GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17394, 3 March 1922, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

The vital statistics for Christchurch for last month, as compared with February of last year, were as follows :—Births, 193 (175); deaths, 84 (89); marriages notices, 84 (81); marriages in registrar's office, 15 (14). The Prince surprised and pleased the soldiers of tho Sixteenth Rajputs to-day when ho addressed them in Urdu, after presenting tihem with new colours for their regiment (says a Delhi messago to the Australian paper 3 of February 19th). This was the first public utterance T-he Prince had made in the vernacular. He sooke in simple, clear language, with, an accent which was highly praised by critical members of the audience.

In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr W. F. Tracy mentioned by permission the case of the Commissioner of Taxes v. F. W. Bolt. Mr Tracy stated that the summon? was not returnable till March 27th, but by some oversight it had been- set down for February 27th,, and judgment had been entered'by default. Mr Wyvern Wilson. S.M.. expressed regret at the oversight, and said the judgment was a nullity. At a meeting of the executive of the Peninsula War Memorial Society held on Tuesday, word was received that his Excellency the Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Jellicoc, would visit Akaroa on the 30th it-stant. for the purpose of laying the foundation stone of the Memorial Monument. Complete arrangements were made for tho successful carrying out of the function, and in connexion with the Governor-General's visit, tho first he will have paid to Akaroa, it was decided to hold a public banquet in tho evening in the Oddfellows' Hall.

Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., referred in the Magistrate's Court yesterday to the periodical sittings of the Court in various country places. An application was before the Court for an adjournment to take evidence at Little River. The application, it was stated, was too late for next, week's sittings at Little River, and there would not be another for two months. Mr Wilson stated that in the case of Cheviot, Culverden, and other places it would probably be more convenient for the people if no sittings were held there at all. They could then have their business settled weekly iin Christchurch. With the improved means of transit, the Tise of the counCourts did not seem very great.

The New South Wales Minister, of Agriculture (Mr Dunn) said recently in Sydney that he had not advocated a 4bour day as an adequate day's employment, provided that everyone worked. "In reply to an interjection in the course of. my address at Goulburn concerning the 44-hour week," he said, "I outlined a number of industries and the Public Service, in which considerably less than 44 hours a week are worked. I stated that Nuttall, a great English statistician, had given it as his opinion that if there were no idlers and everybody wore performing some useful work, four hours' work each day would enable people to provide for all their requirements, always providing l/flat production was for use, and not for profit." The principal business before tHe Executive Committee of the Otago Expum- ; sion League on Wednesday night, was a number of complaints received con-| cerning the effects of the railway cut; upon business and travel throughout tho province. The state of affairs disclosed 1 is proof positive that tha cut, although nominally made for the purposes of economy, is in practice causing extensive loss and (fisloeiciou (says ihe "Otago Daily Times"). According to th© correspondents \he changes have not benefited the Department, as tho lines are stili running at a loss, and business which should really belong to the railways is being deflected into other channels. The executive has decided to investigate severa.l . casoa brought before it, and wihen fully informed of the various hardships suffered take such steps as may be necessary to bring the hardships and proposed dios forcibly before the authorities, so that some relief, at least may be granted to country residents, who ore the principal victims of the/new policy. A suggestion was made in the House of Representatives some time ago that the "feamoan Times" was under Government control. Interesting reference to that paper was made at a publio meeting at Apia recently by Mr 0. F. Nelson, who is repf rted in the "Samoan Times"«to have said:—"As for a free Press, God forbid that any other unfortunate country should ever be blessed with the free Press we are now supfosed to have. I say this even though be a director of the "Samoan Times." The "Samoan Times" is a public company, therefore it should be no secret that out of 2500 shares 1000 are hold by" Judge Watson, late of the High Court of Samoa, 100 by Mr Patrick, Commissioner of Crown Estates, 400 bv the editor (Mr Brown), and the balance of 1000 myself. I have been the chairman of directors (and for all I know T may still be chairman now) —(laughter) —but at a meeting some three months ago T found it impossible to carry on, so I am trying to get out of it. A leading article in the December 29th issue of the "Fiii Times and Herald" shows what the Fijian Press think of our Press and Government and I hope to read it later on." -Travellers by the New Brighton trams are now becoming quite familiar with the buildings of St. Chad's Church on their new site at the. corner of Buckley's road and Carnarvon street, North Lin wood. The two buildings were originally mission rooms in the parish of Avonside, but over two years ago tho portion of the latter. pariah lying, roughly, between Linwood avenue and the parish of New Brighton, was cut off and joined with Heathcote Valley to form tho new parish of Heathcote with St. Chad's. It is in the Linwood portion of this parish that the vestry recently undertook the enterprise of buying about an acre of land in the centre of the district, and moving the two mission rooms of St. Oswalovs and St. Chad's on to it. St. Chad's is to serve as the church, and St. Oswald's as a Sunday School and social hall. The moving of the buildings has now been completed, and the first services are to be held in St. Chad's on its new site on Sunday when there will be celebrations of the Holy Communion at 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., Sunday School at 2.45 p.m.,: and evensong at 7 o'clock. At the 11 a.m. service the preacher will be the Bishop of Christchurch, '

nv nn Order-in-Council, the Invercar;>i BorriKm Council has been authored to erlet a war memorial tablet in. the main entrance of the Town Hall.

rhief-Detectivo A. Cameron stated in the Magistrate's Court yesterday thit^"here was-a good deal of interferenc« with motor-cars in Christchurch. One car had recently been stcSen and had not yet been recovered. Another had been taken by joy-riders and left in a ditch, damage to the extent of £IOO being sustained.

There is a growing feeling in favour «f making the State orchestra fully Australian by providing an Australian conductor for it, not merely as a tem.mrarv expedient, but permanently Jsivs Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus"). It " possiole that this end may be rencned it easy stages by the system mentioned in this column some time. Zo as a not unlikely course-namely, Xrdin" all leading Australian conducT , a uirn with the baton. This noK has not yet had much Publicity tut in musical circles it is the -topic of immediate and commanding interest. Theroegestion that there would be senou jealousies is met bv seasoned philosophers with a shrug, that suggests that ?Lv have seen much of that sort of t£ that it is to.be expected among S- and that it can be endured. PrStly there may be full discussion in the open.

A recent occurrence at Kyabram (VictanaFS reminiscent of Hall Game's „1» Tsfcnrv of the horse which, fSlight bolted across the hills in the mist with a corpse in a coffin on i+s b«k I> urin 6 the conrse ° ? t ral sWe at- Kyabram cemetery a left unattended at the gates. The horses became frightened and boltId, leaving in their wake a tra, of accidents and smashes. Iney coinae" with a cab, breaking the shafts and iniurirE the horses; they knocked over a "anVho tried ti stop them ,m him so severely that he had to be removed to hospftal; they into a tree and overturned the hearse, smashing it to matchwood. Thoroughly frenzied the animals dashed away down ho road, trailing broken harness and splintered wood as they galoped Ultimately they reached the stages, and there stood quivering with fright and panting with exhaustion. The service was duly concluded. Australia is much more closely associated with China than many people understand (says an Australian journal;. At a sumptuous farewell gathering arranged by Sydney Chinese business men to one ot their number who is engaged on a huge project, the leading European citizens who were i present were surprised by two things. ' One was that the most enlightened and best-expressed utterances of the evening on Australian affairs were by a Chinese; the other was the'item of information, that the leading Chinese in Hong Kong, Canton, and Shanghai in politics and business are men who spent the greater part of their lives in Australia. According to the Chinese speakers, they are inculcating there the tsnets of freedom as they have 'observed it here, but they are sanely democratic and consistent. It was mentioned that tho Chinese who was being honoured was the head of a concern that was putting nearly £1,000,000 into a weaving business in China. Aldermen of the city, the Lady j Mayoress, and also a leading military man, who were among the diners, were much impressed. Referring to the unpaid magistracy of Victoria, the Melbourne "Argus 7 ' says:—"Now that the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine) has directed attention to a case decided by honorary magistrates at Kew, in which an exhibition of stupidity and incompetence was given, it may be hoped that the Ministry .will take notice of the fact tKa-t the community has a genuine grievance. Tho arrogance and assumption of superiority in persons who are certainly not remarkable for intellectual qualities led the Kew Justices, in the case referred to by Sir William Irvine, to suppose that all that was required of them was loftily to deliver their decisions without giving their reasons, and without, obviously, paying adequate regard to the justice of tho case. It is surely a truism that a man should be qualified for whatever position he occupies. That is why we do not usually employ a lawyer to mend the guttering of a house, or a grocer in time of Alness. Why, then, should we employ plumbers and grocers to dispense justice P It is questionable whether the Government saves money by using the services of honorary Justices, seeing that appeals to the higher Courts from their judgments are frequent. But in any case,'this kind of cheap justice, dispensed by ignorant men. |is very often injustice. And in many oases it must be endured, because thß aggrieved person cannot afford to appeal." , A neglected cough or.cold at this time of the year is liable to continue all the winter. Don't allow the present warm weather to cause neglect,, but take "Stop-It," the successful remedy, right away. "Stop-It" is sold by all chemists and stores, Is 9d and 3s a bottle. Loasby and Co., chemists (opp. Ballantyne's). 6 Can farmers afford to pay to-day's prices for implements P Yes, because Ivorys. Ltd., nave the lowest price-list in New Zealand on high-grade British and American Implements. Ivorys, j Ltd., 21 Manchester street. • —6

We have to announce that the New Zealand Clothing Factory were the successful tenderers for the assigned stock of R. P. Gray, Mercer, Colombo street. This stock has been purchased at an enormous discount and later on there will he some ridiculously cheap goods offered at the N.Z. Clothing Factory. —^ Pilkington's motors run twice daily between Christchurch and Akarna. 6 Why toil at the wash-tub. when there are such gifts ,as "No-Rubbing" Laundry Help and Golden Rule Soap to bfc had at all grocers? 3

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