LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8203, 28 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ A London message says that the Judicial Committee, of the Privy Council dismissed with costs the New Zealand appeal Rex v. Broad.

A message from Melbourne says that the - Postmaster-General has directed that preference be given to shops employing unionists in obtaining postal supplies.

Mr J. Forrester, of Burnett Street, reports an uncommon kind of growth in his garden —namely, an ungrafted peach tree which had been green and leaf-bearing' all through' the winter. The other peach trees in his garden lost all their leaves at the beginning of the "fall."

The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company has been given notice by the- Imperial Government me.it supply branch not to talce over, on its account, any carcases of either ewes or wethers which scale over 851b in weight, such not being suitable for its requirements.

. It is possible that another shipping company may enter into the New Zealand trade after the' war. It is on the tapis, but at present I am not able to say any more about it."—Sir James Wilson, president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, at the annual Conference yesterday.

"It is pleasing to note that the Ashburton Trotting Club is actually second on the list amongst the Dominion Clubs for the amount given away in in stakes per race for last season, the New Zealand Metropolitan Club coming first and the Ashbnrton Trotting Club second."—Mr H. F. Nicoll at the annual meeting of the Ashburton Trotting Club last evening..

Australian papers to hand. by yesterday's mail report, a big property deal in Melbourne, Mr Ben. J. Fuller having paid £150,000 for the properties enclosed, in the Grand Central Hotel (formerly the Palace), including the Gaiety and Bijou-Theatres. The location is light in the heart of Melbourne's theatre-.land, with big 'frontages to Bourke Street, and extending back to Little Collins Street.

Before Mr R. Clark, J.P., at the Magistrate's Court this morning, a. man named Frank Allan,.-was charged with being a disorderly and:idle person, and with having no. visible means of support, Senior-Sergeant A. T. Emerson said that the :■ man .had been arrested at Aruridel, and the police had had no time yet in which to make inquiries respecting him-. He. asked for a remand for eight .days, which whsgranted. i "As tho army marches on its stomach," said Sir James Wilson at the Farmers' Union Conference in Wellington yesterday, "the farmers at this, end are necessary to the men in the trenches, and;it:is tho farmer's duty. ■" at all hazards and without thought of reward, to devote his land to such purposes as will turn out the gi'eatefit amount of produce; and from what I know of the farmers of New Zealand, I am sure they arc determined to do their share."

1 The Full Court at -"Wellington, gave its reserved decision • in , the case Penmany, the Inspector of. ?r!iftos, yesterday. The Court held that the daily inspection required by Rule 8 of the ■special rules made under the Co«I Mines Act, 1908, was an examination of the actual working parts of tho mine, including all ventilating appliances, wherever situated, but did not extend to the old workings, which did not form nart of the ventilating system. The Court quashed tho convictions against Penman, but nllowed no costs against the Department.

Swanson's are , still buying new tweeds at the old prices. They have just landed another case of up-to-date suitings, and _ these ore wiling fast. There is no rise in the prire. of their suits yet, but it is bound to come, so reader's are advised to place their orders curly. 1 G 00