LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 September 1909, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

It is notified that the sacred Cantata, "A Joyful Thanksgiving," will be rendered by the Foxhill Choir, in St. John's Church, Wakefield, on Wednes- ■ day evening next. The services at the Congregational Church to-morrow and the following three Sundays wfll be conducted by the Rev. D. McKee Wright, a month's holiday having been granted to the Pastor, the Rev. B. L. ' Thomas. ■ The annual meeting of the Wakefield Lawn Tennis Club will be held in the Schoolroom, Wakefield, on Thursday next, at 7.30 p.m. The Nelson Citizens' Band will give a concert at the Port to-morrow afternoon. A collection will be takeii Up in aid of the contest fund. , The services at the Richmond Methodist Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Mission Band in the morning, and by the Rev. S. Peryman in the evening, when an address to young people will be given. The Rev. S. Jenkin will preach at Stoke in the afternoon, and Mrs Peryman in the evening. This week's "Citizen" is an especially interesting number. .It is bright, and bristles with the points and salient features of current events. A striking article is "Free Places versus Traditions," in which the good and bad points 'on either side are weighed up in a level-headed and- democratic manner, al'.hough the writer is not blindto the other side of the question. StOTies of "Bully Hayes," which have Tiecomc quite a feature of the publication, are continued. On Tuesday next, at the Druids' Hall, Mr Wm. Lock will give a lecture on his travels across the Atlantic, in aid of the Nelson Institute. He will touch on life on an Atlantic liner, nolabla things in the United States, American manners and customs, and various other matters of interest tbat had come under his observation. Captain A. W. Pearse, editor of the "Pnstoralist-s' Review," has been appointed official honorary representative for Australasia for the International ■Exhibition of Stock and Agriculture, to be held in Buenos Ayres from June 3 to July 31 ,1919. This Exhibition is to commemorate tho first centenary of the emancipation of Argentine. Fifteen boats, employing 40 men,, are constantly engaged in the Kaipara estuary, wliich affords salt water fishing over many square miles of abnormally rich grounds. A s'team trawler is being fitted out to join the fleet. The . Dargaville correspondent of the Auckland "Herald" states that NewZealand mullet is finding its way into the English market. Three years ago an Aberdeen visitor to New Zealand stated that there were 150 firms ready to' buy all available and possible stock. It is decided that in future, State school cadet battalion camps will not bo approved unless it can be shown that the cadet companies composing a battalion are well grounded in elementary subjects. Company camps will supersede battalion camps in such cases, and the boys will be trained in the subjects necessary to ensure a proper co-operation in case of battalion operations. A systematic musketry and physical training will be the chief feature of such company camps. Scouting, tracking, finding direction by day and night, developing- the powers of observation, judging distances of objects, pitching and striking tents, making hasty shelter, the use of the compass, reconnoitring, the writing of brief field reports, map-reading, etc., will also form part of the camp instruction. It would be well worth while for the Comonwealth (states the Melbourne "Ago") to induce tho party of Ameri- ; can representative business men who are about to make a tour of the world, to include Australia in their trip. To the number' of 750, which means a large command of ability and capital, the syndicate has chartered the HamburgAmerica ' liner Cleveland, 18,000 tons, for the world tour. The Cleveland will leave New York On tbe 16th October, and wil "do" Egypt, India, Siam, Java, Borneo, Manila, and Hong Kong, arriving at Nagasaki on the 29th December. After this they will proceed to Honolulu. Thers is also another excursion, starting from New York about the same time in one of the newWhite Star large medium spsed ships, but this party will consist only of some 2:0 millionaires and semi-milionaires. Pleasure, rather than business, is the object, while the Cleveland excursion will be business combined with pleasure. '.. Since the announcement that a prize of £10,000 would be given to the Australian inventor who would design an airship eapablo of use in. war, the Federal Minister of Defence (Mr Joseph Cook) haa been flooded with letters from every part of the Commonwealth, covering suggestions, plans and ideas. People who havo turned- inventive minds to the subject, arid are ambitious to win fame and £10^000, have surprised Mr Cook by their numbers; but perhaps the-JhOst surprising bid for the money wae made by a Gippslarid resi. dent, whose "invention" was described in a- few words on a half-sheet oi P, a , p . 6I Y. H,a comum'cation reads thus: Airship in the shape of a swallow or swift, and driven by air." The Minister has not yet decided to award the prize to tins "inventor," says the Melbourne "Argus." In view of the rapid approach of the angling season Mr J. E. Hounsell, as usual, has stocked every requisite for ■the anglers' requirements. Amongst the rods tho most noticeable are the wellknown 10ft. American split cane, 10ft. steel telescopic, and a combination rod with fly and short minnow top. The flies eyed and on gut are beautifully dressed, and designed to suit our Nelson rivers. In addition, thero are lines in all qualities, lengths and colours, fly hooks, reels, eyed-fly boxes, and spare tops. For those who practice minnow fishing, there are a great variety of the b?st sorts, including the useful horn or comb Gun's, spiral, fly, phantom, and_ the South Island minnow, • "The Waiau," in two sizes. In addition to the usual stock of- landing nets, brogues, etc, the fact that there is a full range of put in hanks, casts and 7-ineh !en„-*li« fo» fly-tying is of especial 'uteres! to anglers, who need not send awav for th.eir ronuiroments. Finally, there is a • lull stock cf sea fishing tack'e. Mr Pbunsell also has bee-n appointed the spi'einl Nelson agent for Messrs A. and W McCarthy, ■■-.? Dune:hn, fi-diirg-t-'cHe mikers. The Farmers' Agency Coy., Auctioneers, have received instructions froni Mr T. H. Condell (who has taken oyer the business formerly conducted as Condell and Armstrong, and is entirely re-stocking), to offer at public auction at their rooms, Bridge-street, the existing,.- stock, absolutely without reserve. Particulars later.- The goods are being removed for convenience of sale.* The Palm Leaf Butter Is made from whole Milk Dream, the ore-un being reduced in temneraturß by the latest and most up-to-date scientific appliances. The public are guaranteed that this butter is free from all germs, is sweet and whole•umi«. and nan bo had at the same prio» as other brands." Sir Josepn Ward is now en his. way iiicm Canadj?to Fiji. - ••-. i" ~ a -.-.■:. y-z/r. yy* ... -. '" y y"'"'M'iJ4J?s

"Mr R' ft. Sfioilgras will give iri the y'resbyteriiiii Chifich th-morro-.V (K^ day) evening an account of what he ta •■• among the poor of London during his recent sojourn in the great city. At the Firesbyterian sale of work the Mfessrs Hughes' band quartette gave excellent contributions to the musical programme on both evenings. Mr Murphy's services should also be acknowledged: •V temperature of 1500 degrees Falir. is registered in the Wellington .crema- | torium. j A horse which had bclUl tried to jump a loaded truck in Timaru recently.. It Struck it* head and was stuntied; „, Shippers say that turriiped catth* *iH not stand the sea voyage so «ell as grass or bush-fed cattle. Disputes connected with bricklayers i and sausage-case makers in Napier await the attention of Mr P. Halley, Conciliation Commissioner. The Wellington Women's Social and Political League is arranging a social gathering oii Sir Jop&pb and' L,aoy Ward's return to New Zfeiilfintl; It is reckoned that 2000 horse-power could be generated by the Wyndham river, and a scheme is on foot to provide Invercargill with electric energy from this source. A conference to consider the- dispute in the flaxmilling industry will be held in Palmerston North shortly. A twenljy horse-power motor lorry will soon be in use in Wellington to transfer mails in bulk between the railway station and wharves and the Post Oflice. The Department of Agriculture has engaged Mr T. Hopkins to supervise the three Government apiaries during the ensuing season. "It does not matter what part of the world- you go to, the fame of New Zealand is known as a little country producing some of the finest stock in the world.'— Mr W. Reece in Christ church recently. When New Zealanders visit Australia many are surprised to find that very little community of interest exists between the Comortwemolth and the Dominion The various branches' of the NavyLeague throughout the Dominion are considering what should be done to commemorate Trafalgar Day. In consequence of a terrible accident in Berlin, the Prussian Minister of. the Interior has forbidden the use of motor cycles on bicycle tracks, There seems to be more than one way of riding a motor bicycle. The other day in Christchurch, a youth who was in charge of a motor cycle with a basket side-car attached, instead of riding the bicycle and leaving the comfortable ohair vacant, was seen to be dashing along the streets lolling luxuriously back in the side-car, and controlling the cycle with one hand on the handlebar. During the progress of a hockey match fit Blenheim on Wednesday h. H. Best and W. G. Browne (formerly of Nelson) collided, the latter being rendered unconscious. Dr Walker was sum moned, and attended the sufferer, who was later on taken to his home On Thursday it was ascertained that Mi Browne had received a slight concussion of the brain. He recovered consciousness for awhile, but later oil became delirious. It wto be hoped that in a few days he will have quite recovered.— "Express. An Auckland, dentist writes to a local paper observing that there is too much dentistry- in New Zealand. He says : "We are ■ becoming a toothless peopie. The cause, no doubt, is the lack of lime. Our cereals, meat, vegetables, and- water are produced from land deficient in lime, which is an essential in the formation of bone. It seems to me that it would be of great advantage if lime were put into the drinking water. It must do good, purifying the water if nothing more. It might also be put into our wheat before grinding and our raw sugar and our milk. What would purify milk more than a pinch of lime in the pail before straining? If there were more lime in food and water there would be less work for the dentists." "Ten minutes have gone, and I turn my head to see whether I am proceeding in the right direction," remarks M. Bleriot in describing his successful crossing of the English Channel on his monoplane." I am amazed. There is nothing to be seen, neither the torpedodestroyer (which was to accompany him on the water), nor France, nor England. I am alone. I can seen nothing at all rein du tout ! For ten minutes I am lost. It is a strange position to be alone, unguided, without compass, in tho air over the middle of the Channel. I touch nothing. My hands and feet rest lightly on the levers. I let the aeroplane "take its own course. I care not whither it goes. For ten minutes I continue, neither rising nor falling nor turning. And then 20 minutes after I have left the French coast I see the green cliffs of Dover, the Castle, andaway to the west the spot where I had intended to land. . . I press the lever with my foot, and turn easily towards the west." The headmaster of University. College School, Dr. H. J. Spencer, at the prize "distribution by the Lord Mayor of London recently, spoke of the traditional absenco of corporal punishment in the school. The British boy, said Dr. Spencer, has in him a strongly developed sporting instinct. The impulse to tako "a sporting chance" of a flogging "and thereby to gain the admiration of less venturesome souls was, ho was convinced, a main incentive to offend. Tako. away the chance of flogging, and the misdemeanant ceased to be interesting, and became a tiresome fool. In roferonce to the- refusal of the Government to accept the offer of Mr W. C. Buchanan, M,P., of £5000 for -tha purchaso i of an , experimental , farm, and £1000 for stock, on the grounds of .economy, the "Dominion" says: — "Wo do not say for the moment that the Government ean or cannot afford it. What puzzles us is how any Minister ean say that the ".Government cannot . afford it. For the Government was able tc spend £26,119. more on various Departments in the Jun'e Quarter bf this year than in the -June quarter of .1908." It is able to spend over £10,000 in every three months on the Tourist Department, It is able to afford 2492 more on this Department in the first ' quarter of 1909-10 than .in the corresponding quarter of 1908-9. It is able to afford a contemporaneous increase of £1658 on the Mines Department, of £1014 on the Department of Internal Affairs. It seems to ns that if the Government can increase' the expenditure ou the Tourist Department at the rate of .£9968 a year, it rather disqualifies itself from pleading that £2000 a year is too much to spend on an experiment farm for the benefit of the farming community, towards the cost of which a private person generously contributes £6000.'' Every housewife should see the splendid showing of new Manchester goods now being displayed in this department at Mrs Anstice'a. This selection includes curtains, calicoes, linens, damasks, fancy table centTes, towels, curtains, and flannels, etc. Just what you want for your home ; in thoroughly reliable qualities and reasonable pnceß. . It will pay you to see these goods.* Everything that s novel, charming, and correct in neckwear arid belts for the new season is shown now at Mrs Anstice's, and awaits your inspection. There's something here for every gown and- every occasion, and the prices are remarkably low for articles of such su- 1 perior quality. Why not come in to-day I ond see these dainty things? — Mrs Anstice, "The House for Real Value."* THE VALUE OF PATENTS. The U.S. Commissioner of Patents itated if a patent is worth anything it can, if properly managed, easily be sold for from £2000 to £10,000. If you have invented any new article, that suppliei:' a public need write HENRY HUGHES. Patent Agent. 157, Featherston-street, WJPr,r.Ty3TON.'- Established.. 1882--"Advise to Inventors" .posted* free. '••-•