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Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 6

William Laing, wlio was fined 5s for drunkenness at Port Chalmers on Friday, at 10 a.m., was arrested again for drunkenness at 1.30 p.nu the same day, with a bottle of whisky in his possession. He was bailed out, and this morning he was before Messrs N. Dodd and J. Tait, J.P.s, charged with being drunk. He was convicted and fined 10s, in default thirty-eight hours’ imprisonment. Next Friday he will bo charged at Port with a broach of his prohibition

Some time on Saturday night or Sunday a small but rather serious slip occurred on the Otago Central railway lino about a mile on the Middlemarch side of Hinclon. One sido of the formation, about the length of three rails, has broken away. The district engineer (Mr Bcnzoni) went up this morning with a work train. Meantime the traffic is interrupted. The train from Cromwell left as usual this morning, hut went only as far as Rnnfnrly, and then sot out for a return to Cromwell. There were no trains to-day between Ranfurly and Dunedin.

The Dunedin public is gladly including tho Rix fund in its deserving causes. Our tramwaymon, by their initiative in the matter, have vouched for the worthiness of tho object and tho need to do something; and that quite suffices. Tho proposal, ono understands, is to help to provide the- widow and largo family of the deceased motorman with a house, and a suitable place has boon found in Larkworthy street. Tho concert by the combined bands in tho Botanic Gardens yesterday afternoon drew a large attendance, and a real Dunedin collection amounting to £9B 9s dd. Tho fine weather no doubt was a groat help. Just for once in a way the sun shone brilliantly between 2 and 4 p.m., fitting in nicely with arrangements for the afternoon, as though Heaven gave its blessing to the tramwaymeu’s brotherly kindness. The effort now in progress is an appeal to other unions throughout New Zealand.

We are authorised to correct a statement that is going Iho rounds of tho northern papers to the effect that the Dunedin Jockey Club has decided not to make a winter or wet-weather training track at Wiugatui. That subject has not even been discussed by the Works Committee.. The business of the recent deputation from tho Owners and Breeders’ Association to tho Works Committee was to .make representations as to tho advisability of making some alteration in the position of the jumping obstacles, and tho reply was that the matter will be considered by the full committee.

One of the Wingatui trainers, S. ff. Ware, was in the train to which the mishap occurred in the Napier district. When in Christchurch he received a call in visit his father, who was dying at Hastings. Warn hurried off, hut owing c./tlie, accident did not reach Hastings until half an hour after his father passed away. He was travelling in the third carriage of the train, and escaped unhurt before that carriage took fire. In response to an inquiry, it may ho stated that the directors of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition Company receive no remuneration whatever for their services. Further, the directors will not have the privilege of freo entry to the Exhibition. 'They will pay for their season tickets. For dangerous crossings the “ wigwag” signal is the accident antidote proscribed by the Otago Motor (Tub. A member spoke at Saturday’s annual meeting of the club of a dangerous crossing at Milton. The president (xM.r A. E. An.sell) agreed that it needed attention, and in promising that the matter would ho referred to the executive for inquiry said that the club hoped that the wig-wag system would bo adopted on many of the dangerous railway crossings in Dunedin City itself. _ Tho Rattray street crossing, lie mentioned, had recently boon the scene of an accident that might have been fatal.

The state of the weather in relation to the supply of food during the period of the Exhibition is of more impedance than might at first thought be realised. Thousands of people will bo in Dunedin, and the demand for vegetables will bo far above normal. The continuous spoking that tho ground has had for months makes it practically impossible to get vegetables in just now, and many that have been put in have been found to have rotted. Unless the weather clears immediately there must be a pronounced shortage before long, and prices will probably rise. A local resident who has a glasshouse in which ho usually grows a groat many tomatoes has filled it this year with vegetables of different kinds, as ho cannot get anything grown outside. The date of the opening of New Zealand amateur billiards championship, ono of tho important sporting events to be hold in Dunedin during the Exhibition period, has been definitely fixed for Wednesday, November 25. '1 ho championship will ho played at the R.S.A. Club rooms in Moray place. Tho returns of tho Official Assignee for tho quarter comprising July-August-September of this year show (those tor tho corresponding quarter of last year being given in parenthesis) ; —Number of bankruptcies unclosed at end of preceding quarter, 26 (29); number closed during the quarter, nil (nil); leaving on hand, 26 (29); number of fresh bankruptcies during quarter, 12 (6); total number in hand at end of quarter, 38 (35); assets realised, £306 8s 4d (£263 12s 4d); amount paid in dividends, including preferential claims, £4 (£244 8s 9d). In the DeputyAssignee’s office at Oamnm there were three bankruptcies umToM'd at the. end of the quarter, none was closed, three were left on hand, and one fresh bankruptcy occurred, leaving four on hand. Tho amount of assets realised was £23 ]ss Gel, and £3l os 7d was paid in dividends. An Official Assignee now being stationed at Invercargill instead of , a deputy, his returns do not come to the Dunedin office, but go direct to tho department.

A motor car valued at £220 —a Dodge five-seator, owned by Mr W. J. Carter, of 33 Baker street, Caversham—was destroyed by fire at about 4.15 p.ra. on Saturday.on the Wakari road, The reason for the car (which was insured with the London and Lancashire Office for £100) catching fire is not known. Tho Moor aid, which left Sydney for Wellington on October 2, has forty-one bags and twenty-two parcel receptacles of mail for Dunedin. Tho TJlimaroa, which loft the same port for Auckland also on October 2, carries two hags and two pared receptacles of matter for hero. The Moeraki’s mail will arrive in Dunedin on Wednesday and the Ulimaroa’s on Thursday. Six hags and seven teen parcel receptacles of mails for this city are aboard the Karetu, which left Sydney for Bluff on October 3. The mails which left Auckland on September 1 via Vancouver arrived in London on October 2.

Tho Employers’ Federation (says a Christchurch Press Association telegram) has refused the request of tho Canterbury General Laborers’ Union to cn-operatehn making a joint request to tho Arbitration Court for an increase in the basic wage. A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that the hearing is proceeding in the Magistrate’s Court of a claim hy Violet Emma. Cassels, married, and her infant, daughter for damages against Beatrice A. King, of Elm Grove, Linwood, maternity nurse, on the grounds of negligent and unskilful attention.

Our Clyde correspondent telegraphs; Bain commenced to fall on Friday' last, and continued intermittently until Inst night. The fall at Clyde was 2iin. This augurs well for the feed, and there is already a green sheen everywhere. Some mortality is reported among tho lambs, bnt it is not serious. Mr C. Idiens, clerk of works at the Exhibition, stated to-day that the prolonged spell of wet weather was not in any way retarding progress except _ in connection with the work of topping the roads. It was that these were more or less quagmires at the present time, but with a return to fine weather this matter would be attended to. Mr Itliens also remarked on the fact that exhibitors were now making feverish efforts to have their stands completed in good time, the present activity being in striking contrast to the general lethargy of exhibitors for |f,<J long, - ''

Word comes from Canterbury that some of the autumn-sown whcaT has rotted in tho ground. So far ns Otago is concerned the worst result to farmers of the prolonged rainy weather is a shortage of grass. Townsfolk cannot judge grass by tho growth on streetsides and byways. It is coming away fast in rich places, because there is nothing to eat it down. N On pasture land the position is quite different. Tho first grazing of such ground has shaven it close, and owing to the sodden apd cold state of the soil the grass will not start again. The Taieri is one of tho worst examples in Otago. An advertisement appears in this issue regarding tho formation of a special orchestra to ho used in connection with the works to he performed by the Exhibition Choir. No doubt there are a considerable number of instrumentalists, professional and amateur., who are willing to secure a, place in this orchestra, and it is hoped that the various societies will give the directors their co-operation and assistance in inducing players to make application for the positions as advertised. There is little doubt that an orchestra will he obtained which will worthily uphold the musical name of tho city.

A Mar ton Press Association telegram states that a fire at Bulls yesterdsfy totally destroyed a cabinetmaker’s shop owned by C. M. Broughton. A paint shop adjoining occupied by A. Green was slightly' damaged. The losses arc estimated at: Broughton, £900; Green, £•100. The insurances wore: Broughton, on the building £4OO and, on the stock and plant £275 in the State Office. Green had no insurance.

Yes, the test place for children’s toys is Todd’s Toy Arcade, George street (next the Pliw.a).—[Advt.] A euchre tournament will bo hold at Jay's Tea Rooms to-night.

For glasses guaranteed to suit, consult V. Stunner, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1., 2 Octagon, Dunedin; ’phono 7,525 —[Advt.]

Dunedin Kuehre Assembly’s tourney in tho South Dunedin Town Hall, to-night.