LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 21 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The name of Mr. A. P. Burnes was inadvertently omitted' fr«(ti «nir report of the farewell social tendered! iv Mr. Piice by the Nelson Club.

By ail unfortunate mistake (due to a nm conception that the signature of a writer instead of a pen-name had been attached to' a letter in the correspondence "Fanners and Land Tenure"), in a cu'iTeotidn of a printer's error in Thun'sday'si issue the name of Mr F. ■Bastin. was accidentally rralblfe'hed. It was dome quite unintentionally. 'Of course, it is a well established iuswspaper convention that correspondents* names are never disclosed, hence the error is the more to be deplored. But our undeviaiting rule would never have been bvoken, even accidentally, had the correspondent followed the usual course a.nd adhered to his riom-de-plume in his couiecting letter. Nevertheless, we regret the incident exceedingly.

. iPolls to fill extraordinary vacancies occurring in the Waimea County Cfruilcil will! 'be taken on Friday next in, the Wai-iti and- Wangapeka ridings. ' The .oaindt'-diatos aA>imna'#edl, in t(hje ifoTmer are Messrs AVilliam Franklyn and. Edward S. Hoult, and in the' latter Messrs E. H. BrcimelL andA . iDruimimb.nd (sitting memiber'). Mr.. George Maamahon has been elected;, unopposed, for the Motupiko riding. /

The Bishop's garden party in connection with the session of the Anglican Synod, is being held at Bißhopdale this aifternicon, in perfect weather, and with a large attendance.

■lt is notified that a sale of work in eon'neefcion with! the ;Saflvation Army will be h*M in the Barracks on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The proceeds are in aid of the Army's Rescue and Missionary Work.

Service will >be held to-morrow evening at 6.30 in the H amp den-street Schoolroom, Waimea-r,cadi. It will! be conducted by the Rev. J. J. Lewis, "who announces as his sulbject "The Glorious Proclamation'/' The usual afternoon service will continue to be held at 3, as well as the Sunday school at 2.

. . Arauversia-ry setrvices in connection witfuthe .Congregational Sunday School jv-il'l bo held to-morrow, when there will ib© special. singing by the children, assisted by the choir and. orchestra. The services will be condtxcted in the -moniiiiirr by Mr. G. D. Vorco; in tbe afternoon by Mr. G. E. Bodlley; and in the ■evening by the Rev. B. L. Thomas. A tea and yratertainmenit will .'be held on Wednesday next. '.'■"--.. The date, for closing the T. E. Taylor Memorial 'Fund 'btiimg- yesterday, all lists not already sent in should ibte. forwarded at once to the joint secretaries, P.O. box 309, Ghristchurch.

It is notified, that the lia-unich' Isabel v will leave' the hcat-landing on Monday, Laibour Day, for the Boulder Bank and the Lighthouse. /^

Owing* to Monday being- a- ipoiblic holiday the appropriation of the People's Terminating Buildling Society to have •been bal-lotted for will be ■ drawn., on>Tuesday. , '

The "Review of Reviews" for October is to hand. The character sketch is of a. unique kind on account.of its fulness, and its subject. Lord Strathcona-'s name is known throughout the civilised world as ore of Great Britain's finest Empirebuilders, and the -character sketch 'in this'iFSue is alone worth the price of the magazine. Another article of almost f qua! interest is am .account of Mr W. T. Stead's recent interview with the Sultan of Turkey. In;,view of the declaration of war between Italy and Turkey this interview will have even more than snecial interest. The remainder of th*> magazine giving the , current histoiy of affairs is well up to the mark.

Russian Government surveyors engaged in Siberia are .continually finding.prosperous'colonies of Russian settlers whose fyxisttan.ce was abisolutjeiy unknown to the authorities at Petersburg/-.

.Stella Richtel, a .popular young German actress, has been fined £6 for piiblicly,hoping the'ears of her-ex-finance because he ipersjsted in writing love letters .after she had jilted him.

Six swans kept on a pool flew away recently., thrtre of tlhem, however, soon returning. The others were followed by a large number -<ctf persons. One bird was captured in a street, another struck a telegraph wire and fell to the,ground, and the third was captured on an- open space. ~

One of the least technical and most widely interesting of the addresses delivered at the opening_pf the Medical Congress in Sydney last week was that of Dr G-. A. Syme, of Melbourne, president of the Surgery Section of the, Congress. DrSyine spoke of the progress of surgery during the past eight or nine years, admitting , that if had been very gVeat, though -Siot . quite so remarkable as some . '.people were,/apt to think. He wasfable to produce little eyidence-of the de-velop-ment of new methods of surgical attack, or of the treatment of new regions, but he expressed the opinio/n , that lack • o'fS.^forward. .moyeiiient in these respects was unimportant in ■view of the great progress that haa been made in securing the safety and success of operations and "the. enormous increase 5u tiie number performed. Dr Syme paid a tribute to " those who coiiiine their attention more particularly to intensive studv in special . departments of surgery," saying that the profession was indebted to these men, for most of the advances that had been made. He spoke in some detail of the steady progress in abdominal' surgery, which is a subject of particular interest for a great many people. Twenty years ago. he said it would have seemed a. strange proposition to discuss the surgory, of indigestion. Now the results of operative' experience had proved that a majority of persons with symptoms of so-called dyspepsia had an organic disease, curable by surgical i.-'terf.erence alone, and often only to be diagnosed accurately on- the operation table. The cause of the symptoms might -be in the digestive organs themselves, or it might be something affecting- them reflexly. Dr Syme said that gall stones, a common cause of dyspepsia, could be treated properly onlv by an early operation, but the iirofession. had not yet recognised this. fact. Ulceration of the stomach was a /very frequent cause of indigestion, but opinion was divided as-to the best surgical procedure He mentioned also "appendiceal dyspeps\a" as a subject requiring further investigation. Most people probably fancy that surgeons are making full use of the opportunities furnished by the ever-increasing voliime of appendicitis for the prosecution of the re- I quired investigati-'va. ] "Always wear flannel next to the ' skin," was- good advice, Mr Speight, j Only gee that it is the rtoslyn Unshrinkable "Delta'' finish.* Ask for the Tamous Roslyn Writing Pads.* Warnerls Hust-probf Corsets never fail to improve the figure.*.

"Chopper" Anderson, tlie 1 well-Jchowa town crier of Folkestone, ,**vlio the "lost, stolen,-/strayed and found" news elf the town -to the vgrealy amusement of the visitors on tie/beaeh, has devised a neat little expedient for defviilg the authorities' who ordered-<hi3n to keop off that part of the beaoh which is the property of Earl Radnor. "Chopper" hired a boat and a megaphone and, putting out to sea, was rowed slowly along the coast ringing his bell to aiAract attention of the thousands on the shore and then shouting his "cries" through the megaphone. ■.

The presence in .England o»f Liieut.-CoU ■H. E. Greenwood, Assistant Ghieif En--girier of the Canadian Northern Railway, in search of resident engineers to take charge of a section of the-new con-. struction work now proceeding between iSudibairy and Port Arthury affords an' excel lent opportunity to railway construction engineers to obtain colonial experience in railway -Vtork. Selected appl.i- N cants, -who must provide tiierr own transit, theodolite, level, and v dra>wdng instruments, are required to pa.y.their passage to Toronto; but"'will h&ve Tree transport on the Canadian Northern lines. The salary offered is about 1 £2O a month, with board.

A motor-body builder was working, at a factory in Melbourne a few davs ago when his chisel suddenly slipped" -and snapped. The. keen edge had cut into a ibullet which had bean fired d wring a Russo-Japanese skirmish in a Mahchurian forest. The explanation is simple enough, says the ''Argus." The' firm by which the bodybuilder is employed- imported a large consignment of 'Manchu-i-ian ash for car-,buflding. Scrice thediscovery of the first bullet several others rhave been found. With the bark on' nothing unusual was noticed in the logs, but when they were being sawn into planks the teeth of the saw frequently struck something harder than a knot, while some of the planks were' found to be scarred in many places. Upon closer invest Ration numbers of .bullets were* found embedded in the wood. In two \nstances portions of shells were discovered. The body-i'builder had cut into an isolated bullet in a large plank. The logs in which the bullets and shells were discovered by the saw had eveidently been in a- much fiercer engagement*. Inquiries were mad efrom the captain of tho ship which brought the timber; and it was ascertained that the logs were cut in a forest not far from Port Arthur> whei<e battles raged during the RussoJapanese war. .-■...

The latest sensation in dancing enmos from Paris, and promises, according to papers by the mail, to eclipse any dance of recent yoars in uopularity. It has already caught on iiV Paris- and London, and even in \ conservative Vienna "Der Liebschsohlaff" has bee n received with fa-, ' your. The dance is not for the mnsie- ■ fMy dull. Persons who find them°«lves unable to get away with a waltz or a two-step except in an elephantine manner, might just as well givo up trying* the "'Sleepy Love," Tho dance is essentially one of 'h'ytbin,—one that requires a delicately balanced sense of time, and one thafr rrquires the strictest attention to 'he music. The music for this danc« '« unique in that it is not fixr-l in tompo. That is, there are retardations ' and accelerations, required! by the music itself, which it is necessary to follow most carefully:' Anything but the strictest attention to the dance mujic n-inuld result in chaos and the mix-ups / I usual to cheaD public dances. It will / often lap. chosen as the "last number," since it is imperative that the young m an should have for his part. ■a*>r the young woman whom he escorted to the ballroom. At one 'stage tbe lady drops her head on the younff gentleman's shoulder, and they glide through s everal measures in this more o r less tender posture. At another point, the dancers sway first to the - right—far back—then to the left, while the gentleman places both arms round his partner. In the correct attitude for most of t'he dance, the arms will both be held close, instead of being partly extended, as is the case in the ordinary waltz_ The dance is one" of those which it is possible to do artistically, with plenty of freedom, and without the slightest offence; but it may very easily be turned into>a vulgar show. It was originated by t'he fertile brains that control the Na:. r.iouai Acade-my of Dancing at Paris, Mil was 'first broached at a fashionable" assembly in one of the great Parisian lialls. The elite of Paris was and the dance" created astonishment, admiration, and wonder. It wns quickly taken xw by the best people and featured as a new -sensation;. It became the rage of the town overnight, and composers were "set to work" to write the peculiarly, dreatny.. ■ lan_ iruorous music th'at is a necessary adjunct;