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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 4

The following is Captain Edwin* Weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day: "Moderate to strong westerly winds; glass rise slowly." "Elijah!" The members of the Choral Society and Leidertafel are reminded that the final rehearsal for the performance of this work with the Watkin Mills , Company will be held to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. Members' rehearsal tickets will not be available for tomorrow. Collections were made in a few of the Anglican churches of the city and suburbs yesterday in aid of the Veterans' Home. At the Cathedral Chruch of St. Mary's the surplus over the average collection to be devoted to the Veterans' Home amounted to about £7. At St. Sepulchre's the special donations for the Home were put into the plates in sealed envelopes, but the amount so donated is not yet known. At St. Peter's Church, Takapuna, the special collection realised £4 10/3. As several erroneous statements have been published with regard to the estate of the late Mr William Mason, we are requested by his executors to state that, although the greater portion of the estate will go to public institutions, the immediate relatives will receive a considerable sum, and not £500 only as has been said. The statement that the various legacies will be payable within a few days also needs correction, as, of course, realisation of the estate will occupy some months. In the Police Court on Saturday a man named Brown was committed for sentence on a charge of smashing a plate-glass window and stealing a pair of boots from Messrs. Dadley and Sons' establishment. He stated to a constable when arrested that he 'committed the offence in order to get even with the firm because they owed him money, but we are informed by Messrs. Dadley and Sons that Brown's allegation is absolutely incorrect, the man being quite unknown to them. The Italian cruiser Calabria, with Prihde Fel-dihAhd of Savoy on board, which will visit New Zealand shortly, has left Honolulu in continuation of her cruise across the Pacific. According to advices received in Sydney she will be due at Fiji on the 24th inst., and New Zealand on November 7. From the latter place she proceeds to Hobart; thence to Melbourne, and on to Sydiipy. The cruiser is timed to reach Sydney on December 9, and she will remain in port until December 17, afterwards proceeding to the East via the Torres Straits route. Mr. J. Donald, of Messrs. Donald and Edonborough, had an exciting experience at Onehunga yesterday afternoon v.itu the racing pony Wandering Jew. The racer was in harness to a trap in which Mr. Donald was waiting near the Mungere bridge. A passing tramcar caused the horse to wheel round, and Mr. Donald found himself down on the road. The horse then dashed off with the trap and smashed it against a trampole near the Manukau Hotel, himsell coming to the ground. Bystanders secuied him and prevent a further spring and he was led off to the stable, trailing the debris of the trap behind him. A carter emuployed by Mr. J. J. Russelij a coal merchant, of Onehunga, was delivering coal from a dray in Catherinestreet on Saturday morning, when the st-aft horse bolted, and forced the leader to follow suit. They went through Church-street and into Queen-street, where a collision with a milk cart of Mr. Glasgow, of Mungere, brought the runaways to the ground. The dray was capsized, but comparatively uninjured. The damage to the milk cart was limited to a break of a splash board. None of the horses were seriously damaged, and Mr. Glasgow escaped uninjured. The old Adage which tells of a bull in a china shop (says the "Sydney Tele l graph" of Tuesday last) was practically exemplified last night at Concord: About 7 o'clock a number of cattle were Ibeing driven along the Parramattaroad, on their way from the Flemington saleyards to the Glebe Island abattoirs, when a bullock suddenly broke away from his fellows, and rushed at a shop occupied by Messrs j. j. Shipley and Bone, general grocers. He dashed through a plate-glass window threequarters of an inch thick, ruined the Window, and damaged many articles in the shop, especially a quantity of crockeryware. The broken glass so gashed the animal's throat, that it had to be killed on the spot by a neighbouring butcher. At the Coromandel Court on Saturday, before Messrs. Rockliffe and James, Dick Williams, a half-caste, waa charged with stealing cattle from Mr A. E. Jeff- ■ coat; farmer, at Cabbage Bay. Detective Fahey appeared on behalf of the Crown, and Mr Carnell for the defendant. After a great deal of evidence was taken on both sides, the Bench committed accused for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being allowed. The Onehunga Flying dub held its third race of the season on Saturday last, the flight being from Taumarunui to Onehunga, a distance of about 140 miles on air-line. The weather conditions were favourable. Of the twentythree bird 3 that started, T. Coldicutt's came first with a velocity of 1308 yards per minute; C. Leonard's second, Velocity 1275 yards per minute; and P. Holmes' third, velocity 1260 yards per minute. The Anglican Church in Canada has taken an important step in the direcS tioit of discouraging divorce in the Dominion. The General Synod me* in September, in Quebec, and a decision was come to that in future no clergyman owning obedience to the Church of England in Canada ea» sotemnisu a marriage between a divorced person and another as logn as the other party to the divorce is living. There weifc nineteen bishops present at the Synod, and they were unanimous on the question while only eight of the clergy opposed its affirmation. Bishops Doane, of Albany, Tuttle, of-Missouri, and Morrison, of Duluth, spoke strongly of the evils of divorce in the United States and a statement which had great weight in producing the adoption of the canon was that made by Mr George C. Thomas, of Philadelphia, who said that an American judge told him that he dissolved ten times as many marriages as any clergyman solemnised. Our readers are reminded that a popular entertainment from the works of Mr, Charles Dickens will be eiven in the Y.M.OA. Hall to-morrow (Tuesday) night in aid of the funds* of St. Stephen's Orphan Home. His Worship the Mayor will occupy the chair, and arrangements are being made for tht attendance of the senior children. The unboundin* humour and the broad humanity pervading the writings of Mr. Dickens are admirably brought oiit in tht entertainment prepared by Mr. Honuw H. Hunt.

Passengers for Whangarei this eveaing should note that the ;■*. Ngapubi will leave from Quetn-etreet Wharf at 9.30 p.m. The police received intelligence yeater* day by telegraph that a settler named Samuel Prince, aged 76, dropped dead on Saturday morning While working at Kaiwaka. A lamp trimmer named Norman Caste!, of the S.S. Wanaka, met with a somewhat ewrious accident about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon last. He was standing near one of the holds when a sling of sugar struck him on the chest and pinned him to a etaunchion. Dr. Parkes ordered the man's removal to the hospital, but at his own request, Castel wa> taken to his father-in-law's house in Federal-street. A most enjoyable outing was spent by members of the V.M.C.A. Rambling Club oh Saturday afternoon, leaving by ferry boat for Northcote, from there walking to Takapuna Beach, where bathing was indulged in by many, • and- after having a good tea, which was provided at Lake House, the return to town was made via Devonport. Several members of the V.M.C.A. Camera Club were present with their cameras. The Meteorological Report for September, published in the last Gazette, states: "Although the month of September in New Zealand is usually assotia ted with lachrymose spring, yet this season it was exceptionally Wet and gloomy, and, speaking generally, the number of rainy days nearly double the averaj}?. The total fall, however, was in some cases (particularly in the north and north-east of the North Island) somewhat below the mean for previous years; but over Canterbury and in parts of Otago the fall was from two to four times greater than the average, and at ino3t stations in those districts exceeding all previous records for the month. In Dunedin, for example, the registers extend, with only one or two breaks, to 1855, and give ..an average for September of 2ofl points of fain on thii> teen days, and a previous maximum of 81? points on eighteen days in September, 1893, whereas this year the record is 1105 points on twenty-four days. September last year was also a very wet month throughout the colony. Indications at several times throughout the month Showed that heavier falls of rain and snow also occurred at hignef levels than in the preceding months, and in the lower parts of the country In September, and the reason that floods were hot more marked is that thia is the storage period Of the year, when the surface of the earth is more porous and the soil retains the moisture for vegetation, and to gradually percolate down ibwe- levels. In the returns comparatively few references occur with regard to thunder throughout the South Island; but in the North Island thundery conditions were very - prevalent particularly about the Ist, Bth, 9th, 10th, 16thi and especially the 28th and 27th. Showers of hail were common, and were all apparently associated with a rising bafotneter, At Te Tua, in the western district of Southland, Mr Archdal] mentions: "Ott Thursday night, 28 th ultimo, a short but very heavy hailstorm occurred at 9 p.m. The hailstones were the size of two good peas. A very vivid display of lightning also occurred; several totara telegraph-posts were splintered from top to bottottij in one ease the about the size of a man's wrist, was left standing; At the base of two or three large dead pines peaty earth was thrown outwards for a distance of 5 or 0 yards, and all branches and small logs were also thrown aside. ThLj only happened in one place in this district, aiidi strange to state, it was only in the same locality last year that a birch-tree was fired by lightning ignition taking place at the'top of the trie." With regard thunderstorms, Mr L. J. Adams, of Ruatangata Nursery, near Whangarei; says, "Heavy thundershowers swept over this district occasionally between the Ist and 23rd. the fetormS appeared to travel on a curved path, and had a radius of about eighty miles at their greatest distance. They arrived at Whangarei about half an hour later in each day, and then rain, tind sometimes hail, fell in torrents, and lasted a few minutes to an hour;" The Weekly return of the Mount Eden Gaol shows that the total number of prisoners is 200 men and 27 Women, of whom 23 men and nine Women were received during the week; Mr George Bodley intimates that he has taken over the Well-knoWn Queenstree* cafe known as Canning's and intends to completely renovate it; Britannia still rules the Waves; the sailor suits, only 3/9, at Geb. FoWlds', still catch the eyes of the boys.—Ad. Distance lends enchantment; you may pull for hours before you end our ihile upon miles of ties.—Geo. Fowlds.—Ad the time is ripe, the w-ather wiil be suitable, your interests demand good clothing; try Geo. Fowlds'.—.Ad. Don't be tied down or allow your clothes to be a drag. Geo. Fowlds offers you beautiful Charley's Aunt Rhirts.-rAd. Special novelties! White embroidered muslin and linen blouse lengths; also white embroidered box dresses and 3kirts at our well-known caaji/priees.— Smith and Caughey, Ltd.—Ad. Smith and Caughey are now showing new spring novelties in ladies' voile costumes. Serge and flannel costumes from 29/6; holland and crash costumes H/0, 15/6, 19/6, 22/6 to 45/.-^Ad.