LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 267, 4 August 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The two boys in tlio Hospital from tho Government training ship Aiiiokura are reported to bo making satisfactory progress towards recovery.A young man was arrested yesterday afternoon by Detective Williams on oleven charges of tho theft of guns from liis. employers,' Messrs. E. W. Mills and Co. A special meeting of tlio Trades and Labour Council was to havo .boon hold last night, but owing to thorn being no quorum lapsed.J bo usual meeting will bo hold on Thursday night.... Over two hundred essays by school children on local industries week displays in New Plymouth havo been handed in. -Squads of tho children ivero conducted through the principal manufacturing concerns, and tlio operations explainod, to 'them, ... At tho Supremo Court to-day tlio hearing of ,tho caso of Amos versus Milsom will bo continued.beforo Mr; Justi'co Chapman. The following cases will - bo hoard in Banco by Mr. Justice •• Cooper: : —Evans v. Compton, M'Kcnzio v. Jlanson, Owon v. 'Trickctt, arid J. Geo v. Detoctivc Williams; ' ' An outbreak of fire was discovered in a tailor's shop.in Riddiford Street last ovonmg. Tho alarm call was mug at 10.21 p.m.; and tho Brigade had no difficulty in extinguishing the lire, which was practically in its incipient stago. Tho damage done was .trifling. Tlio shop, which is owned by Messrs. Hawthorn and Crump, and tenanted by Mr. H. C. Matthews, was insured for £150. ? JVmong the cases to bo dealt with at the Police Court this morning will bo that of a married woman who was arrosted' yesterday oil two charges of _ shop-lifting ■' at Messrs. Kirkcnldio and Stains's. establishment. \ Tho dates of tho alleged offenoos are July 30 and August 3, and tho total value of- tlio goods in question is 555. It is stated.that the accused's husband'is one of the bakers at present out on strike. ■ The appetite for resolutions of tho Municipal Conference now sitting in Wellington is what Dominie' Sampson./might well, call " Pro-di-gi-ous." Eighty-seven remits in the form of motions were dealty with during six hours yestprday, of which more than seventy were disposed of finally, tho rest being referred to a committee. There aro 132 items of business on tho Conference's fprmidable order paper. Mr. Nelson Illingworth, who has been modelling 1 for some weeks at Galatea for his Series of Maori busts, is expected back ill Wellington this . week. A letter■received from him states that ho has been making good progress with his work, although ho was delayed for some time by a' bout of in-, iluenza. .His .latest models havo been Tikitero, an old chief resident at-tho Ngae, near Rotorua, AVharekauri, tho chief at Galatea, and a Maori woman. Reforring at tho ' Municipal Conferenco yesterday, to tho expedients resorted to in order to get lodgers of three..months' standing on tho municipal roll, the Hon. A. R. Guinness (Westland> said: "I suppose, Mr. President, that no one knows it better than 1 , yourself.'' Amidst soilio laughter, Mr, Guinness went on to explain how barmaids and other people got upon the rolls because they rented a bedroom, Tho President (the Hon. T. Hislop) replied, amidst renewed laughter : "They don't do that in Wellington.", ''Well," remarked Air.'. Guinness, "I daresay if you search the rolls very carefully, you will find some cases very near to you." An adjourned meeting of creditors in tho bankrupt estate of R. D. M'Farlane, tobacconist, late of Ma.sterton, was held yesterday morning beforo tho Official Assignee. Mr. Wilford appeared for the bankrupt. Tho statement of assets and -liabilities has. already been published, In a written- statement, debtor explained that his health gave way. and he-kept no books. Ho received £224 for-his business, but that money had gone now. The business was sold to his son. ' Creditors complaincd. that bankrupt should havo informed theiy of his ptisitiori sooner than ho did,-and they asked for a statement showing the valuation of tho stock disposed of,' A further mooting will be held. "Verbum Sapientibus I" Somo time ago a number of men, fired with military zeal,sought to establish a mounted infantry corps in Dunedin, and were not a little astonished and chagrined to find, on offering their services to tho Defonco Department, that thero was no use ' for them in tho country's scheme of defence, and that they would confer 'upon . tlio Department, the country, and themselves a very great benefit if they could seo their way clear to enlist in other corps. There was no such thing as mounted infantry in New Zealand said tho Department. If an equally zealous Ijody of enthusiasts in Wellington do not take an opportunity of formally acquainting tho Department of their intention .to form a corps of "Dominion' Scouts," it is not unlikely that. what happened in Dunedin will happen in Wellington. This paragraph" opened, diplomatically enough, with a Latin quotation. It may appropriately conolude with another —"Festina lentel" A speciality of Hair and Scalp Treatment is made by Mrs. Rolleston. Ladies troubled with falling hair, dandruff, or any scalp complaint should call for advice (gratis) at her rooms, first-floor, 8 Willis Street, over Carroll's,' or tclophono appointment 1599. Personal attcu- , tion only. Certificated. C 739 Women find out things, and any married , mnn will toll you that, And women know a , good thing .when they seo it, or try or tuslo it, Women know that Crescent Britnd Tea is us good as it is possible to get tea. 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The Anglo-Welsh football team is to open its Australian campaign to-morrow with a match against Nciv South Wales. At the Municipal Conference yesterday, the President (tho Hon. T.'W. liislop) invited the delegates to bo present to seo the new destructor in operation this afternoon. Complaints have been made during the past Few weeks of thefts Of coal from private 'dwellings and of thefts from meat' safes. Now. a couple of robberies of poultry yards have been brought under notice. In one case a whole lien-roost was cleared in one night. The squad' of 17 local polico constables who are to bo sent to Auckland for the Fleet week celebrations will be in charge of Sergeant Dart and will leavo Wellington on Friday morning. - Tho Auckland force is to bo doubled for the celebrations by. the addition of men from other centres and Permanent Artillery men stationed at Auckland. Alfred Herbert Pike, of 37 Frederick Streot, Wellington, has filed a claim for compensation against Charles T. Emeny, contractor: The claimant sets forth that ho was engaged in plastering work in Victoria Street, when he was struck in the eye bya piece of concrete.' He alleges further that ho is unable to continue at work at his trade, and in consequenco of the loss of the eye will never bo a capable .plasterer again. Tho amount of tho claim is £250. ' _At a meeting of tho Labour Day Celebration Committee of tho Trades and Labour Council, Mr. D. J. Conchio was .appointed president, and Sir. A. Bloch, who has been connected with tho movement for years, was appointed secretary. It was decided to make tho Labour celebrations ono of tho biggest displays of the kind so far held in Wellington. Applications were received from the Wonderland Company and the Day's Bay Ferry Company to have tho picnic held at Jhramar and Daj's Bay' respectively. A sub-committee was set up to report to a futuro meeting. .'. Tho Dominion Museum has just acquired a very old specimen of a Maori taiaha. It is made of ake ake, and is of unusual length, being a little over 6 feet 6 inches long.. The surface ,is much perished owing ,t<j the implement having been' long buried, but the carving on'the head is fairly distinct.. It Was' found by the Maoris on tho sea . beach' near tho -Waitotara River,, and is said to have been recognised as the former property of a Wanganui chief; named Tahukumutea; who was drowned in a great flood, named after him, about a' hundred years ago. His body is supposed to have been washed ddwn tho river, and afterwards buried on tho beach. ,";Mr. T. ,W. Leslie, who accompanied the Anglo-Welsh football team throughout the Dominion as their trainer, is vexed by the unfriendly gossip that has been going .on in regard to them since they loft our shores.; " Eighteen out ( of- twenty-nine,"- said Mr. Leslie, " are absolute teetotallers. I know, for I was with and I am :a Rechabit-e myself. 'Almost all thoso wiio aro" not teetotallers aro strictly niodcrato drinkers.-I admit that, on one occasion, two of them, .who were not'playing that day, did have' a drop too much, but tho incident was made the most of, and the whole lot-wero supposed to be tarred with the-same brush. I consider they were a remarkably well-conductcd team. I havo never seen a football team that behaved better." . The average polico constable rarely rises above the average in the .witness-box," but at, the Magistrate's Court yesterday a constable was commended by both the Magistrate and counsel' for the defence for tho manner in which, lie' had given his evidence. "I havo very rarely heard evidence given so clearly and refreshingly," was the comment of Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., who added lator that the witness had given liis ovidence excellently. Mr; Wilford, who appeared for the defence, also. paid a tribute to the manner in which the constablo had givqii lib evidence, remarking that the evjdenco was quite out l of the ordinary. The constable in question. was Constable Reynolds. ' His Worship also commended Constablo Cripps for the'way ho had given liis evidence., ' '