LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 June 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Judgment by default was given in the following undefended civil cases at the Magistrate’s Court to-dav, Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., being on the Bench: O. ,M. Ward v. \Y. A.'Jessop, claim £9, costs £l/13/6; Dalgetv and Co., Ltdr. costs £l/13/6; Dalgetv and Co., Ltd. v. R. T. Green, £3/15/-, costs £l/16/6; A. E. Brough v. A. Jensen £44/6/-, costs £3/1/6; J. H. Cliing v. R. Martin, £3/19/1, costs £l/8/6. A number of other cases called on were either adjourned, confessed or struck out.

A man who had imbibed too freely o, intoxicants on Saturday evening, caused a little mild excitement at the Fort on Saturday evening by walking over the wharf. On being rescued -lie was taken into custody on a charge of drunkenness and appeared before Mr T. E. M a tin sell, S.M., at the Court this forenoon. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and being a first offender, was convicted and discharged, the Magistrate advising him that if ho took further drops into the sea, to be m a. iifferent ,cou<Jition from what he was on Saturday.

The Invercargill-Dunedin .express the ether morning ran into and killed three horses near the Edendale station. The accident caused a delay of five minutes, but no damage was done to the engine. The passengers did not feel a bump of any sort.

The red cap railway porters are proving a great success at stations where they have taken up duty. The experiment is being extended and (wo of these porters are to be located at Palmerston North. They will take up duty in .he course of a few days.

Contributions to the total of £l3/6/6 towards the Motueka Hospital Comfort Fund have been, received per .Messrs Canton, -Menrs and Hyland ; and the Matron of the Cottage Hospital very sincerely thanks all subscribers.

A daring and despicable theft took place on the. Okoia road recently. One of the local farmers heard a shot, early in the evening, and hastening out to investigate found two of his turkeys missing and) a motor-car disappearing in the distance. The settler, with ready resource, rang up his neighbour to keep a watch and take the miscreants’ number, but they had taken the precaution to cover the number plate. The regulation making it an offence for motorists to fail to produce their driving licenses to a constable when called on was discussed at the annual meeting of the Franklin branch of the. Auckland Automobile Association. A member wrote that the regulation constituted a hardship, especially to a motor mechanic or garage employee, who might be driving four or five different cars in a day and forget to take his license with him each time. Mr W. A. Giles said in England a motorist was not liable to prosecution if he produced his license within 24 hours at the police station in the area in which he had been accosted. It was resolved to ask the association to press for (lie amendment of (lie law in this direction.

\ The Buffer County Council has ‘tterk rates similar to those of last year, in the £, unimproved value.

On the grounds that the present statistical forms to be filled in by factories are too involved and exacting, a Dunedin firm wrote to the Manufacturers’ Association asking that body to make some move in the mat ter,' suggesting that- the forms should have to be filled in only once in five years, says the Otago Daily Times. The letter was discussed bv the Association. The chairman (Mr I*. Somerville) said nothing could be done, as these forms had been sent out as a result of agitation on the part of the association. Mr W. E. C. Reid said he had filled in dozens of these ’forms for firms with little bother. He added that some of the figures published from the entries in these forms were absolute, "bunkum.”

Two recent visitors to Ashburton were spending the evening at a friend’s house, when their host, with a knowing look', mysteriously invited them outside. They were quite aware that they were in the heart of a. ‘‘dry” district, but nevertheless their curiosity was aroused, and they expectantly followed their host down the hack garden path in the direction of a shed dimly outlined in rhe night gloom. They did not reach it. however. The man of the house suddenly switched the light of :m electric torch on to the garden, revealing a chrysanthemum bloom of remarkably large dimensions. “Did you ever see anything to equal tlnil?” he asked. The friends agreed that they had not, and after being told the history of tin l plant they returned to the warmth of the sitting room fire.

The old bucket dredge, Hrskine. which for nearly 40 years did useful work at-Westpo-rt. and was recently dismantled, was towed out to sea and sunk about ten miles off the Steeples, The Erskine and two hoppers were purchased from the Lyttelton Harbour Hoard about the year 1887, the purchase price being in the vicinity of £IB,OOO.

Emms’ Motors are advertising a revised service for the coming season. Their uid-day car and also weekly lorry service will prove a great benefit both to the local residents and tourists, giving as it does a surer means of transport between these place;!.*

Something like> a-mushroom in shape one of the most deadly poisonous species of fungi was picked at Henderson the other day. The fungus lias been identified by Mr. G. 11. Cunningham, mycolog-r-jt of the Department of Agriculture, as an aminila muscarina. It is not a native of the Dominion and was probably introduced from Europe, in some imported seeds. In colour the arnintn is bright red with yellow spots and glows up to four inches across the head. The specimen was forwarded to VJr. Gilbert Archey, curator of the Auckland Museum, who sent it on to Mr. Cunningham.

It is good news to learn (says the Lyttelton 'timesj that, the Tourist Department has at last definitely moved to wards the erection of a commodious and up-to-date hotel at Milford Sound. Scores of Canterbury motorists went through by ear to Lake To Anau last year by way of Dunedin, Gore and Luinsden, and .then completed the famous Milford trip by means of boat and foot. All enjoyed themselves thoroughly, hut it is safe to say that good impressions would have been enhanced had there been roomier accommodation on the Sound itself. The Sandfly Huts are hnspitabily arid ably managed, but after all they are onlv lints. What the train per needs then is a hot hath and an easy chair.

The truth of the following storv is guaranteed by the citizen who told it (says a writer in tlie Sydney Telegraph). Two cab drivers who remained on a city rank early on the morning of the 9th inst. in tlie hope of picking up a stray fare, decided, about half-past four, when the fog was at its worst, that they were wasting their time. One suggested they should have a drink before they drove home. They repaired to a lane nearby, where a bottle, which did not contain water, wits produced. Thcv drank. Feeling much better, they cam.? to the conclusion that it was no good doing tilings by halves,,and remained until the bottle-, was empty. Rather foggy themselves, they walked back to their cabs, climbed into their seats, and drove off. Later in the morning one of tiie drivers got up to feed liis horse, which lie had put in the stable. To his dismay lie found that his faithfql black steed had changed its colour to light bay. Slowly realisation dawned on him. He had driven home the wrong cab.

A terrific crash attended the destruction of two large plate-glass -windows in a New Plymouth garage the other day. A practically new ear driveif by a woman careered across the footpath and .finished up with its.yvheels through the windows. The windows, which were fully insured, were soon replaced.

e* The wonder of wireless was pleasantly demonstrated to a Dunedin. family on Wednesday. A friend who owns a good apparatus rang up to say that lie happened to'lie in touch witli an American city in which their daughter is spending a holiday, and asked whether they would like a message conveyed. The offer was gladly accepted, and, although the daughter was in hod when the me? sage reached her, the family in Dunedin received an answer in exactly an hour from the time they were apprised of the possibility of direct, communication.

If things were said and done in New Zealand as they are in Sydney those responsible would get six months’ without the option, said a recent visitor to Australia, in conversation with a North Otago Times representative. Uterances, which conlil only he described as “highly seditious," were allowed to pass unnoticed, he continued, and on remarking on this to a friend of mine who is.a civic authority .lie refilled that no harm was done,' tliat the fiery speeches acted as safety valves to those people and when no one took up the challenges always thrown down they automatically lapsed for want of opposition.

A Customes charge made this month upon' a Dunedin firm seems to be in direct conflict with popular views about extending the industrial trade of the Empire, says the Evening Star. From time to time there arrive in New Zealand certain motor ears of which separate parts, essential to the total, are of British manufacture, hut because they are sent across to Belgium to be shipped with the complete article, they are not only subject to the foreign rate of 25 per cent, duty on those particular goods, as against 10 per cent, on the British rate, but the importer also has to pay duty on the cost of taking those parts from England to the Continent. One would imagine that a British dominion would give' preferential treatment to British-made goods from whatever part of the world they are shipped. Surely it is to the advantage of the Empire to have some motors made in England instead of the whole outfit of those cars being made 1 " tlie foreigner. The appoi tionmont of a sum of about £24 held by the Hamilton Supreme Court is exercising the mind of the Hamilton Crown solicitor. During the war a man offered three pens of cattle for sale at a Waikato kaleyard. lie had enlisted for active service, and the auctioneer,' fired by patriotic fervour, extended himself in his efforts to secure a good price for the stock. He eventually secured a good £2 per head above the ruling price for tii'e. storlct-. lt was afterwards discovered-‘-that i the cattle were stolen, and the vendor was arrested and sent to prison for five years. The. sum of £24 was found in his possession, and is still held by the Court. It will probably be paid into the Treasury. Ladies’ Art Silk Jumpers heavily reduced, 25s to 635, now 7a 6d to 19a 6d, at McKay’s Sale.* In the days of Auld Lang Syne a N.Z. grown tobacco made its appearance on the market, but failed to get a hold on the smoking public. The leaf was alright. hut there was something deficient in the curing, and the industry languished and fizzled out. A much more recent attempt to solve the problem resulted in the production of the National Tobacco Co.’s brands, now firmly established in the favour of the. smokers. The secret of this success is said to he due to the new toasting process which has resulted in a most remarkable improvement in the smoking quality. The difference between the toasted and the non-tonsted pnxluet is as wide as a cooked potato differs in taste from a raw potato. Any smoker can easily convince himself by trying just a lew pipes of any of the following biands: Riverhead Cold, very mild, Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium ftreiigth, and Cut Plug No. 20 for those wiio prefers a full body.* Another Fur Coat Bargain One only Beaver Coney, originally 33 guineas, now £l6. at McKav's Sale.”*

Attention is drawn to the annual meeting of the Richmond Plnnket .Society to be held in the Y.M.C.A. to morrow at 2.30.

See Window display of Ladies’ Velour Coats in all shades. All new goods and latest, styles, originally 5 to 7 guineas now 755, at McKay’s Sale.*

'file annual meeting of the Nelson Horticultural Society will he held at the Institute on Wednesday evening next at 7.30.

Ladies’ All Woof Woven Vests, W. and 0.5., orignally 17s 6d and 13s (xl, now 8s lid, at. McKay’s Sale.*

Evidence of tire abundance of bird life in Nelson was well illustrated yesterday, when a resident, seated on the veranda of his house, counted nine varieties. ihey were the sparrow, chaffinch, goldfinch bush canary, starling, kingfisher, blackbird, seagull, and shag.

Mr. IT. E. Burnett, Spring Grove, has .landed a Suffolk rnir. lamb, bred by the Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. The Suffolk ram is a great size for fat lambs, and Mr Burnett should be well repaid for his enterprise, as the Suffolk cross lambs mature quickly and kill out very heavy. The ram Mr Burnett lias purchased is a very good specimen and his progeny should be of great interest to the local butchers, as it is stated to be the only Suffolk jam 'ri the Nelson district, at present.

“1 don’t suppose jazz music lias found its way into the schools,” said a Dunedin Star reporter in the course of mi interview with Mr K. Douglas Tayler. Director of Music of tile Education Department. "T don’t know so much," was the reply. “1 have come across some very poor stulf being taught to Dip children.” Mr Taylor contrasted with this mistake the patient and ad mirahle work of some of the teachers, who had gone to great pains when the occasion offered, in copying by hand fragments of good music such as would appeal to the children. A special attraction at the Old Time dance to be held in the Velma tomorrow evening will be the Luck fc»pot Waltz-

Contributions towards the Motueka 'Hospital Comfort Fund, to the total of £l3 6s 6d, have been received per Messrs Canton, Mears, and Hyland; and the Matron very sincerely thanks all subscribers.

A good Fur Coat cheap ! One only Squirrel'Coney Coat, originally 55 guineas, now £lB, at McKay's Sale.* See Window of Ladies’ Costumes, good shades, originally 7 to 9 guineas, now all 425, at McKavs’ Sale.*