LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

—— tfh —; Chinamen, '.is ;»■ rule,■■•are, very abstemious, and when one was brought before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Hamilton Police' Court, on a charge of drunkenness, the Magistrate .remarked that it was most,' unusual. Senior-Ser-geant Cassells said the offender was prohibited, but was always drinking, and made up lor the rest of the Chinamen in the town. A returned soldier of nearly throe years’ service, who was a defendant in a judgment summons case in the Court at Mawera, stated that he was out of /work and was advised by his doctor not t'j take any hard work for twelve months. He. had not a pension because of a pre-war disability. , ®ff’he Magistrate remarked that evidently the authorities considered the man to be good enough to send away to fight, but after his service did not think he was worth a {pension, which he deserved after his ehgthy service.' He desired .to congratulate the man upon his service, and he thought the order would not have been asked for if the whole of the circumstances had been known. Counsel, who appeared for the creditor upon instructions from , a New Plymouth firm, agreed with His Worship that the order would not have been asked for had the debtor’s position been fully explainey. JNo order was made *'■ Eleven little epidemic orphans came before the juvenile Court in Auckland this week as children having .no means | of,, subsistence, There were four families concerned (says .he , Star), and the several children had been thrown suddenly on the goodwill of relatives by the breadwinners of the families, being stricken down by influenza. The relatives*,, having found the added 'burden too great, applied for relief-'to 1 the authorities, with the result that jvthese children formally came before the [Court, and after the circumstance* had I been stated in evidence, the children [ were formally committed to indqs rial ■ schools, but permitted to board out with their relative?, who thus became entitled to the State allowance for the keep of epidemic orphans. Mysterious deaths of soma draught horses have occurred la-ely at Takapuna, and so far the reason h a « not transpired. 'The Takapuna Borough Council’s horses, | which aro stabled, at niglit, have not suffered, but .three hired horses lef. in the paddock died. The Government I veterinary officer was called in, and as a result. of a post mortem sta es that he ; found traces of irritant poison. The horses appear to • have ► staggered abou'and ihen lain down to die. Analysis of the food failed to disclose any sign of poison, and as far as is, known no deleterious shrubs are growing in the paddock, i Tuesday Next, Huge Sale Starts! Birr bargains in,. Coats, and all Showroom Goods. Watch this paper , for . further liars. —Auck laind , Clothing and Drapery Go.* “Nothing succeeds like Success’’—so say the delighted . peers of “No Rubbing”, Daphdry l Help and the pure “iGblden Rule’’ feonp.-—M. P. Webster and Co.* . . You .hear on the Men’s Clothes ques : Hon, the high and increasing costs, that everybody’s suits belter than others, and again Dee & Sons come on the scene and say why their Box Suits are the best on the market because they’re the real taildrd style,, shaped shoulders, nonbreakable fronts, in 40 different sizes. Onrg have a!! the style of our Bespoke Snits. but • we’re pot: bold enough to say they're Jns‘, a c good, for one thing they are’only half, the price, .but we ; d® say they’re useful suitsi .They’re ,a real good go-between suit, aha wd are rcomroondSig them becavtse We know we have the right suit to , lit every man.—Dee and Sbns. the hig Suit and Boot Store.*

A visitor to the Hokio Beach on Sunday week discovered a ship’s dinghy aniung some Umber jugt about high--5 water mark at a point abou; midway - bo tween the Hokio and the wreck of - tho Hyderabad. The boat, which is in . a fairly good state of ■ preservation, is partly filled with sand, and bears the * name “Merry Duchess” on its starboard > bow. From it fi appearance the boat i ha*, been washed up within -he past six months, and from its beam is undoubtedly a ship’s boat. 5 At the. Sunnongdale wedding of Pri- , va e iD’Arcy Anckram, of the New Zea- , land Forces, and Miss Elizabeth Scott. £ the bridegroom and five of the soldier friends who atended had -each lost a r leg in action (says a London paper). 3 Tha Danes are said to be ready to , hand over Greenland .o Canada, on conL dition. that North Schleswig, wrested ' from them by Prussia in the sixties, be ; restored. Mi's A. Brown, who was present a’-' tho departure of Burke and Wills on i their fatal expedition to explore the in- > terior of Australia in 1861, hja s jus-' died at the age of 84 years. She was the 3 mother of 18 children, of whom only nine, survived her. * It is estimated that there were over i £OO motor cars present at the Opunake races * In an interview in London recen'ly, I Mr Havelock Wilson said in all the > seamen’s claims amounted to £10,000,- , 000. Tho Government had organised their Peace Conference, but had not made any inquiry as to the claims of ' the seamen for reparation “Now i they are talking about supplying the beaten enemy with food,” he said. “The sailors have declared, ‘lf you ex- : poet us to carry that food to the gentlemen who have wronged us, first of all let them settle our claims.’ We need uoi. worry the British.Government about it, as they are perhaps too busv, . but we can tell those representing the enemy that if they are out for a business deal we can appoint an International tfomirnlttee of seafaring men v who wilt he able to settler the claims v for -hem. but until those claim? are settled, or something is done substantially in the way of the claims being met, the people of all countries need not be surprised if the sailors say, ‘No business until accounts are squared*” An interesting photograph, of a memorial to Nurse Cavell has been receiv- ■' ed by' a Wellington resident from his sony now in Germany. ‘This memorial i was erected in Brussels .on 22nd November, eleven days after the German evacuation of the town. It i» a splendid piece of work, consisting of a massive block crowned by a figure of Nurse Cavell, and a group, showing the help given by the /Red Cross to civilians. The wording on the block is unusual in its simplicity-—“To Miss Edith Cavell, ‘Hommage a Angleterre,’ 22nd November. 191S ” “They say a great many things about the United States —some true and some not true.” said Professor Nicholls in his address at the Town Hall, says the Post. “Amongst other things they say that our ideal is the almighty dollar. If that is true, then by adopting Prohibition so rapidly, it shows that the people there think one. of the best ways to get the almighty dollar is to got rid of tho drink traffic.” (Laughter and applause.) The /speaker went on tb say that if the people of the’ United States had not other and higher ideals, their boys Would not have'been fighting with the hors from Newt Zealand on the battlefields of France and Flanders. “I want, to know what the Yanks had in their water-bottles when they jumped over the top' at Passchendale?” asked a questioner after Professor J. A. Nicholl’s address at the Wellington Town Hall, says the Post. “The American soldiers, were nob there in 1915 : they 'did hot get there till a considerable time after the date mentioned; therefore I cannot anfewer The question,” replied the lecturer amidst laughter and applause. “It does not matter what Ministry is in power,” said the Hon. A; M. Myers; “it is quite clear to me that no Ministry can possess sufficient experience to do justice to tho various problems that are presented from time to time without seeking the advice of „ experts from do,? 1 trust that- |he examples } shown by the Munitions and Supplies Department will be followed in future by whatever Ministry is called upon to sit on the Treasury Benches.” Th<y Trqntham Dominion Scholarships Art Union is nqw being vigorously pushed throughout Nfew Zealand The fact that a one shilling ticket gives the purchaser an equal chance of winning all or any of the, £6,285 worth of prizes, including the first prize valued at £IOOO, is inducing many people to invest regularly in ■small batches of tickets. .When one considers the splendid purpose of this art union—to provide. scholarships for the children of New’ Zealand’s, soldiers and , sailors—it is no wonder that the scheme is receiving such willing support. Tickets are on sale throughout New Zealand at Is each. The Commissioner of Taxe* draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that Re-urns of Hand must be furnished not later than the Bth April. Forms of return may be obtained at any postal money-order office; they will not be sen, to taxpayers from, the office of the Commissioner of , Taxes unless written application is made for them. Lessees in occupation of land owned by Natives are now required to furnish a return of land : so occupied. ’Bargains for Men on Tuesday! At the Big Sale, then we’ll sell Men’s Dark Tweed Working Suits for 30s each.— Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co. The Telegraphic Department advises that the Maori, Pateena, Rivorina, and Monowai are within wire less range of Wellington to-day. Tuesday Next! Huge Sale commences. Glorious Wide Silk Ribbons—black and all colours—l« yard. Crt 111 sharp at 9 a.m.-—' The Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.* McKay’s have just received another shipment of the famous Burberry I oats for Ladies and Gentlemen. This name stands for the highest grade of Hamproof Clothing and coat buyer* should, inspect.* ( Tuesday,’next it starts! Huge Saleh of Autumn and Winter Drapery and Clothing,; Amazing, bargains in . Slmet- I! ingfl; Flannelettes, Flannel, etc*- Rng : C bob' TTnidn Flannel is yard.—Auckland 1 Clothing and Drapery , Co ■' ■ “ The three main things that men want in their suits to-day, are Appearance, Style, and Reliability, For five years now wp- ha,ve : proved that the “Clyde” Suits contain all these itoportaut esseffi Hals, and., the largely increasing number of n Clyde” buyers assure us o! their satisfaction. Returned men. par- T ticularly, are asked- to call, at MoKav’s I (the sole agents) and‘see these Beady to A Wear ihiiti,*' C r

A rather nasty accident of an unusual nature befell Miss Josephine Taylor, daughter of Mr Joseph Taylor, the other day. While standing talking, she fainted, and in falling struck a broken chair, a jagged end of which made a nasty wound in the side of her neck. Dr. Washbourn attended the patient, and had to put eight stitches in the wound. The subject for discussion at ‘he monthly meeting of the Stoke Fruitgrowers’ Association to-morrow evening will be “Cool Storage ot Frui-.-' The paper will be read by Mr A, Rowell, of Motueka. A large attendance is expected. The .point as to whether five “reputed” quart bottles of beer represen.ed a gallon, was under discussion in the Supreme Court at Masterton. Mr Justice Chapman said '-hat for the past fifty years, to his knowledge, it had been an accepted fact that a “reputed” quart was accepted as a quar.. “This fact is as' well known as the physiological effects of the contents,” smilingly said His Honour. / Letters, stated to be duly au henticated, have passed between a British airman and. the mother of a German airman whom he killed’ in combat “There is nothing to forgive.” she wrote in her reply. “I see you coming; to me like a little boy astounded at having done ill when you meant well. I am glad your hand cared for my boy, as I would rather you hail any other touched his earthly body . . , When this war is over come to me, I am waiting for you.” Got in at 9 a-m-1 Tuesday Next, another Ribbon Riot. Beautiful Wide Silk' Ribbons—-black and all colours — Is yard.—Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.* • Mr A. Gould announces the following auction sales:—Saturday, 11 a.m., usual weekly sale at the Rooms; Thursday, 3rd inst., at 1.30, cearing sale at Rich- [ mond on account Mr Inwood; Tuesday, |Bh inst., at 1 p.m., household furniture and effects on account Mr Louis Kerr, Upper Collingwood-stret. Big Ribbon Scramble! Tuesday next at 9 a.m.—miles of Wide Silk Ribbons Auckland Clothing and Drapery Co.*