The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1912.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11655, 10 June 1912, Page 3

The Oamaru Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1912.

The Hon. George Laurenson will deliver a public address in tho Opera; House to-morrow night. He will speak on "The Past and Future of the Progressive Party," and there will not be a dull moment during the ■ whole discourse. Those who do not know what the Party of Progress has accomplished since the day that John Ballance became chief director of our affairs, would do well to hear Mr Laurenson, and those who did know but have forgotten, would consult their own interests and those of New Zealand by attending to be recharged with that enthusiasm which they once diffused amongst their fellows. Mr Laurenson is a real, live speaker, and will state the position in unanswerable terms. Those who do not desire enligntenmeht, but who have resolved to .adhere to ideas and a line of political conduct for which they can set up no defence, shoiild not place themselves within the range of Mr Laurenson's deadly shots Employers in their dealings with the local office of the Department of Labor have often bemoaned l the absence of telephonic communication, and the fact that much time was lost -thereby in effecting ladjustments that need only have occupied a few seconds. One result of the visit of the Secretary of Labor (Mr Lomas) to Oamaru was the bringing under the notice of the Ministea" for Laboir thie inconvenience to which employers were subjected, and Mr Laurenson's practical sympathy was indicated by an order for the immediate installation of a telephone. Wei have had of late several complaints from country districts that the Mail is not reaching its addressed destination, and that papers are being removed from bundles at flag stations and crossings. While it is gratifying to know that the Mail is in euch keen demand, we would point out to those who at present are converting papers to I their own use to the inconvenience and l loss of those who have a right to them, that we would be pleased to enrol them as subscribers, so that they may benefit more conformably with honesty from the.news that wo disseminate. ' In order to protect subscribers we are offering a reward of £2 to anyone provid"VF- t" s sufficient grounds 'upon which to take proceedings'against pilferers of the rjaper. The Lake Wakatipu Mail states that when the application fof the renewal of the license, of the Mandeville Hotel came on at the annual meeting dt the Licensing. C&mmittce last Saturday the applicant's solicitor asked for a reduction of tho "license fee becauso he onlv did a whisky business, i.e., he sold most , of his whisky by the case to people living in the no-licenso district of Mataura. He, therefore, could not, it was contended, expect to make as much as the publican who hot equal to twenty nips out of a bottle and retailed it at 6d per glass. The Committee were not, however, influenced .by such reasoning, and declined to reduce the fee. Probably they were of the same opinion as many others—that this house, being near the border of a ,no-license district, did a roaring trade in whisky—by the case. An, interesting item comes from Moscow. The Russian' Government and the Moscow municipality recently came to loggerheads over the totalisator, or parimutuel system '• at the racing meetings there- The municipality demanded the complete suppression of the totalisator owing to its alleged demoralising influence, and refused to accept their legal percentage of the receipts. After a long correspondence the Government ruled that no adequate causes were shown to abolish the totalisator. It is pointed out that the money'rejected by the Moscow municipality is now divided among various worthv charitable institutions, and. that Russian'horsebreeding would suffer if public interest in the'race meetings were diminished by draconic restrictions in the matter of punting. The S-iciss papers, under the heading •'The Sleeping Sickness," publish an amusing story from the village of Suhr, in the canton'of Arsovie. An inspector of schools, without any previous warning, visited the village school, and found the elderly teacher asleep at his desk, and the children departed, having apparently taken French leave. To give the teacher a great surprise and a'bad quarter of an hour, the inspector decided to wait until he awpke, and seated himself on a bench in front.of the "culprit." The hours passed, and the inspector himself went to sleep. The teacher, oil awakening, ami seeing who was sleeping before him., quietly left the school for homOv. Without entering the

schoolroom, the concierge locked up the school and the slumbering inspectorSeveral hours later the concierge heard a great noise, and, arming himself, opened the door, and was greatly surprised to find the angry inspector beiore him. Mr James Grant, of Taiporohenui, near Hawera, has purchased from Mr J. O'Brien, ot Oamaru, a. handsome colt rising three years, by Black Knight (imported), dam Kate, by Royalist, and bred by Mr A. Sutherland, of Allantou. The price is said to run well into three figures. Messrs F. L. Murray and Co., Christchurch, report having recently sold, on account of Mr J. F. Mitchell, his 356 acres situated at Maheno; on account of Messrs Roberts Bros., Balruddery, 1532 acres; also on account of Mr G. E. T. Shaud, his 413 acres situated at Ngapara—all at satisfactory figures. This is the sort of editorial stuff The Maoriland Worker (Syndicalist organ) is serving up to its readers just now: — "Victors we bave been, all along the line to date, and thus all the allies of Capitalism—which is exploitation, which is robbery, which is degrading servitude of the 'hunted but now rising workingclass—all the allies of Capitalism, we say, are reaching to throttle us and fling .us under their bloody heel. Fight we must then, greater and grander than before. There need be no. Waterloo for a working-class organisation meaning business and, bent on emancipation at any cost —for the future in blissful reach and a working-class placed on high, with strikes, lock-outs <and tainted papers things of the dead past because the cause of them all—exploitation for profit—no longer despoils, degrades, and damns humanity." It is very hard to tell what it is all about, but for the kind of people who are likely to be pleased with that kind of thing it is just about the kind of thing they are likely to be pleased with. Messrs L. J. K. Fanu'Lton. A. A. K'Kinuon, L. Pip?r, and J. 'G. W.' Sunipter, of Oamaru, have been liceused as sharebrokers under the Sharebrokers' Act, 190S, an announcement to that effect appearing in the Gazette this week.. The electors of Oamaru, and especially tho section that enjoys its politics straight from the pot, will find much to interest them in the political address to be delivered in the Opera House tomorrow evening by the Hon. Geo. Laurenson. Mr Lauronson has been heard acceptably in other centres in defence of the Liberal side, and his Oamaru address is looked forward to with anticipation. In the year 1907 a detachment of English troops was route-marching in the Nile Delta, and, being somewhat short of provisions, halted near a small village in order to" purchase a few chickens and pigeons. The Omdeh. or headman, hearing the news and thinking that the supplies were to be commandeered without payment, hurriedly sought amongst papers until he had!' found a certain document preserved with care in a- sealed envelope. With this in hand he made his way to the officer in command .and told him that the village was exempt from supplying food to the troops, this document being proof of his statement. The officer opened tho envelope, . and' found therein an order signed' by oue of Bonaparte's generals, stating that in return for services rendered to the French Army the village was to be free from interference, in. future. The Englishman smiled, and laid tho document aside, "This was made out by the French over a hundred years ■ago,"' he said to the Omdeh. "It is no longer vahd." The Egyptian shrugged his shoulders. "French or English," he replied, "now or then; :t is all the same to us. We are the same people." The well-known imported stallion Sir Thornley is to go to the North Island in a few days. He has been bought by Mr Harding, of Mangawhare, North Auckland, from Mr A. Dalgleish, of Oamaru, nt a very high price. A young woman of Zurich lias been fined £1 4s and for "coquetry." She was about to bo married, and duly presented her birth certificate at tho Town Hall, whore it was found that tho figures of tho vear of her birth, 18S3, had been changed to 1886 by the bride, who thus became, three yeans younger. As it is a serious matter in Switzerland to tamper with official papers, the police were informed, and the young woman, who belongs to a good family, had to appear before the magistrate. She explained that slw l . felt at least three years younger than her age—29—and, therefore, changed tiie figures. In pronouncing sentence, tin) magistrate smilingly remaikcd' "Ah, mademoiselle, you must not be bo much of a coquette." Day labor v. contract work is a subject to be discussed by a'deputation from the Building Trades Laborers' Federation nnd the Trades Council with the Minister for Public Works (Hon W. D. S. Macdonakl) at the first available opportunity (says the Wellington Evening Post). The deputation is to enter a pro-1 'test against the letting of the work of erecting the now Parliamentary Buildings by contract. It is urged that as the most important work of all, the laying of the foundations, was carried out most sucessfully by day labor, tho work of erecting the building should also be done by that method ; also that day labor had been proved to be cheaper in large works than the contract system. The Trades Council has also set up a deputation to wait on the Minister for Railways (Hon. A. M. Myers) on his return from Auckland; asking that the engines required bv the Railwav Department should be constructed in' the Government railway shops and not be let to contractors. Don't give way before your task, gather renewed energy and vitality from Stearns' Wine of Cod Liver Extract. Build up the broken-down tissues and nourish the tired nerves. 11 There will be. an increase of i per cent, in tho interest paid upon money placed at fixed deposit in banking institutions in the • Dobinion after June 1. Some time ago the rates Were reduced to U per cent, for money placed at fiyed'deposit for six months, 3 per cent, for 12 months, and 3\ per cent, for two years. The amount is now to be in- ' creased by i per cont. in each ease, making the rate of interest 2 per cent., 3?r per cent., and 4 per cent, respectively. ', Mr Paape, Secretary of the New Zealand Sports Protection League, points out that his League is not in anv way associated with the organisation at' Auckland that is urging that bookmakers have their legal status restored. The Sports Protection League is absolutely opposed to the reinstatement of the bookmaker. Mr J. SWINDLE!'. Surgeon Dentist, will visit KUROW on THURSDAY. 13th inst., and may be consulted at Spiers' Hotel.. 698 Messrs Baldwin and Rnyward, whose Local Representative is Mr E. Piper, Thames street, report that amongst the many applications for patents they have just filed G. Seddon. Denniston, bronchitis medicine; G.'A. Shaw, Auckland, hatpin point protector; H. B. Williams, Christchurch, securing spare rim to motor vehicles ; ■J. Gott, Hove, England, submarine cable working; J. King, Melbourne, ruling machine attachment.