LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 273, 20 November 1919, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

John Dawson . will /speak oil Sunday evening in His Majesty's Theatre, not the Palace Theatre, as advertised last evening. '=

Members, of the Blenheim Defence Rifle Club are notified that : .shooting fcr the Series Competition will comn.'cnce to-morrow.

Everything points to a successful evening at the children's fancyrdress dfcnce at St. Patrick's Hall to-mor-row night. Good, prizes are being given for the children's dress elapses. Dancing for children starts .at 7.30 p.m., and for adultp at- 9.30 p.m. Men may attend'in flannels.

To-morrow afternoon the Ward school children are holding a display of work in the Ward Town Hall. In the evening a social will be held to welcome home Seageant G. Barnes.

At the sitting of the Magistrate's Court this morning judgment by default was given in the case of Estate of J. W. O'Neill v. T. O'Sullivan, £3 15s lOd, with 10 costs.

The payment of war gratutities to voluntary workers of the New Zealrnd Expeditionary Forces has been authorised. All are eligible who served not less than a year in the New Zealand Forces administered and paid by the New Zealand Government.

The reading-matter on page 2 includes "Meat Requisition," "League of Empire," Sports and Pastimes, and Commercial News; page 3, Miscellaneous Cables, Australian News, md "Our Babies" ; page 6, "English Wool Trade," "Westport Harbor Board/ "Conciliation Council," and 'German Trade with 3ritain"; page 7, Wellington Topics, "Butchers' Strike,"- and Havelock Notes.

The immigration returns for October show that 2662 persons, arrived in .-New Zealand, against 1257 in October, 1918. Departures from New Zealand last month totalled 1943, against 1094 in October of last year. Among last month's arrivals were 57 Chinamen and five Chinese women, 42 of the farmer and all of the latter landing at Wellington. Nine Chinamen left New Zealand in the same

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Tho cables make much of the opposition to Prohibition of the American Federation of Labor and its president, Mr Samuel Gompers. The name :sounds large, but it only embraces 10 per cent, of American unioriistis, and 40 of the. constituent bodies! are unions of liquor trade employees. —Advt. "What about) coal?" said, a worker in Mr Massoy's audience at Papakura on Saturday,, when Mr Massey was discussing the cost of living, maintaining that the prices of locally produced commodities were not unduly high in New Zealand1. "What about* coal?" said Mr Massey. "Cbai is 'dear because1 of the go-slow policy of the extremists among the miners, vve lav© nlenty of coal in this country if we could get it mined, but owing tfo the go-slow policy we have to get part of the coal we require from other countries, and we have to pay through'the nose for it, and the cost of living is affected- accordingly."

Picture posters which were held to be of an immodest nature formed the subject of a brief discussion at a iv.eetinp of the Devonport Borough Council this week. Mr G. V. Pearce, who introduced the matter, said some of the picture posters displayed in the borough, were disgraceful. He exhibited three posters, and said they were typical of others. The Mayor, Mr H." S. W. King, said the council should protest against the immodesty —to say the least—of both the pictures and the references to the pictures in the posters. On liis motion it was decided to communicate* vith the picture .proprietors on the matter. There was a disgraceful scene in Maelaggan Street, Dune-din, on Saturday night, when the police went to arrest a man. Sub-Inspector Mathieson said it Fas tlhe most ugly crowd he had ever encountered. As a result three then.' appeared in the Cburt on Monday—one changed with disorderly,.behavior while drunk, with resisting" a constable while in the execution of his diity, nd using threatening language, with, •■■obstructing the constable,' and damaging a motor-car. The third man was charged with obstructing the; constable, with damaging his clothes and an umbrella, tho property of the vSub-Inspeotor of Police, arid also with assaulting the , sub-inspector. ' The latter ■■added that the police received no assistance from j civilians;, although some holding high positions were standing by. He added that between fifty and a hundred people took part in the disturbance. The three accused were remanded. Don't have., that \mtidy heap of ■music about tho house. Get your songs or pieces bound in books of .twenty, in boards, with piano back, at the "Express" Office.—Advt. A sitting of the Conciliation Cotincial was to have been held in Blenheim to-day to consider the demands it ade by the Farm and Station Employees' Uniou in respect to the wages and conditions for the ensuing, threshing season. The Workers' Tin ion has cited the farmers throughout the Marlborottgh district individually, and the assessors appointed on both sides hare been awaiting the arrival of Mr W. Newton, the -Conciliation Coaunissio.-ier, for -ome con-

siderable time. O)i a previous occasion an appointment had to. be cancelled on account of the disarrangement of the shipping.. service, and this week again the Commissioner has

been delayed through the interruption in the running of the Pateena.^ It is e> pected, ' however, that Mr Newton will reach Blenheim in time for a sitting of the Council fixed for 10 ■a.m. on Saturday next. The assessors on (>oth sides conferred to-day with a view to expediting the proceedings.

To November 35th, £1,204,323 had been paid out in the way of gratuities to former members of the New Zealand' Expeditionary Force.

A boy, aged two years, a son of Mr J. B. King, of South Invercargill, overbalanced and fell into a tub of water at his parents,' place on Tuesday afternoon and was drowned.

For having in his possession uncustomed goods, an Auckland dealer was on Tuesday fined £50. The prosecution was a sequel to the case in v vhicli several members of "the crew of the Ayrshire were charged with eirbezzling ship's stores. '

At. Gisborne, J. MoCol, a local con. ti actor, was fined £25 for refusing to supply iiti'orcnatioii to the Income-tax Department. On three other charges he was fined £2 for failing to make returns.

Bolshevism and its excesses would not have been possible but for tihe rescinding of the Prohibition order established by the Tsar oaaiy in the war. With the introduction of Prohibition, the morale of the Ilustjiin people and the Russian army greatly improved. With the rescinding of that order and the return of vodka drinking, came drankenness. and disorder and the excesses of Bolshevism.

Tho "bathing widow" is the latest beach sensation at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Two demure blondes took the beach by storm (says a New York message) when they suddenly appeared, among the gay tihrongs garbed in black from liead to foot. They had crepe veils flowing from their tight - fitting bathing hats pinned back in regulation mourning style, tihe veils falling to the waist line in the back. The only touch of color was the narrow white edging around the

bottom of the front of the cap. The bathing attire, included dainty pumps ■button cdl across the ankle. Tho

widows did not go near the water., b\it. contented themselves with promenading on the beaoh.

In! describing notabilities at v the Peace Conference*, the Hon. W. H. Triggs, M.L.C., in sn address to members of the Royal Colonial Institute at Cha-istohurch, mentionedi Sir Henry. Wilson. Chief of tho Imperial General Staff. Thoy wontd remember,'he said, Mr Lloyd. George's reference tio the remarkable prophecy Sir Henry Wilson, had made about the great German offensive in 1918, how he foretold not only the exact place where they would try-to break through, but the exact, *mmb«r of divisions tJiey would employ. "I was told by one in a position to know the facts, how 'Sir Henry Wilson wo: keel out his calculations and achieved such remarkable success,/' added Mr Triggs. "Ho had a staff of very able soldiers whom he diy i ded into two, sections, one section to . represent the Ger-, mans tio devise plans of attack, and the other section to represent the Allies to think out the best plans for defeating those attacks. He went so far, 1 was told, as to make his "German Staff" wear their caps back to front, so as to keep up the1 distinct'tior. When they had worked out all the moves of the game in this way, Sir Henry "ft ilson '.need to give a sort ■of lecture on the military situation for the .benefit, of the War Cabinet, •and it was on one of these occasions that he .made the forecast referred to."