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Evening Star, Issue 19021, 17 August 1925, Page 6

“I only have one thing against the great American nation,” Mr G. W. Johnstone remarked in the course of his address on British song writers, at the University Club, “and that is that it is the homo of jazz. I am going to ask our visitors to do something for me. It is only a little thing, but important. When you go homo 1 want yon to round up all the manufacturers of jazz who steal the music which wo all hold in reverence, the music of the groat master musicians, and convert it to ignoble uses, dust round them up and shoot them. And, while yon are about it, as yon have a great reputation for you might asphyxiate all makers of saxophones. To allow this degradation of noble compositions is unthinkable. _ And when music such as Chopin'S ‘ Funeral March ’ is used for this purpose, it is time wo rose up and cried ‘hands oil’.’ ”

The winter in Dunedin has been lunger and more severe than usual, but the harbingers of spring are now appearing. The leaf buds are bursting in the hawthorn hedges, and the kowbai is blooming in sheltered places, notably on the eastern side of the harbor. Crocuses, chionodoxa (glory of the snow), squills, and a few of the early varieties of dafloclils arc to ho scon in some of the suburban gardens in the milder localities.

A largo deputation representative of nil classes of Gisborne community, tho ■sports bodies being particularly represented, waited on Sir James Carroll on Saturday evening and asked him to contest the Gisborne sent at the forthcoining General Election. The chief speaker, Mr J. Ha-rkucss, in urging the request, said that in the opinion of the deputation there was little difference between the lielonn and Liberal Parties. Sir James Can-oil, in reply, said that he had been approached similarly from other quarters, but would defer consideration. Personally, ho favored fusion, and if he had been ip Wellington at the time would have used his best endeavors to bridge the gap between the parties.

. At a meeting of the Canterbury Beckeopers’ Association, Mr 0. A. Pope referred to the small response made by members to the circular asking for exhibits of honey and wax for the Canterbury court at the Dunedin Exhibition. tic .suggested that some means should bo adopted' to arouse more enthusiasm in tlm matter. Mr C. 11. Sergeant (Government apiary instructor) said in reply to a question that ho had received about twenty replies to the circulars ho sent out. They were mostly from beekeepers -who were non-members of the association. Mr T. Pest said it did not sound well that the association should bo wakened from its sleeping sickness by non-mem-bers. He, had got an exhibit rcacl.t, and thought the reason why the secretary had not received more replies from members was that they intended to report at meetings of the association.— Our Christchurch correspondent. The Rev. C. Maitland Ellisee, the new pastor for the United Congregational Church, King street, will leave Sydney on September 4 by Lite Moeraki, and will commence his ministry on the second Sunday in' September, in preparation for his advent the anniversary services at the United Congregational Church yesterday had special significance. A largo rally of past and present members or the two congregation? which formed the United Church was held, and a special thank offering was taken up. The Rev. Harry .11 Johnson (Moderator of the Congregational Union) and the Rev. C. Hallaston conducted the services. At the. evening service, there was a specially Targe attendance. Mrs George Scott contributed a &ilo, am! the choir sang, several anthems, the solo voices being Miss M. Dryden, Miss D. Za(Ter, and Mr G. Dyer. The thank offering totalled over £B6. The anniversary services will ho continued to-morrow night. In the Magistrate’s Court, Ophir, a ease of interest to rabbiters was heard before Mr Dixon, >S.M. (telegraphs our Clyde correspondent). R. H. Black and Co. sued E. Wilson Tor the return of £l2. RlaintiHV case was that a buyer had bought £-!2 worth of skins without ■seeing them, but had been guaranteed that they were clcar-peltcd. When sent in the skins were not as represented. The defence was that no guarantee was given, defendant telling the buyer that the skins would go 201 b to the hundred, they went 221 b. Plaintiff was nonsuited, with costs. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that the Winter Show (dosed with a record attendance. About 80,000 paid during the season, and the total visitors, including the fleet sailors and others, was estimated at 100,000. The takings were double those oi last yeivr, and every section siiowcd a profit.

The .strikes are largely blamed for I,ho bad condition of some of the citrus fruit recently landed in Dunedin. The transit has been delayed a month.

The actual construction of the Richardson street tramline commenced last week. Men are digging out the trench to carry the sleepers. The terminus is to be at horbury Park, and the connection with tho_ main system will bo by a loop at the junction of Richardson street and Prince Albert road, the total length, .including the loop, being about a mile. Borne day, no doubt, this branch into an increasinglypopulons part of the Plat will bo_ continued to Porbury road, thus forming a. circuit of the district of which Macaudrew Road School is near the centre; but such an extension is not yet contemplated. Quito a number of the American man-of-war’s men are making use of the permission to ride free on the Dunedin tramways. It is noticed that the right is exercised just as it ought to be; that is to say, the men are not rushing the cars in crowds and making it a lark to squeeze others out, but they get on and travel when they want to go somewhere. If it had been deemed necessary to give instructions ns to the way the permission was to be enjoyed the men could not behave better than they are behaving. The manager says it is a pleasure to observe how the visitors appreciate the department's hospitality. The patronage of the trams yesterday was easily a record. On the city lines £343 was taken, exclusive of that of the Jloslyn and Mornington cable services, and the electric tram from Roslyn to Maori Hill. The previous record did nob reach £3OO. That was when the Bedfern Band played in the Botanic Gardens one Sunday afternoon. The little bit of the special tramline to the Exhibition that isjo be in Forth street cannot be gone on with any further until the Forth- street bridge is finished, for this bridge will be at a slightly higher level and the reading to and from it has to be ramped to suit. But the tram work at that spot is well advanced, and to finish it when the time comes will be a short job.

A Feilding Association telegram states that Archbishop Redwood yesterday blessed and opened the new Roman Catholic Church in Feilding, a beautiful edifice of Gothic design, which cost over £B,OOO. A Gisborne Association message states that lire destroyed the wool scouring works at Matawhoro, including the large plant and 160 bales of wool. The works wore owned by F. Hall, and occupied by E. L. Jones. The fourth electric motor bus ordered by the Dunedin City Corporation from Roberts and Sons, of King street, is likely to be completed next week. The rough weather of last week brought a lot ol sand from the southwest and piled it up on the bt. Clair beach, raising the level by several feet, so that in places only the upper parts of the old groynes are in sight. Two thousand seven hundred hags was the sum of the gift by the Cooperative Fruitgrowers of Otago to the American sailors when they reached Dunedin. Four apples in each bag.

Three months to-day to the opening of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition at Logan Dark, and this is what the general manager (Mr Hainsworth) said when asked this morning how things were getting on: “ The whole of the undertaking is progressing at a very satisfactory rate. So far as can bo foreseen we arc well in hand, but wo arc not relaxing pressure, because wc are desirous—and J, am hopeful as to the desire being fulfilled —of setting up a record in regard to exhibition openings. I am impressing on exhibitors the necessity of each one looking after his own particular corner, so as to make the scheme complete before November IT.”

Recent deliveries at the Big Exhibition include the following:—By rail— Seven cases of sheaves from _ AVinton Experimental Farm for Agricultural Department; by s.s. Port Dunedin—■ fifty-five eases tinned fish and other preserves from Maconochio Bros., Scotland; by s.s. AVillaston —redwood timber from America for model house for Hogg and Co.

Regular consignments of apples for the Dunedin market are still coining from Central Otago. The Delicious are now' exhausted. The sorts now available arc Stunners, Statesman, Doughertys, llokewood, and Democrat. They arc in good condition and of high grade and quality. Prices are hardening. Five hundred cases of apples from the Central are in cool store for the Otago Provincial Court at the Big Exhibition. 'The weather cannot affect them. So far they are keeping well, and with ordinary luck they should make a good display, even if 25 per cent, have to bo taken out earlier and used to save their lives as the saying goes. Barometer readings in Dunedin are just now- exceptionally high and steady, instruments set to sea. level road .30,60 at 5 p.m. on Saturday and stayed at that mark, without a flicker, till 8 a.m. to-day. The steadiness is quite remarkable. A similar experience right through the dominion is noted by the Government Meteorologist, who reports that the reading at Wellington yesterday was 30.652. it is probable Hint the change over from steam to electricity as the motive power for the Morningtou tramline wall ho mado in about a fortnight from now. ■

A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that Charles Frederick Wall, a young man, was lined £5 this morning for attempting to release an American sailor who had been apprehended by the patrol. In consequence of recent high tides breaking through the sandhills on Warrington Bench, a second entrance to Blueskin Bay lias now been formed, with the result that a considerable portion of the former beach, at the southern end of the spit, is at present an island. If this condition remains permanent motor cycling races 11611 no longer be possible, while holiday residents will have to materially shorten their daily promenade. A “gift” evening and social for the purpose of raising funds lor the lortbeoming bazaar was hold last Thursday in the Labor Club Rooms, under the auspices of the Dunedin women’s branch of the. New Zealand Labor Parly. Mrs Herbert presided over_ a large attendance, and gave, a cordial welcome to members and friends. Musical and elocutionary items rendered during the. evening were much appreciated. Mr Jones (chairman of 1(m 0.L.R..C.) said bo was extremely pleased to sec so many present and to know that the wives oi the workers, their womenfolk, and their children were taking such a. keen interest in the Labor movement. _ It was duo largely to the enthusiasm of tho women that Labor was advancing in Dunedin towards that success which would ultimately crown their efforts and place Labor on tho Government benches. A Labor Government would reduce the cost both of the home and of the necessities of life. He congratulated the Dunedin women’s branch on its progress both numerically and educationally. Mr Snow, in a happy speech, moved a hearty vote of thanks to the performers and to the women’s branch for its ellorts. Mrs M muon (secretary of tho branch) thanked all who had helped to make tho social a success and also tho donors for the many gifts received. Supper and_ an impromptu dance concluded an ciijojabie evening.

Messrs N. Dodds and -I. Taib, JJ .s, presided at the Port Chalmers Court ibis morning. A. first offender was convicted of drunkenness on Hie railway .station, and lined Ids,

Yos, the best place for children’s toys is Todd's Toy Arcade, George street (next the Plaza).—[Advt.] A euchre party will be bold in the .South Dunedin Town flail to-night, when fifteen pipes will be given. Rival Euchre Assembly meets to-night at the Waralah Tea Rooms. A euchre tournament will be held at Jay’s Tea Rooms to-night. A general meeting of the Cavcv-sham Ratepayers' and Householders’ Association will be' held in the Methodist Hall to-morrow evening.