LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5735, 2 November 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho Court of Appeal will sit at 10.30 tliis morning. A shipment of State coal will arrive in Wellington to-morrow, ex Rosamond, and will bo disposed of from the ship’s side at 22s per ton. Tho secretary of a bazaar recently held in aid of tho Technical School at Napier was yesterday ' fined £2 10s for conducting an art union on goods not considered to bo works of art.. Tho election of two members of tha Pharmacy Board for the Central District—Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Nob. son, and Marlborough—will take plac® on December Ist. Nominations close on the 13th inst. Tho trouble with the ship Loch Carve, which began i at Wellington, continues. Two of tho seamen were brought before the Police Court at Dunedin yesterday, and admitted disobeying lawful commands. One of tho defendants was charged with using obscene language. Other sailors, who also refused to “turn to,” have not been served with summonses yet. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into our system of colonial audit practically concluded tho taking of evidence yesterday afternoon. Tho search!, for tho “missing voucher” will be carried on by Messrs Willis and West during to-day and to-morrow, and on, Monday their Honors Justices Denniston, 'Edwards, and Cooper will sib again, presumably for tho purpose of learning the result of that search. The body of the late Mr C. S. McDonald, a sergeant in the Highland Rifles, was buried yesterday at Ivarort ‘with military honours. The coffin was borne on a 15-pounclor gun-carriage,, accompanied by members of tho permanent force. Sixty-two members of tha Highland Rifles, 150 members of other corps and the Garrison Band wore in, the cortege. Tho obsequies wore coiv ducted by the Rev W. Shircr, of Newtown. Three volleys were fired over the grave by a firing party of nineteen men and the “ Last Post ” sounded by a bugler of the Royal New Zealand Artillery.' The Colonial Ammunition Company, of Auckland, has presented four handsome sterling silver challenge cups for competition by Public School Cadets in the colony. The cups are to bo allot’ ted to four main districts—roughly, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, ana Otago—and every cadet in tho colony will have an opportunity of firing fop tho trophies. Tho competition will consist of; four matches, to bo held during tho year, each match to be of seven shots each at the 100yds, 150yds, and 200yds ranges. The lad that shoots right through the competition will have fired eighty-four shots. Colonel Loveday is making arrangements to hold the. first competition soon after the schools reassemble after the Christmas vacation.

The Government has purchased the) property held by Mr J. B. A. Dorc, the pioneer of Lake Manapouri, on the West Coast. The property consists of an improved estate, a comfortable house, and a lake steamer, which will now be vested in the Tourist Depart* ment for the purpose of the develop* nvent of the tourist traffic. This is the preliminary step to opening up the overland route to Dusky Sound, the head of which is only ten miles from the lake. In anticipation of a heavy increase in the tourist traffic this season, two new huts, pretentious enough to ho called three-roomed cottages, have been erected on the Te Anau-Milford track—one at Mintara and the other adjacent to the Sutherland Falls. Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., have'arranged for a bi-weekly suburban deliver}' to residents at Island Bay, Kilhirnio as far as Dillon’s Store, Northland, and Karori as far as the Post Office Store. These deliveries will ho on Monday and Thursday morning of each week, 3JQ

Thu Southland County Council imposed a tax of £.lO a year on traction unginrs. Tho owners questioned the CounciiV; right to do so, and. in a f, ct ease, decided at Invercargill yesterday, tho Magi strata (Mr McCarthy; found !hc Council had cxcis'dcd its poiviTs, find that llio by-law was I* 11.r;i, virus. Notice of appeal was given.

Tho Government has decided that Now Zealand shall ho again i e;,interntod at tho Colonial Products KshduUon. to he held at Liverpool in January and February pcxl. The Fuc exhibit now in tho hands of the High Commissioner n London will ho traiv-ferred to hirerpool, ant( further contributions will ho rent direct from tho colony.

!t is highlv probable that the somewhat novel enterprise of re-opening Fnglish mines with Australian money and management will shortly ho inaugurated, giving employment, to hundreds. perhaps thousands, of Cornish miners. Proposals have been made 1o Lord Pal month and other mine lords hy certain prominent Australian. mining mon. with a view to urnvater. develop, iirui equip one or more derelict, tin mines in Cornwall. Some ■months ago (says tho “ British Australasian ”J a, ■wellknown Australian mining manager, while touring Cornwall, iiecamo im • pressed with tho possibilities of theso mines, somo abandoned .for nearly a •century. They are all full of water, and in many eases are connected, so that a drainage alone is a big undertaking. Tho Mayor (Mr I r . Tow.nsond), Councillors T. WardeH, T. W. Witt, AT. T. McGrath, and It. hi Richards were prevent at tho ordinary meeting of tho Miramar Borough Council held last evening. A letter was received from •Messrs Seaton and gladden enclosing a plan of a road proposed to bo made by Messrs A. and C. Crawford between tho - proposed road to tho Chinamen's gardens and tho old Farm road. The plan was approved, .subject to tho drains being fenced mi both sides, and certain corner strips of land at tho junction of the ne.w road and tho old Farm road ticing dedicated to the Council. Tho road ts to ho a chain -wide. Accounts totalling £l4l 3s lid wore passed for payment. The Mayor reported that certain road-forming was now being earned out according to .specifications. Messrs R. Mowatfc, P. Mackenzie, and J. McXlvrido were the presiding Justices at tho Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court, yesterday. For drunkenness Tjizzio Flynn, alias Brisbane. was fined 10a, or in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, and a lirst-offendor was convicted and discharged. R. J. O. Seeley was convicted of stealing a watch and chain, tho. property of Eliza Buttorlield, and sent to gaol for a month. For tho foliowing breaches of city by-laws tho iiersons named wore fined as stated; —Failing to place lights on hoardings by night, Richard Wakeiin, John Wood, William Mitchell, and John King, ss, costs 7s in each case; \illowing horses, cattle, and sheep to Wander, George Bell, Thomas Campbell, Richard Duignan, Daniel Griffin, Thomas Waters, Edward Bloomfield, Peter Davis, Maurice Goodman, Bernard Goldstein, Alexander Harrington, Jeremiah Harrington, William Hodges, Edgar Hyde, John Kilby, Wi#lam Kennedy, Frederick Dukes, James Moore, Archibald Sinclair. Francis H. Walker, •Micli fined us and costs; keeping unregistered dogs, George Edward Rrooker, Robert Dunstan, Michael O’Connor, and George Smart, fined Court costs, 7s; allowing offensive refuse to remain on promises. Alow Dee, fined £l. anil costs 7s.

Australia in a place of weird plagues, Tho latest in one of moths at Newcastle. Myriads upon myriads o.f those insects (says tho “Sydney '-Telegraph”) are to ho encountered clinging to the clilfs and bushes along tho coast lino, and when tho swarm takes flight, they rosemfclo a dark cloud drifting through tho atmosphere. No place is exempt from theii* presence, as they persistently infest business places and offices, as well as private houses. Tho letterboxes at tins pest office aro favourite resorts for them, and they oven crowd into tho mail-bags at night. Tho lighthouse on Nobby's Head is at times almost obscured, as millions of them flutter around the lantern, where the attendants are kept busy sweeping them off, and gathering them up in buckets. They also surround tho various beacon lamps in tho harbour, and choke up tho vents, causing the lights in some instances to burn indistinctly', and .'necessitating continual vigilance on the part of tho keepers. Captains of ships arriving at the port state that immense swarms of tho pests aro met at sea, and in some cases it is reported that they settled down on tho vessels, covering every inch of space, both on dock and aloft, even finding their way below in thousands. At tho railway-sta-tion, tho insects appeared in inconceivable numbers last night, and forced their way into every crcvioo. Tho Mayor (Mr F. Townsend) and Councillors T. Warded, H. E, Richards, T. W. Witt, Brodic, and McGrath were present at a special meeting of tho Miramar Borough Council held last -evening. The Mayor said tho meeting was to consider tho proposed dedication of certain roads by Miramar Ltd. Be reported that ho, with Mr Bennett, 'the chairman of tho company, and its engineer, had; been over the roads, and had found everything in order with tiio exception of certain repairs to Matai Toad and tho clearing of tho main drain. Mr Bennett had made an estimate of what tho cost of that work would be, arid Miramar Ltd. had agreed to pay tho amount (£110), on condition that tire roads were taken over. Ho was surprised to find, on turning up the minutes of tiro old Road Board, that Totara road had boon taken over. Councillor Witt raised tho question whether it would not bo expedient for tlioso responsible to do tho work instead of tho Council. His Worship pointed out that they were treating the matter in the same manner as the other syndicates had been dealt with. Councillor Wardcll moved tiiat tho proposal for dedication in tho letter from Miramar Ltd. bo accepted. Councillor Richards moved,as an amendment, that tho roads named be declared to be public roads on tho receipt of the cheque for £llO, and on Miramar Ltd. ■ furnishing plane showing tho ■connection between Matai road and Totara road at a grade not exceeding 1 in 12 and a. width not lees than 20ft. Discussion followed tho amendment, the Mayqr eventually suggesting that it would be bettor to hang up the whole matter of taking over these roads until next meeting, and in tho meantime to endeavour to got some definite arrangement with t ho company as to tho connection between Matai and Totara roads. The roads tho Council was willing to take over were .Park road, Tmihinu road. Rirnu road, Wha road, Torn road, Rata rood, Tahi road, and Ono road, hut. in discussing tho advisability of taking over Matai road, tho trouble of its connection with Totara rend arose, ' with the foregoing result. Take Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion for influenza and cold in the head. Ask your chemist or grocer for it. 4

Tho Mayor of Christchurch has received a telegram from the Premier stating that his Excellency the Governor will lie unable to Iks present at the laying of tho foundation-stone of the Xcw Zealand International Exhibition on December 18th. owing to engagements in Auckland. The Premier stated that, lie would do ins best to be present. The, Mayor decided to adhere to tho original date for the ceremony. There was a pleasing little ceremony at tiie Colonial Ammunition Company’s factory at. Auckland on Friday last, when a number of Public School Cadet officers (including Colonel Loved,ay) and officers of the Auckland Education Board visited the manufactory to witness a test of ihe new ammunition (.310) niadd by the company for the cadets. Colonel 'Dovoday fired the first shot, and registered a “ hull,” and tho officers all made marks on tho target which could have 1 K:e 11 covered hy a three-inch circle. At the lunch tendered to tho visitors by Air C. A. Whitney, Colonel Doveday mentioned that tho company was the first to manufacture .310 ammunition south, of the equator. Dp till the present the ammunition for tho cadets had been imported : now it ivotdil lie locally made. Tlio cost would bo tho same as the imported article, hut tho quality would he better, and that meant better marksmanship.

Tho truancy officer (Air J. Dinccn) had a hatch of persons before tho Stipendiary Magistrate’s Court yesterday on tho somewhat frequently recurring charge of failing to send children to •school. In each case ho displayed an anxiety to give tho offending persons every leniency, and said he only pressed for iincs in the hope of them having a salutary effect, rather than of oppressing jicrsons in poor circumstances. Ono cas. ho quoted was that of a boy of eleven years who had not passed a standard, and only attended school fiftythree times oat of 154. The officer spoke of tho great difficulty ho experienced. even with Ids lenient treatment, to induce some people to comply with tho law in regard to attendance. There are several cases of tho same nature ponding for early hearing. Tho persons fined yesterday wore; —John D. Iremonger, 2s; Charles Lancaster, 5s and 7s costs; Alichael Delaney. 5s and 7s costs; Hans Matt Peterson, ss. His Honor tho Chief Justice hold a sitting in Banco yesterday. In tho case of Fulford (trading as Dr Williams’ Mcdieino Company, proprietors of “Pink Pills” v. Fairburn, Deight and Co., Mr Myers (for plaintiff) moved to enter up judgment, and his Honor ordered that judgment bo entered up in terms of consent. The case of Joo Ping v. McGrath (Chief Detective), an appeal against tho Stipendiary Alagistrato’s decision in tho recent pak-a-poo prosecution, was argued, and judgment reserved. Air Jcllicoe represented plaintiff and Mr Myers defendant. Air Jollicoo (for plaintiff), in tho case Crawford v. Gilmer, moved for directions as to service of orginating summons. An order for service on defendant was issued, returnable tn the 10th inst. In tho case of Duvicn v. Brown, Ain Myors (for plaintiff) moved to rescind order for injunction restraining defendant from using a certain flax machine. Air Morison appeared for defendant. His Honor directed tho case to stand over until today to seo if terms could be arranged between tho parties.

A meeting of the North Island Sheepbreeders’ Association was held at Palmerston North .yesterday. There were present—Messrs G. Wheeler (president), J. Stuckey. J. 0. Wilson, Bcecroft. W. J. Birch, j. W. Baker, J. Handball, Wybourne, B. Eayner, 11. Perry, P. A. McHnrdy, J. To in be Ison. Tho president said it was not usual to hold tho meeting until after tho end of December, but ho thought tho opportunity of convening a. meeting for tho election of a new council was too good to miss. The annual meeting could be fixed later —about tho time of the Masterton show. Tho following were nominated as members of tho Council:—Auckland, Mr Barriball; Poverty Bay, Mr Tombelson ; Wairarapa, Messrs J. Stuckey, W. Perry, and A. Matthews; Manawatu, Messrs Wheeler, Wilson, Baker; Hawke's Bay, Messrs *P. A. McHardy, B. Chambers, and B. D. D. McLean. Mr Wilson, on behalf of tho association, expressed cordial aoorcciatiun of the work that, had been clone for it by tho president (Mr 0. Wheeler). A hearty veto of thanks was accorded to him. The meeting adjourned to February, to resume at Masterton. A beautiful specimen of a cream handmade silk lace tablecloth is now being displayed at Kirkealdio and Stains, Ltd., It is of local production, tho result of eighteen months'work, and is made of pure silk braid and silk thread. The size is 29 inches square with a centre of rich cream silk. Tho design la conventional, and the lace much resembles the Bohemian style. This piece of work is one of the finest specimens of hand-made lace, we have over seen in New Zealand. Any person desirous of inspecting this piece of work can do eo at Messrs Kirkcaltlie and Stains, Ltd.

Wo have received a copy of Messrs Harcouvt and Co. J s Register and Property Investors’ Guide for November, which wo recommend to the attention of those in search of investments. The demand for “exchanges” has induced Messrs Harcourt and Co. to dovoto a special column to advertising properties, the owners of which are desirous of making exchange for other classes of property. Messrs Levien, Shaiicrass and Co. sell by auction to-day, drapery, perfumes, soaps, etc. Messrs Wilton and Black, land and estate agents, advertise properties for sale at Island Bay, near Athletic Park, and at Bcrhampore. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., sell 57 acres of .land at Awahuri on the 18th inst. The Official Assignee invitee tenders for purchase of lease of premises, books, fancy goods, etc., in the estate of Laurence Johnstone. .Messrs Sidey, Mooch and Co. will sell boots and shoes, clothing, drapery, etc., at their rooms this afternoon. Copies of the Karori Borough Council's balance-sheet may be obtained from the Town Clark. Holiday excursion tickets will he issued on tho Government railways from tho 6th to tho 9th inst. Details of the train arrangements on tho 9th are advertised this morning. A large sale of unredeemed pledges is advertised by Messrs Levien. Shaiicrass and Co., Willis street, to take place on Friday and Saturday next. The lines are numerous and valuable, offering inducements to buyers to anticipate their wants in tho way of presents, etc. A complete model wireless telegraphic plant is advertised for sale by Miller and Co.. Cuba street Extension.

Tho Globe Proprietary Co. have for sale at £IOOO a carriers business with plant and acessories.