General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 4 June 1925, Page 8

General News.

The southern express was half an hour, late in leaving Dunedin yesterday, but time was made up on the journey, and it replied Christchurch about 15 minutes behind schedule. In the course of his address at the annual dinner and social of the Canterbury Justices of tho Peace Association last evening, Mr O. E. Jones, J.P., earned hearty applause when he stated that Lord Jellicoe was the most democratic BritisKer who had ever stepped on New Zealand soil. There were gaps in the rain-clouds yosterday morning, and ( as the day progressed they widened and allowed the sun to shine through. Holiday-makers all were pleasantly surprised at the turn in the weather, and they enjoyed the trots, the picnic, or the football all the better for the sunshino. Confectioners' shops seemed to be the only places open in the city, but carpenters and plasterers on new buildings carried on as usual. There has of late been some correspondence in the papers on the relative merits of immigrants and New Zealandcrs. Evidence that some English wives are true helpmates to their husbands may be seen in a suburb of Auckland at the present time (says the "Star")., A woman with two children goes with her husband regularly to work in the quarry, and is stated to be a really good 1 hand. The other case is where the wife of a carpenter helps him in his work, sawing the wood like a man, and also does tho painting and paper-hanging. "Lord Jellicoe stated in London as late as April 17th last, that no Englishman alive had done mor© for the Empire's great heritage than Mr Massey," said Mr 0. E. Jcnes, during the course of an address at the annual dinner and social of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association last evening. The late Mr Massey stood alone as the last of the Prime Ministers of the war period, and although a great Imperialist, ho put New Zealand first all the time. A true Britisher, a man whose death was mainly the result of his unsparing devotion to duty in the services of the Dominion and the Empire, and they trusted the memory of him would long live in the hearts of the people of this Dominion. (Hear, hear, and applause.) The "Weekly Press," published today, is especially interesting as an oxamplo of the marked advance that is taking place in the production of this popular journal. Illustrations that were formerly confined to a few pages in the centre of eaeli week's issue are now also to be found scattered through the m&zagine and news sections, and the improvements made in the main features of the paper have been well received in every district of the Dominion. This week's issue contains a fine portrait supplement of the new Prime Minister, the Hon. J. G. Coates. Fashions, news and sport are well featured; and the farmer has his weekly compendium of important news. Arrangements have been made to meet tho increasing demand. Headers who experienced difficulty in procuring copies from their booksellers should at once forward their orders to the Publisher, "Weekly Press" Office, Christchurch.

In extending a Tvclcomo to the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and Mrs J. ji.. Archer, at tlio annual dinner and social of tho Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association last evening, the chairman, Mr C. H. (iilby, said that ho hoped the- Mayor would long remain a member of the Association. The speaker said something had happened recently regarding the appointment of justices, and he was glad to leaui the reason that had been advanced by the Minister of Justice m Mr Archer's case. However, he was now pleased to know that Mr Archer was a member, and that, politics did not enter into the work of the Association. Christchurch had been first to start a Justices' Association, and since then Wellington, Auckland, Wanganui, and Taranaki had formed Associations. In replying to the welcome, tho Mayor said his appointment was rather a debatable question, fie had his own opinion on the subject, but he would like to say, quite sincerely, that he was not at all hurt, as he had no desire to be a Magistrate. The only reason he had allowed his name to go forward was that he had been pressed by a number of friends, who, like himself, were unaware that a clergyman was disqualified from the office. He had brought the matter under the notice of the Minister merely as a matter of principle. However, he was now a member of the Association, and he hoped he wmH loxtsi. remain & member.

At a sitting of the Magistrate s Court yesterday, before Messrs J. «• Seager and J. Helliwell, J.P.'s, a male first offender for drunkenness was convicted and fined 6s, in {default hours' imprisonment. At the Scout celebrations of saluting the flag at Palmerston North yesterday morning, Scout Alexander Jenkiuson, of the Terrace End Troop, was presented with a silver cross for saving a woman from drowning at Kangitikei Heads on January 12th. He is the second Scout of the Terrace End Troop to get this award. Clark, the Otago soldier, who proceeds to Germany to give evidence in the trial of Swaboda for the murder of a New Zealand soldier, will report on board the Corinthic at Wellington on June lltli. His agreement with the Crown provides for the adequate provision of maintenco of Clark's next-of-kin until his return to definite employment, for allowances on shipboard, in England, and on the Continent, and for compensation safeguards in case of accident or death during the mission. Clark also requests an escort from London to Cologne.

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