LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13421, 7 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the present time there is not a single entry of undetected crime on the books in dm Police Station at Tiniaru.. Over ho painters are out of work in Dunedin, and the Government has been asked to find them employment by putting some public works in hand. Three whales wore caught, in Colleen Charlotte Sound on June 21. PeranoV parly captured two and Keenan's one. iiiis made six whales within a fart night, The Christehineh City Council is offering 2d per dozen for the heads of injurious Mrds, delivered at the central yard between the first and eighth days of the n until:! bf July, August. September, On toiler, and November. Tile Hon. T. Mackenzie has informed the Stratford Chamber of Commerce that lie has instructed the Tourist Department's photographer to visit Taranaki to lake cinematograph films illustrating the dairy industry. The Wairarapa Age Company has been s a ved ivii hj a writ claiming Af.iill damages for alleged libel, by one J. ,1. Kelliher, a law clerk. The libel is alleged to have been emit.'lined in y. report of a meeting of tlio No-license parly held on Friday even mg. The Weather Huroau reports as follow.s:— Moderate to strong northerly winds prevailing and freshening after ten hours; indications for fair weather but unseUled and cloudy weather increasing after twenty-four hours; glass fall; tides low ; sea moderate. “In what year was your eldest child bornf’ an applicant for charitable aid win asked at Christchurch. "Good Lord, 1 don't know," she replied, in a. lone suggesting that she should be asked easy questions. She added reminiscently that it, was in the year of the Auckland' Exhibit ion. Christchurch towards the end of Hie year is to .m the scene of what the promoters earnestly hope will be the biggest band cun lest ever held in Australasia. The contest is being promoted by the South Eland Hand Association, of which Dr Thacker is president and Air G. Jenner secret ary, The association comprises all the hands in the South Island. On Wednesday of las! week a mail travelled from Dunedin to Owaka to defend a law ea.se in which he was concerned. He intended to conduct the ease himself, and when it was called on he was was debarred from making a del cnee because ho had not filed the formal notice of intention to defend. Experience, teaches. Probably (says the Clutha Leader) that man now regrets that lie did not consult a solicitor. Good progress is being made with the construction of the permanent way for tile Invcrcargiil trams, the intention oeing to lay down seven miles in the meantime. The ceremony of driving the first spike in the rails was carried out on Saturday morning by the Alayor before a large assemblage of'citizens. The installation of trams marks a new era in the development of Invercargill. Extensive water supply and sewerage schemes arc also being considered at present. 1 oceans Strait, in the vicinity ot Central Island lighthouse, is at present the home of many whales, and every day large numbers or them may he seen sporting and spouting in the sunshine (.-.ays a .Southern paper. In some instances they are seen to jump bodily out of the water and fall back mi their sides, making a splash like a tidal wave, which can ho seen at a oElaarc of several miles. It is reported that they travel north for the winter and I'cfunf in the spring, and this probably accounts for their presence in such large numbers. Ihe Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company’s liner Coriuthic, which is due at Wellington from Loudon next. Monday, is bringing 334 passengers to New Zealand. Eleven are coming saloon, 37 secand-eia-s, and 28d steerage. Of this uumlicv Wellington’,s complement is the largest, 12d passengers, including 88 steerage, being booked for this port. Auckland will take 8:q Lyttelton 31, Fluff 21, Dunedin 20, Gisborne. 15, Westport 11, and oilier ports varying numbers of passengers. The Niw Zealand Shipping Company's (drainer Tongariro, which arrived at Wellington from London yesterday,, brought 25t) passengers for all ports. Included in that number are 48 adults and children who took advantage ot the Government's assisted passages. The occupation of the majority of those ia sot (lowa as that of farming. Over a year ago the Postal Depart incut imported a number of Homo Savings Hanks—steel safes in miniature—which servo as money-boxes, with this difference; that, once deposited the money can only lie taken out by an official at, the Savings Hank, who holds the key. The money is then counted out in the presence of the depositor, and is placed to the credit of his or her account, to be operated upon thereafter in the ordinary way. Up to the present 1050 of these Home Savings Hanks have been issued in Wellington. Hitherto tho price has been as or del a year; now, however, those boxes can bo obtained bv depositors upon tho payment of one shilling, a debit, of a further sum of two shillings being made to tho Savings Hank account while the box is in use. H. is intended to issue the boxes at all the principal P.O. banks throughout the Dominion. Lynching of negroes in the Southern States haa not been so frequent in the last few years as it was previously, writes the San Francisco correspondent of the Auckland Herald, umlor date Alay 31. ,* ticularly brutal crime of this mitnze whs, howgver, reported laat week from Lake ,'ity, in Florida. Six coloured men were taken from the, county gaol by a party of more than a dozen men masquerading as* officers, who presented a bogus telegram to tho l(i-ycar-old sou of the sheriff', ordering the release of the blacks to the allege,] officers. The negroes were taken out alwuit a. mile from the town, compelled to stand abreast, and about, ten men commenced bring with rillcs and revolvers, until every one of fh onrisoners had l>een riddled with bullets. Tim firing lasted about half an hour, and at daybreak citizens found the blacks mutilated beyond recognition, the prisoners wore being held in gaol on a charge of murdering a lumberman.