LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1908, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the call on 'Change to-day bushiest was sluggish. Sales of National Insurance were effected at £1 Bs, Buyers of Union Stsam advanced their offers bo £1 14s, but did not induce noldexs to deelars. Tho demand for Union Steam shares has drawn attention to tho company's four per cent, debentures which were quoted at from 96 to 98 in London in January — a cheap price for such a cccurity. Mining quotations were unchanged, Talisman buyers £2 13s, fellers £2 14s, whilst Waihi at £9 2s, sellers, being now ex dividend, are on a parity with Saturday's rato of £9 5s 6d. - The new milk regulations cams into force to-day, and dairymen are expecting to have frequent visitations from inspectors to see that the law is being carried out. Among some of the thing! that it is now illegal to do is to use milk carts for conveyance of manure, to leave full milk cans on the footpaths or ex-, posed to the sun, to use. .preservatives in' milk, to mix or manipulate milk in any other than a properly constructed build* ing, and to send milk on transit in other than vessels of approved pattern and which must be locked or sealed during transit. Complaint was made by dairymen, ■ when the new regulations were gazetted, Hhat many of them were vague,' sonxz were unworkable, but others, if inconvenient to observe, were otherwise unexceptionable. Auckland's gold export for February • wag vjtjUed.fct f!BMl6;.S£y.-s ! a J^eb As-, Eo'ciatibn" telegram. - During the month just completed th&' Customs revenue for Wellington amounted to £876,861 15s Id, and the beep ' duty ±o £1285 *.s 3d. The totals fo? February of last yea.r were £82,696 12s, j and £1117 9s 6d lespectivcly. Under the auspices .of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club an afternoon's outing was held on Saturday afternoon. Uader shortened sail 14 of the craft proceeded to Scorching Bay, where a landing was effected. After two hours ashore sail was set for the homeward journey. The Miramar polo grounds, which for a number of years have been used ia the winter for Association football, are this season to be used for Rugby. According to the Association authorities the Rugby Union leased the grounds from the owner .before the football association knew that negotiations were being carried on. It was' hoped that the opening of the Municipal Tepid Baths in Christchurch could have been carried out during the present season. This, how* ever, has been rendered impossible owing to the scarcity of labourers. It is now considered that the baths will not be finished until May. The building is completed so far as the structure la concerned, and, according to the Press, seems to be admirably fitted for the purpose for which it is designed. The Waikanaß school is much overcrowded at presont. It was built origin.Jtilly to accommodate 60 children, but there are now 77 pupils on the roll. Wherr^Mr. Hall-Jones was visiting the district on Friday, tho youngsters, who were enjoying their annual picnic, were marched to the school arid ordered to their seats, ia order that the Minister i might have an ocular demonstration of the trying conditions under which tha school is carried on. Mr. Uall-Jone* promised to have the matter looked into. Visitors to the Art Gallery on Sunday afternoons will now find it open ovcry Sunday all the year round. Hitherto th# funds at the disposal of the controlling body, t,he Academy of Arts, have been insufficient to permit payment ol an at. tendant for more than one Sunday in the month. Mr. Walter Leslie, at the recent annual meeting of the academy, volunteered to act as custodian if two other members of the academy would also givei up a Sunday afternoon to the gallery, Tho other volunteers have come, forward, and the public will, for some Uaio a£ any rate, bo spared the mortification of find? ing tha doors of the gallery closed' on Sunday afternoons. The Council of the New Zealand Swimming Association and tho Cantorbury Centre have come t« loggerheads over the liability for the deficit on the Australasian Championship Meeting, held in Christchurch last February. The matter was referred to at the meeting of the centre on Friday evening (says the Press). It was stated that the centre undertook the management of the meeting after having received verbal assurances from various individual members of the council that any deficit would be made good by tho council. The meeting resulted in a loss of £53, but the council declined to recognise any liability. The centre, on making an application for tho money, was requested to rirrularise clubs for contributions, and this was done. The result, however, was entirely unsatisfactory , the clubs being sympathetio but unfinanced. The council i 6 now, it was stated, approaching the centres through their delegates to' the council. Strong exception was taken by Mr. WalWr Johnston to some remarks made at a council meeting accusing th© centre of dilatoriness in tackling th» position. Mr. Johnston said that th« contro had shown more energy than, the council. A special line of 720 silk moirett* underskirts in plain colours and checks, , all at 12s lid each. -^Kirkcal die <yv».i Stains, Ltd.— Adst,

Another conference will ha held between the dairy factory workers and the employers with a view to arriving at a satisfactory settlement. The conference, in all likelihood, will bo held at Palmerston North. Tho Conciliation Board this morning fixed sittings as follows for the hearing of 'the General Labourers' dispute: — Wanganui, 23rd March ; Palmerston, North, 25th; Napier, 27th; Masterton, 30th ; Wellington, 13th April. Awaiting a satisfactory bond being entered into by some responsiblo person, a young man, alleged to be suffering from tubercular disease, has not been permitted to land from the steamer Arawa, which arrived last Tuesday morning frum London. A public meeting is to be held on 16th MaTcn to deal with the subject of infant pieservation. Lady Plnnket will preside. • Ntirse- M'Donald, who has been appointed to attend to the instruction of mothers in the uaing of humanised milk for their infants, will give a demonstration. The Government Poultry Expert, Mr. D. D. Hyde, has a busy time in the Auckland district. He delivered several lectures, aqd inspected the Government poultry farm at Ruakura. At the present time the export of poultry is not large, but the local consumption exceeds all previous records. This, Mr. 'Hydo says, is to be accounted for by the fact that the quality of the poultry no\>* offered for safe has greatly advanc-ed,-and the result is in no small measure due to the efforts of the Government to prove that poultry-raising can be mado a profitable industry. One of Dunedin's popular clergymen iiaa the happy knack of mingling a good deal of humour with his^ rhetoric (says the local morning paper). Speaking on the merits of cheeriness at the City Mission he bethought him of a very dear friend of his father and of himself. This gentleman was a great believer in cheerfulness, and when he lay sick nearly unto death, he caught sight of a sombre-looking gentleman in black coming up the path. Calling his wife, h9 said : "Here, let me sit up, dear, and look as bright 'as possible; here conies tha undertaker." Finalitj was reached to-day in the partially heard cases in which Mrs. Mary Jane Barrie and John Smith wero charged in the Magistrate's Court, recently, with having assaulted John Miles, at the Paragon boardinghouse, Mappers-street.Mr. Riddell, S.M., after hearing several witnesses, dismissed tho information against Smith and fined Mrs. Barrie 20s with £1 7s costs on the ground that an assault was committed on Miles under her authority and by her direction. Sub-Inspector O'Donovan prosecuted, and Mr.^ Wilford defended. A prohibition order was issued against Andrew Collins, junior. The Inspector of Factories, Mr. Aldrfdge, prosecuted in the Magistrate's Court to-day Geo. Anyon, licensee of the Paekakariki Hotel, on a charge of having failed to give his employees a half holiday. The defendant pleaded guilty and explained that there was an agreement between himself and the employees whereby they should receive a day's holiday at different times instead of half a day each week Mr Alrlridge said the position remained tint the Act had not been complied with. Mr. Riddell, S.M., told the defendant that the court hail nothing to do with whether the half holiday was convenient to himself or his employees, and imposed a fine of 7a, "nth 7s costs. Apropos of church-gqjng, men often etate tmil tHe^'stay "-forty 'bibaiisti" in* "parson" has everything his own way »nd can argue with them for twenty minutes or so without giving them a chance to reply in or_ out of church. Such' would doubtless'" have been surprised had they been present at the annual meeting of the Dunedin City Mission last week (says the Otago Daily Times), when the Rev. W. Hewitson said it would be a decided advantage from* the preacher's ' standpoint if the chqpches reverted to the ancient method of the synagogues, wherein tho people }rere at liberty to question the priests tn subjects not made clear. .Miss J. G. Rodger, who is severing her connection With the General Post Office, on the eve of her marriage, receoved pn Saturday from the secretary's staff a handsome presentation, - consisting of a silver teapot, fishknjves and forks, and a pair of serviette ring 3. Mr. D. Robertson, secretary of the department, in making the presentation, said Miss Rodger had rendered excellent service, first in the telephone exchange, and for the last two i years as a shorthand writer and typist m his own office. He wished her every success in her new sphere of life. Mr. F. V. Waters, chief clerk, also spoke in similar terms of the recipient's good qualities as an officer. A suitable response was made on Misf, Rodger's bohalf by Mr. J. C. Redmond, principal clerk of thu correspondence division. A proposal has been mr.de that the Hospital Trustees, when considering the appointment of honorary specialists^ should not entrust to nny one surgeon the' special treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, but should appoint an honorary ophthalmist, as well as aspecialist jn the treatment of the other organs referred to. The eye department in hospitals in the United Kingdom and on the Continent, also in some parts of New Zealand, it is contended, do saparate these specialties. Several local medical men were interviewed on this subject by a representative of the Evening Post, hut they did not think it would be at, all desirable to make a change at the pieeont time. Hon. C. M. Luke, ch.iirniiiTi of the Hospital Trusttes, when te.n in reference to the matter, said the trustees had given the fullest consideration to tht, proposal, and they had also consulted tin. British Medical Association in Wellington, and to this body the honorary spscjalists and almost all the members of the medical profession belonged. It was ascertained that the opinion of the members of the association was that the timr> was not yet npC for any separation of the blanches named. The ophthalmic work. Mr. Luke, was informed, was iiot sufficient to warrant the appointment of another specialist for that work alone, although, as the cases of eye trouble became more numerous, attention might have to be given to this matter in tho future. However, the trustees would have the question before them next month, when it would be open for any duly-qualified medical practitioner to apply for tho position of honorary specialist in any department. The Autocar in its report of the Olympia Show says: — "For its power, price, and general automobile design and execution, the 14-16 Argyll 13 not surpassed by any car of its class in the Exhibition." Catalogues and particulars from Scott Motor and Cycle Co., Ltd., Wellington. Advt. A fact of the greatest importance to those ladies of Wellington and district who are not alreally awaro of it is that C. Smith, Ltd., are now holding thoir special show of now season's millinery. We can consistently state that our display of millinery modes is tho j most comprehensive and most beautifud that has over been assembled in tho city. Tho leading London and French manufacturers of millinery have been drawn upon to make this display complete and ' beautiful materials, plumes, wings, and flowers have been brought together, that have receiyed tho praise of every }e.dy who has visited this department. Visit our upstair showroom at C. Smith's, Ltd., Cuba-street.— Advfc