LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19740, 13 September 1927, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Tho remaining two of the four motorcars removed from streets in the city on Saturday have been recovered by the police. A Standard car, owned by Mr. Cecil Harold Schrafft, which was removed from Khyber Pass, was found outside a house in Alderley Road, Dominion Road, having been there since Sunday morning. The other, a Morris-Cowley, owned by Mr. W. Kerne, has been found in Sheehan Street, Ponsonby, having disappeared from Onehunga. The barometer was exceptionally high last evening, the reading being 30.35 in. This is the highest reading recorded since June 4, when the barometer reached 30.50 in. Four overcoats belonging to members of the Eden Cricket Club were stolen during the holding of the annual meeting of the club at the Chamber of Commerce last evening. Preliminary work in connection with the scheme for laying out the approaches in the vicinity of the new War Memorial Museum was commenced yesterday. The work is being undertaken for unemployment relief purposes, a sum of £7600 being available. Six men commenced work yesterday, and 14 more will bo engaged to-morrow. It is utlimately hoped to absorb between 50 and 60 men on the work, which will occupy thre? or four months. The wages paid are 12s a day for married men, and 9s for single men. Tho Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, Said' yesterday there was no difficulty in securing men for the work. "England has passed through exceed- } ingly bad times, but is recovering slowly," said the Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt, K.C., a former English Cabinet Minister, who arrived at Auckland from Vancouver by the Niagara yesterday. "I anticipate there will be a distinct improvement with the coming of the New Year. Tim Free State of Ireland is going to make good. It will have its ups and downs and many difficulties to face, but I feel it will overcome all these." Tho advisability of having New Lynn constituted a borough will be considered at a meeting of the New Lynn Town Board this evening. Should the proposal be favoured the electors of the district will be approached, and, if the necessary support is forthcoming, early application will be made to have the status of the district raised. The population of New Lynn is estimated at 3000. A legal opinion to the effect that the Roman Catholic school property and the sisters' residence were exempt from rates was received by the Onehunga Borough Council from the Municipal Association last evening. The council decided to remit the rates, £63, for the year ended March 31, and also those for the current year. The campaign against the use of the term "Australasia" is not being allowed to lapse. Mr. A. G. Lunn, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, received a letter from the "Australasian" agency of the London Times at Sydney. Mr. Lunn replied explaining the objection of New Zealanders to the term and also referred to his disinclination to transact business through an agency outside the Dominion. In replying the manager of the Times sympathises with Mr. Lunn's point of view and intimates that instructions have be«n given the Sydney representative to attempt to open an office in New Zealand. "I am not a prohibitionist, but I consider prohibition is doing the greatest good to the United States," said Mr- Murdoch Fraser, chairman of the Taranaki Hospital Board, who returned from a visit to the United States and Canada by the Niagara yesterday. The working people were at present receiving very high wages and they were saving more than they did before, while the conditions of their borne life in the large cities was very comfortable, due to their prosperous state. "A fine, prosperous and healthy race is growing up in America,, and I saw no evidence that spirits could be obtained in spite of the restrictions," added "Mr. Fraser. "The testator had an idea that if he died without making a will, the Government would take his estate," said a witness in the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday. "We have not reached that stage yet," remarked Mr. Justice Herdman. "There is a widespread impression that such is the case," counsel said. When an Eltham resident applied in the Hamilton Supreme Court yesterday for an order of restitution of conjugal rights against his wife, Mr. Justice Herdman asked why the case was brought on at Hamilton, instead of at New Plymouth. Counsel for petitioner explained that the case was called in Hamilton for the sake of privacy. "We have the right to bring it anywhere," said counsel "I cannot understand why it is done," said His Honor. "It does not appear to me to be the proper thing to do." Counsel said there was nothing in the rules against his action. The Judge allowed the case to proceed. Up to the present separate charges have been made by the Public Works Department for tho carriage of livestock on its extension line between Waiotira and Pukehuia, in the Dargaville district. Representations on the subject from farmers in the district have been gone into by Mr. Welstead, business agent for the Railway Department, and an arrangement has now been come to between the Public Works and Railway Departments that will remove the existing inconvenience. In accordance with this arrangement, through continuous rates will now be charged "from stations on the Public Works section to stations on the main line. An unusual form of entertainment was accorded a party of Auckland Orphans' Club members who visited Te Awamutu on Saturday. Members of the Te A\Vamutu Orphans' Club motored the visitors round the district, showing them the battlefield at Orakau, where the final stand was made by Rewi Maniapoto and about 300 warriors ugainst General Cameron's 2000 troops, including cavalry and field artillery, in the Maori War; the old Alexandra Redoubt at Pirongia, now occupied by the Anglican Church, occupied by the Armed Constabulary up to 1883, and still well preserved; the mission station at Te Awamutu, erected by the Rev. B. Y. Ashwell in July, 1839; the Church of St. John, Te Awamutu, with its stained glass windows presented by Queen Victoria, and its tablets and flags in memory of Maori War heroes; the sites of three or four flourmills, owned and operated by Maoris long before the war of 1863-64; and the- old Anglican Church at Rangiaohia, now known as Hairini. Mr. James Oliphant, » T« Awamutu enthusiast in local history, acted as lecturer, and the Aucklander# were very much interested.