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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2024, 13 September 1913, Page 4

In order t' at t*e patients may have the full a ivantage of the Pathe kinematograph presented to the Wellington hospital, the committee has decided to order a year's supply of films.

Seventy-five applications for a £3 per weet billet, as collector, were received ty the Wellington Hospital Board.

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr J. W. Poynton, S M., trree first offenders for drunkenneis were convicted and diso arged. "How much do yon spend a week in beer?" Mr McCarthy asked a jadgmeut debtor at the court at Hastings "Not more than one shilling," came the reply. "And how mcc'i a week to you spem on tobacco?" further inquired the mag istrate "One silliug," was the answer "Very well, then," said Mr McCarthy, "that's 2s a week you spend on loxrries, and a man who owes money slioallnot indulge in luxuries." An order was made for the payment of 2s per week. Cheese buyers ware greatly in evidence in Eketahuna on Thursday, their mission being to deal with the directors of the JSireaha Company f' r the season's output It has been suggested there would be keener competition for cheese paresis if they were offere ? at public auction in the same way as other products are This form of dis osal would also minimise the risks of "rings" operating

A boy was walking alotu Queen street (Auckland) one ay recently when he noticed a purs** upon the ground. Oa picking it u he dis covered fat the purse contained notes, ooins, c*equ«s, an I valuable! worth in all £375. T e boy immed iately took the purse to the address given on a card iuside. The owntr —it was a la y—heamed on him and said, "Will you have a drink of lemonade?"

Every year the worlds stock of gold is increased by aboit fifty millions. Wnere does it go? The question puzzled the worlds' financiers for a considerable period. But Messrs Montague suggested in their last year's report that gol goes into In lia an • never comes out. T e natives buy it and possibly bury it The Rajahs cast it in the form of cannon, or use it for jewellery, or in tooie way lock it up so that it never returns to feel tne stream of gold whicn fertilises t"e banking credits of the wcrld. In fact. India is practically the world's gol I sink.

"Many applications" siys the High Commissioner, in his annual report "are still made in this office by distressed New Zealan ers for assistance to enable them to return to the Dominion, and the necessary enquiries i j their cases entail a consderable ami nt of correspondence. In most cases tne men come over to this comtry with very little prospect of obtaining fun "s sufficient to enable them to pay their passage baok to their homes'; consequently application has to be to the various shipping com panies trading to New Zealand to allow tbem to work their way, ami. alt oug'i these strandei s ergons <f ten cause discontent amongst the regular crew the companies are generally ready to find working passages if p ssible. In some oases it is necessary to supply these men with board an I lodging, and also with dot ting."

Tbe Otago Daily Times states that th« imitation whic'i has been forwarded from Australia ant .New Zealand to the Rev. G Campbell Morgan, DD , to visit this part of the world next year or .tie year after is, possibly, the moit representative and elaborate one which •as ever left Australia It co jsist? of a bulky volume, bonn in bine and, apart from t> e formal invitation from the Evangelisation Society of Australasia, it contains separate invitations from, with one excpptiou, all the Congregational Unions of Australasia, all the Methodist Conferences Baptist Unions, Presbyterian Assemblies, and Ch rches of C rist, representing many hundreds and t oosands of Christians under t e Southern Cross. The < ifferent Councils of Churches throughout Australasia have also included tbeir invitations.

The visit of tbe Gold Holds Rugby football team to Thames ou Situr nay, was followed by "ist rbinces on the return journey by train to the Upper Thames district (Ohine muri) It seems that members of t e visitors who, of course, resi dent in a "dry*' district, purchased quantities of liquor at Tames, some of which was consumed on the journey back J der the influence old grndges were recalle , an'l fisticuffs were resorted to There being only two constables oa the train they were unable to quell the

istDrbance, and a tierce fi* t be tweeu two men from Waihi commenced at Karangahake, anrt continue t until the team reacvd Waihi One of the combatants was severely pnnished.

Standing in glorious isolation in one of the dens at the Mata whero saleyards was an aged ewe, whose shunken sides and general emaciated condition argued that she ha i come from a distance where bush tires and dr rug lit nad ma e blades of grass few an ' far between (says the Tribune). When the pen was reached, Mr R. V. Gulley, auctioneer for the N Z. Loan and Mercantile Company, said: We have here, gentleman, an ownerless sheep We will put her up for auction and hand over the proceeds to the 0 ildren's Owe e. An offer of 4s was quickly forthcoming, and by sixpenny bids the sheep was quickly rnn up to 7s, at which • price it was knocked down to a well known sheepfarmer. "I don't want her," declared owner, "put her up again," and this startel one of the most amusing episodes ever seen at t> e yards. In the space of about fifteen minutes the ewe passed through the hands of some SI owners, anl the auction resulted in fl omething like £8 5s being raised f m the Children's Creche.

Train Travellers, try cur famous pies and fresh pot of tea. DUBTIN'S, Opposite southern end of Station.

Tenders for Mr N. 11 Person'* stock of paints, paperhangings, etc., elo*e with the DO.A., Mr 6. j! Scott, today. - Mr Dave M Williams, who is in advance of Mr Edward Bransoombe'g "The New Dan ies," who open here on Sept 20 for three nights, was in Palmerst n. yesterday making arrangements for their appearance.

The latest additions to the Telephone Exchange are:—Tregurtha Bros , Main Street East; J. O.' Mooney, Rangitikei Street; Nurse O'OaJlaghan, Pitzherbert Street.

A draft by law limiting the speed of motor cars and motor cycles to ten miles an hour on the Paekakriki Hill las been approved by the Co mty Council, so that motor cycle reliability trials on this favourite bill will now be a thing of the past.

During the voyage from San Francisco of the Union Company's steamer, Tahiti, the wireless operator after leaving Tahiti spoke Suva at a distance of 1835 miles. He also got into touch with San Francisco at 1700 miles, and Honolulu at 1600. At one stage of the voyage signals were exchanged at a distance of 2 XK) miles.

When Carl Neilsen appeared yesteraay before Mr Poynton, S.M , to answer to char.e if being an idle and disorderly person Sergfc Willis remarked fat accused had been about the town for two months begging. "He is a nuisance to all and sundry" contine i the Sergeant "aui is in a filthy dirty verminous condition." "A mouth" came the prompt reply from Mr Poynton.

A million and three-quarters is the amount of a Joan which the Government seeks authority to raise in a Bill brought down in the House of Representative*. The Bill is entitled t»;e Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Aot. Sir Joseph Ward denied toe statement publishes by Government journals that tt'ere ha- beei any arrangement by which some front beuch -Oppositionists would take bick seats "This is absolutely incorrect," he said. "T, ere has been no suggestion of the kind made by me nor have 1 any intention to ask any particular member to take a back jeat The ange in this way will be that ""Mr Myers and myself, wbo occupy the same beuch, will change seats so tbat I may be nearer the whips, but Mr Myers does net go back nor does anyone else c ange Ms place. Nothing of the kinJ has ever been considered."

The Palmerston North Horticultural Society's silver rose bowl, presented by Mrs F J. Nathan for most points in t e decorative section, was won by Miss Prouse. of Levin, Mrs V. Harman being seeon . Mrs Nathan had on view an exhibit of cyclameus, which were ranch a 'mired. The rose s" ow, the Society's nest display will be heli between November 11 an 1 18.

A meeting of householders was held at the College street school to consider ways and means of raising money to pay off the debt of £5:3 owing on t e section of land adjoining t e school an - * recently purchase i by t e committee, and also to establis • a fuel for the erection of shelter s*,eds at the school. It was decided to hold a bazaar on October 22 and 23. Mr W. Burgess was electe! secretary An offer by Mr Hubbarl to organise a concert on behalf of t e school was also accepted. The film which illustrates Victor Hugo's masterpiece Les Miserables, which Fuller's produce on Mon ay night, is one of the most remarkable ever produced. It is 12,000 feet long.* The production cost a great sum of money. T. e film fully illustrates the story of tie unfortunate Jean Valjaan, and places each scene in its proper locality. Picture-goer* will nave a great treat at His Majesty's.

Comrlaints were made to tbip office last evening • f the behavioir of a team of footballers who travelled to Palmerston by t e last train from Wellington last nig»-t. In spite of protests by first-claw pvss'ngers, t ey pe'siste', it is anted, in rosin ng backwards and forwards ti>ro g t e carriages and generally made themselves as unpleasant as a team of kuickerbock?re ■ sc' oolboys delighting in defying t'eir nu ses When remonstrated with they were rude, and unmannerly.

There is no mistaking the impression and refined choice which c aracterises the superb si owing of millinery at the Bon Marche. Every model sows in no small degree the deft tocch of t h e trne millinery artist Even among the c leaper Ready to-wears thare is a superiority w ich one cannot help bur, notice, an I which says much for the grand value w ich a 1! the goods re resent. T e risplay is now at its best and wise buyers will make their selections early.***