NEWS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12591, 6 September 1906, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In response to many invitations, Mb IJ. R. Triggs has consented to be nominated for tho position of chairman of the Conciliation, Board. Mr Triggs filled the position same time back wicn , considerable success. I At tho request of a number: of farmers who haye 1 fat sheep for salo, tho directors of the Canterbuiy Frozen Meat Company will consider the question of reopening the Belfast works for a short time. f

Tho amount of £11 16s 9d has been forwarded to Nurso Maude at proceeds —collected to date—of a successful concert and danco held in the Motukarara Hall on August Bth, in aid of her camps. Tho concert programme was entirely given by a party from Christchuirch.

At a meeting of creditors yesterday a creditor stated- that another gentHoman in tho room evidently appeared to know more about bankruptcy than, ho did. "Yes," was the (reply; 'I have attended fthree meeting within the last few months." "Well, this is my fire* experience, and it has been a; dear one," replied the first epeakerytf "and if my old governor had included' it in my education I should have been much bettor off."

Mr V. G. Day, S.M., held a sitting of the Civil Court at. Darfleld yesterday. In the case of W. Davis v. Joseph Hill, claim £2 16s 9d, judgment was given for tho plaintiff by default, with costs ss, The Sclwyn County Council, through its engineer, .Mr Patterson, sued George O'Malley, for £2 9s, for failing to clean out a water race in accordance, with notice given. Judgment was given for the*mount of claim with costs 12s.

At tho last annual meeting of the Builders' and Contractors' Association of Canterhury, it' was strongly nrged that tho time had come, in view of the progress made by tho Association, for it to own a building in which to meet, and hold social gatherings. This suggestion has borne practical fruit, and tho section and building in Gloucester street, occupied by the Perth Dye Works, adjoining tho Pioneer Cycle Club building, havo been purchased for the purpose. Arrangements vnll bo mode to fit tho building for the, purposes of the Association, and it wiU bo ready for occupation at an early date.

The Hen-en Abend of tho Christchurch Liedortafel to-morrow evening will possess more than ordinary interest, as_ it will bo the celebration of the "Coming of Age/ of the popular organisation. The happy idea has been conceived of reproducing, as far as possible, tho programme of music given at tho opening concert twenty-one years ago. , borne ot the singers who took part in it are doad, and others far Temoved from. Canterbury, but there ia a, fair sprinkling of tho \eterans left here, who will wng the same items as on the opening con r cart. They include Messrs A. Appjeby, W A. Day, and J. P. Newman. Mr Newman is coniing up from Timaru especially to take part in the programme.

A Press Association telegram from Hamilton states:—"A man named Holdon, who finished a job twenty miles below Taumirunui and started to walk to the township, missed the track, and subsisted on fern roots for nearly three weeks. He became incapable of walking, and sheltered under a tree, and was disooverea by another wanderer in a very emaciated condition.. Tho latter went for help, and a party ot six sot out. Tho oarried Holden on their shoulders for five miles, then a stretcher was procured, and the journey of «**«* »£«*J Taumarunui began, ?oto» r*f« «*ffl| to the Waikato Hospital. His legs and fe!ct are in a dreadful fcwkUcm. Mortification is threatening, and it is doubtful if the hmba can be saved.

J Arnst, who established the third fastest time in the Dunlop Bond Race on Saturday, and who was accordingly to have been one of the tbiwriders to represent Now Zealand at the Warr-narobool-Melboume race on September 22nd, found himself nnable to go, and H Henderson, of Palmcreton North, the next fastest man, then became the third representative. Yesterday, -however, Henderson notified that he also could mot make the trip, and R. Rogers, of Timaru, tho next fastest competitor, became entitled to the honour of being the third rider. Mehrtens and ©tnifeh, tho other two representatives, have received a handicap of ten minutes, hut Rogers's handicap has not yet been declared. Several other New Zealand riders it> tend to compete in the race, and the following handicaps have been received:—A. Birch," 24min; T. Camphell, 28roin; Boyce, 40min.

The third terra of the School of Art " hegins on Monday, September 10tb. Tho Wellington Post and Telograph " Rifles scored 773 in the Portal inter- • ; national Rifle Shooting Competition. Tho quarterly examinations for volunteor officers' commissions in tho Canterbury district were iheki yesutitiuy.

As tho result of a public meeting, held at Wanganui last night, W. Webb will communicate with Stanbury to-, day ecoopting his cliallcngo to tow on the Wanganui River on Boxing Day for £200 a side.

Manufactured gunpowder was said, by a witness before tho Royal Commission yesterday, to be used in dips for dogs in preference to the raw material because it was a good destroyer of fleas, whereupon Mr Foster remarked "I should have thought the best way* to destroy them would have been to" put a match to the powder before it was wot."

The meeting of the Southbridge District High School Committee was held on Monday. Correspondence showed that £6 Gs 9d had been paid to credit of the dressmakine class, £4 15s had been paid for swimming capitation, and £1 to tho swimming club. Tho head, teacher's report showed n roll number of 175, and average attendance of 163, with an attendance of 40 in the secondary department. Tho annual examination report stated that in nil departments the school was doing good work.

At a meeting of the Auckland Trades Council last night, the report of Mr Ferguson, Factory Inspector, regarding undercutting by Chinese laundries as agr.inst Enronoans in Auckland, uaa discussed, and a resolution was passed strongly urging the Government to eon* sidor the report and insist on all Chinese workers being brought under tho same restrictions as are placed on European workers in regard to hours, etc. All Labour Unionß in the colony will bo asked to support this claim.

At a meeting of tho committee of tho Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association on TueHiay, the iecictafy.. reported that ho had received a telegram from Mr Gilruth, tho Chief Government Veterinarian, in regard to .' the appointment of a resident voter- , mary surgeon for the County, stating '* that he did not know of a suitable man. Tlio President said ho kid written td ; Mr W. Lowrio on tho 6.-übject, asking him to procure a man in Australia if t jKesible. After some discussion it was decided to leavo tho matter in tho '; hands of Messrs Upton, Reid, Withell, •[ Bullock, and tho president. The annual rent of the tiotting club for the use of tho trotting track at tho Show Grounds was reduced from £10 to £0 Gs. Seven new members were elected. ; i Messrs S. W. March (Hinds), H. Bar- •■" ton (Rangiora), F. Grant (Nowlands), W. H. Ford, and Thompson (Ruapuna) wero elected members of the Association.

Our Dunedin correspondent telegraph- ' cd last night:—"ln the Brickmakcra* ,* dispute before the Arbitration Court to- .„« day, a witness stated that bricks hero '", were as.much as los and £1 lower than- -; they wero in Christchuroh. Brick* had always been lower in price in Dunedin thai* in Christchuroh; One of tho •< secrets of the price being woll maintain- ,J cd in Christchurch was that many oP v» the contractors wero interested in* the '. companies that ran brick works. Bricks * had boon sent from her© to Christ- v' church and Wellington, but they wero --, _ special kind. At the present time .j shipments of bricks were being brought from Sydney and Melbourne for a K \.; budding here. They wero bricks of a \ f \ class that wero not mado here. Tho .- building trade horo jnst now was very poor indeed compared with what it-wsa - .'£ three years ago, whon tho award was % made." ' ~ Last; evening Dr. L. Cockayne gave / an address before tho ■ Canterbury -3 Philosophical Institute on modern plant geography. There -was a good at-iM tendance, Mr R. Speight Tho address was of a rather tmhnjekUflj nature, but,- explaining as it did toi|g| modern attitude of botany, was able in its instruotiveness. InsteadiPjjjgjj being studied part by part, and class!"* *§& fiod on the result as in the past,, plants aro now regarded as living or_attisri«f,', , whose actions aro regulated "'by.-their ~; forms and^sfcrueturos, and these 'latter ij acain. deiiend upon their surroundings. ]i •■Tie lecturer described tho "plant>fol --.S mations," as the groups ol plant-life m aa they are naturally found are called, and the way in, which these result •the natural conditions. . They , aro Vu, modified by both climatic and soil con» 3$ ditions, and more especially by their ?1 water requirements. A curious po : nt I;* of difference between physical and & physiological dryness wa* Plustratcd by „|? the statement that some plants actually ;& living in water are bo constituted that _.:g the water they live in is, to all and purposes, aa dry as a desert. Dr. A', I Cockayne showed a large number of £# ! very beautiful laatera slides, ittw* ■£ i tracing plant formations. At elusion of the address, he was accorded"*/ j a hearty vote of thank* "' At this Timaru Court yesterday, htf-'ffi fore Judge Hazeldcn and a. jury of four, *> a civil suit was heard,-in which H..V. \r Stapleton, aoterk, claimed £557 dam-'; s * ages from Samuel Tanner, polka con- £' stabile, for an, assault alleged to been committed by'defendant whilst'on duty in Timaru on the 7th December % last. The plaintiff's story was that no was good.humouredly chasing a young H man, mistaking him for a" friend/ along -| Stafford street, at 10.30 p.m;, when,J| they nan into two policemen, rtniuraH and Dalton, that he chaffed Taame_|| about some trifle, and Tanner -tfruenn him on the .jaw, knocking him •nd then arrested him andlock-od wamA up; His lower jaw waa broken in ,§F?s§| places, and the cure was Tffolongod- *»J|| painful. Plaintiff's atory was bornted by four witnesses to *_***___$. that they .saw four, men * tandm ß / getber, and there was one down. yJW|§s of tho witnesses, a woman, saw a blow si ruck, and another that ho \ heard • blow. For tho defence defendant and his companion oonstalijo, the young fellow who waa chased (a stranger ih Timarn), «■ thw* others testified that plaintiff *# while ran- . nine and before he reached tho police- :■ men The evidence was very evenly ; balanced, apd the all - day The jury retired at. 9.20, and m ; an hour returned with a verdict for defendant. V The monthly meeting of tho Oxford ■; branch, of the Farmers' Union was h*ld . ? on Monday, Mr Cooper presiding. Tho • eecretary wa» requested to write to tne J. North Canterbury, Executive conveying \ the branch's approval of tlwir actaon ~.< in joining the Canterbury Employers' ,1 Association. In reply -to Mr Tram a fi letters regarding mutual insurance, tho 1 secretary waa requested to inform nun i that ho waa at liberty to give a-ifoe-...J tisre on insurance in Oxford, wall be supported hy line branch, and-jj which all members will be invited to;,| attend, the branch would not assume vl I any responsibillity concerning expenses. ,| In regard to the horse parade, to (aKecSjj place on October 4th. it was decided'lS that a charge of $i be made ftx *_"_ mission to tile ground', and ron bo avot admitted. Mr o'Halkwaa;| introduced the subject of next Winter Show, pointarrg out the necea-»J dty of takiiig preliminary steps* to-J wards preparation and and;-J finally the wcretaiy of, tho Winter;3| Show Committee was requested to ©all-| a meeting of the committee for Scptenw| her 17th. A Geweiral discussion tooK;! place upoa tiio Lyttelton HaxboorJ Board and proposed canal, and th«,S chairman, aa delegate, was to support tho Darfiold' brawh s regarding the canal. Mr O Ha»«|g loxan complained that. tho wp||g of tho revision of charges for ©os#j|| mi_iim which had. been promised M*_\ by the president of the Cnamber «|| Commeroo ihad not yet been *r«*iy_||| In- Wm, and tho ohairmani was■ eH to mention the matteT at tha a«*3|| executive mcetirg of the Uuaon. tml

The Tramway Board intend holding a trial of QuartierV, track cleaner tomorrow. A tram will leave the Square at 1 pm.

An old age pension of £23 per annum was granted to a man at Lyttelton yesterday by Mr H. W. Bishop, s..m.

The Sumner tramway track has been completed as far n* Watson's Store, and the end of the Hue from the store to tho Bat lis is now under construction, and will lie completed in tbe cour.-e of a few days. Next week the lection of the old line in front of Andrews's quarry will be taken up and tho new track laid, and this work is expected to be finished in about a fortnight.

The twenty locomotives with tenders which M<asr» Price Brothers, of Thames, have contracted to build for the Hailway Department are to be delivered within thr<<> years. The amount of tho firm's tender "is nearly £80,000, being at the rate of something lew* than £4000 per engine*. All locomotives will be of four cylinder balanced, compound typo, Himilai* to the two engines made at Addington, wind now running on the Hurunui-Bluff section.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal* is forwarding a petition against live pigeon shooting to the House as foou as the number of signatures readi one thousand. Over eight hundred signatures have been appended iv Ohristehurch, and the petitions in tho suburbs havo been largely signed. It is likely that Mr Chas.'Lewis, M.H.R., will be asked to present the petition.

At Auckland Mr Kettle, S.M., gave judgment yesterday in the cases of selling indecent postcirds against.. Barney Barripp. He held that tho cards ''Reflections," ••Psycho," ''A Bally Dancer," and "Aii.stral'iau Native Bear" were dearly libininous, and intended to have an indecent, iinniornl and obscene effect, and Tvero calculated to havo a pernicious influence in depraving, demoralising, and debaudiing tho minds of poisons, especially boys and girls, into wbese hands they might come, besides prejudicing good morals. A.s the defondant had previously been fmed £5 a nominal penalty of 5s and costs was inflicted in each case.

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., presided at tho Lyttelton Magistrate's Court yesterday. Two boys, named Charles Stono" and Archibald pleaded guilty to a charge of having assaulted Qnouy Toy, a Chinaman. It appeared that the Chinaman had chased the boys, who each threw a stone at him. Ono stone etruck tho man on tho left cheek, inflicting a severo cut. Stone, the elder boy, who had been before tho Court, several times previously for stone throwing, was fined 10s and given a fortnight in which to pay tho fine. Ho was eevorely reprimanded by tho Magistrate, who said that if he appeared before the Court again he would ha sent to Burnham. Tho other boy, Oken, was convicted and discharged. In the ease Emily F. Turpin versus Amelia Lobartte, claim for possession of n house, his Worship ordered defendant to vacate the house within a week. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following oases:—Cliarlea Hopkins v. T. A. Garrat, claim £5 lis Od; Albert John Thomson v. Jasper Salt, claim £3 14s Gd; J. W. Smith and Company v. John Mora, claim £4 17s 6d. Mr Beswick appeared for tho plaintiffs in all threo cases.

At tho Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr V. G. Day, S.M., Francis Moody was charged that on August 24th ho 1/hd conducted a scheme by the disposal of envelopes by which permission was given to havo an interest in such (scheme. Mr Graham appeared for tho dofondant, who pleaded "Not guilty." •Sub-Inspector Dwyor said iho information was laid under section 1$ of'tho Gum ing and Lotteries Act.. Tho sect calling themselves Spiritualists had recently taken the old German Church at tho corner of Worcester aud Montreal streets. On tho night in question a meeting was held at which a charge of sixpence for admission v.as made. Envelopes woie given to nil who wero admitted, giving an interest in tho winning of prizes consisting: of drawings made by Mrs Chapman under tho influence of spirits; There was also an oil painting offered, for which shilling subscriptions uere solicited. Constables Gibson and Ward, who had .attended tho meeting;, gave evidence. For tho defence, Mr Graham said that tho Act did not aim at -.transactions of an innocent nature. Tho envelope system was adopted by Mrs Chnpmiih as tho best and simplest way of allotting two drawings without exciting joalousy. Francis Moody, secretary ot tho society, and Mrs Chapmnn gave evidence for the defence. His Worship inflicted a fine cf 20s and costs. Minnie Chapman was then charged with the came offence as Moody. His Worship agreed that she had gained nothing by the scheme, _fid convicted and discharged tho accused. Alfred Emerson vcap similarly charged. His Worship said there was no necessity in this case to plead "Guilty." Accused had only taken monoy at the door, and.had had nothing to do with tho tickets. Ho would bo discharged.

Spring Fashions.—One of tho attractions of Christchurch at present is the D.I.C, which is truly termed tho "Rendezvous of Art and Fashion." Just now, whilst tho novelties and newest creations are on exhibition from ell the fashion centres of the globo, ladies feel a decided charm in inspecting "modes of tho moment," "dainty toilettes," "triumphs of textures," all soft and summery, which, being all well-attuned, appeal to the lovers of. fashion as the freshest, prettiest, and daintiest tliat can bo 6een anywhere in the colony. 12 Dress materials are in requisition just now. Ladies who are looking for smart and exclusive goods should see our summer weights in dress cloths. They are tho oink of fashion in point of style and design. Call and see thorn before buying elsewhere. It will repay you. They cany the finest possible margin of profit, which means a good and reliablo article at a moderate price. Black, Beatlio and Company. 13

Now arriving, the Robey steam engines, in all classes, oil engines, gas engines, and steam pumps, etc. Particulars from H. McClelland, 224 Cashel

streot. sole representative. o Now—just now—and for a few days, watches will bo sold at cost price. We are over-stocked, and want money. Clarke and Co., practical watchmaker, 148 Colombo 6treet. 9

Importers can save time and money by handing their documents to N.Z. Express Co., Ltd., for clearance through customs. All transactions treated as strictly confidential. 11

An announcement respecting a special showing of smart and stylish spring and Bummer suitings at Graham. Wilson, and Smellie's appears in another column, a-perusal of which will well repay thoso requiring high-grade tailoring at reasonable pcices tor tho Exhibition season. 9

You aro invited to call and inspect first shipments of new season drapery, mercery, model millinery, etc., now showing by Messrs Beath and Company. In view o"f the Exhibition season, this firm have ordered very largely from all the principal centres of fashion; the values promise to excel anything shown H tho past, uiid should meet >ith ready salo. Customers should place fioir dressmaking and tailoring orders early to avoid disappoint ment. Remember, wo can, and will, give satisfaction. 12

The Road to Health. Paved with good digestion. Bragg's Vegetable Charcoal. Invaluable for indiaest'.on, diarrhoea, fevers, etc. Powder 2s, 4s, 6s; hiscuits, Is, 2s, 4s. All Chemists. Ura_g, Wigmore &treet, London Eur- > 24

Hulbert, Slaymaker and Co. (next Freeman's), are now showing their Spring and Summer Suitings, etc., for 190f>-7, and it may unhesitatingly bo said that this is the finest selection of new season's goods of their kind the firm hns ever had. Gentlemen who may he thinking of new suits are urged not to delay in placing their orders with Hulbert._ Slaymaker and Co., os by doing this at once they will avoid the inevitable rush by-and-by (when the Exhibition season is closer at hand), end thus obviate disappointment. 8

AH who read the "Triad" (and wo liave reavon to know .such re.-vders are legion) wiil be much pleased with " » September number of our popular «.•-•■- temporary. The vairpus artijcles on musical, scientific, and kindred matters n.ro most interesting, and of a nature not to be found in the daily newspapers. The "Triad's" position is unique. May it long continue to flourish in its particular j-nhere of usefulness. " ] 1 Always consult Henry Hughes for patents, as all instructions in connection with same are completed on tho spot, 183 Hereford street. 1263 If you have the faintest suspicion that your eyes ore not just right, if they bother you in any way. it's best to nave them examinrd at once. Do not go to the average opticion or spectacle seller, for he : a unable to distinguish between optical defects »nd diseases, but consult John It. Proctor, 180 High street, ChristcLmrch, who will give you a thorough exanination, free of chargo. 214-5

Mr E. A. Earp, consulting optician by examination, iray be consulted daily at F. T. Pannell and Co., Cathedral square. Hours, 9 a.m. till G p.m. Artificial light used. Consultation free. Moderate prices. 14