NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12480, 17 April 1906, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Tlie Sierra, with the San Francisco mail, arrived at Auckland yesterday afternicon. /

A Dunedin telegram states that anxiety is felt for the safety of the barque Casablanca, now eight weeks out from Auckland to the Bluff.

In response to a requisition from the ratepayers of New Brighton, Mr G. G. Macfarlarie has consented to stand for the office of Mayor.

A number of volunteers from Balmoral camp, who left the military train at Kaiapoi, td entertain the citiuens of that town with some vocal music, were left behind last evening. fortunately for them there was a later train to town.

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., presided at the Police Court yesterday morning. Fivo first offenders were each fined ss, or twenty-four hours' (imprisonment, for drunkenness. Alfred Quarterman, with two previous convictions against' him, was sent to prison for fourteen days.

The boys and girls of St. MichaelSunday School, with their superintenr dent, visited the Hospital on Sunday afternoon, bringing their Easter offerings. The presents consisted of pot plants, toy_, picture and story books, grapes, and 6weete. Mr J. H. Rogers sent two large baskets full of out flowers from St. Matthew's dhurdh.

Hol-ian Hunt' 6 picture, "The Liigjht of the World," which arrived at Auckland from Sydney oh Sunday, in charge of Mr M. Jost, is now on exhibition in the Auckland Municipal Art Gallery. It was inspected by a large number of peopie yesterday. The picture will be on exhibition for a week (says a Press Association telegram), and will then be taken South. \ ' M \

At tho annual meeting of the Otago Boxing Association, suggestions towards popularising the sport were received, including a middle and heavyweight footballers' tournament,.and, a competition for volunteers. The question of professional contests tak* ing place in secret waa placed before the Astsociation. but it was pointed out that it was for the police to take action in these cases.

The delegates to the Labour Conference were entertained yesterday by the members of the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council. The visitors were taken over to Governor's Bay, whete they lunched and spent some time looking over the locality. The perfect weather prevailing made tho outing very enjoyable. The party returned to town about 5.30. This morning the Conference meets for businos. and will make a start in the Municipal Chambers at 9 a.m.

During the ten-mile motor cycle race at the Kaiapoi sports yesterday, one of the ridorc>. Mr C. E. Jones, who was running very prominently in the race, had the misfortune to break the petrol pipe of his machine. The petrol ran out, and coming in contact with the heated parts of the motor, fired. The flames-, sprang up with great rapidity, and had reached Mr Jones's clcTTT.ng, also saturated with petrol, before he could dif-moimt from the machine With the a-sistmce of bystanders the fire waf extinguished, neither the motor nor the rider being injured to any extent.

The crowing of cockf* and cackling of hens in suburban fowl yards has been carried on with such vigour that an indignant citizen has complained to the public health authorities (says the Melbourne "Age"'). Dr. Norris has been advised by the Crown Solicitor that there is doubt as to the validity of arj,v by-law that might be framoo' on the subject, and steps other than legal have been mentioned. The troublo usually begins with what advocates of toll telephones would term an "originating call by some wakeful roo*tor. and the cry is taken up for miles around. Dr. Xorris suggrfst«, but without much confidence, the device of sliding boards over the birds wlien tney have gone to rooet to prevent them*from raising their heads, for no cock can crow witn any effect with his head down. But the ordinary rooster is so hemmed in by tradition that it, is said he would, in the above circunv-tance,-, get down from his porch to utter a reciprocal call and destroy his own sleep a_ well as that of the neighbourhood.

The ftnaiSs of rjhe Cnnioihury T6„_jjlf_i Association cha,mpio'J(plii{x, will be" tttfilH ed on the latnwocd courts to-day /^^iß Tiie lutein University Tennis Cahamffj pionahip finals wiU bo p'.iyed to-[Jny <j_T -■* tho Cranmer square courts. ~lS| Owing to the hoary holiday traffic tha 'M. second express from the "South uJJ M night arrived at Chris)rnurch «, ei____ -,* minutes past eleven. * I^6 -', Tlie deputation of citizen., organic by Mr T. 11. Davey, M.H.R., - speot to the tramway employees griev- * ances will wait on tho Tramway Board ' at its meeting on Thursday. ■ j Despite tho attractions of the holiday ' there was a very good attendance <$ . * visitors yesterday at the Art Exhiu. ." - tion. The Exhibition will be open. to. day and in the eventing. A private telegram from Duncdiii"' states that Mr W. Anderson's rw_t«> - r mime cf '•Sinbad the aSailor" was mfc, ' * nessed on Saturday night by Mj, „ !* largest audience ever seen in tho Ptia;, _. cess Theatre. Tlie performance was an* exceedingly succtssfnl (nk\ all the 'J} bers of tho company being vuthusi«|tL $ £ calry received. ' Ivrnk Messrs Wigley, Chnfloy, Bayley, Rollinson, travelling in Mr" BayWji'. 15 h.p. car, made the trip from Tlin«v" to the Hermitage on "Sunday, starting,*-, ' G.lO a.m., and arriving at 3.57 p*n_ '■ in 7 hours 24 minutes actual travollijw? ' They returned yesterday, leaving 4$ *' ' (5.20 a.m. and arriving at Tiniant '-at ' " 5.5 p.m., after a 2_ hours stay «st;~- " Fairlio. The creeks were exceptional!*;' I low, and were crossed without dUfi.' | culty. Messrs Wigley and Chaffey i a . . tend to establish a motor service *ne*tt ' summer if the creeks are bridged, and ,j the Government lias been linked to g.t- J that done, and give assurance of it ia ' time to allow oars to bo ordered ia < readiness for tho season.

An Auckland telegram state, thafc the British ship TaJcu, of Liverpool' bound from Jquiquo to Sydney, called off Papeete, Tahiti, on March Uth. and reported tliasfc • smallpox and typhoid had broken out among**.* tiro" crew, two of whom had died, and had been buried at sea. Another man *ffa» in a critical state. The pilot ie-Sun,; ed to Papeete, and the ship was not allowed to enter tho port. Tho mis-. ter asked for medical assistance «i 4 provisions, but the wind being con»\." trary lie had to sail from the islani} before they could be sent out to nij_, v The Talca was sixty days out on tbfr* voyage when she called at Papule. -*;, The Queensland syndicate, commas'' ing Messrs PaTkes and Mehan, -Dr. Tfto** Gregor. and Dr. Macdonald, iet_m<s3 to Auckland from the Three Kings iij-„ the steamer Pelican on Thursdayf moaning, after making another cessful attempt to recover the worth of gold lost with tlie wreck cfs the steamer Eliiigamitc. In tion ivith a "Star" ropoiter, MrV Parkea stated Jthat the party was at tb*T" Kings for five or six days," and that time tho sceno of the wreck lvs*"" only visited on two occasions, hut o*/e*a * then the seas wore so heavy that th*,', vessel was unable to anchor, and coa»* sequently a descent to the wieck iraj . out of the question. As the trinftv kept in tho one quarter without siga., of the party decided timV it would be unwise to remain onj., longer. The party, said Mr Parke),/; will make another attempt when th_V weather is more settled. '„;, lVfoml_eTß of Ohe second New ZnbaA' Contingenit will bo pleased to Ica-m (saja'-i the I-maru "Herald") that the boi%, of their late comrade, Troorpex* T. Henn>''ton has received proper -'trial in opjf;': secra/ted ground. Trooper P. J. Walsbi!. of the Oape Mounted Police, ffaitionrf,? at Oarnairvon (Gaps Colony), writes the remains of the New Zea.land-?r, t«>,„ gether with those of Private Sullivan;.,, Third Welsh Regimen-, and Bra_ly, Royal Canadiami Artillery, wtdf exhumed at Va-s Wyks Vied, am,'**• - iiraterired in consecrated ground, withSfll** military honours, by a (tetaoh_»j!fci_f._ the Capo Mcatnted. Police. service was conducted by ttwyßof: Spemcer Coffins; »of the <, Trooper Hempton, who died -1 Wyks Vlei of dysentery whiltf column under Sir Charles Parsons" jap engaged in the pursuit•<of elusive roml to Kenhaa-dt, was th© first the second con-tingent to have the '*__% pest" sounded over him. He wsa huim* near the Van Wyks Vlei dam, al«|if Bide the Canadian artiJtoryrnoia who afM| of septdo pnenirmonia caused t r ii*r«<BJ|j| falling imto the dam while he was ing h_T_e«. The funeral service; tttfe conducted by a Canadian chapibu-'. 7^ The extremely wet season which Mg been experienced tliroughout Ottm has been the cause of retaiding . tflftji; ripening of crops (says the Daily Times"). On the Tokom_inrM Plain there is a large acreage still 'ijijf cut and it will be well on toward»*t»| end of this month before the \t)eb')m the crop is in stock. Cutting 'Mg never been known to be so late, «M 3 coneeqiiently the threshing is behl-tfe In former years, tho threshing, wtf| well on by this time,' but this 7&i§ only one or two of the mills have _i«4»f a start as yet. One of these owners,; with an extonsive of the oapahiiiities of this pßaiiri, ffl* 'formed a representative of the "Time*r| that the yield is poor compared tvithj former years, and land which in ari| ordimry season returned from 60 to bushels per acre would thresh 'out veryij little over 30. Ho puts this down toi the -wet season. What threshing h*ffl taken place has been done out of tbe;| stook. *W since cutting thero has DW_'?| no time to stack the crop. Farpwhr a considerable area of the stubble laiia w«- ploughed by this timo, but ibHks safe to say that as yet none of this} ploughing has been done this 60W50-4 Winter feed for stock does aiot seem tijs \ye very plentiful either, owing to 6ame cause, and the outlook of t_flf| farmers with (respect to the keeping? of their Btock im gpod conditidttfj throughout the winter *rni_n)tais does ijflif seem to bo bright. Altogether the tn3_»' summer and autumn must have cost Otago provlinca alono (thousands «tv pounds in decreased yields of product # In an artick dealing, with the pMC?' ticeof the Premiier of interepresenting lat" opponents, the "Otago Daily %mO&7 says:—"But while Mr Seddon_ habit<**>-self-laudation involves nothing serious than a question of thej community has a .right to expect frdw**. its Premier that he shonld refrain froas habitually and deliberately dLstortin).? history with the view of liolding opponent- up to public scorn and i*<! prolwttion. it is fitting, therefore, thitfj a protest should be publicly entewt!.:, against the continued repetition of th?;j monstrous fiction that and shelter-shetls marked the period ofrj la former when, as _a*g matter of sober fact, it was not untlp after the Ballance-Seddon Ministry hoo|

been in office for two or three ye_r»*| that these institutions for tho relief <■*■ tho submerged fraction of the lat ion wero opened. It is also ntt .'*'|| that a protest should be entered agaiiiw* the constant reiteration of the half-rj* truth which is contained in the «.l«g«J? tion that a preceding AdininiKti-ticnjwMJS given education "a terrible set-hack" "#"_ its reduction of expenditure on the vice, when tho fact is that, tho profligacy of a still earlier istratgon, which received the support ci;several self-righteous l.ib'T-ls of •**j present day, the colony \vusi<'_uo>Hl-t« such desperate firumcial r-tiai'- tli-at, VBt order tliat it- mislit meet ii-s cn_saa"s!« ments with the nublic creditor-, it itWjj happily became a public duty on ttt*V« part of the Government to curtail *!•£'; pendituro in absolutely even* direction. The demand for a "ck*****. slate"' for Mr Seddon must plainly W. 2 rejected so Icng •is ho petvi'-ts ill «*i| libeiately distorting hist my and representing bin politic-l ogpji—Vtyi living and dead--" '.J A ■1

A man was arrested yesterday o:i a flharga of stealing fish. T]!© visiting students from other Co!-------leccs taking part in the Intei-Univer-"sitv touniaiiient, were entertained at Glance in the Canterbury Col ege had last night- Over two hundred were present, and a most enjoyable evening ffß s spent. Mrs Alice Gownr Burrs was very suc--o (_sful at tho concert given by her in the Town Hall, Wellington, on Thunsdav evening, in conjunction with .Mr 'Cyril Towsey and Mr Hamilton Hodges. \irs Burns Yang "Hear ye, Isrnel,'' "I Know that my Redeemer," "Beloved it j_ .Morn.'' and "Lo. Hear the Gentle Lark," and received kudos for her interpretation of the various _olcs. Tho anniversary of tho Methodist Church at Southbrook was celebrated on Sunday, when sermoin were preach"cd i" t *' e nioming by the Rev. Mr Pinfold, and in the evening by the Rev. \ Ashcroft. A Service of Song, entitled ••Silver Lilies," was given iv tho afternoon by the choir. On Good Friday the annual tea-meeting was held, »n"d at 7.30 o'clock a meeting was lielu in the church, when addresses were delivered '»}' the new circuit ministers. A bazaar in connection with St. Gary's Catholic Church, and also the Madden Art Union, was opened last JiV'ht in tho Alexandra Hall. Tho targe number of tine comprising the prizes were exhibited in tho Hall, and mac!-' an excellent show. The stalls wore in charge of the following ladies:— Fancy Stall: Mrs W. Hayward ami Mrs "-"h-inaghan. with Misses Donnelly, Har-fin-'tim. Sliaiiaghnu, Smith, Donoghue, intTCoiigli. Produce Stall: Mrs Sulliv.n and Mrs Brad ford and the Miss**., Sullivan. Kelieshmont Stall: Misses Knight, Beatrice Knight, Buck, and Mrs Buck. A very good musical procnamme was given dining the. evenin _• and business -va<* good at nil the stVlls The Bazaar will continue open .intii Thuredav night, when the Art IJnion will be "drawn. It will bo open in tho afternoons, also in the evenings, when musical entertainments will bo S* vGn * . c c .' The annual parish meeting of fi>t. Michael's will be held to-marrow eveniaz ill the schoolroom. The report at the churchwardens states that the- maintenance, of buiidni__s, grounds and fences, and tho improvements and additions which tho progress of the parish renders neoossary must always invo.vo „ considerable expenditure. The clay school continues to make good progress. That parentis appreciate its advantages is attested in the most gratifying manner by a large adtßion this year to the school roll, the number having now reached over 120. An increased diocesan _rant has enaiblod the vestry to make SenMnotnttho additions to theteachers dailies, whiidh IMb yeo-r wore ontly given b y way of nanus. Tlio vicar will bo leaving on a visit to langUnd, and the Rev. H. L. Snow, of Auckland, will ad as hi_ locum tenccms during his absence. At the twenty-first annual conference of tho Churches of Christ for the South Island, held at Inyeroargil . Captain Landstrum presiding, delegates were present from Christchurch, Vvmedin. Oamaru, and other centres. The Foreign Missions Committee reported that P. Lr Hadficld would leave shortly to talc© up work in Bulawayo. Tho Training Committee reported that it would soon be able to undertake the support and education of suitable young men for the work of proclaiming the Gospel. Tho establishment of a Biblo College in connection with the Melbourne University would facilitate tho movement. Tho following executive was elected for the ensuing year: President, C. F. Landstrum; vicepresident, A. Roy; secretary. C. Kippenberger; treasurer, J. Iluttledge; associates, A. /Thompson and James Stokes. It was decided to hold tho next conference at Christchurch. Don't be bamboozled by flowery language into trying anything but a Benioia Disc Plough. Morrow, Bassett and Co., Bedford row. 29 Visitors to Clrristchurcb are invited to inspect the many items of interest now displayed at Messrs Graham, Wilton and Smellies (near Clock Tower). The value given in desirable wearing apparel of every description by this ifirm aro unequalled 30 Tho Crown Iron Works Company, Ltd., Manchester and Glouccfsterstreets, havo a very largo stock of enamelled baths, wonderfully cheap, which should be teen by intending purchasers. 6 Parcels and packages aro forwarded to any address by the New Zealand Express Company, Ltd. Through rates and regular shipments to all points are feature, of tho company's system. 4 Low prices are better than arguments. Our values do their own talking. They appeal to the economical buyers better than pages of talk, witli nothing to hack them. Black, Beattio and Co. 3 Looking back is a waste of time. It doesn't require much foresight to observe that winter is here, and cold weather hero to stay. How is your overcoat—seedy? Then secure a newone from the most reliable clothier of your acquaintance. Black, Beattie and Co. 4 Just received, further shipments of autumn novelties. Inspection invited. Forty model hat* and toques, exquisite styles and colour effects, 25s 6d, 29s Gd, 355, 425, 49s Gd, 555; new motor caps, now, cardinal, etc., 2s lld, 3s Gd, 3s lld, 4s 3d, 4s 6d, 5s 9d; ladies' ribbed wool vests, long sleeves, Is 3d, Is Gd, Is lld, 2s 9d, 3s Gd, 4s Gd; short sleeves, Is to 4s Gd; lied Riding Hood capos, all sizes, 12s Gd to 18s lld; ladies' woven vests, long and short sleeves, 2s lld, 3s lld, 4s 9d, 5s Gd to iis Gd; new tweed coats, latest shapes and colourings, 27s 6d. 32s Gd, 37s Gd to 655. Bcath and Co., Ltd., Cashel 6treet. 40 Notice to purchasers of oil engines.— Messrs Robey and Co. aro landing their latest oil engine, fitted with self-starter. H. McClelland, solo representative, 224 Cashel street, Christchurch. 8829 We are giving tho best value in j bicycle* ever offered in Christchurch. Prices from £11 to £15 15s. Genuine English-built B.S.A. bicycles, £12 10s. Repairs unequalled in quality ot moderate prices. Boyd and Son, 191 Gloucester street, Christchurch. 6 Mr E. A. Earp. consulting optician by examination, may bo consulted daily at F. T. Pannell and Co., Cathedral *quii!o. Hours, 9 a.m. till G p.m. Artificial light used. Consultation free. Moderate prices. j.j Wanted Known—Lamps— Bring them to bo fitted with chimneys, shades, wicks,, burners, galleries, or altered from table to hanging lamps. j n stock, a large assortment of bracket table, hall, hanging, and hand lamps from Is each. See window; all marked in plain figures. Competition defied. Fletcher Bros., Lamp Importers, Lower High street. q Mr Schub, engino driver, 7 George street, Christchurch, says he has had asthica ior fifteen years, and that Kurasma stops on attack at once. A dose at night ensures a good night's sleep. Sold by all chemists, 3s per bottle. Prepared by Kirk, chemist, Sydenham. 30 If you have tho faintest suspicion that your eyes are not just right, if they bother you in any way, it's best to have them examined at once. Do not go to the average opticion or (•p.-cr-icle seller, for be is unable to distinguish between optical delects and diMi_*?s, but consult John It. Proctor. 18U High street, Christchurch, who will give you a thorough examination, free '»f cliarge. 2145