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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 248, 18 October 1909, Page 4

The following is Mr D. C. Bates' weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day.—"Winds, south-easterly moderate to strong. Weather probably cool and changeable. Very cold night. Glass rise slowly." Some little excitement occurred on the Queen-street wharf } r esterday afternoon shortly after the arrival of the steamer Wimmcra from Sydney, owing to the disappearance of two stowaways. It appears that the men had been discovered during the passage of the stenmer, and upon nearing port were looked up in one of the bathrooms. When the steamer had berthed, thq police were sent for, but -α-pon going to the bathroom the men had taken "French leave." It was surmised that the men had pot through the port of the tooth, rml then got under the whavf. Sub=< ■; -ntly the police arrested both of the ?(■■■■ aways. At the Police Court this morning John Gower. a young man of about 21 years of age. admitted having stows , d away on board the s.s. Wimmera from Sydney to Auckland. He -was convicted and remanded for a week. Henry Petter Webster was charged that on the 15th October he secreted himself on board the s.s. Victoria, without having j paid his fare. He also was convicted and remanded for a week. A considerable improvement has heen effected at their premises in Shortlandstreet by Messrs. Wildman and Arey, the well-known booksellers and stationers. The whole of the front of theitj shop has br-en taken out, and rparrang- j ed, thus enabling the firm to put in a large window and a spacious entrance, with a fide door opening uut on to the Victoria Arcade,, leading to their postcard and view-hook department. These alterations will allo-w of a much larger window display of goods than formerly. At St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday Father Holbrook referred to trie subject of mixed marriages, in regard to which Bishop Xeligan issued a warning in his charge to Synod the other day. Father I Holbrook said that the "Modern Roman Canon Law" referred to by the Bishop ! was simply the promulgation of the : doctrine with regard to marriage laid down by the Council of Trent in 1545. j and extended, by the decree of Pius X. now for the fir?t time to this part of I the world, making the practice of the Church \iniform and universal in this j matter. The decree of the Council of j Trent stated that:—"Those who otherj wi=e than in the presence of the parish i priest himself or of another priest, act- | ing with the license of the parish priest, !or of the ordinary, and in the presence of two or three "witnesses, shall attempt to contract matrimony, the Holy Synod renders them altogether incapable of contracting marriage thus, and decrees that contracts oi this kind are null and void." By vindicating the unity, the sanctity, and indissolubility of marriage, the Church had conferred the greatest boon on the female sex. The holiness of the marriage bond was the palladium of woman's dignity. The Auckland Flying Club flew their yearling race from Palmerston North, I distance 254 miles airline, on Saturday ! last, the event resulting in a very keen- ] ly-contcsted race, decimals only separat- | ing the winners. One hundred and I twenty-seven birds competed. These i were liberated by Mr. Aitchinson at 7.30 a.m. in a south-west wind with i overcast sky; and the winner arrived lat seventeen minutes past one. The rei suit is:—Jlr. C. Johnson's 81. cock, j Blue Boy, velocity 1.240.5 yards a minute, Ist; 11. Stowell's Bl cheq. hen, Aotea, velocity 1,240.2 yards a minute, 2nd; and Mr. J. Shaw's 81. cheq. hen, Edna, velocity 1,23(3 yards a minute, 3rd. A meeting o f residents of Arch Hill will be held this evening for the pur--1 pose of considering the advisability of joining Eden Terrace in raising a loan i j to have the sewer from the city boundary ! made large enough to also carry off the ! storm water, and thus permit "ihe -Vreh. ; Up Gully to be filled in. I Considerable interest is being taken in j the movement at Takapuna for the for- ! mntion of a Tnkapuna troop of the : r>ominion Boy Scouts, the names of some 125 boys having already been handed in j jas recruits. A meeting of those interI ested in the movement will be held at I Mr. Neville Xeweomb's residence, Lakeroad, Takarmnn. to-morrow evening (Tuesday, 10th), at 8 p.m. Parents and others are specially invited to be present. So many idle tales are published every year concerning fortunes left to poor folk in England by forgotten relatives, who made their money in Australia or New Zealand (writes our London correspondent under date September 101, that one is bound to view j with suspicion the story published thirc I week concerning a Xew Zealand windfall i for a poor Frome (Somerset) family. The story run,s that three brothers— William, Jolin and Walter Pryor—have ju=fc received news that they have inherited £50.000 and a large area of land in the Dominion, and that the legal representative of their benefactor is now on his way from Xew Zealand to Bristol,' and will be in Frome shortly. At present ths brothers do not appear to know who their benefactor is ; but an uncle emigrated to Xew Zealand many years ago, and they presume that it is under his will they are to benefit so handsomely, although they have heard nothing of him since the death of their father 15 years ago. The thrc-e brothers are in poor circumstances. William is a casual labourer employed at a railway goods yard; John i≤ a farm labourer; and Walter a handy man employed by a local printer. Outdoor clothing. Do you want cricketing and yachting trousers in the 1 right colour and weight? See our lines. i —Geo. Fowlds.— (Ad.)

The Agricultural Department has iust distributed among settlers in the Bay of Plenty district different varieties of s»ed maize which it has imported from America. Large quantities of corn are grown in the Bay of Plenty, both by Europeans and Maoris, and the Am-icul-tura.l Department is anxious to "know whether the varieties which are now doing so well jn the United States ara also suitable for the conditions prevailing in some parts of the Xorth Island. During her visit to the Commonwealth Maggie Papakura, the well-known Whakarewarewa guide, arranged for a. Maori exhibition at Clontarf, Sydney similar to that which took place at the Christchurc-li Exhibition. The first step towards this exhibition was taken on Friday (says the "Hot Lakes Chronicle"), when two canoes—Te-a-Whiwhi and Mongakawa—were delivered at the Kotorua railway station, destined for shipment to Sydney in the Maheno. la addition to these canoes, a number of Maori carvings will be forwarded to Syd* ney, which will be ultilised in connection with the exhibition. Arrangements have been mr.de for the return of the eanoee and carvings co the Dominion, hence permission having been given for their temporary removal from New Zealand. A brother of Guide Maggie will have charge of the shipment, and see to the erection of the building and the display of the exhibits, .vine others will also proceed to Sydney on Monday, and later on a large number of performers will visit the Commonwealth and give performances in connection -with the exhibition. Guides Bella and Mnjrgie will accompany the latter, and the performances 'will be given under their direction. The Fcilding agent of the LaboiuJ Bureau makes mention of an interesting point in the annual report of the department. "During the few months." he says, "a great number of men have passed through here, wending their way to Auckland and Wellington. During conversations I have had with some of them, I find they have for years been almost constantly employed on the Main Tiunk railway. It seems almost incredible that these men should have been so improvident as not to have saved something from their earnings; and now, when work is scarce, many of them are destitute. It has occurred to mc that, as married men employed on Govern-. \ ment works are required to contribute one-foalf of their wages to their wives and families, these men should have onehalf of their earnings placed to their credit in the post office savings bank, to remain intact until they leave the "work on which they are engaged. The characteristic of many of these men who have worked for yeara on various public works is that they -will do no other work"." It has been decided by the Minister for Agriculture (wires our Parliamentary reporter) that the grading of Gisborna butter in Auckland shall cease, and that there shall now be stationed at Gisborna a dairy produce grader, to attend to the grading in -this important centre. Hitherto butter intended for export from the Poverty Bay district has had to be shipped to 'Auckland, and there passed by the Government grader- This has entailed a greatly increased expenditure and much inconvenience, tfche batter first; being conveyed by boat to, there graded, and sent by rail to Onehunga, where it was airain. shipped and. conveyed as far as Wellington, being transhipped atj the latter port on to the Homeward bound vessels. This meant, that Poverty Bay butter was taken out; of the freezer no less than three times before it was finally stowed away in tha refrigerating chambers of the deep sea boats at Wellington. The amended conditions will mean that. Poverty Bay but" ter will receive les-s handling, and, consequently, suffer less deterioration in qtfality, the producers believing that the saving will be at least a penny pea pound, besides freightage. The new road known as Queenstownroad, which will form a highway between Mount Roskill and Hillsboro' districts and Onehunga-, was recently suggested as a fitting object for a special loan. within the special area, such loan to be authorised by the interested ratepayers, the approximate amount to be about £700. The Mount Roakill Road Board had previously resolved to have the road formed and metalled, and now. the clerk of the Board has been instructed to secure signatures to a reqnisition in accordance with the suggestion. . A3 soon as the legal formalities have been complied with, arrangements will be made to effect the work. "Spiritualism" has its true believers, though judging by the spare score that gathered in the Cook Street Hall on Saturday night to witness manifestations from the spirit world through the medium Bailey, tither the Auckland community is small, or the tariff was great, even for the devoutness of tha faithful. It was not excessively illuminating, was this seance. The medium, after the usual "search," entered the gauze-circled cabinet, from whence, with, appropriate effect, issued messages from sympathetic occupants of the circumambient ether. Xow, it was a discourse on phychic phenomena by "Professor Denton," anon a mixture of pidgin English and alleged Hindustani from the translated intellect of an Indian—the land of the Indue appears to be ' particularly fruitful in producing communicative spirits, . and again strange things issued from the purported ethereolisrd intelligence of a "doctor," none cf which are really worthy of record either for their "evidenef or for their "message." It was noticeable throughout that the language, though ostensibly the utterance of the controlling spirit, never rose above the English of the medium, which was a sonpwhat inconsistent circumstance when considered with the "Hindu" communication. But the faithful few departed j each his or her way, apparently conI tent with the "apports -, vouchsafed to the grosser intelligence of man in the shape of little pieces of cotton cloth, discovered in the cabinet with the medium when the lights went up. Considerable amusement was caused at 1 the Water Police Court, Sydney, on I Tuesday last by the line of exoss-examin- ] ation adopted by Mr. E. fi. Abigail when j dealing with a policeman. The constable, in fixing a certain date, said that tha William-street explosion, to the best of> his be'ief, oeeurred on a Saturday, adding, "That wus the day of the procession." "Oh," said Mr. Abigail, "after that, perhaps you will answe-r this question: Can you tell the Court on nhat day of the week Good Friday" fell this year?" The officer, amid laughter, replied in the negative. ""We'll have just one more try," continued the solicitor, j '"Do you know what day of the weefe I Easter Monday fell on?" It was thought i that the officer would not be caught j ajain, but he fell straight into the trap, I and his "No" made thosein Court sh-ick. . The serpen nts reproof, "It's nothinir ta laujh at." had not the slightest effect, i and thore was another r'mr ""hen tha I solicitor suggested to the "Bench, as ths officer left the witness stand, that it micrht b" interesHntr to know on what daj' of the week th? policeman thought Easter Sunday fell on. ,

( . I Ll rir!arr was committed at. { . ; j:' r ; of.Messrs. B-md and Bell,' ._--,- ;. of Commwe-street, Auck-■ Uni.'on- ciuut last week, and the mid-j r V - vi-i". 'i- secured enough tobacco to f-ar: a r-Mi: ih'ip of no mean size. ; v7 r : : ■• are foil-wing up a clue, hut j e ,i far ao -ign of the marauders ha> i "...J Ir , ...,j hoxe. 1: i> sjrmiseU ib.it. | I■..."•vvur-.li ■•:-<■ 'm t-nu-r.-i Itv a wiaa: -.1. ■ 'ii k. f.i.-ing (Jore-.-lri-t.| .' : ; h,. ;. -v - cvid-n'.fv n;;.-ne'J iliel • t ■~-.< 1 .or ■'. i< the !:■-! ;-. got the f _..,i: -.■;'• :•,■ .: .-. :■:. an i til Ti !■■ ke>! up ta e s;. :■• ,:.-ain. The broken window! £ : i.-v Li ; '.■ m comniUed. | 7 » X rti m Hoxiii.j ' c.r-1- ' ' :". "■■> < :■■ •■■ i 0 : .~ ivi !iir.g at ! }-•;. -', ; ■•. - Tli-:t», v<--ii (..'aiilt and 7- ;:!'• ...t :'■ ~ ! • -t <■' !3 rniu:i!- fnr r' .:: ::■ I \: ~ --~-; exhi?>it:on =honld r ■: ". I , ] f • : •) : ;i■ •r. th" :■:"' iininnry 7 - '■■ ;p f. ■;n-ill«-r*" ro:ir,>rtit:on3 | )■;• • -.;-..- -,Tn. rV',i.,''... '..J ha< Vμ; r.r- -----;:■/.. '.;hi'n o-.n'.ri"it:-.r- will ne liniupht P - -••.; V-o i ;n-roi:n.! mnt .- ~-;, '.y-'.i, r.nd !■,■■;'» T-ti.v-. while, £. :■;•:'. -. :; .-r l-,v,:-. will b,- iIP.-i.'.Wj. J pr" -r" ■- F. \r '-. ('.■;- ':■ of England I c - -:. :! - :■- !V:r;i:-.r r-t Gr.o!. died' r i :!: • a serviiv it Lane <-. . j "v.>r. Or ilrl-liins ni» wrinrni he' j, r f. ?7 a f'-'.v =.-c.-n.ls with the -orr; .; l-rnlj. S-veiiil n-.eini-Vs of thp cunt— ■• ■": n n:-r,i=>l forward and af-i-trd c - I-.—-, ;■-,. p.irrh. '■! think 1 have j tf', n p -~ rairh tu-dar." 1 n.- raid feeblr, | E~ '. : : "' in their nrm~. from heart failcr , -.vuhin °. d-TZPn na,-.-~ >f wht-rp he had :.._- -;.■:_; ,; his ia-t =»rr.:»n. Dr. Lloyd r.i- s".n:'i. 'tied, and pronounced lif<? ex- 1 tin-'i. Ti ,, ' d*-oea««d wa« a well-known [ c ;.- r --s". having been in nctivp service ia vari-vis parts of Xew South Wale? for eVnit '-quarter of a century, and previo.:- v in Queensland. Tie No. i Auckland Patrol have now d° :di»-l to form a troop, and, under the lrjjer-h:p of Mr. s. Benoieit as scoat-n-.i-ter, are already showing considerable iinnr iremeni. Lasi Wednesday mgat some nseful work was got through in tae l>'j:::ain.. and un Saturday and Sun-c.-v ;> .irrk-«ni L-.iuip was held at l/rakt-i. where a lit-tle before on >iz\u lav they were attacked nrst ;.v ;i --»•-..,. n of their own pal ml, and t.'ivn iiy i psrro'! from Pun»onby. The Litter }->: lost, and had some difficulty in rin- ! .:u_- taciT way back to town after their uns'iecessful attempt to get into the camp. The troop hold their meetin,-- in the Parn-ii dUtr:«t :>o:ball shed eT , TT Friday evenins, and have vacancies for suitable lads from H to IS years old. Some time ago a complaint was re-cei.f-i V- Mr. Arthur Koa»er, president c: tj? TailoriHses' L'nion, to the etfeei that a. <rrl '22 years of age had been paid ia ■ '■; • of the bLj clothing factories of the city "i 11 icr one week's working. ji r . I or-ff-r forwarded the complaint to the Dt-n-irtment of Labour, and has reC«;vei! the lullowing explanation: "The girl inninienced -work as a s-eamstress. s:att-d that r.he had worked as a ~r .it Home. >he was put to w >rk at piecework at a rate by which sn rxtierienced hand would make from ■2:< to 30 per week: but she lacked t\;t ;-';•-■•• in so far that she had never worked in a factory in her life, bat n-erely in a dressmaking room: consequently -he -t;ls alt-jether unacquainted ■with niachineTT, and as the machinery in this iaet'.ry is driven by power, shn felt nervous ?nd decline.! to .so on with t!.<_- Phe was then given another rVu of work to do. also at piecework, t<:: ! she worked for tire days and earned 5 5. M"hilst the firm pay on Saturday th- !r lw}fc-> are made up for the week on Saturday morning -hp u:>s tendered 211 Phe did not go back to work on T 1 foDmrinc tr.'ek. and the balance of 2 t! w:is then due tc her." At Newcastle, Xew South AVales, early en Saturday morning, October 9, Edwin Caivert, librarian at the Platlaburg Ei-aool of Art;, was found lying dead at the foot of the stairs of the institution by his wife, who, as he had not returned home the previous niixht. went to look for him. Medical ex.-.uiination showed that Clivers's neck was broken. There had boon a danv at the hall, and Caivert ronjained behind to put out the lights and lock up. It is thought hp stumbled in the darkness and fell down the stairs. Deceased was 4.i yoars old. an! well known about the district. At Adelaide Annie Sexton, domestic servant, was awarded ~'-<'J damages, the amount claimed, from Patrick I'reiss, of Hiudniarsh, for breath of promise of nssrriaire. Plaintiff stated in evidence that s :ie ;:ad arranged her weduing breakf.Kt ihrte thi:es. but defendant did cit appear on any o'ca?ion. the had Diii-.-hn-ed. a trousseau at a cost of £00 17/. In connection with the recent frauds in the General Post Office, Perth, .lames Windebank Barker, late senior clerk in the electrical engineer's department, pleade i guilty to three charges ct forj: TV and uttering at the Criminal Court, and i.i- sentenced to three years' im-pri-.-innent with h.ird labour on each charii'*. ihi? sentences to b> 1 concurrent. The Crown Prosecutor 'aid that in order to carry out hi- fraudulent schemes Barker had opened six accounts in different names in various banks, and the money of which he had defrauded the Commonwealth had been paid into those accounts. The total amounts paid into rhos.- accounts was £ 1"74 1 S. Aecordir." t ' his invp=ticration<. acciLsed coinr.u ■•->•! 27 distinct offi'nces. The upsettins of the coach carrying Mr. II iward Vernon's theatrical co-n------panv on tie punt at Vine Mile, on the %Vest:>ort-Reefton-rood last year cost the i:"nad« Department for damages, etc.. £'.. J - 1 . 1 in -. Mr. Vermin received £.-,m\ A;;-s Vance £340, Mrs. Howard i'J.'i. Mr. John Howard £"'<\ and tli»re were other amount? paid. Mr. ll'-.vtl \"ernon is now on a visit to Ea-lual. V. ! mi a young couple at Brest. France, Yves ' s.h'a and Ceoile Cariou, requested the a'.il'.ioritits t.i publish the banns of th.lr marriage they learned to 'heir avoiii-hmtfut that the girl had no legal cs-:-:ar.i h, a= lier birth had not been rcj.-' !•! cd. Tr :•! -i=. two crirls and a boy. were rrci-:.t:y born to the wife of Sergeant Hii.v•.■:':'. of the Army Service Corps, at t'-rk. Lrelaad. All the children were douij: .veil at latest advices. f'r.p freighting by the s.s. Victoria, sailing for Sydney this evening, includes 4-J. bars of silver, valued at £5t)00. for transhipment to P. and O. steamer for Lca.iosl Stems' TTine of Cod Liver Extract jrivas to delicate children a new vitality, nils Out hollow cheeks, and makes them i-rong and robust. Ea-sy for them to take it too, the taste i≤ so pleasant.— Ui.)