WELL DONE, CHELTENHAM!

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2463, 3 October 1914, Page 2

WELL DONE, CHELTENHAM!

At a washing-<up meeting in connection with the recent patriotic entertainment at Cheltenham, the secretary presented the balance-sheet. It showed the total receipts to be £24 10s 3d, and, after deducting expenses, the sum of £23 was left to be handed over to the fuud for the relief of distress in Great Britain and Belgium. 'Messrs J. Bruce and W. Gilbert were '■ appointed to take charge of the money, and to forward it to the Mayoress of Wellington, who is authorised to receive subscriptions to that fund. - -

Brigadier Carmiohael, in company with other Salvation Army officers, was returning from the London Congress on board a German liner. When the vessel received the news of w she changed her course and landed all Australasian passengers at Javw. The Brigadier will relate his experiences at the Salvation Army to-mor-row. Intending exhibitors at tho Wairarapa Show at Carterton at the end of the month should not fail to securo a programme of the show at the earliest opportunity. The large number of special prizes allotted this year marks tho tixturo as being particularly inviting to horse-owners and breeders. Send to Secretary Moss tor a copy of the schedule. The forthcoming production of the play, "The Liars," at Gisborne has been'responsible for a little joke that lias been played off by Auckland at tho expense of Wellington, says an exchange. A local bookseller anticipating a demand for copies of the book wired to Auckland for "a supply of ' The Liars.' " The reply he got was: ' 'No liars in Auckland; try Wellington." "It is a very wonderful thing," said Mr ,A, JX-ASnKer-, the eminent authority "on anaesthetics, in a lecture at the Auckland Institute, "£hat after 50 years one cannot give a dogmatic answer to the question as to which is the better anaesthetic to use, chloroform or ether." From the wide range of his research on this subject, Dr Waller was able to demonstrate to his audience that in anaesthetising power ether was to chloroform in the ratio of ono to eight. There was no question to his mind s& to which should be employed in field surgery.

"I know she was a ptetty good spender," said an ex-member of a Maori Land Board in giving evidence in the Supreme Court in. Wellington, in reference to a Native woman, who had disposed of her land through the board. It appeared that in a period of five months in whfck accounts were taken, the woman had been spending her money at the rate of £2700 per annum. The board, in granting the transfer of the land, had made an order that the 'balance of the purchase money duo to the woman should be paid to the Public Trustee-to be held in trust for her and her children, " Tis an ill wind that blows no one some £pod." The detention of the Expeditionary Force (about 8000 men) in Wellington has not been without its compensations to the business community. Huge stocks of food and fodder have been needed to feed man and beast, and the -Dominion "Tommy" in Ids leisure hours is not tho man to roam around without •spending a few shillings—at times, none too wisely. At Seatoun, Miramar, and Lyall Bay, where there are camps of mounted in fan try, the local storekeepers Jiave boon doing a- lively trade. A miraculous escape from a fatal accident is recorded by a Mataura .correspondent olr tho Southland News. A child und<?r two years of age, son of Mr J. N, West, engineer at the paper mills, <was toddling along the road to meet his fatlier when a buggy and pair approached at a trot, Tho driver failed to notice the child* w]k> was sun over. Mr West, wljt> was about 150 yards off, ran up aijd carried ilio little sufferer to tho liotisc. Dr Shoro was called in. and foimd tliat no bones were Broken. The wheel passed over the boy's thigh and one hand, both of which bear black bruises. By the provision of the Industrial Unions and Trades Unions Enabling Act, 1914, of Mr McCombs, member for Lyttelton, which has been passed by tho Lower House, and is now awaiting passage through tho Legislative Council, the unions of the Dominion will be able to devote their funds for political purposes without being confronted by the historic Osborne judgment. Mr. McCombs explains that ( thoro is nothing sensational in the introduction of such a measure. It is merely bringing the industrial law of New Zealand into conformity with the Br.itish laws. Any union, after taking a ballot on the proposal, in the event of a successful result, may institute a separate fund for political purposes, and may levy its members in support of such fund. Provision is mado for a member to object to pay such levy by forwarding on a prescribed form of exemption notice, his objection to pay, to tho secretary of the union. If no such objection is made in proper form, then each member is liable for the levy, and payment can be recovered in tho same way as payments | of contributions are enforced by a court of law.