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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1019, 12 November 1917, Page 5

Mr T. ('. Salmon, who left for the Tongariro National Park on Thursday last, Wires from Waimarino today that ho examined the crater of Ngauruhoe yesterday and found no lava present, but that a violent eruption had taken place. _ Tho report that no molten lava is present in tho crater shows that the recent outburst 13 only a recrjtflescencc of tho periodio activity which, has been taking place in tho volcano for years past.

A Grand Juror was fined £5 this morning at the Supreme Court for failing to appear when called. A similar fine was remitted in the case of another juror, who explained that he had been unavoidably detained. His Honour, Mr Justice Chapman, fixed the following order of business this morning for the present sessions of the Palmerston Supreme Court: —• Watenvorth v. Waterworth (husband's petition), and Cornish v. Cornish (husband's petition), undefended divorce case. 'J.l') a.m. to-morrow; Isaac William Turner (Mr Kavanagh) v. Ernest Albert Barton (.Mr Mclntyre), injunction to restrain defendant from selling plaintiff's land, Tuesday afternoon; Samuel Mullins (Mr limes) v. J. C. Kelly (Mr Cooper), claim £262 12s 7d, damages from lire, 10 a.m. Wednesday. Bankruptcy business was fixed for tomorrow afternoon, the remainder to ba taken towards the end of the week. It is becoming almost impossible to get out of Englaud if you aroa man of military age. It is said that tho regulations—or the observance of them—have been tightened up considerably, and that the process has led to much inconvenience. One man almost above military age was finally rejected by the military authorities a few weeks ago after a close examination by medical specialists in the country, who advised him to go to a certain British colony for his health—a colony where, as a man with considerable capital, he would be a useful citizen. Encouraged by tho officials of the colony in London, he made all arrangements, winding up his business and arranging his domestic affairs, only to find at the end of it all that the National Service authorities bad put a veto on his passport. In another case a man, levss fortunately placed from a financial point of view, gave up his business and sold up his home with the intention of taking his wife ami family to the same colony. But again a veto had been placed upon his departure. All this is evidence that ihe National Service Department is doing something.