TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17587, 18 September 1917, Page 4

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

The Telegraph Department advises:— "Tho acceptance of deferred-rate cable messages to the United Kingdom via Pacific is temporarily suspended.”

Relatives and next of kin of soldiers who havo passes will be nblo to go to Lyttelton by a special train which will leave thb Christchurch station at 7.15 a.m. to-morrow.

. The committee appointed in Christchurch by the Government to control the distribution of cCal is still waiting for final instructions as to the extent) of its powers. In tho moantime, it is obtaining information as to the position in the city.

The celebrations in connection with the Jewish New Year, 5678, wero commenced at the Synagogue, Gloucester Street, on Sunday and were continued yesterday. Special services were conducted by the reader, Mr David Scliloss, who also delivered addresses appropriate to the occasion. The matron of the Children's Convalescent Cottage at New Brighton acknowledges with thanks receipt- of the following gifts:—Aleat, from Belfast Freezing Works; perambulator and gocart, Mrs Flower; dripping, Mrs Allaway; biscuits, Messrs Aulsebrook. Thanks are accorded Air Goldsmith for shoeing the horse.

The following entries bare been received for the horso parade, to take place on the Christchurch Show Grounds to-morrow, commencing at noon;— Draught horses, 19 ; thoroughbreds, 2; trotters, hackneys and ponies, 5; making a total of 27. There arc sixteen horses entered for competition for prizes offered. After the parade a sale of draught stallions Will be held.

The Government Labour Bureau reEorts that for the week ending Septomor 15, twelve men applied for employment, six of them being married. Of tho twelve, eight were labourers. The eleven men who aro still in need cf work are made up of eight labourers, one farm hand, one engine driver and one clerk. Experienced tunnel-workers arc required for tunnel work, but private work is very quiet.

The Waiau correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times” states that surfacemen havo been busily engaged during the week-end repairing the damage to the Kaikoura-Waiau road. The worst washout is at AY an die Crock, where a drop of five feet .on each side has i-o be filled in. It is hoped that tho work will be completed before to-day to permit tho Kaikoura mail car to run through. Tho superintendent of the Lyttelton branch of the British and Foreign Sailors’ Society acknowledges, with thanks, a cheque for £3l J2s (per Mrs M. Armstrong, of Akaroa) towards the Sailors’ Christmas Comforts Fund, also 104 ditty bags, as well os 35 bags from Airs Williams, of Akaroa. Tile institute is urgently in need of books and magazines, which can be sent to the S'amen’s Institute, Lyttelton, or to Air R. S. Badger. 187, Manchester Street, Christchurch. The committee of tho Canterbury Athletic Clubs’ Proteetiou Association held its final meeting for the year on Friday, Air A. Stewart presiding. The Union Rowing Club and Liuwood Cricket Club forwarded lists of defaulters. Eight cases wero finally declared defaulters, while several wore again withdrawn, statements having been made or explanations offered. The secretary produced a draft report and balance-sheet, which was passed for presentation to the annual meeting ot club delegates on September 27. Air S. J. Collett, manager of the Christchurch branch of the Government Tourist Bureau, informed a ‘‘Lyttelton Times ” reporter yesterday that ns a result cf the new service, from Jackson’s to Hokitika, it was now possible to make the journoy from Christchurch to by train, coach and motor, three times a* week instead of once—on a Saturday —as has hitherto been (lie case. The run to Hokitika can now be made on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday in each week. The roads are excellent, Air Collett states, and the bush scenery is very attractive. That in our opinion it is not desirables that a general election bo held during the war, and this mooting app;eclat os the good work that is being dene by the National Government,” was the text of a motion from the Alorrinsville branch of the Fanners’ Union, submitted for the approval of tho Auckland Provincial Exccutivo at a meeting o.i Friday. Major Lusk said they probably all would agree with the first .part of the motion, hut whether tho National Government was doing all that it should do was another matter. It was decided, on tho motion of Air It. D. Duxfield, to delete the latter part- of the motion, and the first part was carried unanimously, the secretary being instructed to forward a copy to the Prime Alinister. On Saturday afternoon a tram from town and another from Sumner entered tho section cf line between Shag Rock corner and Clifton Bridge, to control which an automatic) signal had been installed. They were travelling at no great speed and when they cainc into view of each other a prompt- reversal of ’power averted danggr ol a collision. A suggestion having been mode that the automatic signal was working erratically the general manager of the tram wavs was seen on the subject. He declared emphatically that tho signal was working all right. It was true, iio said, that two cars came together on Saturday, but it was not at an awkward corner, and they stopped in full view of each other. This incident is the subject of an inquiry. Tho collision in tho same locality a few weeks ago is still sub judice, on account of ono of the employees concerned being absent from Christchurch.

Loasby’s “Stop It” will stop that cough. Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s Cd, grocers and chemists sell it. X You can depend upon everything being done promptly and well if you only hand your shipping documents to M. Hoywood and Co., Ltd. They arc recognised ns experts at this work. Telephones 259, 1241 and 2174. X

Now that the Tobacco industry is firmly established in this country, every farmer should grow, as a side line, a couple of acres of Tobacco, netting from £4O to £6O per acre. N.Z. is the country par oxeelienco for Tobacco-growing. It is capable of producing almost any loaf. The distinguishing features of Gold Pouch are its unequalled mildness and combustibility due to the small percentage of Nicotine —this makes for health. Once the smoker gets accustomed to tho pure Tobacco flavour of Gold Pouch, he will! reject all foreign brands with their adulterations, for he can get a better nrticlo grown and manufactured in his own country for less money. Is will buy a crammed full bag of either Gold Pouch or Three Diamonds. Those who roll their own cigarettes should try Threo Diamonds Tobacco. a new typo, likewise N.Z. grown, of a rich brown colour, free from bite. 23

Entries for the Canterbury Horticultural Society’s spring show, to be held at the Art Gallery, closed last night, and all the sections are well oiled. The show will be open to the public on Thursday from 2 to 10 p.m., and on Friday from 0 a-m. to 10 p.m. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce discussed the coming trade war and passed a resolution recommending tlio establishment of a Ministry of Commerce under a Cabinet Munster, advised by a board of commercial and labouring men; heavy taxation of enemy goods; the branding ot all foicign articles; and special taxation or enemy subjects if allowed to trade m this country.

Tho following amendments to the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909 are suggested by the committee of'the Municipal Association: "That the Government subsidy to bos-pit-al and charitable aid boards bo A>s in tho £; that the Government subsi civ to sanatoria bo 24s in the £; that* tho Government subsidise all . Hospital and charitable aid boards 30s in the £ for capital expenditure; and, that the State take the control and maintenance of all indigent children m tho Dominion.”

The council of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution expressing alarm at the possibility of the Dominion losing the services of the National Efficiency Commissioners at this critical time, and expressing the opinion that the Government should not only ensure the retention of tho present members of the board, but follow the load of the British Prime Alinister and call to its aJid business men of integrity and capacity to assist in solving the many vital questions that will havo to bo dealt with.

Tho first annual general mooting of members of tho Christchurch branch of tho Overseas Club will be held at the Chamber of Commerce, at 8 p.m-to-morrow. TVc-nty-ono members have been nominated for positions on the Executive Council of fourteen. Mr G. T Booth and Mr C. AI. Hill (aviation instructor), have acceded to a request to address members after the business of the meeting is concluded. The chief activities of the club at present are the regular remittances of “Gift Boxes ” and tobacco through the agency of London headquarters, to soldiers of the Expeditionary Force. “ It looks as if they wanted to keep workingmeu out,” said Councillor L. Hart at the Wooiston Borough Council last night, upon receipt of an invitation to attend a conference, of local bodies regarding heavy traffic by-laws, to bo held at 4 p.m. on October 9. In tho subsequent discussion, it was pointed out that members of borough councils were largely workingmen, and if these councils were to bo represented, then the practice of holding such conferences during business hours should bo discontinued. It was decided to ask the City Council to endeavour to hold the conference in the evening instead of tho afternoon.

“ That no enemy subjects he allowed to vote or be appointed to any position in the gift of the Crown, though naturalised.” This was the text of one of a long list of resolutions from tho Alunicipal Association’s Committee sent forward to the Wooiston Borough Council last night. Councillor J. Roberts said he objected strongly to its adoption, on the grounds that it was infringing the democratic principle that people who were expected to conform to laws should have a voice in making them. If it was not good enough to allow these naturalised people to vote, said another councillor, itwas not good enough to take, their sons to fight. The council hv a majority of two, declined to support Mr Roberts’ motion that the council take exception to tho clause, and the association’s communication was approved. The claim for £I7OO odd brought by one sheep dealer against another wag further investigated yesterday at the Supreme Court, and was still unfinished when tho Court rose, making a fifth day’s sitting necessary. The case is being heard before a special jury, which is composed mainly of prominent Christchurch business men. His Honor AhJustice Dcimiston more than once during the trial lias shown his sympathy with tho jury at the extension of the proceedings and the complicated nature of flic question set them for decision. At one stage yesterday his Honor interjected : “ If this case had been tried before a Judge alone lie could have had a fortnight or more to go through tbe papers before giving his judgment, but the jury will bo expected to do it in an hour or two. It was a preposterous ease to go before a jury at all.” Tho annual report of the director of the Dominion Museum contains a request for a subsidy for a fireproof building, to take the place of the fifty-year-old building now doing duty. The matter of State aid for museums is ono of general interest, and the “ New Zealand Herald ” states that it is understood that the Auckland Institute will shortly issue a statement .with regard to the position of the Dominion’s loading museums in this respect, the AVellington museum being the only one now in rcccii)t of a Government subsidy. The whole position with regard to tho museums in tho four centres will ho fully dealt with, tho stand being taken that no museum should he the sole recipient of State assistance. In discussing the matter it. was pointed out bv a member of tho institute that not only was tbo Government contributing nothing towards, the Auckland musounY, hut for the last twenty-five years had imposed a mortgage tax on tho Costley bequest. So far as was known, the Auckland museum was the only ono in the Dominion subjected to taxatiou. As the Tea Tax is the same on highclass teas as on inferior blends, it is most economical to obtain the Best of Teas —Desert Gold. A lost delicious, best value. Oct the Special Family Blend Desert Gold at 2s. 5793 ■"Winter at Akaroa, where geraniums thrive tho year round. Winter tariffs, cars 25s "return, from Broadway’s, Christchurch, daily, 2 p.m. 187 S

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