LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Over a thousand bags of overseas mails for Auckland will be lauded in New Zealand on Monday. The Niagara, due at Auckland from Sydney early on Monday morning, has 448 bags of mails from Australia, England and the East for this port. The mail will be delivered during the day. Tho Maunganui is due at Wellington from San Francisco on Monday morning with 559 bags of English and American mails, as well as 295 bags of parcels for Auckland. If the steamer arrives in time to connect with the Auckland express tho letters will reach here on Tuesday morning, and be delivered tho same day. The second-class mail matter and parcels will follow later.

Tho weather was somewhat boisterous at Auckland yesterday, when a fresh breeze was blowing from the south-west. In the morning the wind blew in squalls, and tho weather at times was showery. The barometer, which had been low for some days, . registered 29.55 in. early yesterday morning. It rose slowly during the day, and last night tho reading was 29.70 in., where it showed indications of remaining steady. .

Two accident cases were admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday. Mr. George Gunn, aged 54, was admitted at 5.35 p.m. suffering from 6evcre cuts on tho left cheek and just over the eye, which necessitated stitching. His injuries were received through falling down the hold of the steamer Arapawa. He is making fair progress, but will undergo an X-ray. examination to-day. Miss Jessie Scott, of Queen Street, Northcote, who is 70 years of. age, fell backward, striking her head on tho pavement, while alighting from a tramcar in Queen Street, and was admitted to the hospital at 5 p.m. suffering from a severe cut on the back of the head. In spite of her wound and her age, she walked into the hospital, and her stoical endurance evoked much admiration. A number of stitches were inserted and an X-ray examination will be made to-day. ',

An illustrated Christmas Supplement will be published and circulated with the NSW Zealand Herald of Wednesday next. It will contain a wide variety of Christmas reading and an attractive display of seasonable pictures. Readers of both sexes and of all' ages will find the supplement interesting, instructive, and entertaining. There will,be no publication of the Herald on Christmas Pay.

The warships Dunecliu and Veronica will arrive at Auckland to day, the Dunedin at I p.m. and tho Veronica in tho evening. The Dunedin has been absent from Auckland for over six months. She sailed from this port on June 16, and since that date she has made an extensive cruise to the South Sea Islands and Australia. For some weeks the cruiser has been in Wellington. On arrival sho will berth at the Sheerlegs Wharf and the Veronica at the Dock Wharf.

The supply of fish in Auckland at present is particularly good, all varieties being more or less represented on tho' local market. Favourable trawling weather has enabled the various units of the trawling fleet, to secure uniformly good catches. Auckland should be well catered for during the Christmas season, indications pointing to there being fish in abundance.

The season for shooting godwit will open on January 1, and will extend over a period of three months. Special licenses aro obtainable from post offices or by application to the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Holders of ordinary £1 game licenses for 'J924, however, have permission to take these birds, 'lho shooting of godwits out of season is prohibited, arid the society recently obtained a conviction against a Maori for a breach of this regulation. Tho person upon whose information the conviction was obtained received the society's reward of £10.

More ill. sorrow than in anger, a Scotsman of small stature, who resides at Otahuhu, addressed the local body at its last meeting with a plaint concerning the amazing height attained by tho grass and weeds which had invaded the lower end of Nikau Road. " The grass grows alike on road and footpaths," he wrote, "and a.5 I, like Zaccheus, am short in stature, and the Scotsman's national holiday is approaching, 1 am looking forward with dread to the task of finding my way home late in the evening, after spending a pleasant timo with sorao of you gentlemen. My wife will probably have to appeal to tho police to organise a search party to look for tho ' wee painter if you do not send a man along to clear tho approach to our homes and take away the reproach to the progressive borough of Otahuhu." The letter concluded with hearty Christmas greetings. Presumably on general peace and goodwill principles, the Town Board decided to aecedo to tho request, and formally extended to complainant the compliments of the season.

Cockroaches, hugs and ants wore mentioned in the Arbitration Court yesterday as being troublesome to crows of steamers trading between Helensville and Dargaville, when tho men were asking for a six-monthly fumigation of the vessels. "I know there were some pretty lively fleas on one occasion," remarked Mr. Justice Frazer, in a reminiscent tone.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Richard George Millar, a farmer of Turua. A meeting of creditors will be held on January 23, at Thames.

Tho Parnell Fire Brigade received a call to a fire in some grass and gorso on a vacant section at Campbell's Point at 5.10 p.m. yesterday. The firo was extinguished before any damage was done.