LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17735, 8 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The inquiry ordered by the {ilovernmeut into the Past and Telegraph bonus j i;ue.sti:m nil! take place at New Plymouth to-morrou, bet(KO Ins Honour LMc Chief Justice, Sir Robert. Stout. Mr W .1 Cuttle was on -Saturday | nominated as a candidate for the \\ «;'. • juanui mmi. His nominators were —.Mr j I>. J. MoKarlune. Mr A. R. Whitehea i, |Mr tieo. P. Holland, Mrs M. G. Sidut'lls, ji's Kilen H. Suisted, and Mr A. j> Ernn <?U. At a ii'eeiiiig of local retailers held on Saturday evening to consider the iiueVi.ioii of Xnias and New Yaw hoi - days, a (onmiitt<^?, consisting of Messrs Lloyd Jone«. Young, Seed, Willis and Gibson, was appointed to canvass the iowu to-day (Monday) with a view ci jisfettaitiin^ whet-her or not shopkepe:I.*; are pre; a rod to observe tho Saturday of !Xmas and New Year weeks as a oloie lioliday. ■499

A slight earth tremor was felt last evening at 9 27. j

An unexpected large mail, consisting of 1863 bags, left Sydney in the Dutch steamer Van Cloon, and was due in Auckland on Saturday. This includes a large English consignment, as well as an Eastern and Australian mail.

Mr T. M. Wilfoid states that uersiuent rumours arc being circulated throughout New Zealand to the tflect thnt he. while Minister of Jiisvi:-^, ordered 'that all reference to -eligi.jn should be omitted from the eharge-sheec vi Courts. In reply he wishes to siate that the rumour is absolutely ineo-va^t, and tint he has departmental proof of this.

By a unanimous votj of 150 delegates, and without any opposition, the Seattle Labour Council went on record in favour of nation-wide Prohibition, ar.d instructed its Labour delegates to the National Meeting of the American Federation of Labour to introduce and work for adoption of a resolution opposing the repeal of. war-time prohibition, and urging organised Labour hi all its branches to demand and aid enforcement of the law.

The Trarranga Harbour Board lias decided io a:lopt the suggestion if Mr Blair Mason to hire either the Auckland Harbour lioaixfs bucket Dredge 121, or the Westport Harbour Board's dredge Ruby Seddon for the purpose of dredging a •-•hanuel to the town wharf to accommodate steamers up to 20 feet. The Board also decided to ask the ValuerGeneral t.> prepare a valuation roll of the Harbour District jus a pieliniinai.y to taking a poll to raise £107.750 to tarry out Mi Blair Mason's scheme of improvements. With th»s expenditure the har'noiir will lank next to the present iiW3 ports of the Dominion.

Laurie Davis, who appeared before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court on Friday last, in answer to a charge of theft, and who was jelnands,;! on the application of DetectiveSergt. Hollis. appeared at the Court on Saturday in answer to* the following charges:—(l) Theft of 2 handlings, I steel punch, 1 plumb i>ob, of the total value of £3 10s. the property o i.; Wanganu; Education Board; (2) a quantity of electric wire, 1 packet of friction' tape, valued at 10s, the pro--perty of the Wanganui Borough Council; (3) 1 micrometer. I sciew pitch guage, 5 pairs calipers, 3 double guagc, total value of £4 10s, the" property of Messrs Mil.'s «md Co., Wellington ; (4) that he did bread and enter the premises oi William Murray, of Wangnnui, aii'l steal therefrom 1 camera, and 5 film?, total value £7 Bs. The accused pleaded guilty t> all charges preferred against Mm, and'on.the charge of theft of property of tinl Wanganui Education Boar:l was sentenced to tines months' imprisonment with hard labour. On the charge of breaking and entering the premises oi: and theft from Murray, and'of theft. from Mills and Co., he was remanded to appear, at the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence.