LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14854, 4 December 1911, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A European and . Australian .mail \ of. 569 bags t arrived from Sydney/by the Maheno yesterday morning.'' \ Some 300 bags were dealt with at Auckland, the ( balance being despatched South by the Main Trunk express last night. ■ < Personal / items -from London - and other 'interesting news/by, mail will be found elsewhere in this issue.

Two years ago, Sir.' John; Findlay allowed Hansard to record his opinion that Auckland was a huge rumbling, grumbling city. Mr. / Massey ' ■ extracted that sentence for the information of the Parnell; electors at Remuera on •: Friday evening. "It is a grumbling ' city,' l said Mr. Massey, and his audience did ' not look particularly well , pleased. Then it realised the possible 1 application - : of the term, and - its feet echoed ;; the Reform leader's next i remark. "It is a tumbling city—but it will be humbling to the; city of Auckland if it has 'to go to; Wellington for a man to represent it ip; the Parliament of the country." . And the grumbling and the rumbling swelled into a mighty roar as the big audience made its agreement manifest. . ,-.:'■ The premises of Mr. A. Jones, bootmaker, of Queen-street,. Onehunga, were entered from the rear on Friday night, and a number of pairs 'of boots were stolen. The burglary was discovered by Mr.. Jones on Saturday morning, after he entered the building, and as far as could be ascertained about £20 /worth/ of footwear had disappeared. Sergeant Rogers, the Onehunga police, is investigating the matter. Amongst the arrivals at Auckland yesterday was the Union Company's steamer Tofua, from Sydney and Island ports. The vessel was four days late in reaching port owing to being delayed at Sydney through various causes. News *by \/: the steamer from . Tonga states that- the wrecked steamer Knight of St. George still lies in the same' position on the reef at Nukualofa. ■-■'■ Salvage parties are 1 busily engaged in getting out the. balance of the lumber from the doomed vessel's holds. . . The queer behaviour of a- man named William Daisley attracted attention on the Cumin-street Reach, Ponsonby, yesterdav afternoon, and led to his arrest by / Sergeant; O'Grady and Detective Quartermain on . a . charge /of attempted suicide. ; The officers, in their patrol of the :; foreshore at 3.30 .p.m., saw Daisley, who /was fully dressed, up to his neck in water and wading. out to sea. Fortunately, Messrs. Hall' Brothers;' of Jervois Road, .were out rowing at the time, and went --after/-:the: man, who was •in '• imminent dan ger of. being washed off * his feet. They pulled him into /their boat . and then , rowed ashore,, where/ the .-police*/ took / the , : man into- custody. ; Daisley . will be brought before the magistrate this morning lon i a charge :of attempted suicide. . ~•„•:. . . • ■'

Five large oversea vessels are «™Jln..' ' I) at Auckland during the con;i4^-:: ; i; he Tvscr liner Marere should arrive i * I ..London via Australian ports to-Bu^""! 1 ' ' f She 'will discharge over 3000 V' J of cargo. On' Thursday morning < ,j I Rcmuora, the. latest addition to th« i* ' P Zealand Shipping Company's flout .v-" arrive from Lyttelton. The "new'ateJ? Den of Airlic, en route from New' 7*7 ■ ■ I 1 and" Australian ports, the Federal-Honldl Shire;liner./ Morayshire, , from via Capetown and Sydney, and the du .' 1! kalian mail / liner Strathardfe, * ' ea tO S Vr [ from San Francisco and Island nVrtMIl should ■ put in an appearance jJT%f I towards the end of the week. • '\ ■ " i Two horses attached to a lorry ownM ' I by Messrs. A. B. Wright and Co.,>bolltd '* along ; Fort-street on Saturday at-mid- " 1 day, and caused some damage before their •'' I career was stopped in Queen-street. ,Tk driver had left the team in chargo of'a man in front of the firm's office in Com. j f, 1 " merce-street, and by some means: i\l ; . f animals bolted. The lorry collided ti a handcart «■ and smashed it, and then 1came in contact with a light farm W&. t gon belonging to Mr. S. Hodge, of •Papa'.' {. i toetoe, and smashed the back wheels. On H j reaching Queen-street, the horses camo' '1 into collision with the front of the Government Insurance office, with the «>. suit that the pole of the lorry Wfts splintered and one of,the horses was "'«%.•' ously injured about the head." eThispN brought the team to a standstill. , ftu, ' injured animal is a valuable horse, aid v quite recently the owner refused £50* foe it. ' » ; The second day's racing in connection with the" Takapuna Jockey. Club's Bpri|g Meeting was entered upon " on ; f Saturdiy afternoon, under wet and stormy weathWfll conditions, which precluded carrying the ■ programme further than the fourth fn&mS when'" the Stewards met and ; unanimously decided upon a. postponement. There .was" ; a large attendance on the course, and the' racing, as far as it went, provided senia. tions enough to live for a long time in the ■ memory ; of. ••» those ■>' present. Forty-two horses started for the quartette of races 3£ decided, and of this lot ho less than 12 met ' with ■ mishap, while, two - horsemen were > i injured, and several others heavily shaken. Details of what happened will be found in the report of the racing, in another column. ;' A. Whittaker, rider of Sphinx, in the \i}; Spring' Handicap, and J. Hall , * an 'i ap|rpiS; tice, who rode Miss Jewel in the .Vaushall ->■'"■ Handicap, suffered most, and were taken off the racecourse in the ambulance. wag. gon. Little Hall's mount slipped along tfiajjlf back, and as he * was rising 'he «was' struck B by a parsing" horse, and severely injured. He was removed ' to, a nursing home Devonport, where he now : lies. ; • Whittaker*|/J| was removed to Mr. 0, Coleman's tea. deuce at Ellerslie, and was ■ confined i& his bed yesterday, being cut about .the head, and much bruised and -shaken. His escape V .;; from death was miraculous. Dr. Gratlan Guinness attended the lads on the course. The sweet pea and carnation sljow-of 'fflj&m Auckland Horticultural Society' was-con* tinned on Saturday, under the unfavourable conditions of bad weather,.which . marred all outdoor gatherings. , The heavy rain necessitated the postponement .of the elaborate programme arranged-for; the•.{it\£k ternoon. /' attendance . during the evening was only : moderate, and the said of blooms was not profitable. The receipts . for* the two days amounted ■' to less than £60, so that the show has myolved'aheayyVf-: loss. Arrangements have been made for the sweet pea "pageant and the other events of; the flower carnival to be held next Satur- / , ■day, afternoon. former will be a representation of ? the-evolution of the sweet pea. It has been : decided that,additional entries will be - received during the ; week for the, competitions. .'• The judges of the children's gardens jn the Auckland Horticultural SocietyVcom-' •■.: 'petition speak jin . terms 'of high. praise Jgi the school gardens at Point Chevalier. .;lat a memorandum appended to the' prize jlis||ffl the .judges.- describe the gardens asthe best for : general effect '. Been in ' their' font .;/. days' judging. The portion' cultivated < 4y,| l j|| each child was BO;' limited in area that it was impossible to judge their gardens in.:-j competition with -the larger ones at other ' fichools. The most , remarVable ; circunv £itance in connection with the children flower show was the success'of Flat Bush ■ .school, which, with.less than 50 pupils jjn $M the school roll, came within 20 , points ; of winning the championship . shield from Remuera. Extra express trains will be run on .the ; Main Trunk . line from December .16 to :, s January, 6. The service from Auckland.; to Wellington will comprise the : ordinary : express train ' leaving at 9.10 p.m. daily, except Saturdays, and arriving at Wellington at 4.12 p.m. on the following day,'a schedule running time of 19 hours ; two minutes; t and 'a,second express leaving at 10 p.m. and arriving at Wellington at 5.w-||p p.m. on the next day, a schedule time M 19 hours 46 minutes. . While . the. : adcjl- . tional express is running the first train I will, take ; passengers from Auckland 'for J only Taihape and stations south of. that town,'and--will not lift passengers except -for stations between Waipukurau and Napier. .The ordinary express train froih Wellington, which leaves at 11.50 a:m., M due at Auckland at.6.68 a.m., the journey taking 19 hours eight minutes. The second up/express will leave Wellington at 12.35 p.m. on week days, and is scheduled to reach Auckland at 7.55 a.m., taking, hours 20 minutes on the journey. ■•' ; '; :■, ~ ■'. ; ' '•• ■; .. : ■ .'; '". .. ....:,.■ .-'..': : , ;.,■;■:. . iA^/.* 1 ?!!!! "There ; are more > labour 7trouble*/* writes / our Tongan .correspondent, 'this timo among the native assistants.at; tbe;,. hospital, who have sent a ' joint letter to the chief medical officer, saying that, unless their salaries are raised, they will ; bo reluctantly compelled to, leave ' the work' and go out as a protest. '/-"^ n, 'j!^H . connection it may be mentioned that one of 'the leading traders in ■ Yavau, ; "' be !f l lS tired of the trouble of trying to induce Tongans and Nieueans to work, has I , '}!:ijffl ported a gang of 19 Indians' from 1 ?TO« to do his copra shipping and : general work. /It is said that these men ) aw much more satisfactory than the Pacific islanders, -and several others will probably /do the same, and £ import labour* There is sure to be the objection raised "that the-Indian is a menace to the nf*M|| race, -as is the' case in Fiji, whero the nrn tives are being '. fast supplanted *by tc » . : coolies; but, on tho other hand, it argued that if these labourers are engaged ior a term, and then compelled to leave the country at ' the end of that terra, <» else make a hew agreement for a fresft term of service, it. should obviate,- »/jjsJ difficulty with regard to their remaining m ' , the group to engage in trade or take •«# laud." .;■■■; "instructions have been given to police by Sir John 'Findlay: to comment ' the patrol of the harbour to-day in;a»K | cial launch for the protection of «gag j yachtsmen's property. v Tho harbour W I now be patrolled at irregular hours. e\cry j". While disembarking from the -H^Mp 1 ville boat on Saturday afternoon aniKSWiij ! lady, Osklestone, ,/of/f Eohio^H I slipped on the wet staging and fell heavitf* pj Her right wrist was fractured. jf|S .- : ; j'';