LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 92, 28 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

PaoToORAPHT,— Mr J, R. Akers ten, photographer, notifies the public that be will visit Carluke for a week commencing on 28th inat. Orders left with Mr W. Twidle, hairdresser, will receive attention.

Tenders fob IPbivilkib*.— The Havelock Racing Club invite tenders for the publican’s booth, dining booth, fruit and lollie stall, and right of legal games at the ~ races on New Year’s Day; offers will also be received for supplying the sapper for the race ball. Tenders close at 8 p.m. next Saturday.

Pe&orub Motob«boat Gi.ub.~A meeting of the committee of this Club will be held on Tuesday, 12th December. Tenders for the privileges at the regatta on Boring Day closed on Saturday last, when the following were :—Publican’s and luncheon booths, Bit J. M. Fraser; fruit and lollie booth, A. Pask ; games, Pope and Rush.

Shipping.—The Manaroa had a very rough trip across the . Strait ,on .Wednesday night, a nbr’-west gale giving her a rare shaking'up. She reached' Havelock at 10, Friday. Passengers—Miss Grogan and Mr White, for Port Ligar, and Mr Wylie, for Havelock. The vessel discharged 40 tons of cargo at various bays, 50 tons at Havelock, and’ loaded . 212 crates of cheese. She sot away at 12.30 p.m. and reached Wellington at 11.45 p.m. on Saturday. Local. Pbbaohjkii.—Some, interesting facts were supplied recently at 'a Methodist Church in the Auckland district; Where the people were fare- > wellingfone of< the local preachers, who had had charge of them without cost or charge for sixteen years. In reply to words of appeciation, accompanying some memento of ithe connection, the speaker said he and another of the active’ local preachers had conducted 58 and-54 Sunday services respectively during the past year. The miles travelled by each preacher were between ,BQO and 900, and he found that this was' the average of their work for at leaSt five years past. They bad sup- 1 plied theft own horses, paid the shoeing smith themselves, bought, their own horse feed, harness, etc., and the horses* used to reach the appointments were moire engaged in the service r of the church than in their business. And yet hb had heard church people who didn’t do Anything say: “It was only a local pjeacber who waa planned today.” 'v,, /, J ' Kp KBCiNO thb PußMC.—New York’s hotels and yestaurants receive large sums yeajply for renting their cloak-room privileges, according to testimony brQUgbt;out iq a suit against the Hotel Albany by George Abrams, who declares an attempt is'being made to break bis hat and . coat-checking contract. The testimony' showed that be paid £3OO a year "to the Hotel Albany management, and that another man was trying to secure his privilege by offering £4OO. In exchange 'for the former sum Mr Abrams collects the outer apparel of the hotel’s as' they enter thediningroom, and depends on the tips for bis profit, which amount to £IOOO yearly. Mr Abrams seated that some of the other yearly prices paid for;* the checking privilege at New- York’s hotels,an?LouisMartin’s,' formerly thA v 'Cafe de I’Opera, Churchill’s, £1400; Hotel Knickerbocker, £1300; Hotel Astor, £6OO. /The uniformed boys who take care of the coats and hats have their [suits made with no pockets in them, so that they cannot hold the tips they .receive.

Love on Business Lines.—A French judge expresses bis impatience with breach* of promise actions. He feels that the time has cofme when love affairs, must be reduced to a system. If blighted affections demand financial solace, then they must be brought down to the financial level. If damages 'are claimed lor a breach of contract, then the contract must be proved, just as all other contracts are proved, by its production. Tear-stained letters, stolen kisses, and moonlight wanderings are all very ,well in their way, but they are not proper material for legal determinations It a broken contract demands precise valuation,' then the contract must be S equally, precise. “ Considering,” says this upright judge, this ornament to the Bench, “ that in old times marriage was founded solely on Ipve, and considering that since then morality has brought about various evolutions, and that it is now considered as a financial contract to bold both parties in whqlesome awe of each other’s rascalities,” etc; Therefore, let it be understood that there can be no claim for damages except on a precise and legally worded contract of marriage—a contract that shall state clearly the amount of the penalty for its infringement.