LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 5 March 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The partiality of farmers for rating on unimproved values was illustrated yesterday, says a Gisborne telegram, when a poll was taken on the question in the Waikohu County, resulting in 132 votes in favour at' rating on unimproved values, and 3 against.

The championship events in connection with the Nelson College Swimming Club will be held at the College baths to-mor-row afternoon.

A Palmerston North High School boy, J. D. Monro, so of Mr.J. S. Monro, has been awarded a national sholarship of £SO per annum, and University fees. He already held the Reid Stobo' Presbyterian scholarship. He goes to Victoria College.

The Christeluirch branch of the Socialistic Party to-night passed a most strongly worded resolution , protesting against the second imprisonment of the lad Harry Cooke for refusing to register under the Defence Act.

Beds and bedding is the subject of Messrs G. Fleming and Sons' announcement, in this issue, and those interested should not fail to peruse the same.

A Press Association wire from Hamilton to-day states that Mrs Moriartv, licensee of the Frankton Junction Hotel, was fined £2O and costs, and the license was endorsed, for allowing drunkenness on the premises. The case arose out of a brawl in November, when a man named Axel Sneerlinge stabbed three other men.

A new and unexpected sphere of action has just been found for the vacuum, cleaner. In some of th e Western States of America the crops of alfalfa, or lucerne, which form one of the most valuable agricultural products of that region, have suffered severely of late from" the ravages of the "alfalfa beetle." Maiiy expedients have been tried to get rid of this pest, and one of the most successful ha 6 been the use of the vacuum cleaner, to gather the larvae from the fields.,

A compete cinematograph theatre has been established in the Central Police Office in Vienna, in which all films must be shown for censorship before they are licensed for exhibition in the capital. Members of the police force who are not on~ duty, are admitted to thes© productions free, and sometimes they are sum""'orieH to attend v.h«n '« that may prove instructive. The institution is very popular in the force.

At a meeting of the committee of the Nelson Jockey CTub yesterdav Mr. J. Hagen, who has acted as. honorary starter for the Club for a nvimber of vears, was m'esented bv the President '(Mr. E. E.-Trask) on behalf of the members with a stiver stop watch in recognition of his services. Mr. T?ask spoke in eulogistic terms of the!assistance Mr. Hagen had rendered the Club', and his remarks were warmly applauded.

Referring to the increased cost of living, Mr. Veitch, M.P., stated at the conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants at' Wellington that the woiker's and the smnll farmers, whose interests were absolutely in common, should adopt a policy for protection against a system of commercial monopoly so complete in New Zealand that the prices of necessaries of life were artificially raise to a degree involving an extra imposition of £lO per annum upon every man; woman, and child in th<j country.

At a. lecture on the care of the teeth given by Rr. S. A. Paterson last night, the speaker, in vigorous language, condemned the Hospital Board for its dilatoriness in failing to provide dental wards in which the teeth of the peoplo could bo attended to. The dentists in Christchurch, he said, had been agitating for two years with this aim in view, but had been unable to persuade the Board to act in the matter. "The Hospital Board alleges," said Dr. Paterson "as a reason for its inaction that it lias no room to establish dental wards. If .it were to use some of the beds at present used for other cases for this purpose it would soon find that it had ample room for other innovations, for three-quarters of the beds would soon be emptied. Bad teeth, indeed, are at the root of 75 per cent, of the illness of the present- day. If a man goes into the Hospital suffering from gastric troubles, they will wash out his stomach and disinfect hie mouth ; and what is the good of that? The teeth should be thoroughly treated, and the other trouble would disappear, if it were curable."

Opportunity will be given from March 4th "to 7th, inclusive, for those suffering from their eyes to consult Mr. H. H. Coote, Evesight Specialist, of the firm of Messrs Coote and Randstein. Spectacle and Evesio-ht Specialists, 348. Lambton Quay. Wellington. His consulting rooms will' be over Messrs W. Rout and Sons, Hardy-street.* ATppc-rc- J. ft. "Rsinkin and Co. will hold a stock sale at Motucka on Wednesday next.

It is stated that hop-picking will begin in earnest on Monday next. The wakelield and Pigeon /alley schools have closed for that purpose. The Wimmera. Tahiti, and Moeraki ahould be within wireless range t»-day. The Nelson Citizens' Band, assisted by Mr. ]'". N. Jones with his niagnapnone, will give a concert in the Botanical Jteserve to-morrow evening. Nominations for officers of the Nelson A. and IJ.1 J . Association will be received by the secretary. Mr. J. Glen, up till Tuesday, March 19th. During her recent run from San Francisco R..\l.>>. Maitai "held" the shore wireless station at the American pore for miles, and during this time communication was rarely broken. She also spoke Suva at a distance of 1200 miles. •'i'osl." A nutting of th o Waimea Ward branch of Hie Beautifying Society will be held in the Hamp'don-street -schoolroom to-night at 7.30 o'clock. It is notified (hat the Rev. F. H. Spencer, agent for the British and foreign Bible and Tract Society, will give an address in the Shelbourne-street Schoolroom to-morrow evening, at eight o clock. In the course of a farewell social given by the Bluff Harbour Board to Mr. Snarp, the engineer, it was mentioned that the whole of the present wharves and buildings at the Bluff had been built out of revenue, and that part of the plant had also been provided for in the same way, a sum of £20,000 being borrowed for the purchase of a new dredge. Doubt wa s expressed as to wheher any other local bouy m the Dominion could say as much.

Titles to dramatic productions are often misleading. In other parts of the dominion people have been heard discussing the musical capabilities' of The Speckled Band," so there was some excuse for the. Natives, to the number'of about M, who .journeyed in from Fraserroad and Taipoherenui to Hawera, the other evening to listen to the which they had heard so muck (says the. Hawera "Star"). During the .interval afr. ter the tirst "act some of these- 'Native!' were making inquiries as to. when the famous band.would make its appearance. Some of them, who occupied prominent positions in the stalls, were quite unable to foliow the dialogue, and it was some time before they made the 'discovery that they had been misled.

Responding to the toast of his health at a. Boy Scout dinner at New York last week, (says a. special cable message to the Australian papers) Lieut.-General Sir Baden Powell had some interesting things to say regarding the objects of the Boy Scout organisation. "It is. very, important," he told the gathering, "that lier e should be no kind of soldiering in his movement. If people knew how much I hate war.they would never suspect me of trying to teach war to the boys. War is a thing I never want to see in a civilised country again. W e . are suffering from over-civilisation, and need to give more attention to the development of boys physically, giving them more manliness than the schools do. The drilling of boys makes them too much like a machine." \

The usually sedate members' of. the New Zealand Press Association seem .to. havoi rapidly assimilated West Coast methods. It is reported of them, by. the "Greyniouth Star" as follows:—_' "The directors of the Press Association;. then assembled on the verandah and gave r '. a Maori haka. and each and every ond..' Bliowed that he was the possessor of his-' trionic ability and, facial expression of. no mean order. The proceedings, ter'-j minated ivith the Highland fling' byT Mf.'Pirani, who though somewhat handicap-! pod through not wearing the national - , cotsume, gained a furore of applause by his terpsichorean ability."

Says a writer in the "Maoriland Worker" :—Those who are opposing the compulsory military service scheme do. so because they love their country too well to wish to see it under the heel of militarisin. Well, many years ago when the various tribes of Maoriland were comparatively in the same stat e of warlike tension as the various tribes of the world' are to-day, there was one tribe living on th e . isolated Chatham Islands. These people were studiously opposed to military training; in fact, they looked upon war (with horror, land \jusb |as 'the "Worker" and a few other estimable theorists are to-day, were ready to proclaim a general strike against it. These glad tidings reached the ears of a section, of vthe Ngatiawa tribe, which went in fpf military training at Wellington- like Old Henry. The Ngatiawas promptly' chartered the English brig Rodney and proceeded to make inquiries oh the spot. So: satisfied were they with the peaceful nature of the islanders that the expedition" remained there for two years, and during that time it devoured' all but 200 of a. population of nearly 2000. Tile others were saved up for a rainy That was about 75 years ago, but the moral 0 f th e story'isn't showing attfc sign of old age. In'fact, it seems to be* as" young as ever—Sydney "Bulletin."

The first,practice of. the. newly, formed. Stoke Musical"' Society will be held •in the Stoke iliill to-morrow evening. The Society is fortunate in having, as conductor Mr. T. S. S. Scott and Miss Lydia Dee as pianist. There is an assurtd membership of at least 50, and the committee invite the residents of.Stok.e and surrounding districts to join- thel Society. A series of concerts has been arranged throughout the season, and the 'Society should prove a real acquisition to the district. Notice hy advertisement appears alsewhere.

A motor car capsize occurred at Appleby yesterday afternoon, at about 5750, as a result of which Mr A. Manoy, seruS, of Motueka, was injured. Mr Manoy', with his son, Mr Bert Manoy, arrived iri Nelson yesterday, and left for homo about 4.15. At Appleby, it is stated, Mr Bert Manoy, who was driving, stoo!pcd to pick up some fruit from the floo): of the car, when a rut slewed the car towards a roadside drain. In an endeavour to avoid this the car capsized, and the occupants wero thrown onto the road. Mr Manoy, junr., escaped without injury, but his father was stunned. Dr. Andrew motored to the scene, and found Mr Manoy, senr. had recovered consciousness. At 7.30 Mr Vinihg arrived from Nelson with another ca"r, and Mr Manoy was brought in to Miss 'Massey-'s private hospital. Inquiry today elicited that Mr Manoy was nrogressing favourably. His injuries, it-is thought, are not serious. Mr Vining today brought in Mr Manoy's car. It is not generally known that the Glen, at Glenduan, Wakapuaka, is pri.vately owned _ property. When the w' remaining sections are sold this favourite picnic resort will be closed to all, exc6pt those who own sections. Ten sectioiis, each about £-acre, can be purchased 'tot £SO a section, on very easy terms, ■ £'£, 10s deposit, and 2s 10s every six months for nine years. Fnrther particulars.' cii'ii b 0 obtained from H. M. Field, or Alfred Gould, auctioneer, Hardy-street, Nelson.*, Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. will hold stock sales as follows: —Wednesday next, at Richmond ; Friday next, at )£prere; 12th inst., at Brightwater; also a clearing sal© at Golden Downs on the 14tli inst. The New Zealand Loan and -Mercantile Agency Coy. will hold a stock sale at Richmond yards to-morrow.