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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 103, 2 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL » "■ ■ • Owing to the bad weather all Rugby, Association, and League football and hockey fixtures fpr this afternoon have been postponed, and consequently no sports edition of The Post will be published to-night. _ The seven-a-side hockey tournament which was to have been played to-day will take place next Saturday. Full particulars of the extensive loan proposals the City Council has in view are not yet available, though it is understood their general scope is on the lines published in The Post .some little time ago. The total amount the ratepayers will be( asked to sanction is said to be about £200,000, and the works include the Constable-street tramway extension to Kilbirnie, the shortening of the Karori line, via Hill-street, the laying out of lines for the new central railway sta> tion, the completion of the Oriental Bay Esplanade, the construction of a traffic tunnel under Mount Victoria, and a large car-building programme. The proposals will probably be before the Finance Committee on Monday next, and the City Council at the following meeting. Several of the intending competitors at the carnival of the Wellington Boxing Association are at present attending the Territorial camp at Takapau, and consequently it has been decided to alter the dates of the fixture to the 18th and 19th May. In connection with the proposed professional bout, advice has been received from Sydney that the Australian champion, Frank O'Grady, has accepted the association's offer to meet Hagerty, and a. match between the two will probably take place at tho Town Hall on Bth June. An assault and counter-assault, alleged to have taken place on board the Maori at Lyttelton on tho 17th of April, were investigated by Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., yesterday afternoon. Daniel O'Connor, a fireman, proceeded against J. S. Wells, an officer on the Maori, charging him with assault. Wells laid a counter-information of assault. O'Connor swore that on the afternoon in question the defendant requested him to "slice his fires." As informant had already dono so, he refused. 1^ With that defendant struck him. lie did not strike Wells. A week later he (O'Connor) left tho vessel, and obtained a "V.G." discharge. If ho had struck an officer (Wells was an engineer) ho would be liable to instant dismissal ynd a bad discharge. Wells, on tho _ other hand, iv the course of his evidence, said that the captain had ordered more steam up, and he accordingly went below to direct the men to slice the fire. On O'Connor's refusal he (witness) had playfully seized hold of him, only to be resisted, and, later, assaulted with a shovel. Supporting evidence was given on both sides, after hearing which tho Magistrate dismissed both cases, remarking that the affair should never have been brought into Court. It was decided at a special meeting of the Petone Working Men's Club last evening to errct a Tnrgo theatre, adjoining the club, at a cost of £3500. It is understood that a local picture syndicate will lease the theatre for five years. All the Boyß of Wellington are invited to call at Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., and find out how they win that 31 h.p. Multi-Rudge, 1914, Motor- Bike. Remember, the competition i» free, so, i. HH 0)'"*0 )'"* get i?MBX'-— Advti