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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 205, 30 August 1910, Page 4

The following is Mr. D. C. Bates' weather report and forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day:—"Moderate to strong southerly winds; indications for fair weather prevailing. Probably a Very cold night. Glass little movement, but fall slowly after twenty-four hours.'- .

The speed with which the Telegrapn Department effect repairs was illustrated on Sunday. When the gale blew 'down the posts which interrupted the service, the news was not received until late on Sunday afternoon. A gang of men got to work promptly, and by 8 aan. on Mondajthe lines were open again.

.: A deputation from'the Auckland Suburban Local Bodies' Association, consisting of Messrs. W. R. Bloomfield (chairman of the Epsom Road Board), E. Craig (chairman of the One-tree' Hill Road Board), and Chas. Bagley (chairman of the Mount Roskill Road Board), will leave by the express to-night for Wellington, to interview the Prime Minister on the subject of road 'boards' powers to deal with newly-formed roads and 'building sites, and also subsidies to road boards.

The troubles that harass lawyers who try to get valid leases of Maori lands for their clients is shown by the fact that in a small block of land at Kaiapbi, only fifteen acres in area, sixty-two owners have been discovered, and the end of the list is hot reached yet, as some of these have died, and their shares in the land have been split up by succession orders to other Maojis. One of the sixty-two owners claims on the- -one hundred and fortyrfourth of a share, another on the one thousand one hundred.and fifty-sec-ond, and another on the two thousand three hundred and fourth. . Lawyers who deal with this class of work'state that the intricacies of Maori custom in'this respect are so and call for so much investigation, without equivalent compensation, • on' account of the : size of the areas, that it is not worth wasting time, on the same. The law-applies to the North Island, but there large" blocks are dealt with, and the remuneration'is more in keeping with the amount of work that has to foe done.

"Speaking at the annual meeting of tile Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, Mr. H. J. Marriner said that Ministers had repeatedly promised that, after the completion of the North Island Main Trunk railway, the. Southern line would be the next'national undertaking, but these promises had ended in very little practical result. From 1901 "to 19C") the sum of £390,000 had ibeen voted to this work and £350,520 had been expended;, leaving £39,490 unspent. The Minister for Bailways had stated that a line' North of Auckland would not pay one-half per cent 6a the outlay, and yet, according to "Hansard," there were 500 men. working in that district, in North Canterbury, where there was excellent land ready for closer settlement,- and only wanting the railway to make it a prosperous and thriving district, there were only about twelve men working. If the lines throughout the' Dominion in" course of construction were let on contract, instead of being formed by co-operative labour, the amount saved would go a long way to help to build the South Island Main Trunk railway.

Mr. Justice Chapman, at the conclusion of a divorce case at Wellington, addressed one of the jurymen, who had distinguished himself tiy returning in a sta'c* of intoxication after the luncheon adjournment on Thursday afternoon, necessitating the adjournment of the-Gourt.-His Honor said ■tlhat he nad carefully considered the matter. Had there been any danger of this kind .of think .being at all common he should have had to take very decisive steps, but, as he- had said before, in an. experience extending over. 40 yeaTs in connection with courts' of justice, he had never known nor heard of such, a case,, so that ..anything. Jike exemplary punishment was not called for. The Court had power to order either a fine or imprisonment, but he could quite understand the. degradation felt by a man. in the juror's, position at .haying to spend a night in the "common-lock-up. He thought it-sufficient that he should reprimand the offender, as he.had done, and accordingly he would discharge him without inflicting any further punishment.

The Arbitration Court has made an award which settles the dispute that existed ibetween the Wellington Amalgamated Society of Paintera and Decorators' Industrial Union of Workers on.the one hand and of the Wellington Master Painters' Industrial Association of Employers and 30 firms and tradesmen in Wellington, Petone, Lower' Butt, Upper Hutt, and Johnsonville. The award operates from August 25, 1910,' until August 25, 1913. - The minimum rate of wages for journeymen employed at any branch of the trade ,i 3 fixed at }/3: per hour. Hours of labour from September 1 to April 30 shall be from eight a.m. to five pjn. on five days of fehe week, and from eight ajn. to noon on Saturdays. From May"! to August, 31-.the hours wSH 'be from eight a-in! t0'4.30 p.m. on five days of the, week, and from eight ajn. to noon on Saturdays. Overtime rate* and apprentices' wages are specified, and special provisions. for.country -and suburban work are included. The award also. allows for preference to unionists and for the payment of a smaller wage to incompetent workmen.

•Interviewed at Invercargill, Dr. Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, stated,.. that Captain Sbptt in <hi 3 polar" expedition intended to try the use of the telephone in those 'regions, and proposed to lay wires along the ice so as to keep various sledge parties in communication with the base of supplies. This Appealed to him not only in regaTd to his connection with the telephone, but owing to the memories it brought back of the illfated Jeanette expedition under the leadership of his friend, lieutenant de; Long. The .lieutenant had. pressed, him very hard to. go with him, but 'being; married he declined. It was the lieutenant's idea to use the telephone in. the! same manner as was proposed iby G&ptain Scott, and he (Dr. Bell) presented him; with a complete telephonic outfit, l»ut the! lieutenant never hsul -tn-e -chance of trying it. The Jeanette went down, crushed, 'by ice; and only one 'boat managed to get away, that one .being under the command of- Engineer . (now Admiral) Melville. Speaking on the question of wire-' less telephones, Dr. Bell remarked that they were moving in Am erica, and so far they were able -to operate at a distance of 14 miles, although the system was only in an experimental stage.

The breeding oi horses is one of the most prosperous of New Zealand's-indus-tries. During the last three or four months (says the "Post") about three thousand horsee havje travelled to Australia in the Union Steam Ship Company's boats. At the present time about eighty are sent away by every steamer, and the export is about a thousand a -month. The largest number 'travel to Western Australia, South Australia coming next, and a good number are taken by Victoria. Useful medium sized draughts or plough horses are the kind dispatched, for which there is a good inquiry. The demand is attributed to the large amount of new country that is being opened, and the progress of agricultural settlement.

The configuration of the coast-line has changed considerably during the winter (says the "Poverty Bay Herald"). Acres and acres have slipped away from the hillsides into the sea, and the debri3 has been gradually washed away. This is specially noticeable at the Puatae rocks, on the Rototahi block, where ihe zigzag road and the fences have been swept away. The Puatae road deviation has also disappeared in many places, so as to render the remaining portion useless. Near Whangara, Ponawa, and Turehau, great changes have also taken place, and people travelling are more than, ever dependent on the tide*.-- - '-■ - •-*■

The' prospects of employment in aU •branches oi industry are reported by the Labour Department to be daily improving and: soon all -who' require work should "have no difficulty in finding it. The demand for farm labourers is very steady, and.at present the Department can just supply requirements. The carpentering, painting, and bricklaying trades are all active, but numbers of plasterers are idle. Labourers are required for the Gisborne district, and men able and willing to pay their fares are being,sent there by the Department. After this month there will be a big demand for unskilled labour from various fiaxmilling centres.

- Tiie Huddart, Parker Co.'s eteamer Riverina, trading on the Australian coast; as well as the company's New Zealand trader Ulimaroa, has now been" fitted with a wireless telegraph apparatus. It. is expected that these two steamers will be able to communicate with: each other up to a distance of 1300 miles, or,, in point of fact, between Wellington, and Sydney. : . ." ~

-\ leading Dunedin builder states that ne Iβ at present paying bricklayers 14/ per day,- and cannot get sufficient men for his requirements at that wage; He has tried'to get bricklayers from Wellington, -Chrrstchurchj and Invercargill, offtring.to pay their fares there, but all without avail. At Gore bricklayers are especially'scarce, there being work for- about a- dozen men there, with no applications for the positions.

Fourteen - tenders for the Campbell Creche we're, opened "by Messrs. Arnold and Abbott,: architects, yesterday, the tenderers- bemg:<—lCilingham, £2,250; Webster, £2,222; Julian, £2,197; G. .Pollard, £2,185; Handcock, Guthrie■..-. and Coulbourne, . £2,150.; Ha-mon and Son, £2,145; Lye and Son, £2,121; Ball, £2,120; E. Morris, £2,088; Braithwaite, £2,050;. iJ. D. Jones, £2,037'; G. A. Jones, £1,997 • J. J; Holland, £1,995. The tender of Mr. Holland hae been accepted. . - -■■' J ...

A seven-roomed house at Porf <3halmers, owned and occupied.by Peter Ross, tanner, was destroyed, by.fire, on Saturday , morning. The fire is thought to have started in the diningroom, where Mr and. 3irs Ross spent the evening. The occupants' lost everything/ The building' was insured for" £300 in the New Zealand office,. the furniture for £250, in the Standard. The loss ia .estimated to exceed the insurance by between £200 and £300. ' '

At a meeting of'tfce'Palmerston North branch of the Enginedrivers, Firemen, and. Cleaners' Association the following resolutions were carried unanimously: "That this meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the E-F.CA. is unanimously opposed to the direct representative; scheme of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, as it is useless to expect such an organisation to do justice to locomotive affairs. This meeting also desires to. proclaim its loyalty to the council of the New Zealand Locomotive, Enginedrivers, Firemen, and; Cleaners' Association,- and heartily approves of the steps being taken to secure legal recognition of the: Association. This meeting considers that the A.S.R.S. should be made-to prove their contention, that they have 700 against recognition; seeing that 1089 out of 1450 drivers, firemen, and cleaners signed a petition now before the House praying for. legal recognition of the Association;"

Judgment -was"' delivered -at Dun&din Ctbei. <Asa : 6£ sGibnour and Reid v. . the Minister of Railways the claim being for £4000 odd, for landand water" taken; at ■Burnside for railway purposes. The case ■was heard before his Honor Mr. Justice Williams, and assessors (Messrs. W. -L. Simpson and ,J- C Stephens). His Honor said that in repect of the claim for £69 lls 3&, the. award_ "was that"the claimant.wae entitled to'that amount. In thie. case of the claim for £2285; 163 3d, the award was fiat the respondent pay the claimants £ IMO in full settlement of all demands, and also the sum of £ 140 in" respect of costs and expenses.- With' respect to the claim for. £2050, the Court ordered the respondent to pay the claimants £350 in full settlement-of all demands. There would be no costs in respect of this claim. The assessors' lees" -were fixed at .elght./guineas a. day each for seven days, • and iotS.parties were to pay their own -assessor. '.■".. .

■ The question of *he drinking ability of Karangahake-residents was. a : jnuchdiseueeed -question at the Magistrate's .Court at Paeroa.. Various witnesses were asked how much beer miners would consume in a day, and most of them considered that about three—-perhaps four — large bottles, a day was a fair quantity. A witness who came along later, however, while agreeing that three large bottles a-day was "a fair thing," said he could do with, half-a-dozen a day. "But," he added sorrowfully, ""it is ' not there to get'; beer i 3 very scarcejin Karangahake."

-At the Ministerial recepsioh accorded to Lady Islington at the Town Hall, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, her Es©ellency, on the course of 4 6aanninglyexpreesed speech, said that one of two things -she had been told of in connection with New Zealand was. that, the sun. was always shining. There had been some dull hours since she arrived, and she .had that morning been hilpwii over twice in trying to gain the top of a MIL

The marvels of the compound microscope which magnifies an object from a, thousand to fiiteeii times are as nothing compared "to Uie magic 'of Hhe ultra, mieroscope r and Mr.E. V. MiUer, who lectured on the subject last night in St. Andrew's Hall, before the -Auckland Institute, made the matter both clear and interesting to a Targe audience. Mr: Millar explained that owing to scientific reasons it was impossible to- further improve the microscope in the direction of securing increased magnification, but the ultra, microscope enabled the human eye to see inconceivably small particles. There are two forms of the ultra microscope, which were both shown by the lecturer. , .The principle of one is a cross beam of light from an electric arc, while in the other a lens underneath the object glass refracts the light. The use of this instrument in science was fully and graphically explained by Mr. Miller, and his remarks were further illustrated by a number of •experiments and diagrams. A hearty ; vote of thanks wa-s accorded to Mr. Miller after his lecture.

Shortly after reaching the Town Hall, at Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, her Excellency Lady Islington missed a diamond star attached to a small velvet bow which had been pinned to her dress. Her Excellency concluded that she must have dropped the ornament when stepping from her motor-car to the footpath. A constable stationed outside observed a lady pick up a glittering object at the spot indicated, 'but the finder threw it away again, it is stated, on the assumption that the small bow attached had belonged to a lady's shoe. However, it was immediately secured by another lady, wHo expressed her intention of retaining it as a memento of the occasion. The finder has been requested through the papers to communicate with Government House or with the Inspector of Police, Lambton Quaj.

Do you want-to ujiuv ivU. , asked Mr. H. W, Bishop^M? L"*** m an affiliation case, at Ly&t no objection," she replied to take matters in a pretty a£? said Mr. Bishop; *do you wan?* **' ' to the prisoner, a youth of t^fe ß ' :'■ Magistrate asked whether marry the girl. After some heS * ■ repked that he did: "It te&iW?* jbng time to say 50, ,, said ■ The girl explained that they wodTfliw - to get the consent of the lad's f*u£ r -, Mr. Bishop adjourned the " that he had no sympathy-with «n& »»? ; riages, as they .were merely OOOTeaie!** to evade responsibility of maintenance. . ™":™ Some surprise has been expreettA »t what some think are large quaatitkt-5 liquor legally going into the Bo4j«i, ■ districts of Grey Lynn and;CßuwmS Mr. Macdennott,' of the - JfoS?! party, points out that the averagenS* : tered consumption of liquor tot S man, woman and child in.the;Dominie during the year 1908' was loj 'HOStC, while the registered quantity guiaito, : - Grey Lynn was lees than per head, and in Ohinemuii it wai>mS':i three gallons. This showg 130,600 gallons for Grey Lynn, jj 102,000 gallons for Ohineinuri. . 7 A-iijaj. f tion like thie, Mr. Macdermott '.iijt ' would be very pleasing, to fhe Nftlil^J'' party, if not to "the Trade.? •; ' ■' >. i ■.. ■3*r. J. Trevethick has ibeen noeiieiUJ for the vacant seat ia the taty'CMgjp by Dr. Bedford, Messrs. David Goldie, P J. Nerheny, G. W. S. Patterson,' B. X Michaels, and P. E. UV Gaudin. At k meeting of friends and supporter* tit lit Trevethick, held in tihe Ustitate, Ppnsonby, last evening, : he progressive policy,-and. stated ihit.in' M| opinion the measures whkh he.advoe«i»i could ibe gone on with without ey,» crease in the rates. New slaughtering yards and at present being- erected ~ioi: iftmca;''^ '~ stnd W. Hellaby", Ltd., at u4 when the buildings ore completed the Mchinery. from the- old works: at Bkfcoqoi will be removed to them. The Ri*hm<*4 works will then be pulled down, and tie i groimd on ■which they stand, ■totoe |j;.:•.' . acres in area, will be cut np into trmMing allotments, and offeredCompany is also building. shed next to the Auckland T*mtat Freezing Works near the Sailvsv whut This shed will be equipped with iuenlaW chambers for the refrigerated itorij&ef meat. The cost of the 'rebuilding-gdMns will be about £30,000. . .'*•."' T.^'r*. An overflow from the : 'pipe-whkfc! drains the Athletic Park, at Wellington caused some trouble about 2 o'clock pa ' Saturday morning in. the priyite resi» dence of Mr Eoldsworth, iar street. A big portion of the Athletic Park was under : watery and 1M& invujdation overflowed the . City , Conncil's main, drain, and: early in the JBOrning. invaded 3dr Holdeworth'e prendwf..Tl!e startled householder was awakened ir a splashing round hia, ;bed.:po»t*, : ; eid hastily jumping out found hiraeelf aakla deep in. the .cold water. A|ker;Biwi trouble the water- was off. y''.■"•■ ■ Owing "to ..the .iDness. ot : '. (Mr. Cawkwell), the monthly of the Waitemata toij.'beeii., postponed till 9thi September,' jrixfio. i season's styles in.sui^: just can please and i* attractive patterns;', Geo." SowW^CAS^)'^