LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlse tiafbatir Hoard last night derided to donate the sum of £50 .to the Citizens' i'uucT for the acquisitioti of the Day's Bay bus!). Absentmindedtipss is one of the steadiest failings of man. There a;ro those itsiiig the city train-oars who forget to pay their fates, ;tml others ivho .pay twice over, Anoth«r typo of person is lie (or she) who leaves articles of all forts on tlio. eij'rs, and having missed thciju never dreams cf making inquiries at the left-goods office of the tramways i departnre'ftt. Proof of this, syas supplied yesterday when the City inspector (Mr. James Do vie) held ft sate by siuciion in the first floor corridor of tlio Town Hall yesterday afternoon. The. articles consisted mostly of more or less dilapidated umbrellas, hags, iioxiks, etc., a ; id, needless to say, they were disposed of at nominal prices. ' A loiter tvas .reqßii'ect- frarn the Priiflfe M iliistc.f (the H:q'u< W. I' 1 , at the lUect.iii.g of tho Harbour Honid last Jisgllt, inquiring syhethei tho board coiiid fli'jf'aiige for freo storpgo of exhibits to, ami from, tlio Panama Pacific Exposition, jian .Francisco; also w'htethef' wliiirfago 1 and handling charges Oil the exhibits could be remitted. Tito c'tairi«sn (Mr, R. Metcliffr) said' the board hart no.,power to lemit more tJutti half charges-. He; thought, they should provide free stoi'ago provided the Govoinincnt would int.iemnify-thein for breaking the regulations, l.t wai. decided to ■give free storage provided tho board uoftld do so.

Ti'e annual meeting of the Trades and Labour Council will he held this ev-en-iijß, when the pioMdeiit (..Mr, J.. M'Ken*i<;;! will present an annual report, covering the July Labour Congress and tho strike period. The election of officer's will also take place, . At a s-pecial meet nig of tho Orphan's Club ■ this Week a statenieiit was iriadc with respect to t'lie Town Hall eiceirie elcjck fvnnl. It was stated; that tho receipts to date had been £'i3O Ms. (id., and the expenditure £52 JGa. Id., leaving. a balance of ,C 1.86 18s. Pci. The project of raising further money had been abandoned oil account, of. tlio strike, and wiiatftvw (fas 'to bis dono in tho future would fee decided at the a.Yinial meeting of tho club (text month. A special meeting; of tlio old Waters He Workers' Union is to lie held this evening to consider the- rjuestion of' re-gi-iterin.;; tho union under tile Industrial CVficiliaticn and Arbitration Act, Thif meeting w ill he held in the Trades Hail. Tiro Harbour Board last night deeidto) to phice a.ii order with Messrs. Boy.ce, 1 Manchester' for two. overhead clectrie cranes for the Pipit-ea- Wharf, Store Xo. 1, at a cost of £700 each. '1 Ho tenders received by the .hoard ranged from £700 to £J.o(3(i • Cranes ha?o already boon received' from the same firm nt (lie cost of £700, and have ijccft found satisfactory. Two American eagles arrived by the t'iiniaron. frnm Sydney,' yesterday. They will lie placed in tlio Wellington Zooiowa) (inrdeiis. In a speech at Cobiirg last Friday night, tlio Premier , of Victoria, Mr. Watt, Said that tho Labour e.imis system t«-_ila.y sought- to ma Ice the Cabinet responsible to tho caucus only. In Row .South Wales they saw tlio first signs of rebellion, where that hick-spirited fflai), Mr. •Ho'inan, had, found it necessary to challenge the power of the caucus over t.l'iq -Cabinet. He. 01r. Watt) know Mr< IMinsai well, and .admired li.vs. magfii.fesnt gifts-. He was sorry that, Sir, Holnian did not belong to. tho Liberals, tat ho Was q-uite mro if the caucus crmtiinied its tactics'that before hall a decade was over Mr, Hotmail wottki be one of the leaders of the Liberal, party' iit Australia. .(Applause,;! In a letter to the Premier (Mr. Hclmaii); tho Now South .Wale? rcspresejttiu tivo iit San- I'raucisco (Mr. P. h. Quinii) Said that tlio time seemed opportttno to warn Australians against coming to 'Friseo in s-Care-h of works "A m-ni-i-ber of Australinns," lie cniitiiHted, ''drift ■jiiio this office every day, e.oninlai'ni.u" of itiability to obtiiiu oHiployaiieii't, niiu dcsii'hifc to abtora tncaus to i'cpatrtete ilKMiiscivcs. Some have- como here- re-oe-nth'., with a view of obtaining work (ill t'tic- Ksjisisitioii-. is 1 310 sflell work available. In ordinary cases freferr.nfi! is given to eitteefts in the inath'r of ewtpJoymentj and aliens nro e\elrnlsd." At a '-"cll-attciided mcetiii;' of Vo-jel-. town and Jloriiingtoii. rcsi«tents, held last nreniaig at the Masonic Hall, Brooklyn, it was dccidcd to liuther the ill-, tcrests of the district by fAmmtpc at) association to bo Issvosvn as the Voßeltowii and Moi'Hiiigtoti Mivmcipal i!i|.cctors'■'Association. ' Mi C W lannei .r.cupicd the clmir. The following of* ficor-s wero »;iecte<l :—Pi esident "\li t I). Hewitt; vicir-presidoni's, Messrs..] Mmvley. Be'.hcil, and Fisher; eommittee, Messrs, TannCr, Green, Stubbs. i J. Staples, A- StajJes, Forces, M'lntyve. Mowbray, G. Ch.rrn'ian, Firtlt, Grefsicr. j Puiky, OTfiflS, Collins, and Mrs. Ryan; lion.i -secretary,, Mr. i r it?'s-raras(siis s (

A number of letters to the Editor are 1 ift type, and will W published ill to, morrow's issno. J A yotiilg woman,/employed. as a house-I ftiaid at the Otaki Hospital, was, saya! our special correspondent, i'oiind gagged and bound oti 'fuesday, and when ques* ironed on the matter said elm remembered nothing of the occurrence. A sm--fcieisn was taken fwirt Iter room, but other money was left untouched. Tho police are now investigating the hint' tor, but so far there is no clue to the mysterious affair. A pailienlatly delicate operation, which gives every jiroiiiisa <>t .being successful, i'sns. recently bemi performed by Dr. Douglas at tho Wa.kato llc<vjntal (says ail exchange). Bonn.! months ago a young man, named Cecil .Rule, was admitte-l from TaumarUntu, ift a very bad state. lie was taken til wkilo working in t-lio bush in 'the baik-blocks, having to bis carried out- of llift bush on a sfcretcliftr by his mates for twelve miles. Ho was taken to tho Tattnianw nui Hospital, and from tliero Was transferred ttt the Waikato institution., An (jp&fatloli was essential as tho patient's hip was diseased., aii-d it was {wind niy cossary to have tho hip joint, removed, This was done after an operation, which, lasted some f-Itre*? 'tours,and aii artificial hip j.oini inserted. Tho patient, has mado a wonderful recovery, after his trying time, ami it is fully expected that lie will in a couple of months' timo again have iho full use of liis limb.