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Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 8

The Couft of Review, of which the members are His Honour Mr Justice Johnston and Messrs A. Coleman and R. S. Chadwick, commenced a sitting in Dunedin this morning to deal with matters under the mortgagors' relief legislation. The members of the court left this afternoon for Oamaru to hold a sitting there to-morrow.

A special attraction each evening at the annual St. Clair carnival, which will be commenced on Wednesday night and continued on Thursday and Saturday nights, will be displays in the flood" lit breakers by the St. Clair Lile Saving Club’s teams, including ‘the team that won the junior rescue and resuscitation event at the national championships over the week-end. Canoe races will also be arranged.

A visitor to. Dunedin over the weekend, Colonel J. H. M. MeGj retired, the Wiltshire Regiment, who is at present engaged on a world cruise on the Mataroa, in commenting on the attractions of the Dominion for tourists, stated that' there was only one drawback, the six o’clock closing hour. “ At 10 in the evening in New Zealand, it feels like three o’clock in the morning,” stated the colonel.

Our special reporter telegraphs that there is excellent weather at New Plymouth for the bands contest. The hymn test takes place to-night with 12 entries. All the band tests will be held in the open air at Pukekura Park. St. Kida arrived all well, also the Kaikorai soloists. The first B grade test will be contested to-morrow night, and the first A grade test on Wednesday. From Idaho, U.S.A., over the signature “ Charles Cooper,” comes the following bit of figure prophecy : —“ The ancients, who believed that certain numbers (1, 2,3, 4,7, 11, 40, etc.) have deep inner meanings and significances, would have found the number 1936, that of the present new year, very much to their heart. 1936 is divisible by 11. The quotient, 176, is also divisible by 11. The next quotient, 16, is divisible by 4, and the resulting quotient, 4, is again divisible by 4, leaving one or unity. 1936 is also a leap year. It has two divisors of 11 (pairs), and another two divisors of 4 (pairs). And it all boils down to unity (pairs made one). It ought to be a great year for marriages all over the world, especially between old bachelors and spinsters (at • the eleventh hour).” The initial payment on the wheat crop recently announced by the Wheat Committee will be supplemented later on by a bonus, much in the same way as has been done during the last three seasons. Any impression that the initial payment would be the only one made was corrected in a statement made on Saturday morning by the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister for Industries and Commerce, and chairman of the Wheat Committee.

Those who left town yesterday on the two excursion trains, which went to Invercargill, escaped the heavy rain, which was not experienced in the southern town. A fast train was despatched from here at 7.20 and carried 300 passengers, and the second, which stopped at intermediate stations, departed at 7.30 with some 400 passengers on board. The weather throughout the trip was fine. As the result of _ a pinion on the winding gear breaking, the Kaikorai cable trams ceased running at 4 p.m. on Saturday, and did not resume again until yesterday. It was impossible to effect repairs in time to allow the service to results on Saturday night, so corporation buses had to be commissioned to transport passengers to and from the city. The normal schedule was maintained yesterday. A programme of organ transcriptions from Wagner’s works provided an interesting evening for the large audience attending Dr Galway’s recital on the Town Hall instrument last night. The piece de resistance was the overture to ‘ The Mastersingers,’ presenting an heroic task to the executant if the colourful orchestration is to bo produced with anything approaching adequacy on the single instrument. Dr Galway achieved a long way more than adequacy in this direction. He seemed as many-handed as Briareus, and furnished his audience with a succession of thrills. Perhaps the most popular items were the Dance of the Apprentices and the Prize Song (‘ The Mastersingers ’) and the Bridal Music from ‘ Lohengrin.’ The vocalists chose two of the bestknown Wagner opera excerpts, Miss Jessie Miller singing Elizabeth’s Prayer (‘ Tannhauser ’) correctly, and Mr "Alec. M'Dowell giving a good rendering of the ‘ Star of Eve ’ solo from the same work. Miss Aileen Young was the accompanist. Not for a long time have mushrooms been so plentiful as they were over the week-end, thousands appearing on the hills and plains about Dunedin after the rain at the end of last week. Early on Sunday morning numerous parties from the city went out by bicycle, foot, and motor to gather the table delicacy, and had no difficulty in filling boxes, bags, and baskets. 'The market price, which was a shilling a pound about a week ago, dropped suddenly by half and more as a result of the plentiful pupply,.