LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 6 August 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which loft Wellington on Jnn 28 {X'r s.s. Moanu, ami which couneciei at Sydney with the lirindisi mails per s.< Murora, arrived in London on August 3. A new member of Parliament, accordin to the Hon. P. M. M. Pislier (speaking t tho Town Hall last night), usually spend his first session 'saying the things lie doc not think, and his second session in thin! ijigr the things ho does not say, while i his third session he begins to say tlios things that lie thinks most of his constil übnts think lie ought to Say. A Constable Street car, No. 15, bourn for the Lanibtari' Station, "jumped"'ill rails just ns.i.t was turning from Lowe Cuba Street into Jevvois Quay. A numbs of hammer-heads had been dropped o tho road, and one of thorn had got i the rails, resulting in tho car getting ol Uie track. Although the front bogey ha gone right off the track, no difficulty wa experienced in getting the car back on t the track. The question of public holidays is to L discussed .shortly at a general meeting c the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. At the monthly meeting of the We lington Branch of the Amalgamate Socioty of Railway Servants, it was unan niously resolved that this branch strong! disapproves of the importation of an e: l>ert as general manager of the Neyr' Ze! land Railways, such act being not i accordance with the Departmental stati ment that a smart man can rise froi the ranks to the highest position, and i not in accord with tho Classification Ac o£ tho New Zealand Railways. An increase of tram fares and the shorl ening of sections bid fair to rob tli trams of the patronage of tl\o member of the Plumbers' Union. At a nieetin of the union last evening tho followin resolution was carried:—"That ill tli event of the tram fares being increase anil the sections shortened, the member of this union pledgo themselves to boy cott the cars running over the lines wher this is clone." ' ■ • The local Chamber of Commerce ha been advised by the Hon. C. J. Johnston Consul for the Netherlands, that ho liai received advice from the Copsul-Genera for the Netherlands in Melbourne to tli effect that the export of rice has bee prohibited from the Netherlands Indie: The prohibition does not apply to runniii contracts. At yesterday's meeting of the Chambe of Commerce, Mr. T. C. Dawsoii asked tli chamber to bring under the notice of tli Minister for Railways the matter of tli wretched lighting of the railway carriage used in the suburban traffic out of Wei lington. It was so bad'at times, said Mi Dawson, that que could not see the ofhe end of the carriage, let alone read, o the trains travelling to the Upper Hutt Tho chairman said that the lighting wa just as bad on the Manawatu line. 1 was decided to bring tho matter undo the notice of tho General Manager fo Railways. Architects will learn with" no little in tcrest that the New Zealand Institute o Architects has been affiliated to uie Rnya Institute of British Architects. Tlii: neves has been conveycd to tho local bod; by Mr. F. do J. Clere, lion, secretary ii New Zealand for (lie British Institute This action will place the Now Zealanc Institute on the same footing as the Royn Victorian Institute, the Institute of Nov South Wales, and other leading architects societies throughout the Empire. The forty-njuth half-yearly meeting o tho Wellington Typographical TJnioi was. held at the Oddfellows' Hall en Sat urday evening, when there was a largi attendance of members. The presidenl (Mr. G. C. Barker) occupied the chair I'inancial assistance was voted to. the Wei lington Retail Soft Goods Employees Union, in order to assist that union ir conducting a dispute for improved coudi tions for its inembors, and expressions ol encouragement are to be forwarded tc them, with the hope that their efforts wii result in a satisfactory set of condition! being embodied in an award to cover thai calling. Iu regard to Professor T. W Mills's appeal in reference to the United labour Party and its paper, it was decided not to take any action in favour oi anv newspapers us against any others, as members of tho union were employed in newspaper offices of all political shades of opinion anil action. The report, and balance-sheet were considered, and finallj adopted, as submitted by the> Board ol Management. The council of the Wellington Clmnibe! of Commcrre yesterday had before it ; letter from the Chamber o Commerce asking the Wellington Cham ber's support in the construction of t railway between Napier and the Wnira raua, bv way of the East Coast. Con was deferred until further in formation was available. Detective-Sergeant Cas-:«Us has laid information against several persons on charges coiiiieeled with tho issue of belling charts. The names are: A. Law, AV. Cowan, D. Ross, ,1. Stelliu, and Scotl and llartindale. Will the Massey Government be able k pull logelher as comfortably ami graccfullv, sav, ns Warner's Rust-proof Corsets do:*' We hope SO) Wellington ladies,» idv.t*

.1 M'lveegan, who failed to answer when liis n-.inie was called for the common jury at the Supreme Court yesterday morning, was proved to have been served with tlii; usual summons. The Chief Justice (Sir liobert Stout) imposed a fine of Ills., and remarked that in future eases a heavier tinu might Le imposed if the missing jurors were sho.vn to he men of means. Phillip Greenfield was also fined Ills, for failing to answer. Subsequently, Mr. M'lu'egan appeared and explained that he imil confused the dates. His HOll- - remitted the fine. At: the big licform meeting in the Town Hull last night, the Hon. 1:'. M. 11. Fisher said that ho had noticed a question oil tho Order I'aper of the House of Representatives asking the Government whether they would grant full political rights lo Civil Servants, 'l'ho question, said llr. Fisher, was for the leader of the party to answer, but lie would say this in tho meantime, that as n result of the division which took place a little while ago, a huge sigh of relief had gone up all over tho country. (Hear, hoar, and apimlusc.) To-day the tout was in terror and the spy was unhappy. "So, too," said Jlr. l-'isher, "is the person of that particular class you will remember my addressing last time 1 was in this hall. Ho was up there where tho letter 'C' is. (Laughter.) I notice, ladies apd gentlemen," continued Mr. Fisher, "that he is not there to-night. All that sort of tiling is past. Civil Servants to-day lcnop- that the Government is not going to encourage the 'crawler.' The clay has come when length of service and merit arc going to be a fair test." (Loud applause.) Mr. Justice Iliggins had before him in Melbourne on Monday week an application by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., and other' theatrical managers in Australia, for the cancellation of registration of the Australian Actors' Union. Jlr. W. J.. Schutt and Mr. li. Gregory, instructed by Messrs. Minter, Simpson, and Co., of Sydney, appeared for the applicants, and Mr. J. M'Arthur, instructed by Mr. J. Woolf, for the respondents. The registration of the union is objected to on several grounds; among others, that it is not a voluntary and bona fide union, that it was improperly registered, that the prescribed conditions of registration had not been complied with, and that it had not 100 members employed ill or in connection with the theatrical industry. Mr. M'Arthur asked for an adjournment, as the union had not receivcu sufficient intimation of the case coming on to forward the necessary affidavits. Mr-. Justice Higgins adjourned tho application till Wednesday. The labourers employed on the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric works are stated to he making strong protest against certain conditions alleged to. be imposed oil thenl by a contractor at the yorks. It is stated that the contractor in question also runs a boardinghousej and the men arc forced to live there or lose their jobs They complain of this and of the tare provided. The matter is being brought tinder the notice of the Minister for Pub lip Works. Councillor Hindniarsli lias given notice that he will move, at the meeting of the City Council to be held on August 22: "That the mothu passed by the council on tho Ist instant adopting the Council-in-Committec's ' report oil the Tramway Committee's report, bo rescinded." It is understood that Mr. Hindniarsli objects to the sections as arranged by the board on the Newtown line, and advocates that the first section should terminate at the Rasin Reserve and the second ht the Koyal Oak Hotel corner. Mr. Alexander Jameson, M.A., the new ly-appointed national secretary of th< Young Men's Christian , Association, ol Xew Zealand, will meet the members ol the Wellington Association and others interested in the Movement at the Associa. tion Building, Willis Street, this eveninf at 8 o'clock. As this is the only oppor tunity for some months that tjio people o: Wellington will have of meeting Mr Jnmeson, a large gathering is hoped foi and expected.