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Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1913, Page 4

The 'Mataura Ensign' will not be published to-morrow (Good Friday). "A farmer is a phlegmatio creature, and wouldn't go across a road to see anything," said a witness at the Compensation Court at Christchurch the other day. The court expressed some surprise, and one of the assessors said that his experience went xo show that they were a very keen lot. At the Invercargill Magistrate's Court yesterday a Woodlands resident was fined £3, with 7s costs, for shooting a wild duck on February 10, within the close season. For leaving & motor-car in Esk Street on the evening of February 28, without Sharing proper lights attached thereon in accordance with the borough br-iawa, a maa was fined £l. With a view to minimising accidents resulting from the use of dangerous hatpins, the Auckland City Council is drawing up a by-law on something of the same lines as that brought into operation by tho Sydney City Council, whi:'h_ reads as follows:—"No person shall in any street or any plaoo or in any tramway or public conveyance, wear any hatpin, in such a way as to be a danger to any person." * Under this by-law many women iavo been linod in the Now South Wales capital, and the regulation is having a good effect. Tho hatpin menace can eiuily be avoided if the women wearing long hatpins use hatpin protectors, which have been specially designed to obviate any danger.

A meeting of delegates from the va - > on* school committees in and arounc Ir.verc;ijgill was held last evening when it was decided to form an association t.« fco called the Southland School Com niitf-res Association. Rules and regulations were adopted and it was decided to hold meetings quarterly. It vas aw decided to form sub-associations at convenient centres. Tho hope was expressed that all country school committees would join the association. "It will doubtless bo readily accepted," states the Executive Committee, "that the request of any one committee when made through such a body as the association will carry greater weight and receive more consideration from those in authority than an unsupported petition from that committee itself; also that the bringing together periodically of delegates from schools throughoui the district must te:id to tho betterment of education in general, the greater interest being taken in their duties by not only parents, but all householders, and even members of school committees."

HIWIIUS ol Ume b.cycU, on Ae lootpaths of the town "has abated to a certain extent"—according to Inspector Kroning and Sergeant Burrowes at the Magistrate's Court this lingA sitting of tho Juvenile Court was held this morning, Mr H. A. Young, S.M., presiding. Six boys resident at McNab were charged by the police with breaking a number of insulators on tho telephone lino at McNab. After hearing the evidence of Sergeant Burrowes and tho admissions of tho youths tho magistrate admonished them and ordered one boy to pay 6s and tho other five 2s each. A man named Charles Quill, who is appearing at the Theatre Royal under the name of "Electra," was fined £3 and costs to-day (states a Wellington Press Association telegram) on a charge of interfering without authority with an overhead tramway wire. It was explained that defendant was giving an electricity-resisting exhibition in the public street. On the arrival of tho south express at Gore this morning a gentleman was nilining along the platform when an over-grown retriever dog became entugled in. his legs, with the result that tlie gentleman was thrown somewhat heavily on the platform. Inquiries I elicited the information that the undignified manner in which ho fell caused the fallen man most pain, but tho dog appeared to bo quite unhurt. vr Sp £ ak j n " ilt a social last ni K ht ? Honvy. r. M. assoy refcrrc! to tho complaints as to !Viy:-c.. at land ballots working fairly to single men (says a 'limaru Press Association message). It depended on the administration, he said, but the clause was complicated and would ho amended if it barred single men. It was not doing that in Hawke's Bay. Ho hoped to provide land enough to satisfy all applicants. A meeting of tho Executive Committoo of the Invorcurgill and Suburbs School Committers' Association last fvei;ing passed tho following resolution —-"ihat this executive enters its emphatic protest against the proposed reo'ginisation of tho office staff, which prnvidwl lor a largo increase in salaries. without any apparent increase in efficiency, and .considers tho money thus proposed to bo expended could bo better applied to tho necessities of out i\ ing school committees; and coutho number of schools in southland tho necessity for an assist* ant i/.ppector does not seem apparent'

''-'V. 0 you on the keg to-night!" -No. "Aron't you going round to uio scabs' lcol^? ,, "No tear; no scabs' beer tor mo." This is a portion of a conversation retailed by one witness during the hearing of the Mataura breach of tho peace case this morning which involved the differences of opinion. between l'reo and union laborers as the outcomo of tho recent strike of tho latter slaughtermen. The magistrate asked the witness whether it was vitally necessary to resort to his fists to settle the said difference. Tho witness admitted that he could "if he wished" pass a free laborer on tho street without speaking to hiin.

In presenting the prizes in connection with the Southland Day Technical Collego at Invercargill last evening, Mr ! A - tiiu oldest member of I tho Education Board, said that it afforded him great pleasure to bo the j medium through which the recognition oi tho "pupils' merit and achievement reached them. In reference to agriculture Mr Mac Gibbon said that, in a Dominion like this, agriculture was Koing to be tiio mainstay of tho people in the future, if it were not so alreatiy. lhey wore always proud and pleased to see manufacturing going oil, but this \ as 110 k a manu lacturmg country, ana they would require to remember that ract. JNow Zealand would bo more noted as an exporter of agricultural produce, and to that end education anu instruction in agriculture was given He -would like to see the km; set their hearts on the country lift* and study agriculture, which was ono »uld foUoS impo ™»' U»ar

• winter season a nice fnr Bet is a fitting outdoor dress finish. Thomson and Beattie have just opened some beautiful fur seta in squirrel, fox, stone martin, bear, hare, marmot, seai, etc., pnces ranging from 12s 9d to £8 per Boy wanted. All fruit ip a ran teed at Perkt;'. Church-of Christ oonieivnoe, March Nurse Hall liaa commenced practice troro. Funeral of late Norah Graham tomorrow. JidayT 1 J ' Smi:i ' i'uneral of la to Ll-ulx-I Maraskill cn Saturday. .., tounyuiient, smoke social on rnday craning. Anglican Church services lor to-mor-row announced. Loan 00. hold clearing s:d« at Chatton on ja i>ril 3. Southland County Council insert notice* ro unpaid rates. , tho lat<> AYallor Johnston at Alataura on Sunday. Entries for Waikaia Athletic Sporta extended to Saturday. . extension of week-end excursion faros to Queenstown. 'Wimpenny Bros, and Ik'id Lave R,v cured agency for B.S.A. cvclcs. I tasteful trifles for the tab!- may be had at Brownlies' Popular Store. Henderwn and Co.. l td., h<>'l rioaring sale at Otamita on March 27. »' "lOi. , "l"' 1 !!?* ol pro-'xammo, Koyal Standard Pictures, to-night q 'Vn ;1 K'Voart. bee McLorkindale b advt. on this ]>agc.

Immense stock of Gifts of Jewellery Silverware, Brushware, Etc., o!' all kinds and prices at 25 percent, off usual cost for one month at Baker's, ftest Bank of New Zealand.