LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Dominion; will not be published tomorrow, but will be published as usual on Saturday and Easter Monday, The undermentioned hours will be observed at tho telegraph oifico on Friday and Monday next (Good I'riday and Easter Monday):—Good Friday, il.ljO to 10 a.m., and 5 to 5.30 p.m. Easier Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. Midnight cable service as usual.

"There have been a great many Labour conferences lately," said Mr. J. Godber, in the course of an address to the electors Inst evening, "but, to my mind, thero will never be any satisfactory outcomeuntil natural ability is recognised. Whether in the Arbitration Court, at private conferences, or anywhere else, while the man who is industrious is placed in the same category as the waster, no satisfactory conclusion will be arrived at. To my mind that is ths crux of the dissatisfaction in reference to our labour laws."

The permanent way of Iho Karori tramway was completed yesterday, and the only work remaining to be done consists of levelling up the roads and the tarring of the (rack. The line will bo opened for traffic about a fortnight hence. The total distance from the Botanical Gardens to the terminus of the now completed extension line is three miles eighteen chains. The Karori extension is not at present yielding payable returns, but tho Borough Council has of late been losing .fi.ioO a year on horse omnibuses. This loss will now be done away Willi.

Tho Court of Appeal has adjourned for the Enstcr vacation, and will resume on Monday, April U.

Sousa's orchestral band, the finest of its class in the world, is to visit Wellington next August. Mr. K. L. Mullarkey, who is in Wellington at present making the preliminary arrangements for the Now Zealand tour, states that tho band will come to the Dominion 63 strong, bringing with it three soloists—Miss Virginia Kcot. soprano, Nicolini Zedler, violinist, and Mr. Herbert Clarke, cornetist. Tlic tour of Australia will commence at Sydney en May 13, and the New Zealand tour at Invercargill on July 31. Tho Wellington season will extend from August 11 to in. It is also suggested that whilst in New Zealand Sousn may write a march embodying the rhythm of thp Maori haka.

The out-patients' department of tho Wellington Hospital will bo closed on Friday, Monday, and Tuesday next for Kustor holidays. Any urgent cases will Ik> treoted in tho main hospital during that time.

Mr. A. W. Blair delivered ajcctiiro lo the Wellington Accountant Students' Society last evening on "Receivers." There wn>' n good attendance. The lecturer answered several question? at the Ho>o nf his pip»r. Mr. W.B. Hudson, F.1.i., X.Z., ccyipied the chair.

A female, passenger, who is suffering from insanity, was not permitted to land from the Marama yesterday.

At a special meeting of the .lohn.-on-ville Town Hoard, held last evening, Mr. Robert Fox, overseer for the Dunodin Drainage JKird, was appointed to supervise tin l water supply nml drainage work-? at .lolinsonville.

Srniur rnrleU arc for the prevent to carry out their musketry training as before, pending Ihe Usue of the new regulation?. According to n report from the medical authorities to the Maknra County Council yesterday, there are six cafes of typhoid iever amongst the patients at the i'orirua Asylum at present. A meeting of hairdressers' assistants was called "last evening, under the aiifpiecs of the Trades Council, the intention of that, body being to promote the formation of ii. union. Tho attendance, however, was so small that it was deemed inadvisable to proceed. Another meeting will be convened shortly. Registration returns from the Napier urea group received at District Headquarters yesterday show that in the first week's work of the area officer and liis area sergeant-majors tho total number ai applications for registration was 299. The New Plymouth area group returns are still to arrive, but taking the returns which have come to hand, the officer commanding ths district (Colonel E. \V. C. Chaytor) expects that the five days' workwill result in a total of 1200 odd. "It is not a sport in this country—it is one of the most important forms of business." Such was the comment of a Judge, of the Supreme Court yesterday when counsel was arguing with a view t6 showing that, picking the winner of "a horse race was a skill, and not a game of chance. The Wellington Bradshaw Guide and time-tables of trains, trams, and boats, etc., is the handiest little book for everybody; obtainable from newsagents; nrice