LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4288, 22 February 1901, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho use of (ho To Aro Baths from 3 to 4. this afternoon was granted to Miss iSwaiiisou’s school by (ho Cily Council last night.

Tho Wellington Orchestral Society has decided to'product) next month Mr Mauglmn Barnett’s "Jubilee Ode,” which was composed for the Canterbury Jubilee celebrations.

Tho following arc additional contributions to the Queen’s Statue Fund ; - Wohh street Primitive Methodist Church, £4 5s (id; Court Sir William Jewels, A.0.F., .Cl Is.

A Magisterial inquiry is to be held at the instance of tho Marino Department into the circumstances attending tho collision of the Karamca with tho Elingamile, at tho Queen’s Wharf, last week.

The consideration of the tenders for tho construction of tho To Aro Baths, and also of the sea-wall and widening of the roadway at_ Clyde quay has been postponed by tho City •Council till next week.

Messrs R. P. Masted, T. Allender, 11. W illis, and H. J. Christenson correctly guessed the weight of live sheep (34511 q at the Mastorton show on Wednesday The ■-aim of £2ll was realised hy the 11.5.-.C----ciation us tho lariidt of the competition.

Mr C. 15. Rohcrlsoii, of tlid Town Clerk’s staff, having resigned to lake tip a position with Messrs Sargood, Son and F.wcn, Mr Charles Collins has been appointed in his place, he having been second on Iho list of applicants when Mr .Robertson was appointed. The application made to the City Council by Jupp’s Band, for permission K, play in the Basin Reserve on Sunday, and take up a collection in aid of the baud contest fund, was last night referred to the Reserves Committee of the Council, with power lc act. Tho City Council, in committee last night, resolved to go to the ratepayers i.n- authority to borrow £50,000 for tho purpose of erecting a Town Hall in accc rdance with iho design signed “Commonwealth” (Mr Joshua. Chavlesworth), which took the first prize in tho recent competition.

A party of Wellington gentlemen chartered tho Dnco last AVediictdav. and wont on a fishing excursion outside tho Heads. A start was i.i.ulo at 9 a.m., and tho party returned To Wellington at 5 p.m., after a most successful day’s sport, over a ton cf fish being caught, principally at a. point near Pallisflr Bay.

The-journal of the Department of Labi in- for February reports as follows of the labour market at Wellington Building and engineering trades still InisV'in all branches; retail trade (genital) very good .*ln all branches. There wore a. considerable, number of applicants tor unskilled employment during the month, several of wHom were assisted to i be country districts for the harvest and grass-seeding. A number wore also sent lo public works. Good coudil ons are cermrallv reported throughout the W elliugtou ‘district. The building tratio is c(-,,U.d to bo dull at Hunterville. i’aluaiua and Ekotahuna, and the retail trade to be very dull at Hunterville.

A railing of Die Court 'if Appeal will Iw held mi March 18th-

The appointment of Mr Tlicophilns Cooper as a Judge of Die- Buprcni'- Court is gazetted. A (>aznftr. Extraordinary axis i.-sned v.-s.l.erday. further proroguing Die General Assembly till the IBt.ii .April. A, meeting of the Few Zealand Farmers 1 Eidon Will be held at Dalton's Dali.

I'pper ilutt, to-morrow evening. Tho Rev ivo E. Bertram (Presbyterian) has been gazetted an officiating minister under Die Marriage Act. The euciuists of V/elhiigl on will ob,rrvo Die. afternoon of Monday a.-; Die weekly ball' holiday next week.

The Federation Commission has closed its sil ting at Christchurch, and will open one in Wellington on Monday. Tin; appointment of Jhm. fi- Maclanrie, D.Se.. F.C.H., to be an analyst under the

Adulteration Prevention Act is gazetted. The amintil picnic of Messrs Luke and Co.’s employees will bs held at Day’s Bay to-morrow, tho boats leaving at 10 a.in. and 3.30 p.m.

One of tho finest collections of Maori curios in tho colony was recently sold in Wanganui, and will he exhibited in Anstralin and tho Old Country.

According lo tho “Bruce Jfeiald,” the damage, done by .small birds to the crops in tho Tok.nuamro district is attaining alarming dimensions. Out of a total of 3MA animals slang!;l< red at tho Dunedin nuuiicipai abattoir;; in two weeks, only four cattle were condemned as unfit for food._ Tho Press Association advises that Die (le verument, steamer Hincmoa yesterday left tho Bluff for Wellington, via Puyscgu.r Point and West Coast lighthouse.-,.

The Ekotahuna County Council has declared ragwort to bo. a noxious weed, and the Paliiatua Comity Council has declared all tho plants enumerated in Die schedule to the F'oxious Weeds Act. i (• is notified in tho “Gazelle” that tho

shouting season for fallow deer in tho Wanganui district will open on tho Ist March, and close on the I'dh. April. In Dm South Wairarapa county tho season for snooting deer will open on the Ist March, and close on the 30tii April.

Councillor Anderson drew tho atten•mu of the City Council le.-.t evening ■o tlm luxuriant, but unsightly crop of fennel weed growing upon tho vacant •'round oppotJM tho Supremo Court, and urged that it should bo cut down. Tho Mayor said the matter .would be attainted to in a. few day’s. A similar reply was given to Councillor Evans, in answer In hit; question as to when Dio tramway shelter-shed at Courtuay fdace, would be completed.

Air W. Tonks wishes us to state that tho had no intention, in his remarks at tho D.M, Court, to reflect upon the sanity of (ho Court of Arbitration, but merely to express his (preference for the S.M Court, as a place where he might got i onsidcralioti. In the ease against Mr Tonks for selling under-weighb broad, Dio Court dismissed the charge. Tho ‘ Times'’ report of what transpired in Court was throughout absolutely cornet.

The’ summer flower show of Die Wellington- Horticultural Society will he hold to-clay iu the Federal Theatre, Manners street. There is every indication Duit the present exhibition of the society' will prove one of the most successful lhafc it has yet held. Tho exhibits of cut flowers promise to bo especially good. During the afternoon Minifies String Band will play a selection of music. The judging will bo finished by 3 p.m., when the doors will be opened to the public.

Among the appointments in the Post and Telegraph Department gazetted this week are the following: —Permanent — O. S. Gallic, cadet, Martinhorough; nonpormanont—J. E. Jorgensen, postmaster and telephonist, Kilbirnio ; Henry Mao farlanc, postmaster, Belvedere; C. Jloadley, postmaster, Tinwahi; E. Parvote, postmaster, Rawhitiroa; .Blanch 11. Stokes, postmistress, Taumatatabi; fliU'y Jordan, postmistress and telephonist, ’To i‘.oro. Post offices have been opened at Belvedere, Kilbirnic, Tamnalat alii, Tinwahi and Turangarere; money order offices and post office savings banks at Colyton and Qtakeho : postal note offices at Brooklyn, Kilbirnio and Ngairo ; r. telephone office at Glen Oroua; and a telephone bureau at Silverhope.

The highest rainfall in the North Island for the month of January was 14.71 inches at Mangorci, where rain fell on ‘JO days. The heaviest fall for a period of twenty-four hours was 3.81 inches on the Bth ult. at Ngatima.ru. The lightest fall for the month was 1.19 inches at Cuvier Island, whore rain fell on only four days. In tho South Island the heaviest aggregate fall was 17 22 inches at. Puysegur Toint, where rain fell on 18 days. At tho Quartz Ranges (00lJingwood) tho foil was 11.26 inches. .Puysegur Point maintains its record by having also experienced the heaviest fall for a single day, 5.02 inches having fallen on the 3rd ult. Tho lowest rainfall in tho South Island was five inches at. Woodbury (Geraldine), three inches of this having fallen on a single day. The second annual picnic of the Wellington United Building Trades will ho held at tho now Government grounds, Upper Hutt, to-morrow." Tho sports programme comprises twenty-two events, including a tug-of-war in throe draws, open raeos, and separate races for all the different trades, and valuable prizes will be given for all events. Special trains will leave To Aro for the Hutt at 9.30 and 10.10 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Wellington at 9.40 and 10.25 a.m. and 1.45 p.m. Parents and children are requested to travel by tho 9.30 a.in. train. The return trains for Wellington leave (he Hutt at 5.10 and 6 p.m. Tho painters, plumbers., builders and contractors of the city will closo their premises tomorrow on account of the picnic. Our Palmerston North correspondent writes;—Three cases of typhoid fever* contracted in Palmerston aro reported to have been cajised hy defective sewerage.—Our City Fathers arc, at present, anything but a happy family, some of them, going so far as to threaten to slay away from the Council meetings unless lie,ter order is observed.—A man named Park'T has been missing from Palmerston for several days, and although his clothes were found on the river bank,

and the police have dragged the river without success, there is a suspicion that his supposed drowning is a, hoax.— Tho polo match between the Victorian team and Manawatu and Fcilding combined will take place on Saturday at Hckowliit u.

Tho rector of tho Wanganui Collegiate Buys’ School is strongly of opinion that his senior pupils should be instructed in tho elementary principles of '‘first aid to the injured,” and as the result ol a communication from him on the subject. the committee of the St. John Ambulance Association m TVellingtou has arranged with Dr Jlatherley, ol TV a. uganui, to give a special course, of leetines for juniors. An examination wd! subsequently be held, but this will not bo an equivalent to the ordinary ‘‘brst aid” one, and consequently any successful examinee desirous of qualifying for tho medallion examination would have to attend the -ordinary “first aid” lectures

and pass the stipulated re-examinations, in addition to tho above-mentioned junior examination, before a medallion could be awarded.

A conference of friendly societies F lo he held in Wellington during the next sitting of Parks.:,c-Die idea being lo pres-, for reform legislation. The recom;rio..;':; : o>-.s of rim Conciliation Board in tlx- 'Twits’ dispute ivct t id.-.d ,vc,-ierd;iv. If there i.-. no applies lion lo tli.,- registrar from oiri.sr party to Die- dispute for leave ... rarry their differenet. before the Arbitration Court within one month from the finding of •; 1 ; fj n.soninmnd;.; lions, the [alter will b> binding on both parties till March 31st, IOOT . Mr A. R. Atkinson yesterday obtained from Dr Mc-Artlntr, H.M.. a delay of proceedings on behalf of tho defendant in the ea .o of Vf. R. Porteous v. T. J, 'l.bomj/suu, a. claim for C.>3 .3; Od in connect ion with partnership traiiHao-

Eons. U is the intention cf defendant t o apply for a transfer of tho proceeding., tot he Supreme Court. Air Daizicil is appearing for the plaintiff, and the matt<T is to be dealt with by the Supreme Court tills morning. Jnpp’s Rand played a. capital programme at tho J errors quay Rotunda last evening. Xhcr rendering of ‘T Puritan!” was first-class, while the inarches “Commodore” and “Few Zealand's Contingent-.'’ wei'3 ' played in good ttylo. The other items were given with Dm crispness that conies of hard and constant. practice, and applause was heard m frequent intervals. On tho whole the performance was highly creditable, and spoke well for tho energy and persevermicc of Bandmaster Jnpp.

At last night’s meeting of the City Council, tho report of tho Library Committee, recommending thro ciia City Council undertake to begin the h'diding of tho Newtown branch library witno' six mouths from the. Ist February, and to complete it within fifteen months from tho same date, was adopted. At amendment by Councillor Tolhurst, that t'-.o time bo extended to nine and eighteen months respectively as the time for beginning and completing Dio bunding, was strongly opposed by Councillor Luke, and was defeated on tho voices.

Referring to Dio ruling of tho Coni iliation Board re Dm amendment oi tnc ike demands of the Amalgamated Union of Cooks and Waiters in tho refcent abc--l ive proceedings before tho Board on account of a serious over-ight on tho part of that union iu framing its demands, il may bo important to have what was read by Die chairman, on the occasion of giving (he Board’s decision on. Mr Cooper’s application ;—“ Tho Board s opinion D that the ainendmonts pronosc'l arc so great- and important that whatever view may be bold as lo wiicDiCt or not tho Board has the right to amend demands or to permit them to bo -amended such amendments as tin; union proposes cannot be allowed.” The Board gave no decision as fo the right l.i> a mend.

The powers of (ho chairman of the Conciliation Board in influencing the settlement, of industrii.il disputes heard before Dial body- arc not generally (i.udeislued. They have been erroneously co oi pared with those possessed by the Fresiclout of tho Arbitration Court. Tim President of the Court, however, hrs much larger powers than the chairman of tho Board. The President, jn event, of ins colleagues differing, can materially influence Die complexion of iho award to he given. Tho award must meet with his approval, whereas Die chairman of Die Board has merely a casting vote in event of the members of the Board being unable to agree, although the recommendations made may wander far from liis own private' judgment. The recommendations in the drivers’ ease were fairly unanimous, it is understood.

The case of-Laery and Co. against the Union Steam 'Ship Company, claim £22 10s, a friendly suit to settle the measure of liability incurred by tho defendant company whore fruit is delivered in a bad condition at tho port to which it is consigned, was mentioned in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning by Mr Wiiford, counsel for the Union Company. Tho defence to the action is that the fruit was allegedly .-.hipped in an unsound condition, and Mr Wiiford asked that tho case be adjourned so that the defence could pro dime certain officers of the steamer Taviuui. Mr Menteath raised no objection on behalf of the plaintiffs, and Dr McArthur, S.M., adjourned tho case sine die, on the understanding that the shipping company would notify the plaintiffs when the Tavinni next arrived at Auckland, and should proceed, with the case within three days after that time.

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning Dr McArthur, S.M., delivered his reserved judgments in 1 lie oases of W. G. Tustin v. Garland and Wilson, Walter and Robinson, claim £BS 12s, and of A. Smith v. the same defendants, claim £79 19s, each case being a claim, for preferential treatment as against tho remaining creditors of the assigned estate of the last-named three defendants. His Worship held that the plaintiff Tustin had- established his right on lien to be treated as a preferential creditor, but the claim, of Smith was disallowed. Costs totalling £7 10s were allowed to Tustin, but tho defendants were allowed £ll costs against Smith. Mr'Young appeared for plaintilf Tustin, -Mr Dfflzicll for plaintiff Smith, Mr Myers for the trustees of tho asigned estate, and Dr Knight for defendant- Garland. A claim for £5 5,s was made by IT. Brown.' against Job 11. Moyer. Tho plaintiff hail allowed tho defendant, to slack timber on a section ot land, and the question' in dispute was whether or nut'an arrangement* had been made between the parties that the defendant should pay real. After some evidence had .been taken, plaintiff’s counsel (Mr Dalzicll) elected to take a. nonsuit in consequence of the absence of a material witness. At the same sitting of tho Court Alfred Seurlo sought to recover £36 fiom Ignatius Singer _ lor breach of agreement to keep plaintiff in his employ. Mr >. Uford appeared for plaintiff and Mr Dalziell for defendant. Tho defence to the case was that the contract' was mutually determined. Judgment was given for plaintiff lor £S 12s paid' into Court by defendant, with 12s costs. Dr McArthur gave judgment for plaintiffs in The following crises in the absence of tho respetive defendants; —Martin and Jones v. Daniel O'Sullivan, £2 18s 6d, cosvs 10s; Commercial Agency v. Robert and Alberta Talbot, £2l 12s' 7d. costs'.£3 Is; J. Did! lie i\ ud Co. v. Henry D. Hopbins. £6 lis -Id, costs 8s; .' Mary M. Child v. Alfred 11. VeuncU, £4 10s, costs’ ss. Judgment .summons :—L. Scl\ata and-Co. v. Malcolm S. Brunette, claim. £ls 11s 7d ; order made for payment- of £1 per month, in default fourteen da vs’ imprisonment in Wanganui Gaul.