LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, 6 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The funeral of the late -Mr W. E. Sims took place yesterday afternoon, the burial ceremony being performed 1 by the Rev. J. A. Rogers. The pall bearers were dra-wni from) the Post Office -staff and the victory lodge of Freemasons, of which deceased was a member. The "Masonic service was read 'by R. Wor. Bro. W. Moyes.

• The bc-dy of a (Maori hOy named Tehau Nikora, about 11 y;ears, _ was found lying in- scrub in. the Opotiki river this .morning. It had apparently been in the water some days. The boy lied been', imissinig for 14 days.—Press Association.

"Where does Rua keep his money?" asked his Honour Air Justice Chapman of a voung Maori at the Supireme Court in Auckland. "The imoney he has lodged' with him," replied the witness in -his native tongue. "He knows best himselt where to put it. He doesn't fell us. He has many places where lie can safely deposit money." ■

The application of -ethicsi to law has proved: at times somewhat risky, even although it is alleged; .that the .best lawyers have been distinguished by high principles (says the Dominion). When, speakof what he regarded -as ani attempt' to°evade tho legacy duty in a. case "before the Appeal Court oni Friday, the Solicitor-General observed : "There is no reason why a person sJionld not Revise a scheme for the purpose of evading taxation. It forms one of the highest pleasures_of every legal mind," and the Court, hig(bly aim-used, ex£treissed! its amazement at such a declaration coming froa# Solicitor-General, who, seeing the double-edge of his .remarks, joined ini the laugh, adding, "My own position, of course, excepted!!"

A lady correspondent, writing from Rlieims, says:—"At the .present time Hhere rfre 20,000 people in this onc'ei prosperous city absolutely > dependent upon public and. private charity. Homeless, workles's, ruined ! What ai condition of a thrifty, laborious population; how impossible is it for you at Home to realise what German devastation' means ! PilLage. is the rule -wherever country houses are taken possession of, pilla-jre and destruction. Whatever can be carried off -is seized, what -oa-nrnot be stolen is defiled or destroyed. fear that the arch-burglar and his revellers are less 'naive than the invaders of '7l. My wiss' friends tlie winegrowers of (B-ui'gundy then took t'he precaution to - sea-l' all their 'villi ordinaire' and leave unsealed 1 their famous wines. The unsuspecting Teutons laid hands upon all the scaled- bottles, and many of t/hem having never tasted claret before 'licked 1 , their chops' over the delicious draught. But the hordes of *7O and '7l behaved 'like lambs compared to those of to-day."

The kidnapping of : King George and the Czar by -mean® jof a giant magnet in a giant aeroplane—one of the fairy tales Which, as mentioned by Bishop St-ileman at the Church House, is being circulated by Germany among: the Mioha.mirriedans —siigjgesilis a .niet-hod' by whiohj German can get possession of -a very desirable African colony wOien the war is over and her inventors have* time to develop the big magnet, a little more, says '.the Westminster. Gazette. One .brainy. Teuton' suggested', about a qua-rta-wbf.century, ago, that it would be possible to 'brinig the moon- do-w-n to the,earth; -by magnetism, _ and' if the thing were done properly it. coul'di be deposited ill the desert of the Sahara: In those regions, he explained, were, raounl- - of iron:-pyrites, one pf which- could be insulated - from (the earth- by running beneath it a platform of molten glas®. That accomplfehed, _suitaible dynamos couldi be used to magnetise the iron mountain when- the moon was making one of its near approaches' to the earth, and down in the Sahara it wouMi ooaroe. Tliere would seem to be no necessity to take the trouble to insulate a mountain for this purpose, -now that Germany has a magnet which can draw anon are hs into the air. From that to one capable of atracting -the moon to the Sahara is surely an easy step for the Kaiser s supermen. - { j

A concert and dramatic entertainment in aid! of -the sick and wounded! soldiers will- be held in the Presbyterian, Hak ; to-morrow, Friday evening.

On the 3rd July, in-st, in) the Supreme Court, ini Chambers, at Wellington, on the application of Mr C. J. Harley, his Honour, tho Chief Justice granted probate of the will of .Mary Ann Hughes, late of the city of Nelson, deceased, to Andrew Birrell Hughes, 'the sole executor named in the will.

Attention is drawn to iM-rs Anstice's. new advertisement on- sixth page of-.thisr issue.