LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20333, 14 August 1929, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A donation of £75 a year for tlircc years to tho Auckland Cricket Association coach fund is to be made l\y the Auckland Racing Club. A decision to this effect was readied at a meeting of the committee of the club yesterday.

A new model saloon car, which had been left by the owner, Miss C. Aitkenhead, outside her shop at 47, Park Road, about 7.30 last evening, was found to have been removed upon her return 15 minutes later. The car had not been recovered at a late hour.

The Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Tainui, which is due at Wellington from Southampton on Sunday, has 141 passengers for Now Zealand. The third-class passengers number 107, of whom 45, including 14 naval ratings, are for Auckland, 30 for Wellington, 10 for Lyttelton, four for Port Chalmers, seven for Napier, 11 for Timaru. The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Rimutaka is due at Auckland from Southampton at any time now, with 02 passengers, including 74 third-class, for New Zealand.

The discovery of a black albatross was made by Mr. S. Edwards in a paddock near Warkworth early on Sunday morning. The bird appeared to have been injured slightly and it was easily caught. It was later liberated on the Mahurangi River. Most of these birds which have been seen neai the New Zealand coast have been cither grey or black and white.

The three copies of the German war book " All Quiet on tho Western Front" that are being circulated by the Hamilton Library, are in constant demand. There arc over 50 subscribers on the waiting list.

The statue of Sir Edwin Mitchelson has been erected in the gardens of Ellerslie racecourse, and will be unveiled on Saturday afternoon by the Mayor, Mr. George Baildon. The statue, a bronze bust by the Australian sculptor, Sir Bertram Mackennal, is slightly above life-size, and stands upon a marble pedestal between Bft. and 9l't. high. The public, as well as members of the Auckland Racing Club, are invited to bo present at the unveiling ceremony.

The four carriages which the Dunedin City Council purchased some time ago from the Takapuna Tramways and Ferry Company for conversion into tramcars should lie in use very early next year. The under-gear and electrical equipment have been ordered from America and Britain respectively.

Members of the 2nd Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, a Waikato unit that was recently disbanded, have decided to request the dean and chapter of St. Peter's Cathedral. Hamilton, to have a memorial cabinet, bearing the names of members who fell at the war, deposited in the Cathedral. Tho battery established a fine record for efliciency both in peace and war.

A visit by Lieutenant-Commander Robbe, of the cruiser Tourville, to Taranaki last week-end revealed that the district was indebted to him for saving some of its people who were aboard the Marquette when that ill-fated transport was in October, 1915, torpedoed in the Mediterranean on its way from Alexandria to Salonika. A whole base hosiptal staff was being transferred, and among tho members were Dr. Wylie and Nurses Hooker and Sinclair, all of New Plymouth. Unfortunately the latter was drowned, and Nurse Hooker was only saved after being in the icy cold water for ten hours. Lieutenant-Commander Robbe and his crew managed to save 200 of the staff and crew; tho drowned numbered 99.

When the woman who was concerned in the Dominion Road tragedy, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Cubis, was charged in the Police Court yesterday with the murder of her two twin sons, Timothy Brian Cubis and William Arran Cubis, at 25, King Edward Street, on August 6, a remand was asked for by Detective-Sergeant Kelly. Accused was remanded to appear on August 22.

Complaints that swearing was far too common among players in the district were made at tlio last meeting of the llawke's Bay Itugby Union executive. Two officials reported a Give player for using bad language at half-time and again after a match. The player appeared before the union and admitted the offence, saying that the language was used in the heat of the moment. Tho executive did i.ot' accept the explanation, and suspended him until the end of June, 1930. Jt was pointed out that players were under the jurisdiction of the union all the time tlicy were on any of the union's grounds.

The prompt action of Senior-Sergeant Wade in extinguishing an outbreak of fire in a classroom at the Marist Brothers' school at Gisborne last week probably saved the building and the Roman Catholic Church, which is situated within 10ft. of the school, from considerable damage. Tho mantelpiece and match-lining above the fireplace were burnt, but at this stage the senior sergeant quelled the flames with several buckets of water before the arrival of the fire brigade. Tho fire originated through some smouldering embers in the grate setting alight to the woodwork of the •mantelpiece, the latter bursting into flames which travelled up tho wall.

The Christchurch City Council's special Traffic Committee has been considering the adoption of a system of instructing pedestrians through a microphone and public address amplifier. It is suggested that a traffic inspector should give pedestrians instructions, and ibsue warnings by this method.

A notice to the crow of the French cruiser Tourvillc was posted on board nt, Wellington, stating that any sailor giving away the little red tuft on 1 tho top of his cap, known as the "pompom," would be punished; and furthermore, no further supplies would be sold. It seems that when tho ship was at Auckland the fairer sex had persuaded tho "matelots" to part with their "pompoms" as souvenirs, but the authorities decided that a recurrence should not happen in Wellington.

" I was trying to speak French to somg of the sailors, and was doing my best to mako them understand me," said a man in the Wellington Magistrate's Court, when charged with being disorderly whilo drunk in Willis Street. It was oxplained that, he had been found arguing with sailors from the cruiser Tourvillo and causing a disturbance. " You wero trying to talk French to them?" asked Mr. 15. Page, S.M., with a smile. "Yes, sir. That was all," said the mail. lie was fined 10s.