NEWS OF THE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8482, 17 July 1913, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

The tender of Messrs Campbell and Burke, at £7900, has been accepted for the erection of a large warehouse and offices in Dixon street for Messrs Cooper, Ltd. The Tyser liner Indrabarah moved from tho King’s Wharf to tho railway wharf yesterday preparatory to transhipping her meat cargo to tho Makarini.

On Saturday afternoon the' Petone municipal electric impulse clock and chimes will be officially sot going. Tho clock was manufactured by Messrs Gent and Co., of Leicester, England, for whom Messrs T. Ballinger and Co., Ltd., are the local agents. As is usual at this time of the year, there is a slackness in most of tho trades and in the ranks of unskilled labour in and about Auckland (says the “Star”), but it does not appear to approximate anything nearly so serious as the state of affairs that is reported in the southern 4 centres of the Dominion.

The Minister of Defence (Hpn. James Allen) yesterday gave to a “Times” reporter an unqualified denial of the statement that Mrs Royd Garlick had been, appointed chief lady instructor in connection with the system of physical drill for primary school children. It was rumoured that Mrs Garlick had been appointed at £3OO a year. No such appointment had been made, said the Minister. Notice was given in tho House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by Mr H. J. H. Okey, M.P. for Taranaki, to ask the Postmaster-General whether his attention had been drawn to the lack of facilities that exist for the interchange of small sums of money between Australia and New Zealand, and whether he would arrange that postal notes issued in New Zealand may be payable in Australia and the same with regard to notes issued in Australia.

A plucky action on the part of a man unknown was witnessed at Petono railway station on Tuesday : evening. When the train leaving Wellington at 5.6 had just drawn up at Petono a lady passenger in alighting apparently slipped, and fell heavily on to the line, striking her head severely against the couplings. A young man who witnessed the occurrence promptly jumped between the carriages, and extricated tho lady just as the tram was about to move. She was conveyed to a waitingroom by Mr G. Myers and the stationmaster, where it was found she was suffering from severe shock. The Marine Department has- received a reply from the lighthouse-keepers at Stephen Island with regard to Captain A. Fisk’s complaint that when the Aorere was only seven -miles off the lighthouse on Sunday flying distress signals no notice was taken by the keepers. One of the lightkeepers who was on watch all Sunday states that he saw what looked like a small steamer under sail, hut he could dis.cern no signals. There were three men at the signal station on Sunday, one of whom is a member of the crew of the steamer Hinemoa and well experienced in nautical matters. The evidence tends to show that the Aorere was too far away, although there is a powerful telescope at the lighthouse. The lightkeepers mention throe or four other vessels which they signalled on Sunday, proving that they were attending to their duties. As one of Munt, Cottrell and Oo.’s lorries, loaded with chests of tea, was proceeding down Molesworth street at about half-past 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon the “king bolt” carried away and tho two front wheels were dragged from under tho vehicle. The driver fortunately sprang clear as the lorry fell forward and tho heavy cases came tumbling on to the road. The horses took fright at this and bolted down Molesworth street. Fortunately the road happened to he clear. at the time, and the two heavy draught horses continuing unchecked, rounded the corner into Lamb ton quay at an astonishing pace for their bulk, and were finally pulled up by Constable Crowe near the police station, at the corner of Whitmore street and Lambton quay. One horse had got outside tho shafts, and they were both badly barked about the hind logs, but otherwise were uninjured.

Levin competitions opened on Tuesday in the Century Hall, the judges being Mr H. S. Claughton (music classes) and Mr J, Culford Hell (elocutionary). In the local ladies’ Shakespearean selection, “ Lorenzo’s Eulogy of Music,” Mrs A. C. Randerson was first, Miss Stuckey second, and Mrs C. K. Wilson third. Mr Erank Penn (Otaki) gained first in the Shakespearean test (men), followed by the Rev. A. C. Randerson. In the vocal duet, soprano and contralto, “Autumn,” the place of honour fell to the Misses C. and B. Remington. The competitions are directed by an executive committee comprising the Rev. A. C. Randerson (chairman), and Messrs W. Hughes, K. Aitken, D. W. Matheson, and A. E. Haswell, while Mr D. P. Portoous is the capable secretary. Competitors from Lower Hutt, Wellington, and various parts of the Horowhenua and Manawatu Coufities are participating in the proceedings.

A Press Association message states that the valuation of Thames County shows half a million increase in five years.

The provision of a Post Office at Karori, said the Postmaster-General yesterday, "would he considered when the public ivories’ estimates for the year wore being dealt with. “The application from the Education Board for a building grant for Bcrhampore school is now under consideration,” said the Hon. James Allen yesterday in reply to a question. There does not seem to be any immediate prospect of much relief for the largo number of men, the great majority of whom are general labourers, who are out of work at the present time in Duuedin. states the “Star.” “My investigation into the matter indicates that the volume of passenger traffic between Aramoho and Now Plymouth is insufficient to justify the running of a dining-car beyond Aramoho.” said the Minister of Kail ways yesterday.

At the S.M. Court, Petone, yesterday Ernest Nelson Cunningham was fined £3 and costs 7s for failing to attend Territorial parades. Leonard Charles Smith was fined £2 and costs 7s on a similar charge. Default was fixed at fourteen days’ military detention in each case.

Charles Richard Noave Coutts, fourteen years of age, pleaded guilty at Petone yesterday before Dr. McArthur, S.M., to four charges of assaulting females and using obscene language. A conviction was entered and Coutts was ordered to bo sent to the M oraroa Training Farm. A recount is to be made of the ballotpapers in connection with the election of tho management committee of the Wellington Fox Terrier Club, as, owing to a clerical error, tho votes recorded for Mrs Winter were credited to Mr Winter, who was declared elected.

“I used to get State coal at 3s per ton,’ 7 said Mr 'i'. J. Mcßride in Christchurch on Monday evening, “but since Mr Massey came into power I have to pay 355. I know that the rise was necessary to make the mine pay, and all that, but the increase is all right for the private enterprise man. It makes him smile.” •

Two boys, aged eleven and sixteen years respectively, appeared before the Juvenile Court, Petene, yesterday, charged with placing an obstruction across a street. The evidence showed that the boys stretched fencing wire across a borough street at night, causing injury to a pedestrian. Both lads were cautioned, convicted and discharged.

At a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Civil Service Association it was decided that the forthcoming conference of delegates should bo further postponed until about throe weeks after the Public Service Commissioner publishes his classification of the service, so as to give time for officers to consider it before instructing their, delegates thereon. . Therefore the date of the conference will depend upon the date of the appearance of the classification list.

A new and interesting feature is shortly to bo added to the attractions of the Christchurch public gardens. Mr Young, the head gardener, informed ft reporter that the ground for the new Australian section had > been prepared for planting. It is situated at the western end of the gardens, andhs contiguons" to the New Zealand native section just beyond the rose gardens. Mr Young expects to start planting next week, and the section will he stocked with Australian trees and flowering shrubs.

The question of “filthy lucre” was referred to at the Grey Hospital Boardis recent meeting in a literal sense, the medical superintendent stated that he had never seen more filthy notes in life than those Sent out to. the institution for the payment of the salaries of the staff. Borne of the notes had every appearance of having been soaked in some obnoxious fluid' and were a reflection on the bank that had issued them. He abhorred handing them over to the staff, and as the board was the controlling body concerning - public health matters in the district a protest should be made in this connection. It was generally understood round the table that the board’s secretary would demand for the future gold from the bank when drawing salaries for the staff.

During the past few .years Mr E. R. Waite, curator of Canterbury Museum, has discovered that several New Zealand fish sent to him for identification belong to species previously reported only from Mediterranean waters. Most of these species have been caught by fishermeu at Kaikoura. A few days ago they, sent him a fish which h© identified as the moro, previously known only from the Mediterranean and tho Canary Islands. Mr Waite was asked how he accounted for so many of these specimens coming from Kaikoura, and he said that the ox planation probably was in tho fact that the land in the Kaikoura bay sloped very steeply into Che sea, which was deep close to the shore. Consequently fish were caught m the bay which might not be found within twenty or thirty miles of any other part of tho coast lino.

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