LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1028, 18 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that, tho s.s. Ulimaroa, which sailed from- Sydney at' 2 p.m. cn January M, is bringing theAustralian mail. . She is. due to reach Wellington early on Wednesday "morning, January IS. With emphasis: "They're always such a difficult crowd to coutrol that wo decided to lot thera slide. . . ." "Yes, and it's always been so!" The disgusted speakers were athletes in conference last night; the subject of their disgust Scottish athletes, pipers, and dancers. The Prime Minister, is to bo asked by the local Chamber of Conunerco if, during his coining visit to London, ho will try to make arrangements that will gain more favourable admission of -tile Dominion's meat and dairy produce into the United States and certain Continental countries.--.. Tho inadvertent omission' by our printers of a few words at one point in the letter from Mr. William Ferguson, which we printed yesterday, resulted iu Mr. Ferguson being made to say exactly the opposite of what he wished to say. The sentence (in the third paragraph of tho letter),'-which Tead:. "It does not, however, pay to use such expensive appliances, for gas is cheap, because of the largo quantity of heat unit's existing, in electrical energy." Tho sentence was written, and should have been printed: "for gas is cheap lweniife of the large quantity of heat units that it contains as compared with the'smaU quantity of heat units existing in electrical energy." A very fine specimen of brown trout, caught with-' the lly on the Tongariro River, which liows into Lal;o. Taupo, was received by Messrs. W. H. Tisdall and Co. from Messrs. S. Crow-ther and Co., the well-known coach, proprietors, yesterday. The. trout, which weighs sixteen pound;, will bo on exhibition ill Tisdall ami Company's .window this morning. As far as is knowu, this is,the first big fish received in Wellington from the Tongariro this season. . It is a beautifullvforined fish, in perfect condition, and 'is the best of oviden.co of tho sport to bo obtained in. the streams that, feed Lako Taupo. The Wellington Chamber of Comnicrco is alive to tho importance of co-operating with other parts of tho Dominion regarding tho matter of tho location of the High Commissioner of the Pacific, which recently has become so prominent. It has passed the following ' resolution:— "That assuming tlie correctness of tho rumour that it is proposed to remove tho present location of the High Commissioner for the Westorn Pacific, this chamber views with concern any such step, and strongly advocates that it should not bo made." For the hest and most modern Hair and Complexion Treatment. Mrs. K-ollcs-ton. who has just returned from England and America, is recommended. Highest diploma for removing superfluous hair. Vibro-massa-ge, Hairdressing, Shampooing and Clipping. 4 Willis Street (over Carroll's). Tel. 1595,-Advt.

The Primitive Methodists aro strenuous folk, and tho lengths to which they are carried by their industry are at times almost startling. It was casually mentioned at tho conference yesterday that tho Stationary Committee proposed to meet this morning at half-past, six, and another committee at half-past eight.

Since tho days of its acquirement by the. .State the Roods traffic on tho Manawafu Railway has greatly increased. Tho policy is to tend as much traffic as possible over that route, and to spare tho greater cost of haulage over the heavy I'imutaka grades. Many more trains than formerly ran over the Afniunvatu line, and one reMilt of this lias been extra precautions along the route. To-morrow the Onslow Borough Council v;ill interview the Minister for Hallways to ask that the recent action of the Department in closing the gates over the railway at Khandollah after dark be abandoned, because of the inconvenience caused to residents, who are made to go a .long way round to get to their homes.

To-dny Mr. Justice Chapman will hear the appeal of Victor M'Duff, a bookmaker, against the decision of Mr. AV. G. Riddell, fj.M.. given in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, in the cast' of Police v. M'Duff, whereby the appellant was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on each of two charges of theft in connection with an alleged "welshing" incident at Trontharu racecourse. Mr. A. L. Herdman and Mr. J. J. M'Grath will appear for the appellant, and Mr. H. H. Ostler for the Crown.

Attached to the organisation of the Primitive Methodist Church is an AntiCigarette League, which has been in existence in some centres of the Dominion for three or lour years, but is now being taken up generally by the Church stations all over New Zealand. In England tho Anti-Cigarette League attached to tho. Primitive Methodist Church in that country has. some 30,000 adherents, and it is hoped that similarly good results will be obtained by the vigorous promotion of the league in this country. Ifs present aim is to secure a pledge from juveniles that they will .abstain from smoking until they have attained the age of 21 years. It is hoped by tho promoters of the league that many young people will in this way bo induced to abstain from smoking altogether. The New Zealand secretary ofi the league is the Rev. A. Harding, of Greendale, Canterbury.

At about half past six o'clock last evening. Constable Shine, of Mount Cook Station, nrrtetal a man in. the neighbourhood of the Basin Reserve, _ against whom it is alleged that he committed an assault upon two little girls, aged respectively, five and sis years. He will he charged with the offence at the Magistrate's Court this morning. The residents in the viciriity of Aro Street have been somewhat inconvenienced of late by the appearance over the local postal receiving box of a notice which forbids the posting of newspapers, therein. Mr. P. M. B. M.P., has approached the authorities in reference to the matter, and has been informed that such notice was for the purpose, .of preventing. the boxes being filled with newspapers and circulars. An instance was given in which one person had filled up the three receiving boxes nearest his residence with newspapers, thus preventing letters being posted. The Department had no objection to an occasional newspaper being posted, but it had to 'safeguard the interests o£ the i residents for whoso convenience the receiving boxes were installed.

Late Vast night the local wireless station heard the Uliruaroa, now en route from Sydney to Wellington, communicating with scmo other station, but owing to the distance, and the fact that Wellington is. "in the shadow of the land," in wireless parlance, and thus is not in the best position for wireless communications, the local operator failed to pick up the messages from the steamer, very distinctly. However, they managed to get into communication with H.JI.S. Cumbrian, now in the north of New Zealand, and she was able to transmit a message from theUlimaroa to the Wellington station. The steamer's message was to the effect that s jtinaoiyj to-(!av.'