ANOTHER REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 303, 21 December 1921, Page 4

ANOTHER REVOLUTION.

Revolutions and ''coups" -seem to be one of the eta pie industries of Portugal. ' On October Ist of this year an abor- ' tive attempt was made to overthrow the Government. Three weeks later a < , militarist junta, having concentrated a t j strong military force at Lisbon, and ' secured the adherence of a cruiser, ! j waited on the President of ' the , I Republic, and requested the dismissal i I of the Government and the eubatitu- I tion of Ministers named by the revolutionaries. Portugal has a constitution ' and a Parliament, indeed all the ; forme of democratic government, but j she provide* one of innumerable proofs 1 of the fact that democracy is more than ; j a form. It ie a spirit, and where that spirit does not exist, the form is at I the mercy of the first adventurer who ■ can collect an army. This time the ; Prime- Minister and otlter Ministers were shot, apparently without trial and under ' circumstances indicating brutal callousness. With an irony that is often pro- ( euch upheavals the revolutionaries claimed to be advamwd democrats and "anti-waste"! Since then there has been a succession of Ministries, and now what looks like a etill more serious ' revolution has broken out. It may be a socialist or communist alTnir, but it j I is more likely to be another struggle ' J between the "ins" and the "'outa," similar to those conflicts that used to be co marked a feature of South '' American polities. The ex-King docs not seem to have had any hand ' L in the October revolution, and ' it is more than possible that he has ' nothing to do with this one. Manoel J is not a striking figure, but he appears to have enough sense m>t to bo too ' eager to return to a dangerou-s throne. On the other hand there arc probably many Portuguese who would welcome 1 a return of the Monarchy ac an alterna- . tive to the unstable conditions that < I Republicanism has brought. - 1

A strong letter is to be sent by the Auckland Harbour Board to the Northcote and Birkenhead Gas Company, calling on the company to abate the nuisance cauced by the discharge of tarry water into little Shoal Bay, which lies between Northcote and Birkenhead. ■Bathers get the naety stuff in their hair (and their mouth* if they don't keep them closed), and nicely-painted yachts soon develop a brown streak on the waterline. Mr. G. K. Hutehinson spoke strongly on the matter, and said the nuisance was a great source of annoyance to people on that side of the harbour. "How much money has your husband in the Savings Bank?" asked Mr. H. H. Ostler of a plaintiff in the Arbitration Court yesterday, who was claiming compensation for the loss of her son. "My husband does not toll mc his business, , " said plaintiff, "and never shows mc his i bankbook. AH I know is what lie tells me—that he earns £5 a week, and he gives mc £4 15/. But perhaps he's like the rest of the men—they never tell their wives straight-out what they earn. I know one man' who tells his wife he only gets half of what he does." (Laughter.) Plaintiff, who was emartly attired, astonished the Court somewhat by declaring that she had not been able to buy any clothes for three years, and that a pair of shoes lasted her for twelve months. An application from the One Tret , . Hill Road Board that the work of analysing the district's water supply, undertaken by the Hospital Board, ibe done free of charge, was considered by the lastmentioned authority last evening. The chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, suggested that a reasonable charge was £50 a year, but if the Road Board reduced the cost of -water to the Hospital Board from 1/6 per thousand gallons to 1/, then possibly something might be done in the direction desired. In the meantime the application was received. The Hospital Board use 6,330,000 gallons of water at the Costley Home, for which it pays about £474 18/ per annum to the One Tree Hill Road Board. An unusual action was commenced before Mr. Justice Hocking in the WellingI ton Supreme Court, when Abraham ; Wallcy Mahomed Salamun, a native of the Punjn'b, aakftd, under the provisions of the Habeas Corpus Act, that the Court should make an order giving him the custody of his daughter, at present living with her mother, a white woman, Marjorie Salaman. Petitioner, who was previously in business at Wellilngton as a dyer and cleaner, married in 1915, separated from his wife in September, 1017 (the child having been born in April of that year), and later went to Auckland, I where he is now in business as a herbalist. On October 28 last Salaman obI taincd a decree nisi at Auckland on the ground that his wife had been guilty of misconduct, but thp question of the cuei tody of the child was not then before I the Court. Since then, however, ho has made certain allegations against the respondent, which allegations were contained in the petition under the Habeas Corpus Act proceeding. After hearing the evidence of the petitioner the further hearing was adjourned. Hot and cold ehower baths in the waiting-rooms in Quay Street are beinp: acked for by the Auckland Watorsiders' Union. The old waiting-room having been found to be too email, another storey is now being added, and the work is nearing completion. In addition to the baths, a request was before the Board yesterday afternoon to provide a locker for keeping the Instruments of the Wateraiders' Brass 'Band. Reporting on tho bath problem, the Board's engineer mentioned that the batlw in the old room had been taken out at the request of tho union, because they had not been need. Mr. Ernest Davis suggested that the old baths were of the plunge variety, whereas the union now asked for shower baths. Evnntually, at hie request, the Board decided to refer the matter to committee, particulars to be obtained from Wellington' ac to the baths at that port. It was said that the baths provided by the Wellington Harbour Board were so popular that there wae always a queue of begrimed watereiders waiting. A horse attached to a milkman's cart broke into a gallop unexpectedly in the vicinity of Greenlane yesterday, and in a wild' career went for a spin at breakneck pace for fully half a mile despite the efl'oTts of thp driver to rein it in. All traffic, including a tramcar, came to a standstill. Fortunately the vehicle was empty of milk, otherwise the day's supply would assuredly have been left in a white trail on the route of the spin. According to a local fruit merchant the cargo of bananas now being discharged from the Navua, which arrived from Fiji early on Monday morning, has caused a collapse of the banana market in Auckland. This shipment, |he said, arrived -too soon after the large supply brought by the Tofua only a fortnight ago. Since the beginning of the montii 34,874 cases and 3,117 bunches of bananas have been landed from Fiji, and in another twelve days, on January 2, the Tofua •will be due here again with another fruit cargo. It is reported that officers of the Railway Department are already making a detailed survey of the proposed deviation of the railway at Palmcrston North. The work is to be among the most urgent to be undertaken by the Public Works Department in the immediate future. The new raihr.iy station will be located in the vicinity of the present salcyards. The Wellington City Deserves Committee has receiyed an intimation from the Taronga Zoological Park Trust, Sydney, who are arranging to procure S'ji elephant for the -Xewtown Zoo, that the animal is expected to arrive In Sydney in thp early part of the Now Year. Judgment was reserved yesterday in the case in the Arbitration Court in which Margaret Rose Fowler (Mr. RichJ niond) claimed £300 compensation from Arthur Joseph Maxwell, ex-shipownnr and merchant (Mr. H. H. Ostler), for the loss of her son. Richard Leslie Fowler, who was lost at sea in the oilengined vessel Jubilee, which sailed from Auckland to Xiue Island on August 15, 1&20. While handling iron pipes being unloaded from the Kaikoura at the Queen's wharf last night, Mr. Arthur Lynne. a married man, had hie left hand crushed by a stack of the heavy pipes rolling. He was admittted to the Hospital, where it was found that his injuries were not serious. Mr. Fergus White, of the teaching staff of the Tauranga District High School, was riding a motor bicycle yesterday when hie machine collided with a motor car, with the result that Mr. White sustained a compound fracture of the right' leg. Ho was removed to the Tauranga Hospital. An illustrated address v.ill be giv<'n by Mr. J. X. Ellis, inventor of tho Ellis Automatic Boiler Feed Regulator, in the Chamber of Commerce, Swancoo Street. to-morrow evening.

A good deal of amusement was caused at the Hospital Board meeting last night "When a letter was read from a London physician asking when the office of medical superintendent of the hospital would be vacant. Several members moved, amidst laughter, that the question be referred to the medical superintendent for his report. It was finally decided to reply to the letter that the conditions governing i such appointments in the Dominion were not the same as at Home, where changes were more frequently made. Another laugh wag got at Dr. Maguire's expense a little later in tho evening, in which he heartily joined, when a letter was read from the educational authorities stating that the medical superintendent had taken an "intelligent" interest in the [ work of the children's school at the hos- | pital. It was shown that splendid work was being done at the school, for which ; tho teacher was congratulated. Tho I children who were able were lately taken for a day'a outing. When the salary of the physio-thera-peutist was being discussed at the meeting of the Hospital Board last night, a member thought the salary of £400 was on the high side, because the officer would have the riglit of private practice and would only devote part of hie time to hospital work. He said he remembered the time when the medical superintendent of the hospital only got £400. "Oh, those were the daye when you only earned six bob a day yourself," interrupted another member, "You are thinking of what you earned yourself," was the rejoinder. "Well, I've often worked hard for less than 0/ per day in the old days," was the reply. "Things have changed," chipped in another member. "Yes, they have changed," was tho general chorus of all and we have changed with them. "When the medical superintendent got £400," said tho chairman, "he got house and other allowances and his salary is in no way to be compared with the one we are offering, and the days referred to are a long way back.' , "There arc plenty of children besides orphans that want some assistance this Christmas," said Mr. William Wai- j lace at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board when an appeal came up for a contribution towarde the £25,000 fund for the Protestant orphanages. Mr. Wallace did not wish to disparage the orphans' appeal, but he hoped something would be done for the other poor children who were not so well looked after asi the children in the homes. Mr. W. B. Leyland said the Rotary Club wae going to give a treat to over a thousand of the class of children Mr. Wallace was speaking about. The Harbour Board decided to ' give the £23,000 fund the sum of £25. I English mails which left Auckland on November 15 by the R.M.e. 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