NEWS EPITOMISED

Southland Times, Issue 17347, 19 May 1913, Page 5

NEWS EPITOMISED

THIS MORNING'S ISSUE. Farmers spoken to on Saturday were Hot hostile to the Saturday half-holiday. A record crowd visited H.M.S. New Zealand on Saturday. Dunedin children are visiting Lyttelton to see the battleship. An Oklahoma lynching party had a pitched battle with negroes. Sir Edward Carson is again on the anti-Home Rule warpath. The British suffragettes are beginning to have doubts about the efficacy of militancy. Important negotiations in connection with the Baghdad railway are proceeding. Serious strike riots in Halifax. Floods did enormous damage in N.S.W., but are now receding. Tlie Manchester Guardian criticises the arming of merchantmen. Another inquiry about Marconi shares Is threatened by 1 lie sharebrokers. - California's Land Act has irritated Japan, but it has liven copied by Arizona. Football and hockey matches on Saturday. Bishop (Pleary deals with the Bible In Schools question. Annual report of South Island Dairy Association. Rev. W. W. Brown inducted to Mataura Presbyterian Church. Coroner held an inquest into the 1 Mew River fatality. Some small islands near .lava disappeared in a marine subsidence. Sixteeu men are entombed in an American mine. Several explanations and statements in regard to the Defence Act. Canada's Navy Bill passed the third reading. Mr Carnegie’s Palace of Peace is nearing completion. School Committee's Association met ®n Saturday evening. The s.s. Manuka left Hobart at 1.20 p.m. on Friday, and should reach Bluff about 7 a.m. to-day. The Manuka is bringing 216 bags of Home and Australian mails. The following was the revenue collected at the local Customs house last week -—Customs duties, £ll2O 7s 2d: beer duty, 121: light dues. £Sf> ISs Id; shipping fees. 10s 8d; other receipts. 3s; total, £1523 Is Id. The beer duty represents J6BO gallons. Business on the grain and produce market did not take any active turn with the influx «jf farmers townwards on Saturday. In botli potatoes and oats very little is passing. Previously the outside demand from Australia freed the potato market of any grave danger of stagnation, but with excellent supplies In Victoria and Tasmania this season the Australian market as an outlet for New Zealand’s supplv has been largely closed. The price ruling at present is about £3 10s o.t.c.s. Mr H. Victor, who is paying a return Visit to Invercargill, commenced a series of lectures in Ashley's Hall on “Spiritual Science.” There was a large attendance. After the address .Mr Victor gave a number of spiritual descriptions, which were recognised and greatly appreciated. On Wednesday next Mr Victor will give a demonstration of psychometry in reading from articles, concluding with limelight Views of psychic matters. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister in Charge of the Government Printing Department. announces that in future the Government Printing Office will be subject to inspection by an inspector of the" Labour Department, under the Factories Act. Hitherto the Government Printing Office has been exempt from inspection, but henceforth it will bo treated, in this respect, as a private concern. A good deal of misconception exists as to the number of permanent officers and non-commissioned officers employed with the citizen forces of the dominion. The actual number of officers (exclusive of 10 undergoing training in England or India), is 66, and there are 205 non-com-missioned officers. As the Territorial, force consists of 23,322 men, and the Senior Cadets number 22.055. while attached to the rifle clubs there are 4708 —or a total of 51.015 Territorials, Senior Cadets, and rillemen—a simple arithmetical calculation .wi 11 show that there is one instructor, officer, or non-commis-sioned officer to every 18S men in citizen training. In the Permanent force there %re 11 officers (exclusive of three undergoing training in England) and 315 men —a proportion of one officer to every 23 men.

Hr G. ,T. Anderson, H.P., who accompanied the Hon. W. H. Merries on his tour of the West Coast, was agreeablyimpressed with the future prospects of the West Coast. Mr Anderson stated that if lie were a young man lie would have no hesitation in settling on the good land which he found to exist between Oreymouth and Reefton. AH that was wanted was young, energetic men with a little capital, and they would soon make good farms on the land at present covered by scrub or hush. He realised that a great fulur" was before the dairying Industry on the West Coast. Feed was plentiful, and the rainfall left no cause for anxiety. The income tax measure by which it is proposed that the Fnited State-.- Government should raise the £1 fi.fiOfi.caiO of revenue sacrificed by lowering the Customs duties, applies to all who earn in excess of £BOO a year. A tax of 1 per cent, is Imposed upon a man's income in excess Of that amount rind below £IOOO a year, the first £.BOO being exempt. The tax is graduated up to 1 per cent, in the case of Incomes of £200.000 or over. The income tax. together with the existing tax on corporations and slock companies, will. It is estimated, raise a revenue of £20,000.000 per annum. The bill excludes the Compensation of »he President during his term. Judges of the Supreme Court, and inferior Judges of the Fnited States, ajui the compensation of all officers and employees of a State nr any political subdivision thereof. All taxable persons are to be notified of the amount for which they are liable under the law on or before June Ist of each year, and the assessments must be paid on nr before June 30th. Employers are to be required to reveal the salaries of their employees, and it is proposed to collect the tax at the source. Hr T. Royd Garlick (Director of Physical Education in Schools) has entered Into an arrangement with the Hawke's Bay Education Board, under which classes for the instruction of teachers in the physical training system, which they will subsequently carry into effect in their schools, will he conducted at Napier simultaneously with the "winter school," for ■which 120 teachers from various points of Hawke’s Bay are to assemble at Hastings on June 9. The physical education classes will be conducted at Napier, and will last continually for a fortnight. Under this arrangement it is hoped that the system nf physical education will be In operation in about 100 schools in Hawke's Bay by the end of June. Four Instructors will be sent to Napier, so that it will be possible to carry on that equal number of classes simultaneously. One instructor. .Mr Moore, is at present In Auckland, and It is hoped to start classes there in about a month hence; but in Wellington and the other centres matters are hardly so far advanced. The Hon. F. H. B. Fisher (Minister of Marine) stated in Wellington that his attention had been directed to a statement contained in an article published by the Lyttelton Times, dealing with the enquiry which was held into the charges of flogging boys upon the training ship Amokura, The Lyttelton Times makes the following statement -"Most people would regard a flogging with a knotted rope that broke the skin as unduly severe, even if the sufferer was able to return to work at once, but Mr Hell, speaking, it may be presumed, for the Cabinet, takes quite a different view of such trifles. He thinks, indeed, that the boys prefer this method of punishment to more tedious correction.” “That statement, made by the Lyttelton Times leader-writer, is grossly inaccurate,'' said the Minister. "No boy on the Amokura has ever been flogged with a knotted rope, and if the process as described by the Lyttelton ‘Times is so brutal, then it might be interesting to point out to that newspaper that the floggings on board the shin were instituted by the late Government, and not by the Massey Administration: so therefore whatever blame is to be attached to the system should bo placed upon the right shoulders. The Lyttelton Times ought to be gratified to know that the humane Massey Administration proposes to do away with the brutalising methods Introduced by their predecessors."-

In connection with the claim by Maria Jackson against the Railway Department for compensation amounting to £250 in connection with land taken at Konnington under the Public Works Act, Mr G. Cruicksliank, S.M.. and tin- oilier assessors. visited Kcnnington on Saturday to view the laud taken. The assessors met later and fixed the amount of compensation to which the claimant in their opiunion was entitled at £1.15. Costs amounting to £ll 12s were ordered to he paid by tlie Railway Department. A series of charges. among which figure forgery and uttering and obtaining money by false pretences, will be preferred against a man named Goorgo Maxwell in the Police Street this morning. The offences with which lie is charged are alleged to have been committed in Invercargill. Dunedin. Christchurch, Wellington. and Palmerston North, it is understood that there are about a dozen informations. The altitude which tlie member for Grey adopts in regard to the Reform Government was explained by Sir Arthur Guinness in a speech which he made at tlie banquet to tlie Hon. Mr Kerries on the West Coast, in responding to tlie toast of “Tlie Parliament of New Zealand,'' Sir Arthur said that some people had regarded tlie change in tlie Government as something akin to a disaster, but lie eouitl tel! them that lie did not consider it at all in that light. If Hie late Government was called Liberal, then the present had simply added "Reform” to that word, if tiie reform lay in tlie direction of rectifying the mistakes —and as a member of tlie Liberal party be accepted his share of responsibility in the matter—which die Liberal Government had made, then tlie present Administration would do good. There was, of course, one plank in the Government's policy on which there was a division. He referred, to the land question, and added that he was sure that tlie action of the present Government would not be characterised by a policy of loaves and fishes —in other words, of "spoils to tlie victors." He did not’believe that ihe .Ministers would act vindictively to those electorates returning Liberal members. As a matter of fact the Government had improved the Liberal measures already on the Statute Book, and in this connection he reminded his hearers that one of the first acts of the new Ministry was to amend one Act so as to make it more Liberal. For those nobby soft bats, smart wea-ther-proof coals, cosy neck wraps and warm gloves, Undrill's, opposite Post Office, at Red Hat Sign. The smartest and most effective creations in Ladies' Neckwear are now being shown by THOMSON & BEATTIE. Ltd., including Ostricli Feathers and Net Ruffles In all the fashionable shades at Cs lid. 7s Gd and 8s 6d each; Dainty Ties in cherry, tan, sky. violet, emerald, saxe, prunolle, royal, etc., at Is each. Lace and Net Jabots. Is 3d to Gs Gd each, and the much talked about fashionable Violet Veiling—the craze of tlie moment —at Is Od and Is lid per yard. * Overcoats for Men and Boys in Great Variety. Lowest Cash Prices. The Economic Outfitters, 60, Dee Street. The Trojan predicted by Mr Wragge has come and gone, but not so the cold weather. It is just beginning and will continue for several months. Cold weather, however, is seasonable and healthy too if one is comfortably clad. Ladies solicitous for their own comfort and the comfort of their children will take care to be well provided with warm underwear and winter coats. McGruer, Taylor and Co. are offering splendid values in these lines and invite inspection, satisfied that tlie goods offered cannot possibly be improved, either in quality or price.—McGruer, Taylor and Co. * J. P. Johnson, Dentist, Hallensiein’s Buildings. Dee and Esk Streets. Painless Extractions 2s, Extractions Is, Gas 2s 6d. Now that the wintry weather has come with all its attendant discomforts, there Is nothing more comfortable than the fashionable knitted jerseys and coats. These useful garments can and are being used both for window and outdoor wear. PRICE AND BULLEXD have been extremely fortunate in receiving another delivery from Nottingham this week;,' and are showing all shades in Jerseys— Norfolk shape, with pockets, from 5/6 to 16/6. They are an exceptionally smart lot, and are selling fast. The coat and threequarter lengths can be had in Greys, Green. Tartan, Reseda, Cream, Saxe, etc., etc. Many shades can also be done with reversible collars, cuffs, and pockets. PRICE & BULLEID Invite an early inspection of these goods, as they are greatly in demand. Hats and Caps to match for rlnking, golf and hockey. * SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. On Lost, yearlings. Wanted, bedroom. Wanted, furnished room.*. Wanted, furnished rooms. Wanted, threshing mill. Cheapness and quality are combined in Smith and Laing’s glassware. On Page 3 Smart dress fabrics in the most fashionable shades and colourings at Thomson and Beattie's. On Page 6 Fullers' Pictures. Zealamlia Hall, 8. Hayward’s Pictures, Lyceum, S. Waihopai Masonic Lodge meets tonight. Special train for Bluff for "Blue Bird” on Saturday next. Social and dance at Dacre on Wednesday. Specialities for ladies and children af Tlie Forum. Grand Military Display in King’s Hall on May 23. On Page 7 Clearing sale prior to stock-taking at Wilson. Fraser's. & On Page 8— Furniture sale by Win. Todd and Co. on Thursday. Friniesl mutton birds on sale at .McKay Bros.