LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual 40 hours' adoration service will begin in St. Joseph's Roman Catholio Church next Sunday. To-day's issue of The Dominion consists of sixteen pages. Law reports will be found on page 9, letters to the Editor on page 10, woman's world on page 11, and provincial news on page 12. In tho Railway Department's advertisement giving tho time-table in connection with to-day's races, an error occurs in showing tho trains from tlie racecourse. The paragraph states that the 4.48 and 5.3 p.m. trains will stop at Lower Hutt and Petone. This should be 4.48 and 5.30 p.m. trains. It is probable that the operations of the New Zealand Natives' Association will, at an early date, bo extended to Christchurch, Dunedin, and Auckland. Requests for information havo already been received from those centres. Tho membership of the Wellington branch is increasing by leaps and bounds. : ■The total value of parcels-post packages from oversea ports which passed through tho Wellington Post Office for the quarter ended September, was £27,832. Of this amount the United Kingdom contributed £21,693, New South Wales £1985, United States £1192, Germany £1074, Victoria £516, France £403, and Switzerland £286. A new cure for the slug evil has been discovered. A writer in a German paper says that every caterpillar and slug have disappeared from his garden since ho allowed his boy to ride his motor bicyclo round his garden. Ho is convinced that the exhaust fumes from the engine acted as a caterpillar destroyer, and he has never seen his gardeil with such a show of fruit and flowers. One of the subjects upon which a deputation was to havo approached the Prime Minister during his visit to Feilding yesterday was tho early erection of the new Courthouse. The Justice Department and tho Public Works Department acted, however, with such promptness that the request was unnecessary. In yesterday's Feilding "Star" appoars a notice calling for tendors for the erection of tho new building. The hospital is very crowded just now, a fact which the chairman (Hon. C. M. Luke) remarked upon at , tho trustees' meeting yesterday. Tho . figures are:—General Hospital:—l 26 males, 97 females, total (including 17 fever patients), 223 (in 1907 tho number was 223) ;■ Victoria Hospital: —2o •males, 19.females, total 39. ;■ Seddon Hospital:—ls males, 9 females, total,. 24. This gives a' grand -total of 286 cases,., being 17 more than in October" of llast year.

■ Tho New Zealand Federation of Miners held an all-day sittifig in the committeeroom of the Town Hall yesterday. Mr. R. Semple was in the chair. Tho Federation was formed in Wellington last Monday, and is the outcomc of a conference of delegates representing a large number of the Miners' Unions right through the Dominion. _ Yesterday's business comprised'the drawing up of a "constitution and a set of rules;.this work will be completed to-day. An outbreak of fire, the origin of which is unknown, occurred in a store-shed at tho back of Messrs. Cole and Westerman's drapery premises, Manners Street, at 11.20 yesterday morning. Although tho firo brigade were on the sceno promptly, the shed was practically gutted, and its contents destroyed. A lead of hose had to bo taken right through tho shop before it could bo brought to play on the flames. Tho stock in tho main building was slightly damaged by water and smoke. The following paragraph, which appeared in yesterday' 3 Christchurch " Press," is telegraphed by tho Press Association"A cablo message was published by us on Saturday stating that £1,000,000 worth of New Zealand bills of one year's currency had begun to .be placed 011 the London market 011 a basis of about 3} per cent. Wo printed tho message as it came, but expressed the belief that a mistake had beon made in transmission. _ Wo referred tho matter to tho Prime Minister, who very courteously replied early this morning, as follows: —' I do not understand the cable myself. No Treasury bills of any kind have been authorised to be used, nor has any authority for £1,000,000 been given by me. I am inquiring into the matter. (Signed) J; G. Ward. The Government has decided to send Mr. L. F. Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, to England to bring out a million Atlantic salmon ova to tho Dominion. While at Homo Mr. Ayson will make a number of inquiries with a view to introducing different varieties of sea fish, suitablo for acclimatisation. Those under consideratjon at present aro tho haddock and herring. Tne Marine Department advise that experiments with these two species have been progressing for some time, and if Mr. Ayson is in England at tho right season, ho will probably bring either ova or fish of both these varieties, in addition to tho salmon. It is not yet decided whether he will havo entrusted to his care some minnows, which the Tourist Department aro contemplating procuring for liberation in Lako Rotorua, where the feed supply for trout is getting scarco, and, in consequence, tho fish aro very poor in condition. Mr. Ayson, and also his son, brought ova from America on different occasions with excellent results. The following letter has beon forwarded to tho tramways manager by tho committee of tho Labour Day Demonstration and the Miraniar -Park Committee jointly:—"S. Richardson, Esq., Tramway Engineer—Dear Sir, —Wo, tho undersigned, on behalf of tho Labour Day Demonstration Committeo and tho Miramar Athletic Park and Wonderland Company, desire to express our entire satisfaction at tho excellent manner in which tho tram servico was handled 011 Labour Day in sorving the public both in going to and coming from Wonderland. Tho day was perfect, and the attendance in conscqueilco large, _ and as we thoroughly recogniso the effort it must have taken to serve such a largo number of people, wo fully appreciate tho perfect manner in which tho convcyanco of tho public was carried out from early morning until late at night. In tendering our appreciation ,of the consideration shown us, wo desire to inchido Mr. James and tho employees, without whoso attention and willingness to servo it would have been impossible to cope with tho extra' traffic.—For the Miramar Athletic Park and Wonderland Co., Ltd. 11. Chaso Morris; for the Labour Day Demonstration Committee, Alex. Bloch." • Mrs. Rolleston, Hair Physician, reg'rots to inform her clients that she will be absent from Wellington for a few clays on very urgent private business. There are more ways than one of blcndin? tea, but there's only one honest and right wav and that is to blend for quality. Many teas are blended for value—that is, leas of certain prices aro lumped together in order to make certain of profit. Croscent Blend Tea is blended fur quality, irrespective of the prices of the teas required to make the blend. It is a scientific combination of tho strong rqbust teas of Dnrj ooliuß and the fin-j delicate teas of Ceylon Two shillings iicr lb, from all ctoroß,—Advt, '

A sitting in Chambers will be held on Friday by Sir. Justice Cooper. Subsequently tho order of the In Banco business will b« fixed. Tho mails which left Wellington on September 11, per tho s.s. Warrimoo, and connected at Sydney with the Brindisi mails per the R.M.S. India, arrived in London on the morning of October 17, one day early. Tho Defence Department lias been advised that H.M.S. Powerful, with Admiral Sir Richard Poore on board, will arrive in Wellington on November 15. The flagship will probably bo attended by six other vessels of tho Australasian Squadron. Judgment summons cases were prominent in tho list of civil cases called over at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. Tho total number of judgment • summonses set down was thirty, which number is stated by a Court official of many years' standing to b« a record for the Court, and probably also a sign of tho times. Sea fishing as a pastime is indulged in by many, but the principal difficulty libb always been in getting to tho fishing grounds whoro bites are numerous and tho bag heavy. Tho Deep Sea Angling Club,_ with a view to placing a day's sea fishing within reach of all who liko tho sport, was formed recently, and promises to be a huge success. All desirous of joining the club are- notified by advertisement that a meeting will be hold this evening. It is not improbable that several Ministers of the Crown will bo present at tho Natives' Association dinner to be held in the Hotel Bristol, Cuba' Street, on Thursday evening. A number of members of Parliament have intimated their intention of attending. Tha Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) has expressed regrot at his inability to be present, as ho will be away from Wellington. The Mayors of adjoining boroughs have been invited to the function. Messrs. Martin, Hurrell, and Snaddon, the successful tenderers for the construction of the big fcrro-concrete dam at Solomon's Knob at Wainui-o-mata, did not submit the lowest price. That firm's price is between £46,000 and £47,000. The tender of Messrs. O'Donneli and Co. is said to have been soma £6000 lower, but that firm declined to tako up tho contract, alleging that they hadmado mistakes in their calculations, and it is not improbable that the firm's deposit will ba forfeit. It is understood that tho City Engineer's estimate for the work was £48,000. A description of the new dam appeared in yesterday's Dominion.