LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 15 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The number of bankruptcies in Wellington city last quarter was nine, as against seven for the corresponding period of 1010. In the judicial district under the jurisdiction of the assignee the number is 33, ns against 50 for 1910.' The combined totals for the. corresponding quarters, therefore, are—l9ll, 42 bankruptcies: 1010, 57.

Somo members of the Wellington Hospital Charitable Aid Board liavo suggested at recent meetings that it would bo more convenient to meet in the evening instead of ill the afternoon as at present. The matter will be put to the vote at the ordinary meeting of the NvH on 'hreday next, when Mr. .T. E. Fitzgerald will move: "That the meetings of the board bo held at 7.30 p.m. oil j uisuuys, a..-:..,.... i. at 3.30 p.m." At the same meeting .Mr. J. W. M'JJwan will move: "That in future, when officers of the board and experts arc appointed as members of committees they shall act in an advisory capacity only, and shall not have power to vote." At tho next meeting of the Hospital Board Mr. l'\ T. Moore will move: "That the supervision of the recently-appointed health inspectors be withdrawn from the Health Department and placed in tlio hands of tho Hospital Board's Health Committee." The tricolour flew over tho office of tho French Consul (Mr. Jas. Macintosh) yesterday, marking tho anniversary of tho taking ol tlio Bastille. Cut flowers are still meeting with good sale on the Wellington market. Yesterday jonquils realised froin Is. to Is. fid. per dozen blooms; freezias, Gd. to Is. per spray; and violets, Is. to Is. 9d. per dozen bunches. The young, men of St. Peter's Anglican Church are providing a strangers' tea on Sunday at 1.30 p.m. after the Bible Class is over.