General News.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18544, 20 November 1925, Page 8

General News.

A Wellington message states that the last Winter Show returned a profit of £2GCO. The body of Annie V. Miller, single. aged 26, was found in the Wellington llarbour. Som? of her clothes had been left on the beach. "Being in a temper is no excuse for using obscene language," said Mr H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., when he fined a storeman £3 for having .used bad language to two railway clerks at the station on Wednesday night. A gift of £SOO has been made to the new Anglican Church at Fendalton for the purchase of a carillon of bells by Mr George Gerard and Mrs G. Murray4ynsley. No definite proposals have yet been made as to what kind of bells are to be installed. C. Freihler, aged 58, a resident of Weymouth, was drowned in Mannknu Harbour on Wednesday night, after landing a friend named West. West heard cries for help, and searched unsuccessfully. The police are now dragging for the body. Freihler leaves a widow, but no family. Early yesterday morning an unoccupied four-roomed house in Ashley street, Kangiora, owned by Mr T. Shanklan], was completely destroyed by fire. The adjoining buildings were in considerable danger until the firemen obtained a lead of water, but the absence of wind minimised the risk of a spread. The house was insured in the Standard Insurance Office for £l5O. A witness, during the proceedings at the Napier Supreme Court, was asked by counsel for plaintiff, if be was a relative of a Justice of the Peace at Porangabau, and received the answer: "Who? Never heard of him before 1" His Honour: "I notice that counsel never loses an opportunity of asking a witness if he is a J.P. or a remote descendant of one. Are you a cousin to a J.P.?" "No!" "Then you arc scarcely respectable, and will have to be taken on your merits." A report on tho vital statistics of tho urban areas of the Dominion for tho month of October last published in tho "Gazette" last night, shows that tho total births registered amount to 1065, as agairist 1054 in September, an increase of one ; Deaths in October were 512, a decrease of 50 as compared with the previous month. Of the total deaths males contributed 282, and females 230. Seventy-four of the deaths were of children under live years of age, being 14.45 per cent, of tho whole number. Fifty-three of these were under one year of age. The Minister of Defence, tho Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, was present at an inspection of the Nelson College Cadets yesterday in connexion with the coinpetition for the Riddiford Cup, which they at present hold. The Minister said he was just resigning tho portfolio of Defence, and hearing of the inspection intimated his desire to be assoc'ated with it. He had had several occasions of telegraphing congratulations on past performances. Addressing tho boys he said: "You have a great school, and have turned out great men." At. tho conclusion of the inspection, Colonel Burgess said tho examining board expected a high standard, and had not been disappointed. The milder weather being experienced continues to be reflected in the lessened maximum loads at the Lake Coleridge power station and the Aldington sub-station. At the power-house''dur-ing the week ended the loth inst. the load was 11,570 k.w. between 7.30 p.m. and 8 p.m. on the 13th (previous week, 12,230 k.w. between 7 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on tho Oth). At tho sub-station 9685 k.w. was recorded between 11 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. on tho 10th (previous week 9790 k.w. between 1.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on the,'6th). The lake level was at> 1670.35 ft, compared with 1670.4 ft the previous week. Tho average inflow from the Harper River was 15 cusecs, about tho same as the previous week. A record of the earthquake felt in Auckland and various North Island towns on Wednesday night was received by the Cbristchurch Observatory Seismograph. Measurements on the record while it was still damp show the first movement to be. recorded here nt SQhrs 21.5 m.in N.Z.S.T., i.e., .it 10.21.5 2.m. The displacement of the boom was very slight! The most abrupt movement was about 4S seconds after the initial disturbance, and suggests •.that it was just too slight to have been felt locally. Probably tho times given will, be subject to minor corrections when the record is quite dry. Other indications of seismic activity are given by records of a »very distant severe 'quake on tho night of November 11th, a similar but less severe one on tho night of the 13th, and of a minor distant one on the morning of the 16th.

What will serve to remind Uncle Sam]s deep-water boys of tho farthest Dominion is a stone w.hich was presented to tho Famous Playors-Laskv Film Corporation in Wellington on Tuesday. Tho stone is a greenstone block which is to be used in ornament-

ing the facade of Paramount' 9 big new theatre on tho corner of Broadway and 43rd street, New York. It was given to the company by the" New Zealand Government at the suggestion of Mr H. P. Davison, Paramount publieity managor, and Mr Davison and Air A. Terry, secretary to the company, received the stone. .Tho presentation was made by Mr James Hislop, UnderSecretary for • Internal Affairs, and administrative head of tho Publicity Office. Tho new theatre will be in a pile of over 30 storeys, and its facade will be docorated by stone from even' foreign country. A film of the presentation was taken, and in it will be included Maori scenes, and shots taken when the American sailors were here. The film will be exhibited in tho States. Boplying to a welcome which was extended to him at tho Wellington Rotary Club luncheon, Sir Ernest Kutheford, tho eminent scientist, expressed the pleasure it had given hini to rovisit the land of his birth. "This is the last ncca&ion for some years that I will have an opportunity of speaking to brother New Zealauders," said Sir Ernest. "I may say that it has been a very great pleasure for me to visit New Zealand again. The New Zealand people have given me a wonderful reception. They have made me work very hard, but T believe that is a habit with New Zealandcrs so far as visitors are concerned. (Laughter.) I often think how lucky you people are to live in such a country as this. It seems to mo that Now Zealand is partieularly favoured in .a great variety of ways. You have a reasonable amount of sunshine, tempered by wind and rain—an admirable combination." Since he was last in New Zealand there-, had been great changes, changes in the land and in tho productivity of the land. He thought New Zealand had been particularly fortunate in its people. There was more intelligence per hundred than in any other community he had been in. (Laughter and applause.) Sufferers from Rnpture will find the. new English Elastic Trusses, a great, improvement on older patterns—lighter, more effective, and moro comfortable. All sizes—prices: single 17s Gd, double 355. Truss-fitting is a special study at McArthurs. Ltd., Chemists, "MrArthurs' Corner," Colombo street. —U Armstrong's two busy bargain stores are recognised among smart dressers as headquarters for everything new in hats, dresses, costumes, gloves, hosiery, jumpers, and dress accessories. A visit to all these departments is welt worth while. The low pricings for spot cash are so acceptable. —o