GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15918, 4 June 1917, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

+ Tlio tramway time-tables for (King's Birthday) will be a 15 minutes' service 011 the Cashmere Hills-St. Albans Park, 30 minutes' service to North Brighton Beach, and the ordinary weekday time-table on all other lines, except that the 20 minutes' service 10 New Brighton between 5.0 and 6.0 p.m. will not be run. Cheap return excursion tickets will not be sold. The suspension of the "West Coast Times" recalls memories of the prosperous days of the "West Const, when money was plentiful and living costly, when the population of Hokitika ran up to some 15,000, when hotels numbered some ISO, and the "West Coast Times" pay-roll was one of the largest, if not the largest, in New Zealand. In fact, it was such a paying proposition that the first owner used to run a racehorse named Brown Stout —x luxury present day newsnauer proprietors cannot afford to indulgo in (says tho '"Feilding Star"). Commenting on the supply of eoal from Newcastle for New Zealand, the "Westport Times" says: "The Minister of Munitions has announced that the Government intends to import 30,000 tons of Newcastle coal per month. Tho public of the Coast are \ anxious to know how it is intended to supply the shipping for the amount!' During the past fortnight shipping to tho Coast has been insufficient t 0 keep tho mines clear, with ifle result that the bins in this district nre at present full, with the possibility of tlio j mines being idle for lack of shipping. ! Is this efficiency?" '

I The matron of Christdmrch Hospital would be glad to rcceive gifts of toys, books, and periodicals for the uso of patients in the Isolation Hospital at Bottle Lake. Sho would also like knit- . Tel woollen vests for tho children's ward at the hospital. "Is it not a fact that you own a j racehorse?" asked Captain Calvert of ;an appellant boforo the Military Ser- ! vice Board at Masterton on Fi iday. . "I owned a racehorse some two years 'ago," answered the appellant, "but I gave him away as I discovered to my sorrow that horso-racing was not a pro- ■ fitablo proposition." The City Electrical Engineer (Mr E. ■ i E. Stark) has reported to the Town I Clerk (Mr H. R. Smith) that malicious | damage has been dono to the electrical sub-station in Victoria street, the small ! glass window having oeen deliberately I broken. The glass in the window being reinforcod with wire, tho indications were that if stones wero used they were shot from a pea riflo. Dr. Hay, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals, Dr. Truby King, C.M.G., Superintendent of Mental Hospital, and Dr; Beattie, Superintendent of Avondalc Mental Hospital, are in Christchurch for the pui pose- of making an examination into tho mental eondN tion of Charles Butler, now lying in Lyttelton gaol under sentence of death for murder. It is said that the secretary of tho Wellington Racing Club has been sounding the taxi-drivers in the Wairarnpa and Manawntu districts to get them to bring their cars to Wellington on tho occasion of the "Winter Meeting at Trentham. Something like this will certainly be required to convey the crowd that usually attends the Wellington meetings. _ When tho New Zealand troops ar--1 lived in Sy .ny recont y, their a vent was hail.d w th the usua. Lock-a-doodla-docs from the bo t .ts in the harbour, and tho Mosman boat, on its way to ilia Bay, sped close under the hows of ' the big steamer—so close _ that tha young men on the upper dock lifted 1 heir hats and che.rod lustily. A Ion.; Mao.ilander leaning ov r {Tib rail canned tho group, all young, all healthy: Wny,'' ho asivod '"is the war over!'" Tlie Tramway Board's workmen are at present engaged putting in a loop to the shingle pit at Sockburn, recently acquired by the Board. "When this V CR!!' C . ' s finished, the completion of t!ie shifcing of the rails in Worcester street will be undertaken, and shingle Croni the new pit will be used. Afterwards tile work of installing the now loop on Moorhouse avenue, near the entrance to the railway station, will be put in hand.

The funeral of the Into Mr Waiter Jones took pJace at the liimvood Cemetery on Friday, and was largely attended by relatives and friends. The deceased was iugnly respected by all who knew him, and much sympathy is feit for his widow and i'nmilV. . Wreaths were sent by Mr and Mrs Jones ai;<l family, Mr and Mrs Warner and family, Mrs Musgrove and family, Mr and Mrs Scarfe, Mr and Mrs Searle, vicar of St. Stephen's, Master Plumbers' Association, parishioners of St. Stephen's, Cull and Prosser, Ashby Bergl. and Co., Mr Crompton, 'Miss Jones, and Ashley Masonic Lodge. Such is fame. A farmer, of the Pongaroa district, who appealed to the Miliiniy Sorvice Board in Masterton for exemption of an employee—fit and s nglo—stated that he had advertised in the Pallia tun paper for a man roc. ntly, but did, not get a single applicant. "Why," asked Cap ain Calvert, "did you not make app'ication to tha Efficiency Board ? Don't you know ( that- trustees have been appointed whose duty it is to donl with such cases as yours?" The fa mor expressed aurpiise at this statement, and said ho wa 3 not that such a body as the Efficiency Board existed. Tho tradition of troopship newspapers, which originated in tho Main Body days, is still well maintained. The latest specimen to reach New Zeais tho Wobbler,'' the production of a portion of the Twenty-first Reinforcements. ' The paper is an excellent example of its kind, designed ta servo as a permanent souvenir of the voyage. The articles aro'largely written in the lightest vein, the samo characteristic running through the verso which occupies a fair proportion of the space. The illustrations are numerous and excellently ex-cuted. Tho editor is 2nd-Licutonant F. A. do la Mare, formerly of Homi'ton. and the art editor Corporal F. H. Cumbcrworth formerly of Chris tchurch. Enquiry is made by the officer in charge of estates, Canadian Expeditionary Force, for Mr Joseph John 'Campbell, lato of Christchurch, New Zealand. We aro asked, says the "Bominion," to give publicity to this enquiry, as Mr Campbell is presumed to P°„ the father of Sapper Jack Campbell, 3rd Canadian Expeditionary Force, deceased, and the Canadian authorities are anxious to get into touch vith the relatives. Possiblv amongst our readers someone will be able to supply the information required. In view of the fact that Sapper Campbell was a soldier who lost hfs life in defonco of the Empire, other New Zealand newspapers will no doubt be glad to assist in the finding of his relatives j by giving publicity to tho enquiry.

Two of those who were arraigned for drunkenness at the Magistrate's Court 011 Saturday morning boro unmistakable signs of their, jollifications of the previous day. One of tliem, a woman, had two amazing black eves, and a very dilapidated appearance generally, which, it was explained, was due to a fall. Tho second, a man, had moat of the skin missinjr from his I'ace, wl'JJe his collar and clothcs were plentifully bespattered with blood. "He took a header into the gutter, your Worship,"' explained Senior-Sergeant Wolilman, "after having been carefully balaneo'l against a post." It also transpired that ,the fall deprived him of the few senses he had left, and lie had not recovered them bv the time he reacl.<_-d tho polico station.

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