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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15749, 28 April 1913, Page 5

It had been t'ho intention of General Godley to inspect the Mounted Brigade camp at Sutton to-morrow, but we are advised that he has found it necessary to postpono his visit, and that he will endeavour to make his inspection later in the week.

A short stoppage of the electrio cars occurred about 8.15 on Saturday morning. The cause was a short circuit on the main line, but tho position of tho trouble has not been located. At 7 o'clock yesterday morning tho power \va6 shut off to enable the last section of wooden fluming to bo dispensed with at Waipori Falls. Tho water is now being conducted to tho power houso from the intake weir entirely by conduits constructed of concrete, rock, or steel pipe.

At the Police Court on Saturday morning Alexander Stevenson, who had been twice convicted within tho last six months for drunkenness, was, for a third offence, fined 20s, or, in default, 6even days' imprisonment. Ho was allowed seven days in which to pay the fine, and a prohibition order was mado out against him. Eglentine Strong was charged that, on. tho 18th inst, at Beaumont, ho oommitted an indecent assault on a girl under the ago of 12 years. Mr B. S. Irwin appeared for the accused. Senior Sergeant King stated l that tho man had arrived only the night before, and, as the police at Lawrence had all tho particulars of tho alleged offence, he asked that tho accused bo remanded to appear at that place on Friday. This course was acceded to, and bail was allowed, accused in two sureties of £50, or in ono approved surety of £100. Mr W. R Hasolden, S.M., presided. ,

Tho annual meeting of householders for fcho election of school committees in each school district will bo hold this evening. In all cases it will take place at the school itself with tho exception of Tokomairiro, where the meeting will be held in the Coronation Hall.

The number of patients in the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday was 143, as compared with 153 at the end of tho previous week. There were 38 persons admitted and 45 discharged during the week. Three deaths occurred (Percy Ambury, Samuel Sltephenson, and Ralph Hornal).

Tho twenty-fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Methodist Central Mission was celebrated yesterday. The morning and evening services were conducted by the superintendent (the Rev. W. Slade), and wero attended by largo congregations. In tho afternoon a very enjoyable organ recital was given by Mr W. Paget Gale, and was listened to by fully 600 people. The programme included tho following selections:—Overture, E minor (Morandi); meditation, D flat (Floyd St. Clair; sonata (Buck); Curfew chorals, "Windsor Castle" (Hildyard); "Sposalizio" (Liszt); and, as a cloeing item, tho " Hallelujah chorus," Mr A. E. Eager sang the recitative and aria "Comfort ye" and "Every valley" (Handel), and Miss Cowie "Nearer, my God, to Thee" (Carey). Mrs Arthur Griffiths recited Longfellow's " Legend Beautiful" with great feeling and expression. At the evening service there was a fine congregation. The Rev. W. Slade preached from Luke xxiv, 48: "And ye are witnesses of these things," making a strong appeal to the many young people present to take their part in passing on tho Great Evangel, which alone can savo the world. Miss Silver sang very sweetly tho solo "Evening prayer." At both services Mr Slado mentioned that next year would mark tho silver jubilee of tho mission, the proper celebration of which must soon receive consideration.

From Mr D. M'Laren's box at a Clyde quay street corner, Wellington, on Saturday night, Mr Carey, a. Labour ticket candidate for the City Council; made it clear (says our Wellington correspondent) that if the " Labour " nominees are allowed to dominate tho City Counoil the city's affairs will bo guided not by the City Council, not by "Labour" majority, but by the Trades Unions and tho Industrial Unions. These were Mr Carey's words: "It is no use blaming Mr M'Laren [tho Labour Mayor] for what ho has, not done this year. So long as you put only Mr MT/aren and Messrs Hindmarsh and Trcgear into tho council you will bo able to blame them again next year. You can't get what yon want done until, you elect a majority of Labour candidates. If yon do that, then if" Mr M'Laren does not do what he is told, if the rest of us do not do what wo are told, we will bo tried— not by you—but by tho men who pay us in our jobs, and I tell you there aro no harder taskmasters than tho men who pay us."

In connection with tho new public swimming baths, the foundation stono of which was laid by tho Mayor (Mr J. Wilson) on Saturday afternoon, it is understood that it will be three months before the contractors (Messrs Fletcher Bros.) can proceed with tho erection of the building owing to the present lesseo of the land having still three months of his lease to run.

Tho traffic returns for ' the corporation tramways for the fortnight ended April 19, as compared with the corresponding period for last year (in brackets) are as follows:— Receipts, £2640 12s 6d (£2870 18s 6d); mileage, 49,820 miles 40 chains (48,340 miles 43 chains).

The following motion is set down to come before the City Council at its no*t meeting:—" In pursuance and exercise ol the powers -vested in it in that behalf by 'The Local Bodies Loans Act, 1908,' the Diinedin City Council hereby rceolves as follows: That foi - the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £7500 authorised to be raised by the Dinicdin City Council by a poll of the ratepayers of the said city, taken on the 12th dav of February, 1913, under 'The Local Elections £,nd Polls Act, 1908/ for the purpose of constructing a public topic] fiwimmintr bath with tho necessary buildings, plant, and fittings for the same, the said Lhmcdin City Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of one farthing in the pound upon the rateable value cf all rateable property within the City of Dunedin, and that such special rate shall bo an annual recurring rain during the currency of rucli loan, and he payable on the lat day of September awl tho Ist day of March in each and 'every year during the currency of such loan, or ■until tho loan is fully paid off."

Jt .-was stated during tho hearing of a civil action Hansen v. the Federated .Seamen's Union of Australasia in Wellington that tho union had a. credit balance of filoSQ.

A 6ervico which is now yearly anticipated with special interest by the "old folks" was hold in First Ohurch yesterday morning, fcA which, through the kindness of friends, many were taken by means of carriages and motor cars. Everything conspired to make it appreciated to tho full by tho large number of " old identities" prescnt-4he charmingly peaceful morning, tho order of service (including psalms and paraphrases sung to music " full of memories"), the* appropriate 6ermonetto to the young folk, and tho sermon to the old folk "by the Rev. G. H. Balfour from the text, "And there shall be no moro sea."

Cr Waflher mil move at next meeting of tho City Council—" That the council afiirm the principle of (having the trading concerns of the city controlled by a commissioner or commissioners, such to be appointed by the counoil." Or Masterton will move—"TJat the building by-laws of Koslyii be repealed, and that the oity bylaws bo substituted therefor."

Seeing tho warship New Zealand was not altogether a free 6how for a number of people who went out on Sunday week from the ferry wharf (says our Wellington correspondcntl There was a llmge crowd at t'ho whar.l, and crushing was much in evidence. Pickpockets were among the crowd, and a number of people were relieved of the money they carried. Of those who are now in finanoial mourning tho heaviest loser is a man who got to tho ferry wharf with a £10 note in his pookct, and got to tho warship without it. It is known that a number of piokpoekets have been hanging' about tho city for some time.

A conference of, tho Dunedin Master Builders' Association and Master Plasterers was held at tho Builders' Rooms on Friday night to consider tho question of plasterers' wages. An advertisement appeared in the local papers recently stating that .plasterers were available at 14s per day. Th; 3 was signed by the secretary of the Plasterers' Employees' Union. The award of the Arbitration Court fixes tho wages at 12s per day, and tho opinion of tho meeting was that this notice, was tantamount to a demand for an increase of wages without the usual procedure. In' the opinion of several speakers the present position amounts to' a strike, as several employees have left their jobs and refused to work for the award rate. It seems extraordinary that such should happen, as the award is of recent date, and the present condition of trade does not, in the opinion of the conference, warrant such action on behalf of tho Employees', Union.

It is understood (says the Dominion) that the now slaughtermen's unions formed this season since the strike in January are ;o b3 registered by the Labour Department shortly. They mado application to be registered some weeks ago, and the department withheld registration, calbng upon them to show cause why their members could not belong to tho existing- union, and tho only existing union having recognition in the dktviots concerned—Hawko's Bay, Poverty Bay, and Wanganui—i6 the Wellington Slaughtermen's Union, now virtually defunct by reason of the fact that no members of it are in tho slaughtering industry. Tho unions have shown cause which has been accepted as adequate by the department, and they will be registered so soon as they, have complied with the necessary formalities. In Wellington an arbitration union was registered some time ago, but the unions in 1 the districts named, and poss.bly in others, do not care to belong to a central organisation in Wellington as was the system under the regime of the strikers'

"Bible Sunday" was observed at the Chineso Church on the 20th inst., when £3 18s was contributed for tho British and Foreign Bible Society. During the week an additional gum of £1 12s 6d was handed in, making tho total collection £5 10s od. At yesterday's services, in response to the appeal of the Republic, special prayers woo offered for the blessing of God' upon the government and people.

Ono or two defaulting Senior Cadets who wore charged in tho Police Court, Auckland, with having failed to attend drills produced evidence' to show that they were employed as telegraph boys, and could not be spared to attend drill. After pointing out that he was not going' to punish the boys for no fault of their own, Mr Frazer, S.M., advised the Defence Department to come to some agreement with the Telegraph Department over the question of allowing tho boys time off for drill. Telegraph boys were engaged in the public service, and very likely they could not bo let off without dislocation of the service. It was suggested that the boys might have a separate organisation to overcome the difficulty.

Speaking at a meeting of candidates for seats on the Auckland Hospital Board on Thursday evening, the Rev. Howard Elliott said his calling brought him into touch ■with the sick and poor, and he had gleaned sufficient information to rouse his indignations against some of: the practices that had prevailed in the. hospital during the past few years. The doctors were standing behind some of the candidates, and that fact alono was sufficient to make one suspicious. Mr Elliott made a bitter attack upon tho system of receiving out-patients, and quoted cases in which it was alleged that patients had waited two wholo days for attention simply because tho doctors would not allow additions to tho medical staff. " Suffering poople can die and rot," he declared, "only to serve tho interests of one or two men." He quoted instances of delays in performing operations, regardless of tho patient's loss of work and the sufferings of their dependants. He wanted it understood that he was not charging Dr Magui.ro with these faults. The cases he had referred to had occurred before he had taken control. Under a proper system no man should have to wait more than a day or two for an operation. Time meant bread and butter, and sometimes life or death. "If I am driven to fight this matter," ho said, " I can quote cases that mil stand this town on its head."

Another long letter from Professor Ernst Haeckel, the' famous biologist, of Jena University, Germany, has been received by Mr G. A. Rawson, of Auckland (says tho New Zealand Herald). The letter, which is written in English, is dated March 3, and in it Professor Haeckel expresses his thanks for congratulations sent to him by Mr Rawson for his 79th birthday, on February 16. "My health is not good," Professor Haeckel wrote, " and I suppose that tho now begun 80th year mil be the last in my long life." Accompanying the letter was a parcel containing three or four pamphlets and booklets, each inscribed to Mr Rawson in Dr Hacckcl's own handwriting, and bearing his signature. Dr Haeckel also sent two parcels of radiolarinn ooze, dredged from the depths of the Pacific by the Challenger expedition of . 1876. Professor Haeckel is the greatest living authority on the radiolaria, wonderful misciosoopic marine organisms on which he published a monumental report after devoting 10 years to the classification of the tihousands of specimens secured by the Challenger expedition.

The strangers' tea, held at the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms yesterday afternoon, was well attended. Mr R. M'Gregor presided, and, on behalf of the association, extended a welcome to the visitors and strangers, several of whom were present from Milton, Sawyers' Bay, Morningkm, and London. Mr 11. 11. Driver gave an interesting and helpful address en the life and work of the Rev. Robert Murray M'C'heync. Mr Driver (spoke of tho great things accomplished by Mr M'Cheyno, in whose life the outstanding characteristics were that ho guarded his own heart. Mr J. H. Stephens, evangelist, took charge of the song part of tho service, and ho also eang as a polo a hymn which was written by Mr .M'Cheyno.

The St. Andrew's Literary and Debating Club made a most auspicious opening fo: the season in ite first regular meeting on Saturday evening. Mr 11. Webb presided over a largo attendance. The subject for the evening was " Impromptu Speeches," and very keen interest was displayed by those present in many of the matters submitted for discussion.

A meeting' was hold at Green Island on Thursday night last to consider the advisability of -forming a horticultural society. There was a fair attendance of gentlemen, and one lady was also present. Mr C. Clarke, who was voted to the chair, briefly explained the business of the meeting, and it was afterwards agreed that ,a society be formed. Tho following officials were elected:—President, Mr Holmes; vice-presi-dents—Dr Will, Messrs Watters, D. Redd, W. Geddes; , hon. secretary, Mr W. M'Donald; treasurer, Miss Walker; committee—Messrs Clarke, Christie, A. Hanaway, Johnstone, A. Buchanan, Bull, David Reid, D. Strang, Mrs James Miller, Mrs Reevo, Miss Reid, Miss Walker. It .was suggested that the membership fee ba fs per annum for full privileged members and 2s 6d for other members. The committee is to meet on tho second Thursday in May to consider further details in connection wife the movement.

Tho difficulties which tho health authorities havo in enforcing proper observance of hygienic rules in the case of Maoris was illustrated by an • occurrence which took place at the Wanganui Hospital on Wednesday morning, when a party of excited and angry Natives raised such a hullabaloo that tho police had to be called to quieten them. It appears (isays tho Post) that two Maori girls (sisters) were recently admitted to tho hospital suffering from typhoid fever, and ono died. Their friends immediately jumped to tho conclusion that tho other girl was doomed if elie stayed in the' institution, and they proceeded there in a body to domand that she be handed ovor to them. The health inspector, who happened to be there, questioned them, and they mado known their intention to " take her a long distance from town," presumably with tihe object of removing her from the supposedly malign influence of tho pakeha medicino man. The inspector naturally refused the request, whereupon they declared their intention of taking tho girl by force, and, consequently, the police wcro rung up. Ultimately, after consultation between- the inspector and the medical superintendent, it was agreed to let the Maoris havo the girl, on their giving an undertaking that she would bo isolated, and treated under medical advice. To w!hat .extent, however, tho Natives will carry out this undertaking remains to be seen.

A 71811; was paid to tho proposed scenic reserves at Makarewa by an Invcrcargrll civic party last Wednesday afternoon. One of the sections visited was beyond Makarewa township, but having a frontage to the Makarewa ■ Stream, and known as Lawrence's Bush. It is (the Southland Times states) a very fine piece of native bash,, and some splendid views could be obtained in and from it.' The opinion of councillors present was, however, that {ho section was too far away to bo of any special benefit to Invercargill. They were, nevertheless, so impressed with its beauty that it was suggested that tho Scenic Commission of the dominion should be informed of the desirability of acquiring the bush. The other section, which is under offer to the Sccnio Commissioners, fronts the Makarewa at 'West Plains, and consists of about 100 aores of beautiful native bush. It is accessible from the Oreti River, and was considered by gome of the councillors present to. bo an ideal spot. It can also be reached' from tho Makarewa bridge at Wallacctown.

According to a German lecturer, Dr Abnel, tho world's well-being is threatened by tho unnatural adoration of strongminded women for rakes, Lovelaces, and Don Ju-ins. "The more solemn, detached, and political a woman becomes," says Dr Abnel, "tho moro certain is 6he to choose a dissolute man as the object of her affections." He asserts that clinging, domesticminded women are attracted to honest and reserved men, and their instincts seldom betray them. The "woman politician," however, has lost the selective instinct of the female, and is destined to be fooled and deceived. "Nature usually intervenes to protect such women by making them unattractive," continues the erudite doctor; "if they are attractive they are doomed. They flutter . towards the first Don Juan liko moths, and are consumed before they realise their own folly. The rake is the counterpart of the woman vote-seeker; and when all women have votes, all men will bo rakes."

Mr J. H. F. Hamel will address tho electors in the Russell Street Hall this evening.

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The seventh edition of the booklet explaining tho operations of our out-out department is now ready, and be had free on application.—Mollisons Limited. —- Advt.

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