LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 19, 8 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gordon and Gotch arc cash purchasers of broken glass—any kind. “Spend all your surplus wealth: save all your surplus' products, thus you doubly serve your fellows.” The annual meeting of St. Peter’s Ladies ’ Guild will be held in the schoolroom next Wednesday at 3 p.m. The usual fortnightly euchre party, in aid of comforts for our boys at the front will be held in the library next Tuesday.

The Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Wairau announces the names of the candidates and list of polling places for the election of five members of the Licensing Committee. The election takes place on the 12th inst.

Frederick William Eggers, convicted of the murder of John Coulthard, on the West Coast, was executed at Lyttelton on Tuesday morning. The prisoner’s demeanour on the scaffold was very firm. In a statement to the Sheriff, which the press representatives were unable to hear except in snatches, the murderer persisted that he did not do the shooting. Death was instantaneous. For polishing linoleums, floorcloths, leather goods and furniture, TAN-OL is most efficient and easy, to nse. A rather startling incident occurred on the narrow portion of road near Canvastown at about 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday. As Constable Douglas was proceeding to Havelock a sudden gust of wind uprooted a large poplar tree from the race course, which fell square across the road less than fifty yards in front of him. A waggon load of pigs, also proceeding to Havelock, was about the same distance ahead of the danger spot. Within half an hour three cars proceeding to Nelson, were held up by the obstruction.

What is possible under German law is told by the Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, in the report of a case decided by a Berlin Court. A lady had purchased an undergarment at a leading store, at the price of 7s 6d. In due course the time arrived for it to be washed, and in the washing it disappeared. A number of indefinable substances were discovered; they were the fragments of the vanished garment, which was made of paper. The Court dismissed the charge of fraud against the shopkeeper, holding that the lady, while purchasing, had not specified the material of which the garment was to be made. The prosecutrix left the court weeping with vexation.

In commenting on the opposition shown by the Dominion Consolidated Developing Company to J. M. Cadi* gan’s application for use of waste water from the Company’s pelton wheel, Mr C. H. Mills, K.C., said the company had evidently made up its mind to harass Mr Cadigan. He held that to harass his t dient in this way was most unfair, When the operations of the company are not interfered with in any way by Cadigan's use of the water, which otherwise runs to waste. He was sorry that Mr Peacock, (who represented the company when the applications first came before the court) was not present, as he would then have couched his remarks in much stronger terms.

The stone family were in dire distress, and little Jimmy was getting tired of it. Principally, he suffered from a surfeit of bread and dripping. A slice of this dainty comestible formed his breakfast, and very often, alas, his dinner and tea.' One day he rebelled openly. “I don't want drippin'. ” ho sobbed. “I want butter.” "Bo thankful for what you can get,” cried his mother. “Dripping will do' you more good.” “It won't; it's killing me. I've been feeling bad lately, and now I've found out from a book that it's the drippin' what's doing me all the harm.” “What rubbish have you got hold of now,” asked the mother. “Tain't rubbish,” answered the boy. “It's the truth. The book said ‘Constant dripping wears away a stone,' and it's right.” An invention which, it is claimed, will locate the position of vessels wrecked and sunk in any depth of water, is now being constructed at Messrs Humble and Son's engineering works at Geelong, Victoria, and it is expected that the machine will be completed before the end of April, when a trial test of its efficacy will be made in Port Phillip Bay under the supervision of experts of the Navy Department and officials of the Federal Government. It is stated that if the machine is fitted to a vessel which is afterwards sunk, an indicator will rise to the surface and show, not only the actual position of the wreck at its depth in fathoms, but also the date on which it was sunk. . The motor launch Montana, which sunk after striking a reck while cruising at the Croixelles some time ago and was subsequently refloated and beached for repairs, was brought to Nelson the other day in tow of the -Wairoa and the ketch Transit. Except for the loss of one of her masts and the deckhouse, she looks little the worse for her mishap. Remember, if you want to get lid of that heavy dull feeling in the head, which accompanies Nasal Catarrh, just take a good inhalation of “NAZOL” through a Nazol Inhaler, and get immediate relief.

“Lavish living in times of peace leaves us a surplus from which by economising we may relieve those stricken by war famine.”

The result of the Land Art Union recently conducted by the Marlborough Patriotic Fund is as follows; —Received for sale of tickets £3164,75, exchange £1 3s 3d, interest and investments £7 ss; total £3172 15s 3d. Commissions to vendors £2B 3s 9d, secretary and organiser £l3O 14s lOd, advertising £ll2 4s 9d, printing £57 13s 6d, clerical assistance £ll 14s, sundries £1 16s 6d; total £392 7s 4d; leaving a nett balance of £2780 7s lid.

A cable message to the Australian papers states that the people of London took the air-raid of February 16th calmly. Warnings of the approach of the raider were given in the theatres, but the performers wore not disturbed, and no one left the buildings. New lamp signals were used to guide pedestrians to the shelters, with the result that the streets were deserted. Many of the shelters were provided with gramophones, and in others dances are held. A number of Australian soldiers organised a dance at Picadilly Tube, and fashionable women who had come from the restaurants joined gaily in the fun. The Gotha was not seen, but the movements of the searchlights and the intense barrage showed the track of the raider as he fled homewards. During the raid 14 bombs dropped in a field on the Kent coast. The majority of these were thrown out hurriedly to enable the Goth as to rise. One was unable to escape the searchlights and was hit while passing over the cliffs. The machine blazed up and crashed into the Channel, amid the cheers of the spectators Sickness and vomiting from a disordered stomach may be relieved by taking SHAELAND’S FLUID MAGNESIA. Motorists who are in the habit of using dazzling headlights, would do well to bear in mind that under the Vehicles Act, 1915, they are liable to prosecution. On Monday morning at Palmerston North, Cyril George Beattie was charged with, on February 10th, having his motor headlights of so dazzling a brilliancy as to affect the vision of drivers proceeding in an opposite direction. Sergeant Henry, who prosecuted, said the police did not ask for a penalty so much as to bring the case before the notice of the'public. The charge was laid under the Lights on Vehicles Act, 1915, so that everybody should bo acquainted with it by this time. With lights such as these used 'by defendant, they dazzled one’s sight half a mile away, which was dangerous in narrow roads. In entering a conviction without fine or costs, His Worship said those using such lights ought to see that they were dimmed or turned down when other vehicles were approaching. The battlefield presents many incidents pf an amusing nature, and there is on rccprd a case which occurred directly after the Auckland raid of last February. Men are allowed special privileges after raiding, one of which takes the form of a large “tot” of rum. A worthy Aucklander was found, apparently unconscious, some distance from the firing line, and all efforts to arouse him failed. The Eed Cross ambulance was called, and in it he was taken to the nearest dressing station, where he still slept on in spite of all. He awoke 24 hours later, to find himself labelled “Suffering from shell shock.” The doctor appeared some little time later, and asked him did he feel better. “Well,” said the doctor, “you must rest; it is needful, as you apparently have had shell shock.” Our hero roared with laughter, and calming, replied, “Shell shock, be blowed, sir. I got through the raid all right; I’m not suffering from that, but I have 'rum shock!’ ” He rejoined his company next day.

“TAN-OL” does much and costs little. Renovates leather, shines tan shoes, polishes furniture, brightens floorcloth. Quick, easy and economies!. Amongst the supporting subjects to be screened at to-morrow night's picture show we notice two short dramas entitled, “At the risk of her Life,” and “A Necklace of Pearls,” both of which are full of life and interest. A Nordisk comedy of over 1100 ft., entitled “The Umbrella Shop” will provide the element of fun which is always looked for—particularly by the younger members of the audience. In this picture the love affairs of Terry Beck, the Actor, and Terry Beck, the Butcher, get hopelessly mixed up, causing much misunderstanding and trouble for the Holms' of the Umbrella Shop—but after several umbrellas and a few heads have been broken, all comes right, and true love smiles again. Illustrating a warning as to the need for care in choosing a vocation, especially for one's children, Mr H. Balkin, a lecturer from America, who spoke at the Y.M.G.A, at Christchurch recently, instanced the case of a Pittsburg banker who took upon himself to choose his children’s career, irrespective of their wishes. Ho spent several thousands of pounds on a musical education for his daughter, but she, although she had a remarkably keen sense of values and mathematics, possessed no aptitude for music. With the same obstinacy the father insisted upon his son going into business. The boy was passionately fond of music, and finally embezzled thousands of dollars in order to go to Europe to study art. The sneaker backed up this instance by several others, illustrating the unhappy results of misconception of vocation, and added. “Go to the gaols, and you will find that 40 per cent, of th-* men there ewe their misfortune to their misplacing in life, their want of real Interest in their original honest vocation. ” He added that he had specially observed numerous criminals, and intended visiting the New Zealand gaols in the course of further investigations relating to his study.

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