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North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13666, 7 September 1916, Page 2

The Chief; Postmaster advises that the mails which left New Zealand on the 20th July arrived in Loudon ou the night of the 3rd inst.

The following is the draw for the North Otago Ladies' Golf Club compe-

tilion on Friday: Miss M. lliswat v. Mrs Humphries, Miss Banks v. Mrs Stubbs, Mrs Darling v. Miss Robinson, Mrs Mowbray v. Miss "Whittbn, Miss Hewat v. Miss Martin, Miss Nicolls v. Miss Darling, Miss Fraser a bye.

Anticipating that a reference to Roman • "Catholicism in his speech on Tuesday night might give pain, the Rev. ,T, J. North desires us to say that it was embedded iii a drastic account of Protestant tendency and was used to show that there was a general human tendency to substitute externals and ceremonials for the searching demands which religion makes on the conduct of public and private life. '

Mr J. 8.-Bartholomew,. S.M., presided over a sitting of .the Magistrate's Court yesterday" morning? when judgment by default was given in the following cases: E. A. Muuro v. C. AV. 11. Static, fqr the amount claimed, £4O, with Court costs £2 17s; Ireland and Co.'v.'R. Sullivan, for £27. 7s Id, witli Court costs'£l 3s; and E; Brown and Co'; v, 'M. teller, for £8 ios' lOd, with Court costs Bs.

Mrs C, Pavers, Tweed street, has received word, through the Australian Defence authorities, that her grandsonson, Private C. W. Eivers, was wounded in France. Private Eivers was born in Oaniaru and attended the South School. For several years he was employed at the local Post Office, and subsequently went to Sydney. He enlisted in the first Australian forces, and was a member of the force that went to New Guinea. Latterly lie went through the Gallipoli campaign and then in France.

, The North Otago Ladies Hockey Club will hold their weekly practice on the Show Grounds this afternoon, when the following players are specially requested to be present:—M". Iloriwiu, (I. Cooncv, A. Eiach, I). Ilalpin, M. Jewell, M. Kidd, M. McMiirtrlc, W. Donovan, M. Gamble, W. King, M. (lararil, 'E. Common, L. B. Badelev. L. Simian, M. Steele, E, Bobertson, I.'FranklyivE. McFadgen, C. Ba'dcley, M. Simki'n (captain), M. Stickman, M. Patterson, N: Clark, L, Orr, tt Brooker, A full attendance is requested. A drag will leave the Post Office at 2.30.

•]n Iris kclure on the -Maori at the Methodist Church last night, the Eev. Mr lladdon caused a guild deal of amusemeat to-his! audience as he described the method of selecting a wife for a young Maori; The .speaker pointed out that the lather,'of-a yuung man was very jealous lest his sun should marry outside of his direct line, ami'often toon the matter of the choice of a daiighlor-in-ljiw into his own hands, Christian teaching was largely respon'silile for Ihe,breaking down of the, custom, and the speaker incidentally slated Ihat flie latest advices from the Maoris who had gone to the front were to the aflVct that twenty-six of their number had married European wives.

The heaviest nor'-wester,experienced in North Otago for a. considerable time sprung up during Tuesday night and continued throughout yesclerday, reaching lis height about the middle of Ihe at'ternipon when the wind- blew with a fury that made life in the streets almost unbearable, Dust prevailed everywhere; and damage to fences and trees was reported iiu—*ev*erul localities, while at least one resident on the hill had his fowl-house blown to pieces. The roof was tirst carried away and deposited against a fence somo distance away, and then the sides of the house were subsequently levelled. In Ihe, country the gale was said lo be the worst experienced for many years. The hot winds, of the past few days have had the effect of dissipating all' the surface moisture from the land, and a good warm shower of rain would prove most acceptable and refreshing.

A cans of cerebrospinal meuiugitis was reported to the Napier Hospital Board yesterday, says a Press Association message. The patient was admitted to the hospital and the house was isolated Our correspondent reports the rainfall'recorded at Trotter's Creek, Hillgrove, for the month of August, was 2,58 inches, There is a decided spring in the grass, but some warm rain would be welcome, as the surface of the ground is drying up too rapidly. As ; a memorial of the great services rendered to the British Empire by the late Earl Kitchener, the scholars of the North School will to-day plant au oak tree in the school grounds, An invitation to be present anil take part in the ceremony is extended to parents and friends of the children.

Speaking of the religious customs of the MatSVis at AVesley Church last night, the Rev. R. I. P. Ha'ddou said the prevalent idea amongst Europeans that the greenstone tiki was a kind of Native idol was quite a hiiscoucention. The Maori knew no idols, and the figure was only a menus of honouring and acknowledging the Maori's "big man,"

A Napior Press' Association message says that at a meeting of the National Reserve hold, yecsterday, it was decided to secure central premises and to assist recruiting operations, Objection was taken by. members to the way the Government was making use of the Reserve iii a clerical inatond Of a military capacity. One member stated that the Reserve had no standing at all.

The Rev. R. T. P. Haddon. in his address at Wesley Church last night, in describing the custom and purpose of tattooing the face among the Maoris, said the custom had almost died out, especially amongst the women. And yet, hu said, smilingly, it was not greatly different from the customs of the 'JWhito Maori" wlfo also.adopted artificial means' of beautifying the features,

The following sales -were effected at Waiarcka on Tuesday by the National Mortgage and Agency Company in the dairy cattle section; Account J. Mahonev (Whitstono), 1 heifer at £7 15/-, 1 at'£S. and 1 at £9 10/-; account D> Clark (Totara), 1 cow at £9 10/-, 1 at £9 10/-, 1 at £B, 1 at £lO 5/-; account W. S. Laurence (Jteidston), J cow at £5 (passed), A cow at i;G 15/- (passed); account J. Dillon, o empty heifers at £4 7/0.

The rainfall at Awamoko 'for the mouth of August was 152 points, that for the, corresponding month of 1915 being 24 points, says our own correspondent. The weather has changed considerably during the month and lagoons are just drying up. Ground for oats is getting lit for ploughing, and this month will sco most of tins grain sown, A few small paddocks of wheat have been sown lately, but the season is too far advanced for a good return now, unless conditions proved exceptionally favourable. Turnips and rape will likely receive more attention, as these crops enlai) no expenso compared with the harvesting of grain crops.