LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 895, 15 August 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Maheno, with an English mail via Suez, an English ■ and American mail via Vancouver, and an Australian mail, arrived in Auckland from Sydney at 8.30 a.m. yesterday. The Wellington portions of these mails will arrive by this afternoon's Main TrurJj express. ■A Weir liner arrived at Auckland from San Francisco on Saturday with ' an American mail, the Wellington portion of which will also come to hand ' this afternoon

A bread war is reported to be existing in Wanganui and Palmers ton North, and the price of the commodity is being ticketed in shop windows of tho towns at 2Jd. per 21b. loaf. In Carterton the samo loaf is bringing from 4d. to 4}d.

Tho Garrison Officers'. Club's next "social" will be held on Wednesday next. . A "Scotch night" has been ai•ranged, and items will be supplied by members of the Pipe Band. On August 25, Major T. B. Cresswcll, Rangio'ra High School, will deliver a lecture on "Stonewall Jackson" (with lantern slides). The lectures originally set down on the syllabus for that date will bo given on Thursday, September 1. Mr. M'Nab's postponed lecturo on "Military. Training and the People of Great Britain" will bo given to the members of tho club on Tuosdaj; Septcmbor 27. The conference in connection with the shearers' dispute, which was to have been held at Palmerston- North this week, has been postponed until after tho meeting of the Conciliation Commissioners at Chrislchurcli. Plucky conduct is reported in connection with a serious . accident sustained by Mr. G. R. Fail in Willis Streot on Saturday, morning, and mentioned elsowhere in this issue. The pony attached to Mr. Fail's vehicle liad bolted, and was careering dangerously down the street when a pedestrian (Mr. A. G. Burns) stepped off tho footpath, and reaching out caught tho reins and brought the frightened animal to.a standstill. The Minister for Justice (the Hon. Dr. Findlay) stated last evening that nothing'had yet been decided as to the appointment of. a successor to Police Inspector Gillies. Nothing . would . bo done'for a day or two.

The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court begin at 11 a.m. to-day, before Mr. Justice Chapman.

The collection taken in tho streets of Wellington on Saturday morning by tho Hugh Ward Company in aid' of tho Children's Hospital included £10 worth of pennies (240U). Some of the boxes became so heavy that the ladies collecting could not hold them very long in tho ono hand, owing to the strain on tho wrist. One of tho J;oung ladies of tho company was invited to "pillago" thn olliecs in ono of tho largest buildings in Customhouse . Quay. Her box weighed fully a pound heavier when she came out. "If it had been a warn, spring day," said Mr. Hugh AYard, "we would have doubledour collection easily. But we are satisfied." At the conclusion of the morning's tour tho members of the company had a competition as to who would guess tho nearest figure to the amount of money collected. The entrance was Is., and tho winner had the honour of presenting the amount to tho fund. Miss Palotta, who proved to bo the winner, guessed £105 (only 13s. off the correct amount), and Mr. AYard was next with £100. Mr. AA r ard desires to express his thanks to Mr. C. 8. Mahoney and Hie members of the band, who did such good service on tho motor caravan on Saturday morning.

air. \V. C. ChalQeld, architect., ha* been engaged for some time m rearranging the manufactory of the amalgamated match-making firms of Uiyunt and May and It. Bell and Co.. at Newtown. The first contract consisted of a new. Lrick building 132 ft.. by 32ft. wide, with walls lift m height. In this building is being installed the machinery /for making non-poisonous wooden matches, which are to supersede those made in Holland and Belgium. Tho second contract provide* for the demolition of part of tho 'existing promises, and erecting on tho site an up-to-date two-story brick building lOu ft. long by 40ft. in width, whero machinery will be established lor filling the boxes. Provision in also being made for the extension of tho main factory as the business grows.