GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15612, 9 June 1916, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

There "was a blank sheet at the Police Court yesterday, no cases being called.

"It is not generally known, but it is a fact, that the Itoyal Family has ordered cases of New Zealand honey, by express command," stated Mr Baden Powell at the Beekeepers' Conference at Wellington yesterday.

The annual meeting of tho National Committeo of tho Y.M.C.A. will bo held in Christchurch to-morrow. Representatives from other centres are expected to be present. The sum of £2000 was cabled this week for a hostel in France by the National Treasurer, Mr John I. Iloyds

Owing to the Trannvay Board not having met since the date of the conference arranged by tho Beautifying Association for the improvement of Cathedral square, the conference has been postponed from next Monday night, till a later date. The conference is to be attended by representatives from the City Council, the Tramway Board, and the Beautifying Association.

Nurse Bevilaqua, of Melbourne, who has been engaged by the Health Department to demonstrate methods of treatment by massage of deformity and paralytic conditions resulting from infantile paralysis, will arrive in Christchurch on Monday morning, and by the courtesy ol' the North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, will give demonstrations at the Christchurch Hospital daily durinsr her stay in CJhristchurch, which will extend over about a week.

"A little township with one house, store, and n school," was the description given to Titree Point by a lawyer in the Dimnevirke Magistrate's Court, when the question of the gneecl at which a inotor-cnr pn'ssed through there was under consideration. Tne witness said that the car went through at a reasonable, comfortable pace, while the examining lawyer said he had a witness to prove that it went through the "one house, one school, one st-ore township" like a "scaldcd cat."

Publicans were reminded of their duty towards the travelling public by Mr E. Rawson, S.M., at tne annual 'meeting of the Waikato Licensing Bench, at Hamilton on Monday, when a complaint was received that a party of travellers who, after a long motor journey, called at the National Hotel. Cambridge, at 8 p.m., and could only procure, after considerable trouble, a meal of tea. bread and butter. For what thev received, they also considered tile uharge excessive. Mr Rawson said complaints of this nature were, fortunately, not frequent. Licensees. however, must not forget that they were required to provide reasonable meals at reasonable hours to»bona fide travellers. Usually in complaints of this description the excuse was that the staff refused to woi-l: after certain stipulated hours, but often the wife of the licensc-o filled the broach when the staff was off duty. The Bench scarcely thought tea, bread: and butter a reasonable meal under the circumstances before them. A renewal of the license was granted.

Adcla Pankhurst lectured on ••War" to a fair audience last night. Tho arrivals in New Zealand from oversea during May numbered 1521, ccmparcd with 1572 last vear. The departures totalled 2190, as aeainst 2196 in May, 1915. The Canterbury branch of the Navy League has few members at Akaroa, and the committee is arranging to make an invasion of the borough, in order to push forward a recruiting campaign there in tho Ivoague's interests. It is proposed to send a party to Akaroa and to give an illustrated lecture and concert. A second meeting of creditors in the estate of John Hoskyos, egg farmer, of Upper Riccarton, was held at the office of tho -Official Assignee yesterday. There were only two creditors present, and it was decided to continue negotiations with a possible buyer, and if they did not come to a satisfactory conclusion, to soil the estate by public auction. A Masterton party who went to the Otaki races la<?t week had rather an unique experience (says the "Age"). Tney left Masterton t>y motor-car at (5.30 o'clock on Saturday morning. They encountered a very heavy frost in the Forty Mile Bush, a dense fog at Pahiatua, three or four mobs of cattle in the Manawatu Gorge, three punctures between the Gorge and Palmeiston, two punctures thereafter, and eventually round themselves at. Foxton. When they reached Otaki, they were just in time to oee the last race. The ''Southland Times" says that at a meeting of the Invercargill branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, it was resolved—"'That this branach enters an emphatic protest against the society having a conference with the Waterside Workers at the prosent juncture." From the opinion of the various speakers, it was very evident that if the Executive decided on affiliating with the Waterside Workers it would not have the support of the men, as the railway system of getting grievances settled is entirely different from the Waterside Workers, who strongly believe in the strike system. Mr John Clegg, of Dunedin, delivered a lecture in the Institute Hall, Rangiora, last night, in aid of the Lady Liverpool Fund. The hall was crowded, and the lecture and lantern .slides, which were shown by Mr C. I. Jennings, were very much appreciated. Iu thanking Mr Clegg, on behalf of the Lady Liverpool Committee, the Mayor (Mr C. I. Jennings) said that, in addition to paying his own expenses, Mr Clegg had spent several days in Rangiora selling tickets for tho lecture. On tho motion of Mr IT. C. D. van Ascli. the audience passed . a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer. "Speaking as an officer of 32 years' experience in all parts of tho world, I think tho world is better morally to-day as the result of the Salvation Army open-air meetings than it was very many years ago," declared Commissioner "Hodder at the public meeting in the Army Hall on Wednesday (says the "JTawcra Star"). "Sometimes people say we are very foolish standing iu the open, in twos and threes, as we occasionally do in all weather, preaching the Gospel," added tho Commissioner, "but we never know what good we may do. and some of our results will never be known." He gave numerous instances however, of people having been permanently converted through the open-air meetings.

A Press Association message sav.s that Commissioner liodder, of the Salvation Army, states he is now ready to consider applications for boys anil girls to be received into the homes that have been established to assist orphan and semi-orphan children at the Russell Home (Bay of Islands), tho Grange (He: - ne Bay, Auckland), and Teniuka Hoys' Home. Sons and daughters of men who have fallen at the front or been injured will have priority of entry. Wives of men now serving at tho front, if in ill-health, will also receive consideration in regard to their children, and if a widower desires to enlist lie will receive whatever help the institutions can offer on application to the Commissioner.

The Australian brush turkey is remarkable J'oi' the fact that., unlike other birds, it floes not hatch its ovm eggs. ft heaps up a mound of leaves and other material and allows the. eggs to be hatched by the heat caused by fermentation. This peculiar habit the bird retains in captivity, as is shown by the pair «f brush turkeys in Mrs Roberts's private collection at Beaumaris, near Hobart (says 'the Ho hart "Mercury"). Last season the cock bird gathered together about a ton of leaves and other material. He did all the work himself and would not let the lien'come off t.he perch, even to feedwithout, chasing her away. Indeed, she got so much pecked tliat she had to be removed. The cock is now just as busy pulling the mound to pieces as he previously was in building it up. Unluckily, no eggs seem to have been laid in it.

A statement recently made in an article in a publication issued in the interests of fruitgrowers in Tasmania, to the effect that a disease known as ''iire-b!ight." was prevalent in the island, has attracted the attention of the Commonwealth Director o f Quarantine, and apparently caused some perturbation of the official mind (says the .Hobart "Mercury'") The Acting-Direc-tor of Agriculture in Tasmania (Mr L. A. Evans) is in receipt of a communication from tho Director of Quarantine,, in which reference was made to the newspaper article in question, and further information sought, it being pointed out that "fire-blight" was a serious disease' in America, but has not made its appearance hitherto in Australia. The trouble apparently has arisen through the mistaken use of tho term "fire-blight." Tho Tasmnrian Government Microbiologist (Mr Nicliolls), in a memorandum on the subject, states that "the name 'fire-blight' is loosely applied to a number of diseases of fruit tree 3- especially those which result in the drying-up of the leaves. In Tasmania the name is applied to several different diseases, including the powdery mildew of the apple, the die-back of the apple and pear (Splueropsis malorum and Coniotheeium chomatosporium), and the effects of the rootfungus Armillaria mellea. The ravages of the pear slug are also described very often as fire-blight. In other countries the name is sometimes given to the disease caused by Entomosporium maculaum on pears, apples, and cherries. Tho disease produced by Bacillus amvlovorus, which is known as fireblight in America, does not exist in this State, or. as far as I know, in Australia. There is no certainty, in fact, that it is to be found outside of America. The disease to which the article refers is the powdery mildew (Podospha?ra leucatricha)."

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