LOCAL AND GENERAL.
"Our Bills are prepared and we will lie able to get on with the work of the .-e.-sion from file opening; day," said Sir James Carroll t'o a Dominion representative relerring to the opening of Parliament.' .Members of Parliament are already assembling in Wellington, and are io be seen hovering in the vicinitj of Ihe Parliamentary Buildings, and examining what arrangements are being made this year for tneir comfort. A. number of the men employed by the .Miramar Borough Council petitioned last evening for a rise of wages from Us. to 9s. Gd. per day, and to have their wages paid weekly. 'The council decided to pay the men weekly if (hey desired it, anil would call at the shed for their money. As to the suggested rise in wages, the Mayor explained that the petition was signed by :)l out of 10 men employed on the drainage and water works. On his proposal it wu» decided that inquiry be made into the matter, and a report he brought down to the next meeting of tho council, .lust before 10 o'clock yesterday morning, the Fire Brigade was called to No. M, Nomanby Street, Newtown, where a small lire was caused by some children playing with matches. The outbreak was suppressed before much damage had been done. Tho house is owned by Mr. G. de Lorehe, and occupied as a dwelling by Mr. A. .1. Mnrris. There was an insurance of .£l5O on the building in tho Phoenix Office, but the contents were not insured. The rank of statiun sergeant in the police force is to be abolished, and tho rank of senior sergeant is to be substituted. The four station sergeants—one in •each city in the Dominion—will in future lake up tho new title, and the following have also been promoted to the same iauk -.—Sergeants Stagpcole (Oamani), Bourke (yVaneanui), Haddrell (Xew Plymouth), Pouhy (Ashburton), Homer (Sydenham), MacKinnon (Waihij, Ryan (Lyttelton), Rutledge (Mount Cook), Matheson (Wellington South), and' Dart (Xew Plymouth). Tho Rev. H. Van Stavcren wishes the statement that Joseph Ehrnian (who escaped from custody when being conveyed by Main Trunk train to Auckland) "is a German Jew by birth" contradicted. The statement was made in the Press Association message telegraphed from Auckland, and Mr. Van Stavcren says that the man is not a Jew at all. Tho "Dannevirke Evening News" publishes a statement that Sir Joseph Ward has purchased an estate in Essex, England. Tho report is said to have reached the Dominion by a small country paper posted out. The following additional contributions have been received at this office towards the London Fresh Air Fund:—Backblocks, £1; G.M.R., 75.; S.A.W., Is. Gd.; K.G.W., Is. Gd.; J .8.C., Is. 6d. j Anonymous, Gs.; Kia Ora Centre Girls' Realm Guild, ys. His Excellency, the Governor has consented to present the prizes to those scholars who were highest in each grade in the recent examinations conducted by (ho Sunday School Union. The distribution of prizes will take place on Friday, August 18. On several occasions during her present voyage tho Aorangi's wireless instrument was used to good advantage, communication being established with San Francisco on tho upward run at a distance of IGOO miles. After leaving Aut'Kland, and before Rarotonga was reached, Fiji was heard "talking." R.M.S. Mariposa was in constant communication with the Aorangi until the latter vessel reached Papeete. The Mariposa, at the time, was bound from San Francisco to Honolulu. A further contribution of 12s. Gd. to the Ilepple Fund has been received at this office from "i'.G.A." Regulations just gazetted state Hint the following charges for extra telephones shall be payable:—For extra telephones (in addition io cost of fitting), if connected by switch, £1 per annum; if connected by annunciator,- JS2 per annum.' For a connection with a privnto .annunciator which can' be..'Uj,edi!lpr int-ercommunica- .j Hon as well as" lor speaking through the exchange, an additional .£1 per annum beyond the rate lor an ordinary extension telephone.. Now regulations (just gazetted) referring to the transmission of telegrams by telephone state that a subscriber to a telephone exchange at a chief office, but whoso telegrams are addressed to a sub-office connected therewith, shall, if ho so desires, have such telegram transmitted by telephone from the sub-office 'through tho exchange on payment of the same fee as would lis chargeable for telephoning telegrams from tho chief office. A scale of iocs is also laid down. In order to arrive at the correct basis of value for duty of the bodies and accessories of motor-cars, slates an announcement in this week's Gazette, tho invoices for such ears shipped .to NewZealand after September 30, 1911, shall be expected to show, in addition to tho price to be paid for the complete cor, a statement showing the price ordinarily charged for home consumption in tho country whence exported of the chassis, lyres, body, foot-boards, mud-guards, lamps, and any other accessories when, sold separately, also the usual and ordinary trade discount on such articles when sold for home consumption in the quantities appearing in tho invoice. A declaration in accordance with the above will also bo required. Sharp shocks of earthquake arc reported by our Wairarapa correspondent. Tho "quakes" occurred shortly after 9.35 on Wednesday evening. Notice of the cancellation of registration' of the Dennistou Engine-drivers', Firemen's, and Brakesmen's Union of Workers and of the Puponga Coalmincrs' Union of Workers is published in this week's Gazette. Mr. Chas. P. Benjamin, who has been .for the last two years" manager of the jobbing department of tho "New Zealand Times," has relinquished his position, and intends (o go to Auckland on Saturday, where he contemplates starting in business for himself. Arriving from San Francisco, via. Island ports yesterday, R.M.S. Aorangi brought 6180 cases, of oranges and 147-i cases of bananas as well as 325 packages of American, dried fruits.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1185, 21 July 1911, Page 4
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