LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 806, 2 May 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The English and Australian mails, which arrived at Auckland yesterday afternoon by tho Wimmera, will reach Wellington this afternoon by tho Main Trunk express. The number of passengers arriving at Wellington from oversea ports during April was 1128, including 12 Chinese. The number of arrivals in April last year was 1188. The departures for oversea ports totalled 2138, as against 2161 in April last year. In all, 35 Chinese left during tho month, as compared with 37 during April, 1909. Mr. W. H. Morton, City Engineer, who paid a visit of inspection last week to the Solomon's Knob dam, informed a Dominion -representative on Saturday that the work is now within eighteen feet of its final level. The temporary fluming which lias been in use for talcing water past the works will probably be dismantled this week. Nearly four-fifths of the total contract has now been completed, and it is expected that the work will be finished about the end of September, or middle of October. Passengers who came through by the Main Trunk express from Auckland last week report that they had some very fine views of Halley's Comet, between. Taumarunui and . Raurimu. Travelling south by the express is conducive to early rising. There are always some restless ' passengers, and from 2 a.m. they begin to replenish their inner selves at the various railway refreshment rooms, and any special astronomical phenomenon is usually certain to be reported upon by thom. Colonel R. J. Collins told a rather good story apropos of the recent visit to Wellington of Lord Kitchener at tho Savage Club's korero on Saturday evening. The scene was the Johnsonville manoeuvres. The Colonel was riding along the road with "K. of K., when the latter's eagle eyo lit upon a solitary figuro which had sought cover behind a blade of grass in an exposed position at tho top of an adjacent hill. Piqued with curiosity as to what the man yas—outpoßt, sentinel, or Dominion Scout—the Field-Jtfarehal. rode briskly up the riße, and with characteristic brusqueness . said to the man, "What are you?" "I'm a soap-boiler at Newton's Kaiwarra soap works!" was the innocent reply.

The installation of Mr. H. W. Shortt as Mayor of Eastbourne will take place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday in the office of the borough clerk, Mr. J. D. Avery, Johnston Street.'

Another attempt is about to be made to resuscitate the Wellington Orchestral Society. After being moribund for many years, tho society _ was revived on the return to Wellington a couple of years ago of Mr. Alfred Hill, ana at the one concert given showed splendid promise. Unfortunately Mr. Hill took cold that night, which turned ont to bo the precursor of a long . and most serious illness, and in his absence the society became once more inanimate, and Mr. Hill, on his recovery, formed other plans which have taken him to Australia. A recent announcement states that he has been appointed dopnty-condnctor to Williamson's Grand Opera Company. The advent hero of Mr. Herbert Bloy, a talented , violinist .and musician; who has had experience in conducting, is responsible for the latest proposal. That gentleman is being approached to act as conductor, and his reply will be placed' before the members,of tbe society at the annual meetr ing to be held at the rooms of the Engineers' Institute, Aitken Street, on Thursday evening next. Eight sacks of tree ferns, the third consignment to leave Wellington within the past fortnight, wore snipped to Sydney by .the Manuka., The first meeting of the creditors of Edward. John Falkner, telegraphist, who has been adjudicated a bankrupt on a creditor's petition, will be held on Tuesday, May 10, at 11 a.m.

Looking about for a summary of the situation created by the election to the Mayoralty of Mr. Wilford, and his probable resignation of the Chairmanship of Committees, the Christchurch "Even-; ing News" hits upon this do-üble-bar-reUed epigram:. "It looks as it Wellington's loss will be the country's gain.

A deputation representing the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, and certain trade unions, will wait upon the Hon. J. A. Millar to-morrow evening to make representations on the proposal to create a separate industrial district for Hawke's Bay and Poverty BayAfter many years the old time-worn' Testaments used at the Uhristchurch Supreme Court for swearing jurors and witnesses have been replaced a new set of volumes (says ihe "i'ress J. Some of the books going out of commission have been in use for nearly half a century. They were all strongly bound in leather, probably for the reason mentioned in the fly-leaf of one of the volumes: "This book is bound strongly to stand hard swearing." The new railway station at Levin (Wereroa) will be used for all railway purposes on and after to-day. There was a scene in the Magistrate's Court at Granity .the other day. A man named Peter Price was standing in the courtroom with his hat on. Constable Sweeney three times asked him to take off his hat, and received the reply "Take off my coat?" As Price did not remove his hat tho constable proceeded to remove him from the Court. The man resisted, and there was a struggle, in the course of which furniture was'capsized and the hearing of a case brought to a standstill. The services of .Sergeant Dew, Constables Sweeney and Grigg were required to reduce Price to a condition of quiet behaviour, and he was locked up on a charge of wilfully interfering with the business of the Court. At a later stage the man was brought before Mr. Rawson, S.M., who heard evidence oil both sides. Accused's only' defence was that he understood the constable to order him to take his coat off. His Worship inflicted a fine of £1, in default seven days' imprisonment.—"Grey River Argus."

Work in connection with tho new bridge over tho Waiau at Cheviot is being pushed forward with commendable rapidity, states the Kaikoura "Star." Eight of the spans from the southern end are verging upon complc.tion, while tho piles are now well into the main stream which runß under the northern bank. The engine, which was submerged in tho Tecent floods, is again in full working order, and as thero are n good many piles now ready on the southern bank, the work should suffer no chcck from lack of material. Tho station yard at Domett is piled high with bridge timbers and gear of all sorts, and carting to tho scone of operations from the railway is carried on by traction engines whenever the weather and the state of tho roads pormit. It is confidently expected that tho bridge will bo finished . within the contract time—November next.

Shampooing, Clipping, Hairdressing, Mnriicnrmg, Face Massage, Treatment of Palling Hair, and Dandruff. Combings made up. Natural Hair-pada. Mrs. Rolleston (over Carroll's), 11 Willis Street, 'Fhooa IS£3.—Ad*t.