Untitled

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 150, 25 June 1907, Page 4

I The following is Captain Edwin's ' weather forecast, for 24 hours from 9 a-m. ' this day:—"Heavy gz\e from between Eorth and east and soulit-east. wind probably setting in very quickly: glass furi tber fall; rain, probably heavy; rivers j heavily flooded after 20 hours.'" I The following letter lias been received ■ from Dr. Purdy. District Heakh Officer, :by the Town Clerk: —"In visw of the j fact that the owner of Bradford's buii?- ---| ings has complied with instructions as to ; the sanitary condition of the buildings. ! and that the repairs are being carried out satisfactorily, I consider that the restrictions as to occupancy can be now 1 withdrawn/ The To-cm Clerk has received advice i from the firm of Messrs. J. J. and E. J. : Clarke (architects for t'ne new Town j Hall) that Mr. J. J. Clarke will arrive 'in Auckland on 7th July from Melbourne. ' The combined programme to be given ]at St. James' Presbyterian Church to- ; morrow (Wednesday) evening, which apj pears in another part of this issue, is a very attractive one. The fiftn organ recital by Mr. Walter Impett "will form I the first part of the programme, and in • this the organist ■will have the valuable [ assistance of Mr. Colin Muston, L.R.A.M..

I who will play two violin solos. Patte- | son's fine cantata. "The New Jerusalem."' ' ] wiD follow the recital. The solo and I concerted numbers are in the capable ; ' hands of Mrs. Edmondes. Misses A. j Parry.. Fowler, and Entriean. and Messrs. j ■W. Firth. C. Snowdon. J. Mercer, and J. ' .T. Crawford. The choruses, which are a feature of the cantata, have been careful- ■ ly prepared. An offertory will be taken ai the church doors.

A farraer some miles distant from Cambridge sent to Auckland by rail ih? skin of a -well-grown calf. This skin sold for half-a-crown. and in due time the : expectant farmer received his share of j the proceeds—a penny stamp! The formal statement from the auctioneers set out carefully the details of the whole transaction, from iFhich the following was gathered: Ealrway eharge 3 2/2j earlier, 3d; baiame, Id.

Mr. W. EL WestbßOok, ajsfcmg'-seeetaj-y

of the Wellington Domestic Workers* j Union, in an interview yesterday, said: The vital principle we are , fighting for i≤ connected with the matj ter of time off- A girl should not be iat the beck and •call of a mistress night land day. At present it is entirely at I the discretion of the mistress to sumjmon the girl to duty at any moment. IWe consider that girls should have some I time which they can call their very own, J whether they axe in the house or out of it" Mr. Westbrook added that the wages point had not been mentioned in the conferenofs between representatives of the workers and employers. The main point at issne the *"time off." and there the parties failed to agree. Xo trac-e has been found of the ship's cook, Hugh Trnmble, who has -been missJirg from Gisborne for 11 days- It is possible he may have gone off with some ibush party, but the fears are now that he must hs v e been drowned. At a recent meeting of the Petcne Borough Council ir was decide to delegate to the Wellington Bugby Union power to warn H. H. Baskirille off the Pet-one recreation ground on such days as the union has use of the ground for matches. Baskiville is the player recently disqualified by the New Zealand . Union in connection with the formation of the professional football team to visit England. At last night's meeting of the Council a letter was received from BaskiviUe. stating that he was going to have this matter threshed out. and asking for particulars of the by-law under which he was to be excluded from the municipal reserves. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency have been notified that the shipment of poultry per the s.s. Kumara, on March 4. realised the following prices on the London market:—Ducklings: 68 at 4/-, 344 at 3/9, 16S at 3/G. SO2 at 3/3, 36 at 2/9. Chickens: 12 at 4/3, 36 at 3/9, 24 at 3/6. These birds were sold from May 1 to 14. Some pertinent comments on the question of the State advancing money to Maori farmers were made by Mr. Ngata, M.HJL. at a meeting of natives held at Gisborne last week. As to the scheme of assisting Maoris financially to farm their lands, he said he had a suspicion that given the best possible title, there would still be considerable hesitation on the part of the State lending department in making advances to Maoris. The hesitation would be due to want of faith in the capacity of the Maori farmer. It was hard to be faced on the one hand with an argument that the Maori was not the equal of the pakeha. and therefore not entitled to be put on the same footing in the matter of working his lands, and to be told, on the other hand that he was so capable of after his own interests as to be fit for ail prcitical purposes to be declared a European. Personally, he was opposed to the present system of the Government purchase 'of native lands. It was detrimental to iSe best interests of the race, and. speaking as a "representative of the Ea.st Coast tribes in Parliament, he would oppose the resumption of Government purchases on the East Coast.

The Post Otßce authorities are oeeaI siocally blamed for delay in the delivery iof letters where the fault lies elsewhere. ! A letter addressed to a dental praeti- . tkraer in Cb ristchnrch by a lady, who ! claimed to have posted it a few weeks

ago. did not arrive at its destination unti] Wednesday last. It was fhe-n de- : livered by an employee of the Christ- ! cliureh Gas Company, the lady bavhig ' deposited it in an opening she had 3*s-■c-overed at the base of a lamp-post. A man named Charles Maitland was picked up in Monmouth-street last evening by the Xewlon police, suffering from i fractured leg. He had evidently been lying there for some time, an-d after rendering first aid. the constable took him to the hospital. , The Fiji 'Times" of June 15 states: "The box containing a thousajad sovereigns which was accidentally dropped into the harbour in thirteen fathoms of water from 5.5. Fiona on Tuesday last was re- ( covered nest day. A. Corser was the 'diver who succeeded, in recoveries the gokL^

The winter school for dairymen, in connection with the Auckland Technical College, was opened Yesterday. Although every factory manager in the .province was circularised", over 600 ciriculars being sent out, only sis pupils 1 were enrolled-. This was attributed by Mr. V. M. Jackson, instructor, to a misunderstanding on the part of some of the factory managers. The circulars stated that the class woold be limited to 24, and as mast of the recipients lived in the backbloeks they probably j I received the impression that their applications were too late, and did not send in. The class will be conducted up to July 5. and the instruction includes experimental work and visits to agencies j and cream separators, freezing works, ! ' and refrigerating chambers of steam--1 ships. j On Saturday last the watchman em- | ployed by the Dunedin Harbour Board I ' swooped down on a party of boys who i were helping themselves to coal ex stea- ' : mer TVairuna. and a chase resulted in I five bags of coal being ultimately re- ! covered. Another lot of young people were relieved of' scwt. of coal that had I been stolen from the wharves. i Advices have been received at Lyttelj ton that the barque Ahnesley (Captain : Ceriez) which put into Lyttekon on February S last, short of provisions, from I N-eweastie-on-Tyne. England, bound to San Francisco, to which port she resumed I her voyage on February 13, arrived at s~an FTar.cisco on May 12. The vessel. I which was SS days on the passage from i Lyttelton to San FTancisco, was delayed ;by calms and light winds and the foul i state of her hull. The barque was j exactly 13 months from the Tyne to San j Francisco. ! A double drowning fatality was avert - led at Wanganui yesterday afternoon. ; A nine-year-old boy fell into the river. ! and Mr. E. O'Xeill went to the rescue. !He could, not swim, and. though he : grasped the boy. both were in danger .of drowning, when a man named John ! Braid dived into the water and rescued , them. : At the Supreme Court, Xapier, yesfer-

day. a. fee of £5 was inflicted on an old settler for having set a spring gun in his orchard to prevent fruit-stealing. It was stated that this was the first case of the kind beard in the colony. j How the Burglar got away in the mo-tor-car is told in this week's instalment of that fascinating story. "The Caase cf the Golden Plate." now running in the " Xew Zealand Graphic." Mr. Jacques Futrelle has su-eoeejed in constructing

mc?t mystifying plot, winch completely baffles elucidation and chains the attention. The illustrated portion of this splendidly-got-up journal is iuli of fine pictures of current events all over the i colony, and even further afieJd.. for there is an interesting full-page picture of the launching of the Union S.S. Company's new "flyer," the turbine steamer Maorij the ceremony being performed by Lady Ward at Dmnbarvoa, g "^*iH*T , i

A-eoording to our Waibi coTrespondeat there -was rather an unseemly distnrbance at the Academy of Music on Sunday night last. The Salvation Army Biorama Company, it appears, notified that an exhibition of sacred pictures would be given at the Academy of Music after church hours, and as the 'Waihi I public dearly love a cheap show, the admittance being by silver coin collection; hundreds gathered outside the hall doora, which •were not to be opened until a certain time. The crowd began to clamour for admission, and when one of the front doors only was opened, there was a mad rush. The object in opening only one door was, tha.t the doorkeeper might have control of the collection, but when the crowd began hustling and ma-dc such a disturbance the side doors were then opened and the assemblage was •dealt with -without further trouble. Many women had their Sunday garments badly crushed, and altogether the affair was not by any means in keeping with the Sabbath.

Attention is directed to the sale by auction to be held by Mr. T. Mandeno Jackson, at his mart. Customs-street, E-. to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, of properties comprising of house and 3J acres. Owensroad, Mt. Eden: resfdenee and large allotment, Xorana Avenue, Remuera; and a section in Ardmore-road, Ponsonby.

Millions of a-ching heads every year obtain quick and happy relief from Steams, Heada-che Cure. Many millions more could if they would take it. Do you make use of this great remedy ? —Ad.