LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is understood that there is a possibility of a syndicate installing electric trams in Palmerston, if concessions can be obtained from the Borough Council. Tn the list of starts for the Trot Handicap at the Kamo races. Marsden's handicap was incorrectly given as 35 seconds, the proper start being 20 secends. A batch of twenty probationary constables have just xindergone the necessary period of training at the police depot, and will be drafted to various stations throughout the Dominion shortly. Last week a Waikiekie resident lost a gold bracelet valued at £10. He advertised his loss once in ihv, ''Advocate" weekly edition, and the post today brought news that the bracelet had been found. A Chinaman, with the melodious cognomen of Sing On Tie, was fined £100 yesU'i-dav, at Wellington, for £ttomptiug to evade customs duty en a box of silk. The fine was afterwards reduced to £25.

With a view to putting the main roads in thorough repair, a poll is being taken at Avondale to-day on the proposal to raise a loan of £15,500: The date of the Whangarei loan poll has not yet been announced.

At the meeting of the Auckland Crown Lands Board on Thursday, the Whangarei County Council's scheme for the expenditure of halves amounting to £108 was approved, as also was a scheme for the expenditure of thirds amounting to £259.

The concert at Onerahi on Monday night, in aid of the new church fund. is evidently going to be well attended. Capital musical talent from Whangarei will perform, and the Vicar and Rev. T. Oalder will both be present. The launch "Rose" leaves the town wharf at 6.30 p.m.

In the course of his annual report at the High School prize distribution ceremony on Friday, Mr R. Lupton, headmaster, referred with gratification to the success of two old boys during this year, Mr P. Foote having gained an M.B. degree, and Mr A. D. Mead having secured the degree of C.E.B. (Bachelor of Civil Engineering).

Writing to the Hobson County Council anent a recent accident which he had met with, Mr D. Finlayson said: "Please excuse this pencil scrawl. My injuries are not serious, thank God. They consist chiefly of a torn coat and pants, a bruised shoulder, a ?.tiff neck, a crooked nose, a skinned face and also half a dozen scalp wounds, but I think :he inside.of the head is alright."

By the s.s. Ngapuhi this morning, the following passengers landed in Whangarei:—Misses Tooley, Williams (2), Bishop, Carrington, Dixon, Phillips, Osborne, Mead, Storey; Mesdames Le Clerc, Clark , McDonald, Whitehead, Mason, Foster; Messrs Marshall, Gordon, Foster, Wilson, Main, Armstrong, Thompson, Teasdale, Rev. Elliott; 12 steerage.

Nurse Taylor, who has been acting in the.capacity of charge nurse at the Whangarei hospital for the past four years, left to-day for Auckland by the Ngapuhi. It is Nurse Taylor's intention to take a holiday respite before commencing her course of training at St. Helen's hospital. The position which she has vacated has been filled by the appointment of Nurse Giffney, who took up her new duties on Wednesday last.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Messrs Hutchings and Killen, J.'sP., James Calpin was charged with indecent exposure in Johnson's Lane, and pleaded "guilty" to the charge. Full evidence was taken, the doors of the Court being closed. Taking into consideration the fact that accused was under the influence of liquor, the Court decided to deal leniently v ith him, and consequently sentenced him to one month's imprisonment with hard labor.

At the Fruitgrowers' Association's e-mni.il meeting last evening, Mv Maci'ie drew attention to tho careless manner in which manures, especially Kainit, were handled on the Auckland wharves. He stated that he had seen men tear a sack open with a hag hook, and instead of sewing it up, which was the least which might bo expected, the pack was hauled along the floors of the goods sheds, leaving- a liberal trail >■■■; its contents in its course. This A.is surreptitiously swept through the (ivor, thence through a grating into the .--.fa. There appeared to be a remark,:i.'e lack of authority over the men eni:.'ged in the handling. It might be mentioned that Kainit costs .£4 per