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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, The Postal authorities advise that, "the s.s. Aoi'angi, with English and American mails, via Tahiti and Rarotonga, left San Francisco on the 11th inst. — time-table date. She is due to arrive at Wellington on Thursday, 2nd February. At its sitting yesterday, Cabinet authorised the expenditure, out 1 of money appropriated by Parliament, of £14,600 foiv roads in remote parts of the Dominion, £4550 for various small bridges, and £10,672 on railway branch lines. It was also decided to invite tenders for the cartage of State coal in .Wellington for one yea*. Included in the Moeraki's passengers from Sydney to-day were a Finnish lady, who has come to rejoin her husband in New Zealand; and a Dutchman, an accountant by occupation. Both had little difficulty in passing the education test for foreigners. The Wellington Land Board will complete its tour of the back-blocks at the end of the present month. The commissioner (Mr. James Mackenzie) is due in Wellington on Monday next. On the following Thursday the first meeting of tho board for the present year will be held. Street-naming will be an item in the business of the first City Council meeting of 1911, to be held to-morrow night. The process of revising the names of "Wellington street* ran practically through the whole of last year. The net result will be confirmed by formal resolution to-morrow night. It was a "ecommendation from the Hospital Committee to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday that nurses on resigning be granted annual leave if due to them, leave not to be cumulative. Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh objected to the recommendation, which he considered a mistake. Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., spoke against monetary consideration being given in place of holidays. The recommendation was adopted. Newtown will shortly possess a theatre built on modern lines. The building — wlflch is intended to be absolutely fireproof—has been designed by Mr. James Bennie, of Lambton-quay, who was the architect for the King's Theatre, Wellington. The theatre is to have a steel frame stage. Seating accommodation will be provided for an audience of one thousand. Mr. Bennie is calling for tenders for the erection of the theatre on a site in Riddiford-street close to the Trinity Methodist Church, and right opposite the Newtown State School. The contract is to bo completed by Eastef. Yesterday at the complimentary luncheon arranged for Mr. J. C. Cusack, the visiting Canterbury cricketers representing the Thursday Association presented Miv Cusack, the secretary of the Wellington Wednesday Cricket Association, with a handsome gold badge, in recognition of his work of organisation in connection with the representative matches of the Canterbury-Wellington midweek players. The manager of the visiting team, Mr. C. Bascand, was presented with a silvor-mounted walkingstick and silver matchbox. Mr. George, captain of the local senior eleven, made the presentations. The New Zealand United' Fir© Brigades' demonstration is to be held at Hokitika, opening on 3rd March. A large attendance of firemen is expected. After a conference, luncheon, and display of fire works, finishing with a social gathering, the nremen will hold their usual; competitions in ireel hose and nozzle-work. Drives in the Arahura Valley to Lake Kanieri and Blue Spur, an excursion to Lake Mahinapua, dancing, and other diversions will fill in the eeven days' gathering. Competitions will bs held almost every morning. Altogether, the firemen who take part in the Hokitika demonstration are assured of a real hearty West Coast welcome, and plenty of entertainment. Complaint has been made by Mr. S. Smith, an officer of the Bradford Corporation, who is on a visit to New Zealand, of the behaviour of some of' the female passengers on the steamer Rotorua on the voyage out from England. They had, he understands, come out under the system of reduced fares as " assisted " immigrants, and he urges that they are in every respect undesirable. The Labour Department declares that there has been no general state of immorality on any of the vessels which have come hero for years past. Assisted immigrants have to pass a pretty severe test at Home, and to prove their possession of at least £5 over and above their fare. The domestics Bent out under the auspices of the New Zealand Government by the High Commissioner are always accompanied by a matron if the paiiy exceeds twenty young women. As for women who pay their own passages, the department cannot be responsible, but it must be remembered that the faro to New Zealand is fairly high, and women of notoriously loosecharacter are not likely to be attracted' 1 to a country which it costs so much to reach. A3 to the case of the Rotorua, no complaint was made to the department by any person on board, and Mr. Smith's allegations are the first the department has heard of it. By the way, Mr. Smith has made it quite clear that his statements did not extend to a number of Scotch girls who wore migrating to New Zealand to enter domestic service. They seemed to him to be entirely suitable girls, of excellent conduct and good character. Strong measures had to be taken by Captain Holmes, of the Shaw, Savill liner Mamari, to prevent trouble on the., part of a number of immigrants, who were travelling to Australia from London. The vessel had 490 passengers for Sydney, and when she reached Capetown, a number of those on board/ laid in a secret stock of liquor for celebrating New Year's Eve. When New Year's Eve came they foregathered in the dining saloon, and the "celebration" eventually became co pronounced that the captain had to be called for. He told the men that he would have all lights put out if they did not keep quiet. Then he left, only to be recalled shortly by a worse disturbance. "If you don't get into your berths and shut your doors,"' he said, "I'll have the hose turned ou you." The men openly defied him. "I'd like \o see you turn the hose on me," said one. They refused to leave the dining saloon, and as the room was in darkness, and they kept striking matches, thereby exposing the ship to the risk of fire, the captain's next order to the steward was : "Send for the boatswain, and tell him to get the seamen to connect the hose." Captain Holmes stood by as the hose was brought, and eaid to an officer. "Tell them to turn the water on full as soon as my whistle goes." Ho took out his watch, and, addressing the men, said, "I give you two minutes. If you are not all in your berths in two minutes. I'll have tho hose turned on you." The men took the hint and went, and as they were going the captain called out to the second of" ficer, "Stand by for half an hour, and if one of them shows his head, let him have it." Not a man reappeared. The disturbers were only a small section of the immigrants, who on the whole were a fine body of people. Kirkcaldie's Great Summer Sale begins to-morrow (Thursday), and those who wish to secure best bargains must come early.— Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd.— Advts.