THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

Southland Times, Issue 16842, 19 September 1911, Page 4

THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS.

Very appropriately the first election return telegraphed from Canada is that of the veteran Prime Minister of the Dominion, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, whose opponent withdrew from the contest and gave the Liberal leader the Spulanges seat unopposed. The results of the elections which will take place on Thursday will be watched with unusually close interest in all parts of the Empire. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has held the reins of power sinde 1896, and in all these yeqrs he has never been so perturbed by a political contest as he is to-day. In the past he has rarely thought it necessary to exert himself greatly in an election campaign, but for this contest he has called upon all his powers and has led the fight in person. Never before has there been any doubt hut that the Liberal Party would be returned to pdwer with a large majority; this time' even the knowing ones refuse to hazard an opinion as to the result of the polls, and it quite conceivable that the Laurier Government may be unseated. It is not surprising, therefore, that the election campaign should have been very keenly followed during the last few months. The main issue is, of course, reciprocity with the United States. Sir Wilfrid Laurier appeals to the country to endorse the tariff treaty, and it is impossible to say whether the majority of the people are with or against him. In the rural districts large numbers of Canadians favour the treaty because they anticipate that'one of its effects would be a reduction in the price of agricultural machinery. On the other hand many farmers maintain that the treaty would be followed by a sharp fall in corn values, and that cheaper machinery would not compensate them for this loss. Both in the towns and in the country large numbers df patriotic people maintain that the treaty would make the relations between Canada and the United States more intimate and bind them closer, and that the result would be a weakening of the Imperial tie, and possibly the beginning of an estrangement from Britain. The main issue is reciprocity, but there are a number of minor questions. Sir Wilfrid Laurier obtained a dissolution without Availing for a reply, and declined td Avait for the report of an enquiry into serious charges against a member of his' Ministry, Mr Oliver, Minister of the Interior. It was charged against Mr Oliver that he profited to the extent of about £14,000 in the transfer of lands to the Canadian Northern RailAvay. Public interest in the enquiry Avas keen, and its abrupt termination by a hasty dissolution aroused strong feeling. Sir Wilfrid Laurier also declined to delay the dissolution until after the redistribution of seats, when the rural districts of the Avest and north-west, where population has Increased rapidly in recent years, would have had larger representation. On all these points, as Avell as on reciprocity, Mr Borden has founded his criticism as Leader of the Opposition, and from all ac-

counts he has conducted his campaign brilliantly. The fight has been waged strenuously and the decision of the people will be given on Thursday. In the meantime there are none who profess to be able with any accuracy to anticipate the results.

The Manuka arrived at Bluff from Northern Ports at 3 a.m. yesterday and discharged 341 tons of general cargo, included in this ere 1500 sacks of nianure, 333 sleepers, ST cases of fruit, 90 boxes of butter, 400 oases and 6 casks of whisky, 3,1 cases of ale, 12 hogsheads of ale, and 2 hogsheads and 12 cases of stout. In connection with the opening of the Waimahaka-Tokonui extension railway on Wednesday, great pains are being taken by the committee, which lias charge of affairs at Tokonui, to carry out arrangements in the completes! possible way. A train will leave Invercargill at 10.35 a.m., arriving at Tokonui at 12.15 p.m. On the return journey the train will leave Tokonui at 3.30 p.m. Members of local bodies have been invited, and it is probable that one of the most representative gatherings that lias ever collected In Southland will take part in the rejoicings. The Kaituna arrived at Bluf: from Newcastle yesterday, having on board a cargo of coal and manure for different Dominion ports. Site takes no cargo away from Bluff. The secretary of the Southland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board desires to thank Mr Daniel Sinclair, of Elies Hoad, for a donation of £1 to the funds of the Southland Hospital. The Anglican mission cutter Columba arrived at Bluff from Stewart Island yesterday, having on board Captain the Rev. Goertz and Mrs Goertz. The passage across the Straits was not altogether a peaceful one. Cr. Andrew Bain has given notice of the following motion for the meeting of the Borough Council to be held on Thursday evening:’—“That a vote of the ratepayers' be taken at once for the purpose of raising a special loan of £32,000 for reticulating the old suburbs part of the borough, excluding Eastend.” bomplaints have been made at Bluff by building contractors that no labour is procurable. Mr F. A. Wilson complained yesterday to a Southland Times reporter that, although he had repeatedly endeavoured to obtain the services of two journeymen carpenters he had been unable to do so. From New Plymouth the deaths of two very early settlers are reported, viz., William Henry George, aged 73, who arrived in the ship Oriental in 1841, and Oliver Gook Spurdle, aged 79, arrived In the ship Timandra in 1842. "This makes four deaths of pioneers within the week,” says the Press Association agent. Mushrooms in September furnish an instance of vegetable precocity probably due to the mild winter and warm early spring. They were gathered yesterday at Grasmere by Mr W. Turpin, and are now to be seen in Messrs Lennie and Sons’ window. One of the mushrooms weighs half a pound. In previous years it was unusual to gather mushrooms before January at the earliest. At a meeting of The Dunedin Saving* Bank Trustees held yesterday afternoon, it was unanimously decided to give a donation of £IOOO to the building fund of the new technical school. The donation carries with it a Government grant of £1 for £1. —Press Association. Sir Wm. Steward, M.P. for Waitaki, has written so many odes in connection with important events in the history of the Royal Family that he has almost earned the title of New Zealand poetlaureate. The latest production, a Coronation ode, was duly despatched to King George, and Sir William has now received the following letter of acknowledgment through his Excellency the Governor; “Government House, 11th September, 191 1. Sir,—l beg to inform you that I have received a despatch from the Right Hon. Secretary of State for the Colonies asking me to inform you that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to accept your Coronation ode forwarded on 22nd June last. His Majesty commands that his best thanks be conveyed to you for the same. —Believe me, yours very truly, Islington.” Sir William had the honour of meeting King George when he was in New Zealand, and on that occasion he presented our present King with a copy of all his “Royal” poems in a gpeciallybound volume. , The members of the Don St. Church Ladies’ Guild are arranging to hold their annual sale in Ashley’s Hall, Bsk street, to-morrow (Wednesday), and Thursday. A fine collection of useful and fancy goods will be offered for sale at moderate prices. The bazaar will be' open each day at 3 p.m., but owing to the Mayor’s absence from town on Wednesday afternoon the opening ceremony will take place in the evening at 7.30, when Mr George Froggatt, J.P.. will preside, and His Worship the Mayor (Mr Qtt) will give an address, and declare ’the sale open for business. Mr F. Olleranshaw and party will supply orchestral music, and thirty girls will go through a very pretty ‘daffodil march” each evening. The workers are confident that their annual sale will be as attractive and as successful as m former years. Thus the Argus: —At the present juncture of affairs in New Zealand Sir Joseph Ward’s promise of legislation to establish unemployment insurance and to extend the scope of the old-age pension system, and further penalise the owners of land, is curiously suggestive of the practice of making largesses to the populace which the decadent rulers of the Roman Republic found so effective a means of gaining or retaining place and power. Sir Joseph returned from England to find that the Radical cabal against him had gained considerable headway during his long absence, and a few days later one of his Ministers. Mr Fowlds, resigned. Mr Fbwlds repudiated a suggestion that he was scuttling out of a sinking ship, but candidly admitted that he thought the times demanded a “new gospel,” and spoke of his eagerness to join any “truly democratic party” that might he formed. It was subsequently stated that a considerable number of Independents and Government supporters might be expected to break away at the first convenient opportunity. The Radicals and feoclalists are, in short, beginning to feel that they have not been getting as much out of the State lately as they had hoped for and as they think they are in a position to exact; so vigorous competition for popular favour was bound to arise between the rival factions. The Ministerial bid has come very promptly. Many inquiries are being made to the Victorian Entomological department for the destruction of slugs and snails, which are exceedingly plentiful this season, and causing growers of vegetables, etc., considerable losses. The following remedy, Mr French states, has gi\en good results: —Phenyie and Sawdust. — This has been used for some years at various strengths, but the following is most efficacious: —One and a half pints of phenyie to 7% pints of water. This mixture will suffice to moisten a bucket of sawdust. When planting vegetables and other plants, it would be advisable to work a little of this into the soil where it is intended to plant. It can also be sprinkled amongst the plants. The cost of the materials is small. The “Confessions of a Publisher,” by Mr John Adams Thayer., an American, is a work showing how one may gel on by hustling. One form hustling lakes is advertising. Mr Thayer started a magazine, which in the "Confessions" is called the “Delineator.” "In the campaign to lift the ’Delineator’s’ ■ circulation from the five hundred thousand we had to a million we obtained, we ourselves became extensive advertisers. Daily newspapers and other magazines were our chief mediums, of course, hut for a time we also used the hill boards to familiarise the public with a catcli phrase I had devised. I tried more than a year to hit upon something suitable, but nothing came to me till one day I read an article upon the psychology of advertising, by Professor Scott, in which he made it plain that the direct injunction, ‘Cut this coupon out and mail it to-day’ would draw more replies than the less emphatic ‘Use this coupon.’ Acting on lh:s hint, I had repioduced the line in m» handwriting, ‘Just got Bio “Delineator,"* and waited to see if the women of th« country would obey. They did. To .a» personal know,edge th •> phrase e: en tantalised men into buying copies to satisty their curlositj. One hundred thousand dollars were spent to popularise this phrase.”

Included in the Manuka’s cargo for Melbourne were . 9700 feet of limber, 100 sacks of oats. 15 tons of fish, and SO tonsJof oysters. A first offender who had been arrested for drunkenness in Esk street on Saturday night appeared before Mr W. Bi Scaudrett, J.P., at the Police Court yesterday morning, and was convicted and fined ISs, and 2s costs. Among the many proposed additions to the town's buildings will bo a threeBtoreyed brick building for Air D. Strang, the well-known coffee manufacturer of Esk street. Mr R. Marshall Is the architect and will call for tenders within the next few days. The Moana arrived at Bluff from Melbourne. via Hobart, yesterday at about 4 p.m. and landed 162 tons of general cargo. Included in her outward cargo for the north were 3000 feet of timber, 70 sacks of wheat, loot) sacks of oats. 119 sacks of seed. 260 sacks of potatoes, 50 cases of fish. 160 sacks of linseed. 200 cases of milk, 20 tons of oysters, and sundries. The Rev. G. Lindsay, speaking at tlie St. Clair Presbyterian Church on Sunday night on the awakening of China, said that if China really meant war she could put into the field an army of 40 millions, and still leave enough ablebodied men to till the soil and carry on her industries, and the rev. gentleman quoted a recent remark by Professor Hewitson to the effect that if this army attempted an invasion of the British Empire they could not be kept back If they came armed with nothing but broomsticks. The Hon. J. A. Millar told his committee on Saturday night that his flying visit from Wellington to meet them was made at considerable inconvenience. But for his arrangements to come South be would have replied to Air Allen's misrepresentations In his Budget speech on Friday. As it was he (the Minister) would reply to the member for Bruce at Tuesday’s sitting. On Sunday the opening of the addition to the Elios Road Methodist Church was celebrated. The morning service was conducted by the Rev. W. Laycock: In the afternoon the Rev. W. Grigg addressed the parents and scholars, and in the evening the Rev. T. A. Pybus conducted the service. On all three occasions the church was crowded. The addition, which is of Nornfn architecture with a tower, is the result of twelve months’ active work on the part of both pastor and congregation. In reviewing the debate on the Budget. the Wellington “Post" says this Of the speech of Air G. M. Thomson, member for Dunedin North :—“Mr G. M. Thomson, Opposition member for Dunedin North, also flew to the higher plane, and when there he did not declaim vainly. Quietly, tersely, learnedly, he discussed some of the Budget’s features —irrigation, .afforestation, water power. Iron—and he commented on Sir Joseph’s surprising omission of the great national subject of education, now exercising the minds of many New Zealanders. There was no superficial ‘vamping,’ no dreary banalities, no platitudinous generalities in Mr Thomson’s discourse. He spoke as a student, a scientist, in plain English, and made the most valuable speech of the whole debate.” A meeting of the Invercargill Athenaeum Committee held last night was attended by Messrs W. A. Stout (chairman), J. R. Webb. D. Cochrane, F. W. Bickneli, R. Dunlop, J. T. Carswell, and G. Robinson (hon. secretary). Air E. B. Wilson submitted plans showing In detail the proposed alterations and additions to the Colonial Chambers, and explained them at length. These were approved by the Committee. The increased offer by a client of Alessrs W. • A. Ott and Co. to lease the top flat of the new building was accepted subject to certain conditions. It was also decided to offer at a stated rental the lease of portion of the ground floor to it prospective tenant who had made enquiries concerning it. Air H. B. Irving threw a new light on the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy speaking before the Alelbourne Shakespearian Society. He said that he was perfectly willing to admit that Bacon wrote what was attributed to Alarlowe, Spenser, Jonson —in fact to all the Elizabethan writers of any note; that he was a sort of commercial traveller of literature —if .only the Baconian would admit that Shakespeare translated the 46th Psalm. "I claim Shakespeare to have been the translator of that Psalm,” said Air Irving, with a smile, aud the explanation of his, belief was as follows; In the year 1610’. when the translation of the Bible was completed, Shakespeare was 46 years of age. At the 46th word In the 46th Psalm, the word “ Shake” occurred. At the 46th word, reading from the end of the Psalm, the word “ spear” was met with. At the close of the Psalm was the word "Selah,” the letters of which made the initials of the sentence —"Shakespeare est libri auctor hujus.” The chain of evidence was complete, said Air Irving. Says a Wellington telegram:—Henry Burling, the AVaikanae centenarian, died on Sunday afternoon at the residence of his son. Deceased had suffered for about five weeks from bronchitis and a paralytic stroke. He was said to have reached the unusual age of 110 years. He had lived under five sovereigns, beginning with George IV., and he remembered incidents of the battle of Waterloo. He was a married man past thirty when the city of Wellington was founded. He is survived by thirteen children. On Saturday morning, Air W. F. Alassey. Leader of the Opposition, received telegraphic advise that Airs Alassey had undergone a serious operation successfully. Air Massey left for Auckland by the Alain Trunk express train, and will return to Wellington tfiis afternoon. Alany of the fruitgrowers are looking a bit “blue” at present (reports the Alotueka correspondent of the “Colonist’’!. but this is due to continually spraying with Bordeaux mixture, and not ifrom any fear of the future of the fruit market. Alotor pumps are quite plentiful, and the amount of spraying materials used is enormous. One grower alone will use 15cwt of bluestone this season, and this will cost over £2O, without the expense of mixing and putting it on. Round the Aloutere inlet the whole face of the country is changing, and where three years ago there was nothing but gorse and manuka, now there is a succession of young orchards. varying in extent from eight to twenty acres. In Tasman planting is going on on a much larger scale, and If the main road to Nelson Is made through this valley the drive from Nelson will in a few years be through a succession of smiling orchards. This will be a pleasant change from climbing the Aloutere hills, and will prove to be a most attractive drive for tourists. Says a New Plymouth telegram : A largely attended public meeting decided to establish a fund to provide a memorial to the late Air Tisch. Alayor of New Plymouth, to take the form of extending and improving the seaside esplanade, in which the late mayor took an absorbing interest. Interest for the moment is centred upon the charming display of Millinery now showing at PRICE & BULLEID’S. Distinctly novel and beautiful effects are developed in the models drawn from fashions favourite haunts. The Window Exhibit is the first outward display that has been made this Spring, and is characteristic of this firm’s methods of doing business. The floral decorations with the back ground of lattice work, surmounted with trailing roses, is in itself pleasing to the eye. and the fact of the large concourse of people-who constantly throng the pavement is indicative of the Interest shown. Such Window displays as these are mil often to be , seen in Invercargill. The new Showrooms in the rear of the building are splendidly rearranged with the new ehipment of Alilllnery, Costumes, Blouses. Skirts, etc., that were only opened TO-DAY, and especially got together for Show on THURSDAY, FRIDAY. and SATURDAY' this week. To-day the Big Boot Campaign offers Women’s Chrome Lace Boots at 7/11, and Button Boots at 8/11 per pair. Splendid as Girls’ School Boots. All sizes, 3 to 7. Alen’s Atarlow Boots cheaper than ever. Splendid Tan Cookhams. usual 21s; Sale price 17/6. McDonald’s City Boot Palace. FOBDSI FORDS I FORDS I WHO SAYS FORDS ? Who wants immediate delivery of the very latest Alodel Ford? We will guarantee to save you many pounds on these Cars, and what is more give you delivery from Stock. For full particulars of Cars landing enquire from STONE’S MOTOR MART, Invercargill. 2503

Good hosiery is made to live its life decently, to hold its colour and retain its shape. It has toes and heels strongly fortified against wear, yet soft and pliable. It conies out of the washtub with its youth renewed every time. Thomson and Beattie's hosiery approach these ideals. Prices, 1/6 to 3/3. There is a wonderful run on coloured hosiery. See the new hosiery in fancy colourings at 2/1,1 and 3/11. BICYCLES —100 to clear. Genuine 8.5.A., £ll 10s. Free gift of a set of lyres to any one who can prove there is better value given in , Invercargill than we arc offering. Call and inspect, judge, and you will buy.— Russell and Co., Motor and Cycle Agents, Dee street. 2843 TO-D A T THE BIG BOOT CAMPAIGN stands out as Southland's Best Boot Sale. McDonald's is tile name for biggest value ever given in the Boot Tiado. It is the name for quality. It is the name lor all that is stylish. Just now it is the name for the lowest prices in the City. Visit the Big Boot Campaign at the City Boot Palace today. SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. On Page I. Lost—Dog. Lost—Bag. Wanted —Girl. Wanted —Boy. Lost—Bunch of keys. Wanted—Housekeeper. Wanted to borrow £25. Wanted—Married couple. To Let —Furnished house. To Lease—7so-acre farm. Wanted to buy motor bike. Wanted —Board and residence. Notice to person who took overcoat. Wanted—Good general, waitress, etc. C. J. Brodrick calls tenders for,erection of vicarage at Bluff. Tutor wishes to train pupils for various examinations. Mr Carr has for sale, 40 acres near town, etc. R. J. Gumming has houses and sections for sale. On Page 3. Price list cycle enamelling, overhauling, cleaning, etc. —See Wilson, Fraser and Co.’s advt. On Page 6. Fuller’s Pictures to-night at 8. Hayward’s Pictures to-night at 8. Mr W. A. Morris Inserts list of places where he will address the electors. Thos. Fraser is a candidate for Wallacetown Riding on Southland County Council. Annual meeting of Southland Farmers' Co-op. Association at Gore on 6th October. Don Street Church Sale of Work and Daffodil Fair in Ashley’s Hall on Wednesday and Thursday. Daffodil Show and Concert in Parish Hall, Gladstone, on Wednesday and Thursday. The Geisha Tea Rooms, Esk street— Afternoon teas a specialty. On Page 7. Hondai-Lanka Ceylon Tea procurable at all first-class stores. Macalister’s Gold Medal Ridger gives absolute satisfaction everywhere. On Page B. Invercargill Stock Agents Addition to Kapuka sale on 21st Inst. McKay Bros, let Municipal Reserves for grazing. The National Mortgage & Agency Co. sell stock at Kapuka on 21st inst. Messrs Dalgety and Co. hold sale at Dacre on 29th Inst. National Mortgage and Agency Co. — Addition to sale on account Mr Beer.