LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 222, 12 June 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Postal authorities advise that tho Victoria-, which left Sydney on Wednesday for Auckland, has on board, an English and Australian mail; for Wellington, which is oxpected to reach hero by .tho express train from Now Plymouth on Monday evening next. ■ . The delegates attending tho Hospitals, Conference, have,; been invited to; visit the •'Wellington Hospital at 11 o'clbck this morning. ' It has beon dccided that a police constable is to be stationed at Karori. The new station will be as soon as a residence has been secured. Somo interesting innovations will bo introduced into tho korero of the Wellington Savage Club to be held at tho Masonic Hall to-morrow evening. Tho hearing of tho caso' in which Dr. Faulko claims £1000 from the City Corporation, in respect of bodily injuries, has boen postponed from to-morrow until June 20. ■ The Hon. Dr; Findlay (Attorney-General), has accepted the invitation of the Wellington branch of tile Liberal, and' Labour Federation to speak at Qodbcr's Hall, Cuba Street, on Wednesday' evening'ii6xt. The Attorney-General will reply to various criticisms of his recent Wanganui speech, and Will also deal with otlier public matters. A concert' was held last evening at the Boys' Institute) the room being comfortably filled. Mr. Millifie's orchestra played an overture j songs 1 were contributed by Mioses Pierar'd and LissOcks,. atld Master Bone; a cornet sold was given by Mr. Minifies recitations- by Misses Lissocks ahd Pope and Messrs, TJreii, . and Redgrave, and Miss Pope also danced an Irish jig. At Kilbirnle, last evening, while touching oft educational matters, Mr. J,' P. Luke (who is chairman of tho Wellington Technical Education Board) said that the citisSefla of Wellington woiild find a new site for the Technical School. Tho Government were much to blamo for not having set aside a portion of Mount Cook or Mount View, as asked. They dfitild not have gone far wrong in doing this in the great cause of technical education. Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum, and Mr. .Nelson Illingworth, sculptor, leave for Rotorua to-day, in-quest of Maori types for Mr. Illingworth to perpetuato in bronze. At the same time, Mr. Hamilton will make arrangements for tho. collection of liuias to bo placed on Littlo Barrier Island; and other GofrOiUtiieht sanctuaries. Tho liuia is .a.specially interesting bird from its connection with the Maori raco, and for ornithological reasons. Apparently, it was never very numerous, and the domand for huia fcathors, which aroso Sifter tho visit of the present Prince and Princess of Wales,! was responsible for a serious decrease in its numbers, and it is hoped to proscrvo the species by transferring a number of hniflS to the Government sanctuaries, tfliero thefe are tiorte at present. . Mrs. Htliol It. do Costa, LL.B. (nee Miss Ethel It. Bonjamin, of Dunedin), after praotiaing for somo yoars in that city, has commenced praotico as ft barrister and solicitor in No. 6 Nathan's Buildings, eomor Grey and Featuefston Streets,-Wellington. Mrs, Be Costa has tho distinction of boing the onlj' lady practising at tin Bar in tho Dominion. In* tetiallijf cllbrits can depend oil prompt and au'olul atteation At Mrs, Se Costa'» nanus.

The Wellington College 13[.inch of the Navy League has now 270 members. It is tho largest school branch in the lvorld. Tho case of Nicholls v. tho Wellington Corporation will be heard at tho Supreme Court this morning before a jury of four. The Marino Department advise tint it has been decided to send the Uovormw-ul training ship Amokura to Auckland during tho visit of the American Squadron there. Dotectivo Cassells arrested a man yesterday on a charge of stealing a gold watch valued at £50 from the person of a man named Samuel Juleffo at Wellington dn Way 7. The recommendation of the Board of Coneiliation in connection with tho Waiiganui painters' dispute has been agreed to by the parties. Tho Court of Arbitration has, therefore, been asked to have it embodied in an award. Sub-Inspector O'Donovan stated in the Magistrate's Court yesterday that the man Atliol Zani, who was stabbed during the affray on tho steamer Jessip Burns recently, is noWj according to the Hospital authorities, quit-o out of danger. Ad vice received by the police states that a four-roomed cottage at Scarborough South, owned by Mr. A; M'Fariane, farmer, and occupied by Mr. A. Valois, was, destroyed by fire on Tuesday. • 'I'lie house was insured for £100 in the l'hoohis Office, and tho contents were covorod by • a policy for £00 in the Commercial Union/. An outbreak of fire occurred in a detached kitchon, pantry, and diuing-room at the Hotel Cecil at 6.35 yesterday morning) tho building being considerably damaged by fire and water. Tho fire started through a stock pot containing be6f and fat boiling over oh th 6 kitchen range. The fire brigade, under Acting-Suporintendent O'Brien, did good work in preventing'tho spreading of the firo. The building and. its contents were insured for £850 in tho Atlas Office. " I remomber that in the early seventies," said Mr. J. P. Luke at Kilbirnie last evening, "wo ■ thought the Building Societies charged high prices for their money, but we must thiink those societies for the start they gave us in getting our homos together." At tho same time, he added, with tho present high rates of living, and with advanced legislation, the Government were largely assuming tho functions of the Building Socioties in their relations to the workers, and were assisting tho Workers to. find money for their honiiis. . Mir. Walter Litchfield, of Dolsaran, Peloids Sound, is on a visit to Wellington. Ho is ono of tho five oldest Marlborough residents now living, it being fifty" years since lie first visited the Pelorus Sound in the old TasmaliianMaid. He has seen great changes in the scenery, of many parts of the Sound during that period. Much land has been cleared and grassed, and is inow. carrying clean healthy flocks, where only tho wcka and wild pig occupied tho shores of tho beautiful bays and bueli. A great-deal of tho'beauty lias boon destroyed, but thero are still hundreds of lovely bays and coves.

Oil and after Juno 15, all pork-butchers', poultry, and small-goods shops in this city, will be closed at 8 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays, and 11; p.m., on Saturdays, from May to November (inclusive); at 9 p.m. on Mondays,. Tuesdays, Thursdays,"and Fridays, at 1 p:m. on Wednesdays,,arid at ll.p.m.'oh Saturdays, from ' December to April (inclusive); and at 10 o'clock p.m. on the'eve, of any' day which''shall to"generally'observed ,as a, whole holiday in those trades. . These hours have been fixed by the 'Minister for Labour in accordance with a requisition from the dealers concerned. .The uppor beak of an extinct bird, closely resembling the English crow, was receivod yesterday by Mr. Ai. Hamilton, tlib director of the Dominion Museum, from his son at Duriedin. . Tho bone, which was found on the sandhills between Dunedin and "\Vaitati, belonged to a bird which has disappeared with the rnoa and other creatures of the past, leaving no type in .th'is country which at all-resembles it. Fairly complete skeletons of the species were found some .years ago at the Chatham Islands by Mr. Forbes, of the Christchurch Museum, but very few bones have been discovered on the mainland. A/partial skeleton, found at the Chathams by Mr. Travers, is in the Dominion Museum. ' .. '' '.

The. walls of M'Gregor Wright's art gallery, Lambton Quay, are at present hung with , various works of draughfas'ntanship, the exhibit of the New Zealand Institute of Draughtsmen. ' .The which is unique, was decided upon when the Institute was originally - formed. The s general public should find it interesting as showing the class of work that it produced; locally. Important contributions come from the architectural offices of thp Government Public Works Department; artd sketch plans are shown of Various elevations of . the proposed hOw Post. Office at Wellington, of the Kaikotira Wharf, of tho Makatota viaduetj Caps Campbell lighthouse (in various sections), etc., while the mechanical branch of the Railway Department exhibits plans of various classes of locomotives and carriages, includr ing a royal saloon car. Several local architects have interesting samples of work displayed, and all is Hot of a technical nature, for the pen of tho draughtsman can be put to nimble use in the oomic sketch as well as in, the eareful delineation of plans. Somo colour paintings are also shown. The «x»'. hifeiou will be open for a. week, and similar displays frill be m&cte at intervals. It Is expected that the Maori Congross, to b6 held iii Wellington next month, will be Attended by Natives from all parts of tile Dominion. The members of the Native Councils, and also Native Sanitary Inspectors under the Health Department, will attend, and will hold special conferences in the daytime, while the congress is in progress, mass meetings add entertainments bfcing held in tlio evenings. A unique feature of the entertainments will bo tho songS, dances, and revivals of ancient games by the Bev. F. Bennett's mission choir, whoso performances at Rotorua show the result of long and careful training. Dr. Poniare, who taw tins mOmbers of the choir perforpi during his recent visit to Rotorua, states that their display was the best ho has ever witnessed of its kind. One .of the 'Maori games revived by those RotOrua Natives, and played by old as Well as young, is an elaborate sort of ''cat's cradle." Mountains and lakes, the Pacific Ocoan, and other ambitious dosigtis are represented by means of strings ingeniously shuffled on tho fingors, tho playors chanting meanwhile in the Maori fashion. Mr. Bennett's Natives hopo to. give a performance at the Hutt, as well as thoSo in the city.

A speciality of Hafr and Scalp Treatment Is made by Mrs. Rollestcsn. Ladies troubled with falling hair, dandruff, or any scalp complaint should call for advice (gratis) at her rooms, first floon 3 Willie Street, over Carroll's, or telephone aiifiointtnont 1690, Personal attention only. Certificated. 0739

An extension of time has been granted for the preparation of the Dannevirke county rolls. Eliza Emma Elliott, wife of Albert Clarence Elliott (formerly land and estate agent at Wellington), filed her petition in bankruptcy yesterday. Quinnat salmon ova collecting operations are being successfully carried out at Hakataramea at present. The Marino Department aro advised that the fish are running well, and some splendid specimens have been capturod during the operations. Mn W. Pryor ( secretary of the Employers' Foderation, will deliver an important address oh current labour topics at the annual mooting of the Wellington Employers' Association to-night. An examination of persons desirous of becoming Native interpreters was held on Wednesday in Wellington. Eight candidates sat. The papers will be submitted to the Nativo Minister with the recommendations of the examiners, and liis approval is necessary before licenses can bo granted.'. Sentence will bo passed. on the following prisoners by Sir. Justice Chapman, at, ten o'clock to-morrow morning Frank Evans, assault, causing actual bodily harm, at Wellington; Richard Patrick Ham, theft of two horses at Paliiatua; Michael M'Grath, forgery and uttering at Wellington; Frederick Thos. Dart and Martin Petersen, theft at Dannevirke. 1 The police report having found an elderly man in an old whare between Kaiwarra and Khandallalr yesterday. The man, who is stated to have relatives in Blenheim, was in a sad plight, his legs and feet being so swollen that he Was unable to put a foot to the ground. The sulforer stated that he had put in a number of years whale-fishing in North American waters, and had only arrived fr.im the South Sea Islands four months ago. Ho was removed to the Hospital for treatment. . > In connection with New Zealand's recent change of status, there aro published in this .week's Gazette letters pateiit. passed'under the great seal of the United Kingdom, constituting the office of Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief of the Dominion, together with the Royal instructions accompanying the letters .patent, and a commission passed under the lteyal Sign Manual'and Signet, appointing His Excellency Lord Phinket to bo Governor and Commander-in-Chief of ■: the Dominion. .. • ' .

An interesting statement relating to valuations' in Miramar was made by the Mayor (Mr. C. J. Crawford) at last. night's meeting of the suburban .Borough Council. He said that, owing to the fact that the list of objections to the valuations had only been disposed of on Wednesday, the valuation sheets were not' yet ready." However; he had been unofficially informed that tho aggregate figures were approximately as follow:; —Unimproved value, £645,000; capital valuo, £800,000. The valuations under.which: the Council had been working during the past few years were:—Unimproved value, £259,955 j capital value, £385,404. He had made the comparison because he had noticed certain items iu the newspapers with : respect to valuations in the borough. On the face of the figures; whioh he had quoted, the remarks in question were, absolutely, absurd. He Tfas quite sure that neither lie 'nor Sriyi'bfOthi ? kne'w ; of any in. the borough. Personally, He.thad -not come, across any: sign of tho.: sort.. • . V -' _ .