LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2552, 28 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Postal authorities advise tlia? the 5.3. Itiverina, which sailed from; Sydney for Auckland on August 25, ia ,; bringing Australiau mails only, the Wellington portion of which is due per Main Trunk express en Monday. afternoon. The > Hon. 'A l . M. My4rs advises , : that forms of applications for War Pensions will, bo available at the Registrar's 01800 this morning. ' ' : - It is cxpected. that, thei troopship! ■ Tahiti, which is bringing back a largo ; number; of -wounded 6oldiers from Egvpfc will arrive here on or about Septem- ' ber 10. ..- - "Did you not tell the constable that your name Vi'as Clement Talbot Landau-/ lette?" severely interrogated counsel in -the Magistrate's Court yesterday, of . a taxi-driver. "No!" indignantly replied the chauffeur; "that's" the name '-. of the car." The constable read it instead of my name, printed in smaller, letters underneath." Dr. A. K. Newman ( (Wellington East)' . gave notice in the House of Representatives yesterday-to ask the'. Minister of Defence why medical posts in connection with the troops and returned troopers are, given to civilians whilst medical military officers who have served for years in the Defenco Forces, and are specially trained, are'not offeredthese positions? t A A Gazette Extraordinary, published. last night, notifies an amendmentthe. Order-in-Council prohibiting"'tlie ex- ' \ port of certain goods c-xnept to coun-' J tries of the AlHes. The amendment- is • the addition of. Italy to'' the list 'of countries'to which' export is-permitted, Italy having joined tho Entente Powers. A question relating to the employ-' ; ment of- wounded Officers and non-com- ,- missioned officers, 1 incapacitated, for field j service, in the instruction of our Expeditionary Force and Territorials,; was . asked-in the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr.: Gy Witty. Ho suggested that there;might'be many. Such • men availablo in England ready and anxious to do the work, and that tho. 'employment of them hero would allow a number of, our own instructors, who were anxious'to go; oh active 'service, to get away." The ; Defence was not present, hut the Prime Minister said tho question would' be referred to • tho officers iii command here for their opinion upon it. -, • Tho Wellington Technical College Ca* dets have decided to erect .a tablet to the- memory of their late officers, Lieutenants L. W..-Ai .; Hugo and H.- E. Voyce, who have been killed in action at 'the Dardanelles. For this purpose a' subscription : hfit , has been opened. Friends of the,late officers desirous-.of subscribing are'requested to communicate with Mr. J. A. Duffy, Box 27, Tel Aro. -. , ■ Messrs. Johnston and Co., Ltd., agtots for tho Peninsular and ..Oriental' Steam Navigation Company, havo received advice that the sleeping-car; special Marseilles train, which connects with the P. and 0. steamers, and which had,been temporarily suspended, has now' been re-established, : and will commence running to connect with the s.s.-' Medina, ieaving.London.on September and with the s.s. Persia, which loft, Sydney on August 7, and due at Marseilles' on September 12. \ : ■' Failure to pay his car fare when ask'-* ed by a tram conductor cost C. H. Hamilton 55., with costs £1 lis., in thci Magistrate's Conrt. yesterday.. ' Explain how fish should be prepared for table and serped with . parsley sauce? was the effect of-a question read from a junior scholarship paper at the meeting of tho Wellington Educational Institute last evening by a member, who spoke of the futility of examinations in which such cases were set for, boys. .; . - • ' . v- . ' According to the remarks of the police at the Magistrate's Court yesterday another'epidomio; has been in evidence at • Trentham' during the v past few weeks,A military officer diagnosed the disease as a Common one—dishonesty. One of the latest victims, Leslie Sykes, appeared in Court yesterday. The. germ' of the disease was a pair of military, „' boots,- and Sykes was fined £2, with costs 65., for stealing these, , default being•> fixed- at one, month's , imprison< ment-. • The sum of £329. was raised for-the Womided Soldiers' Fund by. tho sale of a- fing at tho Wnipawa County social, hold at Tikokino. • From Monday next the Hastings bakers - will reduce the price* of bread coupons to 4s. a dozen. c ■ Twenty-seven menibers'of the Napier branch of tile St. Paul's''Presbyterian Youiig Mon's Bible Class have.already. gone to the front. The fast ooming summer season turns one's mind to the pleasant thrills and iovs of motoring, and to the ear of the season-the Cliorrolet.. The sturdy and sweet-running Chevrolet cars are attracting the admiration of tlio Motorists who know. Tho Dominion Motor Vehicles, Ltd,, 65 Courtenay Place, aro willing to demon, strate-to you, so why not make on ap« ' pointmont at once?—Advt.