LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 334, 22 October 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• Yesterday the sittings of the Court of Appeal were adjourned until to-morrow morning. The members of tho Board of Conciliation met yosterday for tho purpose of considering their recommendation in tho grocers' dispute. On Saturday morning the Native, Land Court, under the presidency of 'Judge Rawson, will begin a sitting in Sydney Street Schoolroom, Wellington. Both Lowor Hutt and Petono Borough Councils have now signed the agreement in connection with the Hutt water pipe and traffic bridge. It is expected that tile signatures of several other interested bodies will bo obtained within the next day or two, and, as soon as the document is completed, tenders will be called for the work. News from Wanganui states that Arnst, who is to row Webb for the championship of the world in Decombor, is in the best of health, and training steadily, having reduced his weight to 13st. 91b. stripped.- Wobb is said to bo rowing in great stylo, and His action is described as being "as graceful as a bird."_ Ho is likely to start as warm 1 a favourite as ho did when he met Tressider last February. An alarm of fire reached tho City Brigade at 8.59 last oveniug from the Victoria Buildings, Cornhill and Manners Streets. It turned out that somo rubbish had caught fire in the bascmont, beneath Mr. J. N. lsnacs's photographic studio. Tho cellar is used by Messrs. Cole and Wostermnii, drapers, as a .bulk store, but none of tho stock was damaged. Most likely a burning match thrown from the pavement entered the collar and eauscd the blaze among a heap of papers and. rubbish. ' Mrs. Rolleston, Hnir Physician, regrets to inform her clients that she will bo absent from Wellington for a few (lays on very .urgent private business. ■' C 739 There arc more ways than one of blending tea, but there's only one honest and right way, and that is to blend for quality. -Many teas are blended for value—that is, teas of certain prices aro lumped together in order to make certain of profit. Crescent Blond Tea is blended (or quality, irrespective of the pricbs of the tens required to make tho blend. It is a scientific combination of tho strong robust teas of Dnrjoclinß and tho lino delicato teas of Ceylon, Tiro shillings per lb, from all stores.—Adrt.

The case of Papworth v. the Horowhenua Publishing Company, which was to have been hoard yesterday before the Full Court, will bo taken this morning. The special mission which is'being held in the Roman Catholio parish of Thorndon by Fathers Lowtham, M'Derinott, and Crcagli, of the Rodcmptorist Order, is resulting in. very impressive daily meetings and addresses. The mission, which commenced last Sunday, will last a fortnight altogether. Eight Chinese—all new-comers—arrived from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. This is the last batch to arrive from China via Sydney before tho new Immigration Restriction Act conies into force. This becomes law to-morrow—thereafter " John " will havo to struggles through a passage of English in addition to paying the £100 poll-tax. A meeting of tho Wallace Testimonial Committee was neld last"evening. It was decided that the holders of lists should bo seen before October 31, and an endeavour made to get all lists in by that date. The lists to hand total over £180, but a great number arc still outstanding. A draft programme for a concert in November is to De brought down at the nest meeting. In criminal parlance, Detectives Lewis and Andrews "pinched two fingers yesterday for hooking a red slang and a thimble," which, being translated, means that the detectives in question arrested two men on a charge of theft of a gold watch and chain. The value of the watch and chain was £10, and they were stolen from a boarder in the Thistle Inu Hotel in August last. A'visitor to the Trentham races yesterday states that ho noticed several very undesirable characters among the crowd on the lawn. Coincident witli tho above comes the report that a lady visitor to tho racecourse lost a purse containing a sum of money and a railway ticket. Tho racing club usually employs a private detective to keep tho course free from undesirables, but it would appear that there is necessity for stricter vigilance. A person who left a bogus letter stating that his body would bo found on the beach between Seatoun and Island Bay gave tho police some trouble yesterday. A search party was sent out to endeavour to find tho body," which was at length located, in a moro or less comatose condition, in a suburban Iqck-up, where it had been removed as it contained a more than reasonable quantity of liquor The search party .was out in tho heavy rain yesterday afternoon,_ and individual members of it we're arriving back at Lambton Quay station (tired and wet) up to nine o'clock last evening. The half-yearly meeting of tho 'Wellington Building Trades Labourers' Union was held in the Trades Hall yesterday evening. It was shown that 239 new members had been elected during the past half-year. After liberal donations to sick members and unions in need of funds, a good credit balance remained on the half-year's working. Officers wore elected as follow: —President, Mr. J. Falloon; vice-president, Mr. E. Kennedy; secretary, Mr. F. Grown; treasurer, Mr. W. M'Millan; trustees, Messrs. M. Corbett and 11. Hall; Management Committee, Messrs. N. Casserloy, T. Tracey, and W. Sheppard. "Very fow goldminers ; live to be more than 45 years of age," said Mr. Fry, of Inangahtia, at yesterday's sitting of the New Zealand Miners' Federation. A motion was before tho conference to put a duty upon gold produced, to be devoted to the miners sick and accident fund. It was further pointed out that the goldminer has very unhealthy work, and that ho is subject to just as great dangers as tho coalmincr, and coalmiuers had a provision of this kind made for them. The general opinion of the conferdnco was that in making such a request, the miners were not pleading for a conces- ■ sion, but were demanding a right. Spielers are fairly thick in the city at present, according to a member of tlie police force, but no serious damage is reported. It appears that another class of undesirable is fairly numerous, to wit, tho man. who hangs about private houses on the chance of getting a haul., A resident,,.of .JKclburne returned to her homo unexpectedly tho other day • and found a man at the side window, fl'hich had been partially opened. Another resident ,in thesamo district had a somewhat similar experience, and a housewife in 'Wellington East'went to her back door on Monday evening and was suddenly confronted by a strange man, who took to his heels when tho lady of tho house called to her husband.