LOCAL AND GENERA NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14454, 22 August 1910, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERA NEWS

His Excellency the Governor (Lord Islington) has been / informed by; the Secretary of 'State for the Colonies that His Majesty King George V. has been pleased to decide that the- period of full- Court mourning for the late King Edward VII. shall terminate in New. Zealand on September 30 instead of November 6. During the' period of j half Court mourning, beginning on October 1, His Excellency, in common with other Governors, may attend and give entertainments, but no balls may be given •in Government House until after. May 6, 1911. '' ■'"'■"' ''"'" '' "''■""" "

A sitting of the Arbitration Court -will

commence at Auckland on Thursday, October 6, at 10 a.m. Cases to be heard at the' session must be filed on or before September 17. Mr. Justice Simj president of the Court, has recently been taking a. session 'of the Supreme Court ; at Christchurch*

" The mail matter which reached Auckland by the ■steamer Wimmera yesterday j forenoon consisted'of about 500 bags. , ThisJ : included an English batch of about 300 ] bags, which' arrived by the P: and O. i line.; %' - : v:v: :^.: v : r:\;./-< ■;';'-;■■.■"■' .': : \

:< A conference of members of the thirteen education boards in. the Dominion will be opened in! Wellington to-morrow, and will probably-last three ' days. The business will be •mainly • confined to dealing with questions of administration, the finances of the boards, and. the relations between, them and the Department. The conference, 'which will be the first of its kind, has been promoted by the Wanganui Board, of which' "Mr.'.-P.- Pirani is chairman. This Board has supplied the majority of the " remits" to be considered, which ; number about a hundred. The Auckland Board will be represented by Messrs. C. J. Parr (chairman), H. J. Greenslade, M.P., and It-.', Crowe (secretary).

r The Union Steam Ship Company's stealers Kotuku and Rosamond experienced a 'rough time while crossing the Manukau Bar, inwards, on Saturday. Although the weather was fine, with only a fresh south-westerly breeze blowing, a very heavy sea was running on the bar. The Rosamond -suffered most, shipping several exceptionally heavy seas, one of which ' broke away the stern flag-pole. The vessel eventually berthed at Onehunga about mid-day, the Kotuku following shortly after. In berthing; the Kotuku got caught by the fast ebb tide, and her nose was carried on to the Rosamond's quarters, making a bit of a hole in and denting two plates, the damage to which, however, ; will be made good to-day.

. The man who was picked; up .by- the police on Friday night in an unconscious

condition ', and taken to the hospital, has been identified as P. Hallman, 55 years of age, lately employed at Donald's tannery, Richmond..:'.' Although there was a slight improvement in his condition last night, he is still in a precarious condition, suffering from a. form of paralysis.

The Rugby football match for the Ranurly shield, which was played between the Wellington and Auckland representative teams on Saturday at Alexandra' Park, attracted the . large attendance of ' 15,000 people. A great amount of interest was evinced in the game, the Wellington team being considered likely, to defeat Auckland and thus secure the shield. The match, which proved to be of an unusually strenuous nature, ended in a draw, each side scoring three points. The shield will, according to the rules governing these contests, remain in Auckland, the challenging team having to win •'before it can secure possession of the trophy. '-' . ■ '■' /.-.-■ ;/-.' ; ;' r ]:■■':.'*< - 'X

.-' The long-promised Edison electric storage battery,, which has been expected to revolutionise traction, has advanced a I stage, according to a letter sent from New | York by Mr. G. W. Win6tone, carrier, ! of this city, to Mr. , Chas. Bagley, chairman of the Moant Roskill Road Board. Mr. Winstone states that there- are':two cars running in New York on a horse-tram-line, ''and so satisfactory are these that the Edison Company have received orders to build cars so as to displace all the horse cars.". It j& claimed that the weight has been considerably reduced, and that the new 6torage-battery cars run from 75 to 150 miles out one charge.

The arguments put forward at the con' erence of delegates from the variouis Auckland agricultural and pastoral associations in favour of the extension of ■ telephone facilities. ia the -blocks are strongly seconded by Mr. W. ; T»: Jennings: (Tauinarunui),, whose; elecjborate: is .mostly' 'back blocks. Mr." Jennings said that it ! was hard for a townsman to;understand;" the inestimable boon the telephone was in thecountry.. It reminded the settler that he was not outside the pale of civilisation, and made life much more tolerable for the women folk.

The Onehunga Wharf presented an animated appearance yesterday afternoon, an exceptionally large number of people being present to witness, the departure ; of the Aladdii Pantomime Company by the Rarawa. " Much interest was taken in the "farewells,'' many of "Auckland's young men being present to bid* a seemingly,;re--gretful good-bye to the ladies of the pantomime.

THe reference to a proposed trial shipment of chilled beef from, Auckland, which was made at. the annual meeting of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing ; Company on Thursday, will .be" interesting to those who. appreciate the importance" of opening -up such a trade between the Dominion and the Old Country. Until" recently, the chilled beef business has been mainly •in v,- the ; hands t of ';' : . the ji; Argentine people, but lately three shipments :' have been made from Brisbane :by the Marathon, and these have proved satisfactory. Two trial shipments of chilled beef by the steamers Kaikoura and Tokomaru have been : made from New Zealand in the ■ past, but these did not prove altogether satisfactory, it : having; been found necessary to freeze" the meat before it reached Home. By means, however,, of a/new process known, as the Linley syitteriiy previous difficulties have been reduced »to a .minimum. 'This system has been adopted Jin connection with the Queensland .j 'shipments, and as Auckland 'is nearer ;■ to,- , London than Brisbane it is thought that "there should be no difficulty in successfully inaugurating the system in connection with the exports of New Zealand beef. ,' By means of this system beef can be carried at a temperature just above freezing-point, whereas the frozen beef: is carried at a temperature ? of about Fahrenheit. . The chilled 'meat, it is claimed, reaches "Home in a practically fresh condition, and thus has a great advantage 1 Over., the frozen article.

A lad named Herbert Maxwell, "aged I five years, had a narrow escape from : serious, if not fatal injuries, on Friday afterj noon. • Motorinan Thomas Johnstone, who I was in charge of .No.. 16 car, was going np : New North Boad, when he noticed the lad with his back to the car in the vicinity of the train;: line. Just as the car was I passing another lad went .'■ to touch;."Mix-. well, and the latter ran on to the r line in. front of the car, v and was knocked down by, and disappeared underneath it. : Fortunately the. motorroan, with great '} presence, of mind,; promptly applied the emergency brake, and the car, . which wag going slowly up /a grade at the time, pulled up within three yards. Then, to the surprise of the spectators in the vicinity, the lad emerged from underneath, and ran away crying. , 1$ was found that he had received no injuries beyond a bruise on the forehead and slight abrasions on the wrist and knee.

A house at Horseshoe Bush* owned and occupied ,by Mrs. Phillips, was burned to the ground, last Wednesday. v; Mrs. Phillips was;absent in town, and ; her daughter had leftj the house to goto the post office, leaving; a ( fire burning in the stove. i Nothing was saved, the family losing everything but the clothes they stood in.- The building was insured, but ■'there was. no insurance on the furniture. '-:'■.» ".?

The second instalment of the. new /serial story, " The Brown Mask," appears in this issue. A comprehensive synopsis , of;. the previous chapters accompanies the '• instalment* " - • ''- .

A representative. supporters was held in Te KnrdToV>rL HI day evening, for the purpose of seatingH M candidate to contest the Taoiaavinsnt at the eltjction' next year. Thewas unanimously in favour oi Mr Bocldie, Mayor of Te Kuiti, who pressed his willingness to tion. Committees will shortly be foraftrfl to assist Mr. Boddie's candidate*?.:* The Northern Steamship [ Company. Claymore, which has been lengthened cor siderably, will resume her west mng this week, being expected : to ?I Sffl at Onehunga from Auckland and BoK^llll anga to-day. •■ The same 1% ary ketch Albatross, Cantab J H ofi ~_ l%k will probably be taken off the OnehGnjE 18 Waitara running, and retaraVAnckfead after v discharging her present ■ cargo .U 'i*| Waitara. 6 "^l • - >'<?*'s!% A hobby of the rich is brought into notice by the remarkably fine exhibition of orchids which is being held jupt now ' by the Royal Horticultural Sock*.- 1 Holland Park (writes our London coii«i * pondent). Mr. Godseff, the head of oat of the largest horticultural firms at &. Albans, has paid as much in his time W%'l £1650 for a single plant, and he has bwa telling an interviewer ok' the rather pros, some history of a certain specimen of rare species :—" The . natives &of New' Guinea do not inter their dead; place them .on shelving - : rocks. Our collector, who was exploring the country • \ found the orchids had rooted ;in the skele! ' tons of these departed natives. "*Q X specimen had taken complete possession A of a skull, and its beautiful pink Wig A*j projected through the sockets of the eyes. / .' ! He sent this extraordinary plant to as "1 -and we sold it, skull included, to a grojj ' | financier and member "of the 'Hoi's* o? V ' Lords.".. - iIS^S ' The report of the New South Wales' '" Minister. for . Public Instruction for tto''\< ' year 1909 states that during the, year 201 additional schools or departments 'were 1 opened . and 128 closed, -leaviagjj|Jb||p||||a ber in operation at the close 'afc'XSfiS, » schools and 3283 departments. The gnja ' enrolment for all the schools vmderj&a Department's control was 276,282, coinprising. 274,109 for day schools and 217J for evening schools. The sum available for expenditure under the Public Instruction Act was £1,117,208, and the outlay was £1,094,008,, namely, £l49ffl(H on school premises, ; £877,916 or. school maintenance, and £66,324 on adnnmßfi£, tion and training schools, leaving a at the end of the year of £23,198. r^4;.:p Extraordinary negligence is shoTra.br some people in the matter of letter-T/-#iiiig. During last month in the letteV-cirnanri* & branch of the Post Office in unregistered letters were detected contaming coin or notes. Some of the letters'wglfil not even been closed down, and monejs||pfij| ticular case a letter-carrier found as jojei'S, | letter containing £11 in notes. In anothep case a letter which [had/been damn 5s '.transit' contained a.. £5 rote. It is said" tot be quite a common occurrence' to find let- •; fens containing postal notes not down. The Poet Office, while that the public is paj'ing it a high comnli«> •',. ment in trusting it to such an - exttnt," naturally desires that money letters be treated by the senders with at loufe/i minimum of care. As all letters havetp, pass through a great many hands from-tin i time of posting to the time of "deliver ', ji» if undesirable that money should; bo sent in unregistered letters. " (iffi^Sm Comment on tho altered relations r-xufc . ;. ing between professor and sfaclent -ms"- > made by Dr. Findlay at th*. dinner in honour -. of * Mr. J. W. '.. Joywi^^E. i* •;,:" Wellington', on, Saturday ngifc yln tha • olden days, he said, it ha/i been an attitude of condescension on the part of t4* | instructors; now it wa/. a 'nbpnt^';.^^^P I mutual aid and sympathy. The Attorney* General paid a tribute to the prof staff of Victoria College whom hf■ chaiw <- w { tensed as the most estimable body of pro. - - lessors he knew. 'The'"speakerwass^M" | that the Chief Justice spoken) lived for the cause of cation. ' Every man who went thnm'.'U 4 university course shed light and cu&wt i when he went abroad. Their guest weald be remembered as a man who \ more for art, literature, and all that naaV for true culture in the wmmurity/rttaa/fe I most men ;in this country. < A PP 1 Mr. Joynt bad been one of ih/i witgft fat'citizens with which the 7ife lington had been adorned, ■ ~y^ Long custom has to soma extent &'*»•> tioned an evil practice on ike tyMSSJSgK wharves, says the ChrisrUhurch SU*v. I* .. has apparently become .ssggffl of the men who work on the coal which has fallen to the: wharf whM ' being discharged from the steamers*: comes the perquisite of- the men ™#*i| at these ' vessels, and it.- is th« nataf|» some of the labourers to rely to: «?*s?* tent upon the gifts of fortune tor their filing. A complaint was made w the police '; lately in connection with this on Saturday morning ; a o charged with having stolen coal w H» value of Is. The.'accused pleaded not guilty, alleging that during a short **J£f dence in the port he ha/1 been ma*fc|| -M understand that he had » right *-&% share in the fallen c«L iMirthei', h» M understood that such coal \«M%MgH wharf was not wanted by its owners, S2 ; it was mixed with dirt and refuse, and £ most of it was swept into the water. JU» >,{h local-sub-manager of the Union Comply ?/ was present, and stated -that at &k«M estimate *bout 200 tons of coal was lo»;p annually by being carried off m gnenj. •| * bags. A fine of 10s was inflicted. v' ,; v •'■ .Examinations were gffl Auckland, Christchurch, Danedin, b* • borne, Hamilton,, InvercargiU, Napier,, Nekon, Palmerston North, . £«*«&s Wanganui, and Wellington by the «£- *j amu-irl of the Inspection «*?*s£;•s Department. Of the 206 candidate, who t j sat for examination 138 ™ The examinations were for the ; classes'of certificates :~First-clasS n engineer, second-class marine - : third-class marine engineer, ; and engineers of auxiliary-powered "^ftffl (both for sea-going and river trade),«to first,-class engineer, first-class ■**«£ I Sne-drner, 2 second-class stationary **> , gihVdriver, locomotive and traction_engnie driver, and winding engine-driver (for nun- , , ing certificates). . J \i ; Speaking in the House of *£"»£ { tives on Wednesday mght Mr. i||M man, M.P. for Manawatu, «pj . . man, the need for _ more ad* l . ■-' sised the need for the mow J» quate. representation of «-«"** distrtos in the Upper House. - f Laurcnson (Lyttelton) rephedtot eat« - . 39 members of the Upper Ho^nin.represented the primary about 25 per cent of the Councd. ene.i«ed in the agricultural industry represented 24.30 the population, so they C f d « actly represented. On the e^^^& the industrial population , t2& tionately represented, as they forn^a^ o 'i the whole people, but bad onr/su representatives. Mr Field (0^■ Jj* that, nevertheless, the 'agncngMi ition was not properly e gfS« view .of the importance. of and =' the manner m • which t . M was scattered all oyer VffiSi»#| were no representatives of W' aU ? n vince outside Wellington city, '^||||