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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 6

, Warm, sonny weath-r ; revailed in the f city today, and the usual bowlina. s ! tennis, and cricket tixturcs wer- decided ; under the most plea-ant conditions, there - ! '.H-ie.jt a penile col'mir bree/e from the I ' s.oitii east. The weather diiriii" the past c ■ week has heen generally showery and 1 j unsettled. '.villi but little heavy rain. The , air temperature, also, has ..crn .-oolev . 1 than usual for this period >-f the year. At noon to-day the Wniniuetev stood at 1 ' J'.i.sl in. and th.-re appeared ii'tle likeliI hood ~f any immediate e'eance iv the s exisiine- conditions. The mercury has shown lit lie Movement sir re midday on '' . Thurs.lav. V : \ peifcetlv -tood little boy. w1... bad never tho.-l'.t of a criminal a-l. came ! int.. i' .--C--101, of mi ancient '.'ftntam'* '• ...j: a' day ov two a;,.. He , oul.l thin'; ii :of iiothino better than to stand at a a , street corner and see what would ha].----i pen if the egg hit '.he side of a passing 8 I trauuar (says the Christehurch "Sun"i. II I lie hurled the egg, bit. unfortunately. - la window was open, and a young woman c i received the ejjjr mi her mouth. Th" | hitherto innocent boy will probably c ' appear in tiie I ourt a-. a juvenile i charged with assault.

..\ little i-omedy which the drivers anil conductors of I lie tramway '.nines rather enjoyed was enacted yesterday morning at the lerminus of the Springfield road motor bus route cays the Christebiirch -IVi-ss'"). There was" no appearance, at time-tHblc- time, of tlio 1-iis running in opposition to the tram l.uses. hut pa--, *en»eis who have hern patronising it declined the invitation to make use of tiie tram bu-es. wliii-ii departed wilh their regular customer*. Thow who n-uitcrl for the opposition bus waited in vain, and eventually walked t" Hip newest tram. AI lunch time it »■«< notedj Iha I the supports r,fll)P opposition iiUSj boarded tin , Irani im.-er- with a certain amount of alacrity, evidently not de-ir-in;; to be left lamenting aaain. It is now known that the opposition !.ns has] definitely abandoned tie -prinpiioM Koa.l route Business U -aid to be yooil to supprrt the Irani and the r.pji.nitiiill Trouble with member- m her stokehold crew caused the I'nioil I o.V insrrcolonial steamer Murallia 10 he delayed in tlie stri'iim for several hours before slip look lipr departure for Sydney yesterday afternoon. Tin , vessel was M-hediih-d to lease the Queen's wharf n; 11 a.m.. Inn ai that hour thorp were nine vacancies in tlie nokdioM. Kipln of the nWlitees were located atl'l assisted ~., board within half an hour. and tin . Mamma 'lien will to iin miehorage in tlio st renin. The missing tireman was four.fl during the afternoon and immediately taken to the stearic l.y laiini-h. lull further trouble hud oitiirred f>ll l.oard rliirinn ihe >,-ss,~l's wait ill the pilTiUll. It appears that one language to his mates ami the majority or the M..ker« r..!use,l 1,, sail unless lie was put a«hore. When tlip launch run alongside t bo »1 earners -i<le Iv.i i.f the men jumped int., the .-mallei v.-oc! and wrre 111 ken bark to the «h H r:\ ( iflii-.'n's of the ronipeiii- and members of ihe '.vatoifrnni pn'li.-e eventual!;* prevailed on the men 10 return In tlie ship, and ihe Mamma sailed for Sydney shortly beforr 1 p.m. 1 In mc description ~t » :| nnlerv. ate: flam.- apparatus in tiie -able m<. menof a London tirm. Mr. <■. Amlcr-mi. •<( IS, J'roapr-t Terrnee. Mi. Kden. Am-k----land, inform- us ihat he has a -hare in a still earKei patent. <ne dated l!)2i>, and this apparatii- i;as been demonstrated in Ihe Auckland harbour. The flame is oi the aeetotK'-o\vp. , n type, similar to that iv'.iirh is -o ponimonl\ used in maoliiiip ?iiops today for rutting ;'nd wplriinj; metal. In the under.water apparatus tin* no/t/.li , throupli jwliii'li t!io flanx fonic*. i v iitiPi) with n ; s rt of extra no"/.ln with a space l-.i-;tucpn the two. Into tlli< -pare e\tr:i iowpcii Is fed under pressure and tiii« .not only keeps the vater from the spot lon whk-li tin , llanie i- wnrkinc. out it alfii feeds the fiame. In s n me patentthi< protpftive nisliion. ;i- i; nii?iu ho I called. i« composed .1 compre-sed air. hut ■ tlie oxygen is said to l;p more effeitive. ''Hie ap|.aratus is u.«?il lir the diver just |ii* an above water inoWianic u«es the ;f.anie. The cylinders containing the ace i tone and the uxygrn are placed alx>vc ■water and connecte.l -~i the nozy.le by llcnig length-, of tubitu. Dne peculiar thing lahout underwater cuttinp of metal :- ;hal tl;e cut is .leaner than ;i>e cut 'niaiie in '.lie open air. ihere li."injj an ■ entire a!-?cnce of s-lag. J The ureatt-st towing i>at ever aii t.:.iiptod from AiiKtralin «ill Iμ- iindi-r-I taken within the , I( .xt few weeks, stateI ihe Mflhournp."Arg«i'." hy two Ihiti-li i nig*, the Willem Ba.ends/ and the J \'la.it:<leren. t:o«- at Williamstown. I nhirli 'vill t-oniaieiice the tremcndoiiv j tank of towing from l'ort Adelaide to j Rotterdam, in Holland, the disable.! : stoamer < ity of Singapore, a vessel of tioliT ton-, which was burnt hi Port Adelaide last year. The distance which the tugs will" have to rnver with an nnpty, and unwieldy seinidereltct in row. \-. ill Ik- approximately l:(.(Kl(l miles—a Herculean task. The point that is disturbing to ?hipbuildinp and PllginecrilU lilTils and the t-nploye.----of hoth. however, is the fact that such :in llll(lorUkill<! sinillhl have been con .-idered neces-ary b_\ the owner* »f the City 11: Siiigapiiri*. liiey stale, honcve:-. that Austnilian costs for labour and material Hre so hiah that it is cheaper tv have the vessel toW'-d to Holland to lie repaired than to pay the amount J asked for re'itting the t ity .■! Singapore heie. Tiic Willem HaieiuU/ and Vlaaitderen will liaM , completed a riuindthr--1 world tow before they reach their h.mie ' ]>orl al Amsterdam. Ihe uil - - left Am i sterdam towing a Moatinß dry dock io I >abanw. Sumatra, lhey then timed two dredges, a .utter, and a tender from iSonra'tiaya In Melbourne, and have been ordered since their arrival at Melbourne jto pniPCPd to Adelaide and take the steamer ( ity "t Singapore in tow to llollan.l. j ■ I'iie need not >;,, lack to mu-;y uny--110 ,md huniour in our ~-ta':it'- W^*'-; The hi'.ve which are being administered j to-day simply Inislle >vith absurdities. I Thu.n. if a person wilfully injures [mother and death follow, as tlie result of the injury within a year and a fiuy. the may In> indicted lor mmI del. liut let another day dawn .-■:.. re I the "iiariji' i e made, and he him -nap liis lingers at the law. "similarly, yon I'flniiol I'hnrjje a man with burglary unless he not only "enter" hut "iirvaks." ! Thi.s. it a door 01 window i- o'ouiiyinjtiy j U-it open, and he strolls i:i and t.ikes ! your silver, he is no in the eyes of tin law. Nor is hi , if the house J . iioseu for his attentions is not a I "'dwelling house." ur ii in-'uses his jein.m !at .'IIV iillie after six o'eklek ii !it f ! |i|.n liing and bef.Ti- nine ii'elo ,- ill t!m •jeveniiv. though the deed may he ilone ■! in an hour of darknes-. Such sire a few - I tyj»l*-p1 a' surdities of our laws lpon his return to l'alinevMuii Syith from Auckland, a local resident com,'ii'ente<l brielh upon the methixl of rub■jthe "'Mannwatu 'limes"', in ilu-'luwiiwi lipoiliiui of Queen street, he -aid. the • 1 bins were placed at the -Imp doo: ■» ..1 ,I on the edge of the footpaths. The man .(removed the lid. placingr it on the foot ■ ptith—-together with whatever s.-rap--1 j were clinging u> it and then emptied 3 the bin into the cart., leuvinp the lid on I" the pavement and the tin open i.. tin .attentions of thousand* uf ilies. whii-'i I were lreijiienUy to be seen swariuinj • J about an evil-smelling 1 .ib'u.-h reeep I'jtacle. In some of the *u'.mrl>iiii resi.len quarters the receptacles were p'fli eil linear the tront gaie. and ihe li.l left ..-1 in a similar manner. l'cde-n inn- Imiiul this mos; obje,-tioiiable. particularly in 1 a humid climate like that uf thy north el p. i-apit hi. 1 Taranaki ratepayer-." said th. , eliaintmn • 01" the Taranaki County ( ounc-ll I.Mr. i -I. S. i'onnett) at a meeting of the coun- . oil. "Out of t22,5'2:2 payable in . duriti2 the current year. £4iiQ.~i, or ap--1 provimately -0 per cent, have not, been i> paid, and as these incur a liability ol l< v per cent just iui" the sake of payinjj 1! within a month or two. i; appear- that [ ihe ratepayers arc in a bad p"?itiorj."