A SUGGESTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1909, Page 8

A SUGGESTION.

TO THE EDITOH. Sir, — I would advise the sheep and cattle farmers of this Dominion anJ Australia to carefully have the pedigrees of their stock that they intend to send to the show in Buenos Aires translated into the Spanish language, as it is tho only recognised language in the Republic. — I am, etc., T. M. O'NEILL. To-morrow slightly altered and improved berthing signals will come into operation at Wellington. Flags will still be used by day, and coloured lights by night ; but the system has been somewhat simplified and modified by Captain Johnson, harbourmaster. A neat and handy-sized brochure, showing the new signals and their significance, is being issued to shipmasters. "Danger" writes complaining of the pranks of mischievous small boys who throw "bombs" through open windows and doorways in his neighbourhood. He says there is constant risk of fire from the explosion of these miniature shells, and suggests that their sale be prohibited. The little dynamitards deserve sound chastisement also, he thinks. The Sydney and the New Zealand University teams are to be entertained at dinner at the Hotel Windsor on Saturday evening. Inmates of the Ohiro Home to date number 129, of whom 98 are men (18 being in the intermediate ward). Before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., to-day, Agnes Tregear sued Bertenshaw and Evensen, of Manners-street, auctioneers, for a sum of £28 Is. This represents tho amount of certain articles, the property of plaintiff, which, on the sale of an auctioneer's business to the defendants, were delivered to defendants for sale, and so, it is alleged, were sold and not accounted for. It was further claimed that demands had been repeatedly made to defendants for payment of the proceeds, but the defendants had failed to comply with these demands. Mr. Samuel appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr. M'Grath for defendants.- The case was proceeding when The Post went to press. Although she speaks not a word of English, Miss Take Hagiwara, the Japanese delegate to the conference of nurses in England, ,was one of the most popular personalities of the conference, A tiny, smiling, almond-eyed, blackhaired lady, wearing the daintiest blue gown and a black picture hat, she looked little more than a girl, but the array of medals pinned to her dress told of & distinguished professional career. The head nurse at the Central Red Cross Hospital at Tokio, Miss Hagiwara has been through two wars. Kings, as a poet sings, equally with the clowns,^ come in time to dust, and a grand piano (as was evidenced in the Magistrate's Court to-day) in its old age may be reduced 1o the price of a piano-stool or a first-class concertina. A stock-sheet was produced in court, wherein a "grand" piano was quoted at £15. This, apparently, did not represent its true value, for after suffering the humiliation of a long association with humbler household furniture and utensils, in which for quite a time the aristocractic music machine had thrust upon it the indignity of being partially hidden by some plebian mattresses and a second-hand blanket, the one-time grand, now somewhat frayed, changed hands for £4 10s. A recent telegram from the Thames announced the drowning of a young married man named Robert M'Collum in ihe Piako river. The deceased fell off the dredge Albany, employed in connection with tho draining oi the Piako swamp. At the inquest evidence was given by Frank Biddle, the engineer, that when he saw the deceased the latter was in the water about two chains away. He notified the captain and reversed the engines. The captain became excited, and left the wheel, and witness rushed to the wheel and steered the boat back to where he could see deceased in tho water. There was one buoy on the Albany— -down forward — which he was not aware of at the time. The steamer was too far off for them to throw a line ; there was nothing but heavy rope on board. Witness did not hold any certificate. Deceased was quite sober. Witness believed that deceased overbalanced himself while trying to pull the whistle. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that M'Collum was accidentally drowned, and that there was no evidence as to how he got into the river. The Government steamer Hinemoa has finished the Waipapa light, and returned to the Bluff. She proceeds from the Bluff, under command of Captain Hamilton, to the West Coast of the South Island, and thence comes on to Wellington, via Westpoit. The Marine Department expects her to return about the end of next month. A movement is on foot to establish a technical school at Waihi. The Borough Council some time ago decided to devote £500 to the object, and this will, it is understood, carry a Government •subsidy of £ for £. Altogether, about £2000 will be required. The Wakefield correspondent to the Nelson Evening Mail writes : — The death is reported of Lucy, relict of the late Mr. Charles Andrews, in her 90th year, the late Mr. Andrews having predeceased his wife by 21 years. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews arrived in Nelson, in the ship Bolton in 1842, and settled at Brightwater, and later at River Terrace, finally taking up their abode at Foxhill 33 years ago. Mrs. Andrews had always been a very hale and hearty woman, and able to move about quite easily until the last month or two, a severe attack of bronchitis being the immediate cause of death. The family consisted of four sons and two daughters, of whom two sons (Thomas and Alfred) died some forty years ago "The grip" (La grippe), the name more or less playfully bestowed on influenza wiien it unduly indulges in in-fighting, has been upon a good number of Wellington's citizens lately. The insidious bacillus has invaded many households, and sometimes a whole family has been attacked. Long ago, when "the grip" had a strong hold in New Zealand, it was gazetted a "notifiable disease," and penalties were provided in cases where the afflicted negligently failed to disclose their plight to the public health authorities. The ailment is regarded with less seriousness, officially, nowadays, and its name has been removed from the list of infectious and contagious troubles. Some dismay is expressed a* the aspect of women motoring in masks. Ifc it forgotten, writes one iv reply, that Shakespeare had to see women so in all theii wayfarings? Whether because or the wind, or because of the more dreaded sun, in days when to be beautiful was to be white and red — that is, "fair," as we still say ambiguously — no woman of the daintier classes went abroad unmasked. Shakespeare himself implies that leaving off a mask meant the leaving off of beauty. If the women of to-day are accused of too much thought for the complexion, they may well reply that their admired ancestresses would probably have given their lives rather than treat their faces in the rough manner of our times. For Children's Hacking Cousrh at night, Woods' Gieftt Peppermint Cure. li 6d i »nd.2» 6d.-Advt.