LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 16 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j The first working-magistrate appointed to the Windsor Bench. .'Mr Edward Benstead, took his seat recently wearing a uniform of a corporal of the Army Service Corps. A blue Delf saucer, deeply incrustcd with barnacles, recently taken in a net of a fishing boat off Eyemouth, Ber- , wickshire, has been sold for £lO ss. for Ire Ilea Cross It belonged to the coasting smack "Eclipse" lost at sea , ICG .i-'-Mrs r.iso. \ Gtnman revspapprs report that in ' many U'-'-tmi ti>wr< v,omen and girls ar e stopped in lonely places and rob- \ bed of their boots j ! Mr MeAdoo. in a letter urging the i curtailment of building operations in j the United States during the war, said "building operations absorb the very | material, class of labour, and money j which the Government most urgently j requires at the present time." } The extraordinary price of £256 per ton has been paid for flax in Dundee. Th e flax was part of a consignment damaged" by water, and this is perhaps the highest figure ever paid for the I fibre. j The flowers, fruit, and vegetables j contributed by Nelsonians towards the i "Perss Baby" effort in Wellington, i were despatched by last evening's steamer. The response was so liberal that the gifts took up five tons of space measurement. , One of the remits adopted at the . meeting of the Second Division League in YVellington on Tuesday night (says j the Dominion) was that leave from ! camp should be granted to Second Division soldiers after they had been one week in uniform instead of three weeks The meeting approved this proposal, but it buried in laughter a further prot posal that the league should demand i for Second Division soldiers leave from j camp from Friday night until Monday' j morning. ■ i At the conclusion of Colonel Hunter's examination, on dentail matters before the Defence Commission on.Tuesday, (says the N.Z. Times) the chairman (Sir Robert Anderson) humorously remarked :< —"I have never heard a man discourse so delightfully on such a painful- subject." . The Acting-Postmaster-General (Hon. W. D. S. Mao Donald) has informed Mr T. A. H. Field, M.P., in connection with telephonic) aommuni cation, that further inquiries are being made into the practicability, cost considered', of a metallic circuit between Blenheim, Havelock, and Nelson.

The Wanganui Harbour Board has notified the Marine Department that the two movable white beacons showing red lights at night, situated on the north head, for guiding vessels acros the river entrance, are to be moved from the western to the eastern side of the flagstaff. A white light with a gi - een stripe will be shown from the lower end of the main, heads, wharf, C'astlecliff, and a white light with a red stripe will be shown from the lower end l of the dredge wharf.

; The record for time required for transit of the aPnama Canal was lowered •f«.T— the previous time of 5h 45min. lo : 4h 13min. on December Ist, 1917, by a '■ ship making the transit northbound and on the following day was again lowered to 4h lOmin! by a vessel going south. Last week No. 1 cable across Cook ■Strait (which stretches from Oterangi ; Bay, near Terawhiti to White's. Bay) parted. Tests have been made by Mr, E. A. Shrirnpton, telegraph en gineer in Welington, which detected the break to be only some 300 yards from the shore in Oterangi Bay, in only five fathoms of water. A suitable opportunity will be seized' to l-enair the broken cable (which chafed through on a known ridge of rocks) by means, of a sui-f boat. It is not' expected (o be a difficult job in fair weather.

1 "He may be wrong, but he has ideas. I And it is so seldom that we come across people with ideas—even bad ideas! said Sir Robert Anderson on Tuesday, defending the evidence of a witness before the Defence Expenditure Commissian, which evidence was criticised by a later witness.

i "I could, take you to a place in Wel- \ lington where there are 14 dwellings 'on about 120 feet square." saidi a • speaker at the annual meeting of the < Wellington Town-Planning Association ion Tuesday eveninc- "I doubt if they f can beat that in England. This question is very acute in our cities." j 'Fur Coats leas than wholesale price at Trathen's, in real Musquash, at £l6 10s and £23 10s; in Mole Squirrel at j £lB 10s and £25 10s. These are the ; best value Fur Coats in New Zealand.* t ' The best-value Fur Coats, in New ! Zealand may be had at Trathen's. Not i many left, and no more to come—£l6 | 10s to £25 10s.* j Get your .Surprise Packet ticket early, you may win the car or one of the bags | of flour.* j We have an offer for the whole of our Fur Coats, to go to a firm in the South; I but we prefer to sell them here. Nel- ' son ladies will not get another chance to secure a rich quality Fur Coat at. less than wholesale price.—Trathen and Co.* Two tons of flour have been made up into 251b packets for the. Surprise Packets. Get your ticket to-day.* Tickets are going like hot ' cakes. Don't leave it till they're gone. One shilling each.* v R, M. Edwards For liO RUBBING Laundry Help. !« pacitet. Best fox ovory Viprrm Cocoa, Glaxo, Tea, Typewriters, Bags of Flour. Golf Clubs! Everything you can think of is in the Surprise Packets. Get your ticket to-day.*