Page 6 Advertisements Column 6

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 23, 27 January 1912, Page 6

The deer-otalking season in Nelson begins on 24th February and closes on 30th April. At Masterton on Thursday the thermometer registered 81.4deg. in the shade, which is the highest reading recorded for at least two years. City rates have been coming in freely for the second half of the financial year. Up to 24th January tbe sum of £122,344 had beeD collected, as against £128,274 up to the end of January. 1911. The total charge for the year is £153,078. Granville Hunt, at present awaiting trial on a charge of forgery, i* to be charged in the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday next with having obtained a P- n - of the value of £186 13s 7d from W. H. Nash by means of false pretences. The offence was alleged to hava been ■ committed in July, 1910. Some large consignments of fruit have of late been despatched from the Thames. The Kauaeranga Valley, the Coast, Tararu, and Parawai have had qui m « XcopUonal yields. In on« instance ?a«£ am6s S rower expects to forward 1000 cases of apricots for the season, and this orchardwt has one prolific tree, which yielded no lew than forty cases equal to a value of £8. Active steps are (according to a Press Association telegram) to be taken ab once in connection with the ironsand industry at New Plymouth. A syndicate holding a lease from the Harbour Board intends placing plant and material on the ground immediately in terms of the' lease, under which Ijhe syndicate forfeits £2000 unless improvements to th&t value are effected by 3rd March. Some twenty-five applications for pensions under the Widows' Pension* Act were-dealt with by Dr. M'Arthmy S.M. , at yesterday's sitting of the Pension Court. In connection with this Act, it ts not generally known that provision is not made for cnildless widows or widows whose children are all. over the age of 14 years. Widows whose children are born out of tne Dominion also cannot' obtain pensions. Mr. William Mori&rty, a very old hrtd respected resident' of Oarterton, passed away in a private hospital yesterday. Deceased, who was aged seventy -seven years, was stricken with an illness a few weeks back, and, blood-poisoning setting in, an operation was deem<3 necessary. He successfully underwent that, and began to improve slowly, but a sudden .change came and he succumbed. Mr. Hugo, Inspector bf Fire Brigades, paid a visit to Petone last evening in order to test the water pressure, which has been the subject of much enquiry of late. Tests were made from the mains in Sydney and Ja-ckson-street*, and it was gathered that, apparently, the results were satisfactory. The test* were very thorough. A full report will' be submitted to the v board at its next s meeting. ' A somewhat unusual accident occurred to a man named Fred. Johnston \vhikst travelling from the Waikato to Auckland in the train on Tuesday last. A box of wax vesta« got alight in his pocket, and in a few moments his clothes were on fire. His fellow,-passengers extinguished the flames, and on arrival at Auckland he was conveyed to the hospital, where it .?as found that he had sustained some very serious bums on his body. Some time ago the Farmers' Union initiated a movement for obtaining a, system of through booking by land andsea for farm produce. The matter was brought before the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and it 1 was decided to approach other chambers on the subject. A<* a result, twenty-two chambers in the Dominion have signified their willingness to co-. operate in the movement, and it ia Erobable that representations will shortly c made to th« Minister of Railways on the subject. A general meeting of the Hutt Valley Trotting Club, held la«t evening, confirmed a decision arrived at by the stewards in reference to changing the venue of the annual meeting from the Petone Recreation Ground to the Hutt Park. A 1 motion to tlw tallowing effect was carried: "That, providing the work of forming a new track can be done for £200, and that th« Hutt Park Committee still keeps to its agreement and allows the club to collect all training feed, this meeting adopts the recommen-. dation of the stewards to hold all future trotting meetings on the park." The meeting was attended by about twenty, members, and Mr. \. M. Samuel presided. "I am glad to see in Australia that the working man is getting a chance to wield the club/ said Mr. Dorsey, of the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune, to a Sydney Sun reporter. "I do not know whether he will Yield it rightly or not. He might become a despot and the despotism of mediocrity is terrible ; but I am pleased tO ( see that he has the chance. Labour in America ia disorganised and is still more or less subject to the man who commands the troops. TThe firtng on labour in Pittsburg many years ago ab the time of the great strikes, when Andrew Carnegie had enough influence to call out the Federal troops, was, in my opinion, one of the bUckest things in tne history of American legislation." / A somewhat unusual case came befor« Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Cluue. Croucher, master of the steamer Kiripaka, was charged, on the information bf Captain G. G. Smith, Superintendent of Mercantile Marine, with having, on the 20bh of November, carried a teaman named John Davis to sea without having entered his name on the vessel's articles. Captain Smith explained that it was the duty ot all masters, before proceeding to eea, to see that their men were properly, qualified. In the present caso Davis had not signed off the Opawa. Defendant's explanation was that on tho day in question one of his firemen deserted. Davis had previously sailed' with him, and as he knew that his discharger were correct he told him to get aboard a few minutee before Bailing. Subsequently, however, ho discovered that Davis had boen temporarily employed on th» Opawa, and had not received h» official discharge from thßt vessel, although his employment had ceased. Consequently he could not enter him on the articles. As soon as the Kiripaka. i l eturned to port defendant reported the matter to the superintendent, the result being his appearance in Court. Hi* Worship envered a. conviction, and made an ordor for the payment of Court costs. A telegram from Blenheim states : — Mi. Robert Parker, of Wellington, who is acting as instructor of vocal music at the Marlborough, Summer School for Teachers, delivered a lecture last night on "Shakespeare and His Music," to a large attendance. The matter was interesting and was attentively listened to. The inoreaeed cost of living: I* a factor which directly ooneerns every member of the community, and the various attempts made to eaeo matters for different sections of workers simply react upon tho people a« a whole. The complex nature of tho problem mkes it require very careful handling. One redeeming feature is presented oy the fact of keen competition, which tends to keep prjee* at the lowest possible lovol. For instance, C. Smith, Limited, Cuba-street, are now offering a line of ladies' white kid gloves, with self, or black stitched backs and three dome fasteners, at Is lid per pair. Thin is the sort of opportunity to be grasped without ddajr.— 4flrt»