LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the citizens’ services at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday night the preacher (the Rev. IV. H. Heberts) said that about £1,200 had been collected towards tho cost of erecting tho war memorial window, which would be placed above tho main entrance to the church to commemorate tho men of Otago who had fallen in tho Great War. Tho order for the window would probably bo placed in England when the total reached £1,500, and tho remaining £SOO would bo raised later.

Tho third of a scries of lectures by Dr Galway was delivered at tho University on Friday evening. Tho speaker commenced by giving a short summary of the life of Handel and his place in the development of music. He then described how the fugue form developed from the ‘ Masses ’ of Palestrina. In conclusion, Dr Galway showed by means of diagrams the fugue form. He analysed seven fugues by Bach, and then performed them. The lecture for next week will deal with the first half of Bach’s life.

The following official report on the work of the Taranaki oil fields was issued on Saturday:—“The Tarata bore is now down 1,450 ft in shale. It is 121rin m diameter. The casing parted at a depth of 503 ft, and we are now endeavoring to make the joint good. The Moturoa bore is now down 865 f- in shalo. A good deal of gas is making,” Asked what importaiica was attached to the break in the casing at Tarata, Mr Moline, the manager of the company, said that thev had all tho necessary tools on tho field for repairs. No difficulty was anticipated in mending the joint.

“If a person goes on licensed premises after hours to ‘ smooge ’ to the js not committing a breach of the Act,’ said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., when hearing a case at Wellington in which Harold Brown, a well-known merchant, was_ asked to explain whv he was on the premises of the Carlton Hotel after hours and in charge of a motor while intoxicated. Tho evidence of the police was that Brown, at an early hour in tho morning, was not in a fit state to drive the oar. He had been on licensed premises. Medical evidence was that Brown was suffering from rheumatics, and was unable to uso bis aims properly. _ Asking that he did not wish tho identity of a certain individual to be disclosed, Mr M’Grath, for the defendant, said ; “ As a man of the world, your Worship, von know there are times when a man' does not want the names of his companions disclosed, nor does ho wish to let people know where,ho has been.” Mr Hunt: “ Yes, I know from experience.” After the defendant had denied that he had had any drink at the hotel, the magistrate dismissed tho first charge, holding the excuse a valid one. On the second offence defendant was fined £lO.

There was a large attendance at tho opening lecture of the W.E.A. literature class held at the University. After Miss Ring had made, a few introductory remarks .Mrs Labes was appointed secretary, Misses Penrose and Sutherland librarians, and Mrs Hunter and Mr White were asked to undertake the weekly reports. In speaking of Hie subjects tor the yeai--Di Johnson’, Wordsworth, Hardy, Ibsen, Tolstoi, and Anatolo France Miss Ring said the chronological order would bo followed. The methods would be co-operative- -that was, there would be, not desultory discussion only, but definite research, followed by discussion- Tho class must try_ to get at tho action of a man’s age On him and his action upon it. lor a picture of the times of Dr Jonnson one should to Thackeray’s ‘Henry Esmond ’ and ‘The English Humorists.’ “The Blue Slocking Society,” with Mrs .Montagu pre-emin-ent, gave women’s rights a distinct impetus forward; while the British Empire advanced a footing in India and America and Captain Cook visited New Zealand, it was an age when the criminal code wa.s barbarous. "There were no high enthusiasms nor ideals, but good form and polish were considered; while one of its outstanding characteristics was the cultivation of conversation. By Ids conversation Dr Johnson lived. Generally speaking, there wa.s a movement of enlargement of human sympathy, a movement that had made us a people*of imagination and ideals. Concluding, the lecturer recommended that Macaulay’s and Carlyle’s essays on Johnson should bo rend, and to get at his style ‘ Husseins ’ and ‘ The laves of Pope and Dryden ’ should bo looked through.