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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16873, 9 December 1916, Page 8

The mails which left New Zealand on October 31, via Vancouver, arrived in Loudon on the sth inst.

Dr VaLiitine (Inspector-general of Hospitals recently wrote to tne Ofcago Hospital Board asking that suitable medical men lie appointed to give lectures on cancer. Tho matter was referred to the honorary medical stall, who express the opinion that it is not desirable that public lectures should be given on the 6ubject»

'.though a groat deal of secrecy is being observed in connection with tuo matter, it is uuuerstooii taat a special meeting of the Otago Labour Counc.i is to be called to consider a coiuniuification from tile federation ot Labour, in which tiie co-operation ot tile council is asked in the movement by the federation to secure the repeal of the iVl.iJ.tary Service Act.

The Port Chalmers district is not to bo overlooked in connection with the collection that is taken up under the auspices of the Hospitals Helpers' Association. A meeting ot ladies has been called for this evening to arrange for taking up the Florence Nightingale collection on Saturday, December 16, this date having been fixed upon as a lied Gross fete was held in Port Glial; mors on the day upon which the collection was made in other centres. . It is announced that one-half of the proceeds will be devoted to the funds of the local Cottage Hospital, and this, apart from the other charities that will benefit, should act as a spur to generosity if such is needed.

in the course ot a letter addressed to the uuigu liospiuu *iiiu OmuMaoie Am Board relative to tue maaer oi proposed structural alterations at the xYurses liome, tne Miami}! of Puonc Heaitn (the Hon. G. VV. ivussell) stated that no had decided to make oilier arrangements in respect to the bursaries liierelore, so tar as the department was concerned, there .was no need for the board to lurnish the rooms lor the students or to make anv structural alterations.

'lho MiLtary Service Board will sit at lnvercargili on Tuesday, and at Kiverton on Wednesday. Iwenty additional appeals have been received under section 35 (family shirkers' clause), mak.ng 92 appeals received in Otago under that sect.on. Notice has been received from Wellington of 31 appeals on the part of men drawn in the first ballot, and these will .be heard on dates yet to be fixed. It is anticipated that a consider able number of appeals of this class will come to hand shortly. '•>.

lu its report to be submitted to the next meeting of tho Otago Hospital and onuntdolo Aid Board tne Finance Committee recommends that tho request of the i J atnotio Association tor the tree admiss,op of soldiers' wives to the Batchelor Maternity Hospital be approved.

An interesting tiiseuss.on took place at tne meeting ot tne .Labour Louncil on ihursday night, when a charge oi disloyalty to tho Labour cause was laid against a prominent member of the council by anotner more or less prominent member. It .s stated that the member against whom the charge was brougnt had challenged his accuser at a. previous meeting of the council to put his charge in writing and prove it, or else apologise, 'ihe accuser formally presented a written complaint at the counoil meeting on Thursday—it is understood that the charge was in connection with the Gardeners' Union,—and a committee was then sot up to adjudicate on the accusation. Its report will in due course bo presented to the council.

The warm spell, of weather being experienced at present is gladdening tlie hearts of the rose enthusiasts, particularly those who purpose exhibiting at the Duuedon Horticultural Society's Show in the Art Gallery on Wednesday. A well-known local grower states that roses, 011 the average. are this year much larger and of better colour and more uubatanco than they have been for years past Many of the best roses, that require heat and sunshine to develop, and which have been a failure in recent years, are this year simply perfect. Everything points to a very fine rose show on Wednesday. At the next meeting of tho Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board tile chairman (Mr J. H. Walker) will move tho following motion, of which he has given notice: '"That the board endtorso and approve of tho proposal brought forward for tho appointment of women police." In the Kaitangata Court on 'ihureday, bol'oro Mr id. A. Young, S.M., Constable Martin prosecuted himseli 011 a cnargo oi riding his bicycle without a light at Stirling in October. jfcio explained thai ho lelt home at 2.60 p.m. on his bicycle 011 police work in lnciiciutha, expecting to oatch the train at (Stirling, but his bicycle chain broke, and the repairing of it delayed him considerably. As it wad necessary that 110 should bo in Kaitangata, he was compelled to ride his machine. It w-as not dark, although, as the by-law said "s-unset to sunrise," it was a breach, but only a technical one. He was convictcd and discharged. The tender of Mr G. li Wright of £80 3s for asphalting a temporary tennis court, at the Nurses' Home has been recommended for acceptance by the Hospital Committee of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. It is also proposed to put down a glass croquet and tennis court in the Hospital grounds for the use of patients. Messrs 11. E. Moller and J. If. M'Lennan, J.P.'s, presided over a short sitting of the City Police Couri yesterday, when prohibition orders were issued against two men on the application of their wife and, son respectively. Two boys wero cliarged in tho Juvenile Court yesterday—one with stealing a gold watch and chain and sovereign case, valued at £40, the property'of James Henry Lambert, and the other with receiving this property, knowing it to have been stolen. On the application of Chief Detective Bishop a remand till Monday was granted. It is rumoured that the M llteno, which is bringing a large number of invalided soldiers back to New Zealand, will arrive at Port Chalmers on. Tuesday. If this is correct, Port Chalmers wiil be her first port of call in New Zealand

The Minister of Public Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) has forwarded the following letter to the Hospital Board, under dato ot December 1: '"1 have "made inquiries into certain statement* mado by members o/i the occasion of my meeting the board on Aovember 13 with regard to the purchase oi tile Wakari site. With a view to justily tiiat purchase, it was stated that the board had purchased £3000 worth of property on which to* erect a nurses' homo, without the approval of the department. I find that the department was well aware of tile purchase, and had, indeed, reeommendid it, owing to the necessity of increasing the accommodation for nurses. Further, the board submitted the plans of the building for the department's approval and Ministerial sanction. The consent of the then Minister of the department to tho erection of the building referred to was obtained in 1914. With regard to the statomLT.t that the department lias, without question, j;uid Government upon money already pa;d for the Wakari site, I am at a loss to understand this statement. Tho Government pays subsidy on money received, not on money paid. The board makes its levy for capital expenditure in tho usual maimer, and claims subsidy thereon. If .subsequently the board illegally spends money so received, it cannot in any way make the Government a party to the transaction."

.A i'ress Association tele-gram states that, in connection witu tne daylight saving Bcnenio :n Gisbotue, the Department lias, advised. that it will place no obstacles in the way of the proposal to bring tile scheme into operation on January 1. J.ho JJorougn Council advertises its intention to do so, and calls tor objections, out tnerc have been none so far.

Tile Eighteenth iioinlorcoineuts' had a lively time during their tstay \at Albany. Lance-corporal E. O. Charles, writing to his parents in Hastings, says things were going "some" on their arrival there. Conscription wati tiio great question. In this letter Lance-corporal Gnuries states that an anticonscriptionist was to have spoken, but tho i\ew Zealand .soldiers would not give 111111 a hearing, 'the civilians urged the New Zealand boys to give the speaker a bad time. Eggs wore thrown, and he soon fled, i'rotcssor lied lord, of Dunedim, 6poke for conscription, and he received a good rally from tho soldiers and civilians. It was a good thing, says tho writer, that tha shirkers tied; had they not dono so,' wo might have broken our good record. The New Zealand boys are going about the streets acclaiming, "Do we want conscription?" and the answer is, "Yes." Good old New Zealand.

Registrations in connection with the Presbyterian Bible Class Conference, to be held in Oamaru at Christmas time, are being received in daily-increasing numbers (says the North Otago Times). Up to the present well over 300 representatives (many of them from North Island classes) have signified their intention of attending the conference, and there is every prospect of a record gathering.

A mass meeting of drivers was held in the Auckland irudes Hall on Sunday to hear Mr G. Davis (secretary of the Drivers' U'n.on) read a copy of the minute of the Cabinet's decision on the questions referred to it tor settlement, about 600 drivers being present, 'ihe minute, forwarded i?v the .acting-Minister of Labour, was explained to the meeting. The Star reports that'a certain amount of dissatisfaction was expressed by the men with the minimum wage, hut Mr Davis explained: that he had given a pledge to the Cabinet to abide by its finding. The meeting thereupon unanimously resolved to stand by the pledge given and accept the decision. A further resolution was carried: "That the notice given to the Hon. W. H. Herriee (ActingMinister of Labour) of intention to strike bo withdrawn."

An interesting point, determining the definition of "common carrier," was decided by Mr L. G. Keid, S.M., at Wellington on Tuesday in' the course of a judgment in a civil act.on for damages. The plaintiff was P. W. Lamb, of Pohangina, and the defendant Len Cloake, a carrier, of Lower .Hutt. In May ( the plaifetiff arranged with Cloake for the removal of his furniture from Wellington to Pohangina. A motor lorry was used for the purpose, and while cross.ng the precipitous PaekaJcariki Hill it went over the side of the road and slipped down to the bottom of a gully. The lorry and the furniture were, seriously damaged, and the driver injured. Plaintiff, alleging that defendant was liable, claimed £127 Is for the loss of his furniture. For tho defence Mr T. Young suggested a way out. He submitted that the transaction constituted a special contract, and that the liability of a common carrier did not apply. Tho magistrate quoted various authorities in order to elucidate the point raised by Mr Young, and went on to say that > Halsbury made it clear, in his mind, that in , a case like tho one under review, Cloake must be classed a "common carrier." The magistrate assessed tho damages at £60, with costs (£lO 13s 6d). Sir Ernest Shackle ton lias mentioned a number of what some would cail "lucky coincidences," and others "providential happenings," which occurred in the course of his recent stirring adventures in x\ntarctica. Une of these took plaeo when they landed after the hurricane on the coast of South Georgia. The bumping of their tiny craft —a is2lt whaleboat —on tho shore dislodged the rudder, and it floated out to sea. The next day, and the next,tho bay was frozen over; but on, tho third day there came a thaw, and then they saw something bobbing about in tho water. They found it was their rudder. "With all tho wide Southern Ocean to choose from," said Sir Ernest, "it had come back to lis there." Then, when they were crossing tho glaciers in their journey over South Georgia to Stromnoss Bay, with huge crevasses to either sido of them, the path of the moonlight : just illuminated tho best path for them to tdead; and, as tho moon rose on through the night, and tho path of the moonlight changed its direction, it still lighted up just tho course that they had to follow. Again, the whaler from Stromness Bay, the trawler from Uruguay, and the 70-ton Chilian schooner were prevented by tho thick ice from getting to Elephant Island to rescuo his 22 comrades. None of the vessels was sufficiently stoutly built to venture through tho heavy ice. Some said that the ice would never open up and let them through, but when they tried again, in the Chilian steamer Yelcho, the ice did open up. Tho ice had been all «lound the island only two days before they reached it, but on the day they got there tho ico had, gone, s and they were able to approach tho island and rescuo their comrades. *

A very clear and definite indication is given by the enormous increase in the price of tramway rails that the present is far from being an opportune time for a tramway undertaking- to embark on extensions. The Evening News reports that the Chrisbehurch tramway authorities state that the' effect, of the war on prices of tramway rails is shown- by the fact that whereas in August, 1914, on the outbreak of war, the pricc of tramway rails was £7 12s 3d per ton landed in New Zealand, plus duty) the lowest price recently quoted to them was £17 18s per ton landed in New land, plus duty. The Christchurch Tramway Board is under the necessity of obtaii ling rails for repair and other purposes, and its requirements are such as to involve ordering 200 tons, and this has been done despite the high price above quoted. The rails are being got from the United Siates, cable advice having been previously received that permission to ship English rails had been refused by tho British Government. In other words, the Christchurch Tramway Board will have to pay over £2000 more for rails imported now as compared with what, it would have paid in August, i 914. and a stronger argument in support- of the board undertaking only tho most necessary work would be difficult to find.

An unique cose, in which creditors, after waiting for a period of 15 years, are to be rewarded .with a lirst and tinui payment of 20s in the £, is reported by Mr S. Tansley, Offioial Assignee in Wellington. Many years ago Mr Joseph D. Tustin carried oil business in Wellington as a painter and paperhangcr, but in April, 1901, was compelled to seek the protection of the Bankruptcy Court. The novel idea of taking out an insurance policy on Mr Tustin's life was suggested by tlio creditors. A policy for £500 was thereupon taken out, and this matured on November 1 last, enabling Mr Tansley to make the pleasing announcement that a dividend of 20s in tlio £ in the estate was payable. Mr Tustin is now in businesg in Gisborne.

"Wonderful changes have taken place in tho United States since my last visit there 23 years ago," stated Mr G. M. Yerex, who returned to Wellington on Saturday when speaking to a Tost reporter. Tho changes, he continued, were both political and social, and more particularly the latter. Matters dealing with the generM health of the people received considerable attention. Gambling had practically been done away with throughout the States, and with it had gone horse racing. Gambling and horse racing • had been diverted to u Mexican border town, where there was stabling accommodation for 700 or 800 horses, and race meetings extending over" 100 days at least were held. Fortunes were made (and lost) in a few hours. Roulette tables and bull fights all helped to attract crowds, and thus free the States from a certain undesirable element. Tlio social evil had been grappled with, and reform was continuing with the greatest success. Even the "lied Light" district in San Francisco was now a thing of the past. Twenty-four out of forty-eight States, or 60 per cent, of the population, were now under prohibition laws, and woman suffrage, judging by the present rate of progress, would soon be universal The press generally had assumed a more serious

tone. It was less inclined towards sen-

sationalism and scandal—less frivolous than • it ever had been before. The States were now enjoying a wonderful prosperity.

Attention is drawn to a page advertisement in this issue in re M. Kugelman's catarrh cure. The Hanover Street Baptist Sunday School •will celebrate its anniversary with special services to-morrow. The proaehers will be the Revs. C. Eaton, S. W. Morris, and R. S. Gray. Tho United Starr-Bowkett Society will dispose of £1500 on the 14th inst. The secretary of the Money Club reports that applications for loans to tho amount of £570 wero received by tho trustees this week. \ We have received 5s from "Gratitude" for the Y.M.C.A. Trenches Fund. An address will toe given by Mr Duncan Wright at the social tea in the Y.M.C.A.rooms on Sunday. Noticee for the following Sunday services will be found in our advertising columns: — Anglican—St. Paul's, All Saints', St. Matthew's, Alexandra, Clyde, Cromwell, Lowburn. Presbyterian—First, Russell Street, Knox, Stuart Hall, Leith Valley, St. Andrew's, Kensington, Bible School Hall, Roslyn, North-Bast Valley, South Dunedin, St. Stephen's, Caversham. Methodist—Trinity, Woodhaugh, Central Mission, Cargill Road, Benevolent, Dundas Street, Gaversham, Abbotsford, Glenaven, Ravensbourne. Congregational—Moray Place, St. Clair. Baptist —Hanover Street. Church of Christ—Tabernacle, Roslyn. Salvation Army. Theosophical Society. Christian Scientists. Steel forgings B.S.A. motor cycle are made by 12-ton steam hammers, consequently greatly increasing the density of the metal. —Wilson, Princes street, Dunedin. Advt.

Akaroa's green hills overlook the most beautiful harbour in the world; elcctriclighted sea baths, choicest of flowers and fruits. A restful holiday resort.—Advt. ''No Rubbing" Laundry Help has won the confidence and goodwill of Dunedin housewives on its merits alone.—A. and J. M'Farlane (Ltd.)'. —Advt. At Mollisons Economy Sale the best Fuji silk for costumes, etc., 29in wide, at 3s 3d yard, guaranteed; this is exceptional value. Advt..

"No Rubbing" Laundry Help is out on its own for washing silks, etc., clean without rubbing or injury.—Hunter and Etheridge.—Advt. A soft, round, natural, wholesome stimulant that ministers to health—Watson's No. 10. —Advt. For washing bowlers' \yoollen pants " No Rubbing" Laundry Help is our favourite brand. —M'Farlane and Peden.—Advt. A. K. J. Blakeley, dentist, Bank of Aus tralasia, corner of Bona and Rattray street* (next Telegraph Office): Telephone 1859.— Advt. Who is Peter Dick?—Tho most rehahh Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Certificated Con suiting Optician, 490' Moray place (off Pruv-es 6treetJ, Dunedin. Charges moderate.—Advt

THE " STUDEBAKKR " CANADIAN FACTORY.

Look at Page 6. There jou will see the factories and plant which are the home of " Studebaker" cars, including the magnificent new works at Walkerville, Canada.—S. R. Stedman, Princes street South, Dunedin. Advt.