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Southland Times, Issue 17620, 7 April 1914, Page 5

All entries for events for the Crom- !••!! and Clyde sports except cycling close at 10 a.m. on Saturday.

To give stay-at-home bowlers and any IVistors who care to participate, a game Of bowls on Good Friday, it has been arranged to play a friendly rink match on Southland green. Play will start at • am. sharp.

The town engineer, Mr G. F, Clapcott. has been on holiday leave in the Siorth, has had a busy time inspecting numerous works in which there was any that by observation would be .likely to assist him in his official duties. He returned by the second express on Saturday.

We would remind readers of the concert in the Parish Hail. Gladstone, this evening, in aid of the Boy Scouts' brass band. A good programme is arranged and the girl scouts are assisting, and appear for the first time in their new uniform. The T.M.C.A. troop is also assisting.

There were no cheese consignments ■Shipped from Bluff by any of the intercolonial steamers this week. On Monday next the Ulimarou will take away a •list from various Southland factories for shipment to London per the Home liner Athenic, to which vessel the cheese ■will be transhipped at a suitable northern. port-

Dr Snowden. American Trade Commissioner, paid a tribute to the newspaper press of the dominion yesterday. New Zealand, he said, was not cursed with the yellow journalism which was a feature of American newspapers. The editorials of the New Zealand journals wore of a ■very high standard. The matter was admirably chosen, and both from a style and a literary point of view, the articles he had read throughout his tour of the dominion were excellent productions. The high standard of the newspapers ■was one of the biggest surprises lie bad received whilst in New Zealand.

There is every indication from the number of passengers already booked by the R.M.S. Niagara, sailing from Auckland on Saturday for Vancouver, that the vessel will carry a record number of passengers this trip. Considerably over 200 passengers have already booked In New Zealand, while about CIO in all classes are joining the vessel at Sydney. When the Niagara leaves she will have at least 650 passengers aboard, and this number represents an incrase of 28 more than the number which constituted her previous voyage to Vancouver.

The s.s. Maunganui. from Melbourne hnd Hobart, readied an anchorage at Bluff wharf at ten o’clock yesterday morning. The Melbourne steamer this week had a total of just under one hundred and fifty passengers for the various New Zealand ports. The principal Items of the Maungamti’s cargo when she sailed for the north last evening were two thousand feet timber, one hundred and fifty cases fish, three thousand sacks grain, and a small quantity of Tih.ro and lump.

The oyster trade at Bluff has been ■favoured by every possible weather advantage during the past six weeks or so. and tho.se directly associated with the industry have gene thrcnigh a season up to the present marked by good hauls. The splendid quality of the shellfish this season lias been a strong factor in bringing about an increased demand from all parts of the dominion. One loading member of Hie trade at Bluff told a Times reporter yesterday that bis craft had latorly had a most successful run at the oyster beds, ns far as the numerical strength of tli > hauls were concerned. The latter we?ks of last month were especially favourable for the oysteriug boats, and. in fact, his long connection with the industry had never been associated with more favourable climatic conditions for any stretch of time than were evident during the oyster season of the present year.

7n this issue (lie IT) ion S.S. Co, draw special attention to their Island trips for the ensuing season. Passengers i :m pov.' sail from Auckland and hark lo Auckland. via Suva. Tonga. nnd Samoa, ■without break of journey, ami without visiting Australia, as was formerly the c-ase. In the rase of those passengers who wish to fro to Australia arrangements have been made Sor a short stopover in Suva. Fiji, alter visiting the various island groups and thence to travel to Sydney or else to .Melbourne direct, as ;lie iwssrns'T wishes. Excellent hotel arrommodal ion can now be obtained in Suva. « here the Fnion Company's new Brand Pacific Ilotel will l>e opened in May 1. -MI quarantine restrictions in connection with tin- South Pea Islands have been removed, ami passengers are non- free to land at ary of the many ports of call.

Kliner fdllon. known throughout New Turk as the "hoy with an angel face." ■Was sentenced a few "weeks ago to three years in a reformatory for vagabonds ge. Ho is sixteen, but looks younger, lias fair hair, pink cheeks, and most wonderful violet eyes. Me has been before the magistrates thirteen times in three years hut always protested his innocence, which was corroboated by his looks. A Daily Telegraph correspondent once heard a magistrate say lie had never seen such an expression of incorruptible purity tind youth. Nevertheless, the police say that the angel-faeed hoy is a •■gangster" of a dangerous type. There has, been nothing 100 bad for hint in the way of gangsters' erime, and tlm leniency of the Bench has been regularly abused.

A rather singular incident arose as the result of l.oril I,iverpool's attendance -at St. John's English Church on Sunday morning. The officiating minister was Archdeacon I'aeke. and for some time during the service his Excellency was puzzled as to where he had seen the. reverend gentleman before. That he had at some time known him Cord Eiverpon| felt certain, hut where, he was quite at a loss to remember. After the service Archdeacon Packo paid a. brief call upon Tils Excellency, anil it was then that memories revived. It may be explained that Arehdeacon Packo is a talented singer, and is .said to have attained a high reputation as such in his earlier -ears. It turned out during the course of his conversation with l.ord Eiverpool, that he had been known to him as an assistant at charity concerts, etc., when, twenty years ago. His Excellency was a subaltern in t,hc Uh Rifle Brigade, then stationed at hcvonpnrt, South of England. Needless to say the old friends had many recollections revived by the meeting, and their chat together was more than ordinarily pleasant to both.

A rather good joke is at present being circulated about a family of recent arrivals from Scotland who are now living in an Invercargill suburb. It appears That Jock (the man of the house) Is veryfond of gardening, hut he found that his present garden would grow nothing but ■weeds. A neighbour advised him to sow a crop of oats for the purpose of clearing the section. Jock forthwith instructed Viis better half to order some oats from the family grocer. The ground having been previously prepared. Jock's wife obtained the oats, and to show her husband that she knew something of gardening she decided to sow- them in his absence. On coming home Jock was delighted with the. thoughtfulness of the guid woman, and decided to await developments. Some months passed by but no sign of the oats could be seen, and in desperation Jock interviewed the neighbour, who seemed equally disappointed with the results. The neighbour accompanied Jock to the garden to examine the seed, never suspecting for a moment that Jock's wife could have made any mistake. After examining a jiatch of soil in search of the non-grow-ing seed Jock turned to Mrs Jock, and exclaimed: “Cissy, what sort were yon oats that ye got from the grocer man?” Cissy replied; "Man, Jock, they were guid rolled oats, an’ cost a shilling a bag.” It is not necessary to add that it Is unsafe to mention oat-crooping to Jock now.

The-secretary of the Exhibition, Committee. Mr J. T. Train, has received advice that Southland exhibits of &rai n > coffee' and spices have grained first awards, and for soluble coffee a first and special has been obtained. At tlje Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr J. Stead, J.P.,. two first offenders for drunkenness were each fined one pound.

It Is Understood that the Union Steam Ship Company intend to transfer the fine steamer Wlllochra to the San Francisco trade and that she w.lll be placed on this run after her return from her present trip to Austalla, which was entered upon from Bluff last evening. T'hc trade now available between the Commonwealth and New Zealand hardly warrants placing the best eqnlppeVl vessels of the fleet in the service, and consequently the. intention of the company to make any. alteration does not conic as a surprise.

Bluff residents have greatly welcomed the heavy rain of Sunday last and the consequent replenishment of tank supplies throughout the port. During the particularly dry spell of last month many of the residents of Bluff were placed at considerable inconvenience through the shortage of water. Even where households were connected up witli the supply from the reservoir, care had to ho exercised and the supply conserved to the best possible advantage.

Dr Snowden, American Trade Commissioner. in touching on industrial matters to a Times representative yesterday, said that he thought that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act would work better In a small country like New Zealand than in a country of the size and population of America. Bpoaking of I.W.W-ism, lie said that tills doctrine had done a tremendous amount of harm in America, but that the employers had fought the strikers so resolutely that there was now really no T.W.W. in existence. The workers had been made to see the futility of such methods.

A cash purchase association has been formed by the Wellington section of the Service Association, and the books for sale in connection with it arc now available to all members, says Hie Non Zealand Times. Tito charge for a book is one shilling per annum, and for a family ticket one shilling and threepence per annum. The discounts, which are given by many of the best tradespeople in Wellington, are exceedingly liberal, and range from five per cent, to fifteen per cent. In respect to dentistry, twenty per cent, is allowed, while one of the biggest photographers is allowing twenty-five per cent. The scheme Is being taken up enthusiastically in the service.

tVliat is a bowling alloy? This question was discussed at the Auckland Police Court the other day during the hearing of cases against two men who were alleged to have used buildings in Queen street as bowling alloys without haying obtained licenses. Both informations were dismissed on the ground that the games played in the amusement parlours In question were not specified in the bylaw under which the charges were laid. The Magistrate had a lively recollectipn of the bowling alleys where, he saad. he had spent some of the idle hours of his vouth. and had no difficulty in discerning the difference between "hoopla and other such games and skittles. He certainly thought that the City Council should have control of such places o amusement, but an addition would hl ' to be made to the by-law before the Court could enforce it.

Elaborate attempts on the part of the school authorities of Berlin to compel children to use their left hand equal - with their right have resulted in and. according to medical opinion. an> further attempt should be abandoned. Dr Schafer, reports the Lancet ’ ed that of the 228.445 pupils of the• Berlin municipal schools nine thousand tvw hundred and sixty-five must be lefthanded. wherefore ho recommended the establishment of special schools lor them The Berlin school managers_would not follow this advice, but made experiments to try whether it was possible to train the children to the use of both hands equally.

Last night at the V.M.C.A. a ..umber of leading Sunday school workers gathered to dismiss several matters of eCn-er-il interest A good agenda paper had been drawn up. including stick as the training of teachers, the held .that should be covered and the pnmarj school organisation. The object was to nave the wav for a larger meeting of ipitchers to be Hold at a later date, and a number of resolutions were passed for presentation at that meeting. It was IVU -encrallv that the deman<> was for modern methods of administration, and Mr H T, Coiner gave a ,very interesting description of a model Sunday school he b',d visited recently in Auckland. fhe interest shown in the preliminary work augurs well for the later meeting to be called several weeks lienee.

hack of expression and had articulation hv children in public schools is commented on, in the annual report of tit*' Wellington Education Boards inspectors. The report stales ; —“We must, confess to having some sympathy with tlie g.-neral excuse put forth with regard ""to lack of expression, viz., that the pressure of other subjects, and the conc,.*ted (lasses, allow to the teacher little opportunity for that individual and intensive treatment which is necessary to cultivate what is really an art. This excuse, however, cannot lie accepted in the mailer of enunciation. Carelessness or indifference on the part of the teacher is mainly responsible for such improprieties as ' pari inkier.' 1 tremenj,„i S ■ • soree' (source). '0130117.' (places). ■ dishers ' (dishes), 'at' for it. ' paintud ' for painted, the joining of the final consonant of one word on to the initial vowel of another, as • onrise,' ' yourcars ’ for ' our eyes.' ' your ears.' and so on. We shall expect the marks for reading awarded hy teachers at their term examinations to show more evidence of the detection of these faults than they do at present. The proportion of schools in which we are able to express satisfaction with the recitation is still very small. There are exceptions, of course, hut. generally speaking, we find little medium between stagey’ elocution and declamation, and mere mechanical and halting repetition; and we do not know which is of the less literary and educational value. As we said last year, the regulation requiring a minimum of 200 lines to he memorised is partly the cause of the unsatisfactory treatment of this subject. It hampers the teacher in his selection of pieces, anil encourages him to make too much use Of the poetry as a home task."

During the last three years Michelin has hy successive stages. lowered the prices of motor tyres hy fifty per cant. These reductions are quite normal. They result partly from the drop in the price of rubber, but more especially from the Increased productions of the three enormous Michelin factories. Their butte increase in production has meant a large decrease in manufacturing costs, and Michelin passes on a great part of this profit to motorists in the shape of lower prices. Other manufacturers who are not in the position to manufacture on such a large scale have been forced to lower their prices, but seek to cover their reductions by making various qualities. Please remember, Michelin car tyres arc made in one quality only—the best- —at the lowest price. P. H. Vickery. of Tay street, receives fresh stocks by "every mall steamer, direct from the works. x A SWIFT PROPOSITION.

During the next few days an opportunity will be given to purchase tho Royal Club Swift Cycles at prices much lower than these machines have ever been offered at before. The ladies’ model Is the finest bicycle In the world, unequalled for ease of running, beauty of finish, and luxury of equipment has been reduced from £ls to £l2 10s. This reduced price continues in force only until the end of the present month, and a-s the stock of ladies’ models Is being rapidly depleted it is advisable to purchase without delay. This bicycle is so built that it allows the rider to assume a position both graceful and comfortable ; violent exertion is unnecessary, even when pedalling against a strong breeze. The Swift is par excellence the fashionable wheel, being the favourite bicycle of the peerage and aristocracy in Britain and on the Continent. Exceptionally easy terms may be arranged, good allowances on second hand bicycles. Call apd see the latest models of ladies' or gents* Swifts. Godward’s Bike Shop. Don street, agent for Swifts, Rovers and B.S.A.

J. S. Anchor and Co., Plumbers .and Gasfitters, opposite Times Office, Esk street. House drainage a specialty. ’Phone. 220, *

The bjj. ’Wilocbra, from Sydney, via northern porta, arrived ‘at Bluff early yesterday mornlnp. Tlie Wlfloohra discharged a small inward cargo and loaded a cargo for Australia, the chief items of which were—Twenty-seven -thousand feet timber, one horse, one hundred and seventy-five seeks* oysters, three-barrels fish, two boxes gold, and one hundred and fifty sacks seed. ’ The Wlllochra sailed for Melbourne, via Hobart, at six o’clock.

Mails despatched from Wellington (via Naples) on February 27, arrived in London on 4th inst. New and distinctive styles in hats, 5s to 20s; just opened at Undrill’s, “Red Hat” sign, opp. P. O. -x

if you want a good useful everyday Suit, one that is well cut. well made and will wear well, call at Thomson and Beattie’s and sec their range of Box Baits iu the newest Greys. Browns. Heathers and Navy mixtures. Prices from 47/6 to 65/-. A smart stylish suit at a moderate price. x

Bo rapidly do they follow (hat one attraction treads on the heels of another. At Price and Bullcid's to-day they arc showing a few exceedingly line Fur Bets, one in particular is a smart Black Wolf, the muff Is a complete skin with head and a long scarf at 9% guineas. Another, set is Real Badger of Blue Grey tint, also whole skin muff with head and handsome tio at 9guineas. A magnificent set of rich Fitch Sable made of many picked and whole skins. Very large muff witli heads and tails also exquisite shoulder wrap long ends. Bright skins witli tails at 25 guineas. .Squirrel sets. large b#p-shaped muffs witli whole skins and tails and large throw over ties at 17 and IS guineas. x

A few yeare ago leggings were wholly 3 feature of rural attire, but owing to the gfowth 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 encrmouslv and the variety of styles and makes now available Is surprising. Messrs Ritchie and Co., saddlers, Deo street, have a very heavy range, and as they are large buyers their prices are comparatively low. When buying leggings 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 fall to see Ritchie’s retook before buying. I

Tour eyesight Is of paramount Importance to you and in the case of failure from whatever cause, it becomes necessary to seek aid to preserve that sight to enable the eye to perform its functions in an efficient manner. You will bo well advised to consult Mr It. Sommerville. chemist, and eyesight specialis't, Bank Chambers, Dee street, Invercargill, who does all such vrbrk skillfully and well at prices to suit everybody. x

SYNOPSIS NSW ADVERTISEMENTS-

On Pago I. Wanted, youths. Wanted —General. Wanted —Sawmill hands. Wanted —Ploughing. Por sale, billiard table. Wcsnoy’s for hot water bags. Waterproof sponge bags Hj-ndman's. Poison laid for dogs. il. Wilson, Timpany's Siding. Practical young dairy farmer waiting engagement. Copeland's for Easter overcoats and boxed suits. Hindman's have fine shaded tea sets cheap. Territorials should visit Copeland’s for rugs for camp. Bedroom sets now offering at low figure at Wesneys. A.C.M. will have hob cross buns ready on Thursday. . Tenders for confectionery rights, theatre. Municipal Council. Tenders for piano tuning, Municipal pianos. , j. p j,icck advertises some very fine houses for sale. On Pago B. ... „ . Eirst at Auckland Exhibition Enterprise Panges. • Methven new seamless washing coppc. withstands buckling. 11. and .1. Smith have some special jerseys’ and quilt lines. Os Pswr© 4*—— McClnicr, Taylor and Co, for Easter novelties, eta Page 6. Lyceum Pictures to-night at s. Pullers’ Pictures to-night at S. Mercantile firms Easter holidays. .Icwcllery firms Easter holidays. Banks Easter holidays. Manchester Unity open Lodge Wal lacetown. W C T.U.. three o'clock, Allen s i-ta.ll. Concert at Gladstone for Boy Scouts’ Band. . t , . . . Lodge Waihopai meet to-night Mr Prank Graham, voice production. Union Bank. Notice re grounds lo sports clubs, Borough of Invercargill. On. ragfe Vprice and Bulloid for Curs of every

description. j> ji. Vickery for \ ictor cycles. Elect ion of school committees. On Page B. Bale of Magda la. (entries for Oiautau ram faar. Entrles for Otautau ram fair close toXVoodlands stock sale advertised.