CITY NOISES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 July 1909, Page 8

CITY NOISES.

—«» "I am glad," writes "Dinned to Death" to The Post, "that you are drawing attention to the multiplicity of needln,ss noihes in tho cily. The steamers are forbidden to bellow in port, unless there is fog, and why ehould factories and hOcallud factories bo allowed to send out ltornblo fccreeches four or fi\o time* a day?

Mr. Alfred Snowball, wlio arrived from Australia by the Ulimaroa to take up the positioh of secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Masterton, has had considerable experience in V.M.C.A. work. He was for some time secretary of the famous "Eastbrook Brotherhood" at Bradford. Leaving England two and a half years ago, lie settled in Sydney, where he was employed in the Daily Telegraph office. He was afterwards a resident of Dnnedin, Invercargill, and Melbourne. During his residence in the Victorian capital, he engaged in temperance work and delivered several lectures on social subjects. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. Biddell, S.M., Brewer, Fulton, and Company, produce agents, claimed from W. E. Timmings, baker, Lower Hutt, the s,uni of £10 6s Id for potato-seed supplied. Defendant counterclaimed for £50, damages sustained because of the supply of alleged inferior seed. The hearing of the case was proceeding as The Post went to press. A deputation from the Moutoa Drainage Board, represented by the engineer (Mr. T. AVard), waited on the Minister for Railways on Tuesday, introduced by Mr. XV. 11. Field, M.P., to ask the Railway Department's assistance in procuring a Priestman grab for the purpose of theii drainage operations. The board's jurisdiction extends over an area of 14.000 acies of valuable swamp land, which it is proposed to completely drain, so as to make it suitable for agricultural and flax-growing purposes. The board recently borrowed £6000 for the purpose of carrying out the work, but finds that it is prohibited by law from utilising • any portion of the loan for the purchase of the necessary machinery. The board has already leased a crane from the Railway Department, but requires a Priestman grab also; and tho deputation asked that the department would supply the boaid with a grab at a rertal that would supply the total cost in a comparatively short period. The board has already expended £2000 on the work in hand, but is blocked from proceeding further by the want of the machinery in question. If a grab can be supplied at once, it means the employment of a considerable quantity of la bour. The Minister replied that he would be glad to meet the wishes of the board, and would make enquiries as to what machinery the department had in stock. It was probable that the department possessed a dredge which, with slight alteration, would answer the purpose. Messrs. Townsend and Paul, Ltd., will sell a consignment of nursery stock next Monday, 12th inst., at 1.30 p.m. This .consignment is jjiyen by Messrs. H. C. Gibbons and Co. at their Hurt Nurseries.

Mr. Robert Darroch, chief officer of the Ulimaroa, who rescued a man frflm drowning in Wellington harbour on the 24th June, has had a distinguished ro cord of life-saving. During his seafaring career he has effected no fewer than twenty rescues from drowning. Some time ago, when ii> Sydney, Mr. Danoeh saved the lifo of a sailor, w!v> had fallen overboard from another v t, sel, and for this plucky action h" » ■ awarded a certificate of merit h\ Royal Humane Society of New \'r Wales. The illuminated address wiij (he passengers were reported to have <>i>-e i Mr. Darroch has been handsomely ex. - j ted. It was presented to him togethei, ! with a fine silver salver. The addie:s I runs •.—'•This adurew- and accompanying souvenir, were presented by the passengers to Mr. Robert Darroch. chief offioar of the s.s. Ulimaroa, for a distinguished act of bravery at great pwsonal risk, in saving the life ot a fello\ - passenger in Wellington Harbour. . ." The address is signed by 90 passengers. It i<| understood that the Humane Society of New South Wales is making seme lecognition of the same act. Evidence for the defence was called in the S.M. Court to-day in the claim of •J. Aubrey Houston v." Fredk. Engelbeit and Herbert Engelbert, trading «is tho iLux Light Co.. for £49 Is cemmisfion It was denied that plaintiff had anything to do with the sales. Mr. Blair nW> raised some non-suit points, on which (Dr. M' Arthur, S.'M.. reserved his decision. Further hearing was adjourned to Saturday. Mr. Buddie is' for plaintiff. Alexander Bell and John Bell, builders and contractors, sued G. 'H. Sample, clerk, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday before Dr. ■M'Aithur. S.M., for the lecovery of £197 10a BtL balance, said to he due for work and labour done and material supplied in connection with tho erection of a house at Hataitai, and also interest at the rale of 8 per cent. The case was adjourned to Saturday morning. Mr. Johnston appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. 'Blair for defendant. The Management Committee of Association football in Wellington has made excellent arrangement;:, and has every hope that the inter-provincial match fo>.' the Brown Shield, which is to be played at New town Park on Saturday, will' be well worth going to see. Among the Taranaki members are some players of a first league degree. Wellington has every condition favourable, but, judging from the form displayed by Taranaki at Dunedin last year, the game should be an interesting and determined struggle. It is stated that the sawmilling industry in Otago and Southland at present gives employment to about 1000 men. There are in all 70 mills in operation, 60 of these being located in Southland and the remainder in the Catlins district. In Catlins the mills -are working pretty constantly, but in Southland there are 10 or 12 mills closed down for want of orders, while of the 60 that are running a large number are only working half time — that is, three days ir> the mill and three days in the bush. Among the stock of boots and shoes opened this day at 14, Manners-street, are a number of men's 9's and 10's, worth 22s 6d to 255, all to be sold at 12s 6d.— Advt. At 2 o'clock to-morrow. Messrs. W. H. Morrah and Co., will toll by public auction in their rooms. Willis-street, household furniture and sundries. Features of to-morrow's Free Lance ineludtes fiketches at the Anglican Synod, a comic chronicle of the week, Mr. Hislop's challenge, and the Foxton tragedy. Outdoor sports receive the usual attention.