LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 October 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The English and Australian mail, which left Sydney by the Mokoia on Wednesday last and arrived at Auckland yesterday, did not connect with the steamer leaving Onehunga for Wellington yesterday. Consequently the southern portion of the mail will not arrive until to-morrow evening's express. The Court of Appeal will deliver judgment this morning in the case of Genet v.- Genet, which was heard last week. Tho business of the Post Office at Courtenay Place will be conducted in the new office from this morning onwards. A San Francisco mail, ex Boveric, at Auckland, arrived in the city by the Manawatu express on Saturday evening. ' The police had a quiet week-end. Only three arrests for drunkenness .were made after 8 o'clock on Saturday night, and five offenders in all will come before the. magistrate this morning. _ At the meeting of the Wellington Education Board on Thursday next Mr. W. Field, M.P., will move to resoind the resolution passed at tho previous meeting in reference to the Terrace School site. Our Wairarapa correspondent states that arrangements have been made by tlje Post and 'telegraph Department for tho continuation of the telephone service from Parkvale, near Carterton, to Longbush. Tho training ship Amokura set out on her cruise to the Chatham Islands yesterday morning. She is to search the outlying islands for traces of wreckage from the missing sh'ip Loch Lomond. Five cases of scarlet fever, three of diptheria, and three of tuberculosis were reported to tho Health Department during the weeu ended oil Saturday. No cases of imfectious diseases wero reported from the Hutt County. The Garrison Band, conducted by Lieut. T. Herd, played an excellent .programme of music in the hospital grounds yesterday afternoon. The'weather being line, there was a large number of visitors. A collection in aid of tho hospital was taken up.' The tender of Messrs. Mace and-Nichol-son has been accepted for the erection of tl.-p municipal abattoirs for the city in the NgaHauranga Gorge. Messrs. Cable and Com pauy's tender for tho supply of electrical, standards has been accopted by the Finance Committee of tho City Council. -■

The Now Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Paparoa, which arrived from London on Saturday afternoon, was not a, very full ship, as immigrant ships go. The vessel brought 219 passengers, of whom 22 ■ were children. There were 16 passengers in the first class, 35 second class, and 168 steerage. The majority of the third-class, passengers are labourers or mechanics. A sitting of the Native Land Court was held in the Sydney Street schoolroom on Saturday./ There wore present:—Judge Rawsen, Hemi Erueti (assessor), and -W. Seon (interpreter). After several fixtures had been made, the Court adjourned until this morning. It is expected that the sittings at' Wellington will occupy from two to three weeks. The list of business comprises 321 cases, including about 200 applications for, succession, 30 for partition, and 16 for confirmation. Dog shows are welcomed by the Corporation authorities, inasmuch as they invariably bring out a number of unregistered dogs. The official who is responsible for the' collection of-the dog tax can go to/the show, mingle with the crowd, catalogue iii hand, and enquire, as most do, about the merits of the dogs. The proud owners are naturally communicative, and conversation goes briskly ahead; then the question of registration is touched on. The result is that many fanciers are cautioned for their remissness in the matter of the registration fee. ' i ■ : Mr. A. H. Truebridge supplies lis with the following statement regarding- the recent appointment made to the staff of the Ohiro Home:—"An analysis of the applications for the position of male attendant at the Ohiro Home, which were considered by the Benevolent Trustees ou Friday afternoon shows that of the thirty applicants nine gave no written information, and failed to appear personally. Of the twenty-one remaining, seven only were colonial-born or colonists of over, five years' standing. Of these, two were married and therefore unsuitable, two had been recently incapacitated by ill-health, two were under twenty-five years of age, and one 'was a 'failure.' Two applicants were colonists of under five years' residence, and > twelve were 'new chums. 1 " 111 proposing the toast of "The' Pioneers" at the New Zealand Natives' Association's dinner in Wellington, Mr. M. Myers'(Crown Prosecutor) paid a warm tribute to those who had laid the foundations of the Dominion, and coupled with the toast the name of Mr. R. P. Collins, a gentleman who had resided in the city for over sixty years, and is still hale and hearty. Mr. tiollins responded wjth a vigorous speech, in which he ■'narrated incidents of the pioneering days, and drew a striking contrast between the conditions obtaining in the "forties" and those of to-day, Mr. Harry M'Kenzie also responded. 1 An interesting point has cropped up in connection with the proposition of . the ! newlyformed Deep-Sea Angling Club, the. object of which is to test fishing-grounds ,outside the harbour. It was proposed that the Duco should make tho initial excursion to Palliser Bay yesterday, but the Steam Ferry. Company ascertained on Saturday that in. order to proceed past Turakerai (the" point on the Wellington side of Palliser Bay) on the one hand and Smclair Head on the other, the crew must be strengthened and put upon articles, precisely as if she were, a coastal steamer. Before any such arrangements could be made, it was past the closing time (noon) of the Shipping Office, and so the Duco- was unable to proceed to tho place fixed upon, and as the weather was fair from promising on Saturday the committee decided to postpone tho club's first outing ' for a week. In tho meantime a proposition' is on foot to interview tho Minister for Marine with a view of getting somo modification of tho regulations referred to, so that tho best fishing-grounds in tho vicinity of Wellington may be located. It is urged that' a steamer with a fishing-party on board is never likely to venturo out of the harbour in bad weathor, and it may bo depended on to head for the harbour as soon as there arc any indications of unfavourable conditions. In Auckland tho Sunday fishing-steamers are allowed an 80miles range. Mrs. Kolleston, Hair Physician,' regrets to inform hor clients that she will bo absent from Wellington for a few days on vory' urgent private business. C 739 There are more ways than ono of blending toa, but thore's only ono honest and right way. and that ,is to blend for quality. Many teas avo blended for valuo—that is, teas of ccrtain prices are lumped together in order to mako oortain of profit. Crescent Blend Tea is blended for quality, irrespective) 0 f the prices of the teas required to mako tho blend. It is a scientific combination of the strong robust teas, of IHfjeellng and the thlifi&U tow of Ceylon, Two ihulings per lb. trom ail stores.—Advt.