LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 29 October 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mrs John "Vile,- Sen., aged 100 who arrived at Wellington in the ship Oliver Lang in 1856, died at Pahiatu yesterday.

Father Michael Tormey, in charge of the E-llerslie Parish Church, Auckland, died suddenly in the street this morning. He had a. sudden heart seizure while walking rapidly up hill. —Press Association.

The Helping Hand Shop announces that gifts from Happy Valley, Wakapuaka, and Atawhai will be collected on Wednesday afternoon. Tahuna residents are specially requested to take notice that this week it is their turn to contribute, the cakes, etc., to be left at Mrs Bamford's. Gifts from the city for the first week of the month will be called for on Thursday morning.

In the Christchurch Magistrate's Court this week, Owen Francis Moloney, aged nineteen, was charged with majking false and misleading statements in connection with enrolment under the Military Service Senior-Sergeant Wohlmann said that accused was under military age, but the police had a right to ask him questions. Accused was a waster, with a police record against him, and had systematically attempted to gave trouble. Accused was convicted and fined ; £5, in .default" one month's imprisonment. They'll be snapped up in five minutes ! ! Ladies' White Muslin Blouses at Is each, 9 a.m. Thursday next(.—Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.* Floral Voiles at Trmthen's, double widtTis. at Is lid, 2s 6d, 2s lid. Plain coloured" Voiles at Is lid' and 2s 3d yard.* A public meeting at the School of Music to-night will inaugurate Baby Week in Nelson. Spring and Summer.'Blouses, 4s lid, 5s lid, 7s 6d, 9s 6d, 12s 6d, .16s 6d, etc.. at Trathen's, the Special House for Costumes and Blouses.* Don't be Late!! Sharp at 9 a.m. Thursday the Big Sale starts. Ladies' Black Silk Ankle Hose Is 6d pair.— Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.* Navy Blue Tobralco, also a big range in plain, floral, stripe, and spot design, Is at Trathen's.* Get in when the doors open ! ! Sharp at 9 a.m. Thursday, the scromblo starts for 45 inch Flouncing Embroideries, at Is 6d yard and 18 inch Camisole embroideries at 9d yard.— Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.* Nelson ladies delighted with "NO RUBBING" laundry Help—it lightens their work and whitens *heir clotfces. 'a packet?, every t?me.—Local grocers.

Six more soldiers at Trentham Camp, having been found guilty of disobeying the lawful cammands given by their superior officers, have been sentenced to imprison meat with hard labour for two years.

The Tourist Department here has been officially informed that the Milford Tvr.rk v. :"1 not be opened by the Department this season, and that the Government steamer on Lake Te Anau is to cease running, says a Dunedin Press message.

"The executive (says the annual report of the Land Agents and Auctioneers Association, of Wellington) has given consideration recently to the question of preventing solicitors struck off the roll of the Law society, and other unidejsirable persons,, from obtaining licenses as land agents, it being well known that a number of such have in the past obtained, licenses/ throughout the Dominion. Steps are now being taken in the direction of trying to arrange that applications for licenses be referred in futuro to the several associations foe report."

Mr E. J. Scantlebury, Coroner, of .Reefton, who is attending the Education Board meeting in Nelson, was advised to-day that Mrs Williams, wife of Mr E. 'O. Williams, of Reef ton, was found in the Mangahua River yesterday. She had been missing since Friday. Deceased leaves a family of three or four young children. Few families have such a proud record of military service to their credit as that disclosed at last sitting of the Military Service Board at Queenstown by applicant's counsel in the case of Hugh Ross, scheelite miner, Glenorchy (reports the Lake Wakatipu Mail). In the brief mention made of it, Mr Turton stated that Ross's father and mother were, respectively, 80 and 62 years of age. Their family consisted of five sons and seven daughters. Four of the former had answered the call of King and country, one having made the supreme sacrifices one having been invalided, one being in hospital in France and the other (as far as he knew) still in the trenches. Of the seven daughters, four were in the London Red Cross, two others were married, but their husbands were fighting in France, and the remaining one-was at home in Scotland looking after the "old people," to the support of whom applicant was regularly contxdbuting. The Wellington War Relief Association has received the following letter from the Capetown Anzac Committee :—'At present we have 26 New Zealanders and over 200 Australians in hospital here, whom we visit once or twice a week, and supply., with fruit, tobacco, cigarettes, toilet requisites, and Australian and New Zealand papers..- We also send to all returning New Zealandi and Australian hospitals ships which call here fruit, tobacco newspapers, etc. The newspapers are forwarded to us direct by the AusRed Cross Council. Visiting troops passing through Capetown are entertained', a stall being set aside for that purpose. The. Australian Red Cross has, given us financial aid, and several Australian friends have sent donations. If New Zealand could aid us financially we would esteem it greatly, as it is not.' possible to appeal in Capetown for purely 'Anzac' needs, there being so many South African war funds, which natural'y come first. We have two New Zealand ladies on our committee, and the treasurer, Mrs Rotherham, is from Auckland. The secretary is Mrs W. Lund, 'Afralia' F'iower Garden, Capetown."

Various theories have been formed as to the actual seat of the big fire and how it started (says the Dannevirke News of Thursday) but so far there has been no satisfactory elucidation of the mystery. One supposition is that a spark from the engine of the goods train, which comes in after the midday express, might have been blown in through an open window and lodged amongst a pile of mattresses used for emergency beds at show and race times; another is that a cigarette might have been dropped in an adjacent room by the porter who slept there, but he states that he never smoked in the room; while still another theory is that the fire might have been caused from the ground floors "A. Magisterial enquiry is to be held' shortly. ■

'Well, that's a wonderful record. I congratulate you on it. You ought to be proud of it," said Mr H, W. Bishop, S.M., when the mother oi Peter O'Loughlin, railway employee, appeared before the Second Canterbury Service Board (says the Christchurch Sun), to ask that the i;eservist be exempted. Mrs o'Lough lin's husband and three of her sons are serving at the front, and this son was the only one left at home to help to support her and five children under 13 years of age. It was mentipned that Peter O'Loughlin—who is well known in Rugby football circles in Christchurch as full back in the Marist Bros.' Old Boys' senior fifteen—had been medically classified CI.. In reply to the Chairman, Mrs O'Loughlin said that her husband was 55 years of age. The astonishment of the board at the fact that a man so far over the military age had been accpted for service, was increased, when, in answer to a question from Major Gresson, Mrs O'Loughlin said that her husband was fighting in the New Zealand Infantry. "You're entitled "to it/' said Mr Bishop, when Mrs O'loughlin said she desired that tins son should 1 be left at home to help her. The appeal was adjourned' sine die.

"There are thousands of young men here working in offices and living in boarding-houses who are compelled to pick up their friends as best they can," said Dean Carrington at Monday's proceedings, of the Christchurch Anglican Synod. "What they want is that church people should take them up and offer them the hospitality of their own homes. Athletic clubs and things of . that sort are very desirable, but they : are not all they want. It is something for them to be able to go to their swimming or rowing club meetings on Wednesday evenings, and to mix up with young men of their own. age, but what they want most of all, between the ages of 15 and 25, is the society of ladies. The greatest safeguard they can have in that dangerous period of their lives is such society, and nothing is so dangerous to them , as to be cut adrift from the society of good women. I think it is one of the great wo*ks of parishes to" look 'after these young men away from home and invite them to good churchly homes." Sharp at 9 a.m. Thursday the sale starts! ! Glorious Wide Sifk Ribbons —2 to 10 inch —blacks, plain colours and fancy effects—at 6d yard. Never again at the price.—Auckland .Clothing and Drapery Coy.* Miss (Leah" Roberts will hold her usual dressmaking classes to-morrow. Toptals Piques, the best of all, double width, in Champagne, Biscuit, Khaki Reseder, Pink, Grey, Brown, and White. Guaranteed to wash and retain colour, 3s 3d yard at Tnathen's.* It's no use being late ! ! Get in sharp at 9 a.m. Thursday for those Ladies' splendid Black Leather Handbags a.t Is 6d each.—Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.* i

The Stoke Bowers' Band: wil hold;, a sale of Work on Saturday next when;; a large gathering is expected. In ad-.-, dition to goods for sale there willrbe afternoon tea, sweet stall, bran pie,, etc. The Bishop of Nelson will open the sale.

A telegram was received by the,secretary., of the Education Board to-<*>y stating that the roof of the (Reeft'on School collapsed at 7 o'clock this morn-. ing, the bricks crashing through the roof on to the school floor. The *«il©:gram was received at the Board meeting. Mr Boyes inquired if there had been an earthquake. Mr Scantlebury said the probable cause of the collapse was wind, and that it had 'been expected for s omo time that the chimney would fall. Members of the Board were thankful that the collapse had not taken place while the children were in school. It was resolved to telegraph, to the Eeefton Committee authorising immediate repairs-.