LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 981, 23 November 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

His Excellency the' Governor has intimated liis willingness to 'address the country juvenile members of the Navy 'League, who are coming down from Mas-, terton to-morrow to inspect H.M.S. Joverful. It was anticipated that over. 1000 would be coming to Wellington by the "special," but the Railway Department has intimated that the number must be restricted to SOO, on account of the stiff pull un the Eimutaka incline. Some 200 children from Feilding, , Palmerston North, and Ohau are arriving to-day for a similar purpose. As mauy of these children have , never seen the i sea, let alone a modern ironclad, the trip will to these be a succession of wonders.

A contract 1 has been signed, in terms of which Messrs. Richardson, Blair, and Jl'Cabe, Ltd., arc to supply the City Council with a quantity ,of points and crossings at a price of J21280. The material is to be used.. at the intersection of Molesworth Street and Tinakori Road on tlio Wadestown line, and at the entrance to the new Thorndon Quay carshed. The tender accepted was the only one submitted.

"I'ack" struck- tho ear of the Chief Justice as an unfamiliar term when the Hugby ease (Crown v. Wilson) was being tried yesterday. ■ His Honour asked what the word meant. "I ought to have known it," he said, when .Mr. AVilford had explained that it meant a body of forwards. "The game is. so different now/' said Mr. Wilford. "Your Honour sees it in this case." "I see that," said his Honour. "In .our time clubs permitting rough play would not have been allowed to play with anybody else." "They play in armour in America," said Mr. Wilford, "and go out in relays." "Yes," rejoined his Honour, "and the result has been that in America the number of deaths from football has risen to such an extent that a number of tho universities have prohibited it." "More people die in their beds than anywhere else," said Mr. Wilford sententiously as the Court returned to the- business in hand. „ '

"A Subscriber" suggests that it would be a graceful act on the part of his Excellency the Vice-Admiral, Sir Richard Poore, for H.lf.S. Powerful to bo present at Lyttelton on Thursday, when the Antarctic expedition ship Terra. Nova leaves for the southern ice barrier. If it is too late for arrangements to be made for tho Powerful to go to Lyttelton, tho Navy might be represented by one or other of the other warships now riding at anchor in the harbour.

In furtherance of the newest gospel which medical men are preaching ort the subject of -consumption—the discipline of work and the fortification of the resistive powers of the patient, for whom there, is hope—tho Health Department has advised the' Hospital Board that it is prepared to i take discharged sanatorium patients into its Earero tree-planting camp, providing the Medical Superintendent certifies to the suitability of their cases; that is to' Say, discharged patients who aro fit to re-enter the arena of; labour ' and by easy stages harden up their physique.

Following up tlio decision of the Tourist Department to discontinue tlxe' system of free beds and treatment for indigent persons at the Rotorua and Hanmer Springs Sanatoria, the Wellington Hospital Board has decided—as provide;! for by Section 71, Subsection 1, of tho Hospital and Charitable Institution Act of last year—to enter into a contract with the Department for the treatment of indigent persons from the Wellington district requirihg hot mineral water treat-, meut, at the rato of 30s. per week, to include board and, residence at the sanatoria, mineral baths, medical advice, medicine and elcctrical treatroent.

A conference of delegates of the Zealand Institute of Architects is to commence in Wellington to-day. . Tho centres and all the principal towns in the Dominion will, be represented. _ The delegates are to be entertained at dinner in the Grand Hotel to-morrow evening. Sisters May and Annie appeal to all those who are in sympathy with the work carried oil by .Mission "Sisters'" throughout this city, stating that many demands arc made which could easily bo met by gifts of loft-off clothing, especially children's garments. A message; left at the Methodist parsonage, 77 Tarnnnki Street, or with Sister May, 21 Devon Street, or Sister Annie, 131 Abel Smith. Street, will be gladly attended to.

It is notified' for general information tho visitors' book at Government House will be kept hereafter at tho guard-house at the main entrance to tho new Government House.

The list of civil cases set down for hearing, at tho Supreme Court will be called over at the conclusion of tho trial of A. Wilson, which is expected to finish this morning.

Tho Wellington Hospital Board has received from . tho Public Trustee, as executor in tho : estate of tho late Mr. P. J. L. Stills, a sum of .€2OO, as. an endowment for a bed in the Wellington Hospital,l to be known.as tho "Francis Mills Bed.'' A further donation of . JESS has also been received towards tho hospital funds from Mrs. T. C. Williams.

At" a meeting of the ' St.' Patrick's Branch, No. 95, of tho Hibernian Society, held last evening, it was decided to strongly protest against tho deletion of St. Patrick's, St. Andrew's, and St. George's Days from the list of bank holidays, as advocated by the Employers' Federation.

There was an excellent attendance in ■tho Theosophical Society's rooms in Ba-1-lanco Street last evening, which was set aside as a "Public Question Night." Mr. J. R. Thomson, who luis been delivering a series of lectures in Wellington,, answered numerous questions arising out. of his recent lectures. Mr. Thomson, who is the New Zealand organising secretary to the Theosophical Society, leaves Wellington to-morrow ni.ght for Christchuroh. He returns to Wellington in January next, and will then deliver a'series of lectures.

Tiie Colonial Ammunition Company has offered tho rifle clubs of the Dominion, through Mr. Field; M.P., a valuablo trophy for annual competition. It is understood that tho trophy will take the form of a shield. On behalf of tho various clubs, and with the concurrence of the Defence Council, Mr. Field has accepted the oli'cr. The conditions under which tho shield will bo competed for are now being arranged. It is understood that the shield will remain a challcngo shield.

The re-trial of Leslie Ellis, for alleged complicity in the burglary committed at tho Levin Hotel on August 21, was continued in tho Supremo Court yesterday before his Honour tho • Chief Justioe. No new evidence was called. Tho jury, after an absence of over an hour, returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was thereupon discharged.

Having made a careful analytical Btudy of every phase and condition of Baldness, Mi's. ItOLLESTON bos just returned from the principal ccntres of Hair Culture in London, Paris, antl America. Hct rooms have been extended and refitted with tho most modern appliances for tlio treatment of Baldness. \ Willis Streetfoyer Carroll's). Tel. 1599,—Advtt