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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 18 March 1913, Page 5

A Japanese newspaper leavivs from private authoritative sources that **?}■*& the coronation the Emperor .will visit,. Europe in fulfilment of a. wish. He will make use of a. warshii?.,.... Property-owners in San Francisco havestarted a crusade for the removal of restrictions on gambling. .Owing to the. stringency with, ■which, anti-gambUng. re? gulations have 'been.put into. city, during the past two years.gambU\ngV {and lottery houses "havd abandone<l<tnei,r, ?iuarters and moved to Oakland,, a Bp#t„ amous •■. for its race meetings. Over •£IOO,OOO a year in rents has.-beipi lost-to -property-owners owing to' this * exodus. Many palatial buildings are-standing empty, and cknnqt be'satisfiictorilyjlet because it, is fquod that rtiercliants-Jand jhysiiie'ss r(ieh will ■only r p^^*r'gl'rts I - i 'lent''ip'pn'e-fi'f th of the ling-House proprietors' can wsll'elffbx'd'- to pay. The owners see Oakland developing into, a flourishing town, with prosperous businesses and-street improvements that put those of 'Sari Francisco in the shaded Ail this theh discontented ones' say is due to the gamb'lers. . '''Oakland gets street improvements easily," said, a San Francisco merchah't. "Once a month. ' the police raid' the gambling houses, and each man arrested is bales out for £2. They never show tip again; and the money, is forfeited", to the city treasury. The city gets a tremendous amount, in this way, and a la're part of it goes in street improvements/,whenever the. city needs'more; the' police can raid the gambling- hflppes .once a week. ' '...'' "" .!■ '"**. •' '

Travelling and listening to political acssip (says a contributor to tho "Nation,") it was pheasant to mo to hear of the. good terms on which ppor KidcrleiiWachter and M. Cairbon (French Ambassador in . Berlin). parted after their great duel on . Morocco. The 'German sent the Frenchman his photograph.with the inscription, "A men cher Ami Vet' tcrribte Advemaire."" The Frcnchmait sent his own picture back, inscribed, "A iron terrible Ami etcher Adve-rsairc."

For some 12 months tho Elthair County ,Council has been experimenting hi tho various methods of road-making and. during the past three months different methods of tar treatment have lice'n iric4. The members of the Comity : Council visited the roads recently with a view; to arriving at' a decision as to the adviseabkne.ss of continuing.and extending'the work of tar-spraying," reports the sUham correspondent of the Ha worn. The length . from tho town, boundary;'on tho Elthani road to the Duthio road has already been treated .with"one coat of tar. and sarid, anid portions of ine distance with two coats, and from the Palmer road to the Kapouga town boundary one coat has also been given to' tlw entire" length of the Manaia, road within tho Eltham county. There was no diversity of opinion among the councillors as ;to. ,■':. tho utility and general .benefits of tarspraying. A different method of tar : J spraying has been adopted on the H,unter ,r road, Aitken's in situ method, or tar macadam, the result being to all intents,, and purposes a, tar macadam road; equal ' to the hand method at a small' prbp6i , - uon, of the cost. So far tho councillors ■■ *?•<? of opinion that the half-mile. on. tho ' Hunter already completed is .'H\vi last, word: in road making." This portion of ;tbo. Hunter road, which is apparently a Oor.ma.nont job, is estimated by the'en-ameer-to cost not more than 'about £2 10s per chain more tUtn the balance of tn« road not so treated.