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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 179, 27 July 1912, Page 4

The following Is Mr I). C. Bates" voa,.f.n<T forecasi for 24 hours from !) a.m. ,this —-"Wild strong to gale, south- ! JLCtsteriyT-oeeay heavy train- iie expect-- ■ jed; xwermfio<j@efeiig&!BSS?tr}s&'-'a£tvT tern ijjitours.'"' ' - ■" <■■■•'■ ]

Drink was freely owned to be the ause of the trouble between William : ; harp and his wife when the latter ap- ' ilied to Mr. C. C. Kettle, S.M-, yesterday . .fternoon for reparation and niainten- ■ .nee on the ground that he was an i labifcnal inebriate. 'Sharp appeared to ' >c in a confused .state as to the proper ,- >rocedure in •court, intimating that '"he : vould plead guilty—that was good :nough."' The charge of inebriety he •haraeterised as 'too true."' Mr. F. H. .revien, counsel for the wife, explained , rhat Sharp had come down from work n the country last Christmas, and had ■ince been spending a Post Office Savngs Bank account in the hotels. He vould probably go back to work when .he money was exhausted. On the Mag-strate'-s advice ShaTp thereupon took >ut a prohibition order against himself, mil an order for maintenance to the cx.ent of £1 a week was made against iim, the question of separation being ,vaived by the -wife's consent. At the ordinary meeting of the Roto--ua Chamber of Commerce Mr. J. Stewirt, the newly-elected president, presidid. On the request of the .Settlers' Association a letter had been written to -he Minister for Agriculture urging the vstabli.shment of a demonstration farm ii connection with oxperimenkil work to 'find a remedy for bush sickness, also ) letter to the Commissioner of Crown Land*, asking that an area of fern lands (if about 2,000 acres in the vicinity o! Uotorua and Kotoiti be opened up. Attention was given to a request made by the Hamilton Chamber to support an application In the Railway Department thai, a special Kotorua car .should be attached 10 each Main Trunk express at Wellington to obviate Rotonia, Waikatu and Thames passengers having to turn on; .it 3.30 a.m, The executive asked the Hamilton Chamber to go farther and support a through night train to Rotorua. Mr. H. R. McDonald gave notice of motion, : 'That the Minister for Native Affairs (Hon. W. TL Herrio.s) be asked to appoint, a resident judge of the Native Land Court -o Rotorua." A peculiar case came before the Christ-f-hurrh Juvenile Court. A boy of 14 years whs brought up on a charge of having stolen a cycle valued at £3 10/. In answer to the magistrate's inquiry, the lad admitted cheerfully that he had stolen other things, including a watch. It was mentioned that the boy had passed tho sixth standard, and had, won a free p!ac« at the high school, but lost that through misbehaviour after he had been at the high school only a little while. His Worship commented that the boy ocemed most bright, but, was undoubtedly the victim of Runic mental kink. For his own sake. and tin- sake of the. community, he would be committed to the \Veraroa Boys' Training Farm. l"ncl(T tho hrvading of "A Record Suc<o.s.,," the •■N.Z. Railway Review,"' published by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in the interests of rail-way men, says: "The long list of grievanceri rectified as a result of frank and friendly conference with the late Minister of Railways is a triumphant vindication of the agitation carried on so persistently for years by the Amalgamated -Society of Railway Servant.*. When the late Minister expressed astoniixhment at the length of the lict, it was explained by the General Manager that many items were "old friends." This was the trouble: the Department had become too stereotyped in its mental attitude. A question answered once in a particular way must., arjrued the officials. aJways be thus dealt with. However, the plan of talking over the lons-standing grievances in the presence of all the principal parties hat* had splendid results, mainly because the late Minister, used to large affairs, was willing to take the responsibility. Thus encouraged to reopen old questions, the permanent official* abandoned their conservative attitude, mcl the mcnV- representatives with an open mind, received new impressions ;il>oiit "old friends.' , and the happy consequence is that many of the questions which rankled in the service as gross anomalies will cease to trouble."' An inquest was held at Wellington yesterday into the death of Frederick John Hancock, tho tram conductor who met with a fatal accident on Monday afternoon by striking his head on a trollystandard while leaning over the grille of a double-decker. It. was .-tated that it, was against the regulations to change, or attempt to change, the route-hoards whilst the cars wore in motion, disregard <>f this rule to entail immediate dismissal. A verdict was returned that death was caused! by the deceased striking his head on a standardpule, no blame being attachable to the tramway authorities. During the quarter ending June 30, an unusually large number of British and Foreign vessels entered the port of Auckland, the total being considerably creator than that at any other port in New Zealand. No less than seventy-six of the one hundred and sixty-six vessels that entered inwards visited Auckland. The total registered tonnage of tiber=e vessels was 206.796. The totals entering the other ports -were: Wellington thirty-one, Ly~tte.Koii nine, Duncdin eleven, and the Bluff eighteen. The aggregate tonnage, for all ports was 424,---0.">7 ton?. '•The Apostles of Bounce" is "the till? which the "New Zealand Railway Review,' the organ of the Amalgamated tsot-iety of Railway Servants, applies Hi ■the Federation of Labour in its iseue published yesterday. It says: "The New Zealand Labour m-ovemen-t is inflicted with the curse of an extreme section always on the look-out for a fight, always bouncing and boasting about the industrial millennium which is to be ushered in by the triumph of the general strike. Society is to be- saved by violencewe are all to become happy and contented under a regime imposed by dictators of the type who forced a strike at Timaru because two members of the A.S.R.S. had not considered it necessary to belong to the Fcd'cra-tion of Labour. They we.re, according to the elegant language affected by these violent reformers, •scaJxs.' The fact that they belong to a trade union registered by law, and that, they wore thus to be bullied into joining an organisation not possessing that legal standing, did net appear to have a bearing on the use of the objectionable word—the Federation of Labour plays fast and loose with words as -well as mqro serious things. This is the first time railway men have been brought face to face with the militant methods of the Federation of Labour. They discover that its plans are to attack* first, then consider the Justice and equity of the position afterwards. The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants is not going to quietly tolerate impudent innovations of this kind," The New Zealand Competitions Society hold their second annual festival in the Town flail. Wellington, commencing on 13th November next. The festival lasts fourteen days. Text books containing the words of the various pieces arc n-nw ready, and ina.y be obtained from the/ leading music shops, in rthis town, or posted' free, price 3d. or ■from the office of fhe secretary, Air.; James Dykes, .1*49, -OFearHMratcHi—

During the last three weeks or more, north-easterly seas have prevailed at rimaj-u, sometimes strong and unusually heavy. The existing .breakwaters proride quite, satisfactory shelter from southerly seas, but not from northerly. n>e Home liner Rotorua lay in port for i -week during the bad weather, and seas in the harbour made it difficult tn hold her securely. It wax*, however, done, though with the breakage of a few moortug chains, the crushing , to splinters of 30 pine-log fenders, and the const-ant watchfulness of the staff. Impressed by this experience, the Harbour Board has unanimously decided to remedy the defect by carrying , out, as coon as possible, the recommendations made some years -<igo by Mr Maxwell, the consulting engineer, to add fjGOft. to the eastern mole, and instructed the engineer to prepare plans and estimates accordingly. Mr Maxwell said the -work could be done for £.18.000. The Board has a- balance of £17,000 of an authorised loan unraised. On Thursday evening Mr. Robert Morse, of Cambridge, had the misfortune to hreak his right arm just above the wrist. He was winding up his motor car to start it when it back-fired, and the handle fractured his arm. Another accident happened the same evening in that district. A young man was driving a spring trap belonging to Mr. T. F. Richards, along the Redoubt Road, at l'likekura. whe n a. girl riding a horse collided with the trap. The result was (hat Imr horse was killed, she was shot into the. trap, which was then overturned, and both Rhu and the driver of the vehicle! were injured rather much. They are., however, both progressing satisfactorily. The chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee <if the Wellington City Council' remarked, in reply to a deputation: "We hope to do away with horses altogether in the brigade. The horses in the central station are rating their heads off. There, are horses that have not been out to a fire for some years, and they are. costing us something like £.30 a year each. The policy of fire brigade administration is to do away with horse traction as much as possible. It is said that many of the animals in the past possessed almost human sagacity in taking their places and dashing off at the word of command." An old man named Joseph McGuinness, residing in Grey Street, was crossing VVellesley Street West yesterday and failed to observe a tram coming down the hill. Although the car was pulled up promptly 'he was knocked down, fortunately 'without more serious injuries than a slight scalp wound on the back of the head and some injuries to his left hand. A doctor was summoned, and a taxi-cab engaged to take the injured man to the hospital. The driver, instead of crossing Grafton Bridge, went round by Khyber Pass Road, and finding that part of Paik Road 'leading to the hospital, impossible to traverse, continued down Carltoa Gore Road. Before a hundred yards were covered the car sank into the mud and could not be made to move any further. The injured man had to be carried 'A the hospital. After four hours' digging the car was extricated wi'.h the aid of another car and a tow rope. The time-honoured question as to whether a person is drunk or sober is for ever cropping up in the Police Courts throughout the Dominion. At the Christchurch Court a barmaid was summoned for supplying two women allegedly intoxicated. They had entered aji hotel during the twilight, and when the barmaid nolioed them both were seated. When called on for her defence, she tried to excuse herself on the ground that she had been unable to tell their condition as they were seated. His Worship expressed surprise that she had not ordered them to stand up. Having fined her 40/ and costs, he repeated his advice that in future she should make all persons stand up before she served them. A proposal that is of the utmost interest to the Territorial forces is the suggestion to hold a school of instruction in cooking at Trentham for one month from the Ist of October next. It is proposed that each mounted rifle and infantry regiment should send two candidates, and each garrison artillery company, field engineer company, signal company, and lipid ambulance company one candidate. On termination of the. course these men will be appointed sergeantcooks to the regiment or unit concerned, and will ill camp be responsible for the cooking for the repiment or unit, with the assistance of other cooks I detailed by the officer commanding for I the purpose. The Inspector-General' under the Education Department does not believe that it is possible to teach children to write in properly-formed characters until their hands have grown to almost adult form land strength. "A, pen is a most barbarous instrument to put into the hands of a young child, to my way of thinking." he said in evidence before the Education Commission. "A pencil to use on soft paper, or chalk for writing on a wall, is very much to be preferred."' Seventy-seven employers in the. city and suburbs have been cited as parties to the farriers and general blacksmiths' dispute, which is shortly to come before the Conciliation Council. In their demands the unic-n men are asking that farriers and general smiths shall be paid not less than £3 10/ per week, and flnormen not less than £'.i per week. The present r.ite of wages is 10/ per (lay for the former, and S/4 per day .lor the latter. The men are also asking for absolute preference io unionist.-;, in place of the modified form of preference that is provided for in the existing agreement. A curious point has arisen in connection with a -cheque for £" 4/, which was paid some considerable time ago by a Southland local body to a man for work done. The cheque went through several hands, and finally was stolen from the holder at a race meeting. On the course it was tendered at a publican's booth and duly cashed. The county clerk was notified of the cheque having been stolen, and payment was duly stopped, and. as a result, the publican is a loser in the meantime. The matter was brought up at the la.st meeting of the local body on the application of the holder of the cheque to re-move the embargo, or make, good the amount. During the discussion one councillor said that the poor fellow who had lost the cheque required the money badly, but the other councillors were" unsympathetic, one remarking, "Well, he ought, to have kept it.' A point in regard to the cheque was that, although the Council had not, actually paid the 'amount owing for the work done, as the ■cheque had not been cashed at the 'bank, no fewer than three payments were negotiated with it. The main point at issue, in the grocers.' dispute, referred to the Arbitration Court for settlement, after the Conciliation Council had vainly spent four days trying to <io so, is that the employers arc holding out for a minimum weekly wage of £2 5/. and the •employees are holding out tor £2 15/. The parties are also stubbornly at variance on <t3ic_qiiesrtion. of the- preference "riauss.

A chib where persons of congenial * political persuasions may meet and refresh themselves mentally, socially, and * eonvivially without the distractions which result from violently conflicting opinions on the way the connrtrv i» be* •ing run— is the object of the mov* ■ment to form a Reform dob in Auckland. The proposition is that 500 original members, contributing a town subscrip. tion of a guinea, and a country fee of half that sum, should be enrolled and that the financing of the institution should be done by means of debentures. Already about £200 has been promised and a large meeting of intending m em' bens was informed that an option had ibeen taken over suitable premises in Wyndlnim Street. A provisional committee. frith }!i- Leslie Gardner as secretary was appointed, with instructions to prepare a constitution and draft by-laws! ■and authority to acquire premises and arrange for their proper equipment. The woman militant in politics is the logical outcome of the female suffrage. and it is an election aspect which is b£ ing oedulously fostered these days. Y 63 tcrday afternoon a meeting of ladies in" torested in the subject met at the house' ot Mrs Rrigham. in York Street, Parnell and decided to form a Parnell branch of the Women's Political Reform Lea-™ A general meeting in September Ws arranged for, and the following Wer : provisionally elected to office to make interim arrangements:—Jtra J. ]'. Campbell: vice-president Mrs V yon Stunner; secretary, Miss 'l (W bell: treasurer. Mrs J. N. Brigham- £ ouut.ve (with power to add), Mesdamw >>. A. James, Maxwell, and Wright. Sir John Findlay. in the course of a case heard at Wellington, made it pi*;* that it is not unlawful to be a boot maker, though it may be unlawfull to make a bet. He remarked that the defendant was charged with betting The information was laid under a section of the Gaming Amendment Act, 1910 g» went on to remark that he believed he was correct in saying that this was the first time that sub-section 2 of sec tion 2 of that Act had been taken befur" a Court for interpretation. Before dealing with the merits of the case, hi wished to moke clear what -was an id, disputable proposition of law-ythat th« calling of a bookmaker was- still a perfectly legal calling. It had never been otherwise, and in 1908 express interpretation had been given, so that if a man made his whole living by bookmaking he was still following. a calling which was quite legal. And iet was a perfectly legal act. It was only betting with certain persons and in certain places which were illegal acts under out most recent legislation. The Legislature had increasingly circumscribed the sphere within, which a "bookmaker could carry on his business. And the most serious, mo-3t striking, and most drastic circumscription which, had yet been made upon private liberty was the section under which these informations were laid. For offending under this section a. bookmaker was liable to a fine of £100, and for the second offence -to a sentence of three months' imprisonment. Sir John concluded by reminding the Court that it was one of the maxims of the law that a man's house was his castle, but a bookmaker to-day, no matter how reputable he was, dared not make a bet in his private room hi the hotel in which he dwelt. . A defendant who was charged before the Hamilton Magistrate's Court witl offering light-weight bread , ",for sail, raised the point that in order-to satisfy the demand for well-baked bread 'he had allowed the bread to remain in the oven a- little longer than usual, and in addition, the day was a cold, windy one, which made a great deal of difference, in the amount of evaporation. The Magistrate said he refused to believe that a cold wind would make a difference of 2oz. At any rate, he said, bakers had to contend with all sorts of weathers and must make an average article to suit all atmospheric conditions. If his customers wanted well-baked bread he rousV also supply that. Defendant sai/fl when his customers asked for such bread he always told them that they would in that case have to take short weight. A fine of fl 10/, with costs, was imposed. The .New Zealand Wool Buyers' Association has now recognised the growing importance of the. Auckland sales by placing them on the rota, so as not to clash with the sales in any other centre. The dates fixed for next season are as follows:—Wednesday, 27th Nov., 1&12; and Friday, 31st January, 1913. It was found impossible to arrange for another sale before the end of February, when some of the English and foreign buyers leave the 'Dominion, but a date will be arranged for a third sale early in March to suit the buyers who can attend. A shipment of no less than 72 motorcars as being brought to Auckland from Canada by the s.s. Whakatane, due to arrive at this port shortly. The extent to which the Canadian cars have found a market in X«w Zealand is somewhat remarkable. In 1909 only nineteen cars were imported from the sister Dominion. In 19.10 'the number had increased to 03, and last year the total went up to 336. The last two boats to arrive, the Karamea and the Waimate, brought consignments of 53 and 55 cars respectively. The popularity of the Canadian car is perhaps attributable- to its price, £230. Thomas Gccvge Peek, of EUerslie, builder, filed a petition in bankruptcy to-day. The first meeting of creditors will be held on Monday, August 5, at 2.30 p.m. at the office of the Official Assignee. The Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the wholesale price for butter and eggs four the week ending August 3 as follows: Factory butter 1/01, fanner's, separator, and dairy butter, 8d; eggs, 1/2 -per dozen. SneridanVs comedy, "The Critic," one of the cleverest plays of that brilliant writer, will be rendered by the Ponsonby Shakespeare Society with a cast ol twenty readers on Friday next, in connection with the winter course at the Leys Institute. The leading roles will be "sustained by prominent members ol the club. The Hon. Coo. Fowlds delivers an address in the Richmond Baptist Church on Monday night next on the aims and objects of the Sew Zealand Labour party. The usual social in aid of St. John's Presbytery, Parnell, will take place oa Wednesday evening next. Cure your col<3 with Baxter's Lung Preserver speedy and positive. It throws off th- phlegm, reduces the irritation and inflammation. 1/10 the large-sized, bottle. — (Ad.) K.-ninann .-.ml oddments on Monde? no-;t clearing at hnlf-price Dem .-.;,, mi .-.: nine a.m.—-Sin::!! and ( »h;j-ip. . Lie!.- -I Ad.l Will the Maa&ev - Government be able to pull together 'as comfortably and gracefully, say. as Waxaers .Rust-proof corsets do? "We hope so, Auckland