LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1233, 15 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion Day is to bo celebrated on Monday, September 25. It will lx> marked by a parade of school cadets on Newtown Park, when the lads will be reviewed by his Excellency the Governor, in the presence of the Prime Minister, members of the Ministry, and the House of Kepresentatives. There will also be a patriotic concert in the Town Hall. Particulars will be announced later. "I can never mako head or tail of them; they take an expert," said Dr. M'Arthnr yesterday, referring to apcounts. He went on to say that during iho- week he had had to solve a debt dis-' pule. "I- took the two amounts and divided by two, and subtracted from something else," he said: that was his process of solution.

Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, M.P. t will deliver a political address in tho New Century Hall, Kent Terrace, on Monday evening. Mr. A. L. Herdman,,M.P., sitting member and Reform candidate for Wellington North, will meet the electors of Wadestown and district at the Wadestown club rooms on Monday evening.

An automatic tramway points adjuster is being installed by the city tramway department at the junction of Manners Street and Willis Street. This will enable Brooklyn and Aro Street cars to run straight past the present stopping-place by the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel and stop opposite the Albert Hotel. With the increase in traffic, consequent dh the Brooklyn cars making the Post Office their terminus, it may be necessary for the tramways management to adopt this procedure anil alter the stopping-places accordingly.

At about G a.m. yesterday the Fire Brigade were called to 348 Tinakori Road, a grocery shop, occupied by Messrs. Ryan and M'Namara, and owned by Mrs. Hall. The kitchen, and n bedroom were damaged, and some of the roofing was damaged. The contents of the building suffered somewhat from smoke.

The importation of coal into New Zealand last year was the highest yet recorded with the exception of 1908, which was greatly in excess of the importation of any year since records luavobeen kept by tlie 'Mines Department. The importations in recent years were as follow:— 1905, lf)0,016 tons; 1906, 207,567 tons; 1907, 220,7-19 tons; 1908,287,808 tons; 1909, 255.185 tons. According to a return compiled by tho secretary of "Customs, the importation in tho year ending March 31, 1910, was 191,011 tons, and the quantity imported during the last financial year was 271,171 tons.

Largo quantities of fmit arrived in Wellington ye.-tc.rday by the Aorangi from tho Islands. In all, (he vessel brought 2015 cases of bananas, 167 of oranges, and 12011 cases of Calit'ornian fresh apples. Iler canned fruit shipment comprised :5720 cases. All the fruit was landed in good condition. The Navua. which also arrived yesterday from Fiji, via Auckland, brought 710 tons of bananas into port. Of this amount close on 400 tons is for Wellington, while the remainder is for southern port*