LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Delayed by a south-easterly gale, the - steamer Maheno, from Sydney, was not expected to reach Auckland until- midnight last night, and in consequence,' the English, American, and Australian mails, which she brings, will not reach Wellington until Tuesday afternoon.

Further contributions to tho controversy' on "Politioi and lUform" ar? to hand, hut for tho timo being; we must now clone our columns to thin correspondence. Both "Looker-On" and "Oppositionist" have something further to say on what is known as the voucher incident, tho former quoting further: evidence in support of his contention as to the attitude of the Opposition in connection therewith, while tho latter devotes his attention largely to Mr. Fisher's statement of tho situation. Other letters merely cover ground already well covered by previous correspondents. •

The opening korero of the Wellington Savage Club for the 1910 season takes place on Saturday evening next at tho Masonic Hall.

Tho annual election of school committees takes place this evening. Secretaries of school committees in outlying distriots are asked to supply brief reports of tho meetings as oarly as possible to-night.

One more appeal to '•Mr. Carnegie: Our Feilding correspondent states that the Circulating Library of Apiti has decided to dispatoh a letter to the multi-millionaire at. Skibo Castle with the usual request.• •

A company called the Petone Palace Theatre Company, Limited, already registered, is erecting a theatre. at Petono, which is to seat over 1000 people, and provide 6000 ft. of floor space. Mr. E. W. Woodhouse, the secretary of the company, states that the building will be ready to use as a skating rink in July, and as a theatre at Christmas. Messrs. Southgate and Molhuish are. the contractors.

In Chambers on Saturday morning, Mr. Justice Cooper dealt. with an ap-. plication, by Messrs. 11. H. Abbott and Co., Ltd., that Evelyn Isabel Bussell Radcliffe Winder, milliner, trading as "Aylmer's," should be adjudicated a bankrupt. The application was not opposed, and the Court granted the order of adjudication. • Mr. A. Buddie appeared for the petitioning creditors, Abbott and Co., and Mr. 15. J. Fitzgibbon for the debtor.

Thorndon Quay, which is already the site of threo large , brick wool-stores, is shortly to have one more. Messrs. Campbell and Burke, contractors, have begun preparing a section near the tramway terminus, on which they will erect, to the plans of Messrs. T. Turn-, bull and Son, Ltd., a three-story steelframed brick wool-store for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. The contract price is £18,500.,

The insurance conference which was held in Wellington last week under the auspices of the New Zealand Fire Underwriters' Association did not decide upon any alteration of insurance rates. As - a result of a deputation from the City Corporation, the underwriters decided to ask all their electrical experts in New Zealand to confer, with the corporation's representatives as to the new system "of wiring for electric installations. Conferences on marine and accident insurance, were also held, but it is understood that no decisions of public importance were arrived at.

A man named Martin William Tier, who last week was remanded on bpil till Wednesday on a charge of having, in company with another man, broken into Pearce's boot-shop in Cuba Street, was rearrested by the detectives on Saturday on ' four other charges : of breaking and entering. He will appear before tne Court this morning.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaipara, which 'struck an uncharted shoal in the Rangitoto Channel on Japuary 14 last, while bound from Auckland to London, sustaining serious damage to hor hull, was floated out of Calliope Dock on Thurs-: day, afternoon, the principal repairs having been completed. These consisted of replacing .21 plat-es on the starboard side, the renewal .of about 30 frames, repairs to the -rolling, chock, replacing a propeller blade, and repairs the decks. ■ The contractors for repairing the vessel (Messrs. J. H. Adams and C 0.,. of -Auckland, and Messrs. Hutchinson and Campbell, of Wellington) completed their work on Thursday morning, and after a test had been made and minor defects remedied the steamer left the dock at 4.45. p.m., and steamed up the harbour, berthing at Queen Street Wharf. The contract price for carrying out the principal repairs to tjie steamer's hull is stated to be about £6000, but this does not convey an idea of the Ml expense incurred. The dock dues, at the rate of £60 a day, are said to total £5100, the steamer having occupied the Calliope Dock for 85 days. The cost of docking, painting, caulking and undockmg the vessel, which were carried out by Mr. C'. Bailey, jun., has amounted to £1500.

At the strangers', tea of the Y.M.C.A. yesterday' afternoon there were 120 young men . present. No, fewer than thirty were from other parts of the world. Mr. Potts conducted an inspiring song service, and taught the young men several,new choruses, one of which the singer said was the favourite'at the Pacific Garden Mission; in \ A case of a character that is seldom, submitted to \ the decision of a magistrate,; though the'.circumstances iivhichgave rise : to it. are .not of infrequent, occurrence, was before' the Magistrate's Court at, Christchurch last .week. - A boardinghousc-k-eeper ,' in Christchurch claimed, from a clerk employed in Auckland' £3 15s. for "money lent." The evidence of the defendant , had boon taken ill Auckland, and this showed that while he was staying at her house his lanulady had'asked him to invest £1 on Bobrikoff at a' Christchurch race meeting. He had. not received ,the money, but after , the horse won the plaintiff appeared to be annoyed that there was no dividend for her. The lodger offered to pay the money to which she considered she was entitled, but she would. not accept it. 1 Apparently, however; she had changed her mind. The defendant stated that the dividend was only' £2 65,, so that the lady was entitled to only- £1 '6s, Counsel;for the plaintiff said his client had discontinued the action, and the case was struck out by the Court, the plaintiff being ordered to pay'£l 18s. -6d. costs.

_ Maggie Papakuia, the, well-known Rotorua guide, lias been asked to take a group of thirty Maoris to England next. year. (Tho matter is not yet settled, but will be this week, when the agent arrives in Auckland' to discuss ■ terms. "...

A northern exchange states that.Mr. 0. Gore Adams, son of Mr. C. N. Adams, of the Lower Hutt, and formerly director of the Thames School of Mines, has been appointed to a position in Bolivia (South America), worth £1200 a year.

A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court will be held at 10.30 a.m. to-day.

, Tho eleventh annual social and ball of the Municipal Fire Brigade and Volunteer Fire Police is to be held at the Central Station on Friday,. Stay

Up to the present the council of the New Zealand Swimming ..Association have issued no fewer than 1000, proficiency an(l, learners' certificates. The Government grant of £200 has not been received yet, but is expected shortly; Last year about 800 certificates were issued.

_ All over New ..Zealand enteric fever is more prevalent than is the case in most autumns. Ot-ago is no excep-' tioh, says the. "Evening Star." The number uf cases reported to the Health Officer so far this month is twentyeight, which, added to the' March cases, makes the most continuous run on record since the present Health Offi •cer. took charge. The outbreak is scattered over a wide area, and is attributed to a very- dry season and its effect on the water supply. There are at present thirteen cases of this disease in tho Dunedin Hospital. Dunedin has been through a spell of sickness in general lately. ' Tho Nurses' Association wero for a time unable to cope with the demands on them, and the simultaneous call for sevoral nurses at Mosgiel led tho matron of tho bureau to draw on Christcliurch for two more. Enteric was not the only factor. There was unusual sickness among children. Already a lull has sot fc, however, and the recent cold weathei js held largely responsible' for a check believed to have been given to enteric at least-

Golden dreams were caused at a farm-house in South Canterbury a few days ago,'roports an exchange. A duck bad been killed for Sunday's dinner, and inside it was discovered a piece of gold. Tho melal did not have tlio appearance of being a portion of an article of jewellery, but looked like a nugget which had been worn smooth by friction with stones in 'a .river-bed". There is a creek running through the property, and a little prospecting on a quiet scale is mooted.

Shampooing, Clipping, Hairdressing. Face Massago, Treatment of Falling Hair, and Dandruff. Combings made up. Natural Hair-pads, i Mrs. Rollestoii (over Carroll's), 11 "Willis street. 'Phona Adrt.

It was expected that steamers arriving in port yesterday would havo experienced heavy- weather on the coast. Though a strong southerly had been blowing since Saturday morning, the vessols reported nothing unusual, save that each had a more or less bumpy trip. The Mana, a small coasting steamer, wont qut yesterday afternoon, but the Blenheim, timed to sail later, deferred her departure till this morning. In the city winter fires were lit everywhere, for the southerly had a flavour of the Antarctic about it.

The first luncheon gathering for the winter session'of the Now Zealand Club will take place at the Y.M.C.A. to-mor-row at 1 p.m. Tho guest of honour 011 this occasion" is to oe Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, of Los Angeles, who has selected .for the subject' of bis address "The Future of the Anglo-Saxon Hacc.''

Commenting on local affairs, the Carterton "Daily News" of recent date says:—"At the Carterton Borough Council meeting last evening inquiries were received from Marton concerning the water and services, and from Sumner in reference to the gasworks. In each case it was gratifying to the council to bo able to reply .that the schemes had •• proved satisfactory; The Marton inquiry had' particular reference to the engineering quality of the work, and there can be no hesitation 111 declaring that Mr. La:ng-Mya-son's plans and specifications, both for the high'water pressure supply and the drainage system,'were fully proved to be efficient and. reliable by the completed result. . The Carterton drainage system' has been pronounced by the health officers to be one of the best septic-taok systems in the Dominion." ' .