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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19902, 23 September 1926, Page 8

Petty thieves were at work in Dunedin over the week-end. A show case on the front of Messrs Kilroy and Sutherland’# premises in Princes street was emptied of its contents —about a dozen pairs of sock#. The lock had been carefully picked and then relocked.

Boisterous weather was experienced by tho oversea cargo steamer Opawa on her recent voyage from Liverpool to New Zealand. The vessel, which left Liverpoo l on July 4. arrived at Dunedin yesterday afternoon by way of Auckland, Napier, Wellington, and Lyttelton. The weather was very stormy on the journey to Newport Nows, where the Opawa arrived on July 18. After leaving the American coaling port the steamer again encountered very stormy weather in the form of northeasterly gales, which at times reached hurricane force. The stormy conditions continued for 48 hours, and during that time the Opawa laboured heavily in the high seas, which repeatedly broke on board and flooded the docks fore and aft. After the storm area was passed fine weather prevailed to Colon, which was reached on July 51, and next day she cleared Balboa. In the Pacific there was a continuation of fair weather until August 20, when stormy conditions \vere again encountered. During the remainder of the voyage to Auckland the steamer was considerably buffeted by boisterous, variable winds and rough seas. A considerable amount of water was shipped on deck, and some found its way into the men’s quarters. During the storm minor damage was done to some of the ventilators and other deck fittings.

A sharp rise in both sheep and cattle was experienced at Burnside. As a result of outside buying sheep were dearer by from Is to Is 6d for heavy stuff and 3s per bead for lighter. Fat cattle advanced in value by from £2 10s to £3 per head, and pigs showed an increase of a few shillings. Four more spring lambs were penned, and sold under the keenest bidding at from 40s to 43s fid. About 2106 sheep, including a few hundred wethers, were yarded. A bright demand was apparent throughout, the sale improving. as it progressed. Prices were: Extra heavy wethers, 40s fid to 42s fid; lighter, 54s to 375; medium, 28s 3d to 325. Prime wether mutton sold at figd per lb; extra heavy, s£d to fid; prime ewes, sd; light and aged, 4jd. A yarding of 178 fat cattle met with a greatly improved sale. The opening demand was good, improving as the sale went on Tho entry contained all sorts, including some special quality bullocks and prime cows. Closing rates were up to £3 in excess of those of last week. Prices were: Extra prime bullocks, £2O to £22; prime, £l6 Ss to £l7; lighter, £lO 15s to £l4 6s; prime heavy cows, £lO 15s to £ll ss; lighter, £7 10s to £8 ss; prime heifers, £lO 15s to £ll 10s; lighter, £7 10s to £9. Prime ox beef brought 44s per 1001 b; extra heavy, 425; prime heifers, 40s; cows and light heifers, 30s to 325. Of the 153 store cattle most were cows and heifers of fair quality. Prices were well maintained, and the demand was good. About 60 fat pigs and a similar entry of stores met with a slightly improved sale. Daconers and porkers were up about 10s. John Sutcliffe, a statutory first offender, was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness at the City Police Court, before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., yesterday. Defendant, who stated that he was a remittance men, was 75 years of age. Senior Sergeant Quartermain stated that Sutcliffe had a fairly lengthy lift against him.

Movements of oversea steamers kept the Harbour Board’s pilots busy yesterday. It was a coincidence that all yesterday s movements were confined to oversea shipping. Early in the morning the British steamer Baron Kelvin, which was detained in port on Tuesday owing to the stormy south-west wind, sailed for Melbourne and Sydney, In the afternoon the two pilots were conveyed to the Heads, where one boarded the Opawa, inward bound from Liverpool and northern yorts, and the other the Mamari, from London, via Antwerp and Suva. These two vessels being berthed at Dunedin between 3.30 p.m. and 4 p.m., one of the pilots immediately afterwards boarded the Canadian Explorer, and that vessel steamed down channel to the open sea at 5 p.m., bound for Bluff.

The Mayor announced at the meeting of the City Council last night that the mothers’ rest room at the Botanic Gardens was to bo handed over to the city by the Women's Executive on Friday morning. He asked that as many councillors as possible should attend the function.

Deeply-laden with several thousand tons, of general merchandise, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line steamer Marari arrived at Dunedin yesterday afternoon from London by way of Antwerp, Colon, Panama Canal, and Suva. When the Mamari left Antwerp on August 5 her draught aft was 26ft Sin. She entered this port drawing 22ft Sin aft. The Mamari’s arrival at her allotted berth was timed to the minute. She arrived off the Heads at 1 p.m., entered the harbour about two hours later, and steamed through the Victoria Channel when the tide was at the full. The docply-laden ship was skilfully handled by the Harbour Board’s chief pilot, who manoeuvred the Mamari into her berth at the Victoria wharf at the hour appointed for her arrival, 4.4 p.m. The Mamari was laid up at Port Chalmers for eight weeks early this year. She subsequently loaded at several Now Zealand ports, and then sailed for the United Kingdom A large general cargo was shipped at London in July last. As the British coal strike had not then settled it was necessary for the steamer to obtain bunker coal elsewhere. She accordingly proceeded to Antwerp, where 2700 tons of Belgian coal were placed in her bunkers. The Mamari sailed from Antwerp on August 5, and had a fine weather passage across the Atlantic. The average was somewhat lower than usual as the ship logged only 12.3 knots to Panama. The difference in the quality of coal is shown by the fact that whereas only 73 tons of British coal would be required to feed the Mamari’s furnaces each clay, S 3 tons of Belgian coal wore consumed each day between Antwerp and Panama. The ship had a fine weather pas-age across the Pacific to Suva. From this island port to Otago the vessel had to contend with some stormy weather. She encountered a strong south-we=t gale last Monday morning after making the East Cape. The ship carried the boisterous weather to Cape Palliser. She pitched heavily in the big seas, and frequently shipped large quantities of water forward. The stormy weather abated on Tuesday The Mamari’s speed was reduced considerably owing to the bad weather, the average being 11.9 knots from Suva to Otago. The voyage from Antwerp to arrival at the | Heads, including the stop at Colon and the stay of four days and a-hajf at Suva, occupied 47 days. The average speed maintained throughout the whole voyage was 12.9 knots. Tlie Mamari brought several bags of London parcel mail and two bags of letter mail from Suva. ‘‘You boys at your age are far too rash when driving motor cars, and you think you can do all sorts of things, but you can’t, and you might kill somebody,” remarked Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., to a youth who was charged in Auckland yesterday with dangerous driving (reports our correspondent). “You are only a boy so I will convict and fine you 10s and costs,” he continued.” _ “If you man I would have mrdo it some pounds.’ An extraordinary motor smash took ' place in Mornington on Tuesday night, ■ but, fortunately, was not attended by i fatal results. Mr Charles Foley, an employee of the City Corporation, accompanied by two of his family—a boy and a girl—were out for a ride in a Dodge cat, and when turning from Macnee street into Haig street the car failed to negotiate the corner, and crashed through a low picket fence into Mr R. I. Gossage’s house, quite one half of the vehicle being projected inside a bedroom, which is situated at the south-east corner of the dwelling. The eastern wall of the house was smashed into kindling wood, and the studs were broken as if they had been made of glass. The car was stopped in its progress by the fireplace, but not before it had wrecked the room. A wardrobe was knocked over and badly damaged, and a bed was crumpled up by the impact. Needless to say the motor car suffered. One of the front wheels was wrenched off, and the tyre was stripped from the wheel. It is said that the damage to the house will cost in tho vicinity of £IOO to repair, and the cost of repairing the car is estimated at about £2O. Mr Foley escaped serious injury,-but is suffering from shock. The boy received a ■ few scratches and cuts, and the little girl had a bad cut on one of her legs, which required surgical attention. Mr Foley had only recently purchased the car, and it is understood that Tuesday was the first day he had been on the road with it. It is thought that when about to negotiate the corner he put his foot on the accelerator instead of on the brake. The meeting of the Drainage an.. Sewerage Board held last evening prior to the City Council meeting occupied, as usual, only a few minutes. Several formal resolutions were approved and Cr \Vihon moved the adoption of the Works Committee’s report, which was adopted without discussion. The Finance Committee’s report was presented by Cr Taverner and approved. The tender of Messrs A. and T. Burt of £4 a ton for the purchase of three or four tons of scrap iron was accepted. Mr Ewen R. Chisholm appeared to show cause why he should not be called upon to clear all obstructions from a private watercourse in Pine Hill road and Fea I street. Mr Chisholm said that his property ’ was not responsible for the leakage that was causing the trouble. Cr Wilson said it was necessary for Mr Chisholm to put his drain in order before the Drainage Board could connect up and finish the work. Mr Tapley said he was afraid Mr Chisholm was legally responsible and would find the law was against him. We have received a copy of the souvenir ! edition of the Akaroa Mail and Banks j Peninsula Advertiser published in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Borough of Akaroa. The jubilee issue I has been well brought out on special [ quality paper, and is copiously illustrated with pictures of historic sites and old identities. The district is of historic interest in that it was here that' French colonists [ made a bid for the possession of New I Zealand, being beaten in setting up the flag by H.M.S. Britomart by a few hours. The paper gives the history and development of the district from the early colonising days of 1840 up to the present, and outlines the giowth of Akaroa into the flourishing centre of a rich district. The recollections and reminiscences of old settlers and the stories of the great work done by the early pioneers make mostinteresting reading, and set out in vivid style the manner in which this peninsula, was transferred from a tree-clad land into a wealthy agricultural community. The Akaroa Mail is to be congratulated on the memorial to progress it has produced in the souvenir edition. Hopes of winning a substantial prize, if not even perhaps a fortune of £20,000, when the Melbourne Cup is run on Tuesday, November 2, are entertained by Mr Ben Corrado, a glazier employed by the Auckland City Council (states the New Zealand Herald). Mr Corrado has drawn a ticket in Tattersall’s on Count Cavour, and is quite hopeful that the horse will at least be placed in the Cup race. The first prize is £20,000, the second £6OOO, and the third £4OOO, but Mr Corrado is wisely not yet counting on a victory for Count Cavour. If the horse is unplaced the prize will be only a little over £24. It is reported that an Auckland syndicate of four has drawn a ticket on Sir Highlock in the same sweepstake. The list of -rize-winners in connection with the Sisters of Mercy recent garden fete appears in our advertising columns to-day. Attention is directed to a special notice in this issue by the Universitv of New Zealand announcing the closing date for entries for the December examinations. Port Chalmers residents are notified that the Dominion Building Society meeting is to be held to-night. Latest in wireless crystals. Have you tried Neutron, the latest marvel; price Is fid, with silver cat whisker. —Barth Electrical Supplies (Ltd.), 90 Princes street (opp. National Bank). —Advt. Rubber Sponges.—Just secured a lovely consignment of Rubber Sponges, post free 2s fid each. —H. L. Sprosen (Ltd.), homiat, Octagon, the cash chemists. — \dvt. Ryes are precious. At first sign of eaknoss go to the qualified and experienced (20 years) optometrist, W V. Stunner, D. 5.0.1., G.A.0.C., Octagon, Dunedin Most up-to-date equipment, including test clectrically-lit testing charts installed. —Advt. A. E J Blakeley and W. E. Bagley, dentists, Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph ''died Telephonr IS Ao—Advt. •Make no mistake. For honest value iti jewellery, watches, and optical goods, " Peter Dick,” the most reliable watchmakers, jewellers, and optometrists, 490 Moray place (opp. City Hotel). —Advt.