NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13567, 7 November 1912, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Post Office advises that the Wellington-Naples despatches of mails of the 20th and 27th September arrived at London on 3rd November.

Copies of tho annual balance sheet of the district fund for the year endin<* March 31st, 1912, may bo obtained from tho Town Clerk.

Last inght Miss Macgeorge, organiser of the Eugenics Education Society, addressed tho members of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. She said the mentally, physically, and morally defective were costing j.vew Zealand fully five hundred and fifty thousand pounds annually. Several questions were put at the close of her brief address. A ihearty^voto of thanks was passed to her for the information she had given on the subject.

Entries for the summer show of the Nelson Horticultural show, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday next,j,<:lo£e on Monday next.

Seven seamen from the Rakaia, who absented themselves from their vessel without leave, were at Wellington yesterday each fined two days' pay, and ordered to pay 8s costs, or to go to gaol for forty-eight hours, and be placed on the steamer before slie sails. The men say they left because there was. a "scab" on board.

In the Supreme Court at Wellington, on the 29th ult., in Chambers, before His Honour the Chief Justice, on the motion of Mr. Maginnity, probate of the will of the late George Page, was granted to George Lloyd Page, Harry John Page, and Leonard Page, the executors named in the will.

Mr. L. P. Bonvillain, Directour in Australia and New Zealand for Messrs Palfche Freres, is expected to arrive in New Zealand this month. Ho i$ bringing witli him Messrs. Pathe Freres' latest invention, the Pathe home cinematograph, and he will at once commence nuiking arrangements for the distribution of this machine and films to tile public of New Zealand. The Pathe home cinematograph can he used anywhere, as it makes its own light without cost. No electric attachments, oil or gas are needed. Another advantage is that tho films arc non-inflammable.