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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 153, 29 June 1914, Page 4

The following is Mr. D. C. matter forecast for 34 'h<mrs from J a.m. this day: "The indications are for variable and moderate breezes. There j* a prosit of fair to cloudy weatiher and mildcT, but probably thick and foirsy at times. Barometer little movement, with a falling tendency. Tides good-; sea 'moderate." An erroneous impression appears to have been created by the report of the Alexandra Hotel ease on Saturday last, that the witness George Barnes brought ■beeT from Newmarket and gave it to the man Strange, who wan stated to have been supplied at tire hotel when he -was drunk. As a matter of act what Barnes stated was that he left hie rented room close to tiie hotel with two bottle* of baer in his pockets, a few minutes after eight o'clock in the morning intending to share the beer with one of his work-m-atcs at the stable whvre he vyorked. When he got to the .hotel he rang up the stables and found that there was no need for him to go there. He came out of the hotel, and was accosted by Strange, whom be knew weli, and- having no necessity for the beer himself, gave it to Strange in the ordinary way of friendship. Immediately after that Ire caugM a t-ram to New-market, and did! not rettrrn to Parnell till sonre considerable time after Strange had been arrested. A young man named Joseph Charles Falke was sentenced at Wellington on Saturday on charges of breaking and entering. The offences had been committed within the past few months at Palmereton North, Maeterton, Napier, and Hastings. The -prisoner had been a Burnham boy, and had escaped from the institution four times, the poli.-e regarding him as a desperate and very clever criminal. Tie wrs sentenced to one month's imprisonment on eai-h charge, the fentences to be cumulative. Falke was also declared an habitual criminal. A singular story of the consternation caused at the Naumai sawmill settlement by the antics of a demented man, was told at the Dargavillo Police Court on Saturday, when a young man giving the name of James Laing was brought before the ma.gistrate, and remanded until to-morrow for medical evidence to be given. Armed with a stick and bleeding from three slight wounds in the throat. Laing on Friday entered a l.oardinghouse. aud drove the terrified oceuisuitri out of doors. Violent behaviour in the post office caused the lady official in charge to flee, atl-.l a cub sequent visit to the sleeping quarters of the mill created lively happenings for a few minutes. Ultimately the man was arrested, and brought to Dargaville. It is believed that the wounds were selfiiitlic.ted by means of a. blunt knife. Laing is said to have come from Auckland, and to have been drinking heavily. A shocking fatality te reported from tlie New Hebrides Group. MY. John Child, well known in .Sydney and Noumea, left- Vila in a boat, accompanied by Mr. Dal tiubby and a native, bent ou a fishing trip. During thr return journey the boat by some means or other got capsized. The occupants were all powerful swimmers, and they immediate.lv struck out for the roof, distant a few hundred yards. They had not- gone far. however, liefore a monster s.Wark attacked them, and Mr. Gulbby alone managed to reach the shore, after a thrilling experience. He states tte.t the Shark liret seized iMr. Child, and then the native. When a boat -put out there was no trace «i either of the unfortunate victims. Mr. Child was a sing'c man. ■and had frequently visited Sydney in connection with business at the islands. The news of his death was Teceived with feelinsrs of deep regret In- a large circle jof friends at the islands. I The exports of N'cw Zealand produce 'during May were valued at £2,644.066 I compared with £2.050.220 in May, 101:1. The cheese exported in May this yea: was worth .£273.558: frozen sheep. £103,590; mutton, £237,711; lamb, £482,852; hemp, £66,551; hides and skins, £181,562; tallow. £116.314; wool, £531,090: gold £125,623. _ The animal poultry sale following upon the show was held this afternoon at the mart of Arthur Tooman and Co., Ltd., •Mr. Thomas B. Arthur being salesman! j There was a good attendance. Amongst j the prices realised were 18/ for silver htced Wyandotte cockerel. 12/ each for a pen of the same breed, 15/ emh for Plymouth Rooks. 13/3 for other Wvnn dottes. S/ to 12/ for white Orpingtons. and 16/ for a black Orpington cock. For a white Aylesbury drake 10/ was the 1 price paid. A large photograph showing the wharves and shipping of the Port of Wellington as viewed from the Customs building i.-: being contributed, by the Wellington Harbour Board to the New Zealand Court at the Panama Exhibition. The picture measures about 4ft Gin ; in length by about 3ft in depth. j For the. two vacancies on the Mount Albert. Borough Council caused by the retirement of Massrs. J. E. Astley and •1. .-u-wart. there have been four nomination-., namely, Mossm. .1. T. Aspdcn. K. Griffith*. C. >. Inwood. and H. Tigrkr. Th". po";l takes place on Saturday next. , Both vacaactf* «cur in ward B."

! Discussing the many vessels that hays f gone to the "Port of Missing Ships" in recent years, when homeward bound I from Australia and New Zealand, a re- I tired shipmaster attributes most of the I disappearances to collisions with ice iv : the Southern Ocean. Ho states he saw I in his time more ice islands than wera I agreeable. On one occasion he was embraced for eleven days in an archipelago of bergs, some half a. mile in length and higher than a vessel's -mast-head, and-it was only by the most careful navigating that he then got clear undamaged. On another occasion his vessel almost ran right on to a huge expanse of field I ice. lying Hat and low, therefore all the | more dangerous: and he sailed for forty | miles along its ledge before he was able I to continue the passage eastward. Not | many years ago, too, the old Shaw, I Savill and Albion liner Wellington struck an iceberg, and it was only with great difficulty that she reached a South African port. These instances, he considers, must he regarded, and, failing better proof, tlie ice theory ought, perhaps, hold ground as well as many others less likeSy. If persons who buy packets of "ever- 1 lasting perfume," '" scented beans," and simitar commodities from street hawkers had looked in at the Central Police Court I vestcrday they would have heard some- I thing to their advantage (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph " on Tuesday last). [ A young man was charged with vagrancy. His business, he eaad. was to sell studs, tie fasteners, and other trifles in the streets. Tlie police explained that he had a etoek of " scented nuts" jn his pockets, which ho was selling. The nuts were supposed to retain their aroma, if nol for ever, at least for a very long time. Tlie young man kept a botlle .of cheap i-ccnt in another pocket, and he had only to put a drop of the scent on to the nut —unseen to customer; —to give it the qualities which multiplied its value indefinitely. Mr. Wilkinson, tbe magistrate, seemed intensely interested in the youth. He took ,him off his present occupation, and gave him a -week's work— 1 hard woTk. A boarder in an InvercaTgill hotel en- I deavottrcd to improve on modern science the other night, and the results, though interesting, are likely to deter him from further experiments, at any ratet until he has materialised a theory fraught with a little less uncertainty. The story told to a reporter -was that a gentleman well known in public circles endeavoured to u=e an electric heater as a bed-warmer. This, it is stated, might have been a successful experiment had air been admitted to the bed, but the heater was placed in bed as carefully as an infant ever was. After a time the bed became *o warm that it got beyond the stage when a heater was required, and a little later it began to give forth smoke. It was smoking voluminously when discovered, but. fortunately, a few buckets of water were sufficient to arrest the | danger cau.-ed by the zeal of the ama- ' teur scientist. ''Another very flattering tribute to l the value placed upon the training in agriculture afforded by the Harwkcsbuiy I Agricultural College comes from Neir j Zealand," «ays the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." The Department of Technical [ Education and Manual Training having f decided to appoint a third instructor in f agriculture at a commencing salary of \ £330 per annum, the Director (Mr. G. I George) writes to Mr. H. W. Potts, prin- I cipul of Haw-ketsbu-ry College.- "I shall j esteem it a favour if you will bring the m matter before the notice of any of your ' students qualified for the position who are intending to take up agricultural I teaching. I may say that my board is very well pleased indeed with Mr. j. Donnan. and we should be more fhaij t satisfied if you can supply us with an- | other instructor of the same type." The I Mr. Donnan referred to is a young i Hawkesbury graduate, who recently relinquished a minor position of experimentalist in the Department of Agriculture, to take a position in New Zealand at twice tlie -alary. There are now no fewer than 11 ex-students of Hawkesbury College occupyins positions in the Xew Zealand service at salaries of £300 a year upwards. While the Dominion thus makes the pace in the matter of pay she must continue to rob the New South Wales Department of Agriculture of its mo.-t promising young officers, as they cannot hope, under existing condh lions here, to get anything like the same remuneration. li is, indeed, an unsatisfactory position to find that the department cannot hold the young men it is training up to fill senior positions as they became vacant, or to provide for the natural expansion of the staff. "Where was Tom Bracken buried!" is the pathetic inquiry made by a Lhtnsdin papor. It goes on to remark:— '•Maybe there ore some who honoured Xew Zealand's poet when lie was alive, and yet could not now answer the question offhand. Is he forgotten? One would almost think so. A few days a.uo a visitor aeked to sec the pla<» of interment, and after miich debating as to whether it was in the Southern or the Northern Cemetery, and some turning up of yellowing documents, tha grave was found in the Northern Cemetery. No stone marks the spot, the mound has fallen in. and the surface B overrun with weeds. - ' f A meeting of the Irish Nationalist I Volunteers will be held in the Trades Hall to-morrow evening at 7.30. The shop that made the VJ-toria Arcade famous. Geo. Fowlds., Ltd., « the well known centre, for hats ot quality and style.—(Ad.) Wanted the special friends of th e Brunswick Dining Room to know that it is now under entirely new management. The motto is *■ Cleanliness, courtesy and I promptitude." Open from 7 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. daily, and on Sundays from 1.30 to 7 p.m.—(Ad.) For value that is valuable and quality that Ls lasting, our underwear stands high. Leading weights and makes here. Geo. Fowlds, Limited.—(Ad.) ■Messrs. A. Grossman and Co.. the well I known house furnishen-'. have opened I up a branch shop at 111. Kar.ingahape I Road. The premises arc sp.iciotis, and I admit of the display of the firm's goods f io the best advantage.—(Ad.) J The fame of our nam.- in the matter I of specialisation in collars and tic* hafi \ spread throughout the Dominion- t Geo. Forwlds, Limited.—(Ad.) Your cold can be cirred hy ,iking cough cure is good lor all chest ailmentsBaxter's bung Preserver. This reliable Chemists and stores, 1/10.—(Ad.) It is said that the lads of to-day are the men of to-morrow, nnd a boj who is a pleased buyer to-day becom** a constant customer of ours in the future. Geo. Fowlds, Limited.—(Ad.) For Chronic Chest Complaints, Wood! i: 'i.;t Poppe.-ralnt Cure, 1/6. 2/6. Follow ihe men to Fowlds' and get the. beet of the good things goingYoung men especially irill like our pegtop trou.-er*. See them.—Geo. Fowlds, , Limited.—i Ad.;