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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 82, 6 April 1918, Page 4

The following official weather forecast has been issued for 24 hours from 9 a.m. to-day: "The indications are for moderate to strong northerly winds, freshening, and backing by north to west. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with rain following. ,The barometer has a falling tendency. Tides good. Sea moderate." A. young man, about 20 years of age, named John Best, was received at the Auckland Hospital yesterday afternoon with wounds in his throat, caused with a razor. He was employed in Mr. Jas. Montgomerie's farm at Ihumata by Mr. Mitchell, who milks on shares for Mr. Montgomerie. It appears that Best did not put in an appearance for the midday meal. Search was made by Mr. Harry Mitchell, who found him lying under a willow tree in a paddock with his throat cut. After Best had received medical attention, he was conveyed to the district hospital by Sergt. M. Rogers, of Onehunga. It ie not expected that the injury will prove fatal. The French Government is taking (action to extend trade with the British Dominions overseas now and after the war, and to this effect has organised a special section of the commerce departtaent. Traders and corsmission agents who wish to trade with France and to take advantage of the special facilities offered by the Government, should write, through the French consulate at Auckland, to the Office Nationale dv Commerce Exterieur, Official Institution, 3 tßue Fewdeau, Paris, which will put them 5n touch, free of charge, with suitable French firms. Referring to the interim estimates submitted by him to the Council, the Mayor stated this morning that the estimates as prepared by him and sent down to the Council did not embrace in full the requisition of the departments, particularly in regard to parks and reserves, for although the departmental estimates were also touched upon and published, yet in several cases he found it necessary to substantially reduce the amount which it.was suggested that the Council should appropriate this year. The departmental estimates, therefore, which were attached to the estimates submitted by him, were sent down for the information of councillors in 'Order that the position might be fully appreciated. No one regretted more than he. the fact that it was necessary in some of these departments to appropriate less than the amount which, under other circumstances, would be desirable, but it was felt that the claims of the streets and several other important services must take precedence without allowing the parks properties to depreciate, the policy in reference to the latter being to maintain them at the present standard of upkeep without any new development or further improvements. Judgment was given at Christchurch yesterday by Mr Justice Herdman in the case of the Canterbury Farmers' Cooperative Association, Timaru, against Robertson Bros., Auckland. The plaintiffs contracted to sell to the defendants three lines of potatoes, but, after inspection at the port of arrival, the defend-' ants rejected the whole shipment of 100 tons, valued at £227. His Honor said the place where the purchaser of goods inspected the consignment need not be the place fixed for delivery, but might be the ultimate destination of the goods. The question was whether the plaintiff' supplied the goods in the condition and quality the defendant' agreed to buy. The onus of proving this was on the plaintiff, and it was impossible to hold that the plaintiff had done so. Judgment, therefore, would be for defendant. The chairman of the Hikurangi Town Board, also the chairman of the Kaurihohore Road Board, have been advised that the whole of the current rates for the year ended March 31, 1918, have been collected within their respective district. In Hikurangi the collection of the full revenue within the financial year has been achieved three years out of four. The complete collection will enable, these local authorities to receive the maximum amount of Government subsidy payable on rates. An interesting letter just received from one of the New Zealand boys in Ejrypt gives a good account of the Turkle a fighter. The writer says: "I would like to get back to New Zealand now, but I suppose we have got to see it through now we have gone so far. From what I have seen of the Turks in this last big advance we made I think that Turkey is just about on her last legs. They often come into our lines in small parties and give theniservee up. We had 140 of them one day. As far as fighting goes, I don't think they can come up to our boys. They will fight all right if they are entrenched and we are attacking, but once we get on their trenches with the bayonet they always give up. They seem to be very frightened of cold steel. They attacked us once, and they came at us about seven to one. We "were not entrenched, and neither were they, so it was a fair go in the open. They came at ua till they got within about fifteen yards, and when they saw ua waiting for thetn with the bayonet they wouldn't come on. It is just as well for us they didn't; if they had it would have been" the end' of jthe lot of us. It cost them more by iunftang away than it would if they had come ■j on. We counted 450 dead, and we brought lin 64 wounded next morning. We never | had more than half that number up [against them. We got after them again lithe next day, and we came to a little j village full of wounded Turks. The rest ;of them got well out of it. When we got to Jaffa the people there told us that the Turks had all cleared out, and burnt all their stores, as we found when we went through it. All the civilian population seemed pleased to see the British . troops."

The two lads, Ernest George Windsor and Joseph. Frederick Windsor, who were arrested at Taumarunui yesterday on - charges of stealing 20 pairs of boots, the property of Charles Lynch, were brought up at the Police Court this morning and remanded till Friday next. The boys are alleged to have attempted to sell a number of pairs of boots at Taumarunui, and when accosted by a constable in the street they were unable to explain their ownership of parcels which they were carrying.Their swags, which they had left at the railway station ,were afterwards searched and found to contain still more boots. The Second Military Service Board will leave Auckland on the 10th of April, and sit at Te Aroha on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 15th. The following day they leave, and sit at Hamilton from the 17th to the 21st, returning to Auckland on the. 21st inst. The programme of the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday-school appears in this issue. Rev. Knowles Kempton, president of the school, will conduct the opening services on Sunday, 21st inst., and Rev. J. Pattison will address the afternoon gathering. On Sunday, the 28th, the Rev. R. S. Gray, who is coming specially from Dunedin, will preach morning and evening, and Principal Garland in the afternoon. Mr Alfred Shalders will conduct the anniversary singing at all the services. There are also to be week evening gatherings, the first being on Tuesday, 23rd, to further the school's interest in foreign missions.. A reunion of former workers and an Anzac Day service, both on Thursday, 25th, are also arranged for. At the latter Revs. R. S. Gray, Knowles Kempton, and Mr Smeeton will be the speakers, and Mr S. H. Matthews will unveil a shield containing portraits of Tabernacle Sunday-school boys on the Empire's service. At the Police Court this morning a first offender for drunkenness was prohibited and ordered to pay 4/ cab hire. Another, who had been under medical treatment,was ordered to pay 9/ expenses in default 24 hours. Thomas Frederick • Stacey, who had given misleading answers to a constable with regard to his military status, was convicted and handed over to the military authorities, the doctors having passed him as fit since his previous appearance. There has been a sensational incident . in the arrests of the Frosts, on a charge of obstructing the police in the Manawatu district. Advice was received by the police that one of the brothers— Hayward Frost—committed suicide in the police cells at Ohakune, strangling himself after tearing his shirt into strips. Several thefts of clothing and saddlery had been reported by farmera in the Aokautere district, and early on Thursday morning a party of police set out to effect the arrest of the suspected parties. As the police were approaching the house a number of dogs began barking furiously, thus arousing the household, and two of the inmates dashed out, one in his night attire, the police catching a fleeting glance of them as they made for a large patch of bush near by. One of the fugitives (Hayward Frost) was afterwards seen making towards his brother's (T. A. Frost) house, where he was quickly followed. On the police demanding admittance they were, however, refused, and they were only able to enter after a tussle, in which all sorts of articles were used as weapons against the police. Meanwhile the refugee made the most of the., diversion, getting .clear of the house, made for the river. With the intention of cutting Mm off a constable swam the river, but young Frost away. The brother, T. A. Frost, was arrested on a charge of obstructing the police in the execution of their duty. He was before the Court on Thursday on a charge of obstruction. When the police searched the = farm, they found a quantity of articles which •were alleged to have been stolen, the. articles being hidden in all sorts of. places. , vi The Rev. J. J. Xorth has received a remarkable letter from Mr. W. V. Rule, one of the men on the roll of honour of the Oxford Terrace Church, Christchurch. It is in acknowledgment of the receipt of a Christmas parcel from the church. Its tone is tonic for times like these. The 'writer says he had an operation on Christmas Day, after which mortification set in, but he was dragged back to life. *' Eight of my wounds," he adds, " are nicely healed, but two remain a source of perpetual annoyance, and of course the smashed-up leg is anything • but recognisable. I have been on my back five months now in bed, still I have - only one regret, and that is that I fear I shall never again join my beloved com- ■'■ rades in the fight for freedom and right. Not that I am in love with fighting, or long for another winter on the Somme, but where men are needed I want to be. If we can smile through suffering, anguish and tears you must. Keep the dear home folk smiling. That is all we need.. God bless you and keep you all. —Gratefully yours.—P.S.—My ninth operation is to-morrow. Cheer ho!" . A number of delinquent small boywere dealt.with in the Juvenile Court this morning by Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M. A lad of 14 admitted stealing a wristlet watcn, valued at 2276, from amongst the clothes <rr another boy in a bathing shed. As his home surroundings were of the best the, case was adjourned for simonths, and he was put on informal probation for that period. A nine-year-old boy who admitted breaking a window in the Eden Park pavilion with a stone, was admonished and discharged, and his parents were ordered to pay 5/, the valuo of the pane. A lad of 15 was charged that being under the age of 16 he was found in possession of a pea rifle, and another boy of the same age was charged with selling ammunition to him. A third lad, aged 17, was charged with selling the same ammunition to the second lad. It was explained that the pea rifle, which the boy had been caught firing in Ponsonby, had a hair-trigger, making it very dangerous to handle. The rifle and ammunition were confiscated, and the two younger boys were put on probation for twelve months, while the eldest was fined 10/ and 7/ costs. Maungaturoto settlers, during the recent visit of Mr. F. Mander met and passed a resolution urging the Minister of Railways to take over and open for traffic immediately the section of the railway line between Ranganui and Maungaturoto. The member was also asked to bring under the notice of the Minister of Public Works the desirability of at once resuming construction work on the main trunk railway from Huarau northwards. Otago centre will not be represented at the Dominion Apple Show, to be held at Auckland in May. but individual growers will exhibit. Messrs. Bennetts UTeviot), Ashworth (Alexander), and Macdonald (Taieri) have been appointed delegates to the New Zealand conference. A public meeting of the ladies of I Kingsland has been called for Tuesday next at 2.30 p.m. in conection with the Soldiers' Gift campaign. A proposal will be submitted by the Mayoress for a canvass' of the district. For infants over 6 months, Doctors' Cream o' Groats. Made in New Zealand "for New Zealand children.—(Ad.)