LOCAL AND GENERAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9323, 25 August 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

-■■ ■■» ; The balance-sheet of the opening week of the city organ has been pfr* pared, and as soon as it has, Peetibefore the Organ Committee of the taty. Council the result will be made public. A Press Association telegram, from Dunedin states that the Enginedrivers' Union has endorsed the resolution of the Trades and Labour Conference, recommending workers to vote rot no-license. • ; '."-'■' Owing to the Hospital Board having; taken over the Nurse Maud camps, it has applied to the City Council for permission to place the consumptive patients on the small-pox reserve at Bottle Lake. The application will come before the Reserves Committee of the Council at its meeting this afternoon. A Press Association message statesß that the Seddon Memorial Technical^ School at Masjerton, a very handsome* and well-appointed building, has been practically completed, and will be out of the builder's hands in a few days. The official opening will probably take place in October, when the memorial stone to the memory of the late Premier will be laid. Ministers and the late Mr Seddon's family are expected to be present on the occasion. As the outcome of the inquiry at Amborley held by Mr W. S. Short, commissioner under the Public Works Act, as to the reconstruction of* the Saltwater Creek bridge on the North Road, an award has been made. Tne cost of the bridge, £1200, has beeen aP-« portioned as follows :— Kowai road dis-« trict 60 per cent, Mandeville and Kan*« eioTa 25 per cent, Waipara 7 per cent,« Amuri 6 per cent, and Amberley TownM Board 2 per cent. - ■ At a meeting of the Timaru Boroughß Council last night, says a Press Associa«« tion message, the Mayor, Mr J. Oraigie,™ referred in the reverse of soiapkmen ~m tary terms io Mr Fisher's Bill, extend-M in*' the Parliamentary, franchise toH municipalities. It was not right. ncH said that every person twenty-one years ■ of age, should have the right to vot4« at municipal elections when contribute ■ ing nothing" to the rates. The Coun-M cillors endorsed the Mayor's £«*«**»■ and joined him in a hope that the Bil« would be thrown out by the Legisla^M tive Council. H 8om«; amnsement was caused in theH City, says a Frees Association messaged from Wellington, by a threatened strikeM on the part of the telegraph mea-J songei-s. It appears that the boys arcj paid partly by fixed salary and partlyM by special allowance, and that someM changes were recently made hywhi o .™ tho salary was increased and the !"'■ lowance Veduced. The Department states that no alteration, was reallyM made in the sum total, except *{**"»■ ono or two casesl a slight mistake ocfl cnrred, which will be rectified , amM that the messengers misunderstood tJieH position. JA Seven years ago the Department ofl the Interior established a system . oM tree-planting the Canadian West. Th« first year there were fifty-four appli-« cants, and the number of trees distn-M buted was 58,800. This work, now car-« ried on by the forestry branch of th<« Department of the Interior, has grovrtjm !to great magnitude. The number oH applicants for 1908 was 3206. and theH number of trees distributed 1,900.000 J The total number of trees distributee^ thus far has been 11,181,825. -£ nu» serv station has been established a <H Indian Head, to grow the necessarjM supply of trees. Six qualified inspect tors are constantly employed during theM summer in inspecting the plantations,™ woodlots, sholterbelts. or wind-break*™ s»t out on the farms and in givmc ad-H vice and information to the farmers^B Of the trees planted up to the presents time the Superintendent of f <> rest _ r ?M slates that the figures compiled by theH inspector show 80 per cent now living Tho earlier plantations are established Hj the trees being in many cases from six-M teen to eighteen feet high, forming notH only a valuable asset to the farmer orM whose property they are, but of echi-M cational value, showing how cheaptyM and successfully tree-planting can bflM carried on under proper methods. M this way not only sholter but fuel an^H fencing are provided for the farmer. ■ ' A Zymole Trokey is a pleasant thingS to dissolve in your mouth. It stop«H coughing, relieves hoarseness, and is «■ good throat antiseptio. 8 ■

™i ■ - — — ■ — - i Representatives of the Druids' xlges waited on the Premier to-day, ys a Press Association, message, to otest against certain clauses in the riendly Societies' Bill, giving the restrar power to refuse to register a wiety unless an actuary is satisfied iat the scale of fees is sufficient to isure its stability. Tho deputation ideivstood that these clauses would be trcspective. The Premier said the msefi had been inserted in response representations made. He would aek irliament to send tho Bill to a comitieo. which would take evidence. II we.ro anxious to s<?e that tho fintcial basis of Societies was sound, and the. Druids were yniud without such uieefl everyone would bo willing to event them being put into a wrong >sition. Evory opportunity would be ren to both sides to be heai'd A discussion took place in a shipping See in Dunedin on Thursday as to iat vessel was the first to cany frozen Bat from that port. The " Evening ar " says it was under the impression at the barque Dunedin was the oncer of a trade that has assumed ormous dimensions, and that she waa peoly followed by tho Mataura, of aich Captain H. E. Greenstreet was mmander. But one of the company serted that two German steamers, lartered by Mr Albert Dornwell, a all-known butcher, who carried on isiness in George Street in the late venties, were tho first vessels that ok cargoes of frozen mutton from unedin. It seems that these steamers iled at Port Chalmers to complete teir cargo, and sailed for one of tho utch eastern colonies, intending to lieh loading there and disembark their ozen meat at London. Both met with icident, and the meat had to be jetsoned. One of the vessels, it is besved, was named the Parsilia.