LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 49, 21 November 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Minister of Dcfoncc has leceivod advice that the Thirtieth Reinforcements havo reached another port of call, "All well." Tho Lyttelton-Christchurch train eervico troublo is expected to bo satisfactorily Bottled- to-morrow, through tho efforts of Mr. J. A. Frostiek, Efficiency j Commissioner, states a Press Association I telegrnm. : A wharf labourer, named John Lane, j aged 64, diod rather suddenly at hie resiI donco in Howe's Lano yesterday afternoon. He had returned from work complaining that he felt ill, and his wife made an attempt to call in a doctor. Before medical assistance could Vjb procured, however, Lane expired. An inquest will probably be Tield. At 10.30 o'clock last night Willis Street presented an unusual eight, thero being no fewer than fourteen tramcars hold up between Stewart Dawson'e corner and the Albert Hotel. The block in the traffio was caused by a fault in tho overhead wire in front of tho Burlington Cafe. The march over the Rimutaka Hill, whloh was to have been oarried out by tho Thirty-third Reinforcements to-mor-row, has been postponed until Tuesday and Wednesday next. The bulk of the Thirty-thirds returnod from final leavo yesterday. A draft of about one hundred CI men' from the southern military districts were oarried to Featherston by the 8.20 a.m. train from Wellington yesterday. By tho eame train travelled a number of soldiers of tho Thirty-third Reinforcements, who were returning from final leave. The train wns a very heavy one. The exportation of paints and colours from the Dominion, save with the consent of the Minister of Customs, is prohibited. Business in lambs' pelts if now controlled by tho Imperial Supplies Department, under Ordor-in-Counoil, dated November 19. Sales cannot be made except to the Crown, or for delivery in the United Kingdom. An important War Regulation has just been gazetted by which the Government takes power to intern not only aliens who are disaffected, but aleo strangers, and for the. purposes of the Regulation, "stranger" is denned as "any person who is not permanently resident in Now Zealand at the date of this Order-in-Counoil." The opening- performance of Mr. Cyril Maude's season at the Grand Opera House on Tuesday next will bo given in tho presouoe of His Excellency the Earl of Liverpool and party from Government House. In tho interval, between the second and third acts of "Grumpy," His Excellency with unveil a handsome bronze tablet, the Roll of Honour of over 200 of tho J. C. Williamson employees in Australia and New Zealand, -who have answered tho call. A private letter received in Wellington states that 1\ A. Midlane, formerly of Wellington, who is playing for tho North. Shore (Auckland) Crioket Club this season, made the fine score of 212 not out on n recent Saturday, Owing to tho death of tho president of tho N.Z. Institute of Architects, the annual meeting of the institute, which had been eet down to be held in Christchurch, will now be hold in Wellington on November 29 nnd SO.' ~A man was arrested in Timaru last week in unusual circumstances. A rolicoman was summoned by a woman to go to her houso, where thp man in question was lying on his back in tho cellar, ondeavouring to mako an entry into tho room abovo. Ho was taken to the lock-up, and tho result was that he was brought beforo tho Police Court, charged with boing a rogue and a vagabond within the meaning of tho Police Offences Act. Ho pleaded "Not guilty," nnd elected to be dealt with summarily. Senior Sergeant Egan outlined tho case, and ovidence was given by the woman, who said that eho know the accused, and had requested him to keen away from tho place, but ho had not done so. She lived in the houso alone, but for the company of her ohildren. _ Holee had ' been bored in the floor- and in the wall. The Bench sevorely reprimanded the accused, and on account of his advanced age decided to let him off with a warning and a conviction.

A> new firo ladder, said to be one of tho largest ever constructed in the world, has been Added to the Melbourne Firo Brigade Board's fire-fighting plant (says the "Age"). K was built in the board's workshops, nndor the supervision of officers of the brigade. The material used in its'construction, with the exception of parts of the motor chassis, which were imported, is Australian, and was chiefly manufactured fit tho workshops. Fully extonded, the ladden reaches to a height of 89 feet; it weighs 5 tone 18cwt., and being selfsupporting at least six men can work aloft on it in safety.

Some returned soldiers who have taken up sections in the Awnkino district, «e----cordiii" to a statement made to the •Prime' Minister in Auckland, are oxperiencin" a full share of tlie hardships of backblock settlers. "What are these men doing now?" asked Mr. Mnssey. The reply was that they are nnlkmg cows and carting cream to tho nearest factory -a distance of 18 miles. Tho oosfc of cartage, it was stated, amounted to nearly as miich as the value of the cream. The Minister of Defence, Sir .Tames Allen, is reported to have, elated at Kotorua that it is intended to issue bine hospital uniforms to New Zealand soldiers under treatment for wounds or sickness.

At the last meeting of the Eastbourne Borough Council tho Ferry Board reported that the revenue from terry trnific continued to ehow a steady increase. For the month of October The '"ecespte amounted to .£970, as against MiO for tho corresponding month of last joar, whilst the expenditure also wiw .£« more. Tho council adopted the following recommendations of tho board:—(l) That the present system of issuing tickets on the steamers be discontinued as far as possible; (2) that no single tickets be issued; (3) that Totiirn tickets 1* issued only from Wellington; (1) that Ml tickets lie checked at Wellington) (f>) that all existing ordinary and concession tickets unused on December 1, 1917, bo. cancelled; (6) that nil cancelled tickets bo exchansed upon presentation at tho ferry office during office hours up to December l>l 1917; (7) -Hint concession tickets be issued in hooks of twelve return tickets, instead of twenty-four singlo tickets .ae hitherto; (8) that tho prico of dog tiokote bo increased to Is. return; (9) that the nbove recommendations come into force on December 1, 1917.

A very smigly-furnislied nml comfortable Indies , Ims been provided in Hie Cluirdi of Eiißlnml Institute at Trentham, and is miieh appreciated by the relatives of soldiers who, when visiting tho (soldiers, have to wait until Hie men ore dismissed from duty. Tho need for such a quiet wst-placo has been accontuated by the withdrawal of certain trains from the Upper Hult time-lable, them beinj? as much na four hours' interval betwonn trains at. times.