GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14996, 17 June 1914, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

To-day's issuo of the "Evening News" will contain an especially interesting historical sketch of tho growth and development of Sydenham, from the days when it consisted mainly of farms, through tho period when it earned thc title of *■•;-> "model borough," down to the present day, when it is a prosperous and progressive part of Greater Christchurch. All this has happened within tho memory of many who aro still living in the district, and several of these men who helped to make Sydenham what it is to-day, tell in thc "News" of the wonderful changes that they have seen. The public buildings of Sydenham, the businesses and industries, its parks aud* sports, and 60 forth, will all be dealt with, and tho articles will bo illustrated by a number of excellent pnotographs. AU Sydenham people, and, indeed, all Christchurch residents who aro proud- of tho progress tliat has i>een made by that district, will want to-night's "Evening News," both to keep as a memento and to send away to friends at a distance. Tho auction announcements of W. E Simes aud Co., Tonks, Norton and Co. Charles Clark, National Mortgage anc Agency Company of N.Z., Ltd., P. S Nicholls and Co., Harris Bros., Pyn< and Co., Maling and Co., Mark Sproti and Co., Abraham and Williams, Ltd. ; and Gould, Beaumont and Co. will b( found on pago 15 of this issuo. An Auckland telegram states thai a Queen street property, with v a frontage of 52 feet, ana a denth of 9C feet, has been sold for £40._0b. T|ie property belonged to the Crombie Estate, and is situated opposite the Bank of Now Zealand. Tho buildings on tho land, which are valued at £5500. are to be demolished as the leasew expiro._ Tho price of tho land works out at £770 por foot. The police are still investigating the recent taxi-cab episode. They have the namo of the young man who accompanied the taxi-driver, but up till last night ho had not been seen. A theory is advanced that the young girl who appeared before thc Court became ill on tho way homo from Kaiapoi, but this is doubted by the authorities who • have charge of the caso. Somothing definite may be pieced together by the end of the week, when it is thought that the men concerned will be asked for an explanation. Applications are called for the appointment to the Chair of Pure and Applied Mathematics at Victoria (University) College, Wellington, which has been rendered vacant by tho election of Professor Picken to be Master of Ormond College in the University of Melbourne. Tho former, and original, occupant of the chair, Professor R. C. Maclaurin, is now president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, L7S.A7 Tho salary is £700 per annum, and tho candidate selected will be required to enter upon tho duties of tho position at the boginning of the torm, in March, 1915. Tho final decision will bo mado by tho Col.ego Council on receipt of a report from the Advisory Committeo of Exports appointed in Great Britain. While excavatinc a rock on the Rawhiti Estato on the western slope of tho Scoria Hill, known as Littio Rangitoto, in Mountain road, Remuera, some employees of the Remuera Road Board on Monday camo across a Maori burying placo with a heap of bones which had evidently been undisturbed for centuries. Thero was no apparent means ,of -ingress to tho cave (.says a Press I Association message). Somo of th© bones had been reduced to powder, but I most of them wero in a state of excellent preservation. Tbo skidls showed that at least a dozen skeletons had been deposited. Contrary to what is usually tho case in such finds, th© skulls were intact, with tho lower jaw complete. With roprchcnsiblo persistency, tho robbery of girls' hair continues in Wellington (telegraphs a correspondent). The latest outrage was reported on Monday by a young woman who had been despoiled of hor locks in broad daylight in ono of tho city's busiest thoroughfares. Tho girl remembered, while in a crowd near tho corner of Cuba and Manners streets, feeling a tug at her hair and at the samo moment there was a warning cry from two other women. She turned round hastily, only to ace tho coat-tails of a tall individual disappearing with celerity up Cuba street. Ho was lost to tbo sight almost beforo she was aware what had happened. In all places in the Dominion where branches of the Social Democratic Party exist, meetincs_ of protest n&amst the continued iinprisonxaent of H. E. Hoi land will be "-©.<_. Tbe meeting in Ohrif-tchurch is to be addfe&ea by Mr j P. C. W T ebb, M.P. Mrs Cunnington has forwarded tho following amounts to Mr E. J. Howard, Trades Hall, Christchurch, for Mr Holland's wife and family:—Rusticua £i, Christchurch United Furniture Trades Union £3 3s, "Mr Papanui'' 2s 6d. Mrs Salkeld os, A Lady 2s od, Anonymous 5s 6d. Mrs Smith ss, A farmer £1, A Friend 2s 6cL

n -""-a men were arrested last night by ~ c t«ctives O'Connor and llegan on a charge of stealing an overcoat from an u °Wl yesterday afternoon. Tnt* tender of Messrs Hnghtling and Marriott, of Christchurch, has been acCe Pm for platclayirig and ballasting °n tho South Island Main Trunk Itait- ! "j?".'- Tho amount of the tender is Tho funeral of tho lato Captain •Joseph McLean took place at Lyttel- * on yesterday, and was attended "by a number of seafaring men and Prominent citi_ens of tne Port. Tho burial service at the puMic cemetery *"« road by thc Rev. .1. J. Bates. A firo was narrowly averted by Constable Beard on Saturday night 7 When passing the new building going up in -Manchester street, between Worcester a «d Hereford streets, ho l.oticed that * P»po leading up to a gas jet, on the hoarding extending to the footpath. ™d burst, and the support was ablazepe procured some water in the building, and soon had tho fire well in hand, and finally Miewcded in extinguishing it. The reopening of the sealing season "as created a great deal of interest, in scaling circles at Bluff, and several vessels are expected to get away on various expeditions .any timo now (snvs Monday's "Southland News"). The schooner Gisborne, and the cutter Antelope, are waiting for favourable weather. Tho Gisborne will bo manned largely by Colac Bay Maoris. Mr Joseph Hatch intends sending tho brigantine Rachel Cohen to tho Auckland Islands w-ith a sealing crew, and it is probable that the cutter Rakiura will again test tho Snares. Tho North Canterbury Hospital Board wrote to the South Canterbury Hospital Board asking whether tho latter insured its employees against accident or sickness. Christchurch companies, it was stated, would only grant, a policy against, accident, and'tho Board was likely to propose some united action on tho part of the various Boards to cover ill contingencies, so far as employees K-ere concerned. The South Canterbury Board decided, when this letter came xsfore them yesterday, to continue their Misting arrangement by which they tvero able to insure all their employees igainst accident for £12 a yoar. 'The south. Canterbury Board has over 60 imployees. At a meeting of the South Cantorjury Hospital Board yesterday, a circular letter was received from tho In-spector-General, stating that delays often occurred on the part of Boards in forwarding statistical information required by the Deportment, and asking that it be sent promptly in future. Tho .chairman said that the Department should set an example in promptness itself. Tho very forms on which the information referred to in this caso wero to be supplied, had net been received until a month after thoy should havo come to hand. Mr Maslin concurred, and on his motion, seconded by Mrs Raymond, it was decided to write to the Department calling attention to their own laxity. In thb course of conversation with Akaroa residents at Akaroa ou Saturday, the Hon. 11. Heaton Rhodes said ho was still keeping beforo the Hon. Mr Fraser, Minister of Public Works, his promise to have the railway lino to Akaroa re-surveyed for a light lino to Akaroa. He stated (according to tho Akaroa "Mail") th... the Christ-church-Little River lino .endowment fund would show a considerable credit this year, as tho construction of that part- of th© line was now fully paid off. It waa pointed out that there would be a considerable increase in tho dairy produce of the district with tho extension of the cheese factories' operations and the building of a new butter factory at Akaroa. "There aro times," said Mr F. G. Horrell last evening at a conference between representatives of tho Farmers' Union and Labour delegate- upon the cost of living, "when the peoplo of Christchurch are supplied with moat which, while not altogether unwhole-r some, is certainly not desirable. In tho months of August, September, and October there is a great deal of meat consumed in Christchurch which is not so good as it would be if it were killed earlier, and kept in'tho freezer till required." He believed, however, that there was a prejudice against froien meat, but for his part, he took it whenever he could get it, and was glad , to do so. Tho point Mr HorrelJ aimed at making was that as the winter progressed the quality of tbe sheep deteriorated, and tha animals killed as spring approached would have been better killed earlier and kept in the freezing chambor till required. By the combined meetings of tho Chapter and the Standing Committee, the Rev. Thomas Albert Hamilton was chosen to be honorary canon of tho Cathedral in place of the Bishop .of Waiapu, late canon of tho Cathedral. Last evening thc Rev. Hamilton was : solemnly admitted to the office by tho Bishop of Christchurch. In tho course of evensong at the Cathedral, the service appointed for the purpose was said i by tho Bishop. The canon-designate was introduced by tho Dean, and after solemn promiso "to assist the Chapter with all brotherly counsel on all matters upon which they might be called todelibci-ate," and a further promise of "respect to those set over him and a fitting courtesy and goodwill to those beneath him," the license of tho Bishop was given into his hand, and, after prayer, ho was led to his stall in the choir. An anomaly in the postal servico was brought beforo the Council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce at its . last mooting. It was explained that lessees of private boxes are placed at a disadvantage in regard to the delivery of postal packets, which are too < largo to go into boxes, as such packets are not forwarded to tho addressees on arrival, as in the case of thoso who roly on the usual delivery by carriers. It*was contended that all articlewhich will not conveniently go in tho boxes should bo dolivered promptly, thus placing box-holders in tho samo position as tbo ordinary public. It was stated that such parcels as thoso in question were retained for tw6 days beforo being delivered, unless the holders of tho boxes sent for thorn in tho meantime. Tho Council resolved to , mako representations to the Post- '. master-General on thc subject. A caso ot considerable interest to ' Education Boards was heard in tho '' New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday (says a Prt«s Association mes- < sage), when tho Taranaki Education - Board sued the chairman and eight | members for £5 lis, being the amount J of expenses paid to a delegate to the Conference ot Education Boards held in . Wellington on May 20th. 1912, and < surcharged by tho Audit . Tho case which was argued at con- t sidcrablo length, hinged on the question ] as to what constituted an official visit » under Section 120 of tho Public Re- i venues Act of 1910. The Conference r was convened by the North Canterbury Board for the day before tho conferenco of local bodies on the Local Go- » vernment Bill, iv which thero was a • clauso for the transference of educa- *■ tional control to local bodies. Tho dele- J gato in question was appointed by tho ' chairman of the Board without a meet- r ing, and was instructed also to inter- - view tho Minister on other matters, " which occupied an additional two days. It was contended by counsel for the i Board that this was not an official ] visit, and, moreover, that as a minute j of the Board subsequent to his return t confirjainj' his appointment did not mention the interview with the Minis- . tor, ho was not authorised by the r Board to havo the interview. Even if that was an official visit, counsel for j defendants contended, the conference t was virtually an official visit, and that _ the interview with the Minister was F tacitly confirmed by the Board. Judg- j a ment was reserved- ' a

A start has been made m connexion * with the work of removing tfwi cSl£ ' tramway poKs in Victoria «tr«rt Yel terday the Tramway RoardV began tno « r t,on of the pole* „??£ edge of tho tootpath to take th. of the centre poles. *"*** iJ" A h £ hir^'i]e ' Court y«.terd»r _ lad of fifteen was arraigned on a chare* of having stolen tho sum of £A f«S. Jno. Iraser. Tho lad. it appeared S not under the control of his paiianZ and had been soot up to a farm at Oil ford, and while thore he stolo tJbo memer from his employer. The wage. dii_ to him almost covered the money stolen Some of the money was also rworered. the balaiw* having been spent, in clot lies. The Magistrate spoke severely «o the lad, who was convicted and <_£ charged. ■ ~^ Tbe engineer to tho Lvttdtdo ■ •■__•■»' hour Bo_r<l, Mr C. taiehTZ trial ot the light of tho new whi&tlinff • buoy which is to bo stationed at the Heads An ail-night trial wj_s riven and the flashing light acted: perfectly The whistling apparatus naturally did not- act in tho calni water of the hirbour—except when the buoy-was beinc lowered into tho water, when it whittled shrilly- and it i„ hoped that tha - w-itcr at tho Heads will never be so calm thnt the whistle will not sound moro or le>.s efficiently. When the Marino Department has notified mariners in tha . u-»ia! manner, the buoy will bo moored at the Heads. For somo unexplained reason there was an unusually active Bacchanalian celebration in the vicinity of Gala street on Saturday evening (nays the Invercargill "Times"). Whether tho event being celebrated was the break in the " .weather or the violenco of tho militant suffragettes was not ascertained, but a reporter who visited tho locality about 11 p.m. encountered no fewer 'than., seven large parties within a few minutes' walk of tho hospital. Nor had their supplies been meagre, for tho element of joyous disregard for peaco and quiet was marked. The bulk of the parties had apparently exhausted their supplies, for their noisiness had a not*;: of melancholy in it, but ono party c*H_7 tinned to hold high festival in tlj-' vicinity of tho Park school. How many parties would have beon found by an active searcher it is. of course, impoesiblo to say, but taken pro rata witn the area referred to the neighbourhood might easily havo been thickly infested. A movement is on foot amongst the Presbyterians in Sumner to erect a church there. For the past eighteen months services have been held on Sunday mornings in Sumner, and it is felt that tho time is opportune to takes in hand tbe question of providing a church. At the meeting of tho Christchurcl?" Presbytery held last week it was Accided to discoso of a section at Monck's Bay. originally acquired with tho>intention of providing a site for a church . to serve Sumner, Monck's Bay and Rodeliffs. Tho proceeds of tho sale of tho- . section, £100, have been handed to tho committee conducting Presbyterian Cervices in Sumner, which has under offer a site in the borough which i_ considered suitablo for a church, tho price ;' being £1-0. A canvass has been start- . od to raise tho additional amount..and so far the collectors havo met with encouraging results. A correspondent of tho Auckland "Herald" states that on a recent trip on*.the Main Trunk line ho waa aurprised at the number of Indians seen at the various stations. **About this time last year," ho continued, "I wu in conversation with a Canadian fruit grower, who informed mo : _h_± Hindus and coolies overran' British Columbia, and gained coutrol' of. all the white people's necessities, such as stores, groceries, vegetables. milk, and even bread. " They simply scrape • rthd' starve, with one ambition, t<> monopolise tho white man's necessities, so that he is compelled to ... deal rvithand support them. If . this is .-' what New Zealand is coming to, .then it is time tho New Zoalander woke up to hold bis own. otherwise .'this aarthly paradise will ho a thing of " tho past, and not worth tho calling. Once "tho-■Hindus' get a footmg..tb.ey . rill .oread the news to their frionds, .. md they will arrive in shiploads.". To-morrow afternoon several -tnem_ers cf the North Canterbury iJdu-.-ation Board will go to Hororata to neet tho residents of the district and .onfer about the site of tho - proposed lew school. The members will first Irive round tho district and ascertain vhere the householders lir.. Tho<_u»;ion at issuo is whether it .would.be vise to build ono largo central school or wo small ones at either end of the di_irict. "A large central school would bo . jetter staffed than small ones ooold he, _ md the consolidation of school* is a . jolicy favoured by the Board and tho. . Department. In tho report of tbo -ducation Committee, when dealing vith the Education Commi-Bion'a t*> ' >ort, the following paragraph ooCUM vith regard to the consolidation of chools:-—'*Thi_ subject should recare rreater co7isideration . from' Education 3oards, as both in primary and district -igb schools improvement in efficiency, ogetner with economy, of adnuitisita* ion, might be secured," A -return •-. Rom Horarata shows that "With a Oenrom Hororata shows that with a con- .' vith in a threo-milo radius 'of thp ichool. Mr W. H. E. Knowled, reprcsontaive of tho Kalamazoo LoobO-lcaf ■ jedger Agency, has arrived in Cbristihurch. The advantages of this new edger will be placed before the public ly Mr Knowlcs, who .was *cry successful in his demonatraions in Wellington, where* the edger is already extensively used. 6 For all 'Hair Tieatments, Face Treat- ." iicht-. 'Ele?:rilv,i-s. SliaJipooi *-g, etc, Mrs* Uollo.ston's Cathedral square, is recommended. Highest qualified as>ist- J [ints only Irom Australia. Personal attention by appointment. Transformai ' lion*, Tovipic., -md Switches a special- ■■ . ity. : 9 . Family groups made frequently be-" •omc treasured possessions. High-class york nt moderate prices is tho policy if Steffano Webb. Telephone 1980. ?ctcr--en's Buildings, -High street. 2 With the sale of Stuart's assigned tock to-day will be included a special ►urchase of 100 dozen drawn-thread rork linen pillow-shams. Their price is iMially -Is od to "is lid. You can select I 3js !)d a> Armstrong's- - I Walter .1. Watson, D.8.0.A.. Lon- . on. Rupert Optician (near Ktncaid's). icrurate Sight-testing and Snectacletting. Repairs to Frames and broken ,ense_ matched. Charges moderate. 8 Madame Prendrrgast desires to anotinco to" the Indies of Christchurch hat she is no v.- showing a largo -Ol_cion of exclusive mwlel-- in gowns, eosfurs« and hats, received from 'aris and London during tho season, nd all now reduced to cost price, to take room for the new goods. Domtion Buildings. Cathedral f-pnare. » With .>o many items incident to a trge drapery stock such as C. Btuiirt'.s that arc incomparable as to alite aiid prici*. it is wise only to ac- _ i«ip our readers to visit Armrtrong and o's Stores beforo spending their ,onev. Armstrongs are recognised aa io greatest value-givers, and »ell laintain their prestige. 2 Why not be comfortable in the cold -eather? Odourless Oil Heat-rs, ot Arfect construction, from 18s 6d", rul-y lass fronts from 19s Gd. Hastie, Bull, nd Pickering, opposite Ballantyne a. 8

ew Road-Mending Machine. An experimental test has been made i Paris of a portable road-mending lachine. consisting of a *.ix hon>e- . jwcr gasoline engine, actuating an r compressor, tho air being led from storage tank to a pnuematic ran*- _ -v

Mi " ; "" tner and a pneumatic pick, the latter being described as merely .a modification of the woll-kno-wn pneumatic rjvoter. The workman holds tbo tool close to the road and pushes tho pick under the surface, raising it up as ha proceeds. It is said that the work irts done at- a much, faster rato than was possiblo with the ordinary pick- • The pfieumatic rammer aJ«o Rare good • results. Ono advantage of the pystom re that several men nan work from the game compressor plant. The trial w-ems to indicate that" mechanical road-mend-ieg is more effective than tho present method. The Bencfidal Effect of Golf. Tho prophylactic virtues of golf were lauded by Ih\ R-. M. Gunn, ono of the 6pcakens at * deputation which interviewed tho Hon. F. H. D. Bell at, Wellington yns-rerday, in tho interest*, cf the Taratahi C-irterton Racing Chih '(telegraphs <">"r correspondent.). Dr. Gunn stated that calls at his surgery eince golf started at Oartorton had (particularly in the case of lady patients) sadly diminished, which snowed thai polf hod a very honofirial effect on the health of the people. The Luck of "Two-Up." "Two up' , is generally a. common pamo where men congregate, and a ■.•;■ Epical ease is recorded from up tho " J tain Trunk line., near Taumarunui. .where road-making i.s in progress. It was 1 Sunday morning and a "'two up" tjohool was in full saving. One of tho men on the work was going to the creek with his washing contained in n kerorene tin. Hβ wa« asked to talse a hand in tho game but at first lio declined. Being pressed, however, he put down his tin of washing by tho roadside and joined -in tho game. He had a wonderful run of luck and within a fewhours had mopped up a'l the current cash, his mates having possessed tho yam of something Mke £80. The fortunate one immediately packed nis swag -and mad« for the railway station •whence ho took a train tho next morning to Auckland. He spent a nix weeks' holiday, which included a visit to Wel- . jington. and then h« returned to his ' old camp with nothing left. He found his tin of soiled linen where ho had left >ii and took it to tho creek as ho had previously intended and washed it out. " dropping" into his old cxistenco aa v '.nothing had happened. ■>'- THE FACTS ABOUT THE SIDECAR TRIAL. To tho man who wisdes honestly to discover the true significance of the recent side-car trial, the iact that certain machines appear at tho top of the result-list is of very 1 it-tie importance. In gauging the success of any given make of machine ho takes into.account ■ how many of that make started, how 'taaay finished, and the number of marks tho w hole team averaged. Judged in this way,' the results are very interesting. There were three teams of over four machines in tbo trial, and representatives of these three makes tilled first, second, and third places. Two were twin-cylinder machines, of 6. h.p. or over, the other was a single-cylinder machine, the /Triumph, represented by machines of ,3J>and 4 h.p. Iγ. tho matter both of reliability, and condition, the Triumph team mado tho best showing. The Triumph average of condition marks waa 39.2, the next best team average was 38, and the next best, again, 28.8. '} In tho reliability column the averages ■jwore :—Triumph "44. next best 694.8, next best, again, .326.2. Tnoso avorAgos are averages of all machines startling of tho threo makes under discus«on. Taking the averages of the macfaJries irhjch actually .finished, tho Triumph still leads .iwsil.v., Th* condition averages are:—Triumph 49, next ■best 47.5, next Ivest 46. and for reliabill^A^ri, ,^ ,1,6SO » ne * t bc!;fc BQ3 - 5 > ncsfc , wsfc 842. r lt is possible,for any make to BUKe .ipto first place, but. you can't . fluke a good team record. When it is r rmiont.be»d i lhat the modium-powered -•""i n? ! , ,P n -" ,s a far cheaper machine to rod than the big twin-cylinder mnch- ( inw it boat in so -etri.kinc a manner, ,16 is not difficult to understand the enormous popularity the Triumph is enjwying as a side-car machine. It matbe mentionedl that in theWt s olo trials 1 «, ,n . the Triumph took iSLL b, ?.P" z .« s . including the teams' > ££?*' eo '-? , ? e . t »*e-all-round ohiiity has Wetvconclnnvely proved in these com"We r.to n+ present booking X? f / lel for the Tnnfeph. but b. e won the ■T?J ■ J" 06 *! th « wje demand. A<lams, ■i*?,- 4^ c ? ts for Tr »"n»b MotorJ*. TrnjniDh Representative.) 6