THE COMING SESSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9503, 28 May 1913, Page 4

THE COMING SESSION.

Parliament is *to meet next montl**on June 26 to be exact—for js»;,'t»fc* saction of the ceuntryV business,. It » already evident that the session ;wifl be an important one and that matters of the highest moment will be submitted to members. Everyone will be anxious to hear the result of the Hon. James Allen's consultation with the Imperial Government on the subject of naval defence and the New Zealand Government's proposals thereon. The consideration of this question alone will mark the session of 1913 as a notable one in the Dominion's history whatever the outcome. It should be possible to discuss the defence problem without importing party politics into the matter, but we are afraid this is a vain hone eo far as the New Zealand Leeris-

nvyv ku tar as me new Ziwumnu juegi»lature is concerned. The Prime Minister has mentioned about a dozen measures that are to form the basis of the Government's programme. The reform of the Legislative Council will be persevered with, and it is satisfactory to see that the Reformers intend to deal resolutely with the second chamber in its present obsolete form. There will be another instalment of agrarian policy in a supplementary Land Bill to that of last session. Native lands will: be dealt with in another measure and a Land for Settlements Bill will occupy a place on the list. Labour matters are

to receive attention in a consolidating Arbitration and Conciliation Bill which should give an opportunity for introducing many necessary amendments. A Shops and Offices Bill will be put before Parliament and it will serve tc raise the vexed half-holiday question again. Mr Ma&sey designates as 'Very important" a Local Government Bill, but it is not known whether it make* many radical changes in the present organisation of local bodies. Amendments are required to the State Guaranteed Advances, Counties and Municipal Corporations Acts. Encourage ment will be given to the co-operative

principle by a provision to allow one of the State lending departments to make advances for the purpose of establishing canning factories and cool storage for fruit—a very commendable extension of State aid. Then the question of the tariff is under consideration. The ratification of the arrangement made by the Ministers for Customs of the Commonwealth and Dominion will come before Parliament. These are the chief items on the order paper. The Prime Minister 6ays he does not regard electoral and licensing reform as of such urgency that it must be dealt with this session. An Electoral Bill replacing the unwieldy and expensive second ballot will be introduced before it is needed, he savs. but not this vear. Tt will hj«

at? aaya, uub iivu uins y*axi. Xh Win ue ' seen that Parliament is likely to have a busy session. The Government will not aim at placing a batch of imperfect measures on the Statute Book, but will seek to improve existing legislation, though at the same time carrying its policy into effect in a number of direc- _ tions.

—^— SSSSSS^BSSSSSSSSt A farmers' co-operative association has been formed at Gisborne, with a capital of £250.000. * The latest addition to the telephone exchange is: No. 747, Ward Bros., 22 Bourke street. Great preparations hare been made for the celebration to-day of the centenary of crossing the Blue Mountains, says a Sydney cable. A first offending Maori was convicted and ordered to pay 2s cab hire for having been found drunk yesterday. Messrs C. E. *nd H. R. Waldegrave, J.P'a., were on the Bench. The Supreme Court is expected to sit tonight to complete the evidence in the Kemp memorial case, in which event the jury will leave for Wanganui to-morrow to view the monument. The interment of the late Miss Irene Prior, of Feilding, took place at the Sandon cemetery to-day. The funeral was from the residence of Mr Phillips, of Sandon, an uncle of the deceased young lady. A correspondent of the Poverty Bay Herald makes the suggestion that the salvage of the Indrabarah might be effected by utilising sand-pumps driven by the vessel's own steam to make a channel for her. The Government have provided a number of unemployed with work on the Mo*nOpotiki road, the construction of which, as promised by the Minister for Public Works, will be hurried on. Tha fnllnwintr r>n'™« U»vo Wn nairl rm+

ine toiiowmg prices nave Been paid out at the various dairy factories for last month's milk supplies:—Rongotea, Hid; Dairy Union and Hawke's Bay Dairy, lid; Cheltenham. Levin, Glen Oroua, Shannon, Rata, Ballance, and Bunnythorpe, 12d each. Provided satisfactory arrangement* can be made, an instructional camp for officers is to be held in Palmerston, on a large scale during either June or July. The local Defence office is making an application to the A. and P. Association for the use of the Showgrounds as a site, but nothing definite has been decided upon yet. In all probability about 1000 officers (staff and territorial) will participate in the camp. When fines were being imposed at the Police Court, Auckland, in the cases of Defence Act defaulters, the names and addresses of the defaulters' employers were taken, as well as the amount of their weekly wage. This was in accordance with the aew provisions under the Defence Act, whereby a defaulter's fine may be recovered from his employer, the Defence authorities being empowered to demand the employee's wages before they are paid to huo. This procedure greatly lessens the difficulty of collecting fines. A cable from Tokio reports that the Mikado is progressing satisfactorily. Referring to the announcement of the Mikado's death, circulated by Kfeuter's agency, the Blenheim paper says:—Posthaste from Tokio came last evening an "extraordinary" (one and a penny to pay) —".Mikado dead.''' Close on its heels—in fact, just ten minutes behind it at Wakapuaka and a dead-heat at Blenheim—came another "extraordinary," this time from London (another one and a penny to pay)— "Cancel Mikado death." Whioh has been duly done, and the event is "scratched for the present. "Camp" Coffee is the essence of the beat berries in liquid form. Never stale or fiat, never 'muddy' or insipid.—Advt. Judged from every standpoint, the Bon Marche millinery selections offer big advantages; practically every conceivable style and fancy for present fashion requirements is shown here in large variety and at remarkably low prices, besides which there is a goodly showing of 6mart seasonable headgear, offered at considerably below usual prices. Take a walk through the showrooms and take particular notice of tpe 5s lid bargain line of straw hats, many worth 19s 6d; good for present wear; also correct for spring. C. M. Ross and Co., the Bon Marche.—Advt. Newest books at Park's. "The Amateur Gentleman," by author of "Broad Highway" ; "Panama and What it Means," by Foster Fraser; "The Honeymooners," by Harold Macgrath; "The White Shield," ! by Myrtle Reed.—Advt. The man who likes to cut his own tobacco will find there's nothing to equal fragrant GOLDEN EAGLE PCtJG. Bwset, soot and delicious. Try it— Advi

The Prime Minuter stated yesterday thai Thursday, Jane 26. his been definitely fixed as too deter for «* opening of Pa*. foment. Feilding residents intend to recognise Mr E. Goodbehere's pubHb services; by presenting'him with a testimonial at an early 'date. A Masterton resident, while enjoying t* oyster supper on Saturday eveningy struck two small pearls in one of the shells. Ail expert states that the pearls are of considerable value. Feilding has become •cquainted wttfc the sneak thief, who perpetrates his outrages whifet members of local football "JJ hockey teams are engaged in friendly ccgftfet Last Saturday afternoon, »*»*?• Star, eeveral hockey player* who left tn*f dotheV containing some cash and W>" ables, in the dressing-shed at the rawcourse, were relieved of their worldly goods whilst at play. Territorials will be interested to learn that it has been decided to hold annual competitive examinations for appointmekt

as junior commissioned officers. A candidate most be a member of the territorial force, and of the rank of corporal j* higher, and between the ages of 18 and K. A senior cadet who holds the rank m sergeant when ha is transferred to «a territorial force will also be eligible to J compete. T The Government » striking a medal for presentation to the officers and men w H M.S. New Zealand. The medal will ba of solid silver, somewhat larger and thicker than a half-crown, and oh one side wnl show a representation of the batua cruiser, and on the other the armorial beatings of the Dominion. The weight of tha medal is 18dwt, and its diameter 34 millimetres. The medals are at present being made by Mr Bock, of Wellington, and about nine hundred will be struck. ;-

The Waimarino (Main Trunk) Agricultural, Pastoral, Horticultural and Industrial Association has launched a movament having for its object the representation of Waimarino per medium of a collective exhibit at the forthcoming winter show at Palmerston North. Under the proposal, all intending exhibitors at the big show are incited to co-operate with the sub-commit-tee set up by the Waimarino A.P.H. and t. Association, with the object of grouping all the individual exhibits of produce under one- heading, so that the collection will form a distinct feature at the Show: A distressing case has been broufkf under the notice of the Dunedin Star. > I* relates to a young man who is in anythiu but affluent circumstances. By means m hard work and the exercise of self-denial he managed to save £4O, and this amount he sent by a messenger to liquidate a bill incurred through no fault on his part TK« messenger (a boy) lost the money (eight £5 notes), and the young man has to go back

to the point from which he started. H« advertised twice, but so far without tua» cess. The money may be returned to its owner, but he in the meantime is in a vetj unenviable position. # A London correspondent writes:—Tha High Commissioner, on instructions frop New Zealand, has just appointed twentjyfive nurses (probationary) for mental asy* lums in' the Dominion, and the fallowing are sailing shortly:—Miss Lilian Marshall, by the Paparoa; the Misses Mabel F. Miller. Charlotte Kebbell, Marjory Newton, Emily Paice, Louisa Stannard, and Violet E. B. White, by the Remuera, on Mav Bth; the Misses Gertrude and Winifred Airlie, Mary C. Clark, Gertrude A. Quinton, and C. M. Elsmere, by the Ruahine, on June sth; and the Misses Caroline M. Sellars, Nina O'Flynn, Carolina Meadows, and May H. Anderson, on June 19th. All have had previous experience in mental nursing. , * A New South Wales resident was vary much surprised the other day when the Cuetome authorities demanded £l9 from hint before they would hand over a package of water colour sketches executed by a little girl in England. The sketches were merely childish drawings of no value, and had boon sent out in order that the recipient iMr W. H. Lang, of Corowa) might compare them with the artistic efforts of his own little girl, aged 13. There were nineteen eketchea in the package, and it appears that the Australian tariff demands a payment of £1 each, or 25 per cent on the value, whichever may be the higher, on all oil or water oolout paintings not produced by an, Australian * artist or an Australian student abroad. The Department remained unyielding, and Mr Lang decided to let them keep the sketches. A purious position in regard to the ownership of a piece of land in the Manchester Block has just come to light Among tha immigrants who were granted travelling concessions on the condition that they pwchased a small area of land, were a man and his wife, who paid a deposit on a section of the block above mentioned. Tha immigrant obtained a receipt for the de- „„„:* u..i. _..u i.i_ * a. ti i ..

posit, but subsequently forgot all about the transaction, and took' no further itepi in the matter of his ownership. Now he finds that he is responsible for the rates that have been accruing on the section during all the intervening years, though others have been occupying the land. Consequently he is making diligent inquiries, as the result of which he hopes tjo be able to establish his ownership of the selection, and, after paying the arrears of rates, realise a substantial increment. '.; A big testimony to the place Scotchmen held in the world was given by Canon Garland at the Bible-in-Schools meeting last evening. "Practically," said the speaker, "every prominent position in the world is occupied by a Scotchman." The Archbishop of Canterbury, he explained, was a Scotchman. So also were Mr Balfour and the Archbishop of York—the laster was the son of a Presbyterian minister The speaker also belie\ed Mr Asquith was a Scotchman. One of the most statesmenlike Premiers that the Empire had seen was Mr Kidston, the Premier of Queensland. He was a Scotchman, and had received only the ordinary primary education given at a parish school. That gentleman's special gift of language had been derived from one source only, and that was, the Bible, taught in the Scotch schools. Rev.

U. tiird also gave a personal testimony that one of the greatest pleasures of his lira was that he was a Scotchman, and had received Bible instruction at school. . A meeting' of the district committee df the Foxton Presbyterian Church was held at Rangiotu on Monday. There were present : Rev. J. M. Thomson, M.A. (moderator), and Messrs Henderson, Speiraand Hornblow (Foxton), Costall and Fanner (Glen Oroua), Macaulay, Ingley and Wilton (Rangiotu), Matheson, McCully and Richardson (Tiakitahuna). The quarterly financial statement was considered satisfactory. Business of a routine nature was discussed. The action of the Tiakitahuna. committee in re lease of section on which to erect a church was endorsed. Permission was granted the Methodist denomination to hold Sabbath services in the Glett Oroua Church, oh occasions when ths> building was not otherwise engaged, frea of cost. Dates were arranged for a visitation to the district on behalf of the Wellington Orphanage fund. A meeting of session was subsequently 'held. The delegates were most hospitably entertained! at lunch by lady members of the Rangiotu congregation. When the customs duty was a uniform percentage ad valorem, the passing of the entries was quite easy. Nowadays ft lakes a brainy man to run the gauntlet of the many different tariffs. Merchants oaa save both time and worry by lotting &eir Customs work done by J. J. Curtis aad Co., Ltd., OotsssshooM Quay, WstUaflssss -Advfc Some of the prettiest of union shirtings are being shown in the Manchester department at Collinson and . Cunningham*'*, Ltd. This useful and serviceable material now comes in such nice stripe effects as to be usable for a variety of purposes in addition to shirts. Unshrinkable and made to stand repeated tubbings. Ud to Is lid per yard.—Advt - --. Whenever anything exceptionally simple is invented, to solve some irksome problem, most of us are ant to exclaim* fi Well I wonder nobody thought of that before," and this is what struck the writer on seeing a simple little device in the shape of a small tap, for use with kerosene tins, instead of the inconvenient pump. You simply puncture the tin at the bottom of one side with the pointed end of the tap, and give one or two turns, when it becomes fixed quite tight, and>. you merely < turn the tap, and out flows the kerosene. When the tin is empty, simply unscrew it and put it on the next tin. Wonderfully simple, yet wonderfully, wekjomei is *ost -*Wple irffl admit. See it *t CoUbson an* Sons. Orty 8s 6d each.—Advt. l #

A Sydney cable states that the weather ha* turned bitterly cold in New South Wales. Heavy frosts damaged the crops in some districts. It is understood that the police are taking action in connection with the recently reported disturbance on the Foxton ' train. . During last week cartloads of wreckage, including hatches, etc., have come ashore off the Otaki Beach. Mr *J. G. Poynter, local postmaster, visited the beach on Sunday, when he secured a large quantity of Wreckage, chiefly the remains of what appears to be a new deckhouse. l*he purchase of estates for subdivision and settlement during the last financial year involved an expenditure of £444,413, including £16,369 for incidental expenses. The payments during the previous year for purchases under the Land for Settlements Act amounted to £397,768, so that this year's expenditure showed an increase of £46,645. A foreign missionary meeting was Ik i J at St. Paul's schoolroom last evening, there being a fair attendance. Rev. F. W. Boys occupied the chair. An interesting address on the manner and customs of the Papuan* was given by Mr Harrison, a New Quinea missionary at present spending his furlough in New Zealand. Mr Harrison speaks at the Cuba street church this evening. There was a fairly large attendance at the meeting of the Palmerston North Denting Society last evening, when Mr R. McNab gave a very interesting lecture on the various systems of proportional repro®ntation of which the Hare system he considers the bost. Discussion on tho subject followed, and a ballot was afterwards taken to illustrate tho method of rotang under the system. The Government has received an interesting memento of the South African Wnr from Captain Coutts, of Auckland, who is »l present staying in Palmerston. For his services at the front tho Captain was presented with the Queen's Scarf and two medals, all of which he has sent to the Defence Minister, the Hon. R. Heaton ithoqes, who, in acknowledging tho gift, states that the scarf and medals will be placed in the Parliamentary Library. An agreement, to which the freezing •ompames in tho Poverty Bay district, and the Gisborne Slaughtermen's Industrial Union of Workers are the parties, has beeu signed. The conditions includo tho fixing of the rate of pay at 27s 6d per 100, and the proportion of learners at 1 to 6, with » proviso that upon a learner becoming competent another learner may be taken on in his place. Preference to unionists w&s granted under the agreement, which is for three years

Sporting lit the interview with the Minister of Public Works in Masterton the other evening, Mr W. H. Beetham said . Ihe happiest days of my life were when I on the Rimutaka, helping to malcy th« road. There were all sorts of men on that work. Lawyers and doctors, and men of degrees were engaged upon it. They Save great fun with their 'Trials by ury, and so forth, in the evening." Mr Beetham told how he had made a certain suggestion regarding the road, which had resulted in his being promoted to be a "boss/' Since that day he had taken ■ freat interest in road works in the district. With reference to Mr L. G. Navlor's "And" of £l4O worth of gold, made* th» other day on Clydb commonage, Waikeri Valley (says the Wyndham Former), Mr William Howard, of South Wyndham, a veteran digger, states his belief that this fold would be identical with pert of the escort gold robbery committed by Rennie and another at Dunstan forty years ago, for which crime Rennie was imprisoned. Mr Howard states that the robbers "planted" their booty in several different places, and, as to his certain knowledge—he being on the Dunstan field at the time —no fold was obtained from the Waikeri V»l----ley, it is reasonable to assume that Mr Naylor's "find" was part of the stolen «- eort apld.

Some day the complete drainage of Lake Illesmere will do away with the picturesque flocki of pukeko that abound on its marshy edges (says tho Lyttelton Times). Meanwhile, these fowl, in their beautiful blue plumage with scarlet crpst;, are multiplying with astonishing rapidity on tbp shores of the lake. In some nart.3 of Nen Zealand they are extinct, ana if. comes a surprise to. find them so prolific in Canterbury, which has few native birds, owing te> the denudation of forest areas. The pukeko has never been so plentiful on the lake before. Tho rains have provided an ideal swampy hunting ground for young broods, and thousands of birds in ay be soen in large flocks from tho Little River train. The bird used to bo a staple article of food for the Maoris when skinned, but now it is replaced by daintier fare.

"I would admit him to probation if I oould," said his Honor Mr Justice Dennislon, in the Christchurch Supreme Court, when referring to a prisoner, "but he has been convicted of wilful and corrupt per--I'ury. Perjury is rampant in tjio country. Everyone has to recognise that, in administering justice, it is troated in the very lightest way. It would be a serious thing to allow it to be thought that a man could permit perjury with impunity. I rogret having to sentence this man, but I cannot allow it to be thought that a man can commit perjury and escape by probation. I will treat the present case as leniently as I can, and will impose a sentence that is not a usual one for perjury. The prisoner will be sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and it may be thought that I have treated him with dangerous leniency."

A meeting of the Progressive League was held on Monday night, Mr G. H. Bennett presiding. Accounts in connection with the recent Borough election were passed for payment. Some discussion ensued as to the policy to be pursued by the League in the future. Various suggestions were made. One member of the committee referred to ♦he fact that the Borough Council so far had not taken any steps as regards the •rection of municipal baths, but it was pointed out that the Council had only held one meeting sinco the election, and sufficient i-We had not elapsed for it to get into.i working order. Two members or the Council who were present assured the meeting that the matter had not been overlooked, but would be brought forward shortly. The question of more grounds for sports was also discussed. It was decided to leave the matter in abey anoe for a while. The date of the next meeting of the League was left for the executive to fix.

Ifueh attention hae been given to the re- j aurkeble pumps at Chingford in the new waterworks which King George inaugurat ed on March 15. These pumps have to pump 180,000,000 gallons a dav from the River Lea into a reservoir, and they do it by explosion of gas, which blow the water, 12 tons at a time, into the reservoir. "Chingford reservoir," says the Telegraph, "ia something more than an extraordinary triumph of engineering skill. The system of giant, explosion pumps which is to hurl 180,000,000 gallons daily from the river upward to the channel feeding the reservoir is a thing that will fix the name of Mr H. A. Humphrey among the highest in our time's r«oord of applied science; but the vast lake so to be created has another significance. It is a symbol of the immensity of modern London. Never before has such a ?vstem of Dumping ae that which Mr H. A. Humphrey Km devised—on the 'explosion' prin-1 •iplc—been tried in England. Mr Humphrey is not the kind of man whose ventures fail. HU sucoees. after staking his reputation and £20,000 upon his invention 'for that . WM the penalty he must have paid in case "■ of failure), surprised others, but not those who knew the man himself." Mr Humphrey explains his pumps aa "a gas engine and pumping plant combined, yet simpler than either. But the 'gas engine' is without piston, connecting rod, crank, or fly-wheel. All these are replaced by a mass of water swinging to and fro in a long J-shaped pipe. The sparking-plug causes the explo-j ■ion just over the intake of water at the tail of the J. Water is thus forced up the gfcem into the reservoir. A portion remaining in the stem swings back, automatically winging about a fresh explosion which cause# the whole operation to be repeated." ABE MILKING MACHINES PERFECT? ! Well, can you put your finger on the imperfect Spot, and remedy the defect? Erery farm machine or implement is defective in some way, and lucky is the man who invents the right improvement. Bring ▼our ideah to Baldwin and Rayward, patent agents, whose local representttives are Messrs Ravenhill and Co., the Square, and get their expert advice. That sense of luxurious freedom from rare oomes to the man who smokes MILD DERBY PLUG or CUT—the tobacco with • fragrafioe all ite own. Try it.—Advt. \ V ■