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North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13983, 20 November 1917, Page 4

Probate in the will of William Locliart Gray has been granted by Mr Justice Sim to W. L, Gray, jun,, ami Andrew Gray on the application of Messrs liislop and Creagli. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church will sit in Dunedin this week, proceedings commencing to-day, tfhe express last night carried a largo number 'of delegates from the north, The Eev, Mr Robinson, of Columba Cliurch, will proceed tu the Assembly, Mr J. J). Grant, from St, Paul's, leaving by the express last night, as also did the Rev. J, Craig (Knrow) and the Rev, G. VT. Hunt (Lower Waituki). On Thursday a conference will bo held behind clo«ed doors lo consider the relationship of the Cliurch to the present world war crisis, To this the ?rcs3 will not be admitted. The sale of work in St. Joseph's Hall war. brought to a close on Saturday night, when there was a record attend ance, and most satisfactory business was done. From early in the afternoon until late in the evening the stallholder! and their assistants were kept going merrily, and practically llie- whole ol the goods were readily disposed of. Thi treasurer is able to announce that ovci £>oo has been raised, thanks to tin energy of all the workers and helpers and the generosity of the public, t( whom the promoters accord their heart} thanks. In another part of this issu'i appear fh c winning numbers of ralllci in connection with the bazaar. ;lii liiaiiy districts the shortage of lo bour and the consequent high rates of fcred for boy labour huve induced lad to leave school as soon as possible, h the l'our upper standards of the Kakaii -School there arc twice as many girls a: .boys. Apparently, however, the pre science which qrdains that in' war timi more iualc3 shall be born than female: was operative some time before tin war, as in the infant room there an more than twice as many boys as girls in another school in the same distric the boys outnumber the girls by won than three to one. The monthly meeting 0 f the Daman Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade was held last evening, Aftei ordinary routine business was trans acted the question of procuring a motoi ambulance was discussed. A sub-coin mittee reported that thijy had obtained prices and designs, and had' interviewer the Hospital ( Trustees, who were en tirely favourable to assist in the pro jeet. This will mean that about £l2l will require to be collected. It wai unanimously resolved that tenders Ik aei' s ep,'cd and the work proceeded with, A-sub-committee was appointed to arrange for collecting the required amount by circularising the residents, of the town and district, Donations will be gracefully received by any members ol | the Ambulance Brigade. - "Doctors tell me that they never have the complain;s in private practice that .tjiey are called upon to ilea! wi'h in camp," said Chaplain-Captain j Greene, in a lecture ou "Cajiip Life," which lie gave in Palmcrstoii North on j Thursday, "There are some 'crooks' in camp, and although they do not constitice more than live per cent of the iot, that five per cent make a failcrowd. Men come up to (ho doctor complaining of "a bad back, ,Thcy liable themselves so," said the ipeaki'v, suiting the action to the word, •'The doctor can't say he hasn't a bad l>;"'!i. lint he knows there is nothing really wrrmg with the man, so he says, 'All rij;M,' aud puts a' plaster on ihe man's b:i-!'k. .Ho has a special mixture for llial purpose, and very often the remedy is than ' the complaint, But," added the speaker, "I must sav tins, ;lie docjors are most anxious and careful in their treatment of.-gcii.iine liases of sickness to relieve all suffering po-:>il!e. M Before the war'the Dover Patrol did not exist, Now (iu the words of ViceAdmiral Bacon) it has its teeth .well mtu'thc Gorman flanks, and forms a |ood. stopper to the mouth of the Chanpel. The Admiral was distributing medals earned on his particular patrol area, and he said to the men: "We have not got to be tired of the war, We have got to help fight the war, and not (o talk about it, especially'now when the. Germans are having a bad -time, Yes, a very bad time, and, what is inoixyihcy arc going to have a worse one. For the last two years they have been afraid to tackle our Navy.. Now is the time to throw otii;selvcs into any Work that good fortune may bring our way. Our merchant service, men. have nobly gone on with'. their calling, in spite of the mine and submarine^. The ''•hole - country; has shaken'. Itself to iether.in a.wajythe Germans, never believed possible. ' The. Empire will go on disappointing tlicm,' and I hapo we n. the Dover Patrol will have a ehanco )f. disappointing them again,, and'fiir»; lisli {hem with slill • rudfer- shocks," There ai'c ! a good many Now.-Zfalandtas (prving in this section-of'tjie Navyvs&

t On > Monday'the Napier-insurance p«id oyer. £75,000 in connection with tji losses-'sustained at tlio Accent Are't Ddniiovirko, ", ' \ ' Aglibuiton picture theatre lat nark an irate person demanded to kno rai,t'tlio e.\trn penny (amusement tax was for, whcieupoli a lady who o'vci hcaul him piomptly replied: "01 that's toi the £IOO,OOO bonus to Civ scivants." ' Nenily all tlio.ieccittly-icturncd so diois who <uc in hospitals oi othenvis undci the.caio ot the authorities ni doing well. In Otago tlicie is a lug pioportion. of lapid lecovciics m cm able cases. The Ciifoicctt rest is a hi factor w m inch nutteis; thu thing to h di ended, too much hospitality by indi* cieet friends. VvV aic asked to piocinc n.iepl to this question: " Wlicn a soldiei is h ported as a prisoner'of'war in German; is his'pay'Stopped/'"' The a'dswer is tha when a soldier is reported as n prisoac the matter goes before a court.of in qiiiry -constituted for the purpose, am if it is found that he has become i prisoner: by rights'of war, iuvoluntnril; on his part, hia pay'goes on,"—Star. It is not generally known .jh?t th nursing of a soldier who lias been badl; .gassed i 3 fraught wi;h danger, ' Thi was made,apparent-.by- the evident' that at an inquest held at Welling ton recently, when it was stated tha the deceased suffered,'a.severe illnes ton through nursing a soldier who ha been gassed. The secretary of tho-North Otago Sol dim'-Aid Association desires •to ac knowledge with thanks receipt of do nations/of magazines and literature fo the Soldiers' Club from the following —Mrs Dowling (Avon street), Motor E. Piper and P. Fcnwick (all month;' 1 Mrs Douglas, Messrs'W. Brown,. •••- Hurst and.W. Gardiner (Island' Cliff) North Otago Times and Oamats Mai (daily papers). ' The proposal to increase the railwa; fares in. order to provide a bonus fo those employed in the service js-no likely to work out as calculated by tin authorities, asserts |a Maslerton ex change. The users of railway;! now adays are not the moneyed- classes They have their motor cars. The ir creased fares must therefore have ; tendency to reduce the number win use the railways, and consequent!; there will be a shrinkage inMhc return; instead of the anticipated increase. Tin proposal to rob Peter to pay Paul i likely' to'cause greater dissatisfactioi than if the payment of the bonuji wen suspended altogether. "It is probably the most humane Ac that has ever been placed on the Sta tnte Book," remarked Mr G. Cruick shank, S,M. T of the Probation Act, a the annual meeting of the Prisoners and Patients' Aid Society at lnvercar gill on Thursday. "The scheme where by an offender, who would at one thin have been sent to prison fa mingle will .confirmed criminals, could be release! on probation under the observation, o a capable officer was," continued th Magistrate, "a splendid one, and ol'tei proved the making of a man. Especial ly was this so when the probation ot licer wan a. man of the stamp of the m cioty's agent, Mr McLean," The pro bationsystom was introduced into S'c\ Zealand in ISSti, and into England ii the following year, Since then ii ha been adopted, more or less," all over th world.. Referring to the large amount' ex oended on luxuries by people during tin abnormal war conditions, tin Mayor, Mr .1, ll.Hiiinson, stated oi Tuesday at the ceremony in connciHioi with the opening of the Auckland llos i'ilnl Board's new oSices, tha; last win tor more genuine poverty was knowi: in 'Aucklaml than ever before. It was grim 'irony that almost within the shadow of the walls of the Iniililin-! to which supplicants came for relict there should be. signs of the grosses! extravagance iu the .-rliops in Queen street. If the "public expenditure on luxuries in Xew Zealand was- 2,000, 000 per annum, roughly only £500,000 ot thai went into the pockets or was cir dilated among local traders, Fullv £1,000,000,000 of the sum named had to be paiil to creditors abroad who supplied the'luxuries. The Government took £.'50.000 in duties, and Mr Gimson said he was of the opinion 'hat at a."lime like- the present all traffic in luxuries, fuch as expensive wearing appa'd, jewellery, motor car?, etc., should be prohibited. The Government recently ' received from the Home authorises an inquiry as to whether provision could be made for the' treatment, jit the thermal Tings of New Zealand, of a limited lumber of Imperial officers, suffering from injuries 'received in the war, The Minister for Internal" Affair:, ,he Hon. O. W, Riisfcll, states that the Imperial Government has been invited to send twenty officers to Rotoma as an experiment. ProvisioiMias been ina.le fur heir treatment mi the same line! as that received by New Zealand soldiers, wepMhnt they will be evpwfcl to "lake fheir o',vn arrangements for lodgings. The Minister aiso states tha. applications for treatment have lirea received from a number'of Ausiraiian "•oMiors, who had been iuformi-d I lie.; 'hoyjnigiit cnine to New Zealand,and he treaicd as ordinary patieiil.;. Jlr added that if the ('onin:»-iwe.-i;!!i Cuvornnient made applicalioii for Ihe treai-. men;, of Australian soldiers at i!n- tU liial springs, the request, he had very little.doubt,.would receive .favourable ■'Oiisideration. Mr J. Lowthiun Wilson, of Kaiapoi, who lias ktpt records of events of ail j kinds in'his jounialis.ic career of over, fifty 'yearif-on learning o-. the fire in the' Canterbury Hall, lo:t-no time in expressing his'rogrec that the Canterbury A. and P. Association had suffer?<l iof-f, ftjul offcicd to supply a file of ihow catalogues, with winners'marked up from the official cal'aloguos, dating from 1873 to 1913. He also had the newspaper reports of the sheep and cattle tcctions from 1879, and a com piled list of the medal winueis made up In books, the whole of which he offered to hand to the tocicty, m piefeiencc (o sending Hum ; 0 the Doi'iin'on Museum at Wellington. Mr \W O. Pcmbeiton. •cercraiy of the rssociatiou, lost no time in replying that when the Pullers took over the hall the, society 'o?! thp'usp of the stiong loo'.i. and iad to leihovo tho old cntalogutM lo the •oniiiiitfce room, which mus liurned on Sunday. A number of lccent catalogues iveic saved,- but the older onw ucrc lo3troycd, The kind offer would fill n jap, .and the association'would be ex'cotlingly gratofnl to-Mr-Wilson for his "

. «v % is> i ../? w\ - ft ™r, 1 At the dthcr-day-tho moth celobratdd' 4e wedding of two yoking "Maorij-Ahu Baev&nd Apika>Skipflor,*thY';\t^ a Witness Says:-' 'Tho fast' w'as n liivish affa^,' Sufiiptffi? hardly dcscribesMt. ThoVaet th(it*tft» cost of pioviding it ran IVO dtiO Ml bcbt convey an impression oHivo digplay and its dimensions, The" four. Lei, lycililiiig'cake, as tho'phrasovrunlij., was/tho cy'nosu^ wn s s the dominant, glittering"fact'of."tlie: function. The bride (Miss '.Skipper) was" jungiiificently, apparolled, andvtlie attendant bridesmaids"".wer.o;.:,only,"a; little less' radiant,thc sbridogroomj.ljoing -attired' on approved pakiilia lines. lii keoping with Maori .'hospitality/: everybody present; was regarded .-ds^a ■; wedding guest,'and'had a welcome place nit the festive board!" . ;-■ : „^'::3!yWhen a Chinaman dies in a foreign laud the first thought of his compatriots is to ''have his body ocnvcyed;.back to China, from, whose soil alonp hjs'.spirit can ascend to the Happy Land;fit -is one of the principal cares of tlieCdiestial's existence'to save up sufficient: to • take his b'ody back after hisdeath, if that event should occur ' abroad. ;.';A;. Chinaman, Willie Fong Keoi'ig, died T at Ihe Napier Hospital Inst week' from .the result of an accident, and his body/ has been, embalmed and placed ; in'.'-a, lead shell for the voyage. The casket was shipped away by the steamer leaving' Napier for Auckland on Saturday, and 'will be forwarded from Ncir- Zealand' to Australia, and thence to'Hongkong, at the earliest possible date. The''total cost of Willie's voyage back to China is said to be in the vicinity of £150... "There is a soul behind the machine, a soul behind the military organisation i« Ihis country, and I want • to y|ny this," said Mr Greene, Chaplain to the 1 Forces, speaking with conquerable''cmphasis at the Salvation Army. Hall in Palnierslon North on Thursday, and bearing striking testimony to the humane feeling behind the stern, discipline of the mili'ary camps, "that, in cases where family or other troubles have come upon men, I have never yet appealed to the camp commandant'in vain, where I could go to him and say, 'These are the facts. Can you do 'anything to help this man in his trouble?' 1 have even got a man oft' the transport ' williin an hour of its sailing, because of siiddfn family trouble coming upon him. In.their desire to help in cases of genuine distress or trouble, I-kvo found the authorities ready to spring to it,' as they say in camp."