NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6491, 10 April 1908, Page 4

NEWS NOTES.

The Government traming-etdp fcura arrived at Russell on Tuesday Or Auckland, on her northern onus*. Brigadier AJbiston, of the Salvator® Army, and his chief of staff. Minor Dob ton, will oondnet a special Easter tmm paign. at Napier. 1 The Hon. W. HaQ-Jones (Minister to Public Works) will receive a deputation from the Wanganui Harbour Board ca> Saturday morning. The City Council decided lato meuto® that the water main be extended from Clyde street to Adelaide road throw* Awn street, Island Bay. The legal profession will, at the M> elusion of tie present sittings to tfan Court of Appeal, tender a ninasr to their Honors the Judges. Hairdressers in Auckland compisfai that the new regulations governing tbmr trade are not general. They contend they should extend to barbers beyond the city boundary. Volunteer officers who will act en fls umpires’ staffs during the Easter mamoeuvres assemble in conference toaiighi at headquarters to disease the fnrtho—jug operations.

The Manuka, which left Sydney tm Auckland on Wednesday, has on baud English and Australian mails. The mail is due in the ordinary oomss tat Wellington by the express train from Near Plymouth on Monday evening, the 13th instant.

The Clerk of Awards, Mr A. fitebba, has received, intimation from the Jade* of the Arbitration Court that the agreements arrived at by the parties in the seamen’s, shearers, and Palmerston North painters' disputes have been embodied in awards of the Court. They have been filed accordingly. The sjs. Tongariro, which berthed her* early yesterday morning, brought clou on 220 passengers, of whom twelve came saloon, thirty-nine second cabin, and tt« remainder steerage. They were booked for nearly every port in the Dominion, as follows ;—Wellington 62, Lyttelton 35t Auckland 4S, Port Chalmers 18, Napiei 18, Wanganui 3, Nelson 2, Blufi 2, Gisborne 9, Westport 12, Greymouth 4, Ti--1 maru 1, Picton 1.

Tho registration of tho Petono Mi Pc Vendors' Industrial Union of Employers has bwn cancelled. Thoro will bo n sale of unclaimed property fit tho police station on tho 25th last.

Tho annual mooting of the Wellington Society will bo hold on Wednesday, 20th May. Tho new club-house of tho Wellington Golf Club *tt Silverst.rcam will ha opened on Saturday, 20th inst.

No. 2 Company, the Queen's Park Public School cadets, in tho Wanganui education district, have been recognised by cho Government.

An area of J‘>o acre# in blocks XI *>nd Xil. Karioi (being portion of run No. if has been set aside as a site for a lowndhip.

Tho procn r, d« from the recent bazaar tjx aid of (ho Homo of Compassion are Mpeefced to amount to .£420 neb after providing for expenditure to the extent of X*lo.

The Dihiatna County Council has boon appointed (o leave charge of the Marima Domain. Tho first mooting of the uewlvi*>n>rUtilled domain )>oard will bo hold on Saturday, May Uth. A man named William Chatham died in priwn at Wellington about 10.15 o'clock last night of heart trouble. He was brought down from Carterton at tho end of hist month.

Ordors-in-Council appear in the "G*.ifAttie” this week exempting from the operation of section 117 of the Public Works Act portions of Jefferson street, Washington avenue, ami Garfield street, in tho suburb of Brooklyn.

Tho adjustment of tho boundaries, of tho borough of Karori and the city of Wellington to remedy the defect which was recently pointed out to tho Munster T>f f nl-ern nl * A ffai ra by u deputation from Karori, is gazetted this week. On iho recommendation of the City Engineer, the City Council ha* decided to purchase a hand street sweeper at a cost of about .£lB. This sweeper, it ib clnimod. does the. work of three men, and is largely used in America. Tho St. John Ambulance Nursing Guild, which at the present time provides leo skilled nurses who minister to tho indigent poor of Wellington, has asked the City Council for a donation of XlO a year towards the cost of this work. The Council last night referred tho matter to the Pi nance Committee.

Tho FoilcUug “Sltir” states that tuo deputation appointed to go to Wellington on Tuesday next to interview the Min later of Kail ways with regard to the stoppage of tile Main rrank train at Foilding will not be required to proceed there, as there is no necessity for further representations. The first election of a mayor and council for the newly-formed borough of WaipUwa will bo hold on May 6th. Tuere will bo eight councillors, exclusive of the mayor, and Mr Jam« C. Taylor will bo the returning officer. The first meeting of the council will bo held on the 13th May.

The seventh annual conference of the Federated Catholic Clubs of New Zealand will bo hold K\i Auckland during Easter week. Amongst the items on the order taper io a proposal that the annual coniWenceß be held alternately at Christchurch and Wellington. The annual report appiAire in another column. in regard to the abattoirs, about wiiich ho was questioned last night by Councillor Fisher, the Mayor said ho was in hopes that the Council would linMe been able to raise the money tor the work by this time, but money had been, “too stiff,” and that was a difficulty they had to gat over.

Mr J. Stevens, M.P., writing in the “Maiihwatu Times,” protests against the suggestion of the Horowhenua County Council that because wool is down at well iui flax, wool lands should bo i valued as flax owners desire flax lands to bo. Ho points out thUfc unlike wool, the value of flax on land is actually considered by valuers.

Mr Albort F. Hess, of Whangamomona, has been .appointed clerk to the council for the now county of Whangamomona, which hUs been cut out of the county of Stratford. Mr James Sexton, of Stratford, will bo returning officer for the election of tho first council, and Mr Charles Pena, of Stratford, will mako Up the electors’ rolls. At last night’s City Council meeting Councillor Bisfc sought to move without notice, “That the report on the milk supply of the city be considered at a special meeting 'of tho Council, and that the milk vendors and officers of tne Health Department bo invited to address the Council on tho subject.” Councillor MoLaren objected to tho motion being taken without notice, and it was accordingly deferred.

A meeting’ of the .Master Bakers’ Union was held last evening and was well attended. The president, Mr W. A. n low, occupied the chUir. It was decider to bring tho cash coupon system into force on Monday, May Ist. The coupons will bo sold at 3s 4d per dozen, whic! is equal to a rebate of twopence on 3s Cc Tho coupons for the pound loaf of bread will bo tie por dovon. Taoso pooplo who do not buy the coupons at 3s Id por dozen will have to pay for their broad Ut 3Jd por 21b loaf, not cash. All public institutions will be exempt from the coupon system.

On Tuesday afternoon Mr G. Allport, Boorotary of Marine, with Captain Boltons, orf the Government s-e. Hinomoa, paid a visit to Gqdley Head and inspected the work Toeing carried on in preparation for tho to be placed there. The road from the top of the cliff to the site for the apparatus is nearly completed. The site is being levelled, and a start will soon bo made with the sinking of the shaft, 4(Aft deep, which is to receive the weights of the mechanism. It is anticipated that the apparatus will bo ready for nee in about two months.

At tho meeting of tho City Council last night, Councillor Fletcher moved—“ That the Council take into serious consideration the question of undertaking 'the widening of Manners street (as from Willis to Culm street), and hereby resolve to take such steps as may be deemed necessary to effect tno improvement of this congested and imjmrtant thoroughfare." Tho mover considered that Manners street was not only congested, but’was in some parts poetitively dangerous, and tho work of widening should not be delayed. Councillor Fisher seconded. Tho motion, was carried.

The Officer Commanding the District last night presented tho shield awarded by tho Go Torn men t to tho engineer volunteer corps which had shown tho greatest efficiency to tho Wellington Engineers. This is tho second time only that tho shield has been won. Last year the Wellington Submarine Miners won it, tho results being received just as that rorpe went "on strike." Major Robinson, director of engineering services, awards tho marks, and decides which shall bo tho winning corps. The Officer Commanding the district, in congratulating tho recipients last night, snoke of tho -work of the Engineers ,-ia the essence of war in some emergencies. Mili tary engineering was a noble work, requiring courage, coolness, skill, cisciplino, and devotion.

With regard to tho remark made to a representative of the "Now Zealand Times” by Mr J. E. Palmer, the Town Clerk, to tho effect that Sydney had tried asphalt for street-paving without success, Mr A, E. Sfoinos, manager at Wellington for the Neuohatel Asphalto Company, states that Mr Palmer must refer to the tar asphalting, which has been tried unsuccessfully in Sydney. As a matter of foot there are no real asphalt streets in Sydney. In Auckland, he points out, the Neuchaiol rock asphult roadways which have boon down for six years have been Mo successful that tho Harbour Board is now paving tho now forro-oonorete wh'art in tho same manner. Contracts ■ have lately been let for paving streets in Dnnfdin and Prahran with tho same material. Streets so nftido have been in constant use in all parts of tho world for tho last thirty yeara.

His Honor Mr Justice Ccoper will sit in the criminal jurisdiction of the Supremo Court at 10 o'clock to-morrow (Saturday; morning for the purpose ox wmiteucmg William Johnston, John Smith (alias Wilson), and William Larnbco, prisoners who when brought before the lower Court pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them. The steam trawler Nora Niven arrived Imre yesterday from Golden Ray, where she conducted trawling operations with very ouccoasful results. The catch, consisting of about fifteen tens of fish, was composed chieflv of sciuiappcr, largo and in excellent condition. in connection with the report from Nelson that apparently a sailing vessel was on fire in Takaka Ray a couple of days ago, the theory advanced by this paper that it would probably turn out to be tho Nora Niven is confirmed, as tho trawler was jji tjie locality about this time, and had a number of'flare* burning to assist in tho trawling work- Tho Nora Niven was to leave here early this morning on her return to Golden Ray, whore it is expected that further largo hauls will bo made.

During tho next few- weeks th& Wellington members of the Royal Naval Rec.r.rv„ will be required to go on board H.M.S. Pioneer to undergo the annual course of drill. The Pioneer is at present in .Sydney, but it is expected to arrive hero at the end of this month, and will afterwards visit Auckland, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers, to enable the reserve men at those ports to put in the .annual service required by the Adrair*alty. In the case of seamen the period of drill is twenty-eight days annually, stokers twenty-one days' drill in the first year and fourteen days in each of the four remaining years of the term. There are about twenty Royal Reserve men in Wellington, but only two or thrse fleet reserves—men who have received good discharges from the Royal Navy, and are willing to fight for the flag again should the necessity arise.

A couple of complaints have been made to the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce with reference to mat ters affecting the commerce of "Wanganui. Tho first is that Wanganui suffers inconvenience from want of sufficient accommodation on the wharf, which is run by the Government. The Government has decided in response to overtures to increase tho shed accommodation by XOflft, but it is complained that this wul not nearly meet tho requirements to get over tho lack of accommodation. Complaint is also made that Wanganui merchants suffer considerably through delay caused in the transhipment of goods to that port. In connection with the first matter the Council has decided to give what assistance it can in getting more shed aecommooaMon, while with regard to delays m transhipments it was decided to ask tor specific coses of delay. There was a large attendance of delegates at tho weekly meeting ot the Trades and Labour Council last evening. A welcome was extended to a professor of political economies from St. Petersburg, and at the rcwjuest of the meeting he consented to give an address next Thursday evening on present conditions in Russia, particularly with regard to trades unionism and matters affecting trades generally. The professor was the founder of the Russian Trades Council and the founder of tho iron workers union, which has a membership of about 15,000. Letters wore received from various unions announcing contributions to the Blackball strike fund, totalling about ,£SO. The General Labourers Union forwarded an intimation that their contribution would bo a week until the trouble was settled; other unions intimated their intention of donating JEI per week during the continuation of tho strike. A committee was appointed to draw up instructions for the delegates to the annual conference in June, these to bo submitted to the various unions for discussion before final action is taken.