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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14704, 3 June 1920, Page 4

The following, note is -.at the foot, o catalogues of Columbia gramophone re cords .recently issued : "Caution—Co-lum hi;', records being manufactured unde British. Australian, and New Zealant patents may not be sold, or offered fo sale, at "less than the authorised price: fixed for those countries respect ively without rendering both seller and pur chaser liable -to damages for infringe nient." It is incredible that the, lay has been adapted to the.protection of i corporation whose profits are colossal ind that the.inijocent public who:;ma.y irirely. be pardoned for not being .awari >fsuch an enormity, may bq viotiftiisec or paying less than is prescribed by tin iiidacious exploiters- in whose interest: iuch a law may have been made. I' vould be interesting to know by whose iiithority siiclf a t vap has been laid foi :he unwary. If the law is such t.lint ii ■an, through official action, be used foi iuch perseetition of the public for tin sake-of impostors, it is high time thai t was revised in the interests of thosi vho have a right to bo protected. General Booth. the leader df the voi'ld-wide efforts of the Salvatior ii-my, who is at present in Australia s due to arrive, in New Zealand on tli< "th inst-., and will conduct a series o* campaigns in the various centres of tin Dominion. It was the original intension that Oamaru should have" been in :hided in the tour, the General spend ng one night hero, but on account ol shipping difficulties delaying his departure from England, several of tin smaller centres had to be dropped oui }f the tour, thus the General will noi stav in Oamaru, but. he will siddrea i gathering at the railway station :or passing through to Dunedin by the firsl express on Saturday, the 12th inst. ,vhen a. civic reception will be tenderec :o the General on behalf of the citizeui >f Oamaru. ,The General,-who is the ?.ldest son of the founder of the organisation, aiid who upon the death o lis fathei" took over its leadership, ha leien connected with the movement- fron lis boyhood, and was his father's rieht fiand man, being the chief of staff be ro-rn- taking over, the supreme command md thus can be reckoned as one of th< winders of the movement. The Gene •al is accompanied by Commissione Lawlev, who visited the 'Dominion sove •al times as the companion of the- lat< Seneral.- Commissioners Lamb ant Kitchins, Staff-Captain Smith, and Adjutant- Bernard Booth, the Genera] s eld 3st- son, are also members of the^party, The Waimate corresponent writes The Waimate Hospital Committee mei last evening, there being present— Geddes (Chairman), Whatman G. Dash. C. Manchester, W. Beer. T. Brown, 11. Sinclair, and \V. Lindsay The Sup er i n tend en t' s report stated that 70 patients had been treated during the month, and that 39 had been discharged!, leaving 31 under treatment. The Chairman's statement showed that the--receipts for the month were —Patients' fees. £212: other; payments, £2-2. Accounts were presented Tor payment amomiting_ to £327 os Id. Regulations regarding holiday and sick leave were forwarded from the Hospital Board, and these were adopted. It was decided to sign the petition asking for a. continuous telephone service in Waimate. An increase of salary was granted to the gardener, who has been at the Hospital now for a number of years. The recent gale had done some damage to the roofs, and the Chairman reported having had the work attended to. It was decided to take legal proceedings to recover some outstanding patients' fees._ In wool exhibits at the Dunedin winter show Mr A. D. Sutherland • (Omarama) scored first and second prizes with 98 and 94 points (maximum 100) in stud merino Sheep, third (92) in flocks of over 2000 (60-64's) and first in 50-56's (98). A cable, has been received by Dr Oriel 1. stating that Dr and Mrs Douglas iiid family have reached Edinburgh. Miss Greta Cooney, who has been a member of the local telephone staff "or four years, was presented yester3ay by Mr T. B. Salmon, on behalf- of members of the Post Office staff, with i travelling fug, on the eve of her departure for Wellington, to which office she has been transferred. Members )f the staff having spoken appreciatively of Miss Cooney's relationship vith them and wishing her all success n the future, Miss Cooney suitably •eplied. For starting a fire in King George's ?ark and damaging, the grass two uvenile offenders were fined os each the amount of the damage) by Mr T.

R. Bartholomew," S.M., yesterday. Mr Thos. Falconer was yesterday sworn in as a justice of the peace by Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. The stock of Mr Leslie Priest, to be sold to-morrow at noon on his farm at Enfield by the National Mortgage and Agency Co. of N.Z., Ltd.. comprises 300 sheep, 9 homes. 14 cattle and calves, pigs, and implements. Luncheon is provided. A League concert will be held in the Salvation Army Hall to-night. The Sunday School anniversary social will be held in the Baptist Church this evening, at 7.30. A' programme will be given by the children. Two trees in the Khandallah Domain were struck by lightning on Friday evening last (says the Dominion). Both were found to bo smouldering on Saturday morning. Fortunately forked lightning is a rare visitor in the Wellington district-, though at one time a flash that '■' earthed" at 'Wanganui chipped a corner off the base of a big chimney stack at the New Zealand Refrigerating Company's works, and, travelling along the ground, smashed the windows of an office some 50 or 60 feet distant. The workers' dwellings being erected at Miramar by the Government are roundly condemned in the annual report, o£ the Town-Planning Association (says "" the Dominion). The Garden Suburbs Committee of the Association reported as follows:—"This committee entered a strong protest to the Government against the treatment that was being meted out to the Miramar housing scheme by the Labor Department. The houses are badly planned, some of the rooms Dtyng ridiculously small, and serious lack of* thought is evident throughout. Fortunately) the recently appointed housing architect is a- town-planner, and if .he is given .a reasonably free hand future schemes should be quite satisfactory." The Women's Committee passed on th<* houses the following comments: —"It is to be hoped that in' future such mistakes as having four doors into the living room and three into the kitchen, and the outside doors facing the prevailing wind,, will not be repeated." Messrs John Chambers and Son, machinery merchants, of Wellington, sustained heavy damage on Sunday through some miscreant smashing three windows, the plate, glass in each window being worth about £6O. Shortly after 9 p.m. those in the vicinity of the warehouse heard a crSish of glass, but no one was seen making away: frorn the place. Two of the plate glass fronts were found to lia.ve .-been smashed, apparently by someone throwing stones at them, but the third sheet of _glass_ had a neat hole bored tbrbugh it, evidently by. a revolver or' rifle bullet. The police were on the scene very quickly, but they were unable to -discover anything, nor were, any suspicious characters seen in the vicinity. |

All extraordinary demonstration occurred at the conference of tlie U.S.A. on Monday morning (says tlio PostV The Geraldine delegate, Mr Drummond, objected-to attacks by members of the Association Executive upon politicans if they were to be a non-political association. He did not want ,to name individuals. Delegates, however, called for .names, but the sneaker replied that the. member who had publicly attacked a politician was-a higli-placed officer of the Association. Amidst loud interjections the chainfian said that this was-Ktiot so—the member' evidently referred to was_ not an official: of the Association. Cries of "names!" Finally •Mr Drununond said that the member |be- referred t<> was ,Mr J. I. Fox. and i the: politician, he had - attacked Mr- P. jFraser. Loud cries of "Good old Fox!-' I accompanied by cbeers and applause broke out, and-effectively put an end to further reference to tho matter.

'"At'the Dunedin Winter. Show "'the wool-classing competitions attracted 37 entries from Hakataramea to Matuura. and Otago Central; and m tlio open, event lor the-Watson. Shennan 10-guinoa Cup; Mr A" D. Mnrr'av, of Windsor (00 i points) was first, and Mr A. Hiije.>, 1 Hakataramea (92 nomts) was second. In the Schools Field Competition Papakaio grew 47 tons loewt ot mangolds, the best- output-being that ot.Lowburn, 115 "tons oc.wt. Papaka.io was second in the swedes event- witu 10 tons Jsuw.r, or tiewt less than Portobello, the winning school. x 1 "Plentv -. ot returned soldiers have been placed on lands that the best tanners could not make n. living 1101111 said Sir A- T. Donnellv to a. witness 111 the Supremo Court .yesterday. ''l hat i? so ■ the witness renlied. . and tlie.v will go back to the Government.". A woman who boasted tlie possession of powers attributed to witchcraft was fined £lO at Preston Police Court. London. lately, for pretending to tell- fortunes. Catherine Myerscough, of Harrington street, the defendant, was questioned by a servant girl concerning a man at Leicester, and producing a crystal, said "To-morrow night I will tell you what 'I have done : I will play with him." She told the girl to buy a rabbit with its fur 011, burn half the animal, and the other half would be dressy ed and buried. She then placed a paper bearing-, the young man's address in a glass bottle containing water, dropped pins into it, and' put it in the fire. There the bottle burst, and defendant , remarked: "He will dream to-night, J and will not know what has made him do it." The story of the crow whieli carried off a golf ball has brought in its train a certain number of parallel cases, but the misadventures of balls have yet to be chronicled fully. They would make a fine show, from the football which the bulldog carried off. none daring opposition, to the golf ball which was ejected from a hole by a frog. The story of the solicitor of Newark who killed a 2lb fish with a drive has often been told. Hut even golfers have been a little sSv of retailing too often the strange history of the salmon which leaped from a river and caught a, golf ball as it was in flight, and how the salmon was carried on to the bank by. tlie ball's impetus and there secured, with its trophy firmly wedged 'in its mouth. A golfer of fame has recorded that he once found 17 golf balls in a heap of fresh sand outside a warren on a Scots course, Brer Rabbit having evidently become "bored with tlio, persistence of their arrival into bis "bunker." Order by name "NAZOL." Refuse substitutes. Nothing like "NAZOL" "" for routing a cold quickly. ■ For Children's Hacking Cough ' Wood's Great Peppermint Cure I Is 9d, 2s 9d.