LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The AVimrnera, with a small English mail via Brintlisi and an Australian mail, arrived at Auckland from Sydney at 2 p.m. yesterday. Tho Wellington portion of tho mail will arrive here by this afternoon's Main Trunk express. The reason for ihe English mail being so light is on account of the mail via America having left a day or two before the Brintlisi mail closed. . , The ccrcm:.:iy of installing the Mayors of I-liitt and I'etono has been fixed"for next Wednesday. At the same meeting the statutory declarations of the newcouncillors will lake place. It is the intention of the Mayor of Pelono, Mr. J. W. M'Ewan, (o hold a mooting of Koro-Koro settlers at an early date- for the purpose of ascertaining their needs, and subsequently to place them before the Petono Borough Council. At the adjourned inquest on Saturday regarding tho death of Ronald Black, a verdict was returned by the Coroner of death from strangulation by misadventure. A boy, I)oy M*:kay,"(i friend of deceased's, said that the latter had told him that ho had seen a man hamiing by the neck at a picture sho*, and that he had not died, but there had been no suggestion on the deceased's part of any experimenting in the matter. In a few summing-up remarks the Coroner said that the statements of Dr. A. Martin that the boy was perfectly healthy and sound i i every respect and the "evidence of other witness to this effect naturally pointed to the conclusion that the sail result was due to misadventure. Various troops of boy ecouts were out on a march during the week-end. The New-town Scouts went to the Heads to •ii\irch for Maori curios. The Mount Victoria Scouts spent, some time at Wilton's Bush, near Northland, engaged in bridgebuilding and hut building. The number of births registered;in Wellington during April was 15G; ' deaths, 50; marriages, 117. For April, 1910, the figures were: Births, 174; deaths, CO; marriages, 102. For tho four months of this year tho statistics are as follow (the figures for tho corresponding period of last year being given in parentheses):—Births. (isfi (701); deaths, 250 (2S0); marriages, 3GB (•jo-). The Wellington Railway Mutual Improvement and Social Club, which was started last winter, and which proved very successful during its first session, is lo open its 1011 session on Friday evening next. The syllabus has been issued, and the subject matter to bo dealt with is of great variety. It includes lectures on various subjects by experts, debates on current topics, competitions, and sociai evenings. A .strong representative committee, of which Mr. A. Cassio is secretary, has been formed. They are arranging the formation of classes on ambulance ami various other .subjects appertaining to railway work. The Railway Department is providing a suitable hall a ltd meeting rooms with all conveniences, which will further the object of the club's work.

Thn uiembci's of the Wellington City Council and the lliramar and Onflow Borough Councils are lo meet at their respective offices at noon on Wednesday to sign tho usual declaration. The swear-ing-in of tho members of the newly-con-stituted Harbour Board ,\vill lake place at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. For the annual supply of electrical sundries to tho City Corporation the lender of Messrs. Lawrence and Hansen has been accepted and signed. Unsuccessful tenderers were-.—Messrs. Tiunbiill and Jono?, C'pdcrholm and Tollcy. T. Ballinger and Co., anil A. and T. Burr. A "burglar scare" occurred at the Te Aro Post Office last' night about half-past seven o'clock and a number of police were summoned from Mount Cook Station. When the building was surrounded and entered, the alarm proved to bo a false one. At a sitting of the Conciliation Council at Mnstertmi on Saturday afternoon in regard to the proposal fur a new award in connection with the Stationary, Traction, Locomotive Engine Drivers' dispute, before 3lr. I'. Haliy, if was agreed (states a Press Association telegram) that the arrangements made in respect to the dispute by the Conciliation.Council held in Wellington be endorsed. That is to say, that the award made by the Court of Arbitration in Olago, dealing with the industry, and having special reference to the enieploymeiit of engine drivers other than those employed on ■ ferry or river steamers, having been adopted, it was agreed in respect of the river and ferry boats award recently made by the Court at, Auckland that it be accepted subject to the modification that Clauses 5 and 6, having special reference to traction engine drivers and embodied in the old award, bo reinstated in the neiv agreement. In respect of the preference clause it is intended that it should not apply to persons employing traction engine drivers; that the effect of the clause shall not apnly outside a radius of one mile from the Chief Post Office, and only to those persons, firms, and companies who me steam stationary engines.

A poll on the proposal to borrow dCG.I,OOO for tho purpose of installing a system of ekctrie tramways in the Hutt Valley v. ill be taken on May 31. At tho meeting of the Wellington Headmasters, Association, held on Saturday morning, tho matter of the refusal of the Public Schools' Rugby Union to admit the Mnrist Brothers School to the football competitions wa sdiscussed. It was arranged that a special meeting should Iμ hold on Tuesday (to-morrow), for the purpose of further considering the matter, when representatives of the Schools' liugby Union will also be present.