LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 6 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The following steamers will be within wireless range to-night:—At Wellington : Atua, Moana, Moeraki, Navua, Tahiti, Victoria. The summer show of the Nelson Horticultural Society will be heid on Wednesday and Thursday next. Entries close on Monday—at Hounsell and Co. s up to 6 B' m 'J a,Ki at S - F - Bolton's from / to 9 pimi Oiwing !tb lthe wet weather the scholars of the baptist Sunday School are notified that the musical evening at the Hospital is postponed. Wellington-Naples despatches of the 20th and 27th September arrived ia .London on 3rd November. As the outcome of the recent strike of the Bluff Territorials, the Defence authorities took action, and prosecuted defaulters. Five Territorials appeared at Court at the Bluff yesterday. Two were fined £3, and two others £4, while the fifth was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. TMe Department intends to prosecute other- Southland Territorials who have defaulted. The work of cleaning out the weir will occupy about another fortnight, and until it is completed the city will continue to be supplied from the lower dam. The inco'nvenieitce to which residents on the higher levels have lately been subjected will therefore have to be put up with for a further period ; and. the many householders whose supply is curtailed will be very glad when the weir is again in commission. "It must be a good country where a tradesman is found to trust labourers to the extent of £3O for ia luxury. I have never been able to afford a watch of that value and iprice," was a remark passed by his Honour Mr. Justice Chapman,at the Supreme Court to-day, in' giving judgment, in a. case claiming £SOO damages for alleged 'wrongful arrest and imprisonment, arising out of the sale of a watch valued at £3O. Last evening, at Gisborne, a single man named Jas. Burston (37), a surveyor's assistant, was thrown from, his horse, which bolted owing to the report I of fireworks. Burston died this morning.—Press wire. ' Seven seamen from the Rakaia, who absented themselves from the vessel without leave, .were at Wellington to-day each fined two days' pay, and ordered to .pay 8s costs, or to go to gaol«for fortyeight hours, and be placed on the steamer before" she sails. The men say they left, because there was a "scab" on board.—Press wire. In the Supreme Court ait Wellington on the 29th ul.t. in chamlbers, before his Honour the 'Chief Justice, oil the motion of Mr. Maginnity, probate of the will of the late George Page was granted to George Lloyd Page, Harry John Page, and Leohaird Page, the executors named in -the will. Mr. T., R. Hodder, president. of the; Manawatu Agricultural and. Pastoral Association, was presented with an: inscribed fountain pen Dy the united pressmen at the Manawatu A. and P. Show, as. a token of their appreciation of his consideration for the heeds of the press tu reporting the show. ...' There were 25 signatories to the list; Mr, Hodder replied with .grateful acknowledgement of the service of the press in advancing the work of the A. and P. Association. The German torpedo-boat G. 171 ran I under the bows of the battleship Zahringen on 14th September, in the course •of manoeuvres south-west of Heligoland, and was cut in two. Six men were a seventh died soon after being picked up from the water. The torpedo-boat sank at a , spot where . the water is I 6£ fathoms deep, and .will, it is expected, be raised. The vessel was launched in 1909, and belongs to .the.: second torpedo-flotilla. She has reached, a speed of 34.6 knots. The Portuguese "Official Gazette" lias published a. Ministerial decree authorising the Government to construct a railway,, starting from one of the, bays on the coast of Mozambique, East Afrcia, to the frontier" between Mozambique and , British Nyasaland. The line will have; I to pass close to the Namuli mountains. In all probability the Government will" make arrangements with a British firm of contractors for building the, line. Messrs Hurley'and Mihier report havinrr, effected the" sale of Mr. E. Gibbard's, slicip property in Bridge-street, to Mr.' H. Barlltrop, at a. satisfactory figure. If the rabbit really knew his own value he would puff to the size of an ox • (writes a Dunedin paper). For a few choice doeskins the record pricV of 5s per lb was realised at atiction in {Dunedin.;. These skins run between five and six to the pound, : in weight. It is not to be supposed that this price repre r sents values in a full market. The explanation is that there was a little' enthusiasm "about a few odd lots at th«, close of the season. London prices'just at present do not. we are told, justify such a figure. Still, there is the fact,; and the 5s 6£d stands as a record. Another'related record may be published at •the same time. A local firm'recently offered 100 opossum skins, and one line of 30 odd selected black skins brought 9s lOd each. So the opossum and the rabbit may be setting up a mutual admiration society. Official news definitely states that the Union Company's training ship Dartford is to bscoir.e a. hulk. Her owners nave decided that this; trip shall be her last. The sailer is at present loading at Newcastle, and on arrival at Wellington ■ "sne will be dismantled and transformed from a stately sailing clipper into a prosaic 'but eminently useful coal hulk. The work of dismantling the vessel will be carried out by her crew of lads now training for a seafaring life "before the mast, and that work will probably keep than- fully occupied uhtil the 'end of 'the year, by which, time the Union Company will have arrangements completed to enable the young seamen to continvie their training course on one or more of the Red Funnel liners. The Dartford is an iron ship of 1327 tons, and was .built at- Sunderland in 1877 by Messrs IMounsey and Foster, her dirrensions being: Length 221 ft., beam 36ft., depth of hold 21ft. 9iu. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and Reduced, and Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will hold a stock sale at'Ng'atimoti on Tuesday, 12th inst. Messrs Bisley Bros, and Co. will hold a stock sale at Richmond" Yards on Wednesday, 13th inst., at 2 o'clock. On Saturday, 16th inst., they will sell by public auction, at noon, city property in St. Vincent-street, in the estate of the late Swain Thaman; and at Richmond, on the 21st inst-, on the Nelson A. and P. show grounds, will hold their annual sale of prize and pedigree stock. We know Warner's Rust-proof Corsets to be thoroughly reliable as regards shape, comfort, and service—in fact, we are prepared to guarantee every pair not to rust, break, or tear. Lo'cal drapers.* ; Warner's Rust-proof Corsets, . RosTyn ' Unshrinkable Underwear ,~> and Hoyle's * Prints in strong demand.* '] Your local draper stocks the Roslyn ■ Writing Pads at 6d and Is each. .Re- I value. Try one.* > ■

The Government steamer Hinemoa is At present visiting Jackson Heaci and the iirothevs ligttithuuse. At All Saints' Church, . Palmersto'n., last Sunday, about £1001) was promised, tow-ards the cost of the new church. This brings the amount actually received and promised up to £SIOO. It is anticipated that the church will be completed and consecrated by February, 1914. . Mr J. T. C'ritchell, the author of "The> History of Frozen Meat," left Lomdom by the Otranto on Septen:.ber 27th for Australia and New Zealand. He intends touring the Dominion for'the purpose of obtaining infornuation inspecting its commercial economy, etc., The practice of renting pews, ' wllicbt is in vogue in many Aucidand churches, was responsible for an incident in St.. Matthew's Church last Sunday, says the "Herald," a woman demanding in a very atwiible voice that a visitor should give up her. seat, as it was "rented by her husband, and her husband was coming to church to-day." After some very unorthodox behaviour : in the church, the offending visitor left the seat into which she had been shown by the verger, and took up a position in.a seat bearing a placard informing all and sundry that it was "free." Before leaving for Auckland Mr 5. A. Ogilvie was the recipient of presentations from the members of the Nelson Tennis Club and Nelson Hockey. Club, to both of which he acted as hori. secrej tary. In making the presentations Mr Geo. Ho by referred to Mr Ogilvie as an ideal secretary, a remark which was borne out by other speakers. .The presentations consisted of a travelling rug from the tennis club, and a framed photograph of the champion team from .the' hockey club. The Wellington, Chamber of Commerce has expressed approval of the Government's light line railway policy by endorsing a'resolution'sent forward by the* Hastings chamber for approval. The resolution represented to the Government the impossibility of Dominion construction of all railways required for tho I .development of New Zealand present time. It urged the .Government to adopt a light line construction policy, or else to offer facilities for local, bodies or private enterprise to do the work. . A pool on the farm", of Mrs Ellis, Brookihouse, Winsford, -Cheshire, was the scene of a remarkable conflict ■ be-. tween a swan and a valuable Shire horse balongin-: to_ Mrs .Ellis, terminating in the horse being drowned. For somemonths a couple of. swans, with seven cygnets, had made their. Jiome on .tlie pool, and when the horse went to drink it appears the female bird made asa-; . sage attack tipon it. The horse's forelegs became embedded in the mud, aridhe was unable to move, the bird ■ mean? while haying flown on ins neck: The violent flapping of the swan's enormous wings- gradually stunned the animal, and he. fell in the water and was ■ drowned) Only two or three days previously the same swan attacked two cows,-severely injuring them. ■ . , '■'"r.v.' ' .-.'.■■ :■' Reports to hand from Auckland,the "Dominion," state .'that t/here is promise of an exceptionally heavy'crop of strawberries there this ; season. In al.niosit every garden the 'plants'are stnted to bs looking strong and vigorous, .and showing every indication of fruiting \yelt. The-area under cultiviatio-ii this year 1? n<6aV.large as that of last year, la#t seasdri being, a ipar.'tieularly (bad one, arid consequently many growers gave tip 'the cultivation of strawberries and went frj for something else. This, however, is not expected to affect the supply, as there is every indication that 'the plants will 'bear mor-a plentifully, and compensate for the decreased ai'oa under cultivation. A Dunedin bookseller says' (reports the\ "'Star") thait the life of most modern novels .is not longer,, than three months. The (making of books these days. is. .so rapid and so extensive thai a dercari'd for even a great 'book is not perini'M.ed to .become, established.. As. s:oon ( as:a ricve lis well spoken of-anbther, usually ifrom Aimerioa, comes upon Jthe horizon of readers with al lthe brightness of the daiwm. o' f a sinnimer's day, for there is now .an art in iboonring. as well as in tho wriiiiing of .books. . .It is .pleasant' to knew that while lthe majority of peo—ipla deal in books somewuat in the manner nwiaiy persons in- for bargains at dra.pers' carnivals and the- like, there is a large .section of the 'pnlblic who wisely woo the -classics; ""It is well to take notice of tho position' of those, gentlemen who did riot part with their trams," remarked the : » Mayor of Auckland (Mr C. J. Parr), whenl discussing the .city's position ,in regard to the tramway service during the course of an address upon the Greater Auckland sclieme. . "Wellingtou said it was not going to be foolish like Auckland and part with its trams, and what was the result? They lost money, and •had to raise all their fares. : Christchurch and Dunedin have done slightly better, but\the fact remains that Auckland has done v/ell by not owning it's trams. Ido not say that I .advocate private ownership of these services, but jsimply wish to", point .out tlie fact that those people carrying on their o\vn trams do not sleep upon beds of rosesl" J.'Men," said Mr Jameson, the New Zealand organising secretary, to' the Y.M.C.A., annual meeting, says the I "Press," "you belong to a great association—an association to be proud of. The I'.M.C.A. is judged by the manliness, enthusiasin, and courage of everyrone of its members." He interestingly described the recent campaign in Aucktest of the strength of the. teams there did not come from the men who secured hundreds of pounds, it came in such an instance as that where young man battled all the afternoon and evening, and came in at 10 o'clock with one shilling as the result of his work-^— and yet was undismayed." In.the little country towns, as well as in citiesj the : Young Men's Christian Association had a great mission among the young men. The whole movement had magnificent possibilities. (Applause).