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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 168, 18 July 1910, Page 4

Following is Mr. D. C. Bates' weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day: —"Moderate .to strong southerly winds; expect showery and changeable weather, but probably improving; probably a very cold night; glass rise slowly." A sitting of. the Government Assessment Court, under the Valuation of Land Act, was set down for this morning for the districts of Mt. Eden, Mt. Albert, Takapuna, Waitakerei, and Birkenhead, but owing to the absence of one of the assessors it was adjourned "till this noonPassengers by the 4.10 p.m. train from Whangarei to Hikurangi on Thursday afternoon were somewhat alarmed by the actions of a powerful individual, who, after acting strangely, took off one of his boots and proceeded to deliberately smash overy window in the carriage! The man collapsed in a fit shortly before the -train reached Hikurangi, where be i was jjlaced Tinder; strrveillance.

Tuahine lighthouse, near Gisborne, is reported to be in danger of slipping into the sea. A few months back the lighthouse was shifted, owing to a landslide, and now the country where the light was shifted to is opening up, and the keeper, Captain Ware, considers the lighthouse is not safe to be visited. Captain Cumming, harbourmaster at Gisborne, has notified the Marine Department that the light is not reliable. It is now burning as a fixed light. An advertisement calling tenders for the supply and delivery of stores to the New Zealand railways from the Ist of April, 1911, to 31st March, 1914, appears in this issue. A new departure appears in the conditions, viz., that tenderers are invited to quote for any item or items in the schedule of requirements which they j may be able to supply. The Maoris of the Anglican Church are anxious to hold a Maori Synod (says the "Dominion"). The Bishop has consented, but stipulates that it must be held in August. The Maoris wish the (late to be some time in January, and the chief reason for that is that they are not so affluent in the winter as in the summer, when the potato is plentiful and the finances are in better shape. Hospitality is number one consideration with the natives. They want a Synod, but they ! do not want a Synod minus hospitality, and potatoes. It is likely, however, that provisions will have to be collected I from the four winds ii the Synod is to be held for the Bishop will probably adhere to his decision. The Rev. Air. Williams visited Otaki yesterday for the purpose of endeavouring to satisfactorily arrange the matter. With every desire to regard the proposal with all due seriousness, a touch of novelty inevitably creeps in, and the function should be a rather interesting affair.

According to* the Greymouth "Star," Messrs. McLean and Son, of Otira, sustained a serious loss by the engine and nine trucks going over the tiphead last Wednesday. The engine i' 3 valued at £1000 and the trucks at £20 each. The cause of the accident is stated to have been a defective break. The engine had only recently been repaired and overhauled at considerable expense; and McLean and Son are heavy losers. Horses will be employed to draw the trucks back from the tiphead until the electric engine arrives.

An unusual incident occurred at the Dunedin Police Station the other day (says the " Daily Times"). Two men •who had been arrested on a charge of assault and robbery were placed in the police yard for identification by the prosecutor, and, a-s is usual in such cases, a police officer went into the street and induced a number of civilians to stand with the accused to ascertain if the latter would be picked out as the person accused of the offence. Included among the civilians who thus obligingly went to the assistance of the police was a young man who attracted, the special notice of one of the sergeants, and at the conclusion of the identification process the young fellow was questioned in regard to another offence of a different nature, with the result that he was arrested, and will, in due course, make his appearance before the Court.

At the meeting of the executive of the Wellington Boys' Institute, ways and means of inducing town boys, those employed in unskilled labour in particular, to learn farming, were considered at some length. It was mentioned that illustrated lectures dealing with certain aspects of farming life might be given with good effect;'and it was also suggested (.hat the various branches of the Farmers' Unions and Associations might be approached with a view to establishing some method by which the instituto could be advised of any vacancies for boys on farms, so that a" register might be kept of such vacancies on the one hand, and of those boys prepared to go on the land on the other. One proposal embodied in the scheme is that all Home SteamSTS should be met, and assistance given to those lads who wished to take up farming work. The president and secretary were appointed a sub-commit-tee to consider the matter further, and draft a report setting forth a specific scheme of operations. Mr. Justice Edwards, sitting in chambers at Wellington, lias granted probate ' in the following estates of deceased per- j son 3 Hampton Davis (Mr. Biss); I Henry Gollan (Mr. Johnston); Emily Stringer (Mr. Johns-ton); Wyvern Henry, Williams (Mr, Kent), G«orge Death (MrJ Gribbin). Mr Harrison Ord, inspector of factories ,in Victoria, met his death in a violent i manner on Sunday, July 10. He was riding a mare in Melbourne, when she bolted. In turning a street corner the animal slipped, and came down heavily, the rider's head striking the cobblestones with great force. When picked up he was unconscious, and was immediately removed to Dr. O'Ha-ra's private hospital, where he was found to be suffering from laceration of the brain and other serious injuries. After consultation, Drs. O'Hara and Wood h,eld out no hope for his recovery, and he died the same night. Deceased, who was one of the most valued of the State officials, was a single man, 48 years of age.

In connection with the reported discovery of an immense gold reef at Stewart (British Columbia), which has caused much excitement in Canada, the latest mail news contains references to the future of Stewart, a mining camp at the head of Portland Canal, and about SO miles from Prince Rupert, the western terminus of the Grank Trunk 'Pacific railway. This part of Canada is in its infancy, but Prince Rupert is a rising city. It was cabled towards the dose of last month that advices from Stewart were conflicting. Some predicted that there would be a bigger boom than the EJbndyke, .but there was no official information. North-bound vessels were leaving Vancouver filled with passengers, and thousands of claims had been staked in the Portland Canal district. A recent issue of the "Victorian Times" (B.C.J states that Stewart may become the termimi9 of a transcontinental railways according to news brought to Vancouver. From information received from the new mining camp, Canadian Northern surveyors have been into the interior and are surveying all the country right through to Edmonton, with the object of locating a route for a new railway which will make Stewart its western terminus. At a sale of Stewart town lots not loansince the prices given were considerably higher than those realised at Prince Rupert during the boom there.

In connection wltn trie death of Air. Richard Hobbs, it has been decided that a short service shall be held at Bayfield Methodist Church at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, which wiU be conducted by the Rev. G. Bond The cortege will leave for Purewa (Cemetery at 10.30 o'clock. Ladles* warm flannelette blouses, good quality, 1/11, worth 3/11. Ladies' long tweed coats, 9/11; maids', 7/11. Gents' raincoats, 29/6, 32/6, good quality. Boys' and girls' sweaters, 1/11.—Rushbrook and Bridgmtßi—'(Ad.^

The slightest incident is likely to arouse a street crowd to almost intense excitement, and such was the case in Karangahape-Toad about 8.30 on Saturday evening, when it was reported that a couple of burglars, who had been seen prowling about J. Buchanan's confectionery premises, had c imbed to the roof of the huilding, and were there in hiding. Within seven minutes of word being sent to the Newton Police Station, a strong posse of police and detectives, twelve or fifteen in number, were on the scene, and hundreds of people collected in the vicfhity of the shops where the burglars were supposed to be seeking refuge. The police officers made a thorough search of the adjacent premises, scrambling over the roofs and verandahs, through the shops and back yards, but no trace of the trespassers could be found, though the patrol was kept up for an hour or so. It is stated that an employee saw the men trying the buck j windows of Buchanan's, and then were lost to' View on the roof of the building, where they went presumably to wait a more auspicious opportunity of effecting an entrance. They were, however, not seen afterwards. In connection with the proposal of the -ilarine Department to remove the Mokohinau light to one of the Chickens Islands, the following protest, signed by 26 master mariners has been sent to the Minister for Marine (the Hon. J. A. Millar):—" It is the opinion of the under- ' signed shipmasters that the Mokohinau light is the proper guide to the north entrance of the Hauraki Gulf, and it covers all dangers and the whole of the north entrance to the gulf, and they pray that it be not removed. The proposed light on the Chickens would not be the proper guide to the north entrance of the Hauraki Gulf, nor would it show any part of the Great Barrier or outlying reefs of Mokohinau, whereas Mokoliinau covers even the Chickens, and from Whangarei Heads to the Great Barrier, and all sliips coasting from the North Cape to Auckland make Mokohinau light. The coast, from 20 miles north of Cape Brett into Auckland Harbour, is now well lighted, and in their opinion should not be altered."

The following was the state ot His Majesty's prison at Auckland for the week ending 16th July, 1910:—Cm remand, 11 males; awaiting trial, 23 males; life imprisonment, 2 mules; hard laJbour, 239 males, 21 females; default of bail, j 2 males; received during the week, 43 j males, 2 females; discharged, 58 males, 5 females; total in prison, 277 males, 21 females. Two English artists, Miss Baldwin Warn and Miss D. Durrant, who have been in New Zealand for some months, are on. a visit to Auckland, and are stopping at "Cargen." Miss Warn has exhibited at the Academy and the Salon, and while in the Dominion she has executed a number of commissions, including the portraits of Dr. Hay, Judge Denniston, Mrs. Chapman and Miss Chapman (wife and daughter of Judge Chapman), Mr. Hosking of Dunedin, Mrs. Elworthy's three children, and Mr. Fell and Mrs. .Atkinson of Nelson. The visitors are '■particularly charmed with Auckland and the Art Gallery, which they say is the best collection of pictures in the Dominion. "I was delighted," said Miss Warn, "to recognise so many old friends that I bad seen bung at the Academy. The selection has been most judicious. You lave some excellent examples of European aTt—because the Gallery represents more than the British school — which would bo a very useful and helpful object lesson to any student." Among tile pictures specially mentioned by Miss | Warn and her friend were "Silver and Gold" (by Fred Hall) and "The End of Day" (by Herbert K. Rooke). Tkey were struck by Messrs. Steele and Goldie's big canvas of the coming of the Maori, and had much praise for Air. Frank Wright's "The Close of Day," a sunset effect on the Waikato. Miss Warn intends to paint some of the magnificent scenes on the overland track from Te Anau to Milford before leaving the Dominion, and Mount Cook is another subject she has in view.

An interesting discussion on the uso of intoxicating liquor on howling greens took place at the annual meeting of the Cambridge Bowling Club on Friday evening. Air. M. Butler moved: "That the Club do not provide any intoxicating drinks upon the green." Then it was seconded by Mr. Fisher, and led to a very lively discussion. For a time the meeting -appeared more like a No-license one than that of a bowling club. Mr. O'Toole, a; well-known prohibitionist, asked if it meant debarring anyone from bringing liquor on to the green. If so, he would support it; but if it meant that any member could have a private supply in his locker, he should oppose it. Mr. Richards said he noticed that quite a number of the Auckland Clubs wero giving up supplying liquor. Mr. Clark said he was not a total abstainer, but he thought they could do without whisky on the green. Mr. Henderson thought the motion too drastic, and Mr. Anderson interjected: "We have got to be very careful." The chairman explained that the motion only referred to the Club not supplying liquor, and would not debar the members providing stimulants for their friends. The motion was carried by 1G votes to nine. An elderly woman named Mis. Haines had a trying experience between Waikuku and Otoki, Gisborne, on Friday. She was going to visit some friends up the line, and being nervous about crossing the stringers on the Dreadnought bridge, attempted to ford the stream, which was |in a flooded state. She was swept off her feet by the current, and carried some distance down the stream. The driver of a ballast train noticed the woman's predicament, and stopping his train, several willing hands helped her out. She had been in the water for about an hour, having been unable to breast the stream to get out, and was in a very exhausted state. The woman was conveyed to her home on the train, and is now reported to be little the worse for her adventure. The Braidwood correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" reports that whilst shooting wallabies in the ranges near Jdngiemoney, a young man named Townsend had a sensational encounter with a wild dog. Townsend was walking along the mountain-side, and was carrying some wallaby skins over his shoulder, when, without warning, the animal sprang at him from cover, and attacked him ferociously. He dodged and fired, wounding the dog severely, but was compelled to seek refuge from it by .climbing up a tree. From there he fired again, and killed the dog. The skin was brought to Braidwood, and shows the beast to have been of enormous size. Its paw resembles that of a mastiff. and its hair Dke that of a dingo, though in colour a yellowy brindle. it is like one recently shot in the same locality, which measured over Oft.

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