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Southland Times, Issue 17599, 11 March 1914, Page 5

.; A special car service from the Post Office to Rugby Park will be run today from 1.15 to 2.43. Cars will run • very few minutes. The Government steamer Amokura Will leave Bluff for southern islands on or about the 14th inst., catling, if weather permits, at Auckland Islands. Campbell, Antipodes. Bounty and Snares Islands. “The history most of us were taught »t school was little more than blood and fire—battles, who won them, and Isolated dates" —remarked Mr W. H. Hemmingway, In speaking to students •U the Auckland University College, states the "Auckland Herald." “We heard nothing of the silent army of workers and businessmen. and what they achieved in moulding and developoing the Umpire.” The speaker was referring to the value of a course in modern history. On Saturday afternoon a serious break took place in the engineering room of the Kaitangata mines. The crank of the fine new engine which drives the new dynamo broke and caused several other breakages which rendered the engine practically useless. The small emeigency engine was immediately put in commission but the loss is no sm ill item as it means that the electric power, which also serves the local hospital, has been reduced to a minimum, while minor steam engines will have' to be utilised In both airshafts for driving the fans. In a lecture, says the Christchurch "'Press," Mr Kstill. Commercial Superintendent for the Port of London Authority. said—"in re-packing the tea in the great warehouses after inspection, men arc employed to tread the tea into the packages. Canvas sacks are placed over their boots so as to prevent any dirt getting into the tea. and if the men do not put on the sack they get It. Experiments have been tried with machinery fitted with hammers which strike the side of the chest so us to •.void the necessity of employing what appears to he a primitive method of repacking tea chests, but so far nothing has been found which is so effective as the human foot.” Mr George Aitclieson. owner of the famous Cardyline herd of cows, in conversation with our Dunedin correspondent. stated that another cow. Daisy, Jive years, completed her semi-official test for New Zealand Holsteins early last week and thus established a new record for butter fat returns. Daisy has given 63.9 lb of butter fat, which Increases the average for his tested cows from 60.6 lh to 61.9 Ih per cow. Daisy's return is apioximately equal -to 19.9941bs milk or two thousand gallons. Taking the low standard of one shilling per gallon or threepence per quart Daisy has yielded HOP. Mr Aitchcson says that he has some promising young stock and hopes soon to hen. his Dominion records. The regulations made under the Sale of Pood and Drugs Act will come into operation on (lie first day of next month. Generally-they requiro that every package containing foodstuffs for human consumption must hear a true and accurate description of its contents, and many of the regulations are direct prohibitions against the use of injurious processes or ingredients in the composition of foods. The regulations were gazetted on 6th March. 1913. but uniter the provisions of the Act their operation was suspended for a year to enable merchants and dealers to dispose of stocks which would not satisfy lire requirements of the new law. The work of shifting the sheerlcgs at Don Chaimers is likely to be soon put In hand, says our correspondent. YVhjn they arc removed from theii present position between the two graving docks to the new site beyond the entrance of the Otago dock they will ho re-erected on a ferro concrete foundation rising at least twenty feet above the water. This greater height will make the shccr'egs more useful to large vessels. The heigiit of the shccrlegs themselves is >-a..d to be ninety-six feet, and the additional height on the new base will enable tneni to plumb the holds or engine departments of the largest liners. ,Tlk •■onstructior. of the ferro-concrete piles for the pew site is being put in hand. ‘.Vfien re-erected the sheerlegs will be second to none in Australasia. The scorn of the Fijian native for sharks was referred to by the Rev. W. K. Bennett, of Fiji, in a speech in Sydney bust week. Mr Bennett said that n native Fijian, who was with him in Sydney, was greatly amused at the manner in which Australians halite in the surf. The Fijian had written to his father, and told him that the ladies especially. never went further than the sand. Mr Bennett added that he secured a costume for the “boy" at Bondi, and saw him go out —right out beyond the fourth line of breakers. He called him back, and remonstrated with him. He mentioned the undertow, and the Fijian said .that it was not nearly so had as they experienced on the reefs round the islands. “Then." said Mr Bennett, "t fired my big gun. and told him of the terrible sharks. He said in reply that a shark would never attack a man in deep water, but only in the shallow. ‘Then.’ he said, 'all you have to do is to dive and throw your arms round him. so that he cannot bite you." (Loud laughter.) • "Can a union legally claim due from members when it squanders its funds upon strikes?” asked a members of the Auckland Painters’ Union who was proceeded against by his tmio-n at the Magistrate's Court in Auckland for fees due. "Some of these legal gentlemen win tell you." replied Mr Kettle. 'Hie defendant stated that tie had obtained only three weeks’ work since Christmas, and the reason, he declared, was that he had worked during the strike, and, in consequence, had been black-listed by the union. "That seems pretty hard," remarked the Magistrate. “Have you tried your old employers?" The defendant said that he had, but without success. "It what you say is true, it seems a wrong thing that a man cannot get employment because he objected to strike.” commented Mr Kettle. Another member of the same union who was also proceeded against for membership fees affirmed that the union would not leave taken action against him had it n>t been for the fact that lie worked during the strike. He. also, had been uiMibie to obtain work. A feature of expert aviation that soemed to Impress each of the five passengers who took flights with .Mr hj c,. Hawker at Randwick last week, according to trie Sydney Morning Herald, •was tio- apparent ease with which the pilot picked up his bearings and returned to land at the same spot from which he started. 'T could pick up places I knew, such as Centennial Park. Ascot Racecourse, and Botany Bay." said one passenger, but the view of near landmarks was more restricted, and just as I thought I recognised a place we were past it. What came within one's range looked just like a little detailed rail —and one wanted the names on the map to tell which part was which.” It would seem that the greatest drawback to the aeroplane as a pleasure craft is the terrific noise of the powerful engine. Conversation is practically impossible when the engine is going, though when it is turned off for a descent die occupants get a respite from the din. The fact that the noise of the exhaust Is clearly audible when the machine is n thousand feet or more overhead will give some idea of how it must sound to the occupants of the. machine.

% V Mails despatched - frettn 'Wellington, , via Naples, on January 30. arrived In London on the Bth Inst—one day late. The Wellington Investment Trustee and Agency Co. decided yesterday to increase Us capital to £300,000 by the creation of 1,000,000 new ordinary shares. Captain Hannah, Inspector of Weights and Measures, from Wellington, will arrive in Invercargill on Thursday night and will test all machines and scales on Friday. The Dominion Band will give a sacred concert on Sunday next In No. 2 Gardens, when a splendid programme of sacred and other appropriate selections will he rendered. During the past few days the weather has been erratic and chilly in the Kftitangata districts, writes our correspondent. Rain is badly needed for crops, while the domestic tanks in the township In many cases sadly require replenishing. The Wellington Citizens' Carnival this year is expected to yield a surplus of a little over £IOOO. Strike troubles and other demands upon the public have accounted for the shrinkage upon last year's amount of £2OOO. The Wellington City Council last night deckled to guarantee the balance of the amount required to secure the Days Bay bush, otherwise the property would have been submitted at auction to-day.

Further returns from country centres towards the Hospital Saturday collections have been received by the secretary (Mr W. G. Compton 1, hut they arc still incomplete. Additional results are as follow: —(Kara: Principal, •). 11’. Lopdell: assistants. Miss B. McKinnon and Mrs Lopdell, £1 ISs. Hedgehope; Miss Highsted. £2 0s O'/L-d. Waikawa Valley; Miss Fox. 12s (additional). Ityal Bush: Principal. .Ino. Officer: assistants, Misses Pert, D, and A- Blakie. £2 10s. Tuturau: Principal, Mrs R. Dickie; assistants, Misses t'hristie, Dickie, Bolster, £3 4s. Makarewa Works: C. H. Paisley, £2 11s. In addition to these advice has been received that the Morton Mains collections amounted to about £5, West Plains collections to £1 IDs, and Wallacetown to £1 1-s. The committee desire to publicly thank - the Lyceum management and Messrs John Fuller and yon for the handsome proceeds of the special matinees, and Messrs W. A. Ott. X.M. si ml A. Co., and Wright. Stephenson and Co., who placed their motor cars at the disposal of the committee.

"When I was in Sydney," said Mr T. O'Byrne, president of the Sawmill Vi orkers* Federation of New Zealand, who has just returned from a trip to Australia, to a Post reporter. "I was greatly struck with the orderliness of the large body of meat trade employees on strike. Between seven and ten thousand men were affected, and there was not the slightest trouble. In fact, you would hardly have known there was a strike on. except for the crowd of men round the Trades Hall. Of course, up to that time there had been no attempt to start free labour." As indicating how profitable had been the strike to other tradesmen, Mr O'Byrne mentioned that when he was in the New South Wales capital rabbits were soiling as high as one shilling and sixpence instead of nincpence a pair, and flounders realised as high as twelve shillings and sixpence a dozen, instead of four shillings and sixpence.

At their recent sale of work, held during the Sunday School flower festival, I the Olautau Presbyterian Ladies' Guild realised £BO. Owing to t Del r careful and economical methods during the past seven months, the Guild is absolutely ■ free of debt. Their treasurer. Mrs I Macdonald, will therefore, be able to pay ■ over to the new church building fund the sum of f.SO. free of all expenses. I Great praise is due to the Presufent (Mrs ! Varrtck) and her little hand of faithful j workers. They must he heartily con- ! gralulated ott the success that has atI tended their efforts. The Sunday j School flower festival, held at the same 1 time, which included in the admission : money access to the tea rooms, the produce: sweets, cakes, refreshments, and pot plant stalls, as well as the bran tub. ; fish-pond, and Xmas tree, realised about £llO. After paying expenses the festival yielded a profit of £6O. This sum is to be paid into the new church building fund by the festival treasurer.

"Nelson and Invercargill are the best laid out towns 1 have seen in New Zealand." said Dr Mill, past president of the Royal Meteorological Society in the '■curse of an interview in Wellington. "If Wellington lias been laid out originally in expectation of the present population it could have been made the most striking town in the world. The terraces should have been made to follow the hills instead of switchbacks like the so-called terraces that are here. But considering the history of the place it is marvellous how the facilities of (lie town have been adapted to the needs of a great modern commercial city. Invercargill is a flat town, but in Nelson 11 vo rectangular system Iras hern adapted to hilly ground with perfect success and in a most remarkable way." Stylish New Ties. Hats. Caps, Overcoats. just opening at Undrill's, opposite Post Office. x Thomson and Beattie, Ltd., have much pleasure in intimating that they are holding a special display of tiicir autumn and winter goods on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. A visit of inspection from you will be much appreciated. x See Window Display of special New Mufflers and 2s 6<l Shirts. —The Economic Outfitters. 60 Dee street. x

ECZEMA is a widespread and tliere- ! fore important disease of the skin afj feeling as it does, the face, hands, arms, I and other parts of the body. The exi perience of tension, burning, and itching j which, with the accompanying fever and I disturbance of the system, are very | troublesome and hard to bear, at times giving rise to much suffering and broken rest. Mr B. Sommerville. chemist I and eyesight specialist. Bank Buildings, Dee street. Invercargill, has an ointment and medicine which he lias given with marked success in all such cases. Doubtless there are numbers of people who will be glad to avail themselves of this opportunity. x It is an accepted fact that while clothes do not make the man they at | least give him a good start over the slovenly or ill-fitted. Successful men are • careful to be well attired, as this means i success. Price and Bulleid’s tailoring • represents a perfect union of finality, j good taste and a diversity of patterns. •They have forgotten nothing. That is correct, either in fit, style, or finish. Place your Easter holiday suit with them and you will gel satisfaction. Orders are being booked now and will be executed in rotation. They are also showing a fine collection of Box Kuils, all well tailored, finished, and perfect in fit, ready to put on and wear away from 49/6. A tine lot of overcoats just delivered in double and single-breasted, very smart breezy styles: new cloths. Price and Bulleid invite you to inspect j their new features in men's wear. i SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. | On Page I. Wanter —-Typist e. ■Wanted—Canvassers. For Sale —Bat Motor Cycle. Bennett's revolving oven shelf. Private Hotel business—R. J. Cumj ming. Good Home Values, special list—R. P. Meek. ' Borough of Invercargill—Notice to ! Electricians. | On Page 3. — I Lewis's close to-day, j On Page 4. ! Economic new goods. | On Page 6. j Lyceum Pictures to-night at S. Fullers’ Pictures to-night at S. ! "A Day at-the Races.” Theatre. ! Australia v. Southland. Rugby Park. Notice re Discount Day, i Warehousemen v. Travellers, Satur- : (lav. Dissolution of partnership. McGill ; Bros, and Co. i On Page 7. i T. W. Vickery. Ltd., annual sale. | Schullar, Chisholm —Furniture Sale. , On Page B, ! Knowsley Estate —Clearing sale, j Woodlands Stock Sale entries. I Wm. Todd and Co.— Furniture auction. .1. Holloway. Ltd. —Furniture auction. ! Mossburn Stock ‘Sale entries. I Wright. Stephenson and Co., Edendale sale, further entries, j Wright, Stephenson and Co., Weekly 1 Horse Sale. ' Wright, Stephenson and Co.. Land Sale, | Centre Bush.