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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 33, 26 November 1912, Page 7

New Zealand is well supplied with moving picture theatres (savs the 'New Zealand Times'). It is estimated in all that there are now 170 cinematograph shows in the Dominion, distribuetd over 108 towns. The charge that the Reform Party is the party of landed interests was refuted by Mr David Jones, Reform League organiser, at a meeting in Sydenham the other evening. "Mr Massey," he said, "got his first big lift in Taranaki, the home of the small farmer. Coming to Canterbury, where the biggest landed interests are, you have got practically the whole of the province voting Liberalism. That shows that the large interests are behind the party that has gone out of power." "Men have got to keep their wives and children, and if they don't they go to gaol," said Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Magistrate's G-urt n Christchurch during the hearing of a' number of maintenance charges. "When husband and wife don't agree and there is no application for a riudntainence order it is usually the husbai.d who is the cause of it.' :

A young man named R. Paget met with a serious accident at Waitakerei, 20 miles north of Auckland, recently, owing to some gunpowder exploding and causing temporary blindness. Paget was using dynamite to extract tree stumps. He had fired a fuse and when disposing of the lighted match threw it into a tin of gunpowder which he was using to form a trail from fuse to dynamite. An explosion occurred and the young man was rendered sightless. Remembering that the dynamite would shortly be exploding he made a dash for safety, and, although deprived of his sight, he managed to find hi» way to a house in the neighborhood. After his injuries had been attended to he was driven to Mount Albert for medical attention. Although the eyelids were badly •washed it w sot anticipated that in win lost to eight penwwwtfj.