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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9586, 2 September 1913, Page 4

I iiiMty-ftw cbmbcn «• known jo L av * 1 lost their lives on the Alps during tb< \ n . 1912. The Ctombsr of Commerce has dtddi d to .write Uie jlwlw|x department, them to Wf a lamp erected at Tern* End ifeuway station. ®lp Ag» undcrstands that enquiries a - fipin| madf U to tlje possibility of lutiing a candle factory in the neighbor hood of Masterton. The Amalgamated Society of K<ii;«r ( - T Servants of New Zealand lias at t forty-two branches, with a membership w 7114. mThe Timaru Borough Council's first inot<r bus was given a trial run yesterday wni ; fifteen persons aboard. She ran in so\vr<, directions on roads greasy with light rai&. and the trial was considered rtrj sst«i factory. A Fozton resident, who has removed to the Eketahuna district, took his furnitur* to his new home last week on tiro motor lorries. The larger lorry was a 40 hp . with a load of over two tons, and the o?)<rr was 16 h.p. The distance of the trip «t< roughly lOC miles.

Yesterday wis Wattle Dav in a •• Jtreet. wore spray* and ako m motor cars and other "P* were sold by a bevy {3,*^ |f > be introduced. Brisk days at tin Bon Marcne *~*&&!^'^^

Mr C. H. Cleaver, for some years manager of the ("live (H. 8.) butter factory, h«< taken a position with the Awahuri Dairv Company. At a smoke concert in Clh£ last week, Mr Cleaver was presented i > local residents with a purse of sovereign* as a mark of their esteem, reference being made to the keen interest he bsd displayed in local affairs. . Sir Joseph Ward gave a denial in Wei liniMon yesterday to the statement made by a Temuka newspaper that he was entering into partnership with a well-known SoutL Canterbury public man in the frozen meat business. Sir Joseph said he had neither considered nor had he been asked to enter i;. - to any such proposal, and he had no intention of undertaking any business respotin bilitica of the kind. The Nelson Evening Mail states that M«-wrs Kirkpatrick aud Co., Ltd., har« purchased the plant of the Frimiey canning works at Hastings. Extensive sddi tions are to be made to the "K" factor? at Nelson in order to accommodate the additional plant, as well as the new labour saving machinery just imported from Australia and America. The big "K" business apparently continues to make healthy progress. . Piki, who played with the Maori tesm in Australia, and had the misfortune to break a leg duriug one of the games and contract blood poisoning, is still in the Sydney hospital, but is recovering. It was st first thought that it would be necessary to amputate the limb, but later the doctors decided that only a minor operation need ba performed. The operation was successful, and Piki is now on the high road to recovery. Carjienters have been busy lately in the Philosophical Society's observatory in the Square, and a much-needed improvement has 'teen effected in the shape of a com modious elevated platform. Formerly, in order to use die telescope, the observer was obliged to mount an awkward stepladder, a feat requiring some dexterity nnd a liberal amount of enthusiasm. With the provision of the new platform, however, observations may be made with comfort and security, and visitors are well repaid for their modest sixpence by the wonders revealed in the telescope.

When Mr Watte, curator of tha Museum, returned to Christchurch on Wednesday evening from the Macquarie Islands, ho brought with him four lire penguins, and placed them in an enclosure in tht museum grounds. It seems that the enclosure was broken at one point, for when ;he |mii was visited on Thursday morning, it was found that the birds, if not exactly flown, had. fi t any rate, vanished. A search waa instituted, and two of them were soon discovered marching along Rolleason avenue. A third was found in one of the greenhouses in the Domain, but no trie* could be found of the fourth.. It ♦*■ thought possiblo that it might have got into the river and !>c well on its way to sen. llr Waitc received a message from the polio* station that a strange bird had been arrested at 5 a.m. in a public thoroughfare and placid in :lr- watcheouee, and enquiries were made as to the curator knowing anything' about it. A messenger waa deipatcbca and the wanderer more joined his companions at the Museum. "Cau you si)cak English?" asked SubInspector Mai sack of a native witness •at ♦be Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, the interpreter being temporarily absent from the court. "No," replied the native, in a manner suggestive of at least an intelligible understanding of the language, if not of fluency in its use. "Oh, bosh:" retorted the Sub-Inspector, "gat into the box!" The native did so, and gave his evidence in a terse and intelligible manner. Later, the interpreter armed. and witness was asked if he required him, replying in the affirmative. The Magistrate, however, motioned the witness to proceed, being quite satisfied with his English. After that nearly all the witnesses gave their evidence without the inter* prefer's aid. Mastorfon Age wys:—The Maha* wa.'u "Standard" makes a vigorous demand that the labour Department, with its elaborate and costly machinery, be abolished, | and that the work of inflection of factories. I etc., be entrusted to the police. We con- | fit* to a degree of sympathy with the opinions expressed by our contemporary. The money that is at present expended m administering the unnecessary department might well be employed in developing the resources of the country, or of lightening the burden of the general taxation. We see no justification whatever for the etistei.ee of this department. The work it does in finding employment might verv well be entrusted to private agencies, or to the police, while the rest of its functions could be attributed among other departments, withJJJJt seriously inconveniencing the public. Ihe one gn-at reproach upon the legislation of this country in recent years baa been the enormous growth in the cost of departmental administration. Visitors hate been amazed to dir*ov«r that fully one-thin) of the population is dependent upon the S;ate. And the tendency is, unhappilv to increase rather than diminish the number of State dependents.

I The case wherein Harold Worrell wit charged with riding a motor-cycle, without having a sufficient light attached thereto, which was stood down to enable a witMM to ho called by defendant, was concluded at the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. Joseph Bell, who was in the sidefar on the night in question, said he did not remember being accosted by Constable Ueelman but saw him standing on die street. The lamp was lit by witness at the ii a L Hotei * but ** wa » «°* wwnfcg well. \\ itness could not swear that the lamp was hurning when they passed the constable, though defendant had said 1t was burning. To his Worship, witness aid they were going up to Roy street, and arrived there at about 6.30 o'clock. When «"?? £ ot to R°.v "treet the light was out His Worship, in convicting and ordering defendant to pay costs, 7s, said he was satisfied the constable did not see the .ißlit At the same time, it might hare been burning, and the question was whether it was burning sufficiently low not to be visible, so that there could not be sufficient light As to defendant's remarks about the constable, his Worship did not think they were proved, and he did not think a constable would be so foolish as to brine such a case.

. Nothing more beautiful in robe length* |isto hj; S e^ n j n the thtn , h(l glorious eoliennes shown by Collinson anri Uinninghame's dress department In new est tones of gaielle, biscuit, cinnamon. Drown, sky blue and lime green-shadr. which will be much ia vo*ue this season Some have handsome self-coloured flora U designs, and others are adorned with tim coloured buds. The thin* for the spec:*! Jrock for the special occasion; 655. 6fc M. —Advt.

Now opened up at Park's.-First of Robert McNab's latest work, earW hj» tory of New Zealand "The Old Whalin: najj, with Cook Strait 0t«« Harbour, Daub Peiunsnla, ForeauTStrr.it i2?n •tUI Southera Uwids, from 1830 to WW. The most complete work on the early &***,*?*, /* 6 T- Zealand ever wr.M ,-n Pfss» Us 6d. W. Park. B«*aaUer.-A^^ Fop Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Uure, Ne»«r fails. 1/6. 2/6 —Ad r*.

Nowadays cranes get the cargo out of * steamer as swiftly as Chinese pirates used to dean up a captured merchantman. Busi near men who want their goods delirerH the •slings" should place their Chstoims work in the hinds of J. J. Curt* *nd Co., lAd. t Customltousu Quav. Welling