Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9618, 21 April 1900, Page 4

Local and General.

■' t the Paeroa Court a man named Eano waij fined. 20s, with costs £4 4s 6d. for ha^bing at Kurangahake without a license. Mark Bod was fi;ed Is, with costs '.£2 18* 9.1. ■■ ; . , ";•; A valuable Tiouo Wonting to a trooper of the No 2 Waikdto Mounted Eifles brole .ts shoulder by stumbling during the shan:-. tight in Auckland and had lo be destroyed All the vnen in the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade, will) tht> exception of the. oachmen, are chosen from ,ionn.cr, ablebodied seamen and i: early all have served in:men o-war. Professor Thoma-1, at the opening ce'e* raony of the horticultural show in Auckland, specially referred; to the exhib't of c.ctus dahlias, new and improved varieties of which were being produced every yenr. The Wellington Traces Conference urges that before any permit be given for Sunday work in.mines, an "pportuaity.be grantei ' 'he public of objecting; further, that there should be no ore crushing work on Sunday Auckland City Councillors are complaiiw ing of the acoustic defects of the Comic i Chamber, aleging that they cannot in some pf.tts hr r i>nf> another. This is s.o terious a loss that steps are to be taken to effect an improvement. Kesolutions were'pas ed at a meeting of one hundredpersons held recently at Perth. Western Aust alia, condemning the use ■ f Government House for the in-1 illation o' the Grand Master of the Masonic Gr.md Lodge of Western A ustralia. Kobert Grant, injured in the bla tintr accident »t Waikino, is progressing as wo 1 as curi beJexpeci cd. It is alleged that a systematic theft is being carried on of letters between lev Zealand and Capetown. half-a-dozen different drainage nuisan"ts were discus.cd at the last meeting of the Auckland City Council. Behind this unwonted interest the finge" of the Sani'ary Commission may be espied. It would do no barm if tie -Sanitary Commission were to give its impartial opinion of loca! drains At a meeting of the Auckland branch of the Educational Institute -everal matters were dealt with, and the Chief Inspectors remarks re lightening the syllabus were endoised. Mr W. H. Newton stated that the Minister of Idu'ation had promised to deal with this quertion as soon as the sca'e of salaries was dealt with. On Thursday afternoon a lady met with an accident on a <'n me. r in Bobson sttee/, Auckland- bhe wa3 in the act of alighting, and being lather incautious in doing so, was thrown on to the street. On coming to she was able to go on her way home. She did not attach any bl me to anyone. 1 he following nominations for the Waihi school Committee have been received:— Messrs X, 8. Eeady, D. Kobertson D. Me Alpine, G. P. Marlin. 1?. Newdick, B. 8 Derby,,,A. Elliott, Wm. Morton, Thomas Gilmour, George Compston, J. E. Slevin, Jno: MacDosnell, H Carter, Jno^E. Taylor, George Colebrook, George IVloyes.J. Lang, 'Ihomas G. Grant, Robert H. Holmes.