LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1159, 21 June 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Thursday (Coronation Day), the .Post Office will be open in nil its branches, except the Honey Order Department, from 8.30 to !).3O a.m. Mails by steamers sailing on that day will close at ft a.m. The only dispatches by trams will bo for tho Wairarapa, Manawatu, Wangaimi, and Taranaki districts, closing at 6.30 a.m.; Hawke's Jiay district, closing at 8 a.m.; Auckland district, closing at 9 n.jn. There will bo no day clearances of (ho city and suburban receivers. There will not be any deliveries through the city and suburbs by the letter-carriers, but a delivery will bo made at the Drill Shed, Maginnity Street from 8.30 to «.3Q a.m., of all correspondence which would under ordinary circumstances bo delivered by letter-carriers; also a similar delivery will be made, from feßril Shed, Maginnily Street, on Wednesday evening, June 21. from 8.30 Iα 9.30 p.m. Tho public delivery counters will be open at tho Chief Post" Office from 8.30 to !).3O p.m. on Wednesday, .Juno '1 • also 8.30 to n.30 a.m. on Thursday (Coronation Day), for delivery of correspondence, addressed to the Post Office The parcels counter at the Drill Shod. Magiiinity .Street, will lie open for delivery of parcels from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Juno 21; also 8.30 (o !).3O a.m. on JLhursday, Juno 22. Tho interior of tho Town Hall has been gaily .bedecked with bunting in view of the entertainments to be given t><ro tomorrow afternoon and evening, in honour of (he Coronation. Tho Municipal Orchestra, which is to perform at the evening concert, held a highly successful rehearsal last evening. Last evening tho City Council revoked its decision, arrived at two nieetin<!i ago, to employ a secretary (at a salary of ,£250 a year) to assist the City Engineer. The decision to call for applications for tlio position was arrived at by the council in committee. On (ho day after tho meeting Councillor Frost gavenotiro of a motion providing that the decision bo rescinded. When tho matter came up hist evening Councillor Frost's motion was carried on tho voices, without discussion. Tho undermentioned hours will bo observed at the Telegraph Office on Thursday, Coronation Day:—Homing, 8.30 to 10 a.m.; evening, 7 p.m. to midnight. Midnight cabin'service ns usual; telephono exchange open continuously,

A social was held ljy tho local branch of Uin Liberal nml Labour Federation in I lie Druids' JI-.\U last evening. Sours, dances, and tweehes were interspersed, and tho proceedings lusted until u very late hour. llr. J. W. Hemlcrson presided, and iiddrcjses wero delivered by .Sir James Carroll, the Hon. ]!. M'Kcuzie, and the Ministerial candidates for the city oletloralcs. The local branch' of the Medical AwoI'ialion has been granted permission to hold meetings in future in the board roan; of I ho Wellington Hospital Hoard in Marion .Street. A number of remits to be considered at the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's Conference, which is to he held at Wcllingiuu un June 27, were laid before Ihe local Hospital Hoard yesterday, but were not discussed, as members hail not had time to consider their subject matter. Tlu , medical superintendent (Dr. Hardwick .Smith) and Hie superintendent of charitable aid (.Mr. Trucbridgc) were added to the number of those who arc to represent Wellington at the conference. Anions Ih-a remits is one from Otago, providing that a board chairman may bo paid a salary not exceeding JC2OO per annum. Remits which aim at promoting uniformity in the maintenance, charges levied by boards from kindred bodies have- come from a number of districts. Other remits aim at tlie provision of legislation compelling undesirables to provide for those dependent upon them. It is further proposed that the powers of boards in regard to neglected and destitute children should bo enlarged. Remaining subjects to be dealt with camo under the heads of "Old Age Pensions," "Tuberculosis," "Mental Cases," "Nurses and Probationers," and "Public Health." Early in Hay a very fine Poor Stan's Hotel was started in Nottingham by the Salvation Army. The building'was opened by the Duke, of Portland, who,- in his remarks, stated that it was only ■ a fewyards from the snot that tho founder of the Army (General Booth) was born. Through tho office-.? of Mr. John Baillic, of the Baillio Gallery, London, formerly of Wellington, this city is being presented with four paintings of value. According to information receive! by Mr. Herbert Baillio (City Librarian), one of the pictures is a good painting of .tho Firth of Forth by J. Campbell Mitchell; A.E.S.A., a well-known artfst. Another is a flower piece by Francis James, A.R.W.S., very widely and favourably known for his skill in this speciality. Mr. Baillic himself will bo represented by a water-colour, and the lato William E. Osborne by a small oil. The Wellington Licensing Committee will sit at the Magistrate's Court at 9 o'clock this morning to deal with a number of applications which were adjourned from Juno 7. The receipts for the first concert given by the Sheffield Choir in the Town Hall, Sydney, amounted to over .€9OO. Information received in Wellington .states that tho I'rivy Council appeal, John Norton, proprietor of "New ZeaJam Truth," v. T. Stringer, K.C., was withdrawn in London. Early this month a dispute arose between the Department of Labour aild the master grocers of the city over a question ot holiday overtime payment. Having given their employees a holidav on the King's Birthday. (Juno 3), the master grocers did not pay them overtime for work done on tlie afternoon of Wednesday (May 31), which ordinarily would have been observed as tho statutory weekly nati-holiday. The liability of employer's to pay tho overtime rate is to be tested shortly in the Arbitration Court. It is stated that Messrs. Wardell Bros, will bo charged at tho. sitting of the Court on June 27, with failing to pay an assistant overtime rates for working upon the statutory half-holiday mentioned. Hie Employers' Federation has decided i 1 01 )?" R P counsel to conduct the caso on behalf of tho employers. It is understood that the federation will advise its membfirs to adopt whatever decision may bo rtho b L\t Court as a fillal £Cttl — At a meeting of the executive of tho Cambridge Chamber of Commerce on 1 nday evening a letter whs received from the Wellington Chamber of Commerce asking- tho local institution to give its consideration to the matter of mail connection between Australia and Aew Zealand, with a view to obtaining some improvement in the distribution of the inward Suez mail. Inter alia it was mentioned that Wellington slio'uld bo made the distributing port for tho inward Suez mail. It was desired to know whether the various Chambers approved of the proposal, before Parliament and the steamship companies aro approached. Tho chairman remarked that it looked liko an attempt at centralisation—Wellington versus Auckland. Mr. Reid considered that their interests wero better served by . Auckland, and that, therefore, they should uphold a Vancouver or 'Frisco route, as against Suez. On the suggestion of the chairman, consideration of tho matter was deferred till the next full meeting of the Chamber. ■ The City Council has accepted the tender of Messrs. Duncan and Macintosh for tho supply of tramway caps and covers for the current year. The Westport Coal Company is to supply tlie council during the same period with steam coal. "I do not know if Councillor Shirtcliffe is aspiring to Mayoral honours," remarked Councillor Fuller at the meeting of the City Council last evening, "but, if ho is, I will spar with him on this subject (tramway concessions) as much as he likes!" A man arrived in custody from Martinborough last night, and will appear at the Magistrate's Court this morning charged with theft, on April 13, of a trunk containing wearing apparel valued at ,£9, the property of Jno. M'Conville. Visitors to Wellington will find tho "Bradshaw" a very handy little book, as it contains all Time-tables of Trams, Trains, and Boats; also a lot of other useful information. The book is procurable from leading newsagents for ono penny.**