LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Annesbrook Railway Crossing Death-Trap must bo ••abolished. The local bodies are conferring on the matlor. There should be no delay* Tho Railway Department is prepared to find only half the cost. Residents of town and conntrv have no option but to find the other half; It is essential that tho district, be united on one scheme. What progress have tho local bodies made? Unnecessary delay may mean another fatality. Tho road deviation deserves serious consideration. / Mr R. C. HaVos, of the staff of the, Hcolor Observatory, reports tho existence of a sun-spot of large dimensions which has just entered Ibe sun’s visible hemisphere. The spot as yet is rather foreshortened, and. should be better situated for observation purposes about the end of the week, as it' is due to pass the sen s central meridian about- Sunday next, j A 'Native woman named Aorahe, aged 70, living alone at Ruatoki, was burned to death on Tuesday night, states a Gisborne press message. It is not ified that the Nelson Motor Company, Ltd., motor engineers and importers, commence business on Tuesday next, 29th March, in premises >, lately occupied by the C°mmeroihl Garage Co., lower llarcly-st. Tho company intends dealing in motor vehicles of'all descriptions. Mr \ . Crequm- is the manager of the company, and Mr E. It. Neale secretary. After lying idle at Wellington for a week, the Wahino gob away for Lyttelton last night, a full ship.—Press Association. A service under the auspices of the Nelson Ministers’ Association will be held on Good Friday morning at 11 o’clock in the Baptist Church Bndgesi.rcet The Rev. G. IT. Gibb will he ihe preacher, and an offertory will be taken on behalf of the funds of the Association . Elsewhere in this issue it is notified Dial parades of Honor Cadets will not be held on Good Friday or on Faster Monday . One of the largest mobs ol hit bullocks that have ever passed through Nelson arrived this morning. The mob numbered 110, and they were purchased by Mr F. W. Fairey from the; wellknown herds of MesSrs F. I!. Tlealy and G. Dalton, Belarus Valley.: Tim entile are a really first-class ino, ■ being particularly well fattened, and showing great quality." | No Rubbing Laundry Help is very i popular in Nelson, owing to its ability! to wash all clothes perfectly clean without rubbing or injury to hands or■ '.fabrics —1/- carton does 7 weekly washings. Many scores of unsolicited expressions of approval were showered on us last 'week hygbandsmen and their frineds, | from both North and South. “Why, we have nothing Jiko this in our town”! They were surprised at the .extent of I (ho‘shop and its vast and con- . tents. This shop cannot be duplicated In New Zealand. That much we know. What it needs is the support of the people —the common people—that s all; nothjng more. There is n very | fine stock in for Eastertide, including stacks of Toys for the .kiddies, Travel needs. Camp outfits, and Gifts galore. “The • People’s Emporium is in Bndge-st.

A f 'll list (,ii infill grain merchant with (iv.t forty years'" experience of the l r.idi 1 in Canterbury says he has never 1-mnvu business so stagnant as at present. -No matter how depressed matters have been in tin; past at various limes something was doing. ‘oday, however, sue)) is not the ease. Merchants are not doing business speculatively, and their oners, i! any, an 1 suet) that farmers are not disposed to consider. This summing up applies j fairly goner: illy. Oats have further j wenkcued. Anv business from North| .emus to he going to Nmililaml. where j the farmers are aeeepting ) rom is lid’ to K 7d at country stations for A<>rade Canons. This low price has naturally aJFcctod operations June. Pout iocs are worth £-1 per ion at nnuilry sta 1 ious i'nr imrntMl (M - \ .and about Ids less lor the AprilMav delivery . Onions are lower, ami all classes o( seeds are in general lack of demand. Is stated in a telegram from New Plymouth recently that the grave of (,'halies Armitage tirown, a Hose friend and co-worker ol the poet Keats, had been located in New Plymoulli. The grave was found an northern slope, ol Alarsla.iKllU.il. I lie i large stone slab resting - over the grave was unearthod by .Mr M. JU j .skinner, who has been superintending' tlm search. The late Mr Brown died i in.lune, JSd'i, after «mly seven numUis' residence in Now Plymouth. M olls, writing over 10 years ago in Ins history, says; —“A large -slab of stone was placed over his grave, but when Alarsiand Hill was escarped and fortified during the .Maori War (jit 1655 to bo precise; this memorial was co'crecT with earth and only a few old settlers can now point out the exact spot where he was buried.” Attempts have been made on dillerent occasions to (ind the grave, but without access. The Mayor of New Plymouth, Axi !'. K. Wilson, interested himselt m the search, having been approaoa >d from Auckland to see if something could not be done to locate the grave. The services of Air Williams, an expert in the use of test boring iipparatm?, wore secured, and after many I:Mures he succeeded in locating what was evidently a stone of considerable sine. Further investigations with the spade revealed the long-lost tomb. At the School of Music to-morrow, at 8.15 p.m., My,, H. S. Claughton will give an organ recital upon the Cawthron organ. The organ items are to b© found in the advertisement columns. Air. K. S. Farmer wall sing “Thou art the King,” from “Crucifixion,” and “Thou did’st not leave Thy Soul,” from Handel’s “Messiah,” wilh organ accompaniment. At Palmerston North, James Aiiur, taxi driver, was arrested to-day, charged with having committed manslaughter in causing tho death of Maurice Hickey on February B. Ho was remanded till March 31.—Press Association. Mr. James Ramsay, aged 64. a wellknown resident of South Dunedin, died : suddenly last evening, states, a Press Association message. A. Dunedin Press Association ■ > .tolor gram states that Mr. G., B. Neale, a retired railway servant, died suddenly on the Otago bowling green. He was for many years conne.cted with the traffic branch at Dunedin, and had ad ml as stalionmaster. ~*A"young man named John Alatbiesou, who as far back as December, 1018, had broken and entered Hie dwelling of Rupert Reflow, at Taw a Flat ,und had stolen a rifle valued at tI.S ond other articles of a total value of £0 10s, was recently arrested at Auckland after evading the police. Alarhieson was brought hetore Air H. AY. Bundle, S,M., on charges of breaking and entering and theft of the I articles mentioned. Tie admitted the charge, and stated that, being slioi't of money, he had set out on a long walk to is place in the North stand. He ! culled at the house in Taw a. Flat in’ | searcii of food, and then took the-rifle I and tlto other articles. Aiathicson j was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence. At All Saints’ Church;, Yanguardsr.reet, there will ho special services of remembraiu‘o on Good Friday. In tho ('veiling this will take the form of a service of mediation on “The seven words from the Cross.” A total of 25 Hindus arrived at Auckland by the Navua from Suva on Aionday. They include a number who applied for admission > into tho Dominion prior to the coming into operas Hon of the Alien Immigration Restriction Act. They have yet to undergo the education test. , ft is expected that His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, will officially open the Cawthron Institute at a meeting to be held in the School of Music on Saturday evening, April 2nd. University candidates are specially in- | wited, and arc requested to wear I academic dress. In ,yiew of the pro- ' bability of a very largo attendance, graduates ar© requested tb apply to the secretary. Win. Rout and Sons, on or 1 before April Ist, in order that seats may ho, reserved. It is interesting to note that there are upwards of fifty Univerj sity graduates in the city. j A prohibition otrder, bn, .the wife’s ! application, was made .against a mar- ' vied man by Air. X S._ Evans, S.M., (this morning. , :