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Evening Star, Issue 16847, 24 September 1918, Page 4

An Australian mail readied Wellington lasi evening by the Manuka from ftyduey. The local portion will arrive hero tomorrow night by the express from the north. In pursuance of the Public Tfust Office scheme of further decentralisation, .several staff changes are taking place at the Dunedin branch of the Public Trust Office. Mr. T. It. Saywell, district manager at Wanganui, has been appointed assistant to Die local Deputy Public Trustee at Dunedin, and arrived to take up his duties on the 20th inst, Mr 0. 11. Chesterman, chief clerk at the Dunedin office, has been appointed to a position in the head office, and leaves for Wellington on the 2Sth inst. Mr C. J. Playne, of the head office stall!, has been appointed acting district accountant at Dunedin, and is expected to .arrive in Dunedin within a few days. Messrs J. and X. Tait have definitely arranged with Mr Harry Lauder, the Scotch comedian, to pay his second visit to Australia next year. Mr Lauder’s activities of late have- been chiefly in the direction of war work. The fund for the benefit of disabled Scotch soldiers and sailors has benefited to the extent of over £20,000 through M.r Lauder’a efforts in the United States. Masterton has a “Kelly Gang” of beneficent depredators. They started out on Thursday morning on a “hold up” for the Rod Gross funds, and before nightfall had .accumulated no leas a sum them £2,438. The Hon. Sir falter _ Buchanan (£300) was the ”’*’?fcSamT J

Mr Paulin’s forecast: —Strong N.E. to N.W. winds ;■ rain in 24 hours; electrical indications.

The Standing Committee of the Otago Harbor board decided yesterday to set up a sub-committeo to report to next meeting of the committee as to applications for liter, on tho Lake Logan reclamed area. The City Corporation want about 25 acres as a recreation ground; tho Hanover Tennis Club are after a. playing area; and the Education Board desire to get about five ■acres, midway between Harbor terrace and the quarry, for tho Albany Street B'-hool. There seems to bo every probability of the Harbor Board acceding to the last-mentioned request, as tho Education Board aro prepared to give the present site in exchange. Sir James Allen has sent the- following message to the Now Zealand soldiers on the west front and in Palestine : “ Though you cannot be with us on Dominion Day, wo are thinking of you and of all the brave men and women who have lived and died for Now Zealand, The hearts in the homeland beat quicker as we read of your doings, and there is universal rejoicing in tho great part you are taking with the Army advancing to victory. Dominion Day has now a deeper significance, because you have added and will add still further luatro to the name.”

~ The takings of Die Red Cross shop on Saturday, when tho Kaikorai and Roslyn branch of the society had charge, amounted to £BO, a very good result when the bad weather and the counter-effort are considered. A welcome addition to ~tho goods on sale was a handsome donation of flowers from Waitaliuna. Those sold readily, arid the gift was much appreciated.

Ono of tho second bassos of tho Dunedin Male Choir—Mr P. Lemon—has been acting as conductor at the practices during Mr J. 'Unison's temporary retirement as Die result of an accident. It was stated at last night’s practice that Mr Tims on hopes to bo able to come back at the nextpractice. JAro of tho four non- members of the \\ automata (Auckland) Chamber of Commoroo elected at last week’s meeting was a woman, who is conducting a business as a storekeeper in Devon port. The new member is believed to be the first woman to he a member of a chamber of commerce in New Zealand.

At a solo of unclaimed luggage hold in Christchurch on behalf of the Union Steam Ship Company/, the rocket of one. very well-worn' coat was found to hold a Barin«ti Bank book with a balance of £228 Ids Bd.

The police, will ask for another remand for a week to-morrow in the case against Diary Jane Moody, charged with the. attempted murder of her husband. Mr Moody is now out of the Hospital, but is not well enough yet to give evidence.

At the City Police Court this morning, before Mr H, A". Young, R.M., ltd ward Edwin Philip was fined 10s, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness, and 20s or four days for casting offensive matter.

The Harbor Hoard have decided that the week-end township on the Spiff known as Aramnana, is to develop on the right lines architecturally. In order to ensure this desirable consummation the hoard have approved of an official minute stipulating that henceforth when a prospective weekender applies to tho board for the lease of a crib site on the Spit, plans and specification of the intended building have to be submitted, and the site will not he leased except these be approved as being in conformity with tho aesthetic mutiroments of seaside rejuvenation. The question of wlwt is necessary to be •dorm to beautify tho Anderson Bay inlet after it has been used as a tip was advanced a step yesterday by the appointing of a sub-cornmitteo of the Harbor Board to confer with .representative* of the City Council. Word ban been received in Dunedin today that lOdcg of frost were experienced at Earnscleugh last night, and that the apricot trees suffered severely. Whereas under British law for a man to die without- leaving a will may amount to a domestic calamity, under French law tho really serious regulation of succession is effected by' the law of intestacy. .V deceased's estate is divided up among bis heirs, and if the property be small and the heirs numerous, a piece of Land may be divided up into such small etvius that a singlelummy plough will lake away one man’s piece of land and double another’s. Tins information was contained in an interesting lecture delivered hy Professor Harrison Moore recently on French law. In the Napoleonic code, he said, men of oO and women of o5 must seek parental consent to marry. Failing that "consent tho marriage could be annulled, and this was done over and over again. In 1396, however, tho parental consent, was limited to men of 25 and women of 21. Family objections were a much bigger matter in Franco than in Fngland. French law recognised divorce by mutual consent on tho ground of incompatahility of temper, and when a marriage was annulled tho combined estates of tho parties concerned 1 were partitioned in equal'shares.

'1 ho Board of Management of the Canterbury Typographical Association passed a resolution condemning the action 01 the Master Printers’ Association in advertising 111 the Australian papers for men for the CiCw Zealand printing trade, and strongly protesting against this step as being unfair to conscripted New Zealand printers. They have decided to forward their protest to tho New Zealand Federated Typographical Association. with a view to making representations to the Government on the subject. At a meeting at Christchurch of the Canterbury branch of the Roval Colonial Institute a resolution by the' Council of the Imndon Institute to’the effect that in tho interests of tho Empire, and in the interests of native Races concerned, no ouo of too former German possessions Faould do rostered to Germany was carried. In moving the resolution, the lion. W. H. Triggs raid there should be no such thing ns handing Germany’s colonics to her after the war. il hero was very strong personal feeling amongst the people of Mow Zealand that Samoa should not lie handed back. If it wore .nded back, if wo wore to have at our ~or a nest of German submarines and aeroplanes, then one of the objects our boys were fighting lor would bo brought to naught. Germany's treatment of colored races was, ho contended, the reason why slie should nob regain her colonics. Sir ‘John Dorariston, speaking in support of tho motion, said we had to toko cur chance in tho melee which must follow the war, and trust that the justice _ of our cause would receive consideration. The only thing was how far those fighting for a decent world would be ablo to enforce their demands. It was, ha added, an absolute and vital necessity that this part of the world should be kept safe.

i Tho Marine Department has written to the Otago Harbor Board drawing attenthe alleged lack of a ftro-preventive service at the Dunedin wharves. This carno up for consideration at a meeting of tho board s St.andi.ng Committee yesterday, -and the decision arrived at was to merely receive the letter.

Low that the weather shows eigne of improving'', it is to bo hoped that those citizens who take ft pride hi their gardens will make all possible preparations iu readiness far the Eutterwortli Oup competition under the auspices of the Amenities Society. The cup goes to the owner of the bsst-kont garden up to a quarter of an aero. The ouip is a trophy well ■forth holding, bub it la suggested that garden-owners should look on the competition not so much as a matter of prizewinning a.3 an endeavor to help the movement for beautifying our City. Entries close on the last day of this month, and the judging will ha in the first week of October

The arrangements as to the arrival of tho hospital ship and the disembarkation of her sick and wounded at Port Chalmers to-morrow morning are as stated yesterday. The vessel is timed to enter the harbor at daybreak and berth at 6 a.m., and the invalid soldiers nxe to come to Dunedin by tho train leaving Port at 7.9. Major Fleming wires that there are three cot oases for tho Dunedin Hospital. These three men will be token from tho station in the ambulance. The other men for Dunedin aro to be carried to their homes in cars provided by the Otago Motor Club. Those for country stations will by the trains*

Application was recently made to tho Otago Harbor Board by tho Taieri and. Peninsula Milk Supply Company far the right to erect a shed for the storage of cheese, etc., on tho Portobollo wharf It, is understood that the board will reply to the. effect that they cannot permit any private party to acquire a right of that sort, but that tho board are prepared to erect eucli a shed if the company agree to pay a yearly rental for a fixed term. Oil Saturday evening a concert party journeyed to Palmerston for the purpose of entertaining the patients at the Pleasant Valley Sanatorium. In this they wera eminently successful, tho programme pawing a particularly pleasing one. Tbs. comicalities of Mr J. Dcaker caused hearty laughter, and tho offerings of Miss Mills, Mias Jessie Christie, Mr B. Rawliiisoa, Mr W. E. S. Knight (songs), Master and Mias Robinson (datnoos) wore muen onjoyod. The Rev. F. G. Gumming, of tho Patients and Prisoners’ Aid ' Society, was responsible f r the organising of the concert, and Mosers W. E. S. Knight (chairman), W. Bcgg, and J. Jacobs (secretary) were present as representing the Hospital pud Charitable) Aid Board.

To tho Standing Comraitteo of tho Otago Harbor Board it was reported yesterday that the retaining wall naming across to Anderson Bay and defining the outer edge of tho Southern Reclamation has now apparently settled on a solid bottom, iho engineer hopes' that in a month or bo m> more .stone will need to be thrown in. This fncans a reduction of expenditure by the board, and tho end of tho first- step Jn procniing wha-fc will be a big asset for tho Dunedin of the future.

Never retreats; always wins for its wonderful quality: Watson’s No. 10 whisky.— [Advt.] In tho Salvation Army Hall, King Edward street, on Thursday next, a jumble sate will bo opened in aid of Die self-denial fund.

An unusually attractive concert programme will bo presented at tho etiHr'fthrrn-ait at the Gaverrdmm Methodist School Hall to-morrow evening.

t-adies recommend Marlin's Aplol and Steel Fills. Sold by all chemists and stores, voii got tho genuine.—lAdvt.l V/e wish to correct an error that crept into an advertisement on Saturday ro Kaikorai Church jubilee souvenir. The price, if ordered by 26th, is Is 6cl; after that date extra copies will cost 2s 6d. —[Advt.] •• No Rubbing ” Laundry Help delights every housewife-. Is 3d packet. .Hunter and Etheridge, Ltd.—[Advt.] The Moray Place Congregational Sunday School soring flower show is to bo held in Die Jubilee Hall to-morrow and Thursday. Watson's No. 10 is a little dearer than most whiskies, but is worth tbs money.— [Advt.]