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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 February 1913, Page 6

His Lordship the Bishop of Nelson left for the West Coast by the Mapourika this morning. il? „ s A step which may be taken to be ominously near the -extreme has lately been taken in respect to a number of vouths in the Southland military district who have failed to fulfil their obligation to render personal service in terms of the Defence Act (says the "Southland Times' ). From time to time numbers of voung fellows have been arrainged and" asked to show cause why they should not be fined for their failure to render service, and some of them have escaped any penalty. But the numbers of the latter have been comparatively few, and' these who did not find a convincing excuse were fined. Even when fined those who were determined to shirk their obligation required further attention in order to bring them to book. Having neglected to pay their fines a considerable number of them ha\e been served with summonses to attend ■ compulsory detention drills, and should they be so foolish as to endeavour to evade the clear terms of this last summons, it is considered not at all unlikelv that they will be seen attending the drill-hall under police escort.. At a recent meeting of the .Council of the Christchurch Society of complimentary references were made to the work, of the late Mr Charles Kidson, formerly of Nelson. Mr Jamieson stated that'to perpetuate the memory of Mr Stevens, who had done so much for the society, he liad -obtained a. donor with- a view to having a portrait painted to hang in the Gallery. Ihis suggestion, however, did not meet wiTh appi'oval, and as* there was in the society that- cleve r sculptor, the late Mr Kidson,, the work of making a marble bust was entrusted to him. After making a planter bust, Mr Kidson died before he had time to reproduce it in marble, and the work of completion was left until a suitable opportunity •offered to send it to England. Mr Jamieson took the cast to London some few months tgo, and succeeded in p'acino- the execution of the work in the hands of the eminent- sculptor, Mr A C. Luchesi. Mr William Reece said that the society was fortunate in having presented to it such a fine example of the work of the late Mr Kidson, immortalised by its reproduction in marble, by a London sculptor. The bust- was an.-ex-cellent portrait of their old friend and enthusiastic fellow-worker. "Papa" Kolin, of Lucerne, is what would be called in England a sportsman (says the "Evening fetundax*{l ). 85, and he Jias just made a flight in an aeroplane. Before doing so, and firmly convinced that he would never return alive, he made his will, bade his friend® adieu, and bought them farewell drinks, Then he sought the aviator Ingold, who is 'now taking passengers on his. flights to Lucerne, at a fixed tariff. Eor ten glorious minutes Papa Kolin saw from a height of 600 ft entirely new aspects of histoid Pilatus, Rigi, and. the lakes, and then returned, to his surprise, safe to Lucerne. * "This," he 6aid, with emotion, to the friends who clnrterfed round him, "is life's Inst sensation" ; and over his hock at his favourite cafe he repeated a<*ain and again :"1 huv<? indeed lived." Seme four years ago the Nippon Y usen Kaisha Company of Japan obtained full information as to the prospects of extending the steamship line from Sydney —its first and final port in Australia —to New Zealand. An itinerary and timetable were actually drawn tip, in which both Auckland and Wellington were to be called at. The introduction into -the Yokohama-Hongkong and Sydney service of larger steamers has, no doubt, revived the latest rumour that at. last the N.Y.K, was about to enter the New Zealand trade. The Wellington Chamber of Commerce, through the secretary (Mr Hickey), got into touch with the Japanese company's repiesentatives in Australia, Messrs Burns, Philp and Co., pointing out the growing trade (at present all by transhipment) bet-ween Sew Zealand and Japan; and also the admirable facilities of the port for expeditious and economical handling ef cargoes arid ships ; the 6afe navigation : and other advantages. The Chamber has now been informed, says the "Post,'-' that there is at present no inof the N.Y.K. to extend its Australian line to New Zealand. The company is placing larger steamers in the Australian trade as at present both passengers and cargo are being shut out there; but beyond this nothing has been decided so far. The N.Y.K. had been written to showinT what openings there were In New Zealand for the extension of its surface from Australia, and should at any future time information be received that there was a likelihood of the company so extending to New Zealand th<=n the information furnished by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce would have consideration.