LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 20 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Befovo Messrs W. T. Bond and T, A. H. Field, «t the Magistrate's Court yesterday, a man named H. J. Simmouds was convicted of dvunkenness and charged.

The annual sale in connection with the New Zealand Church Missionary Association will bo held in the 'Diocesan Library, Shelbourne-street, on Wednesday next.

The Secretary of Labour inserts a notice vegarding the Workers' Compensation Art 1911, of interest to employer* of labour, and acicdent companies.

The Brightwater Flower and Fruit show will "be Ik Id on Wednesday and Thursday next.

It is notified that applications for shares in the Tar.niaki Oil Wells, Ltd., close on Wednesday next.

The Nelson Poultry Association will hold a general meeting in Mercer's rooms at 8 D.m. on Wednesday.

The Nelson Citizens' Band will give a sacred concert in the Botanical Gardens to-morrow afternoon at 2.45 o'clock.

The Government offices throughout the Dominion will be closed on Tuesday, tthxl inst.. in celebration of St. George's Day and St. David's Day.

The following steamers should be within wireless range to-night, viz., Victoria, Moana Maheuo, Athenic, and Tofua.

It is notified that. lectures will be given by Miss Grant to the Sunday School teachers next week, particulars of which will be found in the advertisement.

The Rev. J. W- Webster, of the China Inland Mission, is on a visit to Nelson, He is to preach in thu congregational Church, Hardy-street in the morning, and in the Baptist Church in the evening.

The Rev. J. W. Webster, of the Chintt. Inland Mission, will lecture at Ktcnmonof Baptist Church on Monday, and in the Nelson Baptist Church on 'Tuesday evening.

In the Supremo Court in Chambers at Wellington, on the 17th inet., on the application of Mr Hayes, probate of tho will of the late Thomas Albert Humphreys Snook, of Dovedale, was granted by Mr Justice Cooper to Mrs Elizabeth Snook.' the widow of the deceased. A meeting of the Waimca Ward branch of the Beautifying Society will be held in the Hampden-strwet Sch.'yolroom on Tuesday evening. The anniversary services in connection with St. John's' Methodist Church will bo held to-morrow, when the Rev.' W. Baumber, who has been appointed to tho Nelson Church will preach morning and evening. On Wednesday following tho annual social and welcome to Rev. Mr Baumber and Mrs Baumber will bo held. A special meeting of the City Council was held last night to consider the business usually relegated to the Finances and Works Committees. There were present: The Mayor, and Councillors Hampson, Kershaw, Fell, Mercer HarLey, and Tasker. The Council went into committee, and its report on tho matters dealt with will be presented at the next ordinary meeting. H. Morgan, who is destined, to remain an invited guest of his Majesty King George at the Fremantle prison for seven years, is a unionist first, a prisoner of the Crown very much last (says tho'Sydney "Daily Telegraph.") Morgan, havin,g been a tailor in his days'of freedom, has been working in the tailoring yoom in the prison ever siiico his incarceration. Frequently he has expostulated, on tho ground that it was against his unioriiatie principles to assist in thus unfairlv cojnpetinrr with the outside people. 'This objection availed h'ihi nothing, however, so a day or two ago he decided to "go into conference," and refused to cohtimro work. He sent an intimation of his. action to the Tailors' but Apparently no notice was takon <n%it. Because, of his unionistic principles M,9'ritan was sentenced to three days' "solidary," and was ordered back to work.

A sample of how a dog -was worked, when doing a. trial at Brightwator "yesterday. We: will call tho dog "Dick"—Sit down; go, oh Dick; go on Dick; sit down, go (in Dick; sit'down; sit down.; come here <wh'istles); go on Dick (whistles), come on Dick; (whistles) hero; go on Dick (rop'eatVd three times); sit down -here ; go .611 here ; come, here ; go in here (repeated twice); como here Dick (repeated twice), (whistles; come hero Dick; goon here; como hero Dick ; go on'-here; come here Dick ; come out herej come on out hero; go on out so on and so on.

Hpp-growers appear to i. e well satis- . ficd with prices realised for this season's crop. . A Upper Mouterc 'resident informed a "Mail" representative on Thursday that out of that district alone the value of the crop was estimated "t bctwoeii £4OOO and £SOOO. Another growtr had a word to say about the controversy "" going on at present in the "Mail" in reference to the r,ecent prosecution of parents for failing to send their children to school on account of going hop-picking. If Nelson children wero not obtainable during the hop-season, remarked our informant, it would be a very serious blow to farmers, many o'f whom would be unab'.-a to obtain .sufficient country la-bolir to pick the crop. He was further of opinion that a month's holiday at hop-picking and less at Christmas time would suit very well—from a hop-growers' point of view, at any rate.

Vague and wondrous arc the ways of the sheep-dog-owners. At the competitions at Brightwatcr yesterday it was really remarkable to watch the- way in which the canines' obeyed the yells of their masters. One moment the owner would be using terms of •endearment when his animal was doing well ; tho next he would be running through tho "dog vocabulary" in a way that only a■drover is capable of. Of course, "language" had necessary to bo restricted to a certain extent; and in several instances the dogs appeared to >be at a loss to understand this enforced and unexpected politeness. Som-e of the owners laboured heavily under these restrictions, and so hard put was one of them, for'suitable expletives that he informed his dog ono moment thwt it was a "cow," the next minute, the "cow" had become a "cat"; then the "cat" was transferred into a "lady"—probably of the suiTragctto species ; and as a finale to his pent-up feelings this particular individual informed tho "lady," in a. hoarse and tremulous voice, that.it was "a flat-eyed cow." A a matter of fact the object of all these (pithets was as an intelligent a little animal as one could wish for, seemed to take tho hard words as a .matter of course, and a-l the conclusion of trial appeared to be quite happy.