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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9806, 23 May 1914, Page 4

The Manuka arrived in Sydney at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Three cases of smallpox were reported in Sydney yesterday A business block, 50ft bv loOft, in Manners street Wellington, ha* been sold by the Grace estate to Mr Roliert Hannah at the rate of £2OO a foot, exclusive of buildings, valued at £3OOO, says a press wire. A Taranaki exchange complains that a practice has sprung up in Manaia lately of torturing cows by tying korosene tins to their taiis. These outrages have been going on now for some two or three weeks. A soht-me for the construction of a public highway fifteen miles in length alongside a proposed Northern Junction Railwav was menlion»-d at a meeting of the Ijondoti County Council The cost of the road would be. a million sterling. Worse than ihe famous liutt road ' A dairy fanner named Thomas Garrett was lined' AOs and co.>ts by Mr L. S.M.. at l'ahiatua. for assaulting Wiiliam Watte, manager of the Hukunui creamery. It appears that Garrett, complained of the lowness of lus milk test, and the manager suggested something about the quantity of water that wa£ put. in the milk. This led to blows.

A meeting of the Executive of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, of which all the im|K>rtant, newspaper* of Hie Dominion aro members, was held at \\ellington on Thursday, when Messrs Selig (President). 0. Fcnv.ick. Hyman, Blundell, Mcßobio and Fred. Pirani wire present. A scheme for an independent office and secretary was drawn up for submission to meml»ers, and other matters were dealt with. The meeting lasted all day. It was between the lights on Saturday night, but. past lighting-up time, says the Waitara Mail, when a man who had evidently more respect for his fellow men than ho had for the borough by-laws, poeted himself at the Manakorihi end of the bridge, and. waving an umbrella, warned gig-driv-ers. cyclists and others that the borough inspector was at the other side of the bridge, waiting to cateh delinquents who wore hoj»ing to get homo without, having to light up. There must have been a lot of matches struck within a hundred yards of the inspector. but a capture was not made. Several nurses in the Wellington Hospital recently contracted enteric fever, and members of the Board at last meeting made enquiries as to how the outbreak occurred. Dr. Hard wick Smith, medical superintendent, said that rather a bad ease had occurred in the Children's Hospital, and that five nurses who Ikm! all been on duty in the Children's Ho.-nital had contracted the disease, apparently catching the infection front the child. Very thorough investigation was being made, he said. as to whether the outbreak was due to defects in tho drainage system. Bithop Boyd Carpenter, formerly of Ripon. now Canon of Westminster, has just entered his seventy-fourth year. The Church Family Newspaper tells a good story concerning him. On one occasion lie was to officiate at a fashionable Wist End wedding. As usual, a great crowd of ]>eople stood outside the church doors. Magnificent carri ages and motor cars rushed up with splendidly dressed guests, and at the end of a long stiinir of fine equipages came a ram shackle old four-wheeler. A couple of policemen dashed at. the cabby. "Here, hi!'' they shouted, "you can't stop here. The Bishop's just, coming." "Keep your air on." n torted cabby; "I've got the old buffer inside." and Bishop Boyd Carpenter opened the door and stopped out! Five lioys who escaped from the Takapuna Industrial School last Tuesday morning are being searched for bv the police. Since they left the institution they have successfully eluded recapture. The names of the missing boys are as follows: Thomas Whitelow. aged 13. of Onchunga; Stanlev llo'lis. aged 13. of Ponsonby; John Rudv. aged 14 of Henderson; William Gunderson. aged 13. of Timaru: and Vincent 11 av*c. aged 13. of Auckland. When the five lads left the industrial school t.hev were clad in blue Garibaldi blouses a,*ul knickerbockers, and they were notwearing hats, stockings, or boots. Mr Harold Aslitou. the managing direo-t(-r in South Africa for the J. C. Williamson, Ltd.. enterprises Ltd.. in that, country, records some unusual experiences in connection with the Gilbert, and Sullivan Oper* Company's season in Johannesburg. "Two kafiirs put in an ap(»earance one night- when The Mikado' was running in Johannesburg." Mr Ashton wrote, "and paraded in tho dress circle vestibule jn a lordly mannor. They wore ordered away, but refuses'! to leave. One of tho native* presently produced a roll of notes and declared his intention of buying the two very best seats in the house and enjoying the show, which he described as a 4 Japon funny sing song play.' He had just, advanced to the ticket-box in 6pite of my protests when the persistent kaffir and his companion were s<ized by a detective, and hustled away. '1.D.8.* was the only explanation the jx>lice olfioer gave me as he passed with his captives. You doubtless know that, the letters '1.D.8.' mean illicit, diamond buying. The natives were wanteel by the police for receiving stolen diamonds, purloined by the natives working at the mines, and were tri«d and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.'' Winter comfort, that does not cost too much. Ladies' warm, cosy winter nightdresses. trimmed, lace on nock and sleeves, well finished, in cream and natural shades, only 4s lid to 6s lid each, at thn Bon Marche. We sell a 'ot of these goods and they are giving splendid satisfaction. A nice warm nightdress is a real good investment this weather. C. M. Ross and Co.— Advt. Extra fine photo postcards of new All Saints' Church, threo kinds, 3d each.—Wm • , Park, stationer.—Advt For Influenza take Woods' Gmt Peppermint Cure. Never fails, la 6d, 2s 6d. — Advt. "Seeing is believing!" But you'll hardly believe, unless you've tees, the speedy | curative effects of Tonking's Linseed Emulsion in whooping cough, colds, influenca, etc. Don't wait till they play havoc with the children's healths—keep a bottle handy. Chemists and store*—ls 6d. 2s 6d. 4s 6d.— Advt.

llky waa by 560,000 children in the London «bools, • cable. , A ffht offender on a charge of drunksnnew forfeited his bail of *t the Magi*- , t rate's Court this morning. Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., presided. A Greymouth wire says that while many parts of the Dominion are experiencing bed weather, the Wert Coast is being favoured with ideal days. > At the Supreme Cburt this afternoan his Honor the Chief Juitioe heard a motion to join the D.O.A. as defendant in the action Cross and others (Mr Lloyd) t. Andrews and others, motion for judgment by default. After hearing argument bis Honor adjourned the application for one week, to lx- brought up in Wellington. Mr Innes appeared for the D.O.A. When summing up on a 'Claim for commission at the Supreme Court yesterday, liis Honor remarked on agents receiving <! >ul.lo commission in cases of exchange. His Honor remarked that it seemed an extraordinary thing for an agent to get commission from bath parties on an _ exchange: he did not know if it was right, but would leave it for the jury to determine in the case under trial. A witness at the Supreme Court yesterday said he had known the land between Kairanga road and Monrad street so flooded that when riding a 17 hands horse be did not know whether he or the hone would get through without being drowned. ''When was that?" queried his Honor. "Twelve or thirteen years ago," replied witness, who further stated he had subsequently seen the land under water. The pronunciation of defendant's name in a case in the Supreme Court yesterday caused a little amusement. The case was Allen t. Trow, a claim for an injunction. "How do you pronounce your name?" enquired his "Honor, "Trau or Trow." "Oh, any way," was the unexpected reply, which caused a titter of amusement. Mr Innee said that defendant was a Welshman. His Honor remarked that "trow" in the North of Scotland meant a kind of fairy. The word was a common one, and maybe it was the root of the name. When giving preliminary evidence at the Supreme Court yesterday, a witness remarked that he had land under leasehold. and added, "I have paid my rent up for three months." "Like a good Scotchman." observed Mr Innes, who added that i Scotchmen and Germans were always g«>d payers. "And Chinamen," added Mr Moore. "They are trained to industry," oltserved the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, who, with Mr Innes, is of Scottish descent. Including boys born in 1990 who are due to register their names for service this year, there are at present 160.993 senior cadets liable for training in the six military districts of the Commonwealth. Of the latest quota 32.866 have alreadv sent in their names, although they will not be drafted into the lines until July. The number of lads liable for dutv within the area units at the end of the third quarter of the financial year waa 88.729. of whom 86.577 had r<fponded to the call to arms, there being only 487 "shirkers" in Victoria out of a total enrolment of 27,997. One of the settlers who drew a section on the Hillersdcn Estate arrived in Blenheim last week with a wagon and team of six horses, with which he had "trekked" i from Geraldine, covering a distance of over 300 miles. The journey occupied l many days, and the gritty traveller had much outspanning to do: but he covered > the ground without mishap, and reached r Blenheim in the best of spirits. He ref ported, says the Marlborough Express, that I the ouly difficulty of any consequence that he experienced was in the crossing of the Conwav river.

The* jecent heavy rains in the Hawke's Bay. and also those locally, caused the Mcuawalu to become heavily flooded during the pant- few days. The river row again on Thursday night, but was falling [yesterday. Further serious erosion took place at the Fitzroy street bend, taking th<* fence at the end of the street. In several places thirty feet of the bank have Ik* •» washed away, and on an average twenty-five feet from the top of the bend to the lower end have gone from the bank. The two groynes erected by the River Board at the top of the bend appear to have stood the strain of the waters and drift very well. Patera by along the Avenue dee Acacias, in the Bois de Boulogne, ware Mauled, says the Daily Mail's Paris correal pendent, to shc an empty motor-car slowly moving along the road Someone jumped into it and put on the brake. Aa he did so a young man stepped out from the footpath. "You need not have bothered," ho said, "it is my car. ami it is used to going along like thst.'' The young man hjw M. Tabnteau, the airman, lie had placed the nenr+ide wheels against the side of the road :\ml ItT-, the engine running with just I enough power to keep up a speed of two to three miles an hour. lie and his friend then strolled in a parallel direction along the pathway with their empty car following "at heel." *

"A working man's wife** writes to the Lvttelton Times: "Now that competitions nre all the rage, might I suggest a new kind, say, wood-chopping and boot-clean-ing for boys, arid dish-washing and babymindintr for girls? Wo all know that the competitions now on are excellent in their way, hut majority, of cases what good are they to the competitors and their relations, one© they are over, unless they iH'lonirto people of the leisured class ? I 1 am perfectly right jn stating that in many a working man's ramily tTipy "io more hnrm than good. Gladys is good at her music, therefore her fond parents enter her iar the competitions. She must not be asked to wash a dish or sweep a floor, or it will spoil her hands for the competitions. . . . Let ua glorify the simple tasks." Mr Champ Ciarfc, wiio is crwnetf with an ambition to oust Dr. Woodrow Wilson from the American Presidency in 1916. gave Gongrej* a veritable thrill last month. He "twisted the lion's tail" in the good old-fashioned way. "May the God of our fathers," he declaimed. "Who nerved three million backwoods Americans to fling the gauge of battle into tin? face of tho mightiest monarch of the world. Who guided the hand of Jefferson in writing the charter of our liberty. Who sustained Washington and liis ragged and starving army amid the awful horrors of Valley Forge, and Who gave them complete victory on tho bloodstained heights of York town, may he lead tho members of this House to vote as to prevent this stupendous folly, this unspeakable humiliation of the American Republic." In other words, he objected to the repeal of the Panama tolls law in deference to Britain's request for the observance of the Hav-Pauncefote Treaty. "The old American fiagle lined his nest with the mane of tho British Lion," Mr Champ Clark added, dramatically. "Does the young American Eagle tremble with fear when the British Lion growls?" The voung Eagle knowing Mr Clark and the British Lion merely smiled at the outburst

| All farmers have been annoyed at, sometimes in their lives, in buying faulty plough chains. The genuine Tiger brand plough Ciiain is made to stand every "pull " but M sure and see every pair are stamped with the tiger on every link. These plough chains are only 5s 9d a pair, and am procurable from C ollitkson and Son. 11 Broad street and the Suuare, Palmcrston North.—Advt

! T,ie "reigning" need in Ptfmerston j North—our umbrellas. Three popular pricI ed ones we quote, though we've umbrellu up to 255. Useful lines are on standard 8rihbed frames, levantine covered, 5s 3d; taffeta covered, 4s 9d; twill covered, 3s lid. All umbrellu are bought from actual makers, and sold retail at wholesale prices. —Collinson and Cunningharae.—Advt Ladies' Band Bap --The Urge* select**, late* designs, and be* of value at Park'*, Stationer.—Adrt Nowadays cranes get the oargo out oi a steamer as swiftly as Chinese pirates used to dean up a captured merchantman. Business men who want their goods delivered right from the 'slings" should plaoe their Customs work in the hands of J. J. Curtm and Co., Ltd, Custosehouee Quay. Wilm ton -Ain 'Betuty draws more than oxen!" In like manner. that tried-and-trusted remedy. Tonking • Lnueed Emulsion, draws daib greater praise for Hi immediate effective, ness u coughs, cold* influenza, son throat, croup, etc. Is td. Js fid. « fid. ChaaZta and stores.—Ad vi