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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19, 24 January 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AMD GENERAL, To-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the •statutory meeting held to decide the question of what day of the week shall be a shop-closing day will take place in No._l committee room at tho Town Hall. Indications are in the direction of the Wednesday half-holiday being retained, but the voting is likely to be fairly close. Suburban boroughs appear to favour Saturday. Having received considerable accessions to its numbers, the Municipal Orchestra requires more accommodation in the Town Hall. There are now fortyfive performers, and the stage is not large enough to receive them all. With a view of bringing this need and the matter of time for rehearsals and other minor details under the notice of the City Council, a deputation, headed by Mr. W. M'Lean, waited on the Mayor this morning. After hearing the application, Mr. Wilford decided to refer the matter to the Finance Committee, which meets this afternoon. As there has been an accumulation of business during the holidays, it is likely that the committee will have to defer consideration of the prchestra's claims until the next meeting — about a fortnight hence. The mails which left Wellington on the 16th December by the s.s. Marama, and connected at Sydney with the Brindisi mails per R.M.S. Morea, arrived in London on the afternoon of the 20th inst. An accident occurred on boai'd the steamer Corinna this morning. Two men named T. Pressley and F. C. Gibson ware working in one of the holds when a box of butter, which with many others was being transferred to the lonic, slipped out of a cling and fell back into , the Corinna 's hold, striking the two men ! named. Both sustained severe ecalp I wounds and slight concussion. They 1 were taken to the hospital a 6 quickly as possible. At 3.49 a.m. to-day the -Fire Brigade received a call to 156 Taranaki-street, where a building comprising a grocer's shop and six-roomed dwelling in conjunction, was discovered ablaze. A, portion of the side wall was badly damaged, the rest of the shop and contents suffering to a slight extent. The fire is supposed to have originated in the shelves of the shop. The building, which, is owned and occupied by Mrs Beatrice O'Donnell, is insured in the Norwich Union office for £300, and the contents in the United for £130. The Territorials have now got through, their annual periods of training, and the men have returned to civil occupations. The Wellington Rifle Battalion camp was vacated yesterday afternoon, and the men reached the Garrison Hall about 6 p.m., feeling fit and well after their ten days' training, though somewhat weary as the result of the field manoeuvres of the morning on the Makara hills. During their visit of inspection yesterday morning the Commandant (Major-General Go'dley, C.8.) ana Lieut. -Colonel Bumett-S'tuart took careiful note of the dispositions of the troops, and they will address the Garrison Officers' Club on the subject to-morrow night. The D Battery concluded its classification shooting tit Pigeon Bush, and returned to town by special train at 6 p.m. Mr. J. P. Maxwell, engineer of the Paparoa Coal Company, in discussing the harbour at Greymouth, suggested, says an exchange: (1) That a deepwater harbour should be constructed on the south side of the Grey in proximity to the town, and capable of being con- ! nected with the lagoon scheme if found desirable ; (2) to retain the river accommodation, the access to which would be improved by the initial works of the deep-water harbour; (3) to provide accommodation in the proposed harbour of about 1100 ft of berthage, with 24ft of water at low water ordinary spring tides, which would suffice to take two ocean steamers, and to allow space for subsequent extensions of such bsrthage to accommodate' four to six ocean steamers when development of the trade* required it. He said he considered thafe this scheme might be executed for about £425,000. In reference to the cablegram in last night's Post, announcing the stranding of the Grand Central Railway Company's steamer Lincoln on Haisborough sands, near Cromer, on the Norfolk, coast, it may be not9d that a peculiar fatality seems to attach to railway company's steamers, as the following list of wrecks and collisions indicates: — Stella, 1899 (London and South Western Railway Company); Hilda, 1905 (do.); Berlin. 1907 (Great Eastern Railway Company) ; Yarmouth, 1908 (do.) ; Connemara, in collision with the Avon, August, 1908 ; Princess Ena, stranded near Paternoster rocks, May. 1B08; ±iolyhead (London and North* Western Company), cattle steamer, October, 1883 ; Admiral Moorsom (do.) ; Ilolyhead, January, 1885 ; Victoria (London and Brighton Company), struck a rock at Point D'Ailly, April, 1887; Normandy (London and South Western Company),. March, 18S4; Humber (Yorkshire Company), in collision, June, 1909; Chester (Great Central), in collision, October, 1910 ; and Blackburn (do.), in collision, December, 1910. Before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning, William Ham denied an allegation of 1 having played at a game of chance wiih dice, namely, hazards, at the Custom-house-quay breastworks on the 18th. January. On that day the police raided, a game' in progress, and Ham was one of ten waterside workers summoned, the other nine having been dealt with lust Friday. Two constables cave evidence that they watched the game for nearly two hours ; Ham did not actually take part in the game, bub he stood outside the ring. Defendant did not arrive at the scene of the raid until after Morgan, an information against whom had been dismissed last Friday. Mr. E. J. Fitzgibbon, who appeared on behalf of defendant, submitted that there was no case to answer. It was a common enough thing for a man to stop and watch a game in progress, but before a conviction could be entered it would ■have to be proved that he either threw the dice or passed money lo make a bet. No evidence to this latter effect had been adduced against Ham. Without calling upon the defence, his Worship dismissed tho information. In the course of his address in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, Mr. J. Hodge touched on the education question. He had been reading, he said, during his visit to New Zealand, of an endeavour that was being made to introduce sectarianism into the schools of the Dominion. "I hope you will never permit it," declared Mr. Hodge, emphatically. "It has retarded the cause of education in the Old Land, and I venture to say that sectarian differences have been the source of more, bad blood between the people of -any given nation than any other known origin. The Labour party at Homo want to get rid of that difficulty and to sec that we may havo the educational ladder free from sectarianism from the elemeutary schools to the university." Th& remarks were much applauded.