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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9823, 13 June 1914, Page 4

All hockey matches were P*^ o** 0 ** a J Feilding to-day owing to the bad state ot the grounds. A Paris doctor, his wife and three children were motoring over Talouso bridge when the oar fell into the ravine. All were killed.--Cabled item. In replv to a question in the House of Commons. Mr Lloyd George said that the cost of armaments was £1 Is per head in 1895 and £1 13s lOd in 1914.-Cabled item. A female first offender for drunkenness was fined 5s with the usual alternative by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M.. at the local Court this morning. A Svdney cable states that Mr Finiater. a South Coast publican, has been advised that, an uncle has died in Scotland leaving estates valued at £2.000,000. which is divided equally between Finister and another nephew. At a jewel ball in Park (according to a Sydney Sun cable), Baroness do Kochville was decked in gems valued at £200.000. Countess d'Auvergne wore jewels worth £160.000. and Countess d'Krbyrae had a specially designed diamond tiara, with each prong tipped with a large diamond. The Palmorston Band will play the following programme in the Square on Sundav. commencing at 3 p.m.:—March. "Fearless''; overture, "Tempelweihe' ; intermezzo. "Heartsease"; patrol, "The Guardsmen"; waltz, "Nights of Gladness"; bolero. "Floras de Cuba"; march, "Old Comrades." Close on fifty cyclists have been detected bv the police during the last few days, either riding on footpaths or dodging homo in the dark without lights. CM this number, sixteen have intimated to the police that they iwish to appear voluntarily, thereby saving tho sum of 5s summons fee. It is not generally known that in all breathes of bylaws, delinquents can make a similar 6aving by appearing voluntarily. The Board of Agriculture concluded its sitting in Wellington yesterday. There was considerable discussion as to the procedure to bo adopted at future meetings, and steps were taken to prepare an order paper. If. was al>o decided to hold another meeting after the conference of the A. and P. Associations at Wellington at, the end of July. At tho conclusion of that meeting it wa* arranged that the Board pay a visit to tho cx|ierimental farms. The delegates to the International Salvation Army Congress vere received by General Booth in Albert Hall (says a London cable.) There were Swiss guides in mountain dress bearing alpenstocks; Koreans in white with small black hats who knelt and rubbed their foreheads on the ground; Indians with turbans of golden yellow and trailing draperies; Katfirs swathed in red blankets; Germans, plumc-heimeted; Danes nl peasant costume; and almost every other race and nation. Much sympathy will be extended to Mr and Mrs J. Cormack. of Ferguson street, in tho death of their infant son. which occurred suddenly on Thursday evening. An inquest was held before Mr J. W. Poynton. Coroner, yesterday, when it was elicited that, deceased was a healthy child eight weeks old. but on Wednesday became ill as if suffering from colic, He was put to bed. About 10 p.m. he was seen to be apparently .\sleep, but at 5 a.m. the child was found t4» l>o quite dead. A verdict of death from nafural causes was returned. is a little friction just now between tho Literal and Labour sections of the Opposition. The latter ask for twelve seats free of ("rupv-sition candidates, but the Lilv erals are only inclined to concede Wanganui. Wellington Ea.-f. Lyttelton. Grey Lynn, and Grey mouth. The candidature of Mr McLaren against Dr Newman is also opposed by the Opposition, and 't is probable that, an agreement, will be come to for the candidature of someone with stronger Red-l-Yd. sympathies.—Star. A bush tragedy is reported from the King Country, the di-t.-iils showing that Millgrass. a Swiss, aired 27. a single man, about whoso employment nothing is known, had taken his lift-. The body was found in a whare composed of old sacks in a lonely parr, of the bush, seven miles from Kopaki railway station. There was a gunshot wound on the right temple, and a doublebarrelled gun was lying between deceased's extended legs. At an inquest held at To £uiti a verdict was returned that the -wound was self-inflicted.

Tho Tasmanian Width of Tyres Act cam'; into force last week. It provides that "No person shall in or by means of a vehicle carry on any publio road a greater weight than: for each wheel of any vehicle a total weight of three and a quarter hundredweights avoirdupois for each Jinch of width of bearing surface of the tyre or felloe."' Any municipal council may apply to the Governor to authorise • a regulation reducing the weight that may bo carried 021 any partiuular road or oh ,uil its roads. "Width of bearing surface" is defined as "the actual width of the bearing surface of the tyro or felloe that would actually come in contact with or hear upon a hard, smooth level surface.' 1 j Exception is made in favour of the conI veyanco of heavy machinery that cannot bo taken apart without great loss or expanse. The penalty for breach of the Act is 40s for each excess hundredweight or part of a hundredweight. Provision k made for dccf.ving the weight of certain goods, by measurement, and also for testing vjneights carried at a weighbridge, where available. At a special meeting* of the Kairanga County Council yesterday, all the members being present and Cr L. R. Bryant prosiding, the estimates for the year were considered. The. estimates showed the estimatjed receipts* for the year Jo be £10,981. whilo the expenditure was estimated at £11,990. The debit, balance at the beginning of the year was £663. Among the proposed works to be carried out during the y*kr are:— I Metalline Upper Aorangi Road. 600 yards, j £180: filling drain, Aorangi Road, £120; ! Rangitikci Line, metalling 2000 yards, £750; half trot maintenance Boundary Road, £4O: culevrts, Railway Road £IOO. j Walker's Creek £2O. bridge Railway Road £200; formation Milson's Line' extension, I £120; maintenance Railway Road. £SO; j fencing for roads, £4O: bridge Millerick's I Line. ±SO; rehire Fitzherbert bridge 1 £100; improving Hill Top road. Linton, 1 £IOO. h was decided to strike the following : rates:—Taonui Riding, Jd. to produce ' £3251. Mangaone Riding, Id. to produce I £2619. Fitzherbert Riding, Id. to produce £2016. A committee was appointed to go ( into the question of the purchase of road I machinery. I The charming display of English tailored I cos -tames showing this week at the Bon March* will come as a revelation to most j people as to wliat can be accomplished in ready-frvwear garments of this class, and at what remarkably low prices the Bon Marche is able to sell thorn at. We do not think there has ever been shown in New Zealand .such a demonstration of elite •styles for so little money. No iadv shouM Advt° ** ,hom -~ € - M - RoM »«d Ca" 1 Ladies' Handbags-The largest selection htest designs, and best of 3TJTKriS St at toner.—Ad vt. **•■ For scones like mother used to make. Iht re is nothine browns them without burning than the good old Scotch girdle. The* riird'o are invaluable for making girdle scones, pikelets, etc.; made of cast iron they give a more even heat, and do not *x>rch or burn. Sold in two siies-medium 3a 6d, large 4e lid, at ironmongery bWt mem. 21 Broad street and the «U..._ Tj-t l '

There is cwMstaMo wmployment A*kltaa> pieSsßi It Is sifted Oat oh, 100 men are keeping ut daily touch *«j the Govern**** Jabow bureau, A North CaiissrbUry farmer is reported to have sold a flowing crop of 23 at,.. of white clover to n. speculator for £&4. The buver hanrested the crop in flood condition, and got a gross return of £630 The Commoniiealth Meteorologist has prepared diagram* ehowiar that Austral* is capable of producing a thousand million bushels of wheat simuaUy. The present production it * hundred million bushels. At his meeting at Martinborough on Tuesday evening, Bir Waller MP., predicted that the first sod of th<* Martinboroagh-Fbatherston railwav would be turned within a.few weeks of the opening of Parliament Several dairy factories in the B«j of Plenty district have entered into an agre. mcni' not. to'taka each others' supplierduring the supply season except »n the case of a supplier selling his property and raking another nearer to tbeother factory. This arrangement, it is stated, has been made with a view to maintaining the quality of the cream. The death occurred at Carterton, . u Tuesday evening of Mr William Donnelly, of Martinborough. The unfortunate young man was thrown from his horse in Carterton on Saturday, and received a seycro concussion from which he never regained consciousness. An operation was performed and the very best nursing attention given, all to no avail. The engineer to the Manawatu-Kain-nga River Board (Mr Fisher) reported to yesterdays meeting that in consequent- of the state of the river for the creator part of last month operations on No. 2 groyne had <o be suspended for a fortnight Subsequently, good progress had been mad-, and if the present river conditions prevail die groyne will be completed within a 1 week.

At Wednesday's meeting of the Wairerapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, a letter was read from the Palmorston North Board inviting sympathy and support to the proposal to establish a Radium Institute, in the North Ireland. The chairman moved that the letter be received. Mr Ewington moved as an amendment that tiio letter be referred to the Central Committee. On being put to the meeting the motion was carried. The Postmaster-General announces that the total excess of deposit* for April and May. 1914. amounts to £255,824, ae compared with £156,733 for tho corresponding months of 1913. The total deposits for these two months amount to £2,175,545, as compared with £2.081,847 for the corresponding months last year, and the withdrawals to £1,919,721. as compared with £1,925.114 for the corresponding months of 1913. The Sluggish River Drainage Board on Thursday approved of the proposal of the Maria watu Drainage Board to wait upon the Minister for Internal Affairs requesting that the Land Drainage Act be amended in the direction of conferring upon Drainage Boards the same powers to pay its trustees attending Board meetings as are contained in the Counties' Act; 'and giving Boards the power to strike rates upon an acreage basis. Tho Sluggish River Board, however, were desirous of seeing the rating proposal made optional. Delegates to represent the Board on the deputation are to be appointed when required. There are a few small New Zealand loans of old standing which carry their own individual sinking funds, and do not come under tho Provisions of the Public Debt Extinction Act One of these loans, an amount of £266,300, raised under the New Zealand Loan Act, 1863, is about to fall due, and the Minister for Finance (the Hon. James Allen) informed a Wellington reporter that the accrued sinking fund was almost sufficient to pay it off, and would lie utilised for that purpose. Other loans which carry their own sinking funds are that under tho Canterbury Loans Ordinance of 1862, and the loan raised under the Naval Defence, Act of 1909 to pay for the battle-cruiser New Zealand. The fascination of moving pictures over the juvenile mind was strikingly illustrated in Christchurch last week. A child of six, having completed his mid-day meal, set out on his own account for the pictures. Some six or seven hours later en agitated parental party mt&V Ihe round of the •hows seeking for information concerning n boy lost all the afternoon, and supposed to be at tho pictures. Finally the boy was found in a continuous theatre. He had been there for six and a-half hours, and had seen the programme through four times. Even then he was not disposed to leave, and it required considerable persuasion on the part of the parents and the manager beforo he could be induced to vacate his seat and to return home again.

The Engineer of the ManawatuKairanga River Board reported at yesterday's meeting the floods of last month had accounted for a good deal of erosion of land in the several bad bends in the river, but ho considered the amount of the erosion that was likely to occur in future, before the diversion scheme became effective, would not justify any expenditure on works in these bends, as he was confident after next season's oomph ment of groynes that the erosive action of the river would be reduced to a minimum. Meantime, the erosion could not develop to a serious extent unless under normal conditions. The groynes so far completed above Fiuroy bend had operated most successfully in the action of floods last month. Their efficiency has been truly realised and was amply demonstrated, which a visit of inspection would verify. How a slight leakage of current from an electrio cable helped to destroy tta woodwork of a cable trough was explained £>' **r C. F - Lindblade in a lecture on Wood Decay, given to the Microscopicsl Society of Victoria last week. The woodwork of the trough was found to be rotting on one side. Inspection revealed thai a leakage of current was occurring there which caused vigorous growth of certain destructive fungi and bacteria. The woodwork was found to be in a state of fermentation, and a fragment placed in a test tubo gave off carbonic acid gas, and it was proved that the current leakage had. is it were, fed the bacteria, or. a* any rate, stimulated them. The fact that electric cables keep the ground in their neighbourhood at a certain fairlv own temperature was, said the lecturer, also responsible for the flourishing growths f fungi that were often found in their neighbourhood. During the voyage of the coastal steamer Kanowna, from Sydney to Melbourne last week, four men who were on board played poker with such other passengers as can-] for a little game. The four had a wonderful run of luck, and it was estimated that they picked up something like £l3O during the trip. One or two victims l«wt he tween £2O and £3O, but there were several smaller losers. Upon the story of tho ?u< cess of the four men Reaching his ears. as the vessel was apprlaching tho head*. the captain sent a wireless message I■> Melbourne, asking that a policemen Rnd a detective should be sent off to meet hn vessel, as she was coming up the hay A policeman and a detective were duly d-• patched to tho Kanowna, but apparent the four men concerned had pot wmu the action taken by the captain, fnr w'v the detective began to make enquiries .: the losses of some of the unlucky ,< ;• * he elicited the information that the n v had been refunded. Others who had • bad their money given back, however, dared that they would not say snythnabout the matter. As the detective < take no action without someone Isyiu.a charge against the gang of poker ;•* •rs, the latter were not interfered »>••'• by the police. On and after Monday there wi'l '• view over five hundred pounds' «• ' ; choice antique and upholstered furru Messrs Colhnson and to a grand introducing auction next The sale is being held in conjunct 1 ••:. »' Messrs Collinson arJ Son. Every .v was made for stock—only good ma and faithful workmanship have cm< r their construction. For countrv packed free and delivered to Pain; North station—Advt. Ladies' Hand Bags.—The largesi »■ tion, latest designs, and be*t of *•*■'•'' '■" Park's, stationer.-Advt. Extra fine photo postcards of r> ••' Saints' Church, three kind*. 3d ea< "ark, stationer.—Advt.

The la* session of the present Parliament will be opened on June 25. In a breach of promise case at Napier Ella Annie Johnson v. Edward Thomas Cuttrdl, a claim for £530. was settled £ agreement to pay £129. a "> Dr. Mawson .announces that he intends to conduct a lecturing tour of Australia and New Zealand to assist in defray!ng the cost of the recent Antarctic expedition* A correspondent of the Auckland Herald states.that on a recent trip on the Ma n Trunk line he was surprised at the number of Indians seen at the rioUB ™» About tins time last year," he continued' I was in conversation with a Canadian fruit grower, who informed me that Hindus and cool.es overran British Columbia, and gained control of all the white people's necessities, such as stores, groceries, votetables, milk, and even bread Thrv simply scrape and starve, with one am bition. to monopolise the white man's 'it cessities, so that he is compelled to deal with and support them. If this i 8 wh at New Zealand is coming to, then it is .me the New Zealander woke up to hold his own, otherwise this earthly paradise will be a thing of the past, and not worth the calling. Once the Hindoos ff et a footing they will spread the news "to their friends, and they will arrive in shinloads. ' A very enjoyable evening was spout at th* Technical School last evening when the members of the cooker? class under the supervision of Mrs Woo'lf, the cookery instructor, entertained the members i>f the High School Board of Governors and their wives at .a soci?l evening and supper, the idea being to give a practical demonstration of the value of the teaching imparted in that very important department. After pleasant) v passing a couple of hours the guests were regaled with a beautifully prepared supper cooked by tho pupils and laid out in a most artistic manner. Mr T. R. Hodder, chairman of the Board, in a brief speech, thanked the hostesses on behalf of the guests and referred to tho splendid success of the school under the directorship of Mr F: I). Opie. stating that it was now one of the foremost institutions in New Zealand and one of which the town should feel proud. Other members of the Board entertained the company with anecdotes, and a pleasant gathering was 'orought to a conclusion in the customary manner.