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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 4

A case was called at the Court today in which a wife sought maintenance from her husband, aged 72 years. The defendant was not present. A son wa* called, who said hie father's bank account would show he had money. Mt. Selwyn Mays, who appeared for the defendant, remarked. "If he has ir is new* to mc. This is my seventh appearance for him, and I have only received £2 10/." By the gift of Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P., the borough of Gisborne now has vestod in it for reserve pruposcs a 22-acre area fronting on the Wainui Beach. The deed of transfer provides that tin; land shall be called the Douglas Lyenar Eeeerve.

"'Last year thing's were a bit bright at this time, but this year nearly all the, snipe are laid up and 1 get little work,' , was the explanation given by a man at the Court to-day for not having contributed towards the support of a child in a public institution. Mr. J. E. Wilson, S.M., remarked thet the arrears must be paid sometime, but adjourned the case sine die.

Frederick Ireland has been admitted to the Auckland Hospital through injuries received while driving Reveille in the last race of the Otahuhu Trotting Club's Spring Meeting. Ireland's sulky was knocked by that of another competitor. and he was thrown out. He sustained slight abrasions to tho left side, and is reported to be progressing favourably. The injured man was a contractor, and resided at Otorohanga.

In the North Island butter prices have been kept on v higher level than in Christchurch, where the public benefit by fierce competition between the factories. An announcement made in Christchurch yesterday indicates that the price-cutting will not continue there. The various factories supplying the city trade have advanced their prices rroinl/o? to 1/8, and the retail prices have been advanced from 1/8 to 1/10. Arrangements have been made i<j transfer tlie control of Queen Mary's Hospital, Hanmer, from the Defence Department to the Public Health Department. Some members of the staff have already received notice that their' services are no longer required, while others have been told they will be retained. There arc about f>o ex-soldier patients at Hanmer. With regard to the Cashmere Military Sanatorium, an effort is being made to get the Government to agree that this institution shall be a military sanatorium for tht whole of New Zealand. A paragraph in a report by James Morrison and Co., of London, affords some explanation of the "weakness of the market there for foreign meat in Britain. Ft is as follows: -During the past month trade has befcn very disappointing, this being chiefly caused by the extraordinary weather we are now experiencing, even so late in the year as October. Home killed meat, chiefly owing to the drought, has been freely pitched on the market, and trade generajly has bevn very slow. Apart from this all stores aro full with colonial meat, steamer.-i which arrived come weeks ago, being unable to discharge their cargoes or finding great difficulty in doing *o."' Announcement us made that the v56,000-ton "White Star lim?r Majestic (c.v Bismarck) the world's largest ship, is scheduled to leave .Southampton for New York on April 5, 1922, oi> her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Her first sailing from Now York for Cherbourg and Southampton is lixed for April 15. The Majestic ie now at Hamburg, in tho hands of her German builders. It is expected that she will be delivered by them to the Reparations Commission, and by the Commission to the White Star line, in about three months. The ship will l>o outfitted at Southampton. Another big German ship, the Columbue, :ii3.000 tons, no-.v known ac the White Star liner Homeric, i.s practically finished at Danzig, and she is scheduled to leave Southampton in the White Star Line's service on February 22, 1922, for her first voyage to New York. The Homeric will ply on the New York-Cherbourg-Southarapton routa with the Majestic and the Olympic. The manner hi which the Japanese Government displays the attractions of Japan to strangers was placed before the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday by Mr. Th. de Schryver as a model that might well be followed by New Zealand. The correspondent forwarded two profusely illustrated and well-written guide books which are issued by the Japanese Government Railways .Department free of cost, remarking that our Railways and Tourist Departments might take* advantage of this scheme of advertisement. "The two Departments mentioned have a gold mine. at their very doors, but practically nothing i 3 done to dig up the gold," commented Mr. de Schryver. Give an enterprising Canadian or American railway man a free lmnd in thib'country awl he ' wonld soon treble and quadruple the income of the Dominion from the tourist traffic." Proceeding to make practical Biigvestions. he stated the railway roll-ing-stock would have to be modernised and made comfortable, with parlour and observation ears and improved catering. Accommodation »at the scenic spots should lie improved, and those places should bo made easily accessible by railway. "New Zealand has in its limited area all the wonders of scenery of Europe and America combined, and with travelling made easy and comfortable it would draw thousands against the hundreds now visiting the Dominion," added the writer, who concludes by stating thai his letter was inspired at disgust at finding the deepieed yellow man bring so much more enterprising than Now Zealand administrators.

A ceremony of interest to many New Zealanders, cspeeiaHy to Christchureh, was Wie unveiling of a monument in CJrantown-on-Spey, to the memory of the Clan Grant, who fell in the Great War. The young Countess of Seaticld and her mother, the Dowager Counteee —New Zealamiers horn—and the Duke of Richmond and Gordon were on the platform, the duke acting as spokesman on beh*lf of Lady Seafleld. monument, wjiieh was unveiled in the presence of 2,000 people, consists of a tall (luted column. Lady .Seafield was Mie first to lay a wreath at its base, her husband having been one of those who fell early in the war. There arc, one is surfe. many New SSealanders of tlie Clan Grant, who should have their names on this monument set in the lovely Strathspey, fehe home of the clan, but only a few have been ao recorded along with that of the voting earl. Among the namea inscribed on the various panels are the following:—Cameron Highlanders, Captain, the Earl of Seafleld j N.2.F. Private A McLennan. N.Z.EF.- Private D. McDonald, N.Z.E.F.

An extraordinary mortality among young lambs is reported from Tutuvau, the flocks of three adjoining farmers having thu3 boon attacked, says the YVjmdham "Farmer.'' These men on going through their sheep paddocks on Saturday last, found an unwonted number of their lambs either dead outright or in the final stages. Curiously, everj" one of those young animals wore found to have been either bitten or shot in the aide of the neck below the ear. Had H been a -solitary instance of suchavround. one might reasonably have conjectured that it was the \v#rk of an incautious pothunter with a <: pea-rifle; but this theory must be exploded, to be supplanted with Hie presumption that a weasel has been at work with its sharp incisors. Some of the lambs were bitten clean through from one side of the neck to the other. If it is proved that the weasel has opened a new campaign of hU nefarious tactks against defenceless animals, it spells an omiiioos outlook for the sheep breeder.

Replying to a deputation from the Society for the Health of Women and Children, which sought an increased grant, the Prime Sinister said definitely yesterday that he could not grant any increase." He appreciated the work of the Society, but could not do the impossible. Expenditure had to be cut down ruthlessly.

What might be aptly described ac a [ W of white" can be seen M the Waikumete cemetery at the present time. A very large portion of the ground IS covered with the noxious weed known as the ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum Lcueanthemum) in full bloom, completely enveloping the tombstones. Some of the prospective candidates for the newlyformed Glen Eden Town Board are giving thia matter their attention.

Tiic troubles of a landlord under tlie hollaing legislation were detailed by Mr. J. 11. Hannau at the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. He stated that lie Jet a house to a man who said he had two children. The statement was the truth, but not the whole truth, for there were four more olive branches in the family. As usual the owner found it impossible t o turn a man with six children out of the house. Mr. McKean's comment was: "Because a man may be a liar that doc= not necessarily mean he is not fit to be a tenant." During the hearing of a ease at the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. W. K. MeKean. S.M., the defendant proved so voluble that lie beomed likely to "go on for ever." It was in vain for his counsel to keep saying, "13e quiet, be quiet,'" and finally, "Oh, shut up."' Still the man went on relating how his wife was such | a clean woman that she was on her knees i every day ut Sunday, and always fond | of her bath."' Finally he- was pulled up by Mr. MeKean saying: "'Keep quiet, or I shall have to commit you for tfniLcinpt of Court." The torrent of language was, however, only cheeked temporarily, for the man was soon off again relating j matters of no interest to the case itself. A fine example of Mia-t spirit of gener6us comradeship, so characteristic of colonials, was eliown recently ill a eoun-try settlement ill HaWkc's Bay (states the "Tribune"). One of the settlers had a. most unfortunate nin or bad luck. Wihile his wife was lying seriously ill in Mic .hospital his home was burned down, and lie and his chilIdren were left without shelter. It was . Mi-en that the neighbouring settlers came to the rescue. They provided all the labour for a new house, a.nd eu'bbcribed sufficient money to enable 'him to pay his wife's hospital expenses, and to provide for the comfort of liis little once. Sutih practical charity cannot be over-praised, for it represents in the truest sense "'bbe milk of human kiitdtness." Mr. Si'binjja Mulder, 'Minister of Agriculture. Industries, and Commerce, Dutch East Indies, .prior to embarking by the Tahiti, on his return journey, mentioned to a "New Zealand Times"' representative the projected exhibition of East Indian products which it waa contemplated to send to Australia and New Zealand. On consideration, he said he thought hU Government would send the exhibition to # Sydney, and transfer it thence to Melbourne and' the other State capitals, and afterwards to the four main centres in New Zealand. The Hamilton children's playgrounds will in the very near future "be fully equipped in fulfilment of p. scheme -which was instituted early in the year in regard to which a special committee has been engaged in collecting funds and ordering the necessary gear. Altogether £600 was raised by canvass, and the equipment, which was ordered abroad, will arrive shortly. The Government is advieed that a limited number of cadetships at Woolwich, Sandhurst, and Cranweil (Air Force College) are available to young New Zealanders on nomination by the G-ovenior-Gcueral. Applications will only be considered from men who propose to make the regular army their permanent profession. Mr. William Russell, a baker's driver, who received injuries apparently through fulling oft hie cart on Tuesday afternoon, has now recovered consciousness, and is reported to be progressing satisfactorily. No one witnessed the accident, and as Mr. Kussell States that he has no recollection himpelf it is not known how exactly he came to fall from the vehicle Operations at the coal mines in the Huntly district are* at normal againThe series of stop-work meetings which interfered with the working of the mines during the last few days, drawing the men from their work. have ended and the hewing of coal ie proceeding as before. The late AVilliam Joseph Adams, nephew of George Adams, of Tattersali'd eweep fame, died at Honolulu some time ago, and left estate in New -South Wales, including Tatteraall's Hotel, Sydney, worth £143,000, in addition to which hie Tasmanian estate is believed to be worth about. £100,000. The Public Service Board of Appeal is engaged at Christchurch in hearing appeals by officers against their dismissal from the Public Service, arising out of , defalcations by an officer ir. the Stato Coalmines Office in Christehurch.

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