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Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 5

H.M.S. Cambrian, at Norfolk Island', 800 miles distant, sent a weather report through to H.M.S. Pioneer at Wellington the other day. It was in due course (says our correspondent) forwarded. to the New Zealand Weather Bureau. As " wireless " becomes 'general, weather forecasting will , be easier of accomplishment and. more re-, liable. The passengers and officers on tho Ruahine, which has arrived at Wellington, afforded some splendid views of Halley'a comet while crossing the Southern Ocean. It was at its best when the ship was mid-. way between Capetown and Hobart. One dark, clear night the. tail was found to measure 55 degrees in length, a brilliant band stretching across from the horizon to the zenith. In future candidates for the Police Force' will make application to local inspectors : of police, who will then provide them with: the necessary printed forms of application for enrolment. Such forms when filled inf are to be returned to the inspector, who, inlthe event of considering the candidates suit-:, able, will make recommendation to the. Commissioner of Police in Wellington. i A lad named Christian Larsen has ad* mitted that he placed on the railway track? the stones which so nearly resulted in the wrecking of the Waimea express all Kingston crossing on Wednesday. The boy* lives close by the place where the attempted wrecking took place. Viewed in the light of the subsequent investigation by the police (says the Ensign) the affair appears to be the result of mischief. The stones which? were placed on the crossing were not muchlarger than'fair-sized apples, and they placed on the rails, one a little in advancer of the other: The effect of this was thai*: after the front wheel of the engine struck the first obstruction it had not time to re- ] gain the metals before the opposite wheel struck the other stone, this causing both wheels to leave the rails. It is regarded as the merest chance that anything untoward happened. A candid personal confession was mad* on -May 30 by thft Hon. J. A. Miliar. Minister of Railways. Fields looked at a distance, he averred, and many thoughtf enviously of the life of a member of Par-: liament, and particularly that of a of the Crown. But things were not alway< what they seemed. Every office had iti trials and troubles. The economic and j social problems a*r*&fe.g solution were hv» | creasing in importance every day, not only, here but all over the world, and he some-:; times thought younger and fresher brainy, should be brought to the task. of course, he said, was a valuable assets and it was that cor/sis; >ation which some* times made it apganK.j \ duty for him tat remain longer. Efc >v'ald say perfectly honestly that he had no desire to die in* harness. With five more -years of public life he would have given to the publio about 25 years of strenuous toil, and ha thought after that a man was entitled to a. year,or two of quiet before he left this earth. That was what he was looking for< ward to.

.WOLFE'S SCHSSE'r!) iias v»l"« and xueri* that cannot b? shaken.