LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 October 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Westralia, which had on board an English and an Australian mail, reached Auckland yesterday, but arrived too late to connect with tho New Plymouth steamer. Tho mails will, therefore, not reach Wellington before Tuesday evening. Detectives Lewis and Androws, on Saturday, arrested a young man on a charge of having stolen a valuablo walking stick at Christehurch on August 1. At 2.39 p.m. yesterday tho Fire Brigado received a call to suppress some burning grass at tho roar of the Prime Minister's house, Tinakori Road. No damage resulted. For tho week ending October 17 the Health Department reports tho following cases of infectious diseasoln tho City: Scarlet fever, 3j diphtheria, 2. In tho Hutt County: nil. Thefts of bicycles and parts of bicycles, lamps, pumps, etc., aro still common in Christchurch. Tho latest prank of the small boy is to smear tho saddles of temporarily unemployed bicycles with bird lime. The asinino dress-ripper who has loomed largo in tho public oyo of late has a rival of greater skill operating in the city. At tho Opera House a few nights ago a male member of tho audicnco had one of his pockets containing 6s. cut clean out of his clothes. 1 At Saturday's sitting of the Magistrate's .Court in tho Mount Cook Police Station, l'our first offenders for drunkenness were convicted and discharged, two moro (who failed to keep tho. terms of their bail) were fined'los. each, and John Collins was fined ss. or 24 hours. Mr. Georgo Lambert, J.P., took the sitting. The programme of tho Bland Holt Company is designed to puzzle. Tho cast of characters is spread over fivo pages, and if one wishes to locato a character there is a four to ono chance that tho correct page cannot be found at tho first attempt. The result of this arrangement is that there is a constant rustle of programmes during the first act. Owing to the fact that the general election will take placo on Novomber 17, the next criminal sittings of tho Supreme Court at Wellington will be held on November 19, instead of November 16, as originally intended. So far, eight cases havo been set down for hearing. It is probable "that the sittings will be presided over by Mr. Justice Cooper. A single man named Magee, aged 21 years, who resides in Rolleston Stroet, met with an accident at the Miramar races on Saturday afternoon. Just as *he got through the rails to make for the enclosure a horse, which ho had not noticed, galloped on him, the result being that he sustained a compound, fracture of tho right leg. After receiving' attention in the stewards' room he'was removed to tho hospital. Some months ago the Christchurch "Press" reviewed a novel by Mr. Cuteliffe H.vne entitled " Sandy Carmichael." Mr. Cuteliffe Hyne now writes to the paper as follows: — "I think that you should know that it was written when I was a boy, and didn't know what I was talking about. Unfortunately, tho copyright has passed out of my hands, and if a publisher is unscrupulous enough to present such old stuff as a new work, 1 cannot help it." At tho Baptist Conference at Nelson, the Rev. John Laird, lately from Ireland, and now stationed at New Plymouth, creatcd a good laugh. In replying to his welcome into the union, ho said ho heard in Ireland that Now Zealand was celobrated for three things, namely, tho beauty' of its scenery, tho salubrity of its climato, and the modesty of its people. He had proved the two first to bo true, but with regard to tho third (shaking his head) he had his own opinion. The Postmaster-General announces that arrangements havo been mado with the Union Steam Ship Company for a mail service from Wellington to Rarotouga, Papoeto,, and Tahiti, connecting with tho United States mail servico between Papeete and San Francisco. Tho service will bo ten times a year, and it is expected that the time, Wellington

to San Francisco, will not exceed 24 days, and to London 34 to 35 days. The first mail from Now Zealand will leave on January 3 next. Tho mail steamers will sail direct for Tahiti, calling at Rarotonga on the return voyage to Wellington. A full time-table will bo published as early as possible. • Residents of Reikorangi were alarmed on Saturday, in consequence of tho strange behaviour of a remittance man, who has not been many mouths in tho Dominion. Constable- Southerly, who was communicated with, took the man into custody. Ho will appear at tho Magistrate's Court to-morrow. Tho second edition of "A Godless Socialism," by Frank 6. Jannoway, is now procurable at Messrs. R. Brown and Sons, Willis Street. Tho book is a criticism of tho writings of Mr. Robert Blatchford, and is of fclio forceful stylo that carries conviction. It deals with a phaso of Socialism in an interesting manner, expounding many of tho problems conncctod with modern thought.

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