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Evening Star, Issue 12883, 4 August 1906, Page 6

The Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board supply the following ruin statistics for the past week and month. For the week: July 31, .075 in; August 1, .320 in; August 2, .OoUin; total, .4ooin. 'Total for ltOo to date, 13.535 in. The month of July: Number oi days rain, 17; total fall, I.lßjin. Heaviest fall between the 25th and 26th, when .400 in fell. A lot of gear new to railway men in those parts is now to be .-een in one of the workshops in the Dunedin passenger yard. These are the air motors for the new interlocking system. In appearance they resemble the little cylinders of the Westinghouse brake. Beside each set of points one of these motors, containing compressed air, will be placed. Oiie will also be placed beside each semaphore In all there will be sixty points motors and eighty signal motors. All will be electrically controlled from the signal boxes. In ordinary traffic operations the man in the box will know how the points ought to be. The code whistles of the engines will tell him what to do when shunting is in progress. Measles is very prevalent in South Dunedin. There was an epidemic in Gore some two months ago. The tolling of the" bell in the tower of the Stock Exchange buildings yesterday afternoon led. gome people to believe that some great one in the land had departed this life. That was not so. The workmen were merely setting the machinery in order and testing its powers of working satisfactorily. In all probability the clock chimes will start re* gular work next week. An extensive, alteration of the lines leading into the north end of the Dunedin railway passenger yard will be made to-mor-row. Tho railway authoritie-s are, of course, aware that to-morrow is Sunday, but it is not possible to shift the tracks j while the traffic is running. So Sunday is I the only day on which the work can be carried out. About sixty men will be at work all day, and the undertaking involves ; shifting the position of five or six lines over a distance of about ten chains. The lines when relaid will' be- the permanent , passenger lines lea-djiijr. north from tie new station, I

The industrial dispute 1 : between the Otago Coal Miners' Industrial of Workers and the Cromwell and Bannockburn; Colliery Company iwas to have Come on for bearing befort the Conciliation Board at Cromwell on Tuesday. "But, by reason of the judgment, (printed, eiseAvhere) delivered by Mr Justice Cooper this morning, the employers have been given power to take the case direct to the Arbitration Court, and we understand that they have adopted this course already by filing a reference to the Court

Mr_Riddell, S.M., presided at the Police Court this morning. W. H. Smith alias William Turnbull was charged on remand with having stolen t a lady's jacket valued at £2, the property of Mary Dick He was fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment. . '

„W 11 * r t from oamaru "rfonns us that since , that- town came within one of the a ii y T , business has been, decidedly duller. That fact was well known to bus? ne 5S men, though they preserved as close a silence as possible on the point. To mention it might prejudice sales of business. Drunken men wereiseerr occasionally on the streets, but whether these v were nsitors who had come by tram, or the product of Oamaru sl y grog shops, it vas impossible to determine. .Liquor was constantly arriving by rail. One of the .first consignments was twenty-eight o6gal casks of whisky. This came a day or two after the hotels closed down.

The, subject' of the Rev. Dr WaddelPs lecture at St. Andrew's Church to-morrow evemng will be 'The Difficulties of a Medical Student.' ' •

Speaking at a meeting yesterday afternoon, the Rev. W. Curzon-'Siggers gave an instance of city_ perils versus country boy. He said that,'in response to a letter received, he had investigated a case in which a boy had been landed in the immoral atmosphere of an immoral lodging-house kept by an immoral proprietress. The boy had been led there by a board-and-residence advertisement.

"I quite approve of the rule which provides that there must be no smoking in your Boys' Homes," said Mr Justice Cooper, speaking at the formal opening of the Boys' Home in Moray place yesterday; " but I don't think I should disapprove of your having a smoking room in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association, or even a billiard table, if funds permitted. These things are connected with similar institutions in America."

A new phase of the shipping competition between the Home lines has begun. So far each line has attacked the " preserves" of the other, but not regularly. Federal steamers have gone to London, while the other side's steamers have gone to the West of England. Now the New Shipping Company, in conjunction with the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company are prepared to go a step further. In the past their West of England service has been an intermittent one but now they announce a regular monthly service. Seen to-day with reference to the matter one of the heads of the local office 1 ! said that the only regret was that Dunedin could not be made the first port of -call for every alternative despatch. The nature of 'Wost of England cargo—mostly deadweight—made that impossible, as vessels drawing 25ft of, water could not look at the Victoria channel. So tho steamers of the new service can only come here .after they have been lightened at other ports. A pity.

Furniture and house furnishings.—You want something durable at moderate prices. Visit Sanders, 86 George street.—[Advt.] At the Garrison Hall on Saturday, 18th August, at 8 p.m., Mr Frank T. Bullen, the well-known author, has kindly consented to narrate some of his personal experiences and recollections of the sea in a lecture, to bo illustrated by limelight pictures, entitled ' The Log of a Sea Waif.' The entire proceeds of the lecture will be devoted to form the nucleus of a fund to be called " Our Distressed Sailors' Relief Fund," which will be held by trustees and dispensed by the seamen's missionary, Mr Alexander R. Falconer. Mr Bullen has returned specially to Dunediu to-give this lecture. Tickets'at all booksellers'.

Dunedin Navals' and Highland Rifles'* annual dance, August 3rd and 17th respectively. Mr Hendy is now booking hairdressing appointments for same. Telephone 902. —[Advt.] a A special ten days' evangelistic mission . will be .commenced by the Rev. C. C. Harrison, late of Waihi, in connection with the Central Mission to-morrow. At the morning sendee in the Garrison Hall the subject of his sermon will be 'An Old-time Revival.' At tho evening sen'ice ho wid speak on 'Hall Cable's Prodigal and Christ's.' He will also address the men's meeting in the afternoon, when the subject will be 'A Mistake in the Peerage.* There will be no service at the Stafford street Hall to-morrow evening. The mission will be continued in .Stafford street Hall every evening next week. Biblereadings will be given on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. Mr Harrison will conduct a consecration service to-night in the Stafford street Hall. . Witch's Oil, a sure remedy for the pains and aches to which human beings are subject-/; [lO9l Mr Sidney Wolfs choir will resume practice at the Orphans' Club Room, Moray place, on Wednesday evening next. Simon Brothers' annual boot sale closes Lext week. Bargains in boots. Prince's street (opposite Post Office).—{Advt.] The August ' Triad' contains the usual interesting music criticisms, in addition to two or three hours' instructive and entertaining reading—literary, scientific, artistic, and nvisical. The supplement contains, amongst other pictures, portraits of Mr Leslie Harris and Miss Rosina Buckmann. Altogether the 'Triad - is a powerful' agency on behalf of "good art." The Dunedin Citizens' Band's annual social takes place in St. Paul's Schoolroom on August 3i.

Messrs A. and T. Burt's employees' annual social will be held in the Choral Hall on Friday, August 10. _ The lecture by Mr Mark .Cohen on 'Richard John Seddon, His Life and His Work,' is to bo given at the St. Clair Gymnasium on Wednesday, Bth August. Mr" T K. Sidey, M.H.K., will preside. Much of the matter to be introduced is quite new, so far as the mass of the public are conl cerned, and the lecturer speaks with a closepersonal knowledge of his subject. Mr Morris, artist in photography, giro special attention to portrait studies m bridal eostume, wedding groups, etc. Long exper enc.e, combined with a most perfectlyequipped studio, enables him to render the texture of light draperies to the best possible advantage. See specimens, studio, Princes itreet.—[AdTt.J

Classes arc now forming for new term in connection with the Otago School of Physical Culture, Sussex Hall, George street. The Railway Department is issuing excursion tickets in connection with the Grand il ?a& steeplechase at Christchurch on the 14th, 16th, and 18th inst. Though many New Zealanders will be reluctant to admit it, it is a fact, we are told, that in many respects Queensland his advantages even over our favored isles. What these advantages are and some other things Dr Nißbet, of First Church, will tell the public next Friday evening, when he will deliver a lecture on Q leensland in His Majesty s Theatre. Ths marvellous fertility of the soil and the diversity of its products will be exp.amed and reference will also be made to the many beauty spots in ths State. The Oamaru Mail' said of the lecture after its delivery th-re thi+ it wis F.<l' c v , r :-* v . interest, and humor; and doubtless'those who hear it in u;■e.din wII b. <i 3 p.t* d as have been Northern audiencea. A fine collection of lantern slides will be used to illustrate the lecture. Those who have taken Tussjcura are amazed Bt its wonaerful effect. [lo9] A meeting of shareholders in the Southern Starr-Bowkett Society will be held on Monday /Wh inst., when two appropriations will be disposed of. This society have decided to start a No. 2 group, and applications for shares are now being received. An interesting booklet, illustrating the objects of the society and the benefits to be derived from membership, has been issued. Special services will be held at Hanover street Baptist Church to-morrow. In the morning a rpecial communion service will be held. In the afternoon, at three, Miss Beckingsale, who has labored in India for a number of ycar3 under the auspices of the P.ew Zealand Baptist Missionary Society, and is now on furlough, will give an address in the Sunday school to young people, parents, and friends. In the evening a service of a sppoially evangelistic character will be held at which the Rev. William Hay will preach. To-morrow evening, and every succeeding Sunday evening, services for grown-up people wi.i be "conducted iii the Albany street School (not the gymnasium) by Mr Duncan : Wright, assisted by many helpers from, time Ltejanw.

< iP* Commins ■will ;dfilirer an address, on Spiritual Philosophy' in the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow at 6.30 p.m. The subject will be pictorially illustrated. . Mr J. Wafct, whose marvellous "spirit" drawings have attracted so much .attention for the past year or so, will\>ccupy feWplatform at the meeting of the Progressive Society in. the Trades .Hal} to-morrow evening. Mr Watt's address is eititled'. Spiritual Existence; its Reality and Influence on Humanity/. Witch's oil aftords relief in' soiatica, lumbago, chronc rheumatism, all muscular pains.i