GLEE CLUB AT SANSON.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2032, 26 March 1913, Page 2

GLEE CLUB AT SANSON.

IN oxt Wednesday'the Folding Male Olee Club is to give a concert in Sanson in aid of the local school tunas. A nrst-dass programme is being prepared by these popular entertainers. Besides unaccompanied part songs by the party, there will be a number ol specia, litems by the stars oi the company.

The Chapman - Alexander Mission ]pai t7 i°ft en their Wellington campaign in the Town Hall to-night

lou may go home and get another taxicab, and go out and kill somebody else, said Judge Foster at the New iorlc General-Session Court recently. Ihe Judge was addressing Leon Gerard, a taxi-cab driver, who had been charged with niurder, and was acquitted. Ho was indicted for the murder or Mrs Mary Dethbridge, who was ™ over and killed in April last, ins Judge, addressing the acquitted marij added; "The jury have given you permission to do 50. ,.

As an instance -of how the vast tracks south of Auckland have been transformed by that proliEc spreader or- settflement, the Main Trunk line, the Hon. W. EC. Hemes, speaking at laumarunui the other eveunig, mentioned that when he was first elected in 1896, for the Bay of Plenty, Taumarunui was then in his electorate, which ran from the township to Cape Runaway in the east, and from Waihi boundary in the north to the top of ituapehu- in the far south. He explained that in those days the progressive township that had grown up was httle dreamt of. Taumarunui ■was then simply a name on the map, somewhere aboijt the junction of the Wanganui and the Ongarue Rivers, and he assured his hearers that he did not attempt to hold any political meetings there during his 1896 campaign.—Auckland Star, ■■■■;■■

Two first offending drunkards before . the Court this morning were convict- J ed and fined 5s each.

The Hon. E. D. Bell has received advice that the battleship New Zealand will arrive in Wellington ou April 12.

Miss Alice Schalek, of Vienna, who is under contract to the Frankfurter Zoitung to furnish a series of articles dealing with Australia and New Zealand is at present touring the South Mand.

Adverse weather has greatly hampered fishing operations in the Strait and in the vicinity oi' Stewart Island this season, which is reported as one of the worst experenced for many years.

Considerable concern is being felt at the number of robberies which have been committed in Wanganui of late, and the prospect of the epidemic continuing unchecked is viewed with a feeling of disquietude among the residents.

Mr F. Fairey of Nelson, received a cablegram from Sydney stating that at the Royal Show "he had secured the the first prizo in tho Hereford cattle class for the bullock he sent from New Zealaind to that show. This boast has secured no less than 25 first prizes and two second prizes.

The Auckland superintendent oi mercantile marine. Captain T. Fleming, received n mossage stating thai a derelict, buoyed with Oregon timber, had been sighted off the Kaipara The message intimated that tho ob stable was midway between Oponon and tho upper black buoy.

Poulatioh is pouring into Australia nowadays. In addition to the 3UO immigrants who arrived in Sj'dnoy on March 14 by the Demosthenes, another 574 were landed tne followng day from the P. and O. branch liner Ballarat, which arrived from London. At Adelaide 370 wero landed, and 230 more at Melbourne. The following resolution is to lie. considered by tho Labour Conference to bo held in Wellington in July: "With tho lessons oi' the past year, written in the biood of our dead comrade, before us, no effort shall be spared during the next 22 months that will tend to bring about tho political destruction of the Massev Government."

Referring to statements that reaggregation of land was proceeding near Mangaweka, Premier Massev said yesterday that the Crown Lands Hanger was "now in the district inquiring into tho matter, and he expected a report in a day or two. "One tiling is dear," remarked the Prime Minister, "and that is, if there has been any aggregation is'took place before our. time."

Tho most prominent question m commercial circles just now, remarks tho Dunedin Star, is: Will Australia need New Zealand potatoes this year ? If farmers have to depend on a. Dominion demand, it is 'almost certain that prices will not go near those they obtained last year. Heavy supplies iiavo come to market, and prices this week dropped about- £1 as compared with last week's rates. Tho best price obtained this week was Lo Jls Gd, but tho" average is nearer live guineas per ton, which is better than the rates' obtained at this time last year. But prospects are not as good as they were then. The future depends on Australia.

The Rev. j. Cocker, one time of 1 ( eliding, was presented with a handsome silver-mounted inkstand by the Auckland Prohibition League. A characteristic story regarding Mr Cocker was related. He was" speaking at a street temperance meeting when a burly fellow shouted,- ''Why don't you take your coat off and earn an honest living?" Mr Cocker promptly offered to meet the man at 8 o'cock the following Monday morning, with a pick, shovel, and barrow, the two to put in a solid eight hours, and see wluch could do the most work. The -gave himself away thoroughly by declining the offer, "with the remark, "I never did a day's work in my hie with my coat off. and never intend to."

Heforo leaving Auckland for Sydney, the Hon. Mr Foster (of Canada) on behalf of the Imperial Trade Commissioners, expressed appreciation of the generous treatment received in New Zealand by which the Government had made their stay pleasant and enabled them to see the most to be seen in the time at their disposal. He tlioiight the climate one of New Zealand's biggest assets. The Dominion was a fine country, and do doubt before many years its population would be more nearly adjusted to its great productive capacity. He should hke to see four million people hero rather than one million. The Commissioners had been much impressed by the wonders of the thermal district. There were greater geysers, bigger lakes, and higher mountains in many countries, but no other region combined so much pleasing variety of landscape and thermal activity as tho Hot Lakes district.

. lleierriug last week -to the flotation on tho London market of an other N.S.W. loan of £3,000,000 the Treasurer (Mr Cami) said that'this brought tho total of his borrowing since he joined the Ministry up to £0,500,000. (Premier McGowen has been in office only 2-i years.) He would he said, have liked better terms for the new loan, but the business had been concluded on terms wluck were as favourable as anybody could get, even though there" had been a drop of a point and a half when compared with the -previous similar transaction. Mr Cann was disinclined to say whether he would apply to London investors for still lurtner sums of money, and was not prepared to indicate tho use to which He intended to put the £3,000,000 now coming forward. In the middle of May, however, Treasui-v bills will mature.to tho extent of £2,000 000 and when asked whether some the money would be applied to the redemption of those bills the Treasurer said "it. might, or it might ££ » It was possible, he added? that he might renew the bills and keep the cash lor general purposes Ihrough setting fire to a pilar-box ,F £S + S , uff / a S efct , es . lost a donation oi £000 that was being forwarded to them by a supporter. In a letter I o jiu Auckland resident a wealthy Jyiigluihrnan tells the story as follows As you may remember,' 1 have alii,?' 3 , #Gn 5 con |t fl nt supporter of the biiftragettes 1 sympathised with olfW druggies to such an extent that 1 mado frequent donations to their funds. Just recently 1 decided to help them .substantially and makmg out a cheque for £500, posted it, with other letters, in an adjacent pillar-box. It appears that shorty afterwards a. militant suffragette came by and ignited the contents or tho box. My letter was delivered considerably charred, but although the figures were destroyed' my signature was clear. Accordingly the suffragettes called on me, and asked that 1 might fill in a new (•heijiie. This, however, I flatly refused to do, as my sympathy had beejm considerably alienated, as several other important letters of mine had been destroyed. It's wonderful how one s opinion alter when one suffers oneself. I rather expect to hear more of this, us the ladies were considerably annoyed when I refused their request.