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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 29, 3 February 1913, Page 4

The following ie >lr D. C. Eates'. weather forecast "for '2-I"Tioure from 9 a.m. this day:—"Modera-to southerly winds. There is prospect of fair to cloudy weather. Barometer little movement. Moderate tides and seae."

The last issue of the English " >>a.f Cry " to hand contains the announcement th:i£ General Bramwell Booth has decided upon the introduction of a method of - profit-sharing wiiich will give C.ustoiners a share in the profits ns:eived. from certain departments of the fiuJvution Army trading operation*. The... new ar-rangement-;\vn 3 - twcoine iato crjieration ou JanuajyJ, and the depaj-tmer.ts affected by it included, uniform and uutiic, books and brass .hind ra -sic, musical in >lnimenti ; furnishing These will coas:'tu-te and oe known as "j.j>

Solvation Army Supply Scores." - .whole cf thp-net prorits in each year up to. £5,000 will be d.'-ided amongst the-cus-" tomers whose- purchaso-s- -during the" year amount to £.2 or more, and half of any further profits up to £10,000 will be divided in the same way. -The net profits will be arrived at after charging 5 per cent interest on the capital .employed - n the business. The profit-sharing arrangement is in no way to interfere with the management of the business by the General, who will still have absolute control.

A ecries of lunch-hour services for men, organis-ecl by the Bkhop of Auckland and ihe diocesan authorities, will. be held dally in the Clranrber of Commerce during the coming Lent, whkh extends from Wednesday next (Aa!i Wednesday) to March 21 (Good Friday). I The services will be held daily (except Saturdays) from 12.20 to 12.5(.>,"and from 1.20 to 1.5 C. and addresses will be de-livers-d by the liishop of Wellington (Right Rev. Dr. Sprott), Verk Archdeacon HawkLns, -liev. H. G-, Rosher (Palmerston. North), Rev-. A. 11. Coivil c (New Plymouth), Rev. H. D. Burton (ChristeiiuPcb.), Key. F. W. Clarke (Te Awimutu), Key. P. T. WiHixnw, and the Bishop of • llrfanceia (JSigflit Key. Dr. G. J. Wood). --Eavb Friuay ewaiiag--dur-ing Lest the-preacher for tits-week", will give an address; at a. niic-eion service, at 8 o'clock, ia St. Matthew's ChurA. Special open-air eervioes will be Ireld oa the- Queen Street wharf between .ilaxci 10 and-14 fiiKlusjye;,- jand -Haiich 17" and 20, .at. 12jO., P ju, when addresses will be delivered by the Eeve. G. Wel.a Smailes and W. G."iionck±on, the latter taking the ecrvices during Eoly Week. An amount_ ox building,^. being done u,;_iai^_^j : eunt : Albert district'-<m the slope from Spriags Road down to Arch Hill Gully, Quite a, number of new roads have been formed and metalled on estates that are being cut up, and at "the present- time contractors are at ■wonk constructing a, road along the back of the old Cnmese gardens at the low level. A number of- the- , residences put up recently -on -fchisr slope are of a modern type. It enly -requires the extension of the tram service -to the 31ental Hospital, Point Cievalier, to ■cause large areas of land to be cut up for building purposes in thi3 direction. At present the residents have' either to walk to-Arch HiH ctr-Morningside to > get a cat.

The .deceased persons' estates certified for stamp duty 4uring January included, the following" from Auckland: Joseph j Laing Tpatersdn, £17,655; John Owen, £14,160; James" Thomas Edwards ,£16,-'| 097; Brian Tunstall" Ohaytor, £8,541; Francis Milton Burtt, £8,388; John Webster, £7,856; John Alexander Grant,' £4,338; Peter Wilson, £.4,314;. George < Roibson, s £416.; Sydney Bertram Ax-! ford, £2,477; 'Andrew Sloane, £2,274; I Frederick Cowling, £2,1.30; Kbrahirahi,: £2,127;' Edward G'We Phillips. £1.826;! Henrietta Maria Warnock, £1,587;' "George" "Teesdale, ' £1,594- Cornelius .Tuny.,~£1,625"; Thuretoh.TiiTher, £1.593;' Rebecca "Jane Turner. £T,259; Ales. Tweedale A. Miller, ..£1,263;. Margorie £1,H5.. ... """J.'..- " ."j Good progress has been made ~ during the- ■ dry weather in the" construction, of roads on the Surrey Hills, Grey Lxnn. In order to fill in the big gritty "in .Williamson Aveaee-, the- - contractor has: Ibeen scooping ofF the top soil- on adja- , cent allotments, which provides- the spoil required and also improves the sections that-are.-cut to the level of the road. Williamson Avenue should be metalled and completed before the wet weather sets iiu Various side roads onthe estate are also being cut to the •permanent level. This work is all Tieing "done under the special loan raised for that purpose a few years. .Ago, when the Council agreed to spend £18,5.00 on the .es-tate, and the Bank hande.d. over to the Borough the area, thart now forms Grey Lynn Park. . . Owing to a pole of a wagon, breaking, a farmer named Aibert Nathan Yorke fractured a rib on Friday. He was driving a horse drawing a. wagonload of timber, when the aecidrent occurred. Yorke" was thrown to the ground, with the result above stated. After receiving attention from Dr. Rossiter, the patient was sent on to the Auckland Hospital. Sewmarkefs new fast traffic by-law-came into action this- morning in the Police Court, when Joseph Mart>h and Charles Strand, who had been making the pace through Broadway on a recent race day, were, .each fined. 10/ and. 7/

eoi?te for exceeding t-h-e 10-mile "epeed ' ; limit. Marsh wats trying to get h'.e i motor-bike to keep pace with -hie im- | patience, while. Strand was stimulated ', to speed up hie motor car by the ex- ! hortations of a belated-_ sporting pas- ■ eenger. Charles Gollirus. wh-oec ear swung roun-d the corner into Rc-mupra Road at eight mttee over the fnur-mle ' ■limit, on Christmas Eve. when tie ! crowd*? were out, bad to pay 20/ and : costs therefor. The CJty Fire Brigade received a call at 3 o'clock on Saturday to a carpenter's | shop in Hobson Street, occupied by Mr | Williams and oTmed by Mr J. Parr. Th= I outbreak, which waa extinguished with- ' out difficulty, was- caused by a spark from the chimney of a- neighbouring' building. TBe contests were insured for £160 in the Gommisreial Tho damage was €stansate4 : at £&, -•'■-•• : - The 'Te Aioha Mail" chained' proprietary to-day, (having been, purchased i ffrPßMhude. I

■ '■ " The Minister of Oaatoms, after W in s visited the Wast Coast of the SeStf-i Island, mformed a Christchurch tion that he would go to. ' would there interview local coamerdS 'I men in regard to the tariff. .• xhe x«! I cent conference connected with boot industry, he said, had prored ver»l valuable. He believed that all who We£9 present highly appreciated the tjfflß that an opportunity was afforded of ' ■making known the disabilities under which the industry la.boured,. and of suggesting remedies. The same Bchem* would be carried out in respect to other industries. It could not be said that tin items wiiich would r be placed on the tarifl appeared there without full and free consultation with those most interested. • He wished to make it clear, also, that the public would not 'bo unrepr«e6Rte4 at those conferences.

The Napier Gas Company iy. making a big effort to encourage the consumption of gas. It ha 3 just adopted a scheme by which—subject to a minrnhm inunthly consumption of gas—fvery house in Napier and Hastings ■vriUViw fitted with a. gas eooiing stove, - free o fcharge. It is anticipated thatv?thii new development will have rthe; effect of bringing the use of gas for cooking into every home, and cooking' in'place of being a matter oi under these new conditions, beceitet a pleasure. The board has. that all gas fittings, gas fires, chased from the company, will jfefiied without any charge, for labour. .-;";>*!<,' Two officers of the public eervica fcav- • ing been convicted of embezzlement, a r:nll has been made upon all other officers in the service to make good tie defalcations. This is done 'underlthe X'ublic Service Act. The defaliaUftM .tatal jE3JM4.JI/5» and the lery W*tjjiad6 ' at the rate of one shilling per centIt was recently stated that -tike steamer Ulimaroa had ibeen credited with accomplishing another ' tance record in wireless, the operator having been in communication , witit another vessel at a. distance of 2,500 ■ miles. This has now been, eclipiei by .the Moeraki, her operator reporting" thitoß the last trip from Wellington to Sjiwr, when one night out -from, the Sew Senti Wales port, he got intowith the Moana, which-wa*:then neafing Papeete. The distance two vessels was approiimaterj-JSjOO miles. ■ '•._: Xo action appears to .have been-jtikn ; as yet to prevent the general public ftanr walking along the top of the. KfwSigJi Board's main sewer where son Bay, and already the public areisiat iiig good use of the privilege. . end of the sewer is easily tfbkSßWsjy:*. ■ short walk along the beach of' Hoosori Bay Road along its top to tiie beach .at -Orakei a something, like a mile and a-half—a pfe* ant walk when the tide is in and moetrfthe bad smells are obscured. The flattop •of the eewer is abouta yard forms a promenade which: aUowi ..tie ; pedestrians to pass with'eaae,-while :t|m is small danger if ahy'aMe«boSie/i;g«sicn r falling over, unless, in a "Pishing off the sewer ■where it-erosia#e. : :' Orakei Channel is already alavourite; pastime. ■ -. • \ ?3 : - : . In connection with the petition -froß* majority of the people of Arch 831,.t0 be included, within ' the ; .area,\centrolW,.:; by ±he city of .:AucklaaQ, an-.MwtJK" ment:.' .appeals, Hj 'Ms : • notifying that his Excellency thj? Perer.nor has received the . said document, ■

pr~avin<r "that the said eluded from the county of Eden-.v4 included in the city of Auckland. 33!.' pc- , sons affected are called upon to lodge [ any written ■ objections to or petitions against the propo_sed. alfceratiwLwithm one month. Any such objections or petitions are to be forwarded io. the Mimeter of Internal Affairs, Wellington.... "We talk about our , shipping- fadWieg j lin Auckland and Wellington for; hant i ling cargo, , " said a resident of Istpe, to a reporter, with, much disdain. "Aarif laud, -srith its new /wliaryes end iy-to-date plant, especially' is ; lookedjapo& ;■ by us with amazemeui, iiut 'irhen one ' sees the equipment, in. iAicericaii-ports, - our own looks very small." It-was on record that a boat 500 feet in lengtti; and with a tonnage .of 12iO00, ; took | m 12,700 tons of iron ore in -21 minute. ' and the same quantity was discharged; at one of the portsin 2i6urs' : ?l-niia-' Tites. "I know this will be takea *};, many in local shipping citcle* witi" tte : proverbial grain of salt, he:jsaid,.~bi?V: it is absolutely correct-" ~.--... I

A woman named Mary D<ffl*gi»e;j while viewing the siehts at- the mouth . of the Blowhole at iOama (TS T e*. ooutft 4 Wales) fell a considerable distance, to \ . .the rocks, and sustained injuries trom i which she died. When the woman -leu \ she carried with her a.phildin.bera™ 3 * \ which escaped from injiirjv. "" ' .'. .. It ie stated that the Nitive:3CMS ter § (Dγ Pcmare), and perhaps other-mem t bers of the Government,:intend;to, P»y ; a vieit to Jerusalem, on thfexWanganm River, on the 19th Feiwuaryi: tor .tae purpoee of holding a meeting to referroce to native matters. It fe hoped, if pos'tle, to get his Excellency the GoTjernar,(tiora Liverpool) to be preeeni . The inquirj- regarding the -St. Helens Maternity Home, which was *&&*£■ early last week, ivifl be a.m. to-morrow, before Mr." C C. te™< BM., commissioner, at St-.Andrew's lower Svmonds Street, instead oLat we Sunreme Court, where it ias been tm I hitherto. : It is said that the lin Southland would be one of fishing etreame in the it not for the number of nwneter troto i infesting ite waters. These it U alleged, live on the smalU* fieh. and once they have taeted of tM . dipt wni not seek for any , It 1.a 6 bepi, s ll? -p«ted ac a ' fhte etrrt of tW that the Acchmat-eatim Society ought to erot men to net aU these Mlowß, md that the price ohtamrt for them wonlH go a long way towu* th<> enst nf ilrstniction. i, XtrtwrWi*tandin2 the dry season the

Mount Albert water stfpply » *?f**Z up vprv gaiiefnotorilv. The bore P"^ , ? flrom the bottom of the second well stria* another v-in carrvine water at a .6ejP of 140 feet, tnaklne a total of 240 from the The water is flowing »" i tb<: ratr >>f 3.000 gallons per hour, f .\ private letter from A™*?* *taW that at the recent Mdbojp* wool ?ales a din of scoured w ° ol £~[ ised -26id., whirh constitutes a recom for the Commonwealth. Hotel and boarding-house , kee P e J? would do well to inspect the prices <&* qualities we are now offerin" « snee ings, damasks, towels, quilte. curtains, etc. You will effect a saving of npm 2/ to 4/ in the £1 bj Grey and Ford Ltd., Karangahape:^ 03^ —(Ad.) :::' | Crtrickshank, Miller and Ca's big realisation sale," for longer to get into new premises. T , L cutlers- fancy twoda, 15 w c^ l , '