LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 274, 21 November 1919, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The first calendar for 1920 to hand is a pictorial onf.'—"Maori Belles"—

from Mr C. A. Forrest,

It was resolved at the Methodist District Synod in Westport that the Synod be held next year in Blenheim.

A meeting of the Captain Cfcok Memorial Committee will be held in Corry and Cos. room on Monday afternoon next to, consider the question of allocating tho balance of the fund.

The voting for the week ending 20th November disclose no., change in tho position of the Candidates for the Marlborough Schoolgirls' Queen Carnival. Miss Ka,te Barry is still leading, Miss Margaret Gleeson is second, and Miss Ethel Love the Native candidate is third.

In the Supreme Court cause-list published in yesterday's second edition a regrettable':'error occurred. Under the heading '<In Bankruptcy" appeared the name "William Gosling." This should have been another name altogether, and we desire to express our regret that the mistake Avas made.

The prize-list in connection with the Picton Flower Show, held yesterday, is published on page 3 to-day. Other reading-matter on the inside pages includes "Lower Wairau River Board," ''A Secret Treaty," "Acrobat Fireman," "The Meat Position," Wellingto i Topics, and. Sports and Pastimes.

The programme for the Wairau Valley Hack Racing Club's meeting, to be held on Boxing Day, is published on page 7of this issue. There are eight events, the principal one being the Wainu Valley Cup of £35 15s. Two trotting events are included on the programme. Nominations close on December 4th.

An intar-asting communication was received this morning addressed to "The Business and Advertising Manager, Esq. of the paper 'Express' in Blenheim, New Zealand, Oceania." Inside was a request for a specimen copy of The Express and the scale of charges for advertisements. The address of the sender was Valencia, Spain.

Charges of drunkenness and using obscene language were admitted by a \oung. man named John Christopher O'Connor before Mr P. L. Hollings, S.M., to-day. The defendant used the bad language when addressed by Sergt. O'Hara in High Street last night. For this offence the defendant was fined £5, and on the charge of drunkenness he was fined £1.

The Pateena was scheduled to leave Wellington for Picton and Nelson at 1.30 this afternoon. She will return to-morrow, as usual. It was repairs to the engine-room that interrupted her running on Wednesday ; the steering-gear had already been adjusted. Mr Revell informed an Express representative this morning that the vessel should have been ready to sail late on Wednesday night, but the work' took longer than was anticipated, and was not completed until yesterday afternoon.

Mr Clement Wragge's special forecast of the weather for the week ending November 26th is as follows: "The , country is at present covered by the debatable region of atmosphere that may be called 'no man's land.' It is que:3tionable whether the high or the low pressure type of weather will prevail, but it will probably be, unsettled and showery in the South Island, and finer in the North. It is, in fact, the transition stage from spring towards early summer. Some electric disturbance is likely, and hail is probable, chiefly locally, in the South. Seas rather rough on the west coast, moderating elsewhere. People in country districts would be well advised to conserve supplies of water for domestic purposes."

The Department of Agriculture; Industries, and Commerce advises that an error occurred in the figures showing the number of owners for tilie Wellington-West Coast district in the annual sheep returns for 1918, and that consequently the total number of ownars in the Dominion for that year should1 have been 24;163, not 24,863 as shown. .• The" former figure^, when compared' with the total for 1919, thus, show a de;:crea,«o of .103 for this year, instead of 778 as appears in the return.

Some astonishing examples of soaring prices plainly indicating that the, •strain on slender purses is to> 'be gren.teir still in the near future, are tjo be.found in importers1' manifests, and in the latest "quote" .cablegrams to hand (says th-3 Dunedin Evening Star. Tea, the universal beveirage, has advanced 7d a Ib (kndfed price) since September, the latiest quotes being 2s lOd (first grade) and! 2s 7d \lowest grade). One reason given for this advance is a rise of 33| par cent, in value of the rupee. Still more sharp rises have taken place in the last 12 months in respect of other grocery lines. Cocoa beans, which wero bought lasti year at £80 por ton, are quoted to-d'a.y (new season's ■beans).at £241 a ton; Java, coffee, quoted from Java to-day at £112 a ton, has been costing £45; and coffees, • costing £S0 a ton ait present are nowv quoted for the new season at £190.

That he did use an vmsportsmanlike device, in the shape of a spear, to take trout was a charge brought aaainst Kenneth 11. Clunies-Ross in the Magistrate's Court-to-day. He pleaded guilty. Sergt. O'Hara said that last Sunday the defendant, with two companions, was seen by two constables going along the bank of the river at Spring Creek. One of the party carried the spear (which v. as produced in Court) and later the defendant took it and threw it into the river. The defendant admitted to the constables that he unsuccessfully attempted to spear a trout. He had a license to fish. The defendant explained that he used a fishing :-od, but he was accustomed to use the spear as h gaff. On this occasion the fish would not bite, and, happening to see a trout, he tried to get it with the! spear. Mr P. L. Hollings. S.M., pointed out to the defendant that he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of £20. He imposed a fine of £5, with 7s costs, and directed Sergeant O'Hara to appropriate the spear. .

Several protests against the reappointment of Professor yon Zedlitz were received at Wednesday's meeting of the Victoria College Council. "They are simply wasting their time," was the comment of the chairman (Mr G. Watson).

While recognising the importance of military training for disciplinary purposes, and its value in physical development, the Wellington District: Methodist Synod has decided to protest against the suggested four continuous months camp for boys of 18 "on account of the grave moral dangers likely to arise from the promiscuous intercourse of camp life."-

One of the problems of the aftermath of the war is the treatment of shell-shock patients, and medical men have frequently been baffled by its obscure difficulties. Some mild form of exercise is considered beneficial, and such gently stimulating games as bowls and golf have received high commendation as a recreation to mind and body.

During a discussion on spraying materials at the. Fruitgrowers' Confeience in Nelson, Mr Rundle stated that while in America recently he had had an offer from a company to put up a factory in Wellington for the, rtanufacture of lime-sulphur, Bordeaux mixture, spraying oil, and nicotine from tobacco waste.

To-day at 9 a.m. the prevailing wind was westerly. Thermometer readings were: Auckland 60, Wellington 61, Blenheim 60, Christchurch 56. and Dunedin 49. The highest temperature was 69 at Napier, while the lowest temperature was 42 at Nuggets. The sea on the average was fairly rough, and the tides were moderate. The sea off Cape Palliser was moderate and that off Cape Campbell was rough. The tide at the Wairau Bar was" moderate and the sea smooth.

While in ' England (says Wellington1 Post), Mr W. B. Fisher, who returned to Wellington this week, met the Rev. Mother Mary Aubert the veteran New Zealand philanthropist, who had just arrived from Rome. The rev. mother, who .is 85 years of age, had met with a

motor accident, but hoped to return to New Zealand shortly. She told Mr Fisher about some of her experiences in Italy at . the time of the last earthquake there. She meiitione'd that she helped to rescue a woman buried up to her neck in debris for 48: hours, whose fingers had been partly nibbled away by mice.

The case of the young man Noel Kitching, who committed a breach of probation by failing to report himself to the sergeant of police ajj Blenheim was again considered in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Tlie accused said that he had obtained work and he would make an effort to pay the £6 owing by him for hospital treatment and in connection .with, the cost of bringing him back from Nelson. On this understanding, and on his promise to comply with his probation by reporting himself daily to the sergeant of police the case was further adjourned for a fortnight.

The subject of motion pictures was before the Wellington District Methodist Synod on Wednesday, reports Wellington Post, The following recomendaiion by the Temperance and Public: Morals Committee was adopted: "The Synod considers that a much stricter censorship of motion pictures and advertisements at the doors of picture palaces should be established, especially the pictures shown to children; those pertaining -to life in tlie Wild West and questionable practices in society life being calculated, as stated by various Magistrates, to. erart a bad moral effect on the young mind. In order to make the censorship more' effective in this respect, the Synod is of opinion that a- censorship board should be appointed to consist of three persons, one of them being a woman." A copy of this resolution is_to be forwarded to the Prime Minister and Ministers for Justice and Internal Affairs.

There "are two things that the world cannot understand: The way of a mian with a maid and the way of a man with a car. A new car runs well for the first few months without any particular attention; then something goes wrong. It may be only a little thing, and the owner attempts to tinker' iti himself. Unless he has mechanical knowledge he only makes matters worse1, and in the end that car is going to cost him a lot. of money. It is cheaper and much better for the. ear to take it to an export immediately the engine shows signs in sickness. : If your car indicates trouble tiake it to C Tunnicliffe and Son in Grove Road. The export there will at once locate the trouble and mend it. Your car jvillhavp a double life if you care for it in this way.—Advt.

Says the "Wellington Post: The technical pioneer of hydro-electric power in -New Zealand, Mr Evan Parry, is one of the many experts whom tjluis country lias lost. Mr Parry is now in the Mother Country in receipt of & very much higher salary than is paid by the New Zealand Government —except, perhaps. Ito the General Manager of Railways ■ —hut. according to Mir C. E. Daniell, itj was not the salary that took Mr Parry out of New. Zealand. If we understood Mr Daniell all right, Mr Parry left here "a. disappointed man"—disappointed because New Zealand Js a country of big possibilities run by people with tiupot ideas. Two things atre necessary^-a publicity crusade to popularise the possibilities, and the replacement: of tinpot politicians with men of vision and capacity.