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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9857, 27 July 1914, Page 4

In connection with the Foxton wharf controversy, Mr Buick. M.P., believes the Foxton Harbour Board has made a mistake in accepting the offer to settle the matter by arbitration, as it thus admit* the right of the Railway Department to the wharf, whereas, Mr Buick contends, the Railway Department ha* no right to it. Mr Buick points out that the function of the Railway Department, amongst other duties, is to convey goods to and from the nearest port; and Foxton being the {>ort of this district that harbour is the ►irthright of the inhabitant* of the Manawatu distrid and, therefore, the people have a right to oontrol the wharf. "Motorist" writes, enquiring what steps the Manawatu Automobile Association intends taking in connection with the proposed Motor Bill, and empliasising the unfairness of the proposal to tax motor waggons and taxi cabs, which are constantly on the . roads, on a lower ratio than the private owner, . who, perhaps, uses his car two or three times a week. ' To-day's sitting of the Magistrate's Court was very brief for the beginning of the w.eek. only three cases coming before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M. A first offender for insobriety, who had been in custody since & o'clock on Saturday night, was convicted and discharged. George Dodson appeared to answer a charge of having broken a prohibition order on the 20th inst. Defendant, despite a warning from the Magistrate not to do 60, went to have a final drink. He explained to the Court that he was hard of hearing, and did not fully understand his Worship's injunction. He was remanded for sentence. In the meantime enquiries are to be made as to whether there is room at Roto Roa, in which case Dodson will be sent there for treatment. The interest that is being taken in the poster, plain and fancy dress ball to be held on Wednesday evening in the Produce Hall at the Showground was reflected in tho large number of children who attended a practice on Saturday afternoon. A most enjoyable afternoon was spent. Tickets for the function can be obtained from Mr W. Park's or at the door on Wednesday evening. The price of admission is 2s. Excellent seating accommodation has been provided, and three rows of raised seats are now erected around the hall. An excellent supper is being provided, for which a small charge will be made, children being exempt. Those who have promised contributions to this department are asked to send same to the nail on Wednesday morning or to Miss Wilson's tea rooms. From all view point* the affair, the pro ceeds of which are to go towards extinguishing the debt on All Saints' new church, promises to be a big success.

j Reserved judgment was given by Mr J. IW. Povnton, B.M. t at the Magistrate's Court this morning' in a case in which Charles Weston, a carrier, was prooeeded against for leaving his express unattended whiff on the stand. The information was laid under section 346 of the Borough bylaw, whiqji reads:~*-"If the driver of any goods' oart, express. . . whether licensed or unlicensed, shall leave the same unattended, or shall go for a distance of more than ten yards from the near side of the vehicle, without passing through the near wheel a suitable chain or rope or other appliance. . . such driver shall be guilty of an offence." Defendant, in the case in question, had left his horse feeding, the wheels i of the vehicle being roped, and gone toJi ! hotel. Mr Poynton said that he thought the bv-law allowed this. It contained . two separate offences, but did not forbid a man to leave his vehicle if he tied it securely as required. If he did so his trap was not unattended. Drivers had often to leavo their vehicles on emergencies, and go more than ten yards from them, and the framers of the by-law must oonsider this and decreed what was to be done insuch ! cases. TJJie information was dismissed. Mr Cooper appeared for defendant. The Bon Marche revels In distinctive, unique and wonder-creating offerings; whatever they do, they do with all their hearts. Their big ten thousand pounds' reduction Sale is a huge success, because 'it abounds in huge "bargains and is full of the spirit of progress. Saturday is another big day, and many are the generous attractions. See advertisement.—C. M. Ross and Co.—Advt. i The crumbs you make in the course of a year cutting oread equal Wrcral Joaw# wasied. Stop this waste by using an Aetua bread eaw, guaranteed to ma 100 no crumb*. Has a 10-inch blade of beat American steel i fitted extra strongly into polished booch handle. Price, 7d, post free Bd, Colluison and Son.—Adrt.

The treasurer of the Children's Horn# acknowledge with thanks the reoeipt of £4 from Abraham and William#' team and £2 from the Wanderem* team, being firm and oeoond prizes respectively, won at tlie tug-of-war competition at the Opera Houso during the recent Carnival. Complaints still reach u* from motorists and others regarding the state of the road from Botanical road to Raflgtotu. Some patching has been done on toe portion of the road between Botanical road and the Kawau bridge, but the road between Longburn and Rangiotu is still described oe being full of holes, and far from what an arterial road should be. In the pieoe of native bush at Tauherenikau, partly on the reoeqourse and also on Mr Q. Donald's property, there are still remaining some monarch* of the early forest. There is, in particular, a large pine tree on Mr Donald's portion, measuring 33 feet in circumferenoe. The proposed railway line to Martinborough will run through this bush, cloae to the back boundary of the raceoourse.—Wairarapa Times. * A lad who was taken to the Wellington Hospital to have a small bullet extracted from his left hand tells a somewhat remarkable story. He says that ho was walking up Buckle Street when he suddenly felt a pain in the palm of his hand, ana found that a bullet had wounded him. The bullet, which is considered to have oome from a pea-rifle, went almost right through the hand, but missed the bones. The boy can give no , idea as to where the missile was tired from. A wee girl, aged only two years, met with a very unpleasant experienoe at Onehunga a few days ago. She was standing with other children in front of a cage full of monkeys. The child had been throwing nuts into the enclosure, when she held her fingers too close to the iron bars. A monkey immediately snipped the end of her fingers clean oft. The child wan at once taken to her home in Bracken Avenue, Epsom, and reoeived medical attention. It was for a while feared she would lose the rest of her finger, but fortunately careful skilled attention seems likely to render an operation unnecessary. On her vcvage from Valparaiso to Sydney the steamer Inverkip, which arrived ail the New South Wale# port last week, made a call at Easter Wand, which poeaesaes * special interest for its wonderful curios and colossal stone images. The island lies about 2000 miloa from Chili, to which country it belongs, and i* leased to a company, which uses it as a cattle run, the cattle being slaughtered for their hides end tallow. It had not been visited by any vessel for over six months when the Inverkip a&lled, and advantage was taken of the opportunity to oommunicate with the outside world, the captain bringing half-a-dozen letters from thu two white residents. Now that the annual bonus is being paid out by the dairy companies, it is intetwting to find out how our dairy herds in this neighbourhood have done for the year. We inspected the return to-day of a small supply to the Midhirst factory, who milks 22 cows on 66 acres near Stratford. The milk returns were £3z3 12s 6d (equal to £l4 14s per cow), while the oalves and piga netted £54 17s 6d. equal to an extra £2 10s per oow, making the total return* per oow £l7 4s. This herd is all grade Shorthorn. The above is certainly a surprising example of what good farming will do. and a plain answer to thoeo who hnvo, double about the ' high value of lands in the neighbourhood of , Stratford for dairying.—Stratford Post. The Agricultural Department is to be asked by the farmers to issue leaflets (if it has not already done so.) giving the fob i lowing information(l) On the manner in which our soils are depleted of phosphates and the dangers arising therefrom, t and the methods of prevention which can s be employed. (2) On the best methods of suppressing and preventing tuberculosis J in pigs. (3) On the need by the farmers of , the careful dipping of sheep, and prevention of the marketing of sheep infected with lice, antl that the provincial offioers 1 of the union be supplied with large num- • bers of these leaflets to send out to theis branches for distribution amongst members. This decision was arrived at bv the Farmers' Union Conference in Wellington.

During the hearing of a case of alleged assault at the Sydney Quarter Seasons Court last week, a witness said that ha and a oompanion had been drinking, and on the afternoon of the alleged assault they had consumed twenty pint*. "Twenty pints of what?" asked Judge Dooker. "Beer and shandy," replied the witneM. "Do you mean to suy you drank twenty pints," asked the Judge, "betwoen one o'clock and five o'clock?" "Yes," Maid the witness blandly, "and I paid for the lot." "Well, what 1 cannot understand i* where you have put it," said his Honor, Another witness, when asked if he and the accused had been drinking together, said that they had not, but then remembered lhat they "had a taste," for the accused bought half-a-dozen bottles of alo, and they drank two of them. A |>eciiJiar accident ©ocurred at Gilgandra (N.S. Wales) one day last week, when Alfred Heiler went to the raoeouurae, accompanied by a lad named Neaten, to try a couple of norst**. The horcte that Neate* wim riding became unmanageable, and Heiler, seeing the lad's predicamont, rode up to him. He stood up in the atirrupa, but no sooner had he done so than one of iiis legs snapped below the knee. Ho immediately foil from the horse, and wai picked up and brought <o town for medical attendance. Heiler in thought to hold the world's reoord as far as broken limba are oonoerned. His total up to the present is only a couple short of forty. Bones have been broken in all sorts of ways, even while dancing. The leg which was broken recently was broken a little higher up while waltzing. Heiler has a son, seven year* of ago who has had bon<« broken on six occasions. There have been breezes at Buckingham Pulaco sinoe the suffragette scene in the throne room (writes a London correspondent). The officers of the household boasted that it was impossible for the militant* to ever intrude upon royalty. They received the rudest of shocks when Miss Mary Blom« field flopped before the King like Joan of Arc in the Gaiety burlesque and screamed, "Your Majesty, why do you torture women?" Sir Douglas Dawson, the Comptroller of t}ie Household, was the first to recover his wits, and none too gently he hurried the foolish young demonstrator out of the presence. Afterwards he and other courtiers were officially wigged for letting a suffragette intrude upon the Sovereign in his own home. The King and Queen were greatly annoyed at first, though they pretended not to see; but they oould no# refrain from smiling when they* saw how Sir Douglas Dawson and the other cottiers hustled the offending lady. By virtue of a previous presentation Miss Blomfield was on the list of those possessing the entree. Her punishment has been left to society. Court officials refuse to proseeutW, but her name has been struck off the Buckingham Palace list. It is an unwritten law that a lady barred from Court eannot be received by anyone who wishes to remain in high society. Consequently Miss Blomfield has put herself outside the pale of social significance. Her mother hastened to repudiate her conduct, tier friends have given her the cold siiouider, she hat obtained notoriety, but she has lost her family and her friend% What does it profit a girl to annoy the King when the action sends her to Coventry? asks the correspondent.

I The Irish poaantry exoel at hand embroider} 7 , and choice example* are now on exhibition at Messrs Colli n son And Cunninghauie'a. These are in the form of whifo voilo blouses with fronts embroidered in charming- dejigns. Those who have worn voile know lj»w beautifully it launder*, and ivill bo eagcl to purchase t.he*e bloust* on sight, 12s 6<mo 21s. Beautiful for gifts,— ' Rend 70uC WIU-oModin# and invoioss to J. J. CAis and Co.. Customhouse Agents. Weflgton, and a* toon u the steamer majH port your goods will be forwarded Sou in double quick tioM. Thore i» about it the "long room" or for the "landing waiter* if Curtis Customs work.-Ad *t, . I<adi , P x Baga—The large* «ele» U OI V. bMt of value ai Park e, »ta^*_AdTt. New Park *, "the Amaelng Frater; "The ForSrlft Locke; "Mild of the W 4 'Diane of 4h« Green f , b "Treaty of Wai tangt, Buick—Advt F< "! take Woods' Great PrpM*. 1* M, 8s 6d.~

Th« members of the All Saints' (No. 28 Ofti) Senioj Cadets, have extended an invitation to the English Ladies' hockey team to be present at their social and dance, -which is to be held while the team will be in Palmerston. North.

A well-known wool' king of the Upper Clutha district, who scoured his wool and shipped it Home, states the Dunstan Times, got a cable last weqk- conveying the pleasing information thaj it had averaged a fraction over 22d.

As the result of an enquiry into the (ire which destroyed the Bulls School, the conclusion was come to that the caase was a defective chimney. Messrs Purnell and Bennett represented the Education Board at the enquiry. A Totara supplier to the Waitaki Dairy Company, Oamani, received a letter from his brother, who is a storekeeper in Orkney Islands, stating that ho frequently bought "Waitaki" butter to retail to his customers. It is rather a novelty for one brother to produce cream on one side of the globe in New Zealand and the other to sell it in the form of butter in his store on the other side.

A meeting of trade unionists has been called for this evening to discuss the advisability of forming a district council for Palmerston North. This is a result of the constitution adopted at the recent Labour Conference. Tnere are twelve unions or branches of unions in this district, and it is felt by the authorities that better progress would be made if all combined under, one governing body. The Press Association advises that owing to an unfortunate disarrangement of the slips of the telegraphic report of Tuesday's debate on the Licensing Bill, Hon. A. L. Herdman's remarks were attributed to Dr. Newman, thus conveying a wrong impression of the latter's repeatedly announced views on the subject. Dr. Newman declared that he and other, friends of the Bill had decided not to take part in the debate.

That cigarette-smoking is gaining ground amongst some of the young women of Invercargill was evident by an incident 6een by a Southland Times representative on Saturday night. Two young women were to be seen in Esk Street, after the conclusion of the pictures, gaily puffing away regardless of onlookers. 'Whether they drew their inspirations from some of the film actresses or not was not ascertainable, but apparently they were enjoying their ■moke.

A Chinaman named Yet Yah was charged in the Magistrate's Court at Masterton with having assaulted a lad named W. L. James. Mr P. L. Hollings appeared for the defendant. The evidence of the complainant was that he was rilling a bicycle and passed the Chinaman, who was ploughing in a field, with the remark, "goodday." The Chinaman followed him, pulled him by the hair off the bicycle, and punched him. The defence was a denial of the assault, and an allegation that complainant had molested defendant's horses. His Worship entered a conviction, and ordered the Chinaman to pay costs. The largest private deal in land in Otago for some time has just been effected, states a Press Association telegram from Dunedin. The Keffoch Estate, owned by Mrs H. McDonald, has been purchased by Mr Richard Yardley, of Lumsden. The estate was formerly part of the Moa Flat Estate, and comprises 8638 acres, all sheep and cattle country. When Mrs McDonald purchased the estate seven years ago, it was carrying 4000 sheep. The improveeffected by her enabled her to keep down [the rabbits, and the carrying capacity waa increased to 11,000 or 12,000 sheep, with other stock. The price given for the property, including 10,500 sheep, is said to bo about £72,000.

A Matamata (Waikato) farmer has had a curious experience. About a month ago he missed a beast off the turnips. Two days following he lost another, and a search over the swamps and gullies discovered nothing of either. A fortnight later he missed a. third beast, and naturally suspected something out of the ordinary. When his dog disappeared recently, and stayed away two nights, the case became still more mysterious, and a thorough search was instituted, with the result that he found the three cattle and the dog in a water-washed holb on a spur running down a swampy gully. Two of the beasts were dead, and the third, which had been there for a fortnight, started chewing the rope with which it waa pulled out. The mouth of the pit, which was just about large enough to let an animal through, was overgrown with fern. When the farmer was taking out the cattle, he came across the jawbones of a deer, indicating that this death-trap had claimed other victims.