AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Southern Cross, Volume 14, Issue 30, 22 September 1906, Page 7

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

So far only two tenants have applied for the 25 workmen’s homes ■built by the Government at Pet one, [Wellington. 'A party of blue jackets from the warship Challenger, now at Dunedin, .visited Gore on Wednesday. ■Wanaka and. Hawea settlers are reported to be trying- to arrange ways and means of getting t-heir business dons in Southland instead of through Diznedin.

The following' incident reads like an extract from a shilling' shocker, but it actually happened in New York a few days ago : —Mary Macdonald, a merchant's daughter, of Brooklyn, discovered that Thober, her bridegroom, had bet raj-ed and deserted his previous fiancee. Viola Grover. Miss Macdonald, at the moment of her intended wedding, dramatically produced Viola at the altar, and compelled Thober to marry Miss Grover.

The chief poultry expert has Ikjcu advised that a consignment of Gov-ernment-graded chickens shipped from Aucklanh last season realised from 8s to 10s per pair.

Mr and Airs A. F. Hawke and Air and All's J. D. McGruer. who are leaving- on Alonday on a lengthened visit- to The Old Country, were entertained by their friends in the Gymnasium Hall on Wednesday. Air and Mi-s Hawke wore also the recipients of presentations from the congregation of St. Paul’s Wesleyan Church.

The Invcrcarg-ill police raided a hut occupied by Chinese at the rear of Deschrer's Hotel, and found evidences of opium-smoking. They were also successful in their quest at huts in Leet street, in one of which twelve Chinamen were found. Prosecutions will probably follow.

Manilla and Hong Kong have been visited by disastrous typhoons. At Hong Kong over 100 persons were drowned in two hotirs, and eight steamers were stranded and a number wrecked.

The Jews iri Russia have appealed to King Edward to intercede with the Czar. Two hundred Jews have been arrested in Siedlce.'

Air Laurenson, one of the Land Reform leaders, has given notice to move two important amendments to the Land Rill. He proposes to reduce the £50,000 value limit to £30,000, and to shorten the 66 years’ lease to 33 wears.

The 'directors of the Edondale dairy factory recommend a dividend of ten per cent. Suppliers were paid during the past year £21,711 18s 2d for milk, and the revenue from cheese .was £2-4,543 18s 9d. Henry Lyons, a London tailor, was charged with supplying a suit which he said was made of Harris tweed. This could only be procured from one of the outlying islands of Scotland, and the evidence showed that the material used was not Harris tweed. The magistrate held that a deliberate fraud had been practised, and sentenced defendant to six months’ imprisonment. Defendant fell down in a ht.

"Send us 10,000 decent men in a body to-morrow, and we’ll find them all work within a fortnight. Don’t give us schemes, whether Rider Haggard's or the Church Army’s ; give us workers, and leave us to look after them ourselves.’’ That is how Canada’s Immigration Commissioner sums up the position. General Booth has made another motor car tour in England, On the way to Blackpool one thousand men belonging to the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Borderers and Ist and 2nd Royal Lancaster Regiments blocked the Road, and wished General Booth to speak. The white car halted, and a speech was given amid ringing cheers on "Duty.”

r A'n appeal is to be made to President Roosevelt to forward the passr ing of a Federal law to stop betting on horse races which, it is asserted, is exercising a mostpernicious effect up Q n the whole country. The Holland-American Line of Rotterdam have given Messrs Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, an order for a 23,000 ton steamer, which, with two exceptions, will be the largest vessel built in Belfast.

The Immigration Commissioners Lave arrested four boys in the employment of Mr Huggins, the wellknown racehorse trainer, at Saratoga, for deportation to England on the ground that their engagement violated the United States Contract Labour Law.

Betting news is to be blacked' out of all newspapers at the Southend public libraries.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Great Northern Railway Company, Mr Steinbelt presented a memorial from 2,383 fellow-shareholders protesting against Sunday traffic. The Chairman (Lord Alien on) said the company did all they could to accommodate the working of the traffic to the reqtiireraeuis. The board were there to work the railway on commercial lines, and to carry as much traffic as possible. It was no use to ask them to sacrifice the Company’s property for the reasons given. The discussion was then dropped. On October 16th Dr. Clifford will celebrate his 70th birthday. It is proposed to mark this event by presenting the Free Church leader with a joint annuity for his life and that of Airs Clifford of £SOO. To purchase this a capital sum of about £7,000 will be required. A coal contractor to the West Ham Board of Guardians has been sent to prison for six months for supplying inferior coal and charging for the best Welsh coal.

A labourer at Lambeth, earning 32s- 6d per week, out of which lie had to keep his wife and seven children, stated at the inquest on one of the little ones that he drank daily six glasses of beer and his wife throe, at a cost of 9d per day. At Westminster police court a motor ’bus driver for the London Road Car Co., was fined £lO for driving on the wrong side of the road. His counsel said that fines of these amounts had shocked the motor world.

■An Ethiopian preacher in Natal has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and twenty-five lashes for offering prayers to the effect that the natives should be given strength t 0 drive the whites across the sea.