LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho following singular sentence, referring to the much-discussed pamphlet attacking Sir J. G. Ward, occurs in au address that has been presented ■ to the Prime Minister by his Ohakune supporters:—"lt is doubtless a source of satisfaction to you to know that the vile production, which will react on the perpetrators, is • reprobated by every fairminded, right-thinking, man and woman of all shades of political opinion in the Dominion." Commenting' upon this last evening, the "Evening Post" dealt with this insinuation. "Apparently," lit said, "the effort made in Parliament to associate the Government's opponents -with the pamphlet is being continued, to the great disgust of 'every fair-minded, rightthinking man and woman of all shades of political opinion in tho Dominion.' If the Government is wise it will pass tho word to its organisers and friends to keep political insinuations out of all references to tho pamphlet, whether in illuminated addresses or not."

One dozen cremation urns are to be purchased by the City Council. They will bo imported from London. The Mavor replied to a question at the council" meeting last evening that the urns were to be of terra cotta, and -would cost six shillings each. Tho idea was to get out a dozen as samples to submit to local makers, who would be asked in future to tender for their supply. "We want to encourage local industry," said his Worship.

The tender.of Messrs. Mason, Strutters, and Co., Ltd. for the supply and drfivery of galvanised iron wire has bs<n accepted by the secretary for the Post and Telegraph Department. Tho contract price is .£ll 10s. 6d. per ton, c.i.f. at Wellington or Lyttelton.

The City Council determined last evening, on the recommendation of its Finance Committee, to enter into negotiations for the purchase of a ten foot strip of land at tho corner of Willis and Old Customhouse Streets, for street-widening purposes. The Mayor stated in reply to a question that this was a case in which a person had been notified that tho council intended to acquire a strip ten feet wido along the front of his property. Determining to build, the property-owner asked the council either to take over the land or withdraw its notification. Henco tho recommendation stated above. The City Council last evening granted the use of the Basin Reserve to tho Port Nicholson Snorts Club on the afternoon nf Saturday;" February 25, with permission to charge for admission. The official register of nurses and surveyors .appears in this week's Gazette. A notico in this week's Gazette notifies the abolition of the municipal ward system in Port Chalmers. By a notice in the Gazette money orders and correspondence are forbidden to ho forwarded to Professor Notmann, ALE., E M.G., N.Z. ElectropaHiic Institute, 53 Gloucester Street, Christchurch. Tliorbv Street, Wellington, and portions of Follett and Bower Streets, Marton, have been exempted from, tho provision of Section 11" of the Puhlic Works Act. The fees to be paid for (ho inspection of machinery or boilers arc set out in this week's Gazette. The concrete water-trough near the Queen's Statue is to bo removed, niul an iron trough substituted on a site to be •elected by the City Engineer.

The Johnsonville Rifles (Captain F. T. Moore) will go into camp on the local recreation ground on Snturday afternoon for their annual eight days' training. Captain Hall will direct the work to he done in the early part of the week. A subsidv of £o is to be paid this year by the City Council to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It is reported that the Onslow Borough Council and the Wellington Gas Company are unable to come to terms in reference to installing a gas supply in the district, and that the council may have to fall back upon its electric lighting scheme. The council at- its last meeting passed a resolution, reserving to itself the right to use gas for street lighting at anv time that it might desire to do so, but determining not to have any gassupnlicd street lamps erected in the meantime. To these terms, it is stated, the Gas Company will not agree. The new boundaries of the Waitara, Whantramomona, Patea, Waverley, AVaneanui, Pleasant Point, and Mount Cook districts under the Marriage Act, 100S, appear in this week's Gazette. The boundaries so set out also apply as fnr as the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1908, is concerned. A notice in this week's Gazette states that 14,076 acres of the Wnknmarina Block, Marlborough, and 2781 acres of the No. 2 Ronga Valley Block have been set aside for selection. In connection with tho damage which was stated to have been caused to Mr. G. Winder's stock through the overflow of a sewer at his premises on November 14 last, the City Council has decided to repudiate any liability. Owing to the fact that the trucks and equipments for tho new cars for" the city tramways were on board tho Parisiana, which has been abandoned at sea, the City Council has had to duplicate the order. This it decided to do, at its meeting last evening. Two single truck cars are also to be constructed for the Wadestown route, as recommended by the electrical engineer. The trucks and equipments necessary for these are already in stock. Authority has been granted the City Electrical "Department to purchase 200 hot point irons. Tenders are also to be called for the construction of one dozen electric stoves, as recommended by the City Electrical Engineer. Space at the forthcoming New. Zealand Industrial Exhibition, to be held in Wellington, is to be arranged for by the City Council, in order to enable a fitting display of tho council's electric goods to bo made.

Acting upon requests from Island Bay and Kilbirnio residents, the City Council last evening called for a full report, from Superintendent O'Brien, dealing with fire brigade requirements in tho suburban districts. The report is to be submitted, if possible, at the next meeting of the Fire Brigade Committee. The New Zealand Industrial Association lately approached the City Council with a request that it should enter -a lo-cally-built electric car at the forthcoming exhibition. The.council, last evening, acting in pursuance ot' its .engineer's advice, declined to accede to' the request. "Personally I think the proper place to exhibit a tramcar is ,on the streets," remarked the Mayor. The City Council agreed last evening to sell to the Hospital Board a small section in Salamanca Road at a price to. be fixed by the City Valuer. The land is required by the, board in order that it may lease a much larger property, in juxtaposition, with a frontage to Salamanca Uoad.