LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15234, 22 February 1913, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

, i ■ So*— ——- ' Although tie public were : invited to be present at yesterday's big gun firing in Fort c'.Cautiey,' .only a few ; were present, many, staying away because; of the threat-, earing weather- conditions, Those who .did J go were closely scrntimssdi -by the guard • I :at the gate, and several were . to 5:! reluctantly- their cameww in the- «ire; of the guard until they■■■lefi the ;. precincts of the fort. It was '.; a'' great concession, admitting the public at all, and very. strict orders were issued to prevent any ; photographing...../: ,t An elderly man nanMvd -William Menzies I was admitted to the hospital ■; yesterday, suffering from a broken leg. ;■ The injured man wag driving a coach, and one of the I horses, got one of its legs over the trace. Menaies got down to release itj and while; ; doing so, received .a. kick Just below the [ knee. He was attended to by I)r.fßoberi ton, prior to his,admission to the hospital, j Menzies resides in Gibraltar . Crescent*, I Parnell. I " Why do women always put maty on a, ! pedestal " asked the Rev.. A. H. Civile, I in the course of an address in St. MatI thew's Church last night. "I* ' only ; breaks their heart J. when ,the crash , comes," jhe added, " It's cruel; both to yourselves [ and to the men/' he asserted to the [ womenfolk in the congregation. ; ■, , This excuse advanced by Peter John Le Masurier, a; steward, when charged before Mr. E. 0. Cutten, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday with deserting from 'the steamer Marmora /was/that he/had been obliged- to do so owing to persecution by one of his superiors. His life, he stated, had been made unbearable, and if he had had to make the return voyage on the ship, he would have done-away with himself. .'; He had accordingly deserted, and had secured employment at a' flaxmill near Whangareh A sentence of 14/ days' hard labour was imposed, His Worship remarking that if the man had had legitimate grievances they could have been remedied without ■ his: deserting. The steamer Star, of' Ireland, which berthed at the Railway Wharf yesterday, morning, met with a severe gale while on the voyage from New York. On ;: Christmas Eve tho vessel 'ran into a sou'- , westerly gale, and by the following .;] day was in the thick, of.'; it. , A quantity of water was shipped, and a sea stove in one of the lifeboats. The engineers' quarters were flooded. The gale was so severe that the vessel had to be " hove to" for a few hours. Further gales of less violence ware met with later in the voyage, "after which the vessel enjoyed fine Weather to arrival. . ',' . - •.„ < _ New Zealand apples are in gx'eat demand ; in the Argentine. An order ha,- just been I placed for 30,000 cases/ to be delivered in March, April, and May.;'••;; Of' this quantity . 4000 cases .Hire to be supplied by the Waitemata Fruitgrowers* - Co-operative Society, and arrangements, are being made to secure the best possible fruit from the Auckland district. Nelson will doubtless supply the bulk of the order." An unfortunate accident occurred yesj terday morning at the corner of Queen i an*?, Durham Streets. A man named Cain/ f i while working on ■ the building ,at■ that ;. corner, was manipulating an iron girder, when it slipped and fell on to bis ankle, which wis broken. Cain was taken to a j chemist's shop, where his injury was at-; tended to by Dr. Casement Aickir?^•//:■'The annual inter-collegiate debate ira, J connection with the New /UniYsr- ] sity tournament will take place; at. WelMington at Easter. The subject chosen is "That it is Desirable That New Zealand Should Federate with Australia for the Purposes of Defence by Land . and Sea." The judges for the occasion will ha Mi 1 . Justice Chapman, Sir John Findlay, K.C., and the Rev. Dr. , Kennedy. A trial-de-bate to select the Wo Auckland representatives will be held at the college oh Friday evening, March 7 t , >

ine supplement issued with ic-day v s HnutD will be found to Contain, among a number of interesting features, " When the Land is Hungry," by- Tchunga, aod "The. Fairy Folk," by Frank Morton. Mercutio's column of Local Gossip appears as usual, while Henry Wily contributes another of the " Stories of Fifty Yeari'SfS Ago." A third, of the series, "Wandas ,'' of the Microscope," is contributed by G. A. Rawson, while A.S-G. writes of " China and the Chinese," and 3, JJ. -■":'"-' Devereux of "Weather Control" The «S photographic illustrations -comprise two !.''■ pictures of "Yachting on Auckland Ear-, '„> hour." ?v : - : -:"-•' -.j|| ' .'•'''' •''.-■■-..'':■ ' ? : 'V : 'SfSl The Devonport Business Men's Ejection "i Commiitee 5 at a meeting held daring the '-* week, decided to recommend to the next '-"'■& general meeting, to be held shortly, that the .-3 business men nominate three candidates I to represent their interests on the Devon. '■' '?< port Borough Council. ;| ''■"'. .■.'•'•■■■■"■■'■ ':. : ' ' ' ■^:^' : "Ps "This disease of interfering with little . '■- children is becoming far too rife in Auck-. '' land," remarked Mr. Justice Edwards res- % terday. "The disease has assumed very large proportions in Auckland, and is to '• - S be fonnd more or less in other parts of the Dominion. . . The streets are the play- -;,! grounds of the poor," he added. "Therefore it is our duty to make those streets , ' ! as safe for the children of the poGr as the ' grounds of Government House aw for the :-3 children of His Majesty's representative m in New Zealand." ■ J When asked ito explain the Harbour -1 Board's position with regard to the cit« •"' market site to be acquired by th? City '/. Council, the chairman of the Board, Mr. 1 J. H. Gunson, informed a Heealo repie-; "-~M fenfiative yesterday that he had entered f- | into arrangements with the Mayor in» i'-i j respect to the site. These would come ?. $ : before the board on Tuesday, and would.' -§| ;no doubt be adopted. "A provisional I m i agreement," he said* "will at once be '^.j drawn up and duly entered into by both ..!,.£ | bodies. 'As the council: will be promoting "|4 j legislation in connection with other mat-;.-'4| ters, the board will ask the ecasca :to : -' | obtain the ;■■ necessary ; validating legisla- ;?^ [ tion in connection with the market site h; \at the same time. , In the meantime," ,".-; !ho concluded, " the • board is pushing on ' 'tl I with . the work of reclamation, and anti- ;./ cipates within 18 months to hand the | site over to the council." S : \4s ■ Several features of interest are attached ;| to the autumn <arnival to be held, ujider.-; i|| the auspices of the ' Auckland Amateur -._"!;5; Athletic and Cycle Club at the domain w] next Saturday. • Large . entries have been''" •- i received for all events, and amcmgsft tie ill competitors will -be:—-A.'. Dormer, the v "«S present New Zealand champion for 880 .'^ yards and one and U. J. Mark, the.- jr ; present Auckland provincial champion for ■&%•& 100 yards and 440 yards. Dormer will I : attempt to lower this New : Zealand reKiord-fIS I for 1000 yards, at presaau held by Hard-- ! ing, of Wellington, and an Dormer holds X ; . ! iho 880 yards record for New Zealand !lj@i|| I conjunction with Hector Burk {Imin S3 'V ■'.:■ | 1,-ssec), the champion may meet with; suo- ■: - j cess. ' ; Members of mercantile firms -,o£Vtiy I Auclriand will compete for a shield, and vhera will be a relay race for teams ftorr-:. if; *iie- rsjkrois boy scout troops. Ten teams ".-;; hava entered for the latter event.' and as A there in very keen rivalry' between ■ the ;;"- beys an interesting contest is promised. The Wanganoi river is very shallow just '-';, i now, and in some parts in tie upper - '■'■? reaches the rapids have to be worked . by -'^ poling, and also by means of the cables '•;' and steam winch. A3'a matter"of fact, j-j navigation is very tricky, but the skippers iff lof theboats learned the alphabet of th* .-* [ river long ago, and' they «evc»." fail to '5 j reach PipiriK. ~ .'^'M "; The climate and &'i ; . of the North-."; Islasia of New Zealand are considered by. ]gi Mr, Gerhar-i r Husheer, an expert who ' j has &ad experience in Europe and South M Africa, to be well adapted to the grow- -m ing of certain kinds of tobacco. Mr. , '{'! Huiheer has been conducting erperimen is in Hawke's Bay for some moaths, - % and he urges that a profitable industry ' ■•i could he carried on is the Domijaor,., '.? His experiments have ljeen conducted on 1 an area of 100 acres rear Hastings,' and .:/■■ the results,: he slztes, .aura most encocrag- '.; ing. The plants thrive in soil which not too rich,' and Mr. Husheer that farmers should cultivate them as f*Ss-l side line. On the property upon wiik&,.' ba has been, working -there are '■ «55,01i0 plants, and .all are dbingwell, and 15,CK-- ; .'. have also been supplied to the Govera-j nienfc farm in - Hawke',3' Bay. '■-""" - "'^&lP^ ■-:■: ■■.■■.■■:■:•;■:-••.'■■;:•■ '•■.'■''=■;;-'■■■"• -"■".■"-: I withstanding 'the jisppre^on' ; fit the bookmaker, said the Mayor of Chn||§gMf church, during ; a welcome to the Rev. J. J. North, there had been a gradual sa- ' crease in the ; volume of gambling, the amount hazdled by the totalisatbr iaving ':•;•% increased by £50,000'/<«• £60,000 ■at eacli recent 'race'meeting.' Though I .money *ft»| tight, the fact did not prevent gambling ; ' : of * that ;■ description. ■'.•■■ The :. evil was to be/ - found on every sports field, on ibs crisket : field, and in every kind or amusement. It \ could not be dissociated from sport. He - ? would hardly be believed when he said » that in "last two days he had b».sp -\ approached by young men in the prime of life for enough money to take into the country, and he could only attribute their penniless condition either to drink or gambling. He was astonished to think that any young men should live | such foolish lives. ' i .; The adi:antages of the decimal system tm of coinage, .weights, and measures were ' i discussed at a meeting of the, Adelaide „_ ;'i , Chamber of Manufactures last week. Mr. - - 0. Soppelb, who introduced the subject/ - spoke enthusiastically of what was being "*.* done: in other 'States of the Common--, ' wealth to advance the idea, and moved If that a . South, Auatralian branch of the' ? Decimal Ai,sc;3ation~i-hould be formed, under the au4vlces of -the Chamber of.'Manufactures ji;;- that a committee :' be _ ap-,. ' pointed to "go into th-8 question of ways and 'I means, '• and draw;-up a programme; > also that the Chamber of Commerce be • approached to co-operate in the mafeier. - The fceliitg of members present was strongly m favour • of tie decimal system.:'.''.'■; As one gentleman put it, the chamber, if it sucateded lin establishing the pifoposaJ,",".. would at least earn the undying giXtltadsi ..-,■■■'•■ of every schoolboy, because the .?;«m ■•■.■.;■ would;reduce arithmetic to a simple .m-'trv ? ; ter. The motion was adopted, and a sub- .? committee appointed to consider tie ques- -■■?.y tion. " ;,;' Some interesting figures beartag on : the V occapations followed in Victoria have been - published by the Commonwealth statistic ',' cia:i -(Mr. G. H. Knibbs). The total mwa- -,| -bsf '■&■» prja'aons engaged in agricultural pur-; L | ~ suits thsre 13 86J 5?. " Paitoralists -.janmber 29,340, while those tagaged in mining || I number 20,239, and in manuiacicfes':. f I 1eT;,773. The corroEponding figures foe -| I.the- 1001 census show that there has been .7 .i a, co»tsid?ra.blo shrinkiiigo in the pass 10 i ■ {years under every head except; msnufac- ;.i j tnres, the details for 1301 beingAgrical- I 1 tore,' 95,915 pastoral, ,50,394} mining, : ,. 31,447; and industrial, 146,213..,: Em- \ { plovers in 1901- in Victoria nupfcered"' > . i 48*154; wage-earners, 321,600} ■ and ian- ' ; i-Exployed, 16,442; in 1911 (!*».figures ; had grown to 6?,035, 385,702, 17,3»2 j respectively, affording a reflex of *&« gro*-..^ -1 in& probity o£tb* State, ,: ■ ■ ■'<■ ■ ■'.:': '■•■•':■''■■■-'■'. -.'.■ "-'" •';■ :' : ..-.:;:«S '■'- --'.- '■:■-"■ ■'-,-■.;-. '■''■ -x : ..:--- '"'? -i-i '--T^tl