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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 38, 14 February 1910, Page 4

Following is Mr. D. C. Bates' -weather • forecast for 24 hours -from 9 a.m. this day: Moderate to strong northerly winds; expect iwarm and humid condition--, and unsettled and cloudy weather at times; glass fall slowly. Passengers to Whangarei to-night should note that the Xgapuhi is leavinr-* from Queen-street wharf, western tee. "If a man orders a drink before 10 o'clock at night the licensee must provide it, hut the liquor must be consumed before 10 o'clock." Such was the ruling ! of Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the licensing case heard in which it was shown that defendant had purchased the beer • before 10 pjn,, but was still on the premises after hours. "There are hundreds of people who can consume a pirut of beer in less than three minutes, added his Worship thoughtfully, and the eyes of some of the rail-lcaners at the bock of the court spoke more eloquently than f word's. t Tho following resolution Is to be rer commended by the Wellington Slaughtera men's Union to the annual Federal Counoil, which is to sit in Adelaide on March ' 28:—"That in view of the drastic legislation on the statute books of some Australian States and New Zealand, the 3 closest possible bond of federation a should be devised, so that in the event of trouble arising in any one State, the 1 dispute may be governed by, and have 1 tlie undivided support of, tho branch or- , ganisation located in any other State." 3 The seismic disturbance reported from i Melbourne at the end of last month as . having probably originated in the Tas--3 man Sea, 400 miles or thereabouts from Hobart, receives partial confirmation in L a report from Moggie Islands, S.S.W. of 1 Stewart Island. The Bluff correspondent , of the "Otago Daily Times" states that t - the master of a cutter which has just returned from a cruise in the neighbour- ! hood says that the coast lines of the ■ island, as well as the coast line of the i mainland of Stewart Island, between I Weather Point and Doughboy Bay, have I undergone a complete transformation. Uho cliffs, with their deeply-indented 1 caverns, have entirely disappeared, and | in their place is a sloping face leading , down to sea level or possibly deeper. One of the two Moggie boat harbours has been badly shaken, but the captain had not the means of ascertaining the effect the disturbance has had on its shelters. At Weather Point and Doughboy Bay I the old landmarks have disappeared, or else alte/ed beyond recognition. The | disturbance would seem to have caught this particular edge of Stew-art Island without having made itself felt in any of the other parts. At the annual picnic oT the PohanginaKomako branch cf the Farmers' Union, Mr. Guthrie, member for Oroua, referred to the need for developing farmers' education. While town dwellers had primary, secondary, university, and technical education available, farmers' ' families usually had "only' the primary school within reach. The farmers of • I other nations were being educated on - ! (scientific lines, and if we could not load j ' lat least we should not be left too far ' behind. We should not have one, but ' several agricultural colleges for the sake ' of the future of New Zealand. ' A large inmiber of clergy and laity as- i senibled at Manurewa on Saturday afternoon to witness the laying of the foun- ( dation stone of St. Luke's Anglican '. j Church by the Bishop ml Auckland (Dr. \ Neligan). In the course of his address J tho bishop referred to tho auspicious marks of spirit nai development and Christian enterprise evidenced by the determination to erect a building for worship which was of a permanent nature. In a young country like theirs it had, till recently, been almost impossible to erect permanent church buildings. Scienco had, however, done much to remove these drawbacks, and in time to come the wing of which the foundation stone was that day being laid would be a part of a large and impressive build- v ing. Mr. Dang, MP. for the district, \ and Feveral others, also made short ad- { dresses, 'the proceedings concluding t ■with the National Anthem, after which > ■the ladies of the district kindly enter- c tamed the visitors at afternoon too. *■ The* collection taken at the service r amounted to £11. Mr. Goldsbro' is the ; t architect, and Mr. 0. E. Farrow con- [ c tractor for the new struoture, which will! c embrace only the western wing of the v ultimate building, which will be advanced v in accordance wi£h the original design as t the needs of the district ma-ke demand, j p The constructing material is camerated t concrete. }j The barque Marjorie Craig arrived at t Sydney last week (says the "Morning o Herald") with her foremast cross-trees I s inhabited by a large colony of bees, 1 which appeared to be just as much at h home at sea as on shore. Captain Mc- v Farlane told an interested group of waterside frequenters that when he was in New Zealand awaiting a cargo, five weeks previously, a swarm of bees came on board, and. after having made a rainj ute inspection of the ship, decided to make their future home on the Marjorie Craig. Led by their queen, the bees selected their quarters in the cross-trees, and soon settled comfortably down. The ship's company was much '* interested in the visitors, and the captain resolved to leave them undisturbed. k "The Marjorie Craig has a slight list -"* to starboard," someone remarked, tak- * ! ing in at a glance the big deck earn-o of timber. "Oh, that's the result of the honey Btored up aloft," Captain Mc- -*> Farlnne replied. "We had no list -when --• we left Kaipara." li Has the New Zealand boy an accent? > Mr. J. P. Firth, principal of the Web . lington Boys' College, says he has. "I know," he said, at the educational con- "*■ ference, "that New Zealand writers in + Home papers and magazines have said that the New Zealand boy has no ac- S cent. These writers do not know what f they are talking about. People who say that the New Zealand boy has not --ot S an accent—that he speaks Englishes ? it should be spoken—have a want of f knowledge. The tendency is not to- t wards improvement, but' rather the re- 7 verse." -■ if The complaints that are made respect- h ing the railway service existing between 1 Auckland and Helensville are loud and 2 numerous. Almost even,' day the engine s is absolutely unable to draw the load up n any oftit-he inclines, and the breaking of n the train is frequently resorted to. If g there were any other means for passen- n gers to reach the Northern Wairoa t steamers (writes a correspondent), the •*< Government would be running empty t trains. I*

"A greater speed than eighteen miles an hour for motor-cars is allowed by Scripture," was a remark made by Mr. J. F. Woodhouse at the Supreme Court at Dunedin recently, that quickened the interest of those whose business it was to hear an appeal case in which learned counsel appeared 'far the appellant. Counsel referred his Honor Mr. Justice Williams to the second chapter and fourth verse of the Book of the Prophet Nahum:—"The chariots shall rage m the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." To run like lightning, said the witty counsel, was to go considerably faster than eighteen miles an hour. He was not sure, however, whether or not his Honor would regard the Prophet as an authority. Curing the first month of the new year 122 persons of foreign origin became naturalised in Australia. They are now distributed over the States thus — New South Wales, 42; South Australia, 23; Victoria, 22; Queensland, 21; West Australia, 13; and Tasmania, 1 Of the total 48 were Germans, 12 Russians, and iv Aopwegians. An attempt on the part of some person ' unknown at present was made to rob Messrs. Stuart Bros.* shop at Helensville on Saturday night. The thief entered through a skylight, letting himself down by means of a rope. Some passers-by heard a noise in the shop, and went to alarm the owners, but when they came back the man had disappeared. He must have decamped in rather a hurry, for he took nothing with him. Railway traffic in wheat, despite the great harvest and high prices ruling at Melbourne, has not so far attained anything like the volume anticipated. The number of bags handled this season amounted to date to 2,020,122, as against 2,023,123 for the corresponding portion of last season. The present season's record thus shows a decrease of slightly over 3000 bags, although the yield last year was very much smaller. Tho departmental explanation of the decline attributes it to the coal strike. A large number of trucks which would otherwise be employed in running wheat have had to be used for the haulage of firewood for factories, and for use on the railways, owing to the shortage of coal. During the voyage or the Norwegian ■barque Cambusdoon, which arrived at Adelaide from Liverpool on February *, the second ofiicer, Hans A. Tressness' was drowned. The vessel at the time was running at the rate of about 12 knots. Tressness went aloft to make the mainsail fast. He lost his hold and fell .backwards into the sea.