NEWS NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7140, 30 May 1910, Page 7

NEWS NOTES

.MAILS DUE TO-NIGHT. The British ami Australian mails which left Sydney last Wednesday afternoon hy the Wimincia for Auckland arrived at the mu-thorn part at 3.15 o’clock yesterday morning. Tho southern portion of the mail is due at Wellington all-out 4.30 p.m. to-day hy tho Main Trunk .express. RETRIAL OF E. F. RENNER. His Honor the Chief Justice on Saturday ordered that Eberhardt Ferdinand Kenner be retried to-day. The accused is charged with arson at Wadestown in December last. Two juries have already disagreed in his case, one in February last ami one last week. To-moryow tho first case of the civil session will bo Liken, and on Wednesday Alice Mary Justice, charged with performing an Ulcga. operation, iu whose* case tlieio was alio a disagreement, will he retried. TEAMS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT. Napier, having accepted a loan of about xm,m from the A..M.P. .Society, expects to have its tramway running and its electric light system in full swing in about eighteen months' lime. Mr treat. Black, consulting engineer, of UelUngton, has been engaged by tho liorougn Council tor tho construction ot the works. RUAHINE’S ARRIVAL. The mail steamer Ruahine, with a considerable number of passengers from England, arrived in the stream at 7.30 o’clock last night from London via ports. There was no communication with the vessel last night. She will berth curly this morning at tho outer too of tho Queen's wharf. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. A general meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of New Zealand will be held iu Wellington on. Juno 17th. The transfer hooks will be closed from Juno 3rd to Juno 17th, both days inclusive. THEFT OP PAPERS. In v tho Juvenile Offenders’ Court on Saturday two lads were convicted and ordered to receive fivo strokes of the birch each for misappropriating six copies of the “New Zealand Times.” ' A MIS-STATEMENT. ' The secretary of the Wellington Gas Company writes jiointing out that tho person who was convicted by Mr \V. G. Riddell, S.M., on Friday last for cruelly ill-treating a horse, was not in tho employ of that company, as reported. The error occurred through an inadvertent mis-statement, by a police official when detailing tho facts of the case. THE COMET. Last evening tho comet was seen to much better advantage than on former evenings, because the moon did not riso till late. However, it ia fast receding, and will probably disappear early next month. TIMBER UP. The price of timber has been raised in Hawke's Bay. Tho Hastings branch of the Carpenters and Joiners' Society has passed the following resolution ; —“That this meeting of operative garpenters and joiners deplore the recent exorbitant rise in tho price of building timber, believing that this act of tho sawmillers will have a very disastrous effect on the building trade, and check the improvement in building operations which has just recently set in. That in tho opinion, of this meeting the Government should at onco (in the interests of the people generally) suspend or altogether remove tho ins on Oregon timber, and so prevent a few privileged landowners from blocking trado enterprise, cansing increased cost of building, higher rents, etc., and preventing the people from obtaining their own homes at a reasonable price." THE NEW COMMANDANT. The Prime Minister has received confidential communications from the High Commissioner relative to the new commandant for the Dominion, recommended by Lord Kitchener. These will bo placed before Cabinet, and Sir Joseph Ward hopes at an early date to announce tho selection of a very capable officer. ASTRONOMICAL LECTURE. A lecture on “Tho Astronomical Importance Of the Theory of the Third Body " will ho given by Professor A. W. Bickerton in the Dominion Museum tonight at 8 o’clock. FAREWELL TO THE GOVERNOR. „ A public meeting to bid his Excellency' the Governor farewell will be held in the Town Hall next Wednesday at 8 p.m. UNIVERSITY REFORM. A public meeting, at which the Mayor will preside, will be held in the Concert Chamber, Towni Hall, to-morrow, at 8 p.m,, to consider tho formation of a University Reform Association. STATE CONTROL. The Rev. J. B. Morton Barnes, M.A., will give a lecture on the * State Control of Liquor" in the Opera House on Sunday nest, at 8 p.m.