LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12074, 18 September 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Thb New Zealand Shipping Company's: steamer Whakatane took her departure for \ Monte Video and London yesterday, this! being the first occasion for some time past* on which one of the large steamers has : made Auckland the final port of departure from the colony. The Whakatane had a number of passengers in both classes, and a large and valuable cargo of bullion, frozen meat, wool, kauri gum, timber, tallow, eta.,! - from this and other New Zealand ports. Included in, the cargo from Auckland for Monte Video, at which port the steamer calls en. route for London, was 105,000 ft of the best kahikatea timber, which is to be made up into butter boxes, and is the first shipment of the article made from Auckland to Monte Video. In urging the need of a school in Grey Lynn on the Education Board yesterday, the Mayor of that borough (Mr. R. T. War- | nock) said the population of Grey Lynn had doubled itself within the five years prior ;-; to the last, census, and he had no doubt this, which was a record for the Auckland , :. province, would be repeated before the : : next census. He added that close upon , C 200 new houses had been erected » Jha % ; borough sixice the last census,, >.\&

IThe Queen has left on a visit to her rgc 'parent, the King of Denmark, wh» is 84 and in feeble health. The Boer generals ar hot meeting with any sympathy from Euro yean Governments, three of whom hay. advised them to adopt a conciliatory atti tade towards Great Britain. The Ger man and Belgian Governments liav. k intimated that, they will allow nr j|! • ' anti- British demonstrations. and that I if they are not avoided they will exile I the generals from the country. It is saic l M that the generals are disposed to abandon iU::their Continental tour, preferring to reh on Britain's generosity, and that they wit i /,;■ return to South Africa at the earliest oppo'j* .-. tunity. The indiscreet speech of the Fren/I [Minister for Marine has pleased the Germa/ '' I as it is calculated to estrange the relati/s I of France and Italy. The French AinfS- ! ~. eador at Borne has been instructed to t*f>sr ; excuses for M. Pelletan's remarks. M/>el- , cause, whose conduct of foreign affa/has 1 been marked by great tact and prudjfce, is said to be greatly annoyed at the /emier I ; permitting other Ministers to make /eeches V dealing with the foreign policy of/he GoI ■'•.."■;' Further outrages ly Boxers p :.'v: are rebutted from China, Avhere/tkey are |i Baid to have massacred a /converts. I //Ah American naval force has V en sent to i Colon. British manufacture* have ob--1 tained large orders for raihyy stock for I South Africa. A permanentßritish garriI. »on is to be stationed in Na*>- The London wool sales have opened" < and prices .generally show an incre/e on the July rates. The Fremiti* of the Cape has anft Bounced that it is intenrcd to raise a loan k >/"of a million and a-quarter to meet claims 1 'for compensation foi josses caused by the £ 'rebellion in that colow. He also stated that martial law w«tld be immediately : ; abolished. \ \'- | i ■;■:■// The weather was xeeedingly boisterous throughout yesterday the wind blowing ;'.:■:-very strong from befveen, west and southWest, accompanied \f heavy rain squalls. TJuriug the day mi/ evening some very I .';■_ heavy squalls broke 3ver the city and harj h bour. Along the past the same weather | conditions are reputed, a heavy westerly ! i; gale blowing, wi«l very heavy sea, at Cape Maria Van piemen and elsewhere. ■The Union Conmny's* steamer Waipori, ~ which arrived frou Westport yesterday af- : ternoon, had a vey rough passage through.■'.;>'but. Leaving "Westport on Sunday morning last moderate' head winds and seas pre- . vailed until Mo/day, when the wind in/pressed to a gafe from between west and -: • jouth-west, witl a high confused sea, and 'jontinued unti port was made. The jteamer shipped a good deal of water at / Junes during tie worst of the weather, but |eyond smashing some of the deck fittings, Jo damage was done. Our Thtffnes correspondent telegraphed last night:— Very •, 'Jbisterous weather, attended with heavy I -powers of tain and hailstones, has prevailed . ,3ere for tlu past three days." The next sitting of the Arbitration Court in Auckland will open at the Supreme . Coirt on Friday, November 21. Yesterday ; Mr.R. Goring Thomas, clerk of awards, receivd intimation to this effect from His Hon? Mr. Justice Cooper, president of the t . Cour, The sitting will be continued until Z . all tie cases for hearing have been dealt t- . With,and will commence on the date named [; with lie engine-drivers* dispute, the sugar- | _ ■workes' dispute following on November 25. i The Registrar of Electors at Auckland has I ; How reeived the new maps for the City of t Auckland, Grey Lynn, Paruell, and ["•'■"' Eden, Wrick are hung up in his office, Go- *. -, vernmert Insurance Lane. Queen-street, for [ use andreference. The final boundaries of f, these ejetorates, as fixed by the Boundary I • ■, Commisioners, and published in a recent | issue otthe New Zealand Government Ga- /• zette, at also available for comparison purSi poses. Electors or claimants should make ' themsehes acquainted with the contents of I '.. these o&cials publications. [ Hitherto the local examinations in / / tausic, mder Trinity College, London, have [' - «nly been held ones a yearin June—but t . under th« new syllabus they will in future ' .be held half-yearly in June and December. Another change is that there will after this "t ■■■.:'■ be one examination paper only in each dif" vision instead of separate papers for pass i ":-. and honour tfndidates. Pass and honour Fi certificates vill, however, be awarded acI' cording to i minimum of marks. Three f hours will b> allowed for each paper. The f- first half-y;arlv examination will be held r on Saturday, December 13, and for this £ ■ Mr. Vinant E. Rice, local secretary, has received a total of 55 entries as follows: — Senior dvision, 6; intermediate devision, V 13 ; junior division, 36. I ; The proposal of the Government to intro- ' duce battalion drill in connection with the r- Bchoo.' cadet corps in the principal centres ; - 1 w»s mentioned at the meeting of the Auck- ' ■ land Education Board yesterday, but no decision was arrived at. consideration of the '".'■■■. taoiect being postponed till next meeting. ; :i Mr, R. Hobba said he did not see the neces- ; sity for introducing battalion drill, and /thereby taking the bors from all parts of ;.- . the city to one spot. Mr. J. G. Rutherford & -expressed the opinion that it would be better to teach the boys how to shoot than C7-r to devote so much attention to drill. Mr. J. T. Stevenson, F.R.A.S., writes: —It may interest some of your readers to ' know that the planet Mercury, which is usually too near the sun to be readily - visible, will pas 3 fairly close to the bright ■ star Spica between the 20th ( and 21st % . inst. Mercury will be seen after sunset in the western sky, and will appear of an orange colour, contrasting well with Spica, which is a pale blue star. At this time 'the planet will be distant some 98 millions C of miles from our earth, and his motion may be watched every night until he disappears in the twilight sky in the begin- ', ning of next month. Our Hokianga Heads correspondent telegraphs that a carrier pigeon, with a pigeongram suspended from one of us • legs, evidently blown out of its course, arrived at the Pilot station on Tuesday r morning, and settled for about five minutes. Attempts were made to catch the /bird, but it flew off, and has not been seen ' since. The death is announced of Mr. A. P. H. Cashel, who expired at his residence, ParBell, on Tuesday evening, at the ear/v age of 34 years. The deceased, who was wells■■'-• known in Auckland, had been suffering from ' - a cold for some days. He only took to bis . "bed on Sunday last, when pneumonia set in, from which he died. He was the eldest '■■'.- son of Mrs. W. C. Walker, of "Greenhijl, Ellerslie, and leaves a widow and two chili'f dren. The funeral takes place from Ins ;/ late residence at half-past two p.m. to-day ; for Purewa. 1 ■ Another Auckland doctor has acquired an automobile. Dr. de Clive Lowe recently received, through Messrs. W. Ryan and Co., fin electric combustion gasoline motor -v". from the Automobile Company, Detroit, Mich., United States America. bmje its arrival Dr. Lowe has taken several trial ' . spins in his new automobile, accompanied oy Mr. Spinks, engineer, who has been coach-, :. ing him in its control. The doctor states that the motor-car has given him more than satisfaction. There is, he says nothing it H cannot do, even to climbing the steepest !•'-.:".-. hill in Auckland. Mud makes no difference, 7 °r do bad roads, except for a certain « ' amount of jolting. Dr. Lowe considers it is $ quite the machine for a medical man, be- ' : ,: cause ot the speed with which it enables him :/: to visit patient after patient. Dr. dailies is the only other doctor who has a motorcar, and uses one driven by steam. llie motive power for Dr. Lowe's is supplied by the rise of ordinary benzine. I/-. At the' statutory meeting of His Majesty's Arcade and Theatre Company, held recently & the office of the secretary (Mr. \Ym. PZ Elliot), the chairman, Mr. R. H. Abbott, P in moving the adoption of the report, said that the buildings would in all probability be occupied by tenants by the e».d of the year. The theatre had been leased for 1U years, and other applications had been reeved. The directors anticipated an income r" M £5000 per year from the block, £4000 per r . year beinq already assured. The former sum I Would admit of a dividend of 8 per cent, to 10 per cent, on the ordinary shares, after f, 'Paying all charges and providing 6 per cent. for preference shareholders. The report - was ~-adopted ■■

-d J At the "'-.jPtiag of the Thames County I Board of prks yesterday, the tender of re j Edward We, at £89 15s, was accepted for 9" I widening/"* repairing the Puriri-Neaves-fe ville traced the tenders Win. Davies, at i- £25 Zf], was accepted for the Wharepoa r _ Roadwge at the crossing to Oyer's land- " tog-// 0 'Vr/Paeroa correspondent stales that it M Pennel met with a painful accident '] / Tuesday afternoon, when riding into d IJieroa, from Karangahake. The horse, it- «■ appears, stumbled in one of the many ruts jylhat are now to be found in the road, and 'J the rider was thrown heavily to the ', ground. It was found that Mr. Pennel i had received a fracture of the leg, and I in consequence he was taken to the Thames j Hospital. The new Bishop of Tasmania (Dr. Mercer), who arrived at Hobart at the beginning of the month, from England, seems to have made an excellent impression. Referring to his first sermon the Hobart Mercury said he spoke in a full clear voice, with perfect enunciation and quiet deliberation. Speaking at a public gathering on the following day, Bishop Mercer said he was not frightened of the laity. He had, in his old parish, a council of 30 men and 30 women, which, he found exceedingly useful. If he was now going to be in for a row, he was going to have the laity to back him up. He also believed in being a citizen as well as a parson. A man could not be a real parson without being a good citizen. At Gorton, he founded a ratepayers' association; they made him president, and when be was leaving they gave him an address, and made Mrs. Mercer a present. The address was signed by members of every religious body, and by representatives of the huge firms and of the workmen's combinations. He mentioned those things in order to show that lie did not merely talk of being a citizen. But he was not a party politician. As to toleration, they wanted the Church to be as wide as the English people. Whatever party they belonged to, they could be tolerant, "sympathetic, and fair to all parties. What they wanted was genuineness, and that a man should mean what he professed. The Union Company's steamer Waihora left Melbourne for Hobart and New Zealand yesterday.