LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4733, 15 August 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Councillor Luke says that steps will have to be taken very shortly to place portions of the finance of the City Council in a satisfactory condition. He intends to move in that direction.

A woman named Mary Fleming, aged thirty-seven, who resided in North street, died shortly before 1G o’clock yesterday morning. At an inquest held yesterday afternoon the medical evidence showed that death had been caused by an epileptic seizure. A question by Councillor Luke at last night’s meeting of the City Council elicited the fact that the final Inal of the increased pumping plant in connection with Wellington’s sanitation scheme has been made, and that the engines are on their way to the colony.

Mr Justice Edwards yesterday morning granted decrees nisi, with costs on the lowest scale, in the divorce case--. Kathleen Alice Eunice O’Mahany y. Dennis O’Mahany, and Ada Anni" llcgan v. Michael Regan. The petitioners in both cases alleged cruelly and desertion.

Councillor McLaren is urging the C'ty Council to enforce compliance with I lie section of the Municipal Corporations Act requiring contractors under municipalities to post in a conspicuous plac' the names of workmen employed and a schedule of wages paid, in the case of the contract for the now Town Hall.

The indelible brand for meat which was patented by Mr T. H. Brown, manager of the Gear Moat Company’s shops, and Mr J. K Staples, oliemist. has been found, after exhaustive tests extending over the last two years, to give every satisfaction. The Agricultural Department has obtained the New Zealand rights for the patent. By the San Francisco mail the Wellington Kennel Club has received news tiiat the two medals promised by the Philadelphia Kennel Club have boon forwarded. At the mooting of the Wellington Konnel Club to he held on Monday evening tho committee will allot the classes in which these valuable trophies will bo competed for. A complaint having boon made to tho Mayor that tho bluestono facings tor tho now Town Hall were being procured in Victoria, his Worship made inquiries, and learned from tho contractor tlml owing to the scarcity of masons, i; was necessary for him to pay 25 pci cent, to import tho facings from \ ictoria to enable tho work to bo done within contract time.

lii reply to a question by Councillor Nathan, tho Mayor said last flight that there was no legal method by which the tramways could bo charged with the value of lands taken from tho city reserves for tramway purposes. As a portion of the reserves have been taken for tram sheds a-t Newtown, the Reserves Committee feels that it will labour under an injustice if it does not got adequate recompense.

The following is tho team selected to represent the Wellington Chess Club in its match against tho Combined Anglican Societies, which takes place this evening in the club-room:—Messrs Mason, Still, W. Mackay, Brown, Chapman, Bigg, S. Mackay, Morton, Sim, Janiou, B. P. Smith, J. Turnbull, Jones, Bichardstm, Petherick and Siinnf; emergencies, Brassington, Mowbray, Scott and Hector. Play will commence at 7.30 o’clock.

Yesterday afternoon bis Honor the Chief Justice sat in Banco to hear a civil action arising out of a police raid some months ago upon premises in Haining street, in which twenty-seven Chinese were arrested on charges of gaming. Chong, one of tho arrested Chinese, the plaintiff, had brought action against Detective Cox for wrongful handcuffing, Mr Jeliicpe appeared for tin/ nlaintiff, and Mr Gully for the defendant. After hearing argument, his Honor reserved judgment. • Seeing how very convenient it is to have every house numbered, why' (writes “Citizen”) does tho City Council not sob that its orders are given effect to r 1 Notices have been issued, but little notice has been taken of them. Tenants look on it as a matter for houseowners, and I think this is a correct view. With the plethora of inspectors and overseers in the employ qf the city, instructions of importance ought to bo carried out. Will our City Fathers kindly bestir themselves and have this matter attended to?

The statement was made by several speakers at Wednesday’s mass meeting of unionists that certain individuals who had made themselves conspicuous in labour organisations had been marked out for reprisals by the employers, whose custom it was to send forr.crdnotes of warning whenever such men, after being “sacked/' changed their places of residence. One unionist professed to have actually seen a letter from employer to' employer advocating the boycotting of a man who had thus made himself obnoxious.

The delegates of the Federated Tailoresses’ Unions now sitting m Wellington Save under consideration a communication from tho Clothing Manufacturers’ Association, in which tho federation is asked to join with the’ association in such action as will result in bringing the Auckland conditions as to wages, hours, etc., into line with other factories of the colony.- It appears that the clothing trade in Auckland is in an undesirable condition from the point of view of the employers and employees in other parts of the colony. It is probable the Legislature will he invoked to make some special provision to deal, with the matter, or the Labour Department may be invoked to make the Auckland employers conform strictly to the. letter of the law. After officially announcing the rejection of the water proposals to the City Council last night, the Mayor said that orut of 5829 persons entitled to vote only 9 per cent, had done so. ("Shame.”) Therefore, his ■ Worship said; tho proposals had not been accepted or refused by the ratepayers of Wellington. Tne position was this, that owing to the apathy of the Wellington ratepayers the vote had been lost. He did not know that the City Council could take any blame to itself. Very few citizens had come to the meeting convened for the purpose of discussing the water schemes/ and although the poll bad been delayed to the verge of the statutory limit to give tho utmost publicity to the proposals, the result had been very disappointing. He had been j articularly struck, by the fact that the residents in tho higher levels had taken no' trouble in regard to the matter. He only hoped that next summer there would he no water famine, because if there was there would he a terrible outcry and denunciation of the City Council and all its ways. Councillor Devine hoped the to secure the catchment area at Karori-would not he overlooked or abandoned. 'I he Mayor said he did not think for one .moment it would he abandoned. Councillor Devine said the public did not seem to have realised the danger of leaving the water supply at Karori unprotected.

Plans arc now being prepared by tho Agricultural Department for tho dairy school at Levin.

A Wellington firm lias received an order for 100 tons of dressed turkeys, to bo delivered in LSudoii before next Christmas.

Entries close to-morrow night for the

lington Kennel Club’s annual exhibition, which will he hold at tho Drillshed on tho 29th and 30th iust.

Last evening Dr Young delivered tho introductory lecture of a series on

“Homo Nursing and Hygiene’’ under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association.

The annual meeting of tho Potoiie

’o-operative Building Society will ho held at tho Temperance Hall, Pefono, on the 30th instant. A ballot will ho ■1 the same evening.

Tho Coroner held an inquest rft tho Porirna Asylum concerning-tho death of an elderly patient named Jens Chrislianson. A verdict was returned that death had boon caused by senile decay'. A meeting of the Clyde quaybranch of the Liberal and Lull inr Federation League last ujght passed the following resolution: —.“That tho Clyde quay branch of tho Liberal and Labour Federation League deprecates all attempts that are now being made to bring forward ‘slfoddy’ Conservatives, as the league only intends to support thorough Liberals.”

At Messrs J. H. Bcthnnc and Co.’s rooms .yesterday afternoon a freehold property with a frontage to a right-of-way from Majoribaaks street, with sixroomed house, ivas purchased by Mr Scott for £375. Two quarter-acre building sites at Kilhirnio were submitted, section No. 01) being purchased at £4 per foot, equal to £261, and section No. 70 at £3 15s per foot, equal to £217 10s.

The “Daily Standard Union,” of tho

“Uli July, published at Brooklyn (Now York), contains a three-quarter page illustrated article on “Tho Greater Britain of tho South,” written by Mr C. . McMurran. Tho article gives a preliminary sketch of Now Zealand— .“a marvellous country. . . . the work-

g man’s paradise”—and is embellished •ith pictorial specimens of Maori woodcarving.

We are ii formed that all tho arrangements iu connection with furnishing the hospital at Mahanga Bay for the reception of the small-pox patient from the Orient were carried out by o.Teers of (ho Defence Department, under instructions from tho Hon W. Hall-Jones, Acting-Minister for Defence. It is pleasing to know that these arrangements are thoroughly satisfactory, and the patient is making good progress.

■ Tho Wellington Camera Club bold its monthly meeting last night. Mr Heginbotliam was in tho chair. Mr Gifford, after giving a short demonstration on picture-framing, read an excellent and instructive paper on “ Camera Club Ideals.” The print competitions on flowers and genre were won by Messrs Davidson and Seed respectively. It was announced that an' Imperial and International Exhibition will be. held iu about a year’s time. “ Can the workers of Wellington bo satisfied noth tho men who aspire to lead them” (writes “Visitor”). “If not it is time for them to assert themselves, and relegate these persons to the position they should never have been allowed to emerge from. The way they conducted themselves at the meeting on Wednesday night was ‘surely disgraceful.. The workers need to exorcise common-sense; to bring employer and employee together and fight their differences from a common platform.,-The chairman deserves great credit for tho stand bo took.”

The annual meeting of the No. 2 Cooperative Building Society cf Wellington was - held last evening. Mr Foley, chairman, presided. The report showed that tho society had steadily fulfilled tho purpose for which it was formed, and enabled a considerable number of members to secure homes for themselves on very easy conditions. In the year just passed the subscriptions received amounted to £8(36 7s, and him repayments to £696 Os 4d. Tho report and balance-sheet were adopted. Messrs T. Foley and H. Jay- were re-elected directors and Mr H. 11. Hollis was reelected auditor. Votes of thanks to tho directors, secretary and tho officers of the society were unanimously passed. “ Tho Citizens’ Staff Recorder,” ,tho organ of the Citizens’ Life Assurance Company, Sydney, in its issuo of 2nd August, states that several of the miners who lost their lives in' the Mount Kcmbla disaster held policies in that company. It proceeds:—“This company is very popular in .mining districts; so that wo Dave been identified witli noaxdy every mining disaster of recent years in Australia. In the - Stockton disaster of 1896, one of the ten men killed was insured with us. In tho Dudley explosion of March, 1898, throe cf the fifteen killed were insured. In tho firo which occurred at the Greta Colliery in 1900, three of the five men entombed had policies with the Citizens’. Some of the above claims were paid before the bodies were recovered.*! „ In consequence of the increased demand for New Zealand stock at the Sydney markets, the Union Company has decided to place tho Talunc as well* as tho steamer Hawea on tho berth for Sydney as a special boat for the conveyance of stock. The Talune is timed to leave Auckland for Sydney on tho 261 h August. The Monowai, which leaves this port for Sydney to-morrow afternoon, takes, amongst other cargo, 700 sheep, shipped by Messrs G. H. Scales (Wellington), Monrad (Palmerston North) and Lowes and Irons (Masterton). On Monday next the Westralia will convey from Dunedin arid the Blulf 150 sheep for Hobart and ’550 sheep for the • Melbourne stock markets, and tho Zealandia, leaving Auckland the same day for Sydney, will take 550 sheep (200 from Napier and 350 from Auckland) and 40 head of cattle. Tho Haavca, sailing from Wellington on the 21st inst., will, carry a large cargo cf both sheep and cattle. Special children’s services win he held next Sunday in connection with tho Kent terrace Presbyterian Sabbath school.

Mr Tom Mann will lecture at tho Opera House on Sunday evening on "When will King Demos be crowned?”

Everybody’s shoes are at Hannah’s Lambton quay. Messrs R. Hannah and Co. are making a particularly fine display of new foot wear, and the window exhibition is very artistic. In. another column a special announcement is made cf the prices of particular lines. Mr C. 11. Arndt, land agent, Stratford, has several farms for sale particulars of which are advertised elsewhere.

W. L. Aitken will apply for his discharge at the next sitting of the Bankruptcy Court. Mrs Butler, notifies her intention of applying for a transfer of her license of the Prince of Wales Hotel to Mr J. Shanahan.

To-day and to-morrow, commencing at 1 o’clock each day, Messrs Levien, Shallcrass and Co. will sell at' their rooms, Willis street, a -large consignment of travellers’ samples of drapery, clothing, boots, shoes, mackintoshes, etc.

Mr E. Martin. Manners street, advertises the highest art paperhangings, mouldings, mirrors, etc., and makes signwriting a specialty.