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Evening Star, Issue 19276, 15 June 1926, Page 6

In the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, this morning, charges against Joseph Harlow and Herbert Jlobinson of keeping a common gaming-house and conducting a game of chance (a soildown) were adjourned pending the appeal said to be pending in the .Wellington case.—Press Association,

The Fire Brigade was called at 8.15 a.m. to distinguish a chimney fire in a house in Cutten street, St. Hilda. No damage was done. The steamer Manuka, which is duo at Wellington to-morrow from Melbourne, has forty-one hags and ten hampers of Australian and three hags of Eastern mails for Dunedin. The batch is due here on Thursday. The postal authorities advise that mails which left Auckland on May 10 on the R.M.S. Niagara via Vancauvcr arrived at London on June 11.

An Association message from Waipawa states that fire early this morning completely gutted Nielsen’s garage. The flames had a good hold when the alarm was given, but the brigade, with a splendid pressure of water, made a remarkably good save, confining the fire to the one building. Six cars were totally destroyed. The insurances are: Machinery and stock, £1,240, in Alliance; building (owner Mr Corskie), £BOO, in the North British.

A letter from Mr J. M. Dickson, M.P., chairman of the Otago Harbor Board, read“ As it is very undesirable that there should be spread abroad a wrong idea (the Anderson’s Bay ratepayers’ meeting impels mo to submit this note for your columns) with regard to the Anderson’s Bay lagoon, its ownership and decisions relative to reclamation, I wish to point out that the lagoon is the property of the Otago Harbor Board, and that the idea of its reclamation has not been considered lor many years either by the board or the Marino Department.” Mr J. W. Brock, the well-known Dunedin artist, has boon engaged ior some time on tho memorial windows for tho Waitaki Boys’ High School. The work, which is being done lor Messrs Smith and Smith and Co., Ltd., is claimed to bo the most elaborate of its kind ever attempted in the dominion. The tracery depicts with great beauty the development of the British nation from Alfred the Great to the war,’ and but lor the modernity of many of the designs it could easily be imagined that the windows had been taken from a thirteenth century cathedral. _ Mr Brock’s friezes showing the primary industries of the country, which were exhibited at the Dunedin Exhibition, will find a place in tho Toronto Exhibition.

A (lore Press Association telegram states that Elbe Ann fcmaill, aged forty, married, with two children, is missing. She was last seen emptying ashes near the Mataura paper mills yesterday afternoon. Tho police are dragging tho river.

A rambler by the seaside on Saturday last saw forty .seals disporting on the rocks close to him. Whereabouts !•* Those interested will excuse a refusal to state. It would not be safe. Perhaps the seals have taken a fancy to the spot, and may reappear there il unmolested. For their .sakes no indication is given further than that the exceedingly pretty picture was within ten miles of Dunedin. In (he course of tho discussion yesterday as to the proposal to establish women’s rest homes and creches in Dunedin, it was .stated that the building in Wellington cost £2,300, but tho opinion was afterwards expressed during the talk whilst tho meeting broke up, that expenditure to that extent on ono building would he neither necessary nor wise—that showy premises arc not required, and that throe or four simply-constructed establishments in sepal"! to localities would answer the purpose better than one central building. An effort is to be made to get tho deputation ready for tho City Council’s meeting to-mor-row night.

There are still a few motorists who appear ignorant of tho by-law which requires all townward-bound cars on tho Peninsula road to pull to the left, stop, and extinguish the lights. Happily, all are not in this state of ignorance, however, as was shown last Saturday night. A motor bus had just turned "from the Anderson’s Bay road into tho Bav road when a car moving in the opposite direction was met. The car at once stopped, though tho front wheels were practically over the boundary of the city and Peninsula districts, and the lights wore _ promptly extinguished. Such a spirit is highly commendable.

Bobbed-haired women will he almost unknown within live years. Archibald G. Smith, of Buffalo, predicted in a speech before tho delegates to tho Convention of tho Southern Wholesale Drygoods Association at New Orleans. “AH fashions go in cycles of about seven years, although some last longer;” asserted Mr Smith. “ Five years ago bobbed hair was a rarity. Only in tho past two or three years has it become almost universal. We manufacturers of hairpins, though the fashion has undeniably struck a blow to our business, are confident from .authentic information that five years from to-day a bobbed-haired woman will bo almost unknown in tho United States.” Our Parliamentary Reporter telegraphs that this week the Government will announce several new appointments to the Legislative Council, which now numbers thirty-five. There have been two deaths of Councillors during the recess, hut there is no statutory necessity to fill the vacancies, the present total of Upper House legislators being regarded as normal. Somewhat strange it seems that after a cold summer, a dull autumn, and an early winter that has been the reverse of sunny, the gardens in and about Dunedin are remarkably forward in^ regard to certain flowering plants. Narcissi just about to break buds arc to bo seen on tho Otago Peninsula, six weelcs before usual, and some of the kowhais are already in bloom.

Very few Otago sportsmen had much fun with the grey ducks this season. Most of them report that they saw ducks, but could not got near enough, the birds having apparently conspired to congregate on the centre of large sheets of water out of range of the fowliug-pieces. One explanation, of course, is that the ordinary covers have been shot out and the ducks forced to open spaces. Another cause of the scarcity is also suggested. It is that some landholders entice the ducks to their private ponds, even to the extent of regularly feeding them, and then indulge in wholesale slaughter. Moreover, it is certain that closer settlement is opposed to the natural multiplying. Every swamp redeemed for farming lessons the breeding places. Some observers have noted of Into that the grey ducks are occasionally seen Hying to sea. But this is not a new occurrence. A student of bird life to whom a question on that subject was addressed says that the grey duck can fly twenty or thirty miles, and that they go oVer the ocean in search of a particular kind of kelp that grows a lood of w'VSch they are fond. There need he no suspicion that the ducks go to sea to save their lives. Ihey know the sanctuaries evidently, for a sportsman who was up at Waipiata the other day reports that the bush there is thick with them. The problem is how to ensure the restocking of the old shooting grounds, and the only feasible reply appears to be to declare a close period tor a couple of years. This, of course, would be strongly opposed, but the preservation of this bird should be the paramount consideration. A Lawrence correspondent writes:— On Monday night the directors of the Gabriel’s Gully Sluicing Company, which consists ' of eight shareholders, declared a dividend of. £125 per member. During the past six mouths this company and the Lawrence Sluicing Company have in conjunction been operating on what is known as tho boundary area, a return of over 1,2000 a having been obtained, and the handsome dividend paid is a result of the agreement to work this area.

On Saturday afternoon (says an Auckland Association message), L. D. Nathan and Co.’s bond store was illegally entered, and spirits valued at £BO removed. Apparently tho liquor was taken from the store upstairs by the lift, loaded on to two lorries, one or which was driven off unloaded, and returned. The police have arrested Horace Speight, a motor driver employed by the firm, on a charge of theft.

That the Harbor Board seemed to he raising its rents as a result of tho decision given against it in the recent arbitration over the drainage of the reclaimed ground, was a statement made by tho chairman (Mr J. Wallace) at the meeting of tho Education Board to-day. This followed the reading of tho following item on the _ board’s agenda:—“Board’s workshop in Ward street —solicitors intimate particulars of umpire’s award.” Mr Wallace said the Education Board had come out of this matter not so badly—it had got 5U per cent, instead of, as might have been expected, 66 per cent.

Tea, we have plenty of unbreakable metal dolls’ heads from 2s 6d. —Todd’s KarrieKannie Dollies’ Hospital, George street (next Plaza).—[Advt.] The usual monthly meeting of the Dunedin Bums Club will bo held in the Early Settlers’ Hall on Wednesday evening next, at 7.45. A first-class programme will bo presented, and after a cup of tea dancing will bo indulged in till 12 o’clock. Extra provisions left over will be sent to an orphanage. Tickets at door. The mission services will be continued tonight in Knox Church, when Mr Yuille will speak on ‘Barabbas Kaibcr Than Christ.’ For glasses guaranteed to ouit consult W. V. Stumor, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1., 2 Octagon, Dunedin ; ’phone 7,525. —[Advt.l Satisfaction is forced upon you at Williamson’s, the quality jewellers, 31 Princes street (next The Bristol). —f Advt.l Tho best advertisers of “ No-rubbing Laundry Help ’ aro the users.—[Advt.]