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Southland Times, Issue 16786, 14 July 1911, Page 5

It was reported to the Charitable Aid Board yesterday that during the month of June three patients had been admitted to the Fever Hospital, and four had been discharged. There are now remaining in the institution three patients (two adults and one child). A case under the Defence Act came before the Court at Timaru yesterday, when W. R. Thomson, aged 16, was charged with failing to register. It was shown that he filled in the form in an “impudent manner.” The S.M. convicted and cautioned the vouth, and said that ail must comply with the law. The special roll prepared in connection with the loan of £6OOO that is proposed to be raised at Lindisfarne was confirmed by the Town Council last night, and may be seen by those interested at the Corporation office. The Dunedin “Star” recently stated that sooner or later the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Railways, would be asked to explain how it comes about that timber from Owaka to Dunedin (75 tniles) is charged the same rate (2s id ner 100 feet superficial) as timber from Invercargill to Dunedin (139 miles). Commenting on this a West Coast paper says that it also hears that "West Coast sawmillers want to know why they cannot have the same concessions as Southland enjoys. The Town Council last night received formal intimations from Mr J. D. McGruer. covering a cheque for £250, and from the Mayor, Mr W. A. Oft. covering a cheque for £lO, as donations towards the public fund for the institution of a Coronation Avenue from Gala street through "Victoria Park. The Council readily seized the opportunity to express its thanks to the generous donors of subscriptions to this important object. Notice is given in the N. Z. Gazette that a bonus of fourpence per lb will be paid by the Government on the production of the first IOO.OOOIbs of good, marketable. retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand. The Gas Engineer (Mr E. Rabbidgeireported to the Town Council last night that during the month ending June 30th 6.759M00 cubic feet of gas had been made at the works, being an increase of 13.4 per cent over the same period last year, coal carbonized, 503 tons 12 cwt; coke sold, 132 tons 2 cwt; tar sold 2459 gallons. All the available 3in main pipes have been laid, and a 4in main laid In Leven and Gala streets to connect the North Road main. The wrought iron main in Bowmont street from Ythan to Ness streets was now too small and it was recommended that it be replaced by a three-inch main at a cost of £SO. Further extensions were required as follows: —Dairymple road. 5 chains; Herbert street. North Invercargill, 5 chains; Venus street, South Invercargill, 7 chains; and the Gas Engineer recommended they be laid as soon as pipes were available, at an estimated cost of £BS. The Hon. R. McKenzie, when explaining what expenditure was needed for urgent railway and other works, said. In his Wakefield address, that the all important next question was how best to provide the necessary ways and means. There were only two solutions —by borrowing or by surplus revenue. But probably the best, soundest, and safest was by a combination of both; that was. partly from surplus revenue and partly by loan. So long as the money was Invested in reproductive investments that would pay their way he was strongly of opinion that these works should be undertaken and completed within a reasonable period. He would, therefore, provide one-third or the cost, or say £500,000 a year, out of surplus revenue and profits made from these undertakings themselves, and the balance out of loan at the rate of a million a year. This amount of expenditure would provide a fairly complete system of public buildings, roads and railways thoroughly well equipped, together with a complete telephone and telegraphic system and a large jiroporlion of hydroelectric power. Butter is steadily rising. In Wellington it now stands at Is 5d per pound retail, with a possibility of Is 6d being reached before the end of the week. A Wellington merchant, discussing the matter with a “Times” reporter on Tuesday, emphasised the point that the traders were not responsible for the high price ruling. He read two telegrams sent to dairy factory managers In response to inquiries for quotations. One was from Kaupokonui offering the output of July and August, estimated at 316 boxes respectively, at Is 3d per pound wholesale. The other was from the Mangorei factory quoting Is 3 J /£d. “This shows,” observed the merchant, “that the traders in town are not taking any undue advantage of the public. Of course, this state of affairs cannot last very long. In a fortnight or three weeks, with decent weather, prices should show a change.” It is interesting, in view of the present price of butter, to know that it is expected that fair quantities of new butter will bo made during the first and second week in August. The export of new butter will not commence right away as the local requirements will absorb the make. Several big Taranaki factories which are generally regarded as cheese factories, are at present making butter and will continue to do so for a little While after the season opens. The question of granting permits for the employment of drivers 1 by shopkeepers during extended hours on the evening proceeding a holiday, says the “Evening Post,” lias now been dealt with by the Minister of Labour. Under the Shops and Offices Act the amended clause relating to the granting of permits provides that “for the purpose of stocktaking or ocher special work, not being the actual sale of goods, the working hours may, with previous written consent of the inspector, be extended, but not for more than three hours in any one day or not more than thirty days in any one year nor on any halfholiday.” In a letter to the secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation (Mr Pryor) the Hon. J. A. Millar states that he sees “no reason why permits should not be granted underspecial circumstances” such as were mentioned by the recent deputation. If application is made to the Department in the way suggested permits will be given by the inspectors. For this work, it may be explained, the overtime rate, at the rate of time and a half, is paid. Amongst the thousands of congratulatory messages received by the Acting. Premier, none is more treasured than that conveyed in the homely references of the “Wairoa Guardian,” published and circulated in the locality where Sir James Carroll was born. It reads as follows: —“We join w-ith the rest of the population of Wairoa and the surroundind districts in offering our congratulations to Sir James Carroll, the Native Minister and Acting-Premier of the Dominion, and our member for many years. We believe that we are right In saying that Sir James Carroll will look upon the King’s mark of favour as one bestowed upon the race from which the recipient sprung. At the same time the European side has been 'honoured, for the sire of Sir James was one of the very first, if not the first white settler in Wairoa, and in honouring our member distinction has also been conferred on our district and its people. As the congratulatory telegrams pour in from every hand Sir James Carroll might well feel proud, but we rather think he will look at the honour as we have suggested, and cast his mind back to the little spot under the historic cabbage tree on tbe banks of the Wairoa river where he first saw the light. His mother’s people then were only just emerging from barbarism, and to-day, though not so numerous, they are sufficiently enlightened to stand on a common platform, able to join in acclaiming a common King and a son of the soil “whom the King delighteth to honour.” A Melbourne cable announces the death of the Hon. Allan McLean, after a long illness. Mr McLean was formerly Premier of Victoria and later was joint Prime Minister of tlie Commonwealth with Sir George Reid. He was senior partner in the firm of A. McLean and Co., stock and station agents, Melbourne.

During the month of June, 1911, the following stock were slaughtered at the City Abattoir; —Cattle, 254; sheep and lambs, 1705; pigs. IS. Four head of cattle and throe pigs wtfre condemned. In the latest issue of the N.- Z. Gazette notice is given of the opening for sale or selection of ten sections of first-class land in the New River Hundred for which applications will be received up to the 27th September; also eleven small sections in the Alton Survey District which will be offered for sale on September Ist. and nine sections of twenty acres each in Winlon Hundred, for which applications will be received up to July 26th. A Gazette “Extraordinary” intimates that Parliament, which had been summoned to meet on July 13lh. has been further prorogued to July 27th. Of the fifty-six cases set down for hearing at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday only five were dealt with. The others were either withdrawn or adjourned. Eighteen cases brought by the Southland County Council against dilatory ratepayers were not heard. Mr G. Cruickshank. S.M., yesterday announced that the non-suit point, raised by Mr Haggitt.in the case Rice v. Summerville, could not be sustained. The case will, therefore, be proceeded witli on Tuesday next. The Hon. R. McKenzie, in his speech at Wakefield said that his sympathy was with the lion-hearted men who had started- to carve out homes for themselves in the forest. To assist those men the Liberal Party had, lie said, for twenty years been straining every nerve, and the most rabid Tory could not deny that the Government’s efforts to settle people on the land had been crowned with unqualified success. A great deal had been achieved; a great deal remained to do. The Charitable Aid Board’s Inspector of Infectious Diseases (Mr R. Bloakley) reports that during the month ending 30lh June, the following notifications were received : Scarlet fever, 17 notices; diphtheria, S notices : tuberculosis, 5 notices ; sapraemia, 1 notice. These were contributed by—Southland County G, Wallace County 9, Invercargill Borough 9, Gore Borough 5, Bluff Borough 1, Mataura Borough 1. Numerous inspections • have been carried out, particularly regarding the regulations for the prevention of plague, compelling the removal of all accumulations of refuse and the destruction of rats, the Borough of Bluff having received special attention. In the course of his report to the Town Council last night, the Borough Gardener mentioned that he had Cut down trees, as authorised, In Tweed street. The timber from trees cut down in Block I had been removed, and the old thorn hedge grubbed out. Tbe nowfence would be erected immediately, and then he would plant the hedge and get some trees put in. as it looked bare at present. He hoped that the people along the street would be stopped from hanging out covers and sacks along the new fence'to dry, or it would soon get as bad as the old one. He recommended that the holly hedge to be removed from Block IV, Gala street, be planted along Wood street. There would not be enough to plant the whole length, but they .could go to the bridge at bowling green entrance with the hollies, and finish off the other half with escallonias. He thought that the hollies would look better in ten or twelve years than the escallonias. By way of exposing the hollowness of Mr Massey’s criticisms of Public Works administration, the Hon. R. McKenzie at Wakefield on Wednesday night dealt with instances quoted by the Opposition Loader. One of them had to do with a grant of £l5O in Mr Massey’s own electorate. It was stated by Mr Massey that the local body concerned knew nothing about the grant, that it had subsequently transpired , that the Premier had promised the money to an elector for a road in his locality, and that Parliament had had nothing to do with the matter. The explanation of the grant of £l5O was, said Mr McKenzie, that the gentleman who had opposed Mr Massey last election, and would be sure to defeat him at next election, had introduced a deputation to the Prime Minister for a small grant of £l5O for an urgently-required road. The matter was reported on by Jhe local Government officer, and the amount put on the Estimates. Mr Massey himself had often introduced deputations to him on similar missions, and if the requirements were urgent he had attended to them. What was described by the Chief Justice as a novel application was decided in the Supreme Court by his Honour at Wellington yesterday. The case was the first of the kind in New Zealand, and was in the form of an application by Margaret Aikens, wife of a railway servant drawing £355 per year, to annul her husband’s bankruptcy. The parties had been separated since October, 1899. The husband agreed to pay the wife £2 a week for the first year, and £2 10s a week thereafter, but never paid more than the former sum, and was sued for arrears. He then filed his schedule. Bankrupt stated that there was a moral agreement by the wife to accept £2 a week, and altogether lie had paid her and the children £IBOO. The Chief Justice. in giving judgment, said it was a deliberate attempt to get rid of an agreement for the support of the man’s wife and family ; there could not be a clearer abuse of the Court than in this case, and the bankruptcy would be annulled, with costs, five guineas, against the husband. In the course of his speech at Wakefield the Hon. R. McKenzie, Minister of Public Works, claimed that the Liberal party had made remissions in the Customs taxation amounting to £5,322,048 in the last twenty years. In 1801 the imports were £0.503,849, or about £lO 6s Gd per head, in 1910 they were £17,051,583, or about £lO 9s Id per head, so that while the Customs tariff increased only £lO 0s 3d per head, the imports increased £G 2s lOd per head in the same period. The exports showed an increase of £6 3s 7d per head, so that the apparent purchasing power of the people had increased enormously. He had had a return prepared .by the Customs Department showing the alterations and remissions since 1891, and also the amounts which would have been collected last year had the 1891 tariff been in operation then. The total amount that would have been collected under the 1891 tariff was £3.645,424; the amount collected was £2,954,989, showing an annual reduction of £090,435. That the Liberal party did change the incidence of taxation went without saying, and this had always been one of the Opposition's principal grievances. In fact, the incidental taxation had always been a clearly defined line of cleavage between the Conservative and Liberal parties in this as in most other countries. Having doubled its rolling stock within a comparatively short period, and being about to supplement the number by the addition of 16 more cars, the Auckland Electric Tramways Company (telegraphs an Auckland correspondent 4 has been faced with the 'necessity for making further provision In the matter of shed accommodation. It lias now been decided to effect this by enlarging the Epsom barn upon such a scale that the car room there will be nearly trebled, making the depot easily the largest in the Dominion. It will cover 12 tram tracks, having a total length of 3900 ft., or 2400 ft. more than is provided to-day. The enlarged shed will be able to hquse over 80 large cars at the one time, and, with the Ponsonby barn, should furnish all the accommodation required for some time. It is estimated that the cost of the extension will be between £14,001) and £15.000. Dealing in his Wakefield Speech with what he considered would, approximately, he required to complete tire main trunk railway system in both islands, the Hon. R. McKenzie gave the following figures:—North Auckland ( Kaiawaka to Kaikohe), 70 miles, £700,000; East Coast Main Trunk Waihi ho Tauranga, 45 miles, £350,000; Tauranga to Opotiki, 80 miles, £000,000; Opotiki to Gisborne, 116 miles, £1,200,000; Stratford to Ongarue (Pohokura-Ongaruo), 70 miles, £740.000; South Island Main Trunk (Ward to Domett), 100 miles, £1,000,000; Midland Railway, Fadmore to Inangahua, 60 miles, £750,000; Cronadum to Inangahua, 10 miles, £30,000; Otira to Bealey, 9 miles, £450,000; Cass to Bealoy, 45 miles, £100,000; Westport to Inangahua, 20 miles, £280,000; Gatlins to Walmahaka (Houipapa-Waimahaka), 50 miles, £500,000; total, £7,600,000; say, branch railways another £7,400,000; public buildings and schools, £3,000,000; roads, £4,000,000; additions to open lines £3,000,000; hydro-electric power and irrigation £2,000,000; telegraph extension and harbours £1,000,000. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, la 6d, 2a 6d.

The mails for United Kingdom, despatched from Invercargill on 3rd June, via Vancouver, arrived in London on 1 0 ill inst., one day early. Don't forget that THOMSON AND BKATTI (O .slock Rosedale blankets. Uosedale blankets are made in Invercargill from Southland wool. A Scot's proverb says "Gill gaff maks guid freens,” meaning. that mutual help promotes friendship. It should. The Rosedale blanket makers are customers to Invercargill butchers, bakers, grocers and drapers : surely wo should cultivate “gift gaff” with them. This is' blanket weather, and the liosedale blankets are good and A 1 value. See especially the Exhibition double-bed liosedale blanket at 335. AH UNBIASSED OPINION. The handicapper in the recently held New Brighton Beach motor cycle speed events, who is considered an authority on the capabilities of the various makes of machines entered for this important event, is probably a little chagrined at the result of these races. Although he and most others with him reckoned that. In placing the Triumphs behind all other single-cylinder machines (in fact, they were placed on an equality with twincylinder motors of higher power), he had got them on a mark which would not allow them to beat all other singles so easily as they have usually done. But the best laid plans of mice and men “gang aft agley.” as the Scotch proverb says, and in this instance very much so. as the Triumphs won first and second places In each race with the exception of the thlrty-mllo race, in which C. H. Harrison, riding the Triumph, only managed to get up in second place by the time the winning post was reached. However, there was consolation for him In the fact that his time was faster than that of the winner, who was riding a special speed model of Tourist Trophy type. Harrison’s machine was the standard every-day model Triumph, and his performance was thus one that he can well be proud of. The enviable reputation of the Triumph has not been obtained by fluke performances, as It has a list of motor cycle successes to its ' credit equal to that of all other makes of motor cycles put together. We do not ask you to believe It Is the best motor cycle because we say so, but we back up what we claim with hundreds of successes gained In reliability, hill climbing, apd speod events held In all sorts of conditions in every part of the world, and we can refer you to hundreds of motor cyclists who have had practical experience with this motor, and who proclaim It to be a perfect motor cycle in every sense of the word. Illustrated catalogue sent post free to any address. Wilson. Fraser and Co., Sol« Southland Agents. Dee Street. The demand for Dainty Neckwear has been exceptionally good. PRICE AND BULLEID are offering their season's selections at Crowning prices, 6%d each. See their window display. Nothing has been spared to make the clearance a success. In the Embroidery Department they are showing a lovely range of Camisole Embroidery, IVad, 9d, 111,{, d. Is 3d yard. Exceptional values in Wide Flouncings, New Floral designs, lOVad, Is 3d. Ladies’ Hosiery is one of their leading lines. This season’s shipments were very heavy. They have marked down the prices considerably. Two pair Cashmere Seamless Hose. Is 9d, 2s 3d, 2s 4)d. Sensational bargains in Their noted Skin Gloves in Tans and Black only 2s 3d pair. Ladies’ 3-dome Tan Nappa Glove very serviceable. Warm Winter Glove, 3s Gd. Fabric Gloves are all laid out on the Bargain Table, 9d, lid, Is 3d. Tinsel Belts and Petersham Belts, Suede Leather Belts all marked at Crowning price, 6V 2 d. PRICE AND BULLEID’S for MONSTER SALE BARGAINS. SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. On Page I. Wanted —Youth, Wanted —Junior. Lost —Fur stole. Wanted —Head storeman. *• For Sale —Pony and trap. Wanted to Rent—House, 4 or 5 rooms. Preserved eggs at Lewis’s, South Invercargill. Wanted —Horseshoer to buy half-share in smithy. On Page 4. See Herbert, Haynes’ advt on this page. On Page 6 Skating—King’s Hall. Fuller’s Pictures to-night at 8. Hayward’s Pictures to-night at S. Scarlet Troubadours in Theatre on July 19th and 20th. N.Z. Society of Accountants—Nomination of Southland member. N.Z. Society of Accountants—Meeting of Southland District members on 15th inst. On Page 8— National Mortgage and Agency Co. sell horses and implements at Otautau on 20th inst.