Summary of the Week

Southern Cross, Volume 17, Issue 26, 9 October 1909, Page 12

Summary of the Week

MORE IMMIGRANTS. The Tainui has arrived at Wellington with third-class passengers. FATAL FIRE. A fireman named D. Williamson, while on dutv at a fire in Hastie's Hotel, Feilding, was killed by a falling chimney. The hotel, which was built four years ago at a cost of £BOOO, was gutted. MONEY IN MILK. Monday was pay-day with the Edendale Dairv Factory Co., and their 132 suppliers (alt Edendale and Brydone) received £2OOO for their Sept. milk. This is £6OO in excess of the amount paid last year. DECEASED PERSONS' ESTATES. The following estates were certified bv the Commissioner of Stamps during Sept. :—William P. G-rigor, £15,I 253 ; Ada Isabella Godby, £23.41 ; Donald Fraser, £2083 ; Patrick Boyle £lß9l. WORKERS' HOMES. Sir J. G. Ward states that, as the ■ result of his raising half a million in London for advances to settlers, all outstanding applications for loans have now been granted. Most of the money goes for building homes for workers. STEAMER MISSING. The Wellington harbour tug Duco. which left on a fishing expedition to the Chathams on Sept. 7-. has not rea'ched her destination, although the trip usually only occupies 48 hours. After she left a fierce southerly gale sprang up. . Several steamers have been despatched to search for the Duco. AIRSHIPS IN PEACE AND WAR. Count Zeppelin is arranging for "an airship to accommodate from 30 to 40 passengers. and proposes establishing a service to the North Sea watering places and Copenhagen, and eventually to England. The war estimates of St. Petersburg include a' quarter of a million sterling for airships.

LAND FOR RETIRED CIVIL SERVANTS. Between 300 and 400 applications are in for sections on a block of land to be thrown open for selection to retrenched civil servants and discharged railway hands. The block consists of 15.000 acres. between Raurimu and Piriaka on the Main Trunk line. A PRESIDENT'S PERILS. While entering his motor car at Portland Mr Taft was approached by a man who said he wished to photograph the President. Suspicion was aroused, and the man was arrested. He was found to be in possession of a six-chambered revolver and a ouan-t-ity of ammunition. He proved to be a youth of weak mind. DISASTER IN JAVA. Owing to the crater of a volcano giving way when it wa's full of water, the torrents rushed down the mountain side, carrying enormous quantities of sand and mud. The iivers everywhere flooded their banks and swept everything before them. Six hundred lives were lost at one village, and sixty persons were buried alive beneath mud and sand. EXPLOSION IN SYDNEY. The extensive premises occupied by an East Sydney Pharmacy Company were destroyed by a'n explosion, due to the upsetting of a can in which camphorated oil was being heated. Several shops were blown in. All the windows within 100 yards were shattered and ceilings and fittings were wrecked. Several persons were injured, and one, named Sharp, has since died.

DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. The convention of the Federation of Labour in Canada decided as under : Voluntary service in accordance with militia system. A naval policy under Canadian control —warships and military equipment to be built in Canada', as far as possible.—The Duchess of Albany successfully launched the eighth Dreadnought Neptune at Portsmouth. Colonial wine was used in the christening ceremony. NO-LICENSE. At a largely attended public meeting at Christchurch, motions were passed urging the granting of Dominion option, and a bare majority in connection with local option polls, and protesting against the sale of

liquor in the King Country. The Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention (Sydney) urges the Federal Government to establish the Federal capital a's a no-license centre, and make it the model city of Australia. SOUTHLAND EDUCATION BOARD. Appointments : South Wyndham, James White, tem. sole teacher ; Woodlaiids. Eva H. Grunn, mistress ; Waimahaka, Mrs Murch, sewing mistress ; Tisbury, Irene tlain, tern, pupil teacher. —Tenders accepted : Bluff, fencing residence site, Alexander McKenzie, =£lo 5s ; LimehiUs, painting, John E. Aldred, £-18 ; Mabel, painting, John E. Aldred, )16 17s 6d ; For'trose, painting, John Vincent, £l3 14s ; Orepulvi, addition to residence. C.'b. Sim, £9B. PIPERS AND DANCERS IN CONCLAVE. The war between the N.2. Athletic Union and certain sports bodies continues. The Southland branch of. the Pipers' and Dancers' Association have endorsed the action of the Dunediu branch in resolving to abstain from competition at any gathering where bagpipe music and Highland dancing are not under the sole control of the Pipers' and Dancers' Association of N.Zi.

COMMERCIAL NOTES. Mr W. Swale, of Limehills, has bought ■ Messrs Wallace and Hood's Thornhill Estate at Tuturau.—The Sydney wool sales are proceeding; to a firm market. —The prohibition against the importation of potatoes into N.S.W. is to be removed as soon as possible compatible with safety.— At Gore on Tuesday fat wethers realised from 17s to 20s. —The potato market is reported from Christchurch to be still unsatisfactory. TJp-to-Dates are practically unsaleable at 40s to 50s at country stations, the principal demand being' for Derwents at 60s. ACCIDENTS. M. Fischer, storekeeper, killed near Dannevirke, his trap capsizing when descending a hill. —.Tosiah Milner killed in. a quarry near Sumner (Canterbury) through a fall of earth and rock ; two other men had a narrow escape.—An old man named Painton burned to death in his hut in Canterbury. I-Ie went home on Saturday night ciuite sober, but carried a bottle of whisky, and was afterwards heard singing and talking to himself. —David Marr was run over by a train at Sawyer's Bay. and had his legs amputated. He is under treatmerit in the Dunedin Hospital. LABOUR NEWS. Dealing at Auckland with an application for a new award from the Waterside workers, Judge Sim said that the constant attempt to reduce the hours of labour was simply absurd, and the continued demand for alterations contemptible. Decision reserved.—A Conciliation Court at Palmerston North is dealing with an application for a new award in the flax trade, raising wages and proposing the strongest preference clause.—Judge Sim has ruled that the masters of the Auckland Harbour Board's dredge and tug are not subject to the shipmasters' award.—The conference between delegates from the millers and sawmill workers of Southland ended without a settlement being reached. THE IRISH PARTY. Owing to differences between Mr Timothy Healy (National Member for North Louth) and Redmond, a. movement ' is on foot to expel Healy. Twenty-four members of the House of Commons refuse to join, as they approve of Mr Healy's opposition to the Government's Licensing Bill, which Mr Redmond supports in order to bargain on other questions. Since then, Mr Asquith has agreed to make the minimum duty in Ireland £.5 in areas with population below ten thousand, and £7 10s in more populous areas. At this the Nationalists expressed satisfaction. The Government refused to extend the same privilege to London. HORSE PARADE. This fixture was held in the Queen's Park on Wednesday, and attracted a very large attendance, principally horse buyers and breeders. There were 29 entries—one better than last year. The judges ha'd a task in placing the horses, which taxed their knowledge to some extent, for all the horses entered were fine specimens. The first prizes were awarded as under : —Draught Stallions : Aged class, J. B. McKenzie's "Abbot," and reserve champion. Three year-olds, R. Trving's. jnr., "Baron Clinton" and

champion. In thoroughbred stallions Mr Alex. Fraser's "Zecchino" scored a popular win. Mr.Jno. Mortimer's "Mambrino" secured first and reserve champion.

NEW ZEALANDS' PROSPECTS. Reports from all over the country give hope that the coming season will be a favourable one (says the Rangitikel Advocate). An official estimate puts the probable increase in dairy production at ten per cent, and as last year the exports of butter and cheese were valued at £2,300,000 this means an added value of something like a quarter of a million. The wool export last year was valued at £5,500,000 in a: market that had fallen badly. Though it is impossible to foretell the course of the sales later in the season, there seems no reason to expect that the rise in the value of wool will be less than ten per cent., and this, with the natural increase in the flocks, will bring in from half a million to threequarters of a million more than last year. MAN" AND WIFE. George Wishart, a settler in Mokoreta Valley, was charged at Wyndham with shooting at his wife with intent. It appeared that a separation had been arranged, and the accused, who ha'd arranged to give his wife everything except £2O or £3O was angry at seeing his wife's cousins (two young men named Anderson) in the house helping her to fix some furniture. Fie ordered them, out, a scuffle followed, in which Wishart was overpowered, but as his tvifc and the others left he fired a gun in her direction, but without effect. She admitted in cross-examination that her husband had a temper, but added that her husband had a worse one. and he had struck her. The .Justices dismissed the case, considering that there was not enough evidence to send accused for trial The defence was that the shots were fired to frighten the Andersons. CWCLE RACE. A 50-mile road race from Invercargill to Lady Barkly and back took place on Wednesday under the direction of the Southland Centre of the League of N.Z. Wheelmen. Apart from other reasons, great interest was taken in the race from the fact that the man making the fastest time is privileged to represent Southland in the forthcoming road race from Timaru to Christchurch. The race, the first part of which was done in the face of a strong northerly wind, brought out eighteen riders, and was won by C. Hannan, of Woodlands, but the fastest time was put up by the scratch man, Broad. The first ten finished as under : C. Plan nan (15mm) 2hrs 42imins. A. Welsh (16m), 2 hrs 45min. 4 sec. W. Broad (scr), 2hrs 32min. 12secs. J. Shand (/7m) 2hrs 39min 12sec. W. Harris (2m) 2-hrs 34 min 12 sees. D. Stewart (15m) 2hrs 47min 50sec. T. G. Helm (16m), F. Nicoll (10m). . A. Broad (12m). Jno. Stewart (14m). GENERAL NOTES. Dr. Valentine opposes site for consumptive sanatorium at Frankton, near Queenstown.—Next Roman Catholic conference to be held in Wellington.—The Rev. R. E. Davies, of Sydney, comes to Knox Church, Dunedin.—One hundred and fifty holidaymakers killed on the Alps this season.—Girl awarded £IOOO damages against Wirth Bros., for injuries received through a circus tent being blown down.—lnterdict issued by the Pope against a Venetian city and, district where a bishop has beer mobbed ; all public sacraments, including matrimony are forbidden. — Great contest expected between the Tammany party and supporters of pure government over the mayoralty of New York.—German spies arrested in France. —The National Geographical Society (New York) in declining official recognition to Cook, state that the submission of Cook's and Peary's records should precede such recognition.—Ca'pt. Bernir, of the Government steamer Arctic, is taking former possession of Banks Land and other Arctic lands for Canalda.— Premier Kidston, of Queensland, claims that the recent elections have wiped out the middle party, and stamped approval on the Government policy. —ln future. Gore, Lumsden and Waikaia will be included in the Lakes magisterial district.

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