NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6371, 20 November 1907, Page 6

NEWS NOTES.

William Gore Crawford, grocer, of Adelaide road, was yesterday adjudged bankrupt.

During the last fortnight tho Harbonr Ferries Company sold thirteen sections at Day's Bay. Tho price was JC2IOO. The Wellington Rose and Carnation Club will open its annual show in the concert chamber of the Town Hall this afternoon. Members will bo admitted at 1 p.m., and the opening ceremony ta&cs place at 3 p.m. The meeting of Miramar ratepayers to consider the loan proposals will be held this evening at Worser Bay. A special car leaving the Government Station at 7.15 p.m. will convey ratepayers to the meeting. In view’ of tho popular agitation against the proposed milling of the Day's Bay bush, tho Scenery Preservation Society has decider! to ask the City Council bo acquire the bush as a national park. Tho Petono Borough Council has refused to grant an application from the New Zealand Motor Cycle Club to hold sports on the Recreation Ground track on the 30th inst. Members of tho Council considered that such sports would interfere with the cricket matches, and would also be dangerous. Duripg the hearing of a judgment summons case in the Magistrate's Court yesterday a creditor argued that the fact that the debtor, a dressmaker, still had a brass-plate on her door showed her to be still in business. "Oh!” renlicd Dr McArthur, S.M., "that do?sn t matter. Some people have a lot of ‘ brass/ **

Captain. J. W. Clark, harbourmaster at Lyttelton, received a cable message on Friday night stating that H.M.S. Pioneer, which left Sydney that day, null arrive at Lyttelton to-morrow. The warship will probably remain at Lvttdton for two or three months to enable Royal Naval Reserve men to go through their annual training.

It is suggested by the Harbours Bill Committee, to which was referred tho Harbours Bill, that in view of tho numerous amendments proposed by tho Har* hour Boards’ and of tho limited time now at the disposal of Parliament, the Bill should not be proceeded with this session, but that it should bo brought forward early next year. Tho Government training-ship Amo* kura is to leave Wellington about th« end of next week on a second cruise. She will proceed down to Stewart Island, and on tho return trip will call nt the Bluff and Port Chalmers on her way to> Lyttelton, Tho boys will compete at tho Lyttelton Boxing Day and NcW Year’s Day regattas.

Tho Rev. J. Flanagan, Methodist evangelist, addressed a largo audience in tho concert chamber of the Town Hall last evening on “God's Workmanship* Habitation, and Grace.” To-night Ms Flanagan will speak in wcsley Church, Taranaki street, and tq-morrow night lid will deliver on address in the Towq Hall concert chamber on “A WoUf Around London Parish.”

Mr T, M. Wilford yesterday informed a jury that, in his opinion, a good woman was hotter than a good man. bufJ that, on tho contrary, a bad woman was wo iso than a bad man. Further, it ivasr much more difficult to determine whether a woman was telling, tho truth than ib was in tho case of a man, because a woman had better command over her feelings and her features than any man could over possess. Th© petition to Parliament of Dr H W. Mackenzie, of Wellington, asking toi reinstatement In the volunteer serving and for an inquiry into tho cause® whicli led to hie retirement therefrom, hoj been reported on by the M to Z Petition* Committee, .which is of opinion that thl petitioner's case has been practically mol by tho Government having carried ou* tho recommendations of the committee of last session, and there being no charg< against th© petitioner, there seems no reason to hold any further inquiry.

The Labour Department reports that there is at present a largo demand for farm hands, practical bushmen and navvies, and the department cairplaoe a large number of men competent in those branches of work. Carpenters and pointora are also in great request, the former being practically unprocurable. Th o Tongariro, which is due at the end of this week, has on board between two hundred and throe hundred immigrants, and it is anticipated that the department will bo able to supply a good many of them with suitable positions on farms.

Reporting on a petition to Parliament from Horsley and Harris and eighty-tw<j others of Wanganui, praying for an in\ quiry into the management of the Stat* Coal Mines Department, the A to L Pctw tions Committee recommends that as th« State ooal depots come into competition with long-established businesses, the State Coal Department should bo put on exactly the same footing ao privately* owned concerns' in regard to royalties, other charges, dues, rates, and taxes, and the making of reasonable profits, and that, especially regarding the sale of screened coal, ©mall consumers shall w> ccive preference.

Sensational; facta came to light last week concerning the recent murder at Melbourne of Mr Bernard Bauer, a wellIcnown diamond merchant. Mrs Parker, who was nearly knocked downstairs by a man in his hurry to rush from the Modem Buildings, at about the time the murder was committed, identified a la Sydney as the person who collided with her on the staircase. Mia Parker was taken to ■ Sydney for tho purpose of scoing a man suspected of the murder, and she recognised him, In a restaurant. She has stated that two others were associated with the man in the cpme, one . taking up a position on the bottom of tho stairs end the other being in charge of tho cab outside. Bius saw the trio drive off. A jeweller, who on the day previous to tho murder gave an unknown man the address of Bauer, also visited Sydney, but he failed to identify the suspect as his visitor.