TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16566, 2 June 1914, Page 6

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A donation of 5s lias been received for tbe Coal and Blanket Fund from E.E.M. A South Taranaki farmer who sold his farm of 200 acres tho other day gave tho purchaser £750 cash to “ cry off ” the deal. The Mayor and Councillors of Christehnrch have accepted an invitation from the Waiau Railway League to bo present at tho turning of the first sod of the C'ulverden-Waiau railway at Waiau on June 10. Tho Otira correspondent of tho -l Lyttelton Times ’ ’ telegraphs that the weather is very rough and wintry. Snow and sleet were falling yesterday and at 5 p.m. it was still snowing heavily. A Press Association telegram from Hokitika states that the West Coast Timber Commission commenced its sittings there yesterday morning. _ A number of witnesses were examined, mainly on the question of temporary grazing tenures.

At the Wanganui Magistrate s Court yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, G. H. Grant, assistant in a chemist’s shop, was fined £1 and costs on each of two charges of breaches of the Opium Act. The breaches were unintentional. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that at a conference of North Auckland dairy factory managers it _ was resolved that it was in the best interests of dairying that the northern factories should adopt a system of cream and milk grading, with payment according to purity and butter-fat contents.

The Junior Philatelic Society of New Zealand met in the Boys’ Gordon Hall last evening, tho president, Mr Vi . J. Wilson, being in the chair. Sis new members were elocted and one resignation was accepted. It was decided to hold a debate at the next meeting on the subject, “That it is more advisable to collect obsolete stamps than current issues.” Messrs W. J. Wilson and K. K. Watts displayed their collections of stamps, which were much appreciated by tho members.

The installation of Brother Robert Laurie as Master of the Lodge of Concord,' Papanui, and investiture of his officers was carried out on Wednesday by M.W. Brother Binns, P.G.M., Prov. G.M., and his officers. Over one hundred and eighty brethren were present, amongst them being the newlyelected Grand Master, M.W. Brother J. J. Dougall, and the officers of Grans Lodge. On the Lodge retiring to the refectory a conversazione was held when all present thoroughly enjoyed themselves. A special meeting of the Boot Trade Federation was held last evening to consider a request from the Christchurch branch that tho Federation secretary, Mr G. R. Whiting, should be entrusted to arrange special meetings when visiting the branches in the North Island, and urge affiliation with tho Social Democratic Party and the United Federation of Labour in compliance with the resolution adopted at congress. It was resolved to accede to the request and it was decided that Mr Whiting should be instructed to do bis utmost to give effect to the resolutions submitted by the Christchurch branch.

An engineer who has lately passed through the United States, writing to the Farmers’ Union “ Advocate ” on the subject of planting timber trees in New Zealand, remarks: “There is no doubt in my mind as to the urgent necessity for the Government proceeding with a regular settled policy of tree planting, at a rate sufficient to meet the estimated requirements of the country at the time when the trees may be expected to reach maturity. Every European country has for many years found such a policy necessary (except England), and in view of the quick]* approaching time when America will have no more to export, she will be faced with the same problem. The large railway companies of the States are already planting to supply their own sleeper requirements, and why should New Zealand not do soP”

A stunning point was made against an expert by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Palmerston Court last Friday. There was a long dispute regarding samples of grass-seed, and two samples were before the Court. One of the samples was in a little square tin, and the other in a paper bag. An expert swore that the sample in the tin, which was that on which the bulk was sold, was brighter in colour than the other from the bulk itself. The Magistrate, after studying little heaps of the samples on sheets of paper, said he could not tell one from the other, and he asked the expert to say which was which. After looking at the samples for twenty seconds bty the clock, the expert placed his finger on one as having come from the tin, and the other from the bag. “That shows you how different the samples are,” remarked the Magistrate. “ They are both from the tin!” The expert retired, liko Mr Macawber—crushed.

A carious find was made in Auckland on Thursday morning at the residence at the top of ShoVtland Street that was many years ago occupied by Sir George Grey. Some workmen were digging at the side of the house, when they came

across what appeared to be a Inigo slab of sandstone. When the iind was unearthed and cleaned, it was discovered to be an old tombstone. The inscription on the stone tells its own story. It says: “Hero lies all that could die of the Rev Charles Lucas Reay. formerly of Queen's College, Oxford, 8.A., and vicar of Swanbourne, Bucks, in England. He was an Israelite, indeed, in whom there was no guile. Learned and grave, yet simple as a child; a fond husband, a tender parent, a faithful friend. In obedience to the commands of his Great Master to go forth and preach the Gosper among all nations, he left a. Christian home and Christian' friends, and here, borne by the weight of bis labours in the Lord’s vineyard, be sank to rest, March 31st, 184 S, aged 38, in the hope and faith of a joyful resurrection. A volume. would not toll his many virtues, but this stone is ereoted to his memory by his widow. Mr Stewart Robinson, Cashel Street, desires to inform his customers that owing to the duplication of largo English orders which cannot he now can-

celled lie is compelled to hold a sensational sale for fourteen days only. Present stock of Boots and Shoes cut to ridiculous prices. Secure sonic ot the Bargains as no reasonable offer will be refused. 461The grocery establishments will be on "Wednesday, .Tune 3 (King s Birthday), and be open on Saturday, the sixth, until G p.m. 4boo In years gone by spectacles had hut one use; they were worn to assist tno old folks in reading and sewing. * dern research shows that near sig , far sight, neuralgia, headaches, o c., are ail relieved by properly ,ad) l ' s ' glasses. Consult .lolm H. e® c Occulists’ Optician, 200, High , » Christchurch. Repairs to spectacles done at short notice. 1

The Wairarapa Egg Circle last week paid out £244 10s 5d for the supply of eggs for four weeks. Since January 31 the circle has paid out £<63 8s < d for eggs, compared with £<26 2s 4d for the same period last year. A Press Association message states that the coal export last week was as followsßrunner. 246 tons 12 cwt; Pnparoa, 1167 tons 5 cwt; Blackball, 4488 ton’s 1 cwt; Point Elizabeth, 3172 tons 8 cwt; Liverpool, 1646 tons 5 cwt; total, 10,707 tons 1 cwt. The Wellington “Church Chronicle” states that the Bishop of "Nelson needs nine more clergymen and two laymen for his diocese, and he cannot obtain them in Australasia. He has therefore arranged to start on a visit to England on August 20, hoping that the necessary workers may be available there. Mrs Sadlier will accompany him. Alterations at the Public Library are being pushed forward with expedition, and'good progress has been made with the erection of tho new juvenile division which has hitherto occupied an inconspicuous corner of the circulating branch. The necessary shelving is being erected in a large space near tho entrance to the reference branch. The juvenile division, when reopened, will contain 2500 volumes, an increase of 500, and a start is to lie made with a. juvenile reference department, with complete sets of the “ Encyclopaedia Britannica” and tho “Children's Encyclopaedia. ”

A meeting was held at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Woolston, last evening, for the purpose of interesting the people of the district in the proposal to establish an open-air home for consumptive children. The Mayor of Woolston (Mr J. Graham) presided, and amongst those present were the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr H. Holland) and other members of the central committee. Mr Holland in the course of a brief address announced that although the subscriptions received to date were mostly small in amount, they were coming in in gratifying numbers. The organisation of a local committee was left in the hands of the Mayor of Woolston, and it was decided to hold another meeting at a date to be announced later.

“ A billiard room is not a palace of virtue,” said Mr P. L. Hollings, who appeared before a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last week on behalf of a client who was applying to the Council to reconsider its decision not to grant him a license for a billiard room. ‘‘The proprietor of a billiard saloon cannot be expected to know the character of everv man who. comes into the saloon.” ‘"fhat’s just the point,” remarked the Mayor. “ A billiard saloon proprietor to whom we issue a license must make it his business to know the character of the men patronising his room. It is not a sufficient excuse to say that a proprietor does not know who visits his saloon. In law a man is supposed to know the law, and no excuse holds. The same applies to the license we issue.” A Maori named Tai Heketa, at one time prominent in football circles in Wellington, appeared at the Auckland Police Court .on Thursday on a charge of forgery. states the “New Zealand Herald.” It was alleged that Heketa forged in his Post Office Savings Bank book an entry purporting to be an acknowledgment of the receipt of a deposit of £SOO, and caused W. T. Gilmour to act upon it as if it were genuine, the suggestion being that Gilmour lent Heketa £3 on account of the indications that the latter had just recently deposited £SOO in the bank. The police stated that it was probable that a further charge would be forthcoming, and a remand until Monday was requested. The application was granted, bail being allowed, accused in one bond of £IOO, with two sureties of £IOO each.

The forty-first anniversary of the Cambridge Terrace Church was celebrated on Sunday when large congregations attended at all services. The Rev J. Cocker preached in the morning. In the afternoon the Rev P. Knight, 8.A., delivered an address on “ Opening tho Old Wells and digging new ones,” and a musical programme was given by Mesdames Vizer, Rhodda and Chaplin and Mr Rhodda. At the evening service the pastor of the church, the Rev B. Metson, preached from the text Rom. 1, 16: “ For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.” A duet was sung by Mr and Mrs Rhodda and a 6010 by Miss Ford. At the close of the servioe the organist, Miss M. Stringer, played the “Dead March in Saul” while the congregation stood in sympathy with those who have been plunged into sorrow through the recent shipping disaster on the St Lawrence The Canterbury Christian Endeavour Union met on Thursday at the Y.M.C.A., the Rev A. N. Scotter presiding over a large attendance. The resignation ofMrL. W. Voller as vicepresident was received and after consideration it was decided not to accept it. The Rev J. J. North wrote stating that he could not possibly address the Christian Endeavour rally on June 9. Word was received also that the Oxford Terraco Schoolroom was engaged for that evening so the offer of the Trinity Church for the use of the schoolroom was accepted. The subject of the address for the Rally was changed from “ Tho attitude of the Church to the Christian Endeavourers ” to “The relation between tho Church and the Christian Endeavourers,” the subject to be taken by the Rev B. Metson. It was decided to have a roll call of all Christian Endeavour Societies. Reports were received from visitors to various societies during the past month, and the wide field of labour suitable for the Union was brought out in a prominent manner. For some thirty odd years the Lyttelton Navals, in conjunction with the Garrison Artillery, looked after the fortifications of the port and their shooting performances from the guns at Fort Jervcis often brought them into prominence, but the advent of the Defence Act marked the retirement of the large number of capable gunners. So as to keep tho colours flying it was decided in March, 1911, to form an old Lyttelton Navals Association, but owing to misapprehension the movement did not meet with success, and a meeting was held in Lyttelton last night to consider the position. Lieutenant-Col-onel Joyce presided and there was a large muster of old members. It was explained that the committee had recently rented a club room for recreation purposes and it was hoped that all the old corps, would assist in furthering the movement. Those present unanimously decided to take part in the movement, and to avail themselves of the facilities offered. One speaker mentioned that there was a proposal that the Association should join the National Reserve. Tho members of the Association, however, could do more than that, as with their knowledge of gunnery they could become a very necessary second lino of defence. The proposal was left in the hands of the committee to deal with later. Special courses of treatment for falling hair, premature greyness, dandruff, etc., from one guinea. The latest approved methods and appliances used. Personal attention by appointment; hair work of every description. M IS Rolleston, Cathedral Souare. Telephone 373. 6 perhaps you have made some little device as a help to you in your day’s work. K may be worth patenting—in an v case, 'tis worth considering, isn’t jt» Our free booklet, “ Advice to Inventors,” will help you. Write for it __ no wl Henry Hughes, Ltd., Dominion Buildings, Cathedral Square, Christchurch- X 3

The musketry instructors under the Defence Department will attend a con* ference to be held in Wellington on Juno 10. Among other things the conference will endeavour to get the rifle ranges made thoroughly up to date. Mr George Forbes will deliver a political address to the Hurunui electors in tho Hawarden Town Hall on Thursday, and in the Amberley Town Hal! on Friday. Both meetings will commence at 8 p.m.

At Wellington yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, a Chinaman named Ah Young was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for keep* ing a common gaming house. He had previously been convicted of keeping a disorderly house and also of vagrancy. Mr E. J. Haynes, taxidermist at Canterbury Museum, is matring a p] M «. ter cast of the ribbon-fish caught at ■New Brighton last week. The oast will be coloured in accordance with the natural colours of the fish, and will be added to the ichthyological oollection at the Museum. As a result of heavy traffio the first express from the south last night did not run up to time. The train was twenty-three minutes late in leaving Ashburton, but it made up time between there and Christchurch, arriving at 5.20 p.m., twelve minutes behind schedule time. The old age pensions office, which was formerly, in Hereford Street, near the bridge, has been removed to the east end of the new Government Buildings, in Worcester Street, and the new offices experienced their first pay-ing-out day yesterday. Some of the old age pensioners found the steps rather steep for their feeble legs, and occasionally the offices were so crowded that the people overflowed into tha corridor. Evidently the change of venue was not universally known, as old people were occasionally found anxiously inquiring the location of tl» old age pensions office. The Waimakariri Harbour Board met last night; present—Messrs J. Barnard (acting chairman), L. Edmonds, J. Wright, W. Marsden, K. M’lntosh and T. Keetley. The harbourmaster reported an average depth of water on the bar for the month of 6ft 6in. Heavy south-west seas had silted up the bar, and the two freshes i during the month was too small to effect much improvement. Owing to the shallow bar there had been no arrivals. The recommendations of the Works Committee that willows overhanging the Cam River and others impeding the waterway in the north branch should be cut down, and that several owners of sections on the river bank should be ordered to remove obstructing trees were adopted. Owing to the indefinite postponement of an interview in Christchurch with the Minister of Marine the acting-chairman and Messrs White and M’lntosh were authorised to draft a letter to the Minister asking that the services of a Government engineer should be granted to report as to the means to he adopted for improving the river bar, and also asking whether the Harbour Improvement Committee should be invited to co-operate in the matter. The Finance Committee’s report showed the receipts to have been £24 10s 2d, and there was a credit balance of £39 17s 9d.

At the Church of Christ on Sunday, Mrs Nalder, representing Pandita Ranmbai’s Missions at Mukti, for the child-widows and orphans or India, spoke of what she described aa remarkable answers to prayer. She told how on one occasion there arose the need for Christian women to teach the everincreasing numbers of children coming to the Mission Home, and Ramabai prayed for them. Women in various countries felt and obeyed the “inner voice ” calling them to Mukti. One of these women, Miss Abram, in telling of her experience, said that while doing mission work at Home she felt an inexplicable, insistent feeling within her urging her to go to Mukti. She wrote to Ramabai about it. and Ramabai told her it was the result of prayer. Miss Abram proved a powerful worker, and did an immense amount of good among India’s millions. “ India’s nights are cold’’ said Mrs Nalder. “The children felt the chill, and were suffering through lack of blankets. They prayed for blankets, and God answered by sending a cheque for £600! Ramabai prayed for a revival among the 2000 inmates of Mukti. Fifteen hundred girls became out and out Christians, and seven hundred and fifty offered themselves for active service. Visitors to Mukti declare that they never knew what prayer really meant until they heard those Indian women pray. Ramabai and her proteges think nothing of . praying for hours at a stretch.” The first Tuesday of every month at Mukli is set aside as a xlay of prayer, when all work is suspended. A great saving in time, worry and expense will be effected by placing your Customs Clearing Work in the hands of J. M. Hey wood and C 0.., Ltd. Importers may rely upon careful attention and prompt delivery. X2 When the children grow up the family group taken now will be most valued. Get yours done by Steffano Webb, Maker of life-like portraits, Petersen’s Buildings, High Street, Christchurch. Telephone 1989. X 4 SPORT IN GERMANY. The German Government is encouraging 6port in the army and navy and thereby every year turning into civilian life thousands of young sportsmen, athletes, and game-players. So far the army and navy authorities have concentrated on Rugby football of the English kind. Rugby football, has made tremendous progress. Thirteen years ago, when the Imperial Football Association was formed, only sixty clubs could be found in all the empire. Now there are over 2000 clubs with 170,000 membere. The State is partly responsible. Lately the commander of a Saxon army corps issued a regulation saying, that football, is the best physical training for recruits, because it admirably supplements their military drill. Even greater zeal to spread football exists in the navy. The movement was started by the Kaiser’s brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, who gave a toot-ball challenge cup, which is held at the present time bv the crew of the Dreadnought Posen. Grand Admiral Koester, who is now chief of the Navy League, also pushed football in the fleet, and he was supported bv Grand Admiral Tirpitz, the Minister of Marine. To-day football is compulsory for ships’ boys In the battleship, fleet boys aged between fifteen and eighteen are divided into five divisions, each numbering I*o, who are sent ashore regularly to play at football. An admiralty report praises football for its effect m increasing dexterity, intelligence and energy; and in teaching subordination, owing to the need for obeying the umpire s decision; also the good effect which results from the working together of members of a team.

ABOUT THE THREE-SPEED B.S.A. The 1914 model of the famous B.S.A. Motor-cycle, fitted with the three-speed gear which has attracted so _ much favourable attention in Britain Europe recently,'has at last arrived in Christchurch. The new model, it will be remembered, created a big sensation in the last Paris-Nioo trials, when, in addition to repeating the B.S.A. success of the previous year, when, the machine wa® winner in the singlecylinder section, tho new model practically swept the board of special prizes bv reason of its phenomenal efficiency as a side-car machine. The reason for these successes can be better appreciated by Xev. Zealand motor-cyclist* now that thev have an opportunity.ot testing for themselves the machine which has created such a profound impression in the Old World. The now

B.S.A. is a charming machine to drive. The delicacy of control and the wonderful flexibility of the engine nre a surprise to all who experience them for the first time, it would ta,ke too long to give a technical description of the many impfovoments embodied in this model, but it may be mentioned that the small pulley, working on the three-speed gear countershaft is of large diameter~-8J inches—so that the strain upon the bolt is greatly lessened and its life correspondingly lengthened.' A shipment of six or these machines has just arrived, and a very much larger shipment is due to arrive shortly. The price of the three-speed model is £B7 lus. Adams, Ltd., Agents for B.S.A. Motor-cycles, High Street, Christchurch. (G.. B. Brown, B.S.A. Representative, Chnst- , church; D. H. Edgar, B.S.A. RepresenItative, Ashburton} *9BB