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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 186, 6 August 1914, Page 4

====== The following weather forecast lia« j been issued by "Mr. D. C. Bates for 24 hours frQm 9'a.m. this day: "The indications are for westerly strong winds, freshening to gale. Expect changeable and showery weather, barometer falling. Seas and tides moderate." Wbile Oswald Denxel. a 16-year-old lad. residing at Well Street. Newton. Was cycling down Kai'angabapc Ttcad yesterday a companion mounted this step, and by doing so swerved the machine into a cart. With the result that the rider was heavily thrown to the ground, sustaining a fractured forearm. He wa« conveyed to the hospital, his companion escaping Unhuft. Tbe fire brigade was called out last evening to a email fire which broke out at th e Old Star Hotel. Newton, owned 'by'Hanuock and Co., and occupied iby Joius Smith. Little damage was 4m»

At the close of the Auckland Education Board's meeting yesterday, Mr. George Edgecumbe, who. is retiring,' after clevcti years' continuous service as a representative of the West Ward, was presented with an enlarged photograph of the Board in session. In making the presentation, Mr G. J. Garland (chairman) complimented Mr Edgecumbe on his long period of useful service, and assured him that he had not only the respect, but ihe warm friendship of his fellow-members, who all regretted that he had decidct not to seek re-election. Practically all the other members spoke in very complimentary terms of Mr. Edgecumbe and his work. The departing memiber, in expressing his thanks, said that he would always look back with pleasure to the days he had spent in the Board rooris. He wished to thank his fellow-members and the Board's officials for their unvarying courtesy and kindness towards him. The advent of Xew Zealand barmaids to this State, (says the "Melbourne Herald") though not as serious as the invasion of Servia by Austria, still has caused a stir in hotel circles. The local barmaid naturally resents the prospect of competition, while her employer welcomes it as giving him a wider selection. With the licensee there is still the belief —more or less a delusion as regards the better class of hotels—that men frequent a house as much from the attraction 6f the barmaid as the desire to have a drink. '''City business men like to come in of an evening," s;sys an hotelkeeper, "and have a talk to the girls over their whisky." There are business men and business men, and there are bars and 'bars; but in the evening in Melbourne I the ordinary business man has very little j use for them. He has usually managed Ito squeeze himself into a seat in a tram lor train; or if compelled to stay in town is I to be found at club or restaurant, thence jen route to some entertainment. Hanging round a bar with a barmaid behind it, be she ne'er so attractive, has no attractions for him. He, is usually a onedrink man: that consumed, and' off lie goes. The seraph who handles the bottles may he worshipped in sundry bars by youthful beings who are not ibusinr-ss men, are not likely to be so fo' many" years. To them the barmaid, ritber the local angel or she who is wingin* her way liitber from the land of the Maori and raoa, may be something of a lure. Mr. Gerald L. Peaooeke, who for eight year* has been chairman of the Council of the Auckland "Railways League, has rcsijnied the position. J*t yesterdays afternoon's annual meeting of the League the Mayor of Auckland paid a tribute to the energies of Mr. Peacocke, than whom, be said, no one in the province had had n bettor grip of railway matters and had done more for the country districts. A handsome framed illuminated address, signed by the Mayor las president of the League, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, tho chairman of the Harbour Board, tho vice-presidents of the -League and others, together with a purse of gold, were presented to Mr. Peacocke by the Mayor, add the retiring chairman, in reply, 1 prophesied an important future for the League. The Waipukerau correspondent of the Hawke's Bay " Herald" says that the voyage of the Remuera to the iHom was I made under bitterly cold condition!-, and | for three days the vessel steamed I through floating icebergs, of which the Remuera had been warned by the Wai' mate. (Mountainous eoas were another feature of an interesting voyage. It would bo of interest to orehardists to I learn that in June New Zealand apples I were telling in '"Monte Video at 4d. each, iOn reaching Tenoriffe thow oh the Remuera heard the news of the recent railway smash on the Main Trunk rail wav- line. The question of the instruction of the young on sex subjects was discussed at the "Next Steps in Education" Congress at the Imperial Institute on Friday, .luno lfltli. Mr. Patau, the High Master of Manchester Grammar School, said that Ibe best antidote to impure pleasure was the pure pleasure of English sport. To keep fit was to keep good. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw said bo believed with all his soul that the masters who had urged the importance of giving boys plenty of athletics fts a cure for sex troubles wove frightfully wrong. Certain things should he taught tho children, and it would be better to teach them when they could not fully understand. There was great danger in giving this teaching at the age of puberty, when no conversation on sex could be an impersonal one. The problem for the parent and teacher was how to satisfy the sexual impulses of young people. They could not. as in s6me countries, marry the children straight off and adopt the simplest plan. But he suggested that a real interest in fine art, in music, painting, and poetry would, iv tbe case of most normal children, tide oyer the years between puberty and maturity, keeping tbe imagination at work rather than the cruder passions. A resolution that tho meeting considered it a matter of urgent, public, importance that instruction in sex matters should be introduced as soon as possible in the training colleges was carried. In bis speech in South-East London, Mr. Lloyd George recalled the Ulster Volunteer movement Of the eighteenth century, which was to secure Home Rule for the whole of Ireland. Readers of Lecky's -'History of Ireland iii the Eighteenth Century" will remember his exhaustive story of the Volunteer movement; After'the American War of Indopndenoe. ill Which I'lster emigrants fought in great numbers On the Colonial side, there was a strong Republican tendency in Ulster, due partly to the disabilities of the Presbyterians under the laws for the maintenance of the State Church, and partly to tbe systematic policy of crushing Irish industries in the interest of English manufactures. Dublin Castle, brfore the '98 Rebellion, believed the greatest danger was that of an Ulster rising in support, of a Republican invading force from France. What happened was that when the Rebellion broke out. and again when the French landed, Ulster remained quiescent, and left the men of Wexford and Wieklow to do the rising. Lecky shows, further, that in the suppression of the rising, Roman Catholic rcgnlnfs nnd volunteers took as active and as effective a part as Protestant soldiers. ; If the residents of Haittpstoad Garden Suburb are firccd with the familiar <)iierv of "What docs your garden grow?" they can reply that it produces bigger children Minn the rest of the neighbourhood. The medical officer of Hcndon finds that tbe Harden Suburb child has an advantage of three-quar-ters of an inch over Clio average of his area, between the ages of five and six, and that it expand- to an inch and a quarter a year later. Another proof (says the "Pall 'Mall Gaxette") that town-planning means child-building. Another 'big Wow-out occurred at White Island quite recently, aiid a large amount of matter was ejected. Full particulars are not available, but it is understood that 'the eruption occurred in a new place. The eruption matter was thrown to a considerable (height, and some very large stones iwere tossed about, though bo damage is reported.