LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12399, 12 October 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Something like a scare on a small scale ok ourred on board of the - Niwaru, now in Calliope Dock. The whole of the repairs to the hull had been completed and cxamired by the surveyors, when, everything being found in order, it was decided to let the water into the dock. This was done and ihe vessel floated, in order to test whether the bottom " ,V; was sound. During the night it was found that there was some water in the hold, and yesterday morning the dock was pumped dry again; hut upon a strict examination . : being made it wall found that the manhole of one of the ballast-tanks, had been accidentally left off, thus accounting for th« ' fy| presence of water in the hold. • The Nnvaru will be floated out of dock this morning, and' berthed at the Queen-street Wharf to load for London, ", ' ':-'-■■'■-■: ~ . • The Auckland official assignee (Mr. B. Gerard) has introduced the system of pay- < ing dividends through the post office. Uiideij the old method the creditors were first itformed that a dividend was payable, and' were asked to apply for payment at,the official assignee's office. his resulted ia numbers of cheques being kept in hand, sometimes for several months, and many of , , the smaller dividends were never claimed at V' f I] all. Mr. Gerard's new method (which, by the way, he adopted in Wellington two year* ago), aVoids all this. When the dividend is ready each creditor receives by registered letter an authority to receive his dividend ■ ','. in cash at the money order office nearest to, i,: his postal address. \. "f,i

The trams were well patronised yesterday* especially in the evening. , The cars started 1 1 from the city terminus at hall-past eight, bub ),y. they were filled seme time before starting, .' In the, afternoon the Onehunga cars were well '■•■;:-' filled, and there were a great many passen- -['} gers alighting at Cornwall Park, arid board- .;,:''. tag the returning cars at the Epsom gate, . Golf Road, and the avenue gate, ii Market Road. ... - -,'■.', '■■■'■*■.. .■.,',■■ ■ ■...■.,■■.... '- '';-'"-:fofa

A man was arrested on the premises of Mrs. Nicholls, Gibraltar Crescent, Parnellji on Saturday. It was alleged that he was there for an unlawful purpose. When takes by the police, who were sent for while he '.'■;.-. was detained, he was found to have a dell j plate secreted in his clothes. The plate was stated to be the property of Mrs. Nicholls, \S: and its value was set down at Is. The matt ■~¥' will be brought before the Court this mora* ing. On Saturday afternoon a loud cry of alarm was raised in Queen-street, the cab horses at ' the foot of Shortland-street reared about ini '■-'-.. an excited manner, and threatened to bolt. : Just under their noses some cyclists riding a - ; triplet bowled over another cyclist who was ; riding an ordinary single machine. There . was for a moment or two a 'fused heap of 'ricters and free wheels, but no one was ' hurt.

The New Zealand Master Bakers' Associa* tion meet at the Chamber of Commerce today to discuss various subjects affecting tlw trade. Among the most important matters to be dealt with from a public point of view,, , will be the question of the price of breadThe delegates who have arrived include Messrs. W. Buchanan, T. King, Gardiner, A. Kent, and Smerdon, Auckland ; Messrs. W. A. Kellow (president); M. H. McCarthy (secretary), F. McFarland, H. Denhard, and J. Stratford, Wellington; Messrs. Mirains,, Searle, and Laurenson, Dunedhi; Mr. Pratt* . Christchurch • Mr. W. Dustin, Wanganui; Mr. West, New Plymouth; Mr. Lambert,, Stratford; Mr. Holland, Palmerstoia Northj Mr. J. Scott, Marlborough. Several repre- I sentatives are expected to arrive from various centres this morning. Messrs. Mitchell and Watt, architects* have received the following tenders for the erection of the new warehouse in Custom* street for Messrs. A. J. Entrican and Co. :-* Messrs. W. E. Hutchison, £8087 J. A* Moody, £8321; G. E. Rhodes and Co.« £8442; N. McLean, £8500; J. Morris, £8639; J. W. Jones and Son, £8777; Heron ! , Bros., £8883; A. Grandisou, £8984; J. V. ; Jones, £8990 ; W. R. Fairweather, £9062 J J. Ellingham, £9122; Craig Bros., £91?e; r, J. J. Holland, £9157; J. Lye and bon, £9230; A. Burfoot and Son. £9250; 0. »-■• Frankham, £9421; R. Kay, £9489; E. Morris, £9650; G. G. Pollard, £9700; J. Davis, £9750 ; R. Farrell, £9955 ; J. W. Leigh. £10,300. The acceptance of a tender is sn» -.:,;;.,; under consideration. :. The police raided a suspected house i» Upper Queen-street on Saturday night and made a number of arrests of women and men- v who will make their appearance a. the I'O' ■ lice Court mis morning, charged with Keep* ing a disorderly house, or with f«iqww»»* the same. At the North Shore yesterday if ex noon Hunter's Band discoursed a number of musical selections in the Triangle Re* i f& f WW™ were listened to by a large and appreciative audience..

In. e course of his sermon at St. Mary's Cathfal last night, Uishop Neligan referred to ttfeath of Archdeacon Govett, of New Plynfth. The Bishop. spoke of the Archdeacias a Christian Imperialist, a scholar, a Cht-ian, a gentleman, a trusted friend, »nd generous benefactor. ."■ His death left the (Jrch militant poorer, and the Church triuinaht richer. " May light perpetual ihinin. him." '__ Thpublic, especially those. travelling in crowd tramcars and ferry boats, would do ellio bo on their guard against pickpocte. One of the light-fingered gentry relied a lady of her purse as she was steppingnto a car at the foot of Queen-street earlpn Saturday evening, advantage being f take of one of the usual crashes which occur* at that time. ,

Amall boy, aged between eight. and nine yeai was arrested on Saturday morning on a clrg<i of burglary at the residence of Mr. Mcjdoe, Devonport. It was alleged that theioy stole a bugle, worth £1, and about £2 3s in hard cash. He will appear before theJotrt to-day.

to. A T. Julian, chairman of the Harbour Beard, las given notice to move as follows at to-nbrrow's meeting of the Board: — " That rith a view of initiating a superannuation scheme for the employees of the Board, he secretary be instructed to obtain from thiGovernment or any other source all possibleinformation,"

I Our Buhilton correspondent writes: I serious accident happened at Messrs, Ellis J and Rrnand's bush, Mangapeehi, King I Country on Friday morning, by which a i man nmed Wallace sustained a compound ! fractue of the left leg. He was jacking I a log, when it rolled back, pinning him to | the gound by the leg. The accident hapI pened at ten. o'clock. His mates immediately set to work to bring him down to the Vaikato Hospital by trolley. They ; tetegltphed that they would reach Hamilj ton vith the unfortunate man at nine ! o'clocl, out it was nearly two o'clock when they irrived. He was immediately taken to thehoipital in the ambulance, which was waitin; * the Frankton station. Wallace is a nariied man, and his wife resides in Aucklaid He is doing fairly well, considering lis serious injuries.

Our Aroha- correspondent writes: — We hive' just had a move prolonged downpour i rain than has been experienced for some rears past and tie river rose to an unusiil 'height, flooding all the low-lying county on its banks. Some settlers found difficity in getting stock to higher ground, and a in some cases numbers of animals were huddled together on a narrow strip of land, with a sheet of water on each side, a fuvttorVise might have caused serious loss. Bain ceised and the river began to fall on Friday. Mr. Horace Moore-Jones, a son of Mrs. Hoore-Jtaes, of the Ladies' College, Remuera, has jeceived very favourable mention of his exhil ts at the Royal Art Society Exhibition, r:ently held at Sydney. The following dan extract from the notice appearing in tit Sydney Mail of September 16: — "* "Mr. Mlore-Jones is best represented this year by tie little picture of an old lady, .' The Oldest living Australian,' which the Gallery trusteesjiave taken ; but his chief picture is •God Gf-es Us Love,' a study of sentiment and firelight in which we are shown a workman entiling his home greeted by laughing chill ard wife. Mr. Moore-Jones is well represented also in a large portrait study of a Toungilady in white." .

The Hot Lakes Chronicle of Saturday, giys : —The record catch of trout so far this I reason was made yesterday by Messrs. Dar- ' owe and Horton, who were out on the lake » the oil launch Mourea. As the result of some seven hours'; trolling they caught 27 very good fish. Needless to say the anglers jrere elated with their good fortune. A thoughtful address upoa " Individualism Bid Socialism" was delivered -recently by fee Bishop of Melbourne (Dr. Lowther Clarke), in connection with the Christian Social Union, which'has been established to siudy social duties in the light of Christian teaching, and the fundamental principle of which, the Bishop explained, is to claim for the Christian law the -ultimate authority to rule social practice. Disclaiming any undertaking to expound or to confute socialism, the Bishop devoted himself to explaining on what terms they could work for it and what Christians meant when they spoke of Christian socialism. \ Early in the address he pointed out that ho stable social conditions can be founded upon principles and theories contrary to human nature, and that it was useless to assert an equality among men that does not exist. Social hopes were delusive which asserted false equality or sought to limit the energy of the individual. Having stated principles in an abstract form, the Bishop essayed i the more difficult task of applying them in the concrete, and showed ' that his hope w%* less in the extension of State interference than in that of individual effort. 'Competition he described as " the very essence of progress.'' He concluded with the statement that he had,no great revolutionary scheme for reorganising society. In the discussion which followed, a breezy address <ras delivered by Bishop Stretch, of Newcastle, and two members of the House of Representatives, Messrs. Higgins and L. E. Groom, also spoke.

A Bill to prevent the influx of criminals into New South Wales has (observes the Sydney Daily Telegraph) now passed both Houses of Parliament, and will shortly become law. The Bill enables the authorities to arrest criminals if found within New South Wales within a certain time of serving a sentence of a prescribed period in another State, and they can be deported to the State from which they came. • Provision is also made for the- deportation of undesirable prohibited immigrants.

' .White Cliffs had another cyclone on September 27. Trees were uprooted, and considerable havoc done to the country. A man who was out in the track of the storm sought refuge from the flying debris by getting inside an empty 400-gallon tank. This was also carried along for some distance by a blizzard with the man inside, and he was violently tossed about. He became terrorstricken and temporarily insane, and shrieked at the sight of every piece of paper or jam tin that passed.

Of all the evidences of good will displayed towards Sir E. Barton on his retirement from politics, the presentation made him by, the 10 working journalists who had daily business with him since May, 1901, seems to have touched Sir Edmund most. Speaking to a friend he said, "When I think of ; the hours and hours I have kept those pressmen waiting to see me on business, and remember the brusque and impatient way I have sometimes treated them when worried by a thousand and one troubles, I am simply astonished at the goodness of heart and generosity which led them to give me these handsome parting, gifts." v \ The proceedings at the sitting of the Tasmanian Full Court "recently, reports the Launceston Examiner, comprised a particularly interesting discussion between the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Clark on the question of State rights. The point at issue was whether the Deputy-Postmaster-General, being a Commonwealth officer, " v k was liable to stamp duty with regard to his salary. Their Honors differed in , ' opinion, and each of them delivered an elaborate and carefully-prepared judgment. Mr. Justice Clark declared that to compel . ,a Federal officer to stamp a receipt for his salary was to interfere with him in the "".discharge of his duties, and was therefore an infringement of Federal rights.'. In sup- .'■ port of this opinion His Honor quoted largely from American judgments. The V Chief Justice held that the stamp tax was ft' call upon thV individual, and had no re- . ference to his duties. Sir John Dodds illustrated the evils which would arise if the Federal officers were, as individuals, placed outside the operation of State laws, and gave judgment for the Crown. This being supported by Mr. Justice Mclntyre, became the verdict of the Court. Hereafter. , Federal officers must stamp their salary vouchers. ■. ■,' : ' ;: :- . ■ * , . ' There were five persons in the lockup last v evening charged with drunkenness. ■ ■