NEWS EPITOMISED

Southland Times, Issue 17608, 24 March 1914, Page 5

NEWS EPITOMISED

THIS MORNING’S ISSUE. *fh6 position in Ulster is quiet, although the movement of the British troops goes on. The London Stock Exehange has brightened and there is a desire on all sides to avoid bloodshed. Notwithstanding this one commander of the forces says that however distasteful it may be the troops will carry out the will of the King and his Government. Auckland's big boxing scheme has collapsed. Young man's infatuation causes Auckland lady annoyance. -Another Antarctic expedition is projected. Child employment rampant in England. Invercargill crews fairly successful at Otago regatta. Seven missionary teachers killed and teaten in the New Hebrides. One thousand four hundred and twentyfive crates of cheese were shipped from JSluff yesterday. Servians arc beating and disarming Macedonians. - Australian XI. is playing against •Manawatu.

A large meeting of farmers at BlorMefm unanimously resolved that steps Bhould immediately be taken to relieve the glut in the barley market by shipping at least half the present year's jcrop to the English market. The new line through the seebnd Chains Hill tunnel. Dunedin, was opened for traffic yesterday. A firs: offender for drunkenness appeared before Messrs ,1. Crosby-Smlth and James \Vard, J.P/s at the Police .Court yesterday morning, and was fined .Ten shillings. Keas. hawks, black shags and whlte''tthroated shags arc not protected for Ihe remainder of this year and may "be shot during that period. After the 31st December, however, they arc again Jirotected. Mails despatched from Auckland via Vancouver on February It arrived In T.ondon on the 13th inst., three days’ late. The curt official direction to "Lick your own stamp" when handing in telegrams far transmission is soon to be no more in the local telegraph office, and Instead of the sender havng to affix stamps to the telegraph form they will hand the telegram and the transmission fee to the clerk, who will stamp it with a machine after the- pattern of a cash register which has been very successfully used in some of the northern post Offices, notably in Auckland. It was stated in erro yesterday that 4he new X-ray apparatus at the Southland Hospital was installed by Messrs 31. fatten and Co., of Invercargill. The facts were that the plant was imported on Messrs fatten and Co.’s order and Installed by Mr J. H Matson. of Bluff, and Dr. Barclay. Mr A. fhryslal. of Lochiel. sent forward a shipment of eight horses—five Btallions, one draught colt and four draught mares—to Sydney by the s.s Moeraki from Bluff yesterday. The consignmen: will be auctioned at the Sydney show sales. By the Maunganui Mr Smith, a prominent New South Wales' breeder of Clydesdales, had two threc-yoar-old fillies aboard from the stud of the well known Branxholme breeder. Mr Walter Ttlakie. This pair gained show ring successes at Invercargill and Winton during the past show season.. The first meeting of the Shakespearian Society will be held this evening. 'Tiiis is the third season of the Society, and promises to be easily the most successful. "The Taming of the Shrew” is the first play to be read, and a cordial Invitation s extended to any lady or gentleman desirous of joining. Full in • •formation may bo obtained from the secretary. Mr Frank Hurley. The Melbourne steamer was a much earlier arrival at Bluff this week than was anticipated. It is :t very rare occurrence to find her tied up at the wharf before ten o'clock, but yesterday the vessel was over four hours ahead of that time. She got alongside at .",40 a.m.. only ten minutes behind the international boat front the north. On the voyage across from Hobart the Mocraki made a vert- smart passage, averaging 13.1 knots an hour for the whole trip. At a meeting of tl>e executive of tie National Schools' Defence League at Wellington, it was reported that in three or four months members of the League bad secured forty thousand signatures “to the defence pledge cards. A report was adopted suggesting that the appointment of an organiser for defence of tie national rchools was necessary. The report aI"o set out the proposals of the Bible in Schools League and commented «n them categorically. Bluff was a very busy port yesterday, no fewer than five vessels being at anchorage at the wharves. The Mocraki. from Melbourne, and the Maunganui. from Sydney via northern ports, both reached their anchorage before B o'clock yesterday morning. The Home liner. Surrey, the collier. Waipori. and the training ship Amokum made up the complement of ships at. the port. ( living. it is said, to the ascendancy of the Bed Federation section in the Typo, graphical Union, a number of compositors in the Government printing office have resigned from membership. It in pointed out that to engage in a. strike, a? the Union was invited to do. would not only mean the loss of their positions. but forfeiture of contributins to the superannuation fund. .Vs a numbtr of members considered the safeguards in the rules bad been broken through at the instance of the Federationists a choice haa to be made and has been taken. The special committee of the Town Council consisting of the Mayor and the chairman of the various committees which was appointed to arrange, details In connection with the visit of his Excellency the Governor. Lord Liverpool, met last evening and arranged details of the. proposed Invercargill programme ■which will be submitted to His Excellency for approval. Lord Liverpool will arrive in Invercargill by the second express on Friday, April 3. He will be met by the mayor and councillors and formally welcomed. The official welcome will take place at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, when Lord Liverpool will be presented with an address' of welcome at the rotunda. After the function His Excellency will be taken for a drive, upon which he will be shown the principal points of interest about the town. 3n the afternoon he will visit Bluff and will there be the guest of the Campbcllt'iun Borough Council. He will return to Invercargill on Saturday evening, and on Sunday afternoon will probably visit Ihc hospital. The programme for Monday morning will probably include a motor tour of the western district, and His Excellency will return to Invercargill in time to proceed north on the 1.35 p.m. express. The three greatest pests in the Northern Territory are said to he the white ant —which sometimes grows to the size of a bee- the rrjarsh fly and the great Xlarwin mosquito. Each of these insects holds a record in his particular line, but as a champion in the way of destructive industry, the ant must be awarded the palm. According to the story told to a Sydney Daily Telegraph representative by Mr AY. Ft. Hayes, a surveyor in the Territory, the white ant is bent upon exterminating everything In the district except himself. He is no daylight worker, but toils incessantly In the dark. He lias attacked the forests of the place, and the ironwood which •will gap an axe yields to the insidious power and the never-ending industry of this insatiable insect. The result is that there are acres of forest with trees like empty shells, the inside having been cleaned right out. An etymologist is engaged searching for the white ant’s natural enemy, or soma other means of combating It but up to the present the scientific investigations have been of no aval! and the ant pursues his dark and relentless course, devouring everything between himself and daylight.

. Mails despatched from Wellington (via Naples) on February 13. arrived in London on the 21st inst. Wellington still continues to be the busiest passenger centre in the dominion. Passengers to the number of 1634 took their departure last month, attd 1630 arrived. Auckland’s figures for the same period were 11S7 departures and 1280 arrivals. . - , The Tlmaru Borough clerk i ©ports that the receipts of the motor ’bus for 171 days arc 736 from the bay. tennis courts £33. and bathing sheds £s^!. Builders and others arc notified by an advertisement appearing in this issue that caj-penters and joiners desirous of becoming members of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners will be enrolled on application at Allen's Hall between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m. "One medical sciiool in New Zealand is arhple for many years to come," said the Hop. .1. Allen. Minister for Education, to a Wellington reporter, commenting on the agitation, to have a medical school attached to the Auckland College. "Instead of establishing a new school.” said Mr Allen, “ail our efforts should be concentrated on making the one medical school at Dunedin, which has served us for many years, as perfect as we can make it." Yesterday fully 150 Southland High School cadets, under the command Of Major T. D. Pearce, wo.it into camp oil Rugby Park. They will remain in camp until Thursday night, and each day’s programme will be as follows: —Physical drill between C.ir> and 7.15 a.m,, squad, section, and company drill from 9 a.m. till noon, and from 2 o clock to 4.30 in the afternoon. Each evening a, parade will bo held. The boys have their meals at home, while the country lads arc being billeted out. "From the statements that have been made to me 1 believe that there is a great future for the orchardists and small holders in New Zealand." said Earl Grey to a Wellington interviewer. ■'[ am not aware that you have any fruit or experlmenta l farms which demonstrate what can be done. 1 met an apple-grower near Christchurch who told mo that he had made a net profit, after ■’deducting all expenses, of fifty pounds per acre, and that ho had sold his land for three hundred pounds per acre. Six years’ purchase Of land which would bring in an income of fifty pounds an acre did not seem to me a good bargain for the fruitgrower, but ho replied that he was going to use the money In buying cheaper land elsewhere, which, in his opinion, was equally suitable for the production of apples, and ho hoped before long, be would be able to sell that land also at three hundred pounds per acre." Tile local branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners is at present having a dispute with the Dominion Executive Board on account of the branch, without its consent having been obtained, having been joined with ttie Dunedin district council of the Society. Members are strongly opposed to this action, and they also object to an organiser being sent to Southland when, they contend, a local man could do tho work more cheaply and more efficiently. So strong is the feeling that a ballot is now being taken as to whether or not, in the event Of the Executive Board failing to fall in with tile wishes of the local branch, the branch shall secede from -the Society and form a separate union in Southland. The Labour Disputes Investigation Bill which comes into force on April 1 next, was subjected to some strong criticism by Mr D. Moriarty. secretary of the Wellmgton Furniture Trade Workers’ Union, in the course of conversation with a reporter. Mr Moriarty said that during the passage of the Rill none of the evidence taken in connection with it before the Labour Bills Committee of the House was printed and supplied to members. This evidence- had since, however. been printed and circulated, and showed that no single person who gave evidence before the Labour Bills Commute was in favour of the Bill. He was astonished in reading the evidence to find that Mr I). McLaren, formerly Mayor of Wellington, giving evidence on behalf of the executive of the Labour Party, and the Hon. .John Barr, representing several of the Mouth Canterbury workers' unions, both allowed themselves to be questioned during tile course of their evidence by Mr Grenfell, representing the employers' association. The position to-day was that under the Arbitration Act itself any body or workers could strike without, giving a minute’s notice to their employers, and this was the reason why these workers had come under the Arbitration Act. whereas the Labour Disputes Investigation Hill made it a condition that workers, before going on strike, must give at least fourteen days’ notice of their intention of so doing. and must also take a secret ballot of their members on the question, this secret ballet being supervised by the Labour Department. Do not fait to see great show of Paisley and other neckwear at Undrill's, opp. Post Office. x Thomson and Beattie. Ltd., have just received a line of Oriental satins—. a fine finished quality. The colours tire Ivory. Sky. Pink. Grey, Saxe. etc. These satins make up very effectively for evening wear; 40 indies wide and very cheap at Is Gd per yard. x It sounds like taking coal to Newcastle to be to'd that any medicinal preparation manufactured in Invercargill should be sent all the way to England. Nevertheless. such is the case, for Mr It. Somerville's deservedly famous Perfect Corn Cure is not only being sold all over New Zealand, but is actually being sent to England as well, whore this invaluable preparation is becoming popular. Sommcrville'.? Perfect Corn Cure can always bo had direct from Mr R. Sommerville. chemist and eyesight specialist, Dee street, Invercargill. x See Window- Display of special New Mufflers and 3s 6d Shirts. —The Economic Outfitters. 60 Dee street. x A few years ago leggings were wholly a feature of rural attire, but owing to the growth of motoring and other causes, leggings are now- very generally worn, and the demand has a general source. To meet the demand the supply has grown enormous!-.- and the variety of styles and makes now available is surprising. Messrs Ritchie and Co., saddlers, Dee street have a very heavy range, and as they arc large buyers their prices are comparatively low. When buying loggings you want something that will retain its shape and appearance. You will wear it longer; you will get more satisfaction from its use Don't fail to see Ritchie's -dock before buying. x SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. On Pago I. Wanted—Cook. Wanted—Sawyer. Wanted—Trapper. To Let —Brick shop. Tenders invited for erection of bungalow. McSkimming and Son have some new properties for sale. Tenders invited for salvage timber ex Okta. On Page 4. N. J. M- Rein offers some special Easter gifts. On Pago 6. — Lyceum Pictures to-night at S. Fullers’ Pictures to-night at 8. Annual meeting T.M.C.A. Hockey Club to-night. Meeting of Invercargill Shakcsperian Society to-night. Cricket at Rugby Park at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesday. Train alterations and additions for Southland Autumn races. Notice re John Oliver declared bankrupt. Annual meeting of Professional Musicians Society on Wednesday. Skating Rink opens on Wednesday, 25th inst. _ Grand concert in St. Peters Church, Elies Road, on Wednesday. Notice re special loans for Borough of Invercargill. , , , Notice to carpenters and joiners re joining Society. On Page B. Wm. Todd and Co. has % -acre and residence for sale. Wyndham Stock Agents—Entries for Wyndham stock sale.