LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1038, 30 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities received a messago from Auckland yesterday informing them that tho Haheno, from Sydney, witli English, Australian, and American mails, would not avrivo in Auckland in tima to connect with tho Main Trunk express, which left at 9.15 last evening. The Wellington portion of the mail- will not now arrivo hero until to-morrow afternoon. In connection with the firo at Howden's Buildings, in Victoria Street, oil Friday night, particulars of tho insurances, of tho different occupants of the buildings are now available. Mr. Hugh Douglas was insured with tho Australian Allianco for jEGOO ; Mr. 11. Marriner in the same office for .£600; Messrs. M'Donald and Co. in tho Queensland for JJGSOO; Mr. J. W. Read in the Royal Exchango for .£517; and Messrs. Murdoch and Co. in the London and Lancashiro for XIOSO. At a quarter-past fivo yesterday morning, the Firo Brigade was summoned to an outbreak of firo in a five-roomed dwelling in Port Street. Tho fire, which originated in a pantry between tho din-ing-room and tho kitchen, caused considerable damago before it was extinguished. Tho houso is owned by Mr. A. 1?. Mecch, and occupied by Mr. F. C. Chegwin. Tho building lis insured for ■£200 in tTio Commercial Union Office, while the London and Lancashire hold a lino of .£l5O over the furniture,

Arising out of a fracas on Waterloo Quay on Saturday night, a man named George Arthur Aldo was arrested by Detectives Kemp and Hammond on a charge of having assaulted one Charles Nicol, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Aldo, it is alleged, struck Nicol with an iron crowbar and inflicted injuries of such a nature as necessitated the latter's removal to the hospital, after being first attended to by Dr. Henry at the Polico Station. •

The cricketers who play on Kclburne Park suffer considerable iuconveniencc by the proximity to the bank of some of the match pitches. When the ball is hit over the edge—as occurred about twenty times on Saturday afternoon—it rolls down into a gully about 150 ft. to 175 ft. deep, and nnless someone has watched the progress of the ball it is seldom recovered. As many of these hits are made along the ground tho ball would lie stopped if a low fence wore erected along tho edge of the bank, which, as it is dangerous to children as well, could do with some such protection, lvelhurno Park in fino' weather is the brightest spot in Wellington, but beyond grassing the flat little or nothing has been done in the way of ornamentation.

Mr.'Peter Bowling is disappointed. Ho showed it plainly last evening in his openin? remarks at His Majesty's Theatre. The audience, he said, was not as large as the first one he had addressed in Wellington. He attributed it to the papers. When he came here, he said, the, papers assailed him for news and interviews. "Now, bar the advertisements, inserted, there is very little notice taken," ho said. "The Wellington press are trying to shut down on me and my movement. They are not the first press who have <lone that for the side I represent. They can't put us down. But. they can have a- certain effect." The effect, he said, was to be seen in the audience.

The British Bulldog Club of New Zealand has been presented by its president (Mr. T. E. Taylor, of Wellington) with a handsome trophy, ordered in Birmingham during his recent visit to the Old Country. The trophy, which is being exhibited in Mr. F. Cohen's shop' window in Willis Street, consists of a finely modelled bulldog, executed in solid silver, standing on a plate enamelled in colours, to represent the Union Jack. The trophy stands on. a base of polished oak, on the sides of which are silver plates for the inscription of the names of the winners of the Dominion championship each year.

In order to secure reliable information and statistics as regards incomes and cost of living of workers within the Dominion (says the annual report of the graphical Society), tho Labour Department forwarded to the board copies of its "Weekly or Monthly Statement of Income and Expenditure" hooks, asking the board to get members' co-operation in order to secure the desired object of tho Department, which stated that the information, if'supplied, would be regarded as confidential so far as the supplier's namo "was concerned. The board dsclin* ed to havo anything to do with the proposal as it involved class distinctions and was too inquisitorial.