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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 238, 5 October 1908, Page 4

The following is Captain Ixl win's weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this diay:—"Moderate to strong winds from between west and south and south-east; glass rise slowly." The Jews" annual Day of Atonement is being observed to-dny, services being conducted at the Auckland Synagogue. The Prime Minister, in his memorandum to his Excellency the Governor covering the proposal to increase the subsidy made by the Dominion to the Imperial navy from £40,000 to £100,000 per annum, remarks:—"Recognising how important it is for the protection of the Empire that the navy should be at the absolute disposal of the Admiralty, your Excellency's advisers do not desire to suggest any conditions as to the location of the ships, as they are confident that the truest interests of the people of New Zealand will be best served by having a powerful navy under the independent control of those responsible for directing it in time of peace. What the Government does feel concerned in is that the navy, in whatever part of the world it may be, should be under one control, so that the most effective results for the defence of all portions of the Empire may be assured. It may not be found convenient to alter the present naval agreement, but the £60,000 additional proposed will be paid 10 the British Government whether the agreement is altered or not. If it is considered necessary to alter the present agreement, your Excellency's advisers will be glad to know in what direction this should be done." Inventive skill seems to have encountered an unsolvable problem in the supplanting of muscular power by mechanical contrivances for the stoking of furnaces. Numerous attempts have been made to relieve the fireman of his arduous task —especially so on steamers —of , feeding fuel into furnaces for the generating of steam. So far mechanical stokers have riot been a conspicuous success. The Dunedin Dock Trust's experiment has been of the disappointing kind (says the "Star"). They have decided to discard the mechanical stoker at their freezing works as an unprofitable investment, the chairman of works emphatically asserting that the contrivi anee had been a costly and di. appointing experiment ever since its installation. The Oreymouth "Star" reports that the Bank of New Zealand has definitely refused to advance £ 10,000 to the GreyI mouth Harbour Board. The money is required for carrying on certain works now in course of erection pending the flotation of a loan. At a meeting of the Board, the chairman moved by notice that its banking account be transferred from the Bank of New Zealand to the ■ Union Rink, which had expressed willingness to advance the desired sum for , four months. ! During the hearing of a ease af, the S.M.s Court this morning, before Mr. C. C. Kettle, a con- '' stable appeared on the scene and asked Mr. Lundon (counsel for the defence) to appear in the Police Court. "It's 1 very awkward for counsel to desert his client during the hearing of the case," commented his Worship; "the Court downstairs can wait." "I know they ought to wait," rejoined Mr. Lundon, "but they won't, unfortunately." "Well," replied Mr. Kettle, "they will have to wait. I won't excuse you." When Mr. I.undon appeared downstairs his case there had been adjourned. On Saturday afternoon a visit of inspection was paid to the new Training College building in Wcllesley-stre'et East, by the members of the Advisory Board (Messrs, C. J. Parr, Chairman of the Education Board; Professor Thomas, Mr D. Petrie, chief inspector; and Mr H. A. Milnes, principal). The building generally met with the full approval of the visitors, who came to the conclusion that provision had been made for the most exacting requirements. The question of getting the whole building furnished and equipped for the opening, which is to take place in a month's time, was also gone into, and a report will be presented at the next meeting of the Education Board. The Dairy Produce Committee has fixed tho following wholesale quotations for butter and eggs for the week ending October 10, 1908: —Butter (factory), 1/04 per lb; do (farmers'), 9d per lb; eggi, 'Jd j__r ________

The question of a public market for the disposal of fish in Auckland city was discussed at the open-air meeting of the Political Labour League and the Socialist party. Mr. T. Wake spoke on! the subject, and proposed the following resolution: "That to ensure cheap fish to fish-eaters, fair prices to fish-catchers, and having in view the undoubted success of State intervention with regard to the; oyster industry, the Government be asked to take a further step in advance by opening a public market in Auckland for fish." This was carried unanimously, and Messrs. B. F. Way, J. W. Harle, W. Peek, H. C. England, and T. Wake were appointed a committee to draw up details for the consideration of the Government, and also to wait upon the Premier when he arrives in Auckland, and ascertain the mind of the Government upon the matter. Mr. Wake, in the course of his speech, stated that hapuka was retailed at fid per lb, whilst the fisherman got from 1/6 to 5/- for the -whole fish, so that a fish of 1 cwt would return £2 16/-, or a difference of £2 11/- between the catcher's return and that of the price paid by the eater. Sir W. J. Steward wrote to Sir Joseph Ward on January 13, complaining that an application from a young Maori to enter the navy badi been refused by the captain of the Challenger. " The candidate," he wrote, " is physically, a first-class recruit, just 21 yearg of age, sft. Tin. in height, ■Win. round the chest, and is well educated. I was greatly surprised to hear that, being a full-blooded Maori prevents his acceptance." The Prime Minister forwarded the letter to the Governor, who sent the correspondence to the Colonyil Office, without comment. Passengers by the P. and 0. Company's mail eteamer Arabia, which also arrived this week (writes our London correspondent on August 28) were the witnesses of a terrible tragedy, a very popular member of the crew, Wei. Newbury, being eaten by a shark. Newbury, who was 26 years of age and married, was storekeeper. For some days a large shark b»d been observed following the vessel. When the liner was in the vicinity of Cape Finisterre there was a shout of "Man overboard!" Next moment everyone's heart leapt as the thought of the shark occurred. Quickly the ship was swung round, and a boat was manned. Newbury was observed in the water, swimming. From the deck he was seen to be keeping himself well afloat, white the boat raced in hie direction. Suddenly, according to the story of one of the passengers, as the man breasted the waves pluckily, he gave vent to an agonised shriek. At the same moment there was a commotion in the waters, and his head disappeared. A few moments later the boat was on the late. The \yavoG were tinged with blood. The ferocious fish and its victim were already in the depths, out of reach, and the lifeboat had to give up hope aad return. How Newbury fell into the sea remains a mystery. Xo one appears to have known he was overboard until a shout was raised from the water. The s.s. Corinna, vhiah arrived at Onehunga on Saturday, left yesterday for New Plymouth and Wellington, taking away the first butter shipment of the season, amounting to 2995 boxes, as compared with 2500 last year. The Corinna has also on board 12",0O0 feet of sawn timber. An interesting document connected with the family of the Hon. George Fowlds is the subject of an article in the "Kilmarnock Standard" of the 14th of July. It is an old-fashioned pass-book at least 115 year 3 old, which contains tha receipts for the rents of Greystoneknowe for 114 consecutive years, and extends over four generations. The land was leased in 1778 by Matthew Fowlds for 933 years. The marriage contract between the father of this first Matthew Fawlds and Mary Taylor, of Craigendunton, ivh 0 was a granddaughter of Captain Pa ton, of Meadoivhead, is stil lextant, and proves his descent from that stalwart Covenanter and gallant soldier. The first lessee of this land was a mason and joiner, and built the substantial house and commodious shop which still stands there. He was succeeded in possession in 1791 by his son Matthew Fowlds, Xo. 2, the father of the centenarian; lie died ill 1820, leaving a wife and seven children, of whom the father of the Hon. George Fowlda, then 14 years of age, was the eldest. He had learned his father's trade, that of weaver, and continued to carry on this business until the end of I his long life, the old receipt book referred to recording 86 payments during his occupancy. For the last 50 years of this tenancy the property, which had previously changed hands twice, was held by one owner, and the "Kilmarnock Standard" says: "In later years it was a pathetic sigtht to see the aged portioner, approaching his century, yet quick-eyed and capable, slowly counting out his rent, and the almost nonagenarian recipient taking up the pen and carefully writing out the receipt. It was, perhaps, a more pathetic sight still to see the venerable pair driving together at the funeral of a departed friend —the teird, stately and dignified, driving, the weaver, of slighter build but with strong features and piercing eye, 'caaiiig the crack, , sitting by his side. Both, men were of strongly marked individuality, at times differing widely, and outspoken in their opinions, but agTeeinfj to differ and living generally amicably together as near neighbours for over half a century. To what oan -we ascribe such longevity? such lengthening of the allotted span, and a lengthening of days, too, which can scarcely be described in the Psalmist's words as 'care and trouble,' for Matthew Fowlds* brain was clear and his fingers aftive at work until he was cut off by an accident, while only last harvest the genial laird, in his ninety-second year, might hove been seen busy at work in tbe liarvcst field, swinging the scythe around him like a youth of 60 ahead of his liftpr." " -\m »■ off," when Zymole Trokeys will stop it so much quicker? Disagreeable coughs are often avoided by the use of Zymole Trokeys.— (Ad.) Dainty floral muslins, newest patterns, only 3J per yd; good washing cambrics, only 3}d per yard; strong striped washing ginghams, only SJd per yd: navy and •white prints only 4jjd per yd. At Grey and Ford's, Limited. "The Old Beehive," Kttrangahape-road.— (Ad.) Smart Blouses. Smart Blouses. 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