GENERAL NEWS

Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS

.Bishop Julius is to preside at the business men'vS luncheon to he tendered to Mr _Dan Crawford, the well-known lecturer and explorer, on Tuesday. Mr Crawford will arrive to-morrow, and will be tendered a reception by the Mayor at 11 o'clock. Hie first meeting will be held to-morrow evening, at the Choral Hall. The Poverty Bay River Board had before it yesterday a report prepared by Mr Laing Meason, of Wellington, on the subject of flood prevention. The reporting engineer recommends works costing £45,000. ""- - rateablo value of property in the river district is £730.000. and the whole work can be completed and maintained with a rate barely exceeding one penny in the pound. A very large number of valuable mats, etc.. 6urround the body of the late chief Takaranzi Mete Kingi ("telegraphs our Wanganui correspondent), and as 6ome rather suspicious looking Europeans have been apparently surveying them much too closely, the Natives have issued a notice that Europeans will not be admitted to tho pa after nishtfall without soecial permission, and a strong guard has been placed round the spot where the body of the deceased chieftain lies. The Board of Governors of the McLean Institute met yesterday afternoon. Present: Messrs H. W. Bishon, S.M., George Harper, F. Horrell, Bishop Julius, Rev. John Mackenzie, Rev. P. N. Knight, and Mesdames Sandstein and Wilson. Apologies were made for the absence of Bishop Grimes, tho Mayor (Mr H. Hol'and). and Mr B. M. Molineaux. Mr Bishop was voted te tho chair. The report of the Visiting and Institutions Committee was anproved. Accounts amounting to £10-56 8s Id were passed for payment. The annual meeting was fixed for August 20th, and the date of tho Founder. Dinner was fixed for October 15th. An interesting little sidelight was divulged during the hearing of a case at the Supreme Court (says the Wellington "Post"), in which an appeal was made against the Magistrate's decision in re card to certain by-laws framed by alocal body with the object of nrevonting the driving of stock through tho streets during certain hours. ' One of the learned counsel who had beon retained for the appeal, and who resides in the locality concerned, admitted, in reply to a question by the Bench, that it had been found neceseary to shoot a steer which had run amuck in his earden. Added interest was given to the incident by the fact that the argument dealt partly with tho point as to whether stock being'taken to and away from certain saleyards constituted a menace to life and limb. Counsel explained that the animal which had received its untimely quietus had escaped from a railway truck, and had scampered on to his E roperty. The trespasser had its gbting* blood roused, and refused to listen to the voice of reason, all attempts by the drovers to chase it out of the domain of which it had taken temporary possession meeting with failure. Ono of counsel's sons thereupon tried the more effective argument of th. loaded gun. and the animu . which made its debut on forbidden property in the full flush of youth and vigour was carried away in tho _vise of dead to bo eventually carved up for human con.umptiou on the dinner tables of the housewives of the district.

"E.M." has contributed £2 to the Coal and Blanket Fund, and W. E. -Munciay and' Sons £2 2s. fl'c have to acknowledge receipt-o* 16> from .T.K.L.. on'b-ohalf of tho Coal I and Blanket Fund.' mo amount has j been handed to the Mayor. I The frost at - Gore on Wednesday I 'light- was the most severe experienced '• ; or four years, 11 degrees being reJ corded. Only 40 points of rain for 16 day. have been registered this month. The St. Martin's Burgesses' Association is promoting an amendment to the [ Tramways Act, under which the St. | Martin's line was constructed, provid- | 'nst that, in the case of new works and I Hints, no appropriation -hall ho mado j 'or renewals and depreciation for two i y ears. also providing for tho disposal of ! surpluses in special rating areas. The Wellington Operatic Company's ! s 'x nights' season of the opera "Paul j <L_p..." which closed on Wednesday I night, has boon a triumphant success jU_ .graphs our correspondent). -There i bar,., been packed house* nightly and it is understood the takings run into tour figures. During the interval on i Wednesday night Mr Tom Pollard, who coached the players, and undertook the duties of stage manager, was presented with •< cheque for .. substantial amount, and Mrs P_* lard was presented with a set of silver brushes. It is not often that it is found necessary to nut the law into operation against those who are expected to be it., guardians (says the 4 "Otago Daily Times"'), bin. it seems that tho recent wholesale apprehensions of persons riding bicycles have even been extended tc one "gentleman in blue." The individual concerned was riding along King Edward street, in South Dunedin. when ho came within the grasp of the long arm of the law in tho person of Constable Havelock, and as a result fie will make his appearance at the Cit. • Police Court on Friday morning. Mr Haulon will appear for the defendant, and the caso should provide some interest. Good progress is reported in connexion with the steps being taken by Presbyterians in Sumner to raise monov for the purchase of a site for a church. The concert hold about a fortnight ago in aid of the fund realised over £10, and was so successful that numerous requests have been made to ; the committee to give a repetition of it. Arrangements are in hand at present with tho view of acceding to these j requests. It is also probable that two | or three concerts will be given within ! the next month or so in aid<of the fund. The committee has about £160 in hand at present, and a meeting is to be held shortly to go into tho question of a site. The committee has four sites under consideration. Dr. Hardwick Smith. Medical Superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, in a lecture on eugenics on Tuesday, referred to tho notoriously bad state of tho teeth of children and adult, in the colonies. He said that thero was a theory going the rounds in Australasia that this state of affairs was due to the lack of a .alino substanco in the blood. But his theory of tho cause oi bad teeth in New Zealand and Australia was that it was due to tho amount of sweet stuff given to young children. They had practically unlimited access to cakes and sweets—far greater than was the case with the poorer, and even the middle, classes at Home. Thero. one result of the confining of food to absolute necessities was good tooth. Despite the cold weather that lias been experienced iv Napier during the past few weeks, a band of about a dozen local swimming enthusiasts have not j departed from their determination to have a dip in the Municipal Baths each i morning during the wintry months, j Concerning this a story is told by the j caretaker A Maori journeyed to tho i institution tho other morning, .tusked ] for and was shown to a hot bath. Passing along tlie corridor he asked tho caretaker if swimmers used tho cold water pool during the winter. Tho caretaker replied in tho affirmative, and just then about a dozen swimmers slippod out of a dressing room and froglike, went, one after tho other, head first into tho icy cold water. Tlie Native was dumbfounded. "Ahl" he cried, "this no baths. By gorry, this the lunatic asylum 1" An unusual sight i. io he seen on tho Racecourse road in the vicinity of the entrance to the courso (says the "Southland Times"). In theso days of high prices for foodstuffs, and tho genoral complaint of the difficulty in making ends meet, the sight referred to I would have gladdened the eyes of j many a housewife if the goods had i been in a sound state. In tho raco- ; course reserve there is a fairly large \ lagoon, in which a number of ducks die- , port themselves, and, as is well known, they have a peculiar preference for laying their eggs in water as against the nest, and. in consequence, tho eggs are lost. It is evident that the pond had been cleaned out, and the discovory made of hundreds of duck of course, all'past the useful stage. These have been carted out of the course and deposited on the roadside, and what ,'ould have been a valuable marketable commodity has been wasted. The plans of the New Colosseum Picture Theatre, to bo erected in the vicinity of the north-western corner of Cathedral squar*, indicate that the building will be handsome and up-to-date, both externally and internally. The main entrance will be from Cathedral square, the entrance hall being twenty feet wide, with a red tiled floor and richly ornamented ceiling. It will give access to the main foyer—one of tho chief features of the building, and an innovation in connexion with picture theatres in Christchurch. On one side is the main staircase, seven feet wide, leading to the gallery, on the other side is the exit staircase, and in tlie middle is the entrance to the auditorium. Round three sides of the foyer is a gallery, practically anothei foyer, supported by largo Grecian-lonic columns with a richly-ornamented wrought-iron balustrade between. The circle will have seating accommodation for 400 people, and the stalls will accommodate 700. The exterior has been designed in the classic manner, the central feature being fluted Doric columns, which support the pediment. The plain pressed brick panels on each side of tho column, will give the building a bold and pleasing appearance. Some valuable advice upon "How to Live" was given by Dr. Hardwick Smith, Medical Superintendent of the Wellington Hospital, in the Town Hall on Tuesday, evening, under tho auspices of the Wellington City Council and the Eugenics Education Society. Dr. Smith dealt with the law of preservation in its orimitivencss, and said that if we had kept somo of tho old ideas it would have been bett. we had not. Governments were never going to influence tho health of the race alone. Coercion could not do it; they must have the co-operation oi people. Ono individual who broke the laws of health affected all those around him. If a child carried out but ono health law a day and told others to do so, that child, he maintained, was fit to become a member of the Eugenics Society. What they wanted was to educate, so that the laws of health would be observed in every home, and untold misery would bo averted thereby. Ho urged that they should teach children from the time they were born. They should give them natural food, and in this connexion he mentioned that he had noticed very few children come into the hospital who had been fed upon those lines. Ho emphasised the necessity for cleanliness, making children wash their hands regularly before meals and to stop putting them in their mouths, the avoidance of overstrain, and for correct breathing, remarking in connexion with the latter that he knew of few rases of consumption where the subjects had been correct breathers. He aho cor. demix! bad habits, specially deprecating that of cigarette smokin'" among*t your:;; X___. "

I The foLowing matters ate to come '< b_o«> the Council oi Conciliat.on at I ilO a- m - °" tn ° i i .itioiu .!:— j Christchnrch jewellers, 20th iust.; C_iH erbul '- v paiMoners. Ai;„_ s t «~?tIt; tinniture trades. August 7th. Xho plans have boon ,- -sq.Vt.-d f nr t } lo duplication o! u_u ;■ n.o:: of the tho cemetery mi-i \\ n::w -\ 'L.-v have ixjen toruaict. _ to W.-i,;;.,..,,., ;',-.,- t j lt . issue ot t»e <':.i •-;_-(.,,_::, j; ~ !: ] t " 0 . rising the worn. Tho ore-, -.da oi ; ...lis , ;; <~nuoxjon with the co ■•:ifi(at- l -: 1 _;' ;he 1 .irw.od-.NO.-tli boa.,: u._;._.i\- •■--,, iea..u\l tlie beach nt H:)g l!tllll _ i,:, t owing to a short a._> ot ...ves this :■,•- „i the work 1. ; _ t--.vu >>; ,-c- ; ..,..(. [ n tnc meantime the . nU ot .n:;-,ng up the span wire . in-iug _nni_. .•>!. In regard to tl:,-. <h-st :■ ..-'nm of ducks on tn. Avon, th- .\<r _n.U!satiQn So-j ciety l-.a .<.;...,, v ,.i,xi that certain tin-: author. _! ;,-.5...s ar, .-hooting the 1 i.iic ks. As there are .some miro-hred i ducks wl-.i-.h the Society does not! want .iotn.ved. an> unauthorised per- * sons shooting on the river, or any of < the local sanctuaries, will bo pro. c- ' cuted. * i A solitary first offender charged with j drunkenness, who looked very ill and I miserable, appeared before -It 11. \Y. I Bishop. S.M., a; the Magistrate's Court j yesterday. The sitting occupied ! barely one minute. Tho man pleaded | guilty. Sub-Inspector MacKinnon said i that the man had bad to be attend* .1 ' ! \v a doctor, and £1 Is . T --. n ..\s had! been incurred. Accused, v. 1 *"- pleaded ; guilty, was convicted and .li. charged. : In regard to the statement published in Vancouver that the steamer. Xia- : jjara, Makura, and Mamma are te be \ fitted as armed merchant ment, the I general manager of the Union Steam \ Ship Company, Dunedin (says our cor- • respondent) states that up to the pre- ; sent he had received no intimation that , the Admiralty proposed to take such a conrso, although he had heard rumours to that effect. That "pence make pounds" wa_ .. fact that received ample demonstration at St. Mary of the Angels' Church, Wellington. It is a custom of this church that each member of the congregation donates a weoklv subscription of Id to the paying off of the debt upon the Catholic schools. It was an- i nounced at the High Mass on Sunday j that tho revenue derived from this j humble source for the Inst twelve ! mouths totalled £130 7s od. "Does it not become a sort of .second i nature for a motorist to sound bis born ; when approaching a street corner." j asked Mr Beswick of his client, the do- j fendant in a claim for damages arising i out of a collision between a motor-car and a bicycle, at the M_- r is.-rate's Court yesterday. "I wish it was so," interposed -Mr H. W. Bishop. S.M "But people don't always hear these horns when they are sounded ."-pursued Mr Beswick. ' .Veil, I do, anyway, 0 interjected the Magistrate. The friends of Mrs Daniel, a Russia:: j artist, who has been laid up with a very serious illness, have arranged to dispose of a number of her works oy art union. Dr. Mickle is acting as secretary, and, as will be seen by ai> advertisement in another column, tho pictures aro on view at his residence. The twelve pictures include n life-.i.0 portrait of Captain Cook, and local scenery, "Iv the Domain," "On the Avon," etc. There is a Russian scene, entitled "Early Spring in Russia." Sir Robert .Stout on Wednesday reiterated the hope previously expressed at Victoria College that the new professor of mathematics to be appointed will not be of tho school of "abstract" mathematicians (telegraphs our Wellington correspondent). "Practical" mathematics, ho said, was what was required, and it would be calamitous to the College to get a man of tlio "abstract" typo. Tlie College's record in mathematics in tho past, ho concluded, had not been satisfactory. To the many benefactors of x\nckland has now been added tho late Robert Wallace', cf Mangero. Under the will of that gentleman live public institutions will benefit, the executors appointed being Mr C. J. Parr. C.M.G. (Mayor of Auckland) and Mr G. J. Garland (chairman of the Board of Education). The bequests total £600. and aro to lie dovoted to tho following (?ood objects:—Presbyterian Home Mission or Itinerary Ministers' Fund. £200; Salvation Army, £100; Methodist Home Missions Maori work at the disposal of the Rev. Wm. Gittos. £100; Presbyterian Home Mission School, Mahoenui, £100; and the Leslio Presbyterian Orphanage, Meadowbank, £100.' Chilblains.—-No need to suffer from this painful and irritating complaint, when a remedy of proved efficacy (Chiibo CCCC) can be obtained from chemist or storekeeper. . Numerous testimonials from delighted users have been received. 2 Harriman is givon credit for having said that not one man in twenty recognises an opportunity when ho sees it. Will you be that one man in twenty, and recognise the opportunities now offering at Hallenstein Bros.' (Ltd.) Great Winter Salo of Men's Mercery, Clothing, aud Hats. To-day the premises will bo open until 0 p.m., and we would advise you to study the values in -he seven large windows, values that hatve never beforo been offered in this city. 6 Mrs Rolleston, Cathedral square, makes a speciality of Transformations to Order. They are considered by numerous ladies in all parts of New Zealand equal to the best made in London. Prices from four to. twelvo guineas. 7 It is announced that the trustee in the assigned estate of William Pellew, .raper, of Eltham and New Plymouth, has accepted the tender of Messrs T. Armstrong and Co.. Ltd.. of Christchurch, for the two- stocks. We learn that the price paid is distinctly to the* advantage of Messrs Armstrong and Co., and probably will be, to ■"'•>. firm's clients later on. 1 Walter J Watson, D.8.0.A.. London. Expert Optician (near Kin. aid's) Accurate Sight-testing and Spectaclefitting Repair, to Frames and broken Lenses matched Charges moderate 9 Family groups made frequently become treasured possessions. High-class work at moderate pr.ces is the poiicy of Steffano Webb. Telephone 1989, Petersen's Buildings, High street. . The last few days of the Sale of Stuart's stock, in consequence of tho low prices, keep Messrs Armstrong's busy. Those in want " f "oots should seize the chance of getting them at haif-prico. - 2