LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1300, 1 December 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting of the committee of the AVellington Kifle Association, held last evening, .Air. It. Marshall was elected chairman of the executive. The arrangements for the association's prize meeting at Trentliam on January 1 and 2 next were fully discussed, and a programme of events, drafted on a generous scale, was adopted. Altogether ,1)70 in prizemoney, with a number of valuable trophies, will be offered for competition. In cacli of the six district championship matches the first prize will be <£4, and tho second £3, with the lesser awards in proportion. For tho championship aggregate the first prize will be .£lO and the second X.i. Tyro shots will be liberally provided for, and in addition to the tyro prizes in each event, there will also be a tyros' aggregate. The officer commanding the district (Colonel Chaytor) has intimated that he will recommend tho issue of railway passes to competitors attending the meeting-. Owing to Sir. Theodore Taylor, St!'., being detained in the north the luncheon which tho New Zealand Club intended giving in liis honour to-day has been postponed until further notice Detectives Andrews and 1/wis arrested a man named Kd. J. Healo yesterday on a charge of having obtained, the sum of .(ilO by means of I also pretences from V. AV. Kite at Chrislchurch on November 22. In the manifest of the Alhenie, outward to London, (here was listed a shipment cf ,'tl) sacks of cusein. This is the initial shipment from New Zealand of a slum milk by-product, which a New Zealand company has commenced this summer to manufacture in AVanganui. Casein.is used largely in the manufacture of celluloid. The linal destination is probably Germany. The second ballot for the election of the assistant-secretary of the Wellington AVharf Labourers' Union resulted as follows:—George iinico ISI, Lewis Glover Ml, informal 7. The voting for the elec"tion of a trustee resulted :~r'ral Martin 31i9, Harry Ham Ms, informal '69. The members of the Cnurtenay l'laco Congregational Church entertained the members of the choir at a Micial last evening in recognition of the valuable services rendered during tho year, and to congratulate tlwm on the meritorious position attwued in Hie recent choir eonlost, in connection with tho New Zealand Competition .Society's festival (m winch thev gained third place). During the evening the choirmaster, Sir. A. Jl. Lewi.,, wit* presented with a silver-mounted baton, and Messrs. T. .l'flisyth and J. Thaw-lev,- honorary organists with silvermouiiteil ebony walking sticks from the members of the church. During tho evening a musical programme was prescnte-d and refreshments were daintily served. , At 5:10 o'clock last evening tho Fire Brigade received a call to No. M AYalter Street, an unoccupied four-roomed dwelling. The kitchen was badly damaged nnd the rest of tho building was also, damaged by. heat and smoke. A'; siuKiilar accident occurred at a farm in the Slangaweka district the other day. A settler, accompanied by a little girl, was inspecting a pen of sheep, when a vivid hash of "fork" lightning struck them both. The liltle girl received injuries to her side, hut nothing very serious. The settler was more unfortunate, having his side and chest severely burned, besides other hurts. Five sheep out of tits pen of nine which he was inspecting were killed by the Hash. At a specially convened meeting of the New Zealand Competitions Hoeiely held on AVedncsday evening it was decided, after considerable discussion that the judges for cneh section of the conipatilious he ,-hanEed annually. It was made abundantly clear that the decision arrived at meant no disparagement to tho-e gentlemen who had acted as judges at the Inst festival in AVellington, but was more in the naturo of a concession to those competitors who may imagine that they coulil not succeed under judges under' whom they had not previously been successful. . It was further stated that it was tho practice, if not the rule, in most places where competitions are held lo change the'judges. The new rule will n.ot, prevent judges who have acted once from being appointed after the lapso of one festival. It was also decided that tho judges should select two or more items for each competition, and that these should bo submitted to the Programme Committee for final selection and approval,