LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4293, 28 February 1901, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Rotomahana, brought from Lyttelton yesterday thirty stud rams, consigned to the local office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Miss May Seddcn has presented a pair of fallow deer to tho Wellington Acclimatisation Society. Tho deer have been Hbcrsfbed. on Kapiti. XsluiiA which shouiu prove an eminently suitable run lor them. The thanks of the society are to he accorded to Miss Seddou. for her generous, gift. 1

The Agricultural Department lias received advice from Mr •!. A, Gihuth, Chief Government Veterinarian, who ) 3 at present in England, that he lias cured the services of ten veterinary surgeons for tho public ■ service of New Zealand. 1 Seven of the surgeons have left London by the Wakanui, and the others will sail by the Paparoa m a lew days. '• . „ ' At nearly every Education .Boaid meeting recently there have been deputations of school committees protestiu,-, against the Board’s selections of heathers for school appointments. Yosiei a.)} a deputation came from Wadestowu to explain that a good teacher with an agdteisiv© militant spirit was requued in that neighbourhood, and to express the hope that ihe Bourd would see to it that such an one ; was. selected. The Board decided to adhere to its original selection—a gentleman, held much in esteem as a strict disciplinarian.

Considerable! time was occupied. .at yesterdays sitting of the Magistrates Court iii hearing legal • argument as to whether or not a footpath in a street not taken over by the Corporation (Hawkestone crescent, to wit) constituted a public place under the meaning of the Police Offences Act. Mr Oliivier also sought to _ establish that a bicycle was not a carriage within the meaning of the Act. The Justices who occupied the bench said they were unable to decide the point, and granted an adjournment in order that the stipendiary Magistrate might consider the points raised. ■ In forwarding a cheque for £2 2s to this office, to bo placed- to the fund for the assistance of Mrs Russell and family. Dr Chappie writes;—“l know of no more deserving cause than that of this bereaved family. Mrs Russell was a devoted wife and mother, .her little boys were well trained and tended and taught, and her home -was always an. example of what industry and thrift can do oven on the precarious wanes of a delicate breadwinner. She well merits the sympathy and support of the community, who could rest assured that nothing contributed by them would bo wasted or misused.” The list is still open at the “Times - ’ office, where tickets are also on sale for the forthcoming benefit perforin, ance by the Carlton Dramatic and Musical Club.

Tho annual meeting of the Convent ex-pupils, held ou Monday, was well attended. The year’s report was read and confirmed. It was stated in the report that during the year a section of land had. been purchased, end a cottage, for the use of the Convent, erected at Titabi Bar- , Tho total cost was £360. This had be.en reduced to £IGO. Several friends of the Convent and many of the present pupils bad contributed towards the expense of erecting and furnishing the cottage, A vote of thanks to the generous donors was carried unanimously. Tho election of officers for (Jigcurrent vear resulted as follows ; —President, the Rev Mother Superior; vicepresident. .Miss O’Connor; treasurer. Mrs T. G. Macarthy; secretary, Miss K. Williams (all re-elected); committee. Misses McDonald, Skerrctt, Collins and Brady. A proposal to reduce the annual subscription, of members - ' was carried. ~ .

The last meeting of the Borough Council (writes our Carterton correspondent) was the most turbulent and farcical on record. Much recrimination over trivial matters was indulged in. and one obstreperous Councillor was unusually successful in raising chaos whenever there seemed to be a chance that business would proceed quietly. On one occasion the recalcitrant one mounted a table, and heatedly tdld the Mayor that’ ho would stay there and talk all night. Thereupon the Mayor asked the remaining City Fathers to light their pipes, with the idea of making the position of the orator (a nonsmoker) untenable. These tactics were successful, the enemv climbed down, and surrendered. The burgesses are getting very tired of the methods of Me Councillors, and at the next election it i will be ; -great .surprise ,if * -some, of them are relegated to well-merited oblivion.

Ot.! Palmerston North correspond err viys: that it is reported that Mr G. M Snohon h;p decided to permit hiinsel ♦ ,J d‘": nominated as a candidate at tin next mayoral election. thomasi Chapman, of Ponrua, car pen ter, was on Tuesday adjudged ; bankrupt. A meet ini' or creditors ir the r-st.ito will tie held. on. Wednesday ♦ho 6th Maroli. The distribution of prize, gained at the butchers’ picnic will be made at i meeting of master butchers and employees at Mr RichardA Rooms, Cuba stirct, this evening. The I'„ri,. r . j o-;nci : (-‘ in ' c:e j <r <' f m- f ■ *Pii• rx el -'aide-ice C■'■(par-mi I!r . hi;”. "k- C,:--,d Me:. . 'll ;c,-- - -Gy' C;;-l on' I'ci. day .anno i,-. Tlr :' I oiid .iimml picnic of the Wellington grocer.-; will be held at the rail. I'.iy around;;, Upper Hutt. on Wednesday next. A special train will leave the le Aro station at ‘0.30 a.in. and Welllngton a t ;»,40 u.m., returning from tin; Uoper id.oft at 5,45 p.m. At the Mount Cook Police Court yesterday, before Air John .Kays, J.P., tv/o first-oil ending drunkards- ivero dealt ivill' in the usual way. John Lctham. an old offender, was lined 10s, in default forty eight hours’ imjiri.'/miiieiit, for drimlcennesrc

'I In- W eslcvan Conferonce will open lliis oyeniiig :i o (he Wo Joy Church, Taranaki :T reset. The order paper for tonight’s sibling includes Iho retiring president s address, l.|u> election, of a now president, and 'he reading of Hi*o first drait of station;!,

ft i exactly thirty -ono years ago today since the last liritirii troons left New / .•aland. On tho 28th Eebruarv TS7U, the tilth .Royal Irish Regiment! ceramanded by Colonel Eliott, embarked at jvneklaiid on the steamer Hero, tor .-•yiluey, Melbourne and Adelaide', Captain Logan, who commanded the .flcro, was lor some time in tho emolov ot ,hf> Union Steam Ship Company.

.V nml servant was arrested at Nr-.r. i,> " r “ a;t night by Detective Broberg , ’’ 1 a charge that lie did on the 29th D<comber last, at Wellington, indecently ZZ'M lei,la e the ago of s{- , . Un) girl m question was cm. P'o.ved n, an office in thy eitv. ami iim accused la alleged to have commuted Wio olleace comnlaincd of vhde visilthe „ nee. !f, will he brought before the Aiag,straleV Conn, (his morning . At a. meeting of the Polynesian So mn y /i 5b 11 decided to remove the hoacmi, aiders of the society to New .Plymouth, Ur S. Percy Smith nhme" Tvf CC w l % his Te «deW at that place, Mr E , Ircgear, who has been fcecrotary ot the society for the past ten jears, has resigned that, position ami mcssi-s POn, , 11 - I ' a " d ' V - Skinner will oiot y° 'r k j a 'V olUl ® ecretarie « of the kc- ! «hh s , u hicli iuia 11 membership of tiO I. 1 In '•on--:e((uenco 0 f (he exceptionally heavy losses suffered by underwriter duiing the present month it is reported that at the coniereuco of underwriters held hi Dunedin it was decided to in--01 ease the rates nl insurance, hut mi ofitcial announcement has yet been made rJLi th n su - b3ect - Dm ’ in S the past few be f, u th ' companies have lost he, ily rn-uicipaJfy through the destrnctmn of file Diuiccua tramways, the Pa. tan gala, Hotel, a, hotel at DargaviJlc, hnsihes-! blocks at Foilding and Ha were, and I he (ire at the Stewart Timber Cornpany s sawnull in, this city. Although only two mouths, of tho present yemhave gone, the lessen suffered by insurance companies in the colony run up to island iU ' J0 ’ 000 ' mosfc, .V in the North

nA 1 , 1 ’ Harry ftariiw , )'re :ident of the VV elimgton branch of tkc Amalgamated fcocicty of Carpenter.;. and Joiners, writes: At a meeting of our Branch Committee, held last everting, for the purpose of giving orders to Ton- members to enable them to replace thentools lost iu Stewart and Co.’s tiro, strong except ion was taken to' the reported remark “ Cis I being insure'!, one of our member.. v.ris luckv to find his box safe.” /Vs a matter of fact, ho was not lucky, but. merely provident. Our society recognises the fact that tho “replacing of tools, Io.A hy (ire, water or theft,’’ is one of our chief benefits. Two of the other employees have not long left the union, and are now no doubt sorry for if. . In the present case, the committee was promptly called together. and the claims dealt with so that tho men can continue work. Claims to the amount of £6O were accepted.

Mr J. Robertson asked the chairman of the Education Board. yesterday if it was true that tho City Council intended to prosecute the Board for a. breach of the city by-laws for allowing the Newtown School to get into an insanitary condition. Tho chairman (Mr J. R. Blair), in reply, said he diet not think that the City Council had be-, hawed, with that courtesy which, usually characterised the relations of public bodies. As a matter of fact, no represent i.( ion-, had been made to tho Board by the Council. Tim sanitary applia.n-: ecs at (ho .school were similar to those, in the. other largo schools in I lie city., Tho Sanitary Inspector of the. City' (domicil had, moreover, .informed tho Board’s secretary that tho sanitary arrangements at the. radieoi wero in good order in. every respect. Mr \V. C. Buchanan moved, and it was carried, “ That tho ohadrMiu'u he cm powered to fake any action in tho matter which he may consider neco.ssa.rJv’