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Evening Star, Issue 18885, 9 March 1925, Page 6

Rain fell again on Saturday (telegraphs our Clyde correspondent), and this morning there was a heavy shower, with snow on' the mountain tops. At 10 o’clock a cold southerly “buster” is raging. Apparently a paragraph in the “ Foot light Flashes,” staling that the J. C. Williamson Company hoped to return to Dunedin on March 25 and 26 to produce a new piece, has led some folk to conclude that the carnival de luxe has been abandoned. The fact is that the Williamson Company could not play in Majesty’s if it returned, the above-mentioned carnival having the house from March 23 to April 11. “It is not generally known, oven by those within the industry,” says the ‘ Industrial Bulletin,’ in congratulating Sir Truby King upon bis preferment, “that Sir Trilby is intimately associated with sawmiiling. The Laurision Timber Company, operating in the Gatlins- district, Otago, is one of the more recent members of our federation, and , Sir Truby King holds large interests, in and is a director of this company.” The railway returns for the ton months of the current financial year show an increased revenue of 1172.291, as compared with the figure for the corresponding period of the previous year, and an increased expenditure of £112,465. The revenue a mounted to £5,795,560, and the expenditure £4,624,041, as compared with £5,723,269 and £4,511,576 respectively for the ten months of the 1923-24 financial year. The revenue for the South Island main line and branches shows a decline from £2,126,169 to £2,113,713, as compared with 1923-24, and other declines are recorded, in respect to the Gisborne line (£32,319 lo £51,029), Nelson (£20,241 to £20,074), and Picton (£30,414 to £26,467). Expenditure on the Picton line during the ten months of the current year has been £29,754, as against £34,903 for the corresponding period of 1923-24.

Two trains collided at Port Chalmers on Saturday. The train which leaves Port Chalmprs at 11.30 a.m. was standing at tho station, when the 10.15 from Dunedin steamed through tho tunnel, and collided end on. Only minor damage was done. 'The cowcatcher of the incoming train was damaged and removed. The outgoing train was delayed for a quarter of an hour. There were very large attendances at ■Knox Church yesterday on tho occasion of the annual harvest thanksgiving services. Tho decorations, which were most artistic, both as regards arrangement and color scheme, commenced at tho vestibule and continued down the aisles, hrom the galleries hung decorated baskets ol foliage, while around the pulpit was a fine display of ripened grain, in which were intermingled red flowers, St. Johns wort, and autumn-tinted foliage. At tho base of the pulpit were placed offerings of fruit, preserves, and produce, which will he sent to the orphanages and to Ross Homo. Impressive services were conducted by the Rev. Tullooh Yuille, and the. choir rendered special music, the assisting solpists being Miss Daisy Walton and Mr Ernest Drake. .

An Auckland Tress telegram -states-that the immigrants by the Remuera life.; composed of bright, healthy people, including twenty-six English schoolboys, who arc taking up farm work. The lads arc of a good' type. The captain is very proud of the hundred children, who are of an intelligent type. He is sure they will become healthy citizens. The voyage .was a pleasant one. Owing to the fact that no objections were lodged to the valuation list of the Borough of Green Island, no sitting of the Assessment Court for this year was necessary. On Saturday afternoon the City Eire Brigade was called to Messrs Brown, Ewingf and Co.'s premises by an automatic false alarm; but late yesterday afternoon a lire which might have had attendant upon it very serious results occurred. The brigade' was summoned to a house owned and occupied by Mrs Smithy Serpentine avenue. Here a bed on which a man lay asleep was afire. The sleeper was quickly hauled to safety, and before the blaze got further than the bed it was extinguished. Negligible damage was done, though the man’s arms were slightly burned. Included in some interesting remarks made by the Bishop of Melanesia (the Right Rev. Dr Steward), in an address in'the Sydney Street Schoolroom, lington, were some references to a ‘ Professional murderer," who roamed a village of" a certain island in Melanesia not a great many years back. “ The fearsome fellow,” said His Lorship, " earned on a murdering business, and had profitably disposed ‘of sixteen people when he first visited the village.” He had now given up his “profession,” however, and was living in retirement. HUngsworlh’s British-made roll film i« issued in ail standard sizes to suit all makes of cameras. Obtainable at all dealers. —-H. J. Gill Frederick street.—[Advt.J A progressive whist drive will bo hold tonight at St. Paul’s Schoolroom. The prizes will include six mercery and drapery orders. A dance will be held in the Labor Olnb, 279 Princes street, to-night from 8 to 11. Messrs Telfcr and Stewart will supply the music. Mr L. jnivritlv Labor M.P. for Napier, will deliver an address in the Town Hall, South Dunedin, to-night (Monday), at 8 o’clock. The subject of his addrens will be ‘Labor’s Policy on the Singapore Base and Finance.’ Mr -M'llvride will also explain the Campbell case and the Zinovieff letter. Yes we have plenty unbreakable metal dolls’ heads from & 6d.—Todd’s Karrie-Kan-nie Dollies’ Hospital, George street (next Plaza).—[Advt,]