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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 69, 21 March 1916, Page 4

— , < The following is Mr. D. C. Bates* wea- j thcr forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. ] this day: "Indications are for westerly t winds, strong to gale. ;> The weather will j probably prove squally, with 'heavy ,' showc-rs. Indications for electrical disturbances. The barometer has a falling , tendency. Sea rough. Tides good." The newly-appointed secretary of the ' Auckland Young Men's Christian Assoei- ] ation hopes to see many improvements ] effected to the various departments of 1 the institution within the near future. One which affects 'the annual training camps of the various military bodies was explained by Mr. Kenny, in an address to the members of the Auckland Coast Defence Infantry Detachment, at Motutapu on Wednesday evening last. It has hitherto been the practice of the Y.M.C-A. authorities to provide a large -marquee ,at each military camp for the co"n'venieriCc of the men, but Mr. Kenny anticipates that next year there will be much larger and more comfortable accommodation for soldiers during their . period of camp training. While speaking at Patumahoe yesterday the Prime Minister referred to the Waiufcu railway. He said that £39,000 had been spent on this line since the first sod had been turned, and that the full amount of the £40,000 voted by Parliament would be spent by the end of the financial year. While' the Government were cutting down expenditure on railway works during the war, he did not anticipate any difficulty in getting a fair vote for the continuation of the -. iJVflßJka'wheni tine j/sext Estimates were brought-.down. .The estimated cbst'bf ' the line was £120,000. He expressed the opinion that as soon as the line was completed to ' Patumahoe, iwhich .would shortly take place, there was no reason WII3- the settlers should not have the use of it for connection with the Main Trunk line. He was convinced that the line would pay, and that it would : greatly increase the importance of the district ami encourage production. A purchaser at the sale of unclaimed goods in Christehurch the other day bought for a couple of shillings an odd < lot in which on searching he found a bank-note for 500 reis. The crowd around were gaping at his good fortune, and were more, convinced than ever that all kinds of prizes were to be secured at these sales. The purchaser was in high glee, which, however, evaporated when it was stated that the value ol the note in Brazil was 2/2 J. The German flag floats no more on any of the seven seas. This was the happy report brought back home by the French captain of a sailing ship .after i a" 15 .months' voyage round the world. " You could not gues what surprised mc most during my voyage? During all its 15 months 1 did not meet a single Getman ship. We, the sailing ships, arc in a way the inspectors of the seas. As the wind is our motor, it is necessary that we pick out. our route so as to best utilise it, and thus we arc obliged to zig-zag across the track of steamers. So we sec, in a long voyage like that I have just taken, aU that floats—steamers and sailing ships. I left Europe in the middle of September, 1014, for Australia. I sailed down the Atlantic from north to south, doubled Cape of Good Hop", traversed the Indian Ocean. From Australia I made my way to Japan, then to San Francisco, and there took in corn for a Liverpool house. From there 1 sailed the length of the two Americas, doubled the Horn and crossed the Atlantic, till at last I found myself in France. And. let mc say again, in all my voyaging I never once saw anywhere the'flag with three horizontal hands — black, white and red—which one met before the war on all the great trade routes, in the proportion of one in five; of the : four, others three were English, and the • fourth of some other nationality. Now, t out of five ships to be seen, "four are' English. It will need a quarter of a i century for the Germans, even if peace Ui not,too unfavourable to them, to take ! the place.which they occupied in maritime trade IS months ago." ; The splendid response of the students of the Auckland Lniversity College to the country's call for men is show,? in it neatly compiled roll of honour by the ' IMr 6 Y ry T °r the i StU f CatS ' Volition (Mr. L. J. Comne), who yesterday sent along copies for presentation to the members of the College Council. The list includes a long roll of students who i are at present on active service and i enumerates others who have enlisted c while the first page is occupied by the - names of no fewer than twenty-two ; r lO . ua l? & yen th eir lives under the ' flag , n the present war. The Council " expressed its appreciation to Mr • Comric for the valuable assistance" he - had thus given to the ultimate roll of t honour of the Auckland University ColA miiTuTe-aged man named J. Malcua • met with a painful accident at the WinoV sor Hotel Wellington, late, on Saturday night. It appears that he was engajred - in fumigating one of the rooms on the second floor, and instead of descending by the staircase, was climbing, down the . ire escape when he slipped and fell to » the ground. He then stumbled through a hV7i rT; and •"' ixs found in t,,e PMtrv c by the liftman in great pain about 10 30 <- p.m. Maleus was then removed to the o district hospital, where it was found he ?l aS i offering from very severe injuries •to lus left Bl de and ribs.. The injured •Jman belongs to Auckland,

"This man has nine children to 6up- | port," remarked Mr. E. Page, 5.M., at the liagistrate's Court this morning when refusing to make an order against a judgment. debtor. He added: "There :s 1 nothing before mc to justify an order being made." A cab-driver named Daniel McLauchlan, who was removed to the hospital by the police on March 14 suffering from chronic alcoholic poisoning, died in the institution at 6.-50 p.m. yesterday. The deceased was a single man, living at 19, Cook Street. An inquest is being * held this afternoon. ! An interlocutory judgment was de- * Ijvered in the Supreme Court by Mr. 1 Justice Cooper in respect of the case ) Smith (Dr. H. D. Bamford and MV. E. ! C. Bloomficld) versus Foka Hotene (Mr. ■ A. G. Quartley) and the District Land i Registrar (the Hon. J. A. Tole). In ] its judgment (on the facts) the Court ; held that the onus of proof on the plain- i tiff to prove that notice of lease was I possessed by the defendant before ex- I change was effected had not been dis- ( charged. , The severity of yesterday afternoon' 3 ] thunderstorm was especially felt in Waimana Avenue, Northcote, where : some alarming incidents were experienced. Vivid flashes of lightning were observed in this locality, which is an elevated ridge overlooking Shoal Bay, and facing Bayswater. The residents were greatly alarmed by one crash, which resounded like the cracking of ■ numerous pine trees, and the people ran out of their houses in expectancy of their roofs falling on them. One residence—that of Mr. Jas. Wright's—had a chimney levelled by the crash, the bricks being scattered back and front of the house, and no two bricks remaining stuck together. Mrs. Wright at tli<s time was sitting at her sewing machine in the house, and states that the electric current seemed to go each side of her. Besides the chimney being cut off from the house, the grate in the front room was blown out, and flung to the other side of the room. Other places in the vicinity felt the shock severely, and in a house in Belle Vue Road a table in the kitchen was lifted on end. Advice has been received by the Auckland manager of the Royal Exchange Assurance (Mr. H. S. Malcolm) that at the end of November last 275 members of the staff were on active service. The salaries of all members of the staff who ' enlist are maintained, and positions are , kept open until their return. A matter of some moment to motorists and users of vehicles generally is ! the warning of the police that they intend to enforce the Lights on Vehicles ' Act, which came into operation on March 1. This provides that all vehicles for a period half an hour after sunset [ and "half an hour before sunrise shall be j lighted in such a manner as to show , both to the rear and to the front. This \ practically means that all vehicles must ', carry a tail light. The Act also provides i that vehicles using one lamp only shall . carry it on the off right side. The police , also intend to enforce this section.-They I also draw attention to the fact that it , is not lawful for motorists or others to ! carry lights of such dazzling brilliancy , at. to obstruct the vision of others com- | The enI forcement of the hew Act is also likely ,to make drivers in the rural districts , more careful, and should do much to i eliminate the danger of the country cart ■ or dray rolling along home: in the dusk . or; dark practically at the will , of the ; horse, with the driver comfortably seated in tne bottom of the. vehicle quite •■ unconcerned about the hazard to traffic of his lightless cart. Recently an American traveller visited • Wellington with a fine line of sample [ stockings. He showed his wares to the . lady head of a department in one of the 1 big houses, and. she at once recognised . the stockings, as . precisely similar to ■ those the house had for years before the ■ war purchased from German travellers. • She mentioned the fact at once that the I goods were of German origin, and the '■ traveller showed her the heat little gold tag bearing the words "Made in U.S.A." i In most cases this would have clinched t the argument, but the young lady, who ; knew her business, excused herself for a • few minutes, and went away to return . with 6toekings exactly the same to the i smallest detail, stockings that had been i imported from a German manufacturing - house, that had doubtless passed on the ■ list of its New Zealand customers to an i American house, and sent stocks through ; a neutral country with which to supply ; ordera. It was known that America had » never supplied such a cheap line of > goods, and could not with her ruling i rate of wages, and that the 'stockings I must have come from Germany and no- : where else. ' The exports of frozen beef from the Dominion during January last totalled ' 43,381cwt, valued at £9*4,124, as compared with 62,3C4cwt, valued at £128,915, 1 for January, 1915. l • I Sheepskins, with wool —many of them,' ( possibly, for use as sheepskin coats for . "Tommy Atkins" "somewhere in France" —were exported to the number of . 107,257, valued at £44,751, in January, r 1916, as against 03,549, valued -at ' £18,519, for January, 1915. ; At the Magistrate's Court," fcaeroa, on i Monday, before Messrs. W. J. Towers i and W. Armstrong, J.P.s, W. Hunt, s B. W. Hodge, and Geo. Brown werj , each convicted and fined 40/ for gamJ bling in a railway train bctwesn Auck- • land and Paeroa on Friday. "Excelsior" flannelette is practically - flame-proof. , White and striped effects. 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