balance cash ■ prizes drawn pro. rata less .10'. par cent. ■ It' is ' stated ' that'' the ' proposition' involved " the issuing'of'2s,ooo tickets at 2s. each. ' . A' gentleman; who met Mr. Massey, Leader of.the Opposition, at Dunedin during the latter's recent visit . to the South,,.told a Dominion reporter. that Mr. MaSsey said that he did not think that would bo made .the crux. of, the coming 'elections; but that' at the next elections it would be almost certain to be made the 1 great question of the day. Tho gentleman in question; who is well .qualified to judge of tho trend of eVontsj expresses his ■ strong - conviction that Socialism should be made the'great question of the coming election and not left over, , If .tlw latter , were done,.it. would i probably bo found that three years 'Would be; too late. ,' Thej informant , was: not frightened of revolutionary: Socialism; that was quite; out of .the scope of. practical polities, but, the trouble the evolutionare brand, which Wag far more insidious. ,lii the course of time, there would bo, but little difference between, the two, and, the'latter was thus the more dangerous. He felt very strongly upon the matter. . ■'. ■■■ Mr. C. D. Morpeth, who has just returned to Wellington from a business trip to Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa, Btates that Hastings, notwithstanding. that its land values have fallen a little, is possibly going ahead faster than any. other town on the Wellirigton-Napier-New Plymouth line,' Re- ■■ markably : largo blocks of solid • concrete buildings were being - erected in Hastings. Of smaller towns ih Hawke's Bay, the most notable 'at present was Waipukurau, where fully one hundred new houses had been .erected during the past twelve months. Masterton and Palmerston. North were, showing a steady growth.., Speaking with reference to the lighting of various towns on the line, Mr. Morpeth thought that Hawera was the best: lighted town/ with Normanby noxt, and .then Masterton .and Carterton, , but in-their main streets onjy. All over the country the pastures were looking in splendid, condition,'and in the fine ■growths, and with stock coming on splendidly, the farmers had apparently forgotten all about tho-bush fires. Having been burned a rich brown on the Bun-favoured bowling greens of Australia, he was nearer to a 1 child of nature than over' he had been before.'' Introductions were in the y air as the local bowlers mingled with thoso who had just returned from Australia, and on tho spur of the'' moment the well-browned bowlor was introduced to Mr. Charles Parata, the genial member of the Wellington fowling Club, as a half-caste from the South. Mr. Parata was only, too delighted a chat with a brother in'blood from the South. Ho talked sway in Maori* for some time, and the other nodded now and again in a puzzled manner. A nod s as good aB a wink to a Maori, and Mr. Parata, still speaking the langimgo of his forefathers, commenced a courteous inquiry . Into the Southerner's ancestry:—wlisre was ho borilP Was he of the Ngaitapu tribe. At length Air. Parata said: "Why don't you speak Maori P" " Ho's not a Maori," said one of the other.'bowler's, " that's Bentley—he's a Scotchman I" The Maori bowler's face was a stuHy surprise, irritation, followod by mirth uncontrolled. For Hair anff Faoo "Treatments visit Mrs. Rolleston, Hair Physician, Face Specialist and Masseuse'certificated, who has tho distinction of mcdical training, boding qualified under Dr. liciilei E. Roth, M.R.G.S., Eng. Courses of treatment, moluding necessary... lotions, f rom 80s. Advico ;free. Personal attention only. Evonlng appointments arranged* First Floor, 0 JVUIU Btro«t (orsf C»rroU'»), . Telephone 15??. ' C 739 '

George John Norton, lioat-Wlder, of Wellington, has filed his petition in bankruptcy. A meeting of/ creditors in his estate will be held on Monday, May 18, at 11 a.m. . . ' Mr, W. Pryor, secretary of the Employers' federation, informed .1' Doiikiox representative that a , very enthusiastic and successful" meeting was held at Timaru in connection with the formation of a branch of tho Federation there. Mr. P. Waymouth, managing director,of the Canterbury Frozen Moat Company, was Timaru on the day of the meeting, and lie took the chair. He spoko strongly in favour of employers' associations being formed in tho more important and he' mentioned that good work had "been dono by, the Canterbury branch. Tho growing tendency towards Socialism was referred to, and strongly commented upon 'by the meeting, and tho opinion was' expressed that the question of dealing with it would have to be taken in hand without delay. Mr. Gordon P. Wood was appointed interim secretary, and a committee was sot up to frame rules and'report' to a meeting to be held this week.- Tho Timaru business people aro taking a great interest in the branch.