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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13350, 7 April 1914, Page 2

A pleasanfc J snrpt*i Js e..was sprung on the congregation at the Baptist Church last .mght, when Mr T. E. Toneycllffe presented the church with : a fine ' neW *° r Jie V The announcement was. received 1 .- 0 " 1 - acclamation, and the generous donor 1 was accorded* a hearty vote of thinks. ',-■■ iTwo additional carriages have been placed in commission on the local railway section. The additional ears are of the "A" type, and provide. smoking accommodation for tivti and second-class' passengers, and will certainly be much appreciated . The other ' pa&'cnger cars are at present undergoing the periodical overhaul arid painting. At Tokomaru liay- yesterday Constable Morris, arrested two men, Richard Jones and E. Chadwick, *ori" a chaf-ge of .theft. It' is alleged that the two men, while under the influence of liquor, entered J. K. Poppel's : store when nobody was about, opened the cash register, and stole £4 or £5; The two rnen arrested will be brbught before' Justices of the Peace at Tokomaru Bay. y Further returns in connection with "Hospital Saturday" have come to hand from the following cduntfy places:— Motu, collectors Misses Iris 'Caulton arid Hilda Lovel), £6 18s Ud ;. Patutahi (Mr D. B. Watt), collectors Misses Watt (2) rand McKenzie v £7. 18s; Matawai (Mr J. ' B. Clark), collectors: Misses Stella Fleming,' D. Loane, R'. Nicholson and E. 1 Emerson, £6 16s 6d * Ormond hotel, £2 2s 4±d. A special train sevyice has been arranged for the Easter- holidays, providing for* excursions to' Puha/ Waiko'htt, aiid Otoko, and felso *for ; St. iPatrick's sports gathering -at -the Pai^k'groumds ori Easier Monday. Cn both Good Friday and Easter Monday special trains will be despatched from town for Otoko nt 9 a.m., which will enable townspeople to spend the day in the country. Holiday excursion tickets .will be available.

The Wellington-Naples* despatch, of <ihej 27th February arrived in London on the 4th inst. ,/... Under an amendment passed last ses-. ■ sion, chairmen of county councils be-*" come Justices of the Peace. * ' A couple of wooden; buildings are being erected on the Waikanae beach, near the flagstaff. These are intended - for tlie storage of explosives to be used in connection with the widening and " deepening of the river channel. Last evening's train was an hour late in reaching town. The delay arose inconsequence of engine trouble being experienced ab Waipaoa. Certain parts bad to be stripped readjusted, aiid the engine was brought on to town with a lighter load. A nuihber of passengers, intending to proceed ' South fbythe Takapuna last evening, were anoai*d ' the train. The Union Company "'■ waif''' communicated with, ahd the steamer's" departure was delayed until the arrival of the train. ' ',' f . ' A straight-out offer of £100 was made to the members of the Land Board ~'ys&A terday by a prominent settler,' -who #?>' sired the Board to reconsider the 'pdsfti^ with reference to the. expiration f of; A '" coupi e of small leasehold sections., artd-* aUow the matter to go. toafbitrati^B;*--Naturally, the offer was hot taken,.seriously, and as the gentleman in questibii" withdrew, he intimated his readiness 'to v raise his "sporting offer" to '£2oo. '"tip. afraid* the odds are too'long/'joculallj/ '"'' responded the Commissioner. ; •"-?'■ L' A Press -Association message from : Wellington. last. evening stated: By the Remuera j&om' -London "tliis mbfraiiig" there arrived Mr! Herbert A. Cooper, a son of Mr Justice Cp6per; 'after a loh&i absence ihy'the Old Cfouht^Yparfp^f" which was spent in the flying soh'ddls ', of the Hendorif 'Aerodrome. .Mr Cpotfer "■* ia-»a fully-certificated airmarf, hayinji : ~ taken his pilot's brevet under the. n^W regulations, which 'came into force •at'?" the beginning of this' year. These ~hatye' v " largely • increased" the difficulty of thV^ test.' ".';••;.'■■. Xf-Ab A meeting of the Tairawliiti Maoti Land Board was held to-day,' Judge Jon^s presiding. Mr H. Carr took ./his ' seat on the JBoard . for the first txxAAA. E. G.. Matthews, ori behalf o£!spi A Bar, i Congratulated 'Mr Carr upon ••Injr appointment and promotion,' addhjj?” that he %as glad that i'nfth^re^arTan^'-'* ment of the dis£rfct .".Mr Carr 'h^d b'sgK ''" retained- at Gisborne, as" he hap . siyfen ' satisfaction forabine years as J regiist^it;f ' * Mr Dawson also endorsed Mr MattheVffs' remarks. Mr C^arr, in replying, .'. aawi, hef ... hoped that/ he would 'deserve their 'gotiii wishes. .A. A. In the Cox-Heyes-McGlnggagei " c«j|Si at Wellington (in which Cox -was nonsuited), it was stated that a lawyer had * ■ been present at certain proceedings Ahd defendant's counsel suggested that. AAA' J . was taken there to settle a difference between properties in the interests ?of the paper, (Nctftheri* Advocate)? 'Aj/SSA'-'P:-Honor : .But -you dbnt ~;*asunll^O£rryf '-ia_gf.; 'lawyer -..'to * settle . things , jr*;- th|s>s way. Counsel: He was to be the peaces *"' maker. His Honor: Peacemaker,! Peacemaker ! Tho legal profession- is adopting an entirely new role! Peacemaker! It's absurd! It's -ridiculous! - . ' . Amongst the reports placed before thfe Land Board yesterday by the Crovfn Lands' ranger, Mr 'D.'G." •Robertsony'wag * ' a. statement of inspections conducted dtiar-;' ' ing the year. ' The position was stiA(£i: marised. asV follows i ;. Crown- laattd, i6s y^y" spectionW, 54,353 acres, improvements re£' quiifecl £31,350, effected £81,514; lalM; for •' settlement^ , inspections, 47,713^ acres, improvements required £98,88$ "" effected £172,907; national endowineitty ' 4? inspections,, 114,875 acres, improve-, mentis required £30,900, effected -'Brttifi'' 004; miscellaneous," 151 inspections, "Sg? 280 acres; total, 4o6'inspection«. 255,203 acres--,'' improvements re<jt»ired £161,136", improvements effected £429,426. It will' thus be seen ' tKit' the iMpi-ovemehli aCtuallv exceed the requirements of* the' Land Act bv £268,290. '' ~" v ~ »' i.y. ■>.■ .<■ •-.-■ ,-^.f ; Extracts from,, the latest squadron, orders issued by Captain. &.: J. ■ Hamil- .-* ton, 'commanding "A"- Squadron, 9^f ; ' (W.E.'C.) Mounted Rifles, are v AS-fol-lows -.—Parade for x April : Saturday, 18th April, at ,2.30 .p.m.. Gisborne A and ;B and 'Makauri troops, 1 dismounted', at' Garrison Hall ; dress, drill order , witli 'f rifles and side armsJ 'The 'onlCeVs^nqti-r*. commissioned . officers and. men of the* squadron will go into cairip for annual . training at Takapau, Hawke's Bay, Itiatn 27th April, to' 9th May,- 1914 '(inclusive)., ' Every member who, without having* obv* . tained leave qf absence grafted o"n"f a ' medical certificate or by the officer com--manding regiment, fails to attend thi* camp ' will . be prosecuted. Leave w^. only , be granted in cases of gehuiff*' 1 hardship, apd all applications iorVleavef must he made .on a special form obtainable from ,the officer commanding, squadronV and must ' be made' prmr to ' 10th April. Men obtaining ssch leave will be required to attend a casual "Carrip in May next. Troops will parade '" (mounted) on Saturday, 25th April* 1914, as follows i-T-Gisborne A and ?B • troops it Garrison' Hall? at 2.30 p-nV; Makauri troop, at ImageV corner, Maw- r wJiero, at 2 p.m. ; To. Karaka trOQP^at Ie Karaka school, at. 8.35 a.m.; drers, drill order with .arms: Cans Are to be ( worn and hatsf packed in kit bag. ' 'y ■ *8l ■°* ttli ne» M.L.A./ spoke^pVboldiy' in thp Legislative Assembly h*st week. (says the Sydney Sun) on the question- of'" railway construction in '. New South . Wali-s. According JL6 this critic ' x i&oj?l" ; the Caucus, the Mini»ti'y7 has 'an' rec^bl' times be.gun the p%tice first sod," but leaving'iho' i*«&t %? iM worW'to the distant "'fAtitre'.' La'i^ Veafe ' and the -'■year, before it Svas ffraYMSlec} 3^ tioneerin|f for the M.nistei: *or .pi-Btor©i a to go to Possum Gully or Rabbit-{t<j^fi' ,, Creek, get a, Silver- snade'as a souyentrt -* and solemnly 'dig a small piefc^ Of tttff ' out of tho ground. „ Tui-keys were slaiiji * and bottles onened; arid the* daughters of the loc«> storekeeper said, -M>7 hon !"• and "Just, fancy .!" t**the doibte^ chinned members of ParUiiin^nt, Z§b&'' paid fat and roguhih complinierltf- W them- The tiishf farmers went kw%ibv say7of the "Begobs, h^.M.' gran' bhoy an' ; no mistake,')' land- ti^Ay' drove home to tell their wiyes.ahow the banquet/ and the flood*. tinaescOTh-:-,' ing. Whenever Mic^ o'HinhJßsJr:'brougM' ' the cream to- the factory"he ; would''*mc«i; , Job Sju-aggins, arid Job would "My/'- 1 "We'll be gittin* it to our railwav sta^oft ' pretty soon," and they'd haVe , orie drink • to toast the : health. ' And f. that's where the iriatter stands; rortnVx. men who were put dn the wwk- dwindled > away when the Treasur v was eiriptiM; and Possum Gully f and Rabbits^abtn. ' Creek : have relapsed "'into. th(fir t f<)rrn€Sk ; : condition .'.of believing 'that the" darnf Giivmeht doesn't' think a ' dairri thing "' about any other darn. place but Sydney. : ■ • ' *. .., • v- '" ' ■ ■ \*p .. In reference to the '• : recent change Min^try in Tasmania A letter of Match 25, prior to the defeat of the Govern- : ment,) stated -.—Moths, not of the. p.oU^cal order, • but of the" kind whjch playji havoc? -witli potatoes, are a'maj;eria^ is£- . tor in a deadlock whicJh hasb^ch estaplished in Parliamentary yaj^r^ inf^Twji mania. In the general elections. of ri|W" there 'were returned to the House ..'fjjj ■• Assembly 16 Liberals and 14 Labor mehv bers... After providing a , Spefaker, t)|e Liberdl majority was one, but' the Prjjf: nuje'r' "was able to carry 4 on. Howeyer,*. in a by-election for Depison Tthjjr. iye^r, a Lkbor candidate won the se^ whicJ-^-a" Liberal held. ' ( Thus the rjos^tion^. ay(»e that . Whichever' .: side '■'"• noihihate'd y y^ Speaker was bound'^Pb.^in a,, minority on ftKe floor of the Hous§i Before £ho ' discovery of a way out ' of this ' pre^i^-] ment a hew element has . been ! f int^ : duced. Mr Whitsett, one of tlie r libetaj 15, Says he is preriared to vote "'ag^jijpj the Government ' ori •a, ' np-cop^cf^rii^ -"■ motion. Mr Whi,tgetV is v in^n^d.''-Wrt * cause of a rather cavalier .ansSyer jis*hi^{i he received from the Minister of 'Agjj%y cwlture to an extraordinary ,'demaqpHe a.*»ked that the law which ' provides , for inspection and prohibition ■•;. of ■'•')%-■ , ports in regard to ai*eas. where -•the potato moth has appeared sqoi^ 700 suspended in regard to some : . properjy V for ; which, he is trustee.. Mr Whjtseit. .7 has declared his allegiance to the'^riXS*,. try to be ended. He/anhonnces his p^r- 1 feet confidehce in his 'ability ffto^ di*r^it affairs generally by means ot -iusrdewVf, mining vote. " * -f^ ' ".'■'■ '-'.'' *^* 1 "This 7s 6d Match of yours [is a ; Jit|fi> wonder, and, i*eally, I've ijiven'it -80^9 awful usse,^' says one of Greve's (jewel- " ler) satisfied customers. Try* one.* A'%y

The Poverty Bay Hunt Club is holding the opening gathering of the season at Repongaere on Saturday. Music lovers will be interested to learn that there has been a serious split in the ranks of the Auckland Orchestral Society as the outcome of which a new. society has been formed. A thousand Liverpool babies are now being supplied witli milk sterilised by electricity. This is an experiment, and the advantage claimed .over sterilisation by steam is that the milk tastes the same as when it leaves the cow. The sterilisation is carried on in the centre of a working-class district. Here a current of electricity of high voltage is passed, through the milk while it is in flow. Mr J. M. Beattie, Professor of Bacteriology at Liverpool University (and one time of New Zealand), is closely watching the process. During the last ten years 25,000 infants have been fed from Liverpool's milk depots. The babies are visited by women inspectors, who report the results to headquarters. The milk supply is maintained by 17,000 cows. The city of Chicago boasts of the cheapest tramway system in the world. In that city you can now travel a -distance of 28 miles for 2_id. Universal "transfers ." permitting a change without extra fare, to any city tramline, and a single fare throughout . the city, have gone into effect sinoe the middle of February, despite a lawsuit brought by a number of dissatisfied stockholders to prevent the innovation. The elevated railways in Chicago recently established a single fare within the city's limits, and the unification of tlie two large systems of surface lines now makes it possible for the tramway services to compete with the "elevateds'' at the same fare. It has to be remembered that in all American and Canadian cities the standard tram fare is 2-_cd for distances long or short and that "transfers" are universal. *. At the annual meeting of the Waikato Graziers' Association, the chairman (Mr Morgan), in a review of the past year, said the continuance of low prices for meat, while butter fat was constantly rising in value, could have but one result. Hundreds of thousands of acres which had been chiefly devoted to grazing and fattening stock were being turned into dairy farms. The slaughtering of new-born calves by dairymen, who found pigs more profitable, created artificially a scarcity of store steers. The higher return for fat stock had been laa*gely discounted to fatteners by the high prices ,of store animals. There was a difficulty in getting even fairly well-bre'd cattle, whereas twenty years ago the^Waikato, in this respect, was second to none -in the southern hemisphere. Dairymen had "mongrelised" their herds. -Mr Morgan said that graziers had in the past conducted their business in a loose style. They must "speed up" their fattening business. Two-thiixls of the meat in the Smithfield (London) market was imported. In conclusion, the chairman referred to the unsatisfactory train service to the Auckland freezing works. A case ' which was heard recently found a somewhat extraordinary sequel on Saturday night in one of the quietest of the .residential suburbs of the city, says the*: Otago Daily, Times. The lady concerned in. the case 'had rented a house in her own. name, and had had removed to it the furniture which she claimed as her own. On Saturday she liad occasion to go into town ; subsequent events showed that her departure had not been unnoticed by someone, who was apparently keeping a close check on her movements. On her return, an hour or two later, the erstwhile comfortable and neatly-adorned interior of the house bore evidence of a strange visitation. The door lock had been rudely burst open, and everything in the house had . been removed except the lady's 'wearing apparel. This, had been strewn all over the house, in a manner which showed that the despoiler had carefully calculated the effect on the feelings of the unfortunate owneT. Hats adorned the fireplaces, and the little knick-knacks that accumulate .with years of^ housekeeping— presents, and the. things that appeal to the feminine mind — had all been ruthlessly torn from the walls and removed. ,Over all was the mark of frantic haste, but diabolical thoroughness — the rent book had gone, a bottle of medicine, and even the clothes pegs from the washhouse — • all had been carted away. For some time past practically every firm in the world t-hat manufactures armaments has been, enjoying a record boom in trade. An official of one of the largest firms for constructing battleships and naval and field ordnance in England stated that the demand for such "goods" indicates a state of affairs almost without parallel in the history of ship construction. An idea of the vast output of European firms alone represents a daily expenditure of over £1,000,000. "It is impossible," said the official, """to estimate the production of all the firms represented in this trade, for several British firms have erected works on the Continent where they are completing orders for the various Governments. ' The following figures show the amount of money being spent on armaments by the seven principal European Powers: — Great Britain, £73,000,---000; France, £56,000,000; Germany, £68,000,000; Austria-Hungary, £21,000,---000; Russia, £61,000,000; Italy, £23,---000,000; Spain, £i0,000,000. British firms are buliding for most of the Continental Powers, and one of the main reasons given for the present boom is the appalling influence of the large- . cali'.>r?. high-explosive shells of modern ships, and the increasing accuracy of hitting. At the time of the RussoJapanese war representatives of both countries were in such urgent need of first-class armaments that they were both visiting British factories at the same time. Within the last decade no fewer than 49 battleships were ordered for the British Navy. It is an old controversy whether, suppose one infliction were unavoidable and choice might be made between the two, 'twere better to be blind or deaf. "It is a difficult question to answer," says Sir Henry Lucy in a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald. '^In • company where it ,was tho other night admitted, a majority were in favor, if the word 'may be used in this connection, of blindness. I have known several blind men who havo grown so accustomed to their adversity that it did not affect their spirits nor apparently chequer their daily life. A member of tho House of Lords, formerly a prominent figure in the House of Commons, though not born blind, is so far suffering from defective sight that he is unable to read or write. But he pluckily makes his way through tho maze-' of houses and streets, and cari at close range recognise acquaintances. He still takes part in debate, and, according to early habit, in the quietness of his study, dictates to his secretary his speech. Taking the manuscript to the House, he hands it to the custody of a friend sitting near, who follows the course of delivery, ready at any moment to act as prompter if memory fails. A friend who performed this service on one occasion in the House of Commons told me that so wonderful is his memory that, dealing with intricate Eroblems through the course of an hour, e did not once, save for the immaterial C substitution of a word, depart from the .script. Another member, whose abso- ~- Jute blindness did not bar Parliamentary success or advancement, to Ministerial office, was Henry Fawcett. Led into the House by a messenger, he was v deposited on a convenient seat by the cross benches whence, blind himself, •he with frequency 'caught the Speaker's eye.' "

. .Mission. Hall, at tho Wharf, opposite Dalgety and Oo.'s.— Gospel Meetings held here every Sunday evening at 7, every Wednesday at 7.15. Bible-reading on Thursday 7.30 p.m. All cordially invited. Hymn-books provided. Sunday School at 2.30 every Sunday, when we shall be glad if parent/- would send their children.*

To-morrow afternoon (I. K. Miller holds a clearing sale of household furniture at the residence of Mrs Galloway, 365 Ormond road, commencing at 2 o'clock.

Finest stock of gold chains, in .ill fiat terns, is Grieve's latest, 9ct, stamped every Jink, from £4 10s, from Grieve, jeweller.*