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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 176, 26 June 1926, Page 8

So far there have been 14 speakers on the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives. In answer to a question in the House of Representatives by. the Leader of the Opposition last night, the Prime Minister stated that petitions would bo taken next week before the resumption of the debate on the Address-in-Reply. The Auckland harbour authorities are seriouslv perturbed over tlio discharge of oil refuse from oil tankers into the waters of the Hauraki Gulf, causing a menace to fish and bird life and the ruin of the beaches. The new cable station at Seddon, Marlborough, which is to receive the new Cook Strait telephonic cable, will be completed about the end of next month, when it is hoped the machinery to be installed there will have arrived from England. A meeting of those interested in the formation of a harrier club in Palmerston North was held last evening, when, after full discussion, it was decided to approach the various football and hockey clubs pointing out the benefits to be obtained from long-distance runs and asking for their support. A novel charge of shoplifting was heard in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Sarah Elizabeth Arnold* an elderly widow, admitted the theft of two chops and four kidneys, valued at Is 2d, the property of Major Sidney Jones. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. “I have learned recently that the location and introduction into New Zealand of the natural enemy of the woolly aphis has saved the Nelson district alone ten thousand pounds for tiro year. Other parts of the Dominion where fruit is grown extensively will benefit accordingly.” This statement was made in the House this week bv the Minister for Agriculture (Hon. 0. J. Hawken), while stressing the value to New Zealand of agricultural research. For a filling- free silk, we aro offering great value at 33in. tussoro silk.. It is a - very■'useful silk for underwear, as it launders so well. A special purchase enables us to offer'lOOO yards at Is ll£d. You should get some while it is procurable.— Collinson and Cunninghnmo, Ltd. —Advt.

Although the Pihama Bowling Club possesses an excellent green it has only 10 members.

Silent policemen are being installed in several towns throughout the Dominion, the latest to adopt this method of regulating traffic being Eketahuna. A London cable states that Sir James Allen has signed a contract of £157,500 for the purchase of the new London offices of the New Zealand Government. Occupation will be deferred, pending an arrangement with the existing leaseholders. An indication that his policy would be not to give a judgment in quasicriminal prosecutions until after _ the hearing ■of any civil actions arising out of the same set ofJ circumstances was given in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth this week by Mr R. AY. Tate, S.M.

A private cable message received in Wellington from Australia reports .that the Allan Wilkie Shakespearean Company has suffered a severe "loss of costumes and settings through fire. The company has been disbanded, although on the eve of its departure for New Zealand. An organised public appeal is being made throughout Australia for funds to effect replacement. The total destruction by fire of _ a four-roomed house at the Te Whiti soldier settlement occurred at eight o’clock on Thursday evening, states a Masterton Press Association message, ‘and reulted in the owner and occupier, H. D. Thorpe, losing all his belongings, lie and his family being left only with the clothes in which they stood. Mr and Mrs Thorpe were out doing some work at the time, and fortunately had their children, aged six and two years, with them. Both house and furniture were insured.

Too much importance has apparently been attached to the words of the Premier, concerning art unions (says the AVellington correspondent of an Auckland paper). During the course of a deputation on behalf of the Ponsonby Boys’ Band to Mr Coates, Mr . Dickson M.P., remarked that it had been intended to raise the money for the band’s Canadian tour by art union, but now that Mr Coates had condemned art unions that could not be done. U I haven’t condemned them, niterjected the Prime Minister. “I only said they were going too far with them, that’s all.” , The difficulty often experienced by lawyers in locating witnesses was instanced in a remarkable manner m ihe AVellington Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. It was stated, during the preliminary hearing of a claim for damages, arising out of a collision between a motor car and a dust cart, that the evidence of two of the plaintiff’s witnesses had had to be taken at Napier, while another of hist witnesses was somewhere in the North Island and had yet to be located. Tho statement of the ooliceman, who was on the scene shortly after the accident, was to be taken at Dannevirke, and the evidence of tho plaintiff himself had to be taken on Thursday, as lie was goiqg out of town.

As a result of a largo package of novspapers accidentally rolling off the Trenthani station, and becoming entangled under the wheels of tho rearluggage truck of the 4.1 G p.m. AA airarapa passenger train from Lambton station, a derailment of the Tear truck occurred half a mile north of Trenthan. shortly after 5 p.m. ,on Thursday evening. A goodly number of passengers were aboard at the time of tho derailment. The enginedriver was unaware of the newspapers having rolled under the wheels of the luggage truck, and tire train procoederl = from Trenthani to Upper Hutt. However, when only a comparatively short distance had been travelled the derailment was discovered, it being found that, while tho front portion of the luggage truck was adhering to the rails, the rear portion was dorailed. Nevertheless tliere had notbeen any noticeable motion on the part of the trAin to indicate that there was anything amiss. The train was immediatelv pulled up and the derailed vehicle was disconnected. Very little delay occurred.