LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 July 1908, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

A proposal is afoot to etart a co-op- j orative bakery ill Gi-sborno. The Citizens' Band will f«n^.or .1 1 select . programme Bt Tl-alaigar Park on Sunday afternoon, under Bandmaster A. Berryman. The usual fortnightly "Ingleneuk" j in connection with tho Nelßon P ro * vincial Scottish Society will be field in the Bechabitoa' Hall on Mondayevening next The Citizen-*' Band announce theiT j usual monthly concert td fee .given in the city this _e veiling. There' were no offers for the pastoral runs in the vicinity of Lake Taupo, I comprising 134,874 acres, submitted, by the Crown Lands Board recently, and the properties were accordingly passed I in ... I ' Among the nurses who have successfully passed the §tate . exwrination the following from Nelson appear (the nam--1 ber rep£2_r*nting the order of meri.';)— 19, Isabel Mcßae ; and 21, Ruth Miller. Th© Dannevirke Stat? school cadets, ■who won tfae- North I-_Ux-id. Government cadet shield, were asked to khi)jpete in the "Lord Roberts' Boys"7lmporial Match, which was , fired with miniature rifles .flait Wednesday. An adjourned meeting p_ the creditors of Wm. Lake, gasfitter, was held at' the office of the Deputy Official Assignee yesterday afternoon. Mr Rout read an opinion of Mr Fell to the effect that, the furnitiire \vas the property of the bankrupt. An offer was roceived from Mrs Lalce of £25 for her husband's interest in the furniture, the. offer being made without prejudice. It was shown by accountsjhat £91 had been paid to three firms for furniture, ahd it was resolved that Mrs Lake be informed that if she increased her offer to £40 the creditors would aocept that amount. In another column the Citizens' Band again call attention to the Fancy Fair and Art Union Bazaar which tney are : promoting during the last week in this month. All arrangements.. %re rapidly approaching completion, and the • Comiri.ttees 'iVe sparing .no effort to make the bazaar a success. .The side shows and stalls are being carefully "prepared, and the dancing will include spectacular displays and novel effects. Several valuable prizes are being offered for competition in the different stalls,- the particulars and condition^ of which' are specially advertised. Exhibits cf mechanical models and novelties aW solicited fox the machinery hall and museum. A suggestion was "mad© by thTft Bench at the Nautical Court at AucWand th< other day that in the casfe of;' all sea going ships a good alarm clock shfluM be provided in the captain's cabin to bf - set always for the timo when a taptair • was to be called during the night, ca for about the time when a' change oi course would be necessaiy, co thai there would be some mechanical precaution against an officer or man failing to call the captain, or going to sleep at hie post. The Court also suggest** that in all vessels there. should be somt connection between the bridge and tht captain's cabin, either by speaking tub* or electric bell, or telephone; so as tt obviate any portsible necessity for an officer leaving the bridge' to communi- ; rate with the master.. Notwithstanding the new regulations 5 providing that no fruit shall bo shipped tb any port in the Dominion from th( Australian Commonwealth, without being accompanied by a certificate stating that such fruit has lot been grown within a mile of any pe^t-infectcd orohard or district. -iftljSctsd shipments I continue "to- arSvp,- Sna arg.-destroy-ed, i The lfOe^rt- Jnstanett'in- wHicK this occurred wa,?""bn Monday last, wher several cases of mandarines, 25 -cases oi lemons, nd 98 cases of pine apple, were landed by the Mokoia, from Syd ney. These were accompanied by the recessary certificate, but upon inspectioi: by the local officials were found to t>( - infected with fruit-fly and scale, anc •rere condemned. Deplorable as tho recent naval disasters have been (remarks the London "Times") the.v havo shown conclusively that the officers and men of the Royal \ Naw have, at any rate, been trained tc a discipline, a fortitude, a feariefsnK9, and an ingrained sen* of comradeship, in the fa^o of sudden and imminent death in ono oi its most appalling forms, which are beyond all praise. The truth is that life on board a man-of-war in commission is beset with danger at every turn. A cable may caory away, a gun may burst, a breech-piece may bo insufficiently secured, a derrick may givo vay, a steam-pipe or a boiler tube may prove unexpectedly defective, -a boat may capsize in a squall, a submarine irjay be Jim down or ilts appliances for submersion or emergency may fail at, a critical moment, an order may be misinterpreted,' or in very rare instan- | <ei3 a wrong order may bs given, as ifi the death of the Victoria, and the result is death, it may be widespread, or it may be individual, but alike inexorable, incalculable, ineluctable. All these risks, and many others, have to be faced every day and every hour by nil officera and men of the 'Royal Naw, and we all: know that thty are taken by one and all without thought or£f?a*_;, as part of their day's work. Those who have relatives in "the secyice know full well that, if thoy allowed their imagination to dwell unduly upon these things, thoy would never sleep peacefully in their beds. Fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, rfweethearbs and wives, must ail bear this burden, and 'perhaps it is harder for them to bear than it is for the sailors themselves. Yet tihey bear it without quaking or repining. It is not from them, we take it, that the craven cry arises that the risks . involved in training for war are too great to be run in peace. They have facejl ' the situation, neither ignoring its manifold terrors nor allowing their affections- lo magnify them, and made up their minds to endure it. Shall the nation at large be less ready to pay "tEe price of Admiralty" than- they, are? Do yon realise what, an extraordinary thing a 'perfect Corsot is? It mnst be pliable to all natural motion, and rigid against all distortion. It must maintain health by improving nature. It must admit ot modification in fitting'; and yet, if rt is a sixteenth of an inch *, false in cut, it is useless. Can you iwonder that, thera-ii only <me- perfect Coreot-tke P.D.* . „; The newly formed Savage Club has caused quite a stir in the. minds of tha enrious ones as to .thoir. ptode of proTijd. ure, etc. ; but the : korero hold the othei night waa as nought when compared with the korero which took placf abcut 6.30 last evening, wh*n Jock fetemed bom*.- Wain't ba a-Bavagr Tainspn! Hia mjssii had been making purcE__e»s for tba naw . wing, anj when Jock fenw th«n lie exclaimed/ "Why didn't you go to Look's? What do yon want with tfiat rubWsfc ? You know Lock sells only the very best articles that can, be produced with skill, experience 'and first-claai material. Look bas thp largest display of furnishings in the city; Rives the saaieet terms or payment; and' re--sorts to no catch-penny methods tri draw bnsinesa. Lock gives ih* very |>€>st value md grantees i»tiaf action." With- this parting shot and a shake of his bonca rariuon voted the korero cloiad, tbp •quajr land pickinnics singin;,— 'Go to Lock, Lock, Lock, if money yoo wisli to bave; 3o to Lock's, I<ock'G, Lock's wh}lrt op ♦hii) aide (A ih* "-Aye."' ■> The P.D. Corsat ta the higbget mfi if achievement in its cla.<;«. ' Ofrei) mitated, it is never equalled. Only I ho makers of the P.D. Corset, With heir wonderful organisation and faciliies of distribution, can furnish yoil rith su- b a Comet at such a price.' ' . Juality is the te_t of cheapness. Wbjr \ 1 lelp to put a premium on iafeyjorjGy} 1 1 "hcjj yog ca9 _?<_at a P.D.J p

The Garrison Band will play -soveral selections in Trafalgar-street to-morrow evening. At the Magistrate's Court this morning Mr Eyre-Kenny, S.M., granted a prohibition order against a husband on the wife's petition. To suit the convenience of footballers to-morrow the afternoon out train will be delayed till 5 o'clook, and run eorrespondingy late throughout to Belgrove. It was forty-six years ago on Ist July siiico the first telegraph lino was operied^n New Zealand. No less than sovon deaths from typhoid fever havo ocourred at the Maori paa near Hawera during the past three- weeks, The Eltuaih Dait-y Company last mohth manufactured 87,3081 b. of butter (39 tons). The company will pay out 10"y4fl for -butter fat. | Maori Committees are being elected iat Ohinomutu and Whnkarewarewa, to look- after the interests of the I'Maoris in sanitary and other matters. "The World of Sport" . column appears on the 6»*fet page of th.:s issue. It will be published \Veekly oh Fridays, and will be opoii to genuine correspondents. Mr Wm. Leek, of Nehon, writes to friends here from Port Said that he had had a delightful trip so far and had experienced no severe heat in the Red Sea. He had intentions of doing a Little "overlanding" in Egypt. It is understood that Mr Beuke, who has represented the. Moutere* riding in the Waimea County Council for 21 years doei not intend to offer himself for re-election. Sis withdrawal from the Council with which he has been so lon,; and be:ien.ial!y identified 's gonerally regretted. A protest was made at. yesterday's ' meeting of the Waimea County Council against people sending letters about the '• general' affairs of the county to individual Councillors. "It was pointed out \ that these letters should be forward | | to the chairman or secretaay. ! | Tho "Westport Times" says that ' the cut in the breakwater through 1 ; which it is proposed to launch the j stranded Taviuni win be 50ft. long. _ .50ft. broad, and lOf'tT deep. ' I It has been stated that provided _ ! Wairoa had a permanent entrance, 1 fully 1000 tourists would be sent to 3 the" district by the Tourist Departb mont. This would mean at the least an additional £5000 in the district. 1 The third series of special services f for younc people will be commenced 3 on Sunday evening at the Baptist s Church. The subject to be dealt ' with by Mr. J«nkin is "Left-handed " Valour," or "Triumph Over Handij caps. ' ' New special hymn sheets j have been compiled for these services, and they will be used for the fijfst 5 time on Sunday. B At a meeting in connection with th< r socond anniversary of the carrying o: I prohibition at Invercargill, a resolutioi t was carried expressing appreciation o 1 the satisfactory police admin:l"tratio: in Invercargill and the magistrates h exemplary punishment of offenders; fur c th-r; that brewery licenses be brough .'■ under tho ordinary licensing laws,' anc i bo subiect to the no-license vote and t< c i thfl same restrictions as all other form; n ! of license, artd that the licenses be ii t '■ the hands of Licensing Committees, ft t I It' had been arranged by Mr Mc i-jDopald, the solicitor for the defence _>'»rt__e prisoners Halinen and AnderJ sen. in the Westport manslaughtei ™ case, to hold a meeting at the Theatre 9 to-morrow evening in order to place c before the public a "full statement 0 of the case. " The arrest of the . witness Connelly, however,, brought . . oertain matters sub judice, hence the has been abandoned. This explanation is necessary, as the ,ada vertisement calling tbe meeting ap 1 peared in the early edition of "the c "Mail" yesterday, before tho decision ** to. abandon the meeting had been noti--8 fied to us. a s The British footballers will remem- .. ber ono pathetic little incident of the a southern toiir if all others fade away, n At Invercargill, just before the comf mencement of the Southland match, s a little fellow was taken from the i- hospital to tbo ground, at the' expense c of the Union, because for days past he 11 1 had begged to see the match, and be ? I would "die. happy." In fact, the "' doctors said the excitement caused bj tho expectation of seeing tho matcli had alone kept the wee little fellow 1 alive; He was too weak to see mucli „ ot the play, but at spell time Dr 1 McEvedy and other mombers of the a British team were brought along to , shake hands, and make, the boy happj , with a few words of kindness. On t hia. return to the hospital, his first , question to the nnrse was, "Aro there 1 any footballers in Heaven?" Wo J are not told the matron 's answer, but the small boy has gone to see. , Mr Gordon Shaw, in an article in the , "Field" (England) respecting "Pelorue , Jack," says "it is difficult to offer an cxv planation for the extraordinary ways 9f ' this .fish, and I have never heard any | theory advanced. But I suggest that his ( white colour is itself the reason and exfilanation for his solitary life and pecut iar ways. It may have come to Lim only in later yoars — the result of great . age — or he may have been born a ' "freak." In either case its strangeness is sufficient to ostracise him from as3bI ciation with his fellows. They fear him, . and fly a£ his approach. He is a foreign, ur.canny creature to them. Probably , they chase him and have tried to kill . him. So he lives, alone. PelorUß Jack is an outcast; he has no friends, no fish of his kind to frolic with him over the Be as. And the steamers? Probably he thinks them big fish. Thoy at least , do_ not shun or hurt him, and they swim quickly. So in their goings and comings he acoompanies them, enjoying their fellowship and friendly spirit so far as he dare to the limit of his haunt, for beyond that he knows that creatures of his own kind may attack him We are going to eclipse everything at onr Sale on Tuesday. — Trathen's.* IMessrs Bisley Bros, and Company advertise the following sales: — To-mor- ; row, at the City Yards, bay gelding, , cow, etc., in tho estate of the late John Warnock; Wednesday, Bth inst., stock sale at Richmond; Saturday, freehold property at Hopo on account of Mr John Wondlebum, also freehold farming property at Bishopdale, known as Clifton Downs', at present leased to Mr Geo. King. Messrs Levien and Rollet announce i that they will sell at 10.30 to-morrow the whole of tho assigned stock which they were unavoidably unable to sell l this afternoon; also several lines of produce. Watch for it! Wait for it! Trathen's Sale on Tuesday.* For Children's Hacking Congh at light Woo<-.' Great *-*eppennint Cure. ■ 6fl aM 2s 6d. Uuk i. S; not least— Trathen's Sale on 'li!*4d±y next.*