NEWS NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 7

NEWS NOTES

The police regulations are being re- . vised and improved, states the Hon. Dr JFindlay (Minister oi Justice), and the I opportunity will he taken of making l a I number erf improvements and extensions. Members of the Khandallah Bowling dub trill use their green, on Saturday for the first time. As a considerable amount of work is yet to bo done to the grounds, there will be no formal opening.

The Mayor (Dr . Newman) informed a "Times" reporter yesterday, that work in' Connection with the Wadestown tramway would be commenced about April ,"22nd. The Government has been applied I to for the necessary loan. The musio at the Navy League's bail at the Town Hall on Wednesday night ivas supplied by Mr B. J. King's professional string band of seven performers. Favourable comments were made upon 4he excellence of the band's efforts. In the next issue of the "Labour Journal" will appear a comparative table of .•the price of commodities and house rents in the various centres of the Dominion, lai on the first of this month. The rent i rates show an all-round decrease on those ruling, at this period last year.

His Honor Mr Justice Williams will ihold a sitting in banco this. morning &t 10.30 o'clock, when he will take the following cases:— Band v. Maguire, Grange v. Pinnook, Seaford Coal Co. v. Shaw, Litohfield v. Walker, Napier Harbour Board v. the Attorney-General.

Tenders are to be called almost immediately by the City Council for the work of setting back to. the necessary depth the two .properties in Willis street leased by Messrs Goodall and Ryan. This work is connected with the city's streetwidening scheme.

A deputation from the City Council will wait upon Six Joseph Ward in the couTse of the next few days to confer with him about the setting back of the old Government House fence and Parliament Building fence in Charlotte street and Molesworth street reepecrtively in order to widen the road for tramway purposes. The Charlotte street loop-line cannot be laid down until something definite is come to by the Government.

The somewhat inresponsiible behaviour of Bobert Ferguson, a passenger from Lower to Upper Hutt on Monday evenr ing, led to his being, much to his annoyance, invited to exchange the cornipartment ho was travelling in for a smoking carriage. By the time Upper Hutt was. reached he was so possessed frith his sense o£ grievance that his declamations (more forceful than poEte) might have been heard half a mile away. The manwas taken in charge by Constable Mahoney. Yesterday morning he was brought before local Justices to aasweaa. charge of using obscene language. A sentence of seven days' imprisonment was imposed. , The committee of the St. Patrick's Day Celebration has left nothing undone to "make the day this year a huge success. A picnic and sports gathering will bo held on Father Lane's grounds, Lower Hutt. Sports are provided for old and voung. Special train will leave today from Te Aro at 9.40 and Lambton 9.52 a.m. This evening an Irish national concert will be held in the Town Hall concert chamber. A good pTOgramm© of Irish songs, dances and Irish pipes will be submitted. Some of the best artists are engaged, including Sirs Costelloe, Madame Marie Groome, Misses May Donaldson (violin). May Driscolland Bannin, Messrs .T. F. Carr, Lewis "Walker (London). Chas. Hickmofct. Chas. Eeid, Master Rupert Christie, and Mr P. Barry, who will play selections on Irish war pipes. Th» **«■ t>lan is at the Dresden. '

The Hutt River Board's river-straight-ening scheme received an appreciable help forward from Monday's seven-foot fresh in tho river. The cuts were fur-. ;her widened and deepened, and considerable deposit was lodged behind the boom groynes.

At the next meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board (on Wednesday, :23rd uistj, the chairman (Mr Fletcher) will" move: "That in future the regular monthly meetings ot tho lioard bo held on tho fourth Wednesday in each month, at r.i'u p.m., instead of, at present, on the fourth Thursday at 2.15 p.m."

Tho Japanese training ships Aso and Soya—formerly Russian cruisers sunk during tho war—will reach Sydney tomorrow'. Several or tho officers who visited Australia under Admiral Kainiinura and Admiral Shimamura are coming again with the Aso and Soya. His Excellency Admiral 11. Ijichi visited Australia in I'JOo when principal captain of the Matushima.

A new departure has been made by the chairman of the Harbour Board (Mr Hotelier) in connection with the board's business. This is by personally meeting the board's experts (engineer, secretary and harbour-master) in consultation e%ery month, and as occasion may arise, to discuss with them matters of administration, and thereby mutually co-ordinat-ing io. tho successful carrying on of the board's work. Tho naval authorities dispatohed 11.M.5. Lncounter from Sydney yesterday morning for Colombo, where she is to be recommissioned for another term on the Australian station. The relief crew has already left Portsmouth by 11.M.5. Hawk, which is expected to arrive at Colombo on April 10th. The exchange of crews will probably take place on the following day, and tho Hawk will then return to England with tlie time-expired officers and men of tho Encounter.

The Hutt river rose nine- feet at Upper Hutt on Monday. Mr A. J. lieOurdy's rain gauge registered a fraction over 2i inches. The rise was about two feet less in the lower reaches of the river. The groynes put in by tho Upper Hutt Town Board proved effective, and arrested a great quantity of drift wood. The stone was loosened for about forty feet, and the board resolved last night to have this section restored. •.

The provisions of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act, conferring upon the police power to bring any child deemed to be beyond its guardian's control before the Magistrate were availed of yesterday to enable a fourteen ana a half-year-old girl to be dealt with. The mother stated that the girl had run away on three occasions, and that she could do nothing with her. She was committed by the presiding Magistrate, Mr W. G. Bidden, S.M., to St. Joseph's Orphanage. ■. • • .

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