LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government system of conservation asi applied -to fth© oyster beds, in, thei Hauraki Gulf, is coimmeaided witihe repo>rti of Ptrofessoir Piriince who recently visited fch© Dominion 1 -isheries. ■Pafssengers- who, booked, fromx Syd- I ney <to Auckland vby the Maheno (now laid up ait Sydney) airei being brought- o«i 'by th.® Makura, due at Auckland on Monday nest. . A siale of torses, ■viahiicle.s, andl hnpfetmietnits is to be held by Reiaid and Co., auiotti'onieieiris, .a*. Pihill'lips' stables toHixKoTtt'oW, iSatttumday, (at 3 <p.nu. Some finie animals have ibeetai <3n.tea.ledj and a igoioid iOipiport'uanity is offered to seaua'e sonta gjoiadt dleialls in this lime. iWtt n,altiives hia.ve been arrested at Avanidiale.'mlilUiafry catnip on waitrianits 'altering deisiertioin, issued by/ their wivete at OtialdL. The women* wiamted tihetir buisbainidb bade .atnid wouUdi not agree to accepit. the. offer of half-pay. They -w!e:i Je retmamdeid 'to aippe&r ait. O'baifai. ■ ... ' pirinicie: •Miaxiik-kie -of B'atitenjbleiiig, wihoi wlag toifllied while fighting in Fnianioe, ■v,ia,a the fouath, .son, oi? Her Royal Highness Princeus Beatrice), the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria! His fwither was PirinicieiiHeinjry Maurice of Blattenibtaig, who Was naituaialiseid in BiritailiH. in 1865, and died from feireu' duping the Alsibaoitti expedition in 1896. P'rinloe Miauric© vrm only 23 yaairs of age. la Tiepiliy to 'the Harbour -Board"* question .as to tihe Bbrouigih Council supplying and erecibinig poles and wtiireu dbwm Graibamsbo.\v!ni Wharf, a»i iitia own eixpetnlsia (the Board to insta! certain 'Lights) thg Electrical Commit bee of iha 'local body has T^cpmmended tha* thg Oo'un;o;'l adhere ifo its for'mei r»e(£oluibioßi. Tftie .Codinoil wiilll therefore a#rei9 to pay half the cost of the installation, esitiimiated ito bei £80. A verdict, of wsuioidfci was returned «|t thy inquest on the deiath of a auiuiu naaued Arthur Clarke, who choked himself .with a towel on thie; voyage from' Aiudk'laird in tiha Maikurii. D'eoeiaiierj had been iai civil iservftnt at Auckland .aiud his wiifo stated on, one occasion he had ihreaitiefnied heir with a knife, saying, "The Gonnans. haiVe tlakein Sydney; they isihianr t itafeet you." Ha haid* ialliso imagined Geimiians were on his roof with -a wireless plaint. In Ihiis oiapioffit to GoVerriimiemt on the fishing dmidlulstiry of iNfew; Zealand, 'Fivxfessoal Pi^inicfe, ithie; Oaniaidliani Eislheir.iiets Expeirlfc, stialtiee )N|eiw Zealand's I popu'llattilion! loooiauimiea on«t-fifth ol the 11 annloiunt off fisslh 'Wmiptainetd (with Cana- ; dliamsi. A istairitliing factb 'toi Mnx is the ■> latfgie iim^XJft^laitiion. of nsh pi^oduots 1 to , the -yiafliuie of £108,000, Avihan tih-ene is nlo nieeidi for iilmlpofrtialtlioffn. The possibiliitiras of ou)f i&hetri'eis, hie: states, are 1 mo* iad!eq.uiaitely .realised, and' fish is hiffli priced, ibetaaulse olten- tihel oatcho* - are saiot lailwta^yus lull'ly 'inlairiketeid;, the i result -beiinig gr'eialfc TJiaistte. During] the paist fortnight, eileiv^n appireiatLdms foil' eleabitiio supply hay? 1 b'eemi uticieii.ved! by Mir E. C. Tomlinisou, i eloetoioal flmgimeei'. to the" Thames 1 Borough C'ourtcil. Thei total, number ■■'s BOiW 242, o* which. 228 1 are connected to the niain's. M!r Ttamilinsftin repotrted last ndgKt.'tihat. -.al'tioraitfion® air present being oaiTiied onit. o!a .the sitsreieit li<rhftiin.g syfetetm; will ipla:oe all street lights, exceipting. thiOiset aifc Tarai^u and P'arawaii, u'nidletr contr-6'l fi'oni. thie poAVed" sitlation. 'Means 1 aii'e being .provided 1 "whereby *he istreet ■■■'• laonps can be used tr>. reduce' a'.ny out of baillainbe on the whole system. It is ''pleasing -to. note the .enithusiiaaiii' with whiclh. 1 thie ladies of 'the 'Belgian sieiwing )x*q ' lan-'e initerasiting. thieonseilvecs in itlhciir ;Work. 'Llalst niight's meeting "Wa,s a.ga.in largiely atiteinded, and w pruiitaibie two. hoiuirs .were-spent* in niiamiufacituirLng n©w, land intending old. cilath-as for the poor in BtelgliuiU". Gifts of anaifceirial land 1 'do'tihiing wiill be Avelcoimied by the coanimiitifceie. of wihidh Mins Low©, Mayoress, is chairWomlain, alud .MSs-ses McCullou;gili and Lowe jioiinifi seicitetiaaiiieia. The response "tin tihe 'a,p'pe(all: fotr lairltiicleis of weiaa-inp: appatoel has teem gemerouisi, anjd fur-, "tiheu* >oointr(i!biuitibns Tdill :ailsio he- aipp.reciiatefd to help 'ailong (a ig'ood cause. In arccoii-idiawc'e with the rcooinimeur daftiiooais of Hm Eleotrical Coonmititie'e of the • Tfhannes Bbteoiuigh Couiucil, the. \Viaiotiah.i, Upper Ailbeiii. ••Sita'e iet', -and Kanaka 'Ebiaidi -mil- be the first' estei-f-iens to bo ■coMsidereld acPtfetr the pre^-" sent eactenisionis airei ■oamipleted. . Five laimlpa laire to be tirefciteid' in; the publio parks. (thir>eie in j'acareaJtio-ni .aaitd 2i in Nivctoina pariks). A- laanp is to> be p'fcced hi Dafvy stueeit. on the 2nd pole noirthwiai-ds of Cochrane street; a tiamp in Eirfcwood' .sitraeb -two polei^j noirith of Coiahrian'e streiet; thei lamp in Beilla sbreerti oppositei K'airaka. Oreeik. Rlo:a;d! is to bie left, mi its pa'C&eitit positlion, and no fuithea 1 light, is to' be) installed at preseiiib ibieifewietetai tihis point iand flaiillie: i'tireiat. A man iskno'wn by the style of clothes he. affects just as much as by the company he keeps. W. S. Wylies ha-^e been to gome padns to secure the very latest productions of the best manufacturing tailors. The styles are very nobby aaad the workmanship of- the same high standard which'has made "Wylies clothing ,&p popular with men who look below i -he surface of things .Compared with - ivery excellency that can. be ©mibod- ' ed in good clothes, there is tihe ad- J litional adTanta-ge of their ireason- < tble prices'. It behoves every man to I >ay a visit to Wyliijeß.—A3vt. i