LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Important football, hockey, and golf fixtures are set down for decision this afternoon in different parts of Now Zealand, and followers of sport will be able to read in The Post's Illustrated Sports Edition to-night complete accounts of the struggles for supremacy decided a few hours earlier. The long delay in dealing with, the Estimates came to an end last evening when a prolonged discussion took place on the first item. Towards the end" there was a beggarly array of empty benches, but the Opposition had a multitude of questions to ask and they insisted on getting a good deal of information. It was almost 3 o'clock this morriing before the debate ended. The Council passed the Exhibitions and the Destitue Persons Bills and the Eangitaiki Land Drainage and the Town Boards Amendment Bills were pub through committee and reported without amendment. There have been several conspicuous instances of the success in the action of the magnetic brake on the municipal tramways this week. On Monday there were no fewer than three cases, where adventurous children were saved from disaster by the promptitude of the motorman m applying the brake. Yesterday there was another example. A Wallace street car waa going up Hopper-street, when a child about eighteen months' old got on the track a short distance in front of the car. The motorman immediately applied the brakes and brought up the car with a round turn within inches of the innocent. Passengers were highly pleased with the presence of mind displayed by the motorman. Mr. Justice Chapman will sit in chambers at 10.30 on Tuesday morning, and during the first three days next week he will take any court business requiring attention. While waiting on the road for a tramcar last night Mr. H. Palethorpe was knocked down by a taxi-cab on Lambton-quay. He was very much shaken, and suffered some contusions, and was removed to his home in Willisstreet. The Otago Daily Times understands that a meeting of the Gill Aerial Syndicate will be held next week for the purpose of considering the advisability of winding up the company. It is stated that the outlay on this aeroplane has amounted to about £700, including the £280 taken while the monoplane was on show during winter show week. The aeroplane is at present located at Forbury Park. A memorial asking the Government to consent to a 40 foot street off Grassstreet, Oriental Bay, has been signed by the City Council. Consent has also been obtained fo> the transfer from Bannatyne and Co. to the Wellington Meat Export Company of the loaso of a block in Hunter-street. The sum of £8 7s has been received towards the Children's Hospital Fund, the result of a dance held at Ohau. The cheque was forwarded by Mr. F. Johnson, Wereroa. "The Carmont" tan willow calf boots for men, made on a swing last, Derby Cut, single damp-proof sole, at 27s 6d a pair. Kir&aldie and Stains, Ltd. — Advt. Nover travel without checking your baggage through us. It costs no more ; saves all trouble. We collect, check, deliver immediately at other ond. ihe N.Z. Express Co., Ltd. — Advt. In those days of keen business competition and the. accumulation of laws for the protection of labour, combined with State legislation and tho protection or lack of protection on foreign imports, is no doubt a stiff proposition for any business man to face. This, however, doos not appear to have affected C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-stroet, who aro now opening up hundreds of cases of nevi spring goods, inoluding the latest novoltj felt hats for men. These hats, when not in use, take up so little room that they can easily be carried in tho pocket. Each hat boxed separately, and is called the Handy Pocket Hat. Stocked in the latest shades — Forester green, apple green, melange, drab, and sage green. Price 3i lid each.— Advt s

The Government has decided to sell the steamer Hinemoa, and is inviting tenders for its purchase. The Patea Borough Councfl'b electri<l lighting system has returned a profit amounting to £1100 in five years. Bevenue derived from Customs at €ha port of Wellington amounted to £12,8491 14s 3d for the week ending to-day. Been duty totalled £240 11s Id. The Otaki Mail reports that whitebait is now fairly plentiful in tho Otaki River, and some very fair hauls havQ been made. The Brougham Hill Tennis Club wilj open its season next Saturday afternoon.. Mr. J. G. W. Aitken, the president, will deliver a short address, and somg games will then be played. Mr. J. P. Dugdale, formerly of the. Valuation Department, has been appointed secretary to the Hawera Counts Electric Light Company. There wer^ sixty applicants. The natural calm of Sumner was rude-< ly disturbed yesterday by the arrival off the beach of two large whales, which made their presence known by spouting within a mile of the shore (telegraph* our Christchurch correspondent). Pilot Day was the first to see them, and when he conveyed the news to the townships there was an excited rush to the Beat front to see the unexpected visitors. 1 , Fully half the population of Simmer 1 I gathered at the pier and on the adjacent! beach, and, with as many telescopes and I binoculars as could be gathered in a hur-* ) ried search, observed the whales, com-/ inenting freely, wisely and unwiselyj upon the benefits or burdens the sea-( side resort might incur if one of th* mammals should come ashore. t A journalistic curiosity in the form ofc a Jewish newspaper published in Jeru-l' salem has reached Wellington. It is by-i weekly and bi-lingual. The title is "The| Truth," or "La Verite" — according td the taste of the reader, for it is printed in both French and English, and not? English and Yiddish, as might have beer*' expected. The editor is Mr. Solomon! Feingold, and the price is Id. A strong! feature of the paper appears to be advo-\ cacy of the construction of a ship canat 1 to bring Jerusalem into communication! with the Mediterranean on the one sideZ and the Red Sea by the natural depres4 sion of the Dead Sea on the. other. Ifi this were done Jerusalem, according tol the paper, would be the commercial ad well as the religious metropolis of tha whole world. , ~ Flare-lights for illuminating a ship's', hold are familiar enough at all the busy, ) ports of the world. at night, their usual! form being a steady pyramidal glaze} thrown from above the open hatchway, s and brightly lighting the recesses of ths \ hold. On the Union Company's steamer/ Pukaki at Wellington last night th*% utility of a new acetylene light, known ) as the "Imperial," was demonstrated lot a kaot of marine experts, and the trial' was highly satisfactory. Ine lights^ were in charge of Mr. J. S. Keith, of • Messrs. E. W. Mills and Company, and/ among those present were Captain Stott, marine superintoddent of fch«' Union Company, Mr. M'Murrioh, super-, intending engineer, and a number «# other representative shipping men.* Portable generators were placed on ths steamer's deck, each one capable of givi ing a light of 2500 candle-power. Al-i though the light was a, naked one, it m claimed that a, hurricane would no« extinguish it. When charged, each gen 4 erator will produce sufficient gas to sup 4 ply its attached light for twelve hours.*. The generator, when charged, weighs? 1861b, the consumption of carbide bein» 2|lb per hour, and the working cos^ S^d an hoar. SeVeral lights were burning on the Pukaki; they could be placed on any part of the rigging or taken witfc safety into the holds to facilitate working. According to one authority, two of the burners did the work of half-a-i dozen ordinary flare-lights. Those present expressed themselves well satisfied with the invention. The Star of Wellington /Lodge, No. 12, 1.0. G.T., held its weekly session on Thursday evening, Bro. Weston, C.T., presiding. After business, '» "street party" was held, in charge of Bros. Price and Rigarlsford, and th© following contributed to an enjoyable programme : — Sister Hyde, Bros. Bat* tenburg, Morris, Patterson, and Lambert. A competition in connection with the "street party" was won by Sister Rigaflsford.