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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 257, 28 October 1907, Page 4

The following is Captain Edwin's weather forecast for twenty-hours from 9 a.m. this day: "Moderate to strong westerly winds; tides good; sea considerable; rain probable; glass little movement."

A sale of work in connection with St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, Great North-road, is announced to commence on Thursday next at 3 o'clock, and to be continued afternoon' and evening until Saturday night.

Yesterday afternoon the Newton Bras 3 Band (of. the Methodist Mission) held their first parade in new equipment, prior to proceeding to the band contest at Thames on - November 9th. Assembling at the junction of Richmond'and Pon-sonby-roads, the band marched to the Foresters' Hall, Newton, and in the evening it paraded from Symonds and Wel-lesley-streets to Newton. The band's uniform consists of suits. of dark navy blue with silver lacing on the coats, and the caps and bags being silver-mounted.

The third subscription Chamber Concert, by the newly-formed Auckland Society, will be given in St. Andrew's Hall on Wednesday next. An exceptionally attractive programme has been arranged, comprising .Mozart's magnificent "Clarinet Quintet, No. 9," for clarionet, two violins, viola, and violincello'; Schubert's String Quartet, op. posthumus; and Schumann's trio, op. 63. The artists are Mrs. Macandrew, Miss Edith 1 Whitelaw, Messrs. Louis Blitz, Colin Muston, J. Shaw, and Frank Amodeo.

An inquest touching the death of John James Tilby, aged 14 years, wag held at Albany, before the Coroner (Mr. T. Gresham) on Saturday. The father's evidence was to the effect that deceased had suffered from periodical pains in the head, sometimes lasting for about eight hours. On Thursday last, a similar attack set in, and continued until death supervened on Friday afternoon. ' Dr. Moir, who conducted a post-mortem, stated that he had found a cystic tumour of some years' standing in tbe right lobe of the brain, this being the cause of death. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.

So many people were delighted with the playing of the First Battalion Band at the Albert Park last Sunday week and at the Orchestral Concert on Thursday last, that the committee have arranged for the band to play on the Albert Park rotunda next Wednesday at 8 p.m., permission having been granted by his Worship the Mayor, who takes a keen interest in the welfare of the band. An opportunity will thus be afforded the public of hearing the band plays the Thames contest music, including one item by special request, the trombone trio "Eileen," played by Messrs. Taylor, Coutts, and Hill. A collection will be taken towards the contest fund The attention of intending passengers to the Old Country is drawn to the advertisement of the New Zealand Shipping Company in this issue. It will be noticed that the company have arranged that the Papanui, sailing in February, the Ruapehu in March, and the Rimutaka in April, will call at Rio de Janeiro, as well as Monte Video, on the run Home, thus giving passengers by these steamers an opportunity of visiting both of those far-famed South American cities. The East Coast Railway League met on Saturday and decided to ask the Government for a larger appropriation this year. Support was extended to a petition by the Bay of Plenty League, asking for a vigorous prosecution of the work of surveying the whole of the line. A resident of Motu, through which place the line is to pass, said he had it from good authority that the Motu and Waimarino were the best forests in the Dominion. The Assessment Court is sitting at Gisborne to determine the compensation to be paid to the Hon. Randal- Johnston (owner) and Mr J. Clark (lessee) for Te Arai Estate, of 10,700 acres, recently taken by the Government. A strong Bar has been retained to represent the parties. The men's term at the Leys Institute gymnasium concluded on Tuesday last, when a test of the progress and development of the pupils was made by Professor Potter. A special prize of £2 2/, offered by the Northern Roller Milling Company for the best developed boy in the gymnasium was awarded to D. Lawson. Prizes of £ 1 each also for physical development, offered by the President of the Institute, were won by MessTs C. Capper, E. Tuke, L. Hutton, G. Davis, and W. J. Barber, and a prize of similar amount, donated by Professor Potter, was secured by O. Jordan. The season just concluded has been a most successful one. The ladies classes continue till Wednesday next. The quarterly meeting of the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society was held on Friday, Mr. W. Brackenrig in the chair. The honorary secretary gave a short account of his trip to the prison camp near Rotorua, and it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. D. Macpherson, to write to the Prisons Department, asking that the actual expenses incurred at Rotorua by discharged prisoners should be paid by the Department, so that the men may have the whole of the gratuity on arrival at Auckland. The usual list was gone through of discharged prisoners, who had been granted assistance, and it was encouraging to hear of men having repaid money advanced as loans. The following sums have been received since last meeting: Canon Gould, 10/; Mrs. G. Pierce, £11/; Tattersalls, Tasmania, £2 2/. A sitting of the Supreme Court in Chambers will be held before Mr. Justice Denniston to-morrow morning. The ravages of the white pine borer have been acutely manifested of late in a large number of Christchureh houses that were erected in the early days, before white pine had earned its present evil reputation, and when it was the favourite building timber. The timber in most cases is now quite rotten, and a hammer may often be thrust through the side of a house without much effort. Many houses are being renovated, and in cases whole sides and walls are being replaced with sound timber. The Chief Health Officer, who has lately been on a visit to the sanatorium at Cambridge, says that the great hopefulness that usually characterises consump- ■ tive patients—which even under old, discredited methods of treatment was amazing—is greatly enhanced by the i open-air life they lead in the Waikato. This is a matter for thankfulness, and in a measure assists recovery. A newcomer to the sanatorium will probably see patients whose condition would formerly have been deemed hopeless, leaving the institution quite cured. The Chief Health Officer saw no single case of depression at the sanatorium, and he thinks the patients generally are progressing beyond expectations.

We are informed that much annoyance and expense is caused to citizens who have relatives buried in the Sy-monds-street cemetery by the larrikinism of lads who have but little reverence for the dead or regard for the feelings of the living. A lady -who brought the matter under our notice has on more than one occasion found the glass coverings placed over emblems smashed, and similar destruction; we understand, takes place, evidently the consequence of stone-throwing. The offence is a serious one, and no doubt if the culprits can be traced they will have to suffer a severe penalty for their misbehaviour.

The WaitaCngi,' which left Onebunga on Thursday for Kawhia and Waitara, and which was unable to cross the Manukau bar, returned to- Onehunga on Saturday evening, owing to the illness of Mr. Lister, the second engineer. Mr. Lister was conveyed to his homo for medical treatment, Mr. Edgar succeeding Wm, and the vessel left again at 10 a.m. ■yesterday.

A typographical error in an advertisement of the Provident Life Assurance Company on Saturday entirely altered the meaning of the advertisement. Mrs. Hartshorn, in thanking the company for their prompt attention to her claim upon the death of her daughter, said "although she bad only been assured in your' company a short time, and I had only paid 17/- in premiums, my claim of £30 was paid to mc immediately on. presenting the claim." In the advertisement the word "my" appeared as "no," an obvious error.

"The .work is too rough for the boys of New Zealand," remarked an employer's representative at the Arbitration Court this morning, referring to apprentices in the bricklaying trade. The remark was apropos of a witness' statement that he knew of no employer who employed apprentices.-

A serious accident happened yesterday afternoon to Mr. Duncan Cameron, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu. He was schooling a horse over a fence in Sylvia Park when the animal bolted and fell with him. Mr. Cameron came down heavily on his head and shoulders, and was picked up unconscious. He was taken to Ms residence where Dr. Ramage attended to him. Mr. Cameron's injuries consist of concussion of the brain, but the full extent of bis injuries cannot be,ascertained until he regains consciousness. He is still unconscious, but his condition is not regarded as dangerous.

On Friday night the son of Mr. White, butcher, of Takapuna, met with an accident. He was riding to an entertainment, when he was thrown from his horse, and , sustained a fractured thigh. Mrs. Bright rendered first aid to the injured lad.

General Booth, that wonderful young man of 78, left London this week for a tour in Canada and the United States, our London correspondent wTote on September His farewell message was very characteristic. "Once more goodbye, dear old England," said be. "I leave your shores on what I bebeve is my Master's business. I have no new message to leave behind or take with mc. As I contemplate the future I rely more than ever upon the old panacea for the lessening of the wrongs, inequalities, oppressions, and tyrannies of the world—namely, the regeneration of the individual by the power of God. To my own people I think I can say without egotism, _>o as I am doing. Fight the real foes of man's happinesssin and selfishness—and do it with clean hearts and clean hands." The General's confidence in his "panacea" of personal salvation is as strong as ever. It would be interesting to know what he thinks of Mr. Bernard Shaw's complaint against the Salvation Army, namely, that "it is even more dependent than the Church on rich people who-would cut off supplies at once if it began to preach that indispensable revolt against poverty which must also be a revolt against riches."

At a meeting of the Waihi Miners' I Union on Saturday, a motion of indignation at the attitude of the Government in dismissing Mr. McCuUough from Jhe ' Railway service was defeated, bu% -a second resolution condemning the regulation under which Mr. McCullough was dismissed, and asking the Government that the same should be abolished, was carried unanimously..

I On Sunday night last at Remuera, there passed away in the person of the ilate Mr. James Westwood, one of our 1 oldest colonists. Mrs. Westwood (nee Hart) arrived with her parents by the "Chelydra" at the Bay- of Islands from Sydney, in the year 1842. The Hart family established their borne at Waimate, and continued to reside there until the time of the Heke war; when they, with other families, were, at the instance of the Governor, removed to Auckland in one of the ships of war. The late Mr, James Westwood, who predeceased his wife some years ago arrived in Wellington by the "Staines Castle" in the year IS4I, and over fifty years ago purchased a section of land at the first government sale of land, at Remuera, upon which the family have resided ever since. Mrs. Westwood has been an invalid for many years, but enjoyed fair health until last Thursday week, when she contracted a cold from -which she could not rally. She leaves two sons, Messrs. William and Charles Westwood, and seven daughters, viz., Mrs. John Upton of Pahi, Mrs. R. Mitchelson of Dargaville, Mrs. Talbot Austin, Wellington, Mrs. Robert Lusher of Auckland, Misses Ann, Alice, and Mary Westwood, eighteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren to mourn her loss.

A petition is being circulated in New Caledonia, praying the French Government to transfer the island to Great Britain. It is addressed to the President of the Republic, Ministers, and the Minister for the Colonies:—"Since these' are times of entente cordiale with England, and as small presents have a power to maintain friendship, we pray you to be willing to give us to England, and we feel sure.that in return England could not but return your act of courtesy in some form or other, the value of which would be at. least as great. We have a firm belief we would receive our right of self-government almost at once, and our administration would be simplified. The number of civil seivants would be greatly reduced. We could then seek, according to our ability, to prosecute our enterprise according to the resources of the country without coming into conflict with the supreme indifference and narrowmindedness in colonial affairs prevailing in the Colonial Department. We are also convinced that the development Of the mineral resources of the colony would, under the protection of the British flag, receive an impetus that we have never known. Much English capital would be invested here almost immediately. This, while filling our own purses, would help to wipe out the deficit in the colony's finances." Guard your anaemic young daughter, against future ill-health by building up her strength to the normal condition of youthful vigour. Steams' Wine will do it —has done it for millions.—rAdvt. The Silk Itouse. Miss Hawken (late of Howard and Co.), City Chambers, is now making dresses for the coming Christmas season, 25/-; guaranteed cut and finish. — (Ad.) Smart new Housings and washing fabrics; grand selection; best value. At Rushbrook and Bridgman's, Queen-st. Ad. Your boy will like what we have in everyday suits, Sunday suits, and holiday suits. Look through our selection. Geo. Fowlds. —(Ad.) The change from winter to spring should be accompanied by a change in your weight of clothing. How about a ready-to-wear suit from Geo. Fowlds?— (Ad.).