NEWS NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 7

NEWS NOTES

H. Ernest Leigntou las for sale several Manawatu dairy farms that will produce profitable butter-t'at. Tha expenditure 'of rail-way votes totalling .£29,000 and road grants amounting to £13,800 was authorised yesterday by Cabinet.

Owing to the extensive nature of the Boad Department's districts on 'the East Coast it has been decided to create a new district for the Tanranga-Te Poke area.

Plans and specifications are to be immediately prepared for the erection, of a new Courthouse at Johnsonville, and Cabinet decided yesterday to invite tenders for a similar building at Qpofciki. The register of shareholders of the National Bank of New Zealand will be closed on March 21st to allow the directors to determine the names of shareholders to whom the issu« of 50,000 shares, at J 27 10s, will be made. Workers are requested by advertisement to vote for the accredited labour candidates in the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The candidates are Messrs S. Gordon, A. H. Hindmarsh, D. McLaren, M.P., and J. M. lioardon. Samuel Jackson, son of Mr J. J. G. Jackson, of MJartinborough, was shot just above the groin on Sunday by W. Playle with, a pea-rifle while out rabbiting. The lad was token to Greytown Hospital, where Dr Boy extracted the pellet. At yesterday's meeting of Cabinet tenders were accepted for the erection of the Big Wanganui traffic bridge, a Courthouse at Tanmaranui, railway station buildings on the Stratford-Ongarue line, and for the supply of grass seed >*q .the Jtaab.l^artmenJ,

A golfer's admission in tho Supremo Court yesterday caused temporary merriment, lie admitted that he had played tin; game for a couple of years. "J then found 1 was getting worse," he said "and 1 gave it up." -Mr llerdman: "ion found when you tried golf that it tried your"" Witness: "i'es, that was it."

Yesterday's weather was a complete reversal of Saturday's delightful conditions. Tho wind blew a "ho-wiing northerly" for many hours, only ceasing lato in the afternoon, when a rapidly rising barometer preyed the early arrival of a southerly blew. Heavy ram prevailed all day, the total fall being two and a half inches.

Saturday's takings on the city trams amounted to XiVi 18s 2fi, as against JMol 'is. Hd for the corresponding Saturday last vear. On Sunday the revenue was £Zi<J~ 10s sd, com oared with £'?M is M. On the Sunday morning special cars 675 adults and Wi children were carried, while 190 fares were collected on the extra cars run in the evening.

Patrick Ruddy, a wharf labourer, residing at No. U, Tennyson street, whilst bathing in Te Aro batiis at 10.50 on Sunday morning got into diliiculties. lie was in serious danger, when Mr P. liauna v an 4 a couple of others wont to his assistance. Ruddy was taken to his home, where he was attended by Dr Elliott. He is still suffering from the effects.

Those intending to spend their Easter holidays on the Wanganui river should book their passages and accommodation at the new Pipiriki House early. Tho Haster excursions on the Wanganui riv&r are alwavs popular. On Good i'riday morning "the special all night train from Wellington connects with the river steamer at Arainoho Junction. The Wellington sittings of the Arbitration Court commenced in the old Magistrate's Court yesterday. Mr Justice Sun presided, and with him were Messrs W. Scott, employers' representative, and Mr J. A. McCullough, representative of the workers. A number of compensation cases, arising out of the Penguin and Duco wrecks were heard, and these are reported under separate headings. Applications to add parties were granted in regard to the following awards, no objections being raised: —Carpenters and joiners (country), carpenters and joiners (Wellington), tailors, tailoresses and building trades and labourers' awards. "So far I have been very favourably impressed with tho Maoris," remarked Bishop Averill to an interviewer at Gisborne. "Tho meetiugs 1 have had have been very hearty, and even inspiring. The services were really wonderful to me. They take such interest in them, and their singing is wonderful." Turning to tho welfare of the race generally, Bishop Averill added: "It is most desirable that the natives should farm their own land more than they do. It would be very,much bettor for them. There is too much of this getting rents and living on them. The natives in some places I visited were farming their own lands, t.nd in Mine instances were getting on well, and that is a very good I thing indeed."

The flagship Powerful, accompanied by the cruiiiers Challenger and Pegasus, steamed into the stream at Wellington about 9 o'clock yesterday morning, aner a moderate passage from Auclclaiui. Vi-e Admiral Sir Bichard Poore, Bfc., C.V.0., is on the Powerful, which will be in port for nine days. She afterwards goes to Lyttelton, Hobart, Freinantle, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, and is due at Sydney on June 13th. As the City Council and the * Harbour Board paid official visits to the Vice-Admiral on his previous visit, there will be no official visits on the present occasion. The Challenger sails for Sydney next Friday 'to dock for an overhaul. She will meet the Powerful at Hobart on April sth. Tho Pegasus will follow tho Challenger within a day or two.after the former's departure, in order to dock also at Sydney. The men from the warships did. not come ashore yesterday, but will be in evidence in ,town to-day.

The question. at issue between . "the council and the Wellington Rugby Union regarding a portion of the gate receipts from last year's semi-final cup match was further discussed by the Petone Borough Council last night. The union wrote stating that it could see no reason for departing from, the stand previously taken up by it, and could not agree with the suggestion that the matter bo referred to arbitration. The letter urged that consideration be given the offer lor playing rights, as the season was now at hand, and failing any agreement it would be necessary to look elsewhere. It was decided to refer the first portion of tho letter to the borough solicitor, whilst a committee was set up to confer with tho representatives of the union regarding the forthcoming season. A motion that no overtures be made until the council's demand had been met was not approved. The Mayor and several councillors urged that further delay would prejudice the interests of _ local football. The committee will consist of th/o Mayor and Councillors Southgate and Young-.

Several waterside -workers figured in court yesterday in. a case which showed that even a -wharf lumper is apt to develop a 60iise of "nicemess" regarding the quantity and nature of the "chaff" shcwered -upon him by his mates. James Hooper was tho complainant in the case. He charged Joseph Thomson with addressing insulting words to him. Thomson, he alleged, had called out to him in loud tomes, "Hullo Amy! Amy Bock! Hullo, Amy Bock!" Hooper said he objected to the designation, because Amy Book was a notorious criminal. Thomson, denied the charge. Complainant, who was represented by Mir Hindmarsh, produced two witnesses, neither of whom discovered any anxiety to forward his case. One denied any knowledge of the matter, and the other admitted only to being warned by Hooper that he would be called as a witness. He contradicted hie mate's evidence, however. His Worship, in convicting defendant and fining him 20a, with 40s costs, observed that wharf labourers were probably as thick skinned as most people, but there was a limit, beyond which chaff became Insult. Tho name ■used was associated with a person who was undergoing imprison- | ment for a criminal offence. The alternative was fired at seven days' imprteoniment. Sir Jackson was for defendant. The Lux Light Company wish it known that the Lux Incandescent KeroseneGas Lamps give the Cheapest and Most Brilliant- Light on Earth. See Te Aro House, Bates and Lees', Wardell Bros.', Leydon and Co., Caterer and Carey, E. Pearce and Co., K. Hannah and Co., Petone Workshops (where Lux replaced the latest devices in lighting). House Lamps 22s 6d.- Lamps up to 2000 candlepower. 33, 37, 39, Old .Customhouse street (back of Opera House), Wellington. , *