LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 5009, 6 July 1903, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An old offender named Hebert MoCarrie was arrested yesterday morning on a charge of stealing from a meatsafe at the rear of a house in Ingestro street. Tho Rov George Hormizd will lecture in tho Soots’ Church. Abel Smith street, on Wednesday evening, on “Are wo Israelites? If so, ocr place, responsibility and mission to the nations of tho earth.” Tho quarterly meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society is to ba ■ held on -Wednesday evening at Westminster chambers. Lambton quay. All interested in acclimatisation matters are ashed to attend. The Hon T. Kennedy Macdonald; ia to bo tendered a banquet this evening in honour of his appointment to the Legislative Council. His Worship tho Mayor will preside, and Ur Findlay will propose tho toast of tho evening. Dinner will be served at 8.30. Professor Fast or field, speaking on Saturday when the deputation interviewed the Premier concerning Victoria College, stated that tho students who had passed through tho college While he had boon there included tea or twelve barristers, a crowd of schoolmasters, representatives of all tho trades, including several watchmakers, and last year six dairy managers. It is, perhaps, not generally knowt that white swans in a wild state may occasionally be found in Now Zealand. O'n tho Wairarapa Lake several have lately been seen. Recently a magnificent specimen was shot by a Featherston sportsman. It Las since been stuffed aud may now bo seen at ■Mr W. H. Tisdall’s establishment, on Lambton quay. The work of sotting it up nas been faithfully done, tho poise of the neck and the pose of tho wings being quito lifelike. A deputation representing tho Day’s Bay Ratepayers’ Association interviewed Sir Joseph Ward on Saturday to ask for legislation giving the counties more extended, powers to make building by-laws. It was stated that old buildings from the city bad been roereoted on the eastern side of Wellington harbour, and that while tho Hutt County Council was willing To chock the practice, it was found that under tho existing law that body had no power to do so. Sir Joseph Ward promised to inquire into the matter. There were, bo pointed out, difficulties in the way which would prevent tho application of such a by-law, except in a particular centre close to a city. Suggestion upon suggestion is being adopted by the energetic committee which has got tho Manawatu winter show in hand. Tho latest is tho installation of a refrigerator which enables perishable products to bo stored when not being shown, and by which an object-lesson will bo afforded to the curious of tho manner in which our produce is stored and dealt with on the ocean liners. It is estimated that when tho dairying machinery Is all placed in position there will be sbmething like an eighth of an aero of those exhibits in running order. Tho half-ton cheese has left the hand of tho maker, and ia on its way to Palmerston. Already several entries have been received for tho football and! hockey tournaments which are to bo an outside feature of tho show. Tho Poultry Committee ia hard at work, and it is hoped to have a record entry for New Zealand under this head. Tho annual report and balance-sheet of tho New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opora-tivo Association of Canterbury for the year ending May 31st lias been issued. The balance-sheet shows that tho not profits for tho year amount to £16,632 Is Gd, to which has to bo added the sum of £1515 16s 7d, brought forward from last year, making a total of £18,177 18s Id to be dealt with. Tho directors propose to allocate this amount as follows ' To pay a dividend of 6 par cent and a bonus of per cent on the paid called-up capital; to payment of a bonus of 3J per cent to Shareholders on their purchases of merchandise during tho year, and a bonus at tho same rate on salaries and wages earned in those departments where tho profits warrantand to refund 2.3 per cent to share! holders on not commission paid on produce sales; to carry £IOOO to reserve fund, and £IOOO to special for contingencies account to cover anticipated depreciation on lease of siding property • to write 10 per cent off machinery an'd office furniture and warehouse fittings accounts, aud the balance to be carried forward-to next year’s account. Wages earned by workers under the Factory Acts or. union awards do not oarrv bonus.

A band of workers from the Missions lo Seamen spout Saturday afternoon ir. beautuiymg the graves of sail ora at Karori Cemetery. Tho contractors, Messrs AtHams and Cooper, are making rapid progress with the «c«r post and telegraph office at Levin. Tho building will bo ready for the staff to move into in about a month. Speaking at Levin on Saturday, Mr F* W. Bradey, chairman of the Education Board, stated that tho Board hoped at no very distant date to institute a high school at Levin. The new school at Levin opens with over 300 pupils. On Saturday William Mclnnes, chemist, Mangaweka, was adjudged bankrupt by tho Chief Justice, on the application of Mr Quick, acting for Kcmpthorne, Prosser and Co.’s .New Zealand Dirtg Company, Limited. Tho firm had recovered judgment in tho Magistrate’s Court against Mcluncs for £32 IDs 3d, bub was unable to realise tho amount.

Tho Wellington Harriers started on Saturday’s run from Mr A. B. Fitch ebb’s residence, at Brooklyn. W. H. Pollock and J. Johnson, tho “hares,” took a course thromgh tho Ohlro farm and down Happy Valley, returning via Island Bay and Brooklyn, a distance of about nino miles. Next Saturday tho run will bo from Kilbirnio across the Miramar estate.

Bill Sykes was again at worjc in tho city on Saturday night, when the premises of Quong Man Lee, a Chinese fruiterer, In Aro street, burglariously entered. Tho Chinaman states that about £2O was stolon. Tho thieves gained access to the building through a back window, and extracted tho money from tho till. Loe and another Chinaman resided on tho premises, bub state that they heard nothing to warn thorn that their carefullygathered coin was being tampered with. In tho course cf his lecture at Palmerston North on diseases of horses, Mr C. J. Reakes, Assistant Chief Veterinarian, stated that there wero two drugs mrach abused by horse-owners in New Zealand. These wero arsenic and nitre. Both wero valuable wlion used legitimately, but there were many horses in tho country whoso constitutions had boon permanently impaired by tho uso of one or other of those drags. As regards arsenic, not a few, he said, had been killed outright.

The non State school at Levin is of a compact and useful design. The length of the building is 210 ft and tho ■width 66ft. A corridor runs down tho middle, and on each, side are three rooms, two of them measuring 25ft by 24ft, and tho third 37ft by 24ft. There is every convenience for the pupils and teachers. The ventilation is on tho best principle, the object being to keep the current of air from striking down on. the children’s heads. Tho school was oreoted-by Mr L. 'Williamson, of Levin, at a cost of £1550.

Tho firm of W. and E. Ballinger has just had a hydraulic machine for tho manufacture of load pipes fitted up at tho factory near Lambton quay. During tho current week a beginning will ho made with tho manufacture of these articles. Tho machino is the first of its kind set up in the North Island—in fact there is only, one other such machine in tho colony. Another piece of expensive hydraulic machinery is be.ing set up by S. Luke and Son, Courtenay place. This is a bydrar.il ic riveter, estimated to bo tho largest of its kind in New Zealand.

On Saturday a largo number of people visited the Skating Rink, where the annual show of the Wellington, Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Society was being held. ’ In tho evening the attendance was particularly largo. Tho deficit carried forward three years ago should now bo almost wholly wiped off. This desirable state of affairs is largely attributable to the members who liavo held office during the last four years, and in this connection tho work of the secretary (Mr H. Dovey) is most praiseworthy. Tho show was closed about 11 p.m., after being open l for three days. An “unrehearsed incident” occurred during tho performance of ‘Tor tho Term of His Natural Life.” at the Eheatro Eoyal, Christchurch, on Thursday evening (says the “Lyttelton Times”). During a scene •in which three convicts are starving on an island to which they have escaped, one of the trio, driven desperate by hunger, springs at one of his companions, with tho intention of killing him. A member of the audience, evidently affected by something stronger than hunger, made a dash for the stage, exclaiming, “Stand off, yew brute, or I’ll kill you!” Fortunately, ho was quieted, but it was some time before the audience regained its composure. Christchurch merchants complain of another handicap they nave in competing with Wellington. It appears (says tho Christchurch “Press”) that many foreign trading ships on arrival at Wellington discharge the whole of their cargo at that port, the Lyttelton cargo being transhipped by a coastal steamer for the Smith. Tho Wellington importer, who is on the spot, at onco finds out if any of his goods are damaged, and lodges a claim against tho ship. Tho Southern cargo is, however, often not sent South till just on tho eve of tho deep-water vessel’s departure, and by the time tho Christchurch man discovers that ho has received a damaged bale or package, and has communicated with tho agents, ho finds that all claims have been settled, and that thpro is no money to pay his losses, which ho consequently has to hoar. It is said that an effort is to he made to get legislation to protect consignees against these losses.

Mr F. R. De Yeaux, who returned to Christchurch from South Africa last week, has related some of his experiences in endeavouring to break through the restraints on colonial professional men and his attempts to practise there as n dentist. To a representative of the Christchurch “Press” on his arrival he related that on February Ist, 1903, a proclamation was issued by the authorities stating that no professional qualification would be recognised unless it had been also recognised in the United Kingdom. The result is that men with colonial qualifications are barred from practising in South Africa. Mr Do Yeaux suffered the effects of this regulation and was compelled to return to New Zealand. Asked as to how the restrictions came to be placed on colonials. ho said:—‘The scheme was simplicity itself. A ring was formed. A few persons in South Africa put their heads together and drafted a proposal, which was placed before the Colonial Secretary. The result was the passing of the proclamation. Doctors, dentists, chemists, lawyers and other professional men were at the bottom of the movement. The idea, of course, was to preserve their own grounds and keep off outsiders. They are well aware that men with English qualifications are becoming scarce, and that a good man with an English qualification will probably remain in England. Their desire is to warn off Now Zealanders, Australians and Canadians, and so far they have succeeded very, wolU”

Tho Colonial Conference of tho New Zeaiarul Farmers’ Union is to open tomorrow at tho Museum Buildings. Delegates will bo present from Auckland, Poverty Bay, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, North Canterbury, South Canterbury, Otago and Southland. In the recent railway accident in the Manawatu Uorge, whoa the Palmerston train was derailed, it appears that loss of life and serious injury to property were only averted by the cave and promptitude with which Mr Thomas Wilson, tho driver of the engine, acted in the emergency. Mr Wilson had his misgivings as to the soundness of the bank of earth at tho spot where tho accident took place, and on the nignt in question, as ho approached tho mouth of the. tunnel, ho had reduced tiio speed of his engine very considerably below the usual rate. This forethought and care averted a catastrophe, for as tho engine slowly emerged from the tunnel, Mr Wilson, to his horror, saw tho “slip” coming down. He stood to his post, applied tho brakes, and tho engine pulled up off the rails, within a few inches of tho river embankment. Tliis is not the first occasion on which Mr Wilson has proved his ability to copo with a sudden difficulty and tiio Daunovirko “Advocate,” after recounting the facts of a previous incident, urges that the courageous driver should bo given substantial promotion by tho Railway Department. Wo have no doubt that Sir Joseph Ward and Mr Ronayno will bo ready to reward conspicuous merit in tho way indicated.

An exciting street row occurred in Willis street on Saturday night, shortly after half-past ion. Two ruffianly roysterers belaboured each other in front of a hotel until a constable appeared on the scene, and endeavoured to calm the disturbers of the peace. One of tho men made off. Tho other, who subsequently gave tho name of Robert Ross, forcibly resented Constable Steer’s interference. A bystander named Jacksou is alleged to have essayed to assist Ross in his struggles to escape, and all threo toppled over in tho mud. Two constables wero attracted to the place by tho crowd, and with thoir assistance and tho help of a few onlookers, both men wero overpowered. Ross was conducted to a cab, but stoutly refused to enter the vehicle, and wrenched tho door clean off its hinges. To make matters worse, some sympathisers in the crowd loosened the traces attaching tho horses to the cab, in tho hope probably that the animals would bolt. Happily they were frustrated in their designs. The man Ross was finally overcome, and lodged in a cell with Jackson. Hundreds of people gathered at tho scene of the fight. When the struggle was at its height, tho police, their prisoners and the civilians who assisted in tho arrest were indiscriminately rolling in the mud. Ross and Jackson will appear at the Police Court this morning. We have inspected a sample packet of pictorial playing cards just landed’ and patented by Messrs Muir and Moodie. There are two packs, and on the fact of each card is reproduced a pretty little picture. Tho views, which comprise lakes, sounds, mountains and native life form a complete little album of New Zealand scenery. Some considerable ingenuity has been displayed in perfecting the design so as to combine the pictorial with the playing part of tho card, and this has been patented throughout the world. The first shipment of 50,000 has been purchased by Messrs Balkind Bros., who have made arrangements and secured the rights for New Zealand and Australia.

Abraham and Williams. Ltd., advertise entries for their stock sales at Otaki on Wednesday and Palmerston North on Thursday. Laery and Co., Ltd., will sell at their mart at 2 p.m. to-day 273 sacks of prime oaten sheaf chaff.

The City Council requires drays, horses and drivers for work at the Karori Cemetery. Dr J. H. Kemp is practising his profession at 43, Mein street.

Mr W. Campbell, of Manners street and Newtown, quotes in our advertising columns prices'for butter and for the new commodity called “Force.” The National Insurance Company of New Zealand has a business notice in another column. The company’s offices are in Hunter street. At their auction rooms at 11 o’clock this morning Messrs George Thomas and Co. will sell 222 sacks of prime oaten sheaf chaff. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon they will submit, under instructions from the Shaw, Savul and Albion Company, ten cases of unclaimed merchandise. On Wednesday, at 1.15 p.m. the firm will sell a large selection of plants, trees, shrubs, pot plants, etc., from the nursery’ of Mr J. Walker, of Mount Albert, Auckland. The sale will he held in the firm’s fruit market, and not upstairs. Further particulars are given on page 3. A partly improved farm on the Manawatu line is for sale. Messrs T. Turnbull and Son invite tenders till the IGth- inst, for the erection of the Imperial Hotel and the Masonic Hotel, in Cuba street.

Pearson’s peplo-chlor is said to be an absolute cure, fo,r indigestion.

Mr W. C. Chatficld invites tenders till the 16th inst. for the erection of a residence in Willis street.

Messrs Francis Penty and E. M. Blake, architects, have entered into partnership, and will carry on business at No. 28a, Lambton quay, as Messrs Penty and Blake Mr G. G. Schwartz will receive tenders up to nest Monday for the erection of three shops at Petone. Th© attention of investors is directed by Messrs Beattie. Lang and Co. to 9-J acres adjoining Bong-burn, which, will cut up, very profitably, into small sections for suburban residences. Messrs Cory and Co. : land agents, report good inquiry for city and suburban properties. A fresh list of investments appears in this issue. Ladies' mackintoshes at low prices are advertised by Messrs Warnook and Adkin. Messrs Harcourt and Co., have a long list in our * advertising columns of city and subiuban residences; farm prooerues, businesses, etc., which they have for sole. A reduction sale, prior to removal, is being conducted at the Talkerieo. in Manners street, where phonographs, records, etc., of all kinds may he obtained. Thousands of bargains in all departments are announced by Messrs Pearson and Co., Manners street.