LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8216, 13 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, before Messrs C. J. Harper and 11. Clark, J's.P., at the ■•'Ashburton Police Court this morning.' There was no other business. The erection of four new cells at the local Police Station is.now nearing com-. pletion.. The old buildingj ■ which contained six" cells, will go out of use—in fact, two of the cells have' not been used for some- time. ,The new building will be handier to the police station, being situated immediately at the back of it. It will contain four cells, welllighted by specially constructed. win r dows, and one of'which will- be padded. The building will be fittedwith all the, latest appliances for dealing with prisoners ; without ; taking them outside;: There will also'be an office and a convenient lavatory connected with the lavatory. That only four cells are now required ■ in'the place of six in the old days, shows that crime is on the de-croase-in Ashburton. Some of the wealthiest and most influential people in- tbo Old Gountny and elsewhere aro tbo most enthusiastic of the Ford Co.'s patrons. Latest purchasers among English nobility are the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of. Yarborough, Mr Hilliare Belloc, General Sir George Aston, and the Countess of Fingal. The idea" occasionally developed by people that they should part with largo sums of money to buy a good 'ear has long since been proved erroneous, and will continue so while the Ford Car is procurable. Price £180. Catalogue and full particulars furnished on request by G. H. Carson, the Ford Co.'s Local Agent. Tailored | Street. ' COO

A ease of scarlet fever has been reported to the Ashburton Hospital Board from the southern end of the town. " I ajn quite convinoed-that many people are only waiting for a. lead in this matter," said the Key. A. L. Hansell, at the Anglican Synod at Wellington on Thursday afternoon, when lie moved the following motion:— "That it be a recommendation to the, clergy of the diocese, to forward the K. of K. pledge as much as possible in their parishes at this time, .follows ing the examploY.of the. King.',' it wa"s only a lead tho people were waiting for, and where could that lead come from bettor than from the Church ? (Hear, hear.) Mr Hansel 1 said that it was .proverbially difficult to bring such a matter before Synod, but tho requirements of the pledge wore extremely moderate, and ho felt" sure that the Synod would have no •hesitation in passing the motion. There was little discussion, and tho motion was carried unaltered, with the exception that it was made to apply to the laity as well as the clergy. ; : . Chinese in New Zealand are not usually "classified under religious head-, ings. For this reason, specia.l interestattaches ,to a paragraph in tho report of Mr Law, Anglican Chinese mis-, sioner. printed copies of the English translation' of the report wore into I*, duced at the. Wellington i)ipcesan Syri'Sfi on. Wednesday (says the " l)o----nnnion")^ and contained the following note:,—" tn my work 1 have come in contact with three classes of Chinese. First, .those who aro opposed to ..the 'Jesus religion,'• who would think it dreadful to stop inside a church. Second, those who look on Jesus as a holy man,'like Confucius; they say Jesus is the Europeans' holy man, and Confucius is the Chinese holy man; they like to hear about Jesus, but they will not acknowledge Him to be the Saviour of the world. Third, those \Vho really believe in Jesus, but, as it were, are following in the dark; they are afraid to pome boldly forward for fear of ridicule and of'their relations." j "Just study the matter for one moment. Tako into consideration th« present position. When Germany is.! driven out of Belgium and France the war will then only be commencing. What will be the state of things even then ? If the war be continued to its bitter end, what will be the state of Europe then, with this terrific depletion of wealth and resources ? Will there be sufficient strength lefb to compel Germany to change her dynasty; or give up militarism, or will there simply be a recurrence of the whode trouble ? In the case of England alone, what will be the. effect of the interference in industry, finance,' and commerce generalrally ? Will it modify individualism ? What' of the social aspect ? India's national aspect ? Everywhere, everything, is going , into the melting pot, you ask mo the effect. It would be easier to tell you all about the future ]ifo. I'WM. W* MeCallum, Professor of Modern Languages, at the Sydney ..University, on the "effects, of the war. • ;.-Nobody can say how long the world's oil resources will last, for no human. eye (says an English paper) has ever had a peep at Nature's subte?Tanean stores. But since Stanley Jevons—just half a century ago—made the subject of our coal supply one of "religious importance," there have :■ been many gloomy warnings of what may ; happen when Great: Britain, whose prosperity is .built on coal, comes within sight of her last seam. Not many years ago a Royal Commission assured us that we had just about 100,000,000.000 tons left. Now, as we raise 200,000,000 tons every year, it seems a child's task to discover how long our coal will last. Fortunately the problem is. less simple. Since Jevon's day. new sources' have been tapped—notably in Kent—and although we raise more coal than ever we aro learning to waste loss.' But the waste in combustion is still astounding. There is more power in a ton of coal than in a ton of 40 per cent, dynamite, says Edison, wlio has reminded ns that " everything in nature would burn up were it not for the fact that everything except coal is already burned up," and that there is enough energy in a pound of coal to take it round the world. The attitude of tho Waikato Maoris towards religion is much more hopeful than formerly, according to the Anglican Bishop of Auckland, Dr. A. \V. Averill, who has just completed a tour of ±he district (states the "New Zealand Herald"). The bishop states that he found tht Maori portion of his trip very interesting, because the Waikato Natives had been most difficult, and in some ways hostile, for some time past. Tho chief of the district, however, welcomed Dr." Averill,, and , spoke hopefully regarding the work of the Church. "The old hostility is beginning to pass away," said Bishop Averill, " and I feel very hopeful that a good many of the Maoris in that district will come to a better framo oi mind. Most of them are under the influence of the so-called Maori ' king/ but I clo not think they will hold the same ideas regarding the pakeha in future that they have hold in tho past. The fact that I was able to confirm a few of the Maoris Is a good sign, and next time I. think more will come ♦forward. I was just in the centre of the ' king's '. sphere of influence, and : was glad to find that influence was not doing the harm that it might'have been doing." The London " Times" contains the following interesting reference to the operations of German stamp collectors:—"lt is interesting, to note that Gorman collectors, notwithstanding the agitation for a German annexation of Belgium, aro buying up very large quantities of tho new German issues for Belgium. Meanwhile, tho sale of Turkish' stamps in Germany has been stopped, altogether, for 'political reasons '—in: ;Qther words,, to . prevent speculation about the ' futurb of: the •Turkish Empire." If this ainazing assertion is true, may wo presume that the stamps of Austria, Hungary, and Bosnia should also be interdicted ? In time, porhaps, far-seeing German collectors may start speculating in the current issues of the Gorman Empire, and then the authorities will,, indeed be in a quandary. It- is difficult to-sec how they could prevent ■ speculation about the future of Germany vby suppressing their own stamps—thoxigh they might, of course, make use of the stamps of Luxemburg all over the Empire. The suppression of tho'truculent figure of Germania; in favour of the charming portrait of tho G*and Duchess, would advertise the safety of the Empire, not only among collectors, but to the whole population. •The safest, quickest, cheapest remedy or coughs and colds is "NAZOL." 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