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Southland Times, Issue 17698, 9 July 1914, Page 5

Mails despatched from Auckland, via Vancouver, on June 9. arrived in London *r July 7. one day laic. An individual, under the inlluence of liquor, was taken into custody at the vicinity of the railway station last e\onto g. At the Police Court yesterday morning ft young man was charged with being found drunk in Don street at -• ;uni. on June 20. It was his second offence. The If-gist rate imposed a fine of 10s. An important public meeting in connection with the Southland League is to he held at Riverton to-night. A large number of members of the Council will Journey to the seaside town anti tiic ftpeakers wilt include Messrs AA . D. Hunt (president). Wm. Maoallster ( vice-presi-dent). Air John Gilkison (chairman of the Invercargill branch), and Mr A. R. Hawke. The Mayor of Riverton (Mr L Pcti-hell) will preside. Persistent rumours being circulated in the district that the morning and evening express would not stop at Malaura after the present month, the Mayor (Mr John Lowrlenl wired Air G. J. Anderson, H P, the member for the district, on the matter, and lias received a reply that the rumours were not correct. He had g< en the Minister and nothing had been done in the matter.—Mataura correspondent. Tn Afay last a charge of exposing Ituuor for sale after closing hours was Preferred against William Cronan. a betel-keeper at Waikaia. The case was only partially beard when it was adjourned for legal argument before the Magistrate. Decision was given at Waikaia on Tuesday, when Cronan was fined 16 with costs. Another hatch of by-law wises came Or for hearing at the Police Court yesterday morning anti with one exception fires were imposed. The offences ennuis ted principally of riding cycles on the footpaths, allowing unlighted vehicles to stand in the street alter dark, and riding cycles without, a light, (me young man was charged with driving • motor car not having a registration number affixed thereto, and another was charged with allowing a horse to wander in a public street. Fines ranging from 2s 6d to 9s were inflicted. Ail who are interested in tin* life and problems connected with the government of the Indian Empire are reminded of the lecture this evening in Lie Gymnasium Hall of the Y.ALC.A, by Mr J. H. Lang. on "India and its Problems." The h-cture. which is under the auspices of the V.M.C.A.. is free and Is illustrated by a scries of excellent lantern views. A young man named. Arthur Singh appeared before ATr Thos. Hutchison. S.AI, at the Police Court yesterday morning, charged with the theft of a horse, paddle and bridle at Taromaunga station. Accused pleaded not gnilty to the charge of theft, but omitted the second charge. Afte- evidence had been given the Magistrate said that he conld not, ennvirt accused on the charge of theft, hut ordered him to ho s--nt to the Burnham Industrial School for absconding. Since the extract from the report of far Medical Inspector of Schools was published, the secretary of the Education Board has received a letter from I>r Ada. G. Paterson, saying that the extract was incorrect in stating the number of children suffering from malnutrition as nil. Tho actual figures with r-gard to nutrition were as follows; Nutrition good.. 95.7 per rent.; nutrition normal. 27.9 per cent: nutrition subnormal. 11.9 per rent; nutrition bad. 1.7 •per cent. The number of children of uuoatisfactory nutrition was thus; 13.6 per cent, these figures applying only to children in Standard 2. An ill-clad and dirty-looking hoy of about fifteen years of age came before the Magistrate at a sitting of the Juvenile Court yesterday morning, charged with the theft of clothing valued at 335. "Evidence showed that the lad at tin age of three was sent to Lome Farm, hut when he grew older complaints were made by the matron as to his conduct. "He was then sent to wort in the country. hut he diq no* give satisfaction there and was dismissed Since then h* had beep hanging around Miknr<”,v;i. Arrangement?; were made to keep him at fn Farm until something was done, hut on account of his behaviour he had to he expelled from there. The Magistrate said that he was a fit subject for the AVereroa Farm, and committed him to that inst Button. At the invitation of .Mr G. \V. Woods a. number of local Libera! supporters met in Allen's Ha 11 on Tuesday evening. t i 1..- present. Air Woods occupied the chair and in the course of a statement w. id that if they carried out the wishes of the Liberal party in Wellington they would bring into existence a very big organisation which would make its influence felt in all the fßytinns in the district. It would be the fluty of the Southland Liberal league, when formed, to see that there was thorough organisation and that the branches worked systematically to secure tiieir ends. After some discussion it was decided to ferrn a branch. Mr G. W. Woods being elected provisional chairman. The meeting then went into committee, and It was later ascertained that it had been decided to cal! a public meeting In form a Southland Liberal and Progressive League, Libera's in Wallace, Awarua and Mataura. to be invited to be present. .As the result of an explosion, flic cause of which is uncertain, followed by fire. rhe well-known 39 iiorse-pnwer f'ommer motor vehicle in which Massey's Pictures make the rounds of their cir--uit was destroyed at. Thornburg at a 1.-te hour on Thursday night. A picture show had beep given at that centre and ar its conclusion Air Alassry took a motor lamp and went to the car to stop the •engine, widen was driving a dynamo -from whieh the current user) r nr f r ,c projection of tho pictures was supplied. Aft Massey Placed the lamp on toe floor pf the car. hut before he could proceed wit:; the object he had in view a loud txpb'sion took place, and the car took Ire. The explosion was of sufficient viou non to throw ATr Alassey some dis.ance. and he sustained an injury to his shoulder in falling. The car. whieh was badly damaged, was valued at £9oil, and was insured for £6f)o. No export estimate of the extent of the damage is so ar avail ab I e " The Post and Telegraph Department." savs fh.e Public Service Commissioner in liis annual report. " is peculiar as compared with others, as under the Public Sort ice Act transfers to the department from other departments are practically impossible, although there is nothing to prevent postal officers being transferred to other departments. This was at the request of tho officers of the d< partment, but 1 am afraid the provision is one which is a disadvantage rather than an advantage to the officers themselves, us the rest of the public service is now claiming through its association that the same treatment should be applied to them. The full ef’oct desired by all officers would bo if the restrictions were modified. The Post office ha:- unusual facilities fot training officers In certain classes of clerical work tor wuich it is at fmms difficult to find officers properly fained in other departments. while, oi the other hand, the Post Office is otien in need of general division officers, Who could bo supplied from other departments instead of being engaged ftozn outside the public scrvica.

“ In my opinion the tramway system is doomed," remarked Dr .1. R- Purdy at a public meeting held at Dower Hutt on Friday evening for the purpose of discussing tbc question of establishing a municipal motor-’bus service. Motor'buses, he said, were coming into favour all over the world, and it was easy to see the reason. They' were quite a satisfactory means of transit and. unlike tramcars, they did not need rails, overhead wires, or power plant. As for the Kdlson storage battery ear, he did not think that would be practicable for years to come. The secretary of the Rugby Union last night received the following telegram from the Prime Minister:—“l have much pleasure in aeceding to your request of extending my patronage to the carnival. I wish the function every success." Sir Joseph AA'ard wired as follows; - "Win have pleasure in complying and giving tny patronage at the carnival opening. My host wishes for y our success.' 1 Everyone has heard of the Scotchwoman who pulled the communication cord to stop the train because she had dropped a mushroom out of the window (writes " Morcutio ” in the Xew Zealand Herald.) Equally unsuspecting uf tlte storm that was to break on his head was the boy- who stopped the Paeroa-Waihi train this week. He was observed waiting at a. Hag station at whieh the “express” stops only if there are passengers to bo taken on or set down. The train was stopped, but the hoy showed no disposition to leave the station building against which tic had propped himself. The guard' asked the hoy if he were a passenger, and the lad replied in the negative. " Then why do you stand there and slop the train V” the guard demanded angrily-. ■ I didn't stop the train.” replied the boy. ” I came down to see it go past, and you spoiled everything by pulling up V A copy of the Oakland Tribune, published in California, has the following interesting paragraph, which contains reference In a young Xew Zealander : ‘"Weldon B. Cook, the aviator, drove his hydroplane across San Francisco Ray to Oakland in exactly eight minutes on May 19, and Rear rode beside him all the way. Intrepidly, the birdman looked Rear in the face, and smiled. When the craft landed. Rear got out, and paid his fare am) went away. His full name is R. .1. H, Rear, and he came to California recently- from Wellington. Xew Zealand. Merely to show that his name holies Nature. Rear arranged to ily with Cook.” The Mr Rear mentioned is a son of R. .1. H. Rear, engineer, who is in business in Wellington. Speaking to a Wellington reporter, Mr Rear. sen., said that his son recently resigned a position as manager of a cheese factory in the Waikato, and left for Canada. He secured a billet in one of the Canadian rhoese factories, with a view to increasing his knowledge of the industry. A report on the general question of establishing city markets in Auckland will probably be submitted at the next meeting of the northern City Council by the Mayor. Mr C. J. Parr, C.M.G., states the Xew Zealand Herald. In the course of inquiries made recently in Australia M r Parr found that the newlyestablished Sydney markers in their first year of operation made a loss of CIO.OOn. Further investigation, however, disclosed the fact that refrigerating and other plant, installed after the opening of the markets, had been made a direct charge against revenue, and that, with these items of non-recurring expenditure eliminated. the deficit would not have exceeded £”000 or £3OOO. In Melbourne, the city markets have been for years a profitable concern, but they were placed in an advantageous position at the moment of their establishment by the fact that the Governmen. provided. free of cost, the land required for the site. A formal plea for the release of Henry Holland, now serving sentence of imprisonment for sedition, was made by Mr Merer, a member of the deputation representing the Red era ted Timber Workers' Rnion. which waited on tho Premier yesterday The speaker reminded Mr Massey that letters had come from a ! 1 over the country for the release of Holland. Mr Massey, in reply, said that Holland had broken the laws of the country. ”1 can express no opinion.” added tic- Premier, "as to the .severity of the sentence or ol iierwi.se. It would he a verv serious matter if the ftovernment o,- tfirlivment comes to interfere with decisions of Re court. If I committed an offence 1 should have to submit as well as anybody else and take the consequences. I do not see my way and the < ’.overnment does not see its •cvny, to make any recommendation with regard to the rcnvssion of sentence."

Interesting discoveries were made ilufin- tbc cruise of rhe federal trawler F.ndeavoiir. who it a:is just concluded (savs the Melbourne Age.) The principal of these was that many of the soundings shown on the charts which have been doing duty for a good many years are incorrect as regards the depth of water indicated. For instance, the depth in Bass Strait, according li these charts, is IS fathoms f2SSft). but soundings taken by tho Endeavour Showed that in many places the lead sank to a d-nth of : '3. fathoms GriSft.) .Another of the disco\cries was that the or can bed is quite regular, and not irregular. -as shown hv the old charts, and that a Mg central basin, with a. maximum depth Of 93 fa, i horns, extends like a trmirn from the Tasmanian coast , rTVarr | f . Victoria, ind then stretches away into the Southern Ocean between Rape otwa" and King Island. No fewer :,3.-. soundings W"re taken during the cruise The Federal Fisheries Director thinks that tho explanation of the difference between the old and Ihc new soundings lies in the fact that the old soundings were not taken at the oar time, and taut different appliances gave different results. This, he says, cannot !>.. allowed to stand against tho soundings taken with the latest appliances. ■■ Tie- ac.-omrnodat ion provided in (he majority of cases for Government, offices is just about as unsuitable as it could bo.” says the annual report of the Public Service Commissioner, which was presented to Parliament recently. "It usually consists of a scries of small rooms, which it. can easily be understood renders supervision an impossibility ; moreover, under such conditions an undesirable result is that the isolation of officers brings about lines of demarcation fatal to good management, and destroys the community of interest. For the* purpose of dealing with all matters n* - accommodation, a hoard reporting to tbc Minister of Internal Affajrs— consisting of Messrs R. Triggs, assistant Public Service Commissioner; H. J. 11 Blow, permanent head. Public Works Department : and .1, Hislop, permanent hj ead Department of Internal Affairs was set up in September. 1913, and it has made recommendation for the re-ar-rangement of the new buildings at Christchurch, the Government Buildings a - Auckland, and also at Nelson, besides providing for and re-arranging the accommodation in several of the smaller departments generally.” The Calcutta "Englishman” contains stirring story of an adventure which hefel a detachment of the 92nd Punjabis in Eastern Bengal. At the request of the sub-divisional officer. Air Ross, about twenty-five men tinder Subadar Ahmad Knan went to assist in rounding up a man-eating tiger, whieh had just mauled a man not far from iho village of Netrakona. about twenty-fivo miles from Alymensingh. Ball cartridge was served out. and the men were guided by a villager towards the spot where the tiger was supposed to he. The troops were disposed in open orxier with bayonets fixed and magazines charged. Mr Ross was in front, with scouts; on either side. Suddenly the animal broke cover and charged Mr Ross, coming on. the report says, like a ” perfect cannon-ball of snarling fur.” Mr Ross fired and missed. The two scouts had a dash at the animal, and then the rest of the men rushed forward with fixed bayonets. A general scrimmage ensued. “Of course,” the account continues, “It is impossible for anybody to remember exactly what happened next. There were -shouts, and shots and bayonet thrusts. The animal got two men down and they emerged from the serum bleeding badly. Others were knocked down and got up again unhnrt The scene may he best described as a whirlwind of pagris and fur. In any case, when it was all over, tho scrum had moved nearly twenty yards. Finally, when the animal lay dead and tho Sepoys had d-awn off, a panther was discovered and not a tiger. During the struggle everybody had believed it to be a tiger. It had seven bullet wounds and eleven bayonet thrusts. Shikaris know that a panther at bay is even more ferocious than a tiger, and has a greater tenacity *»? Mfe ’’

An Auckland telegram says that after a lively meeting the shareholders In Wonderland Amusement Company (Auckland) decided to approach tho City Council and seek permission to carry on an amusement park in the Exhibition grounds during the coming summer, and thus endeavour to retrieve the loss during the Exhibition period. In the House of Representatives yesterday. according .to a Press Association message, Mr J. A. Hanan (Invercargill) wins granted leave to introduce £he Election of Ministers and Party Government Bill. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher (Minister o r Marine) Introduced the Harbours Amendment Bill. Tho unveiling ceremony of tho Westland pioneers’ memorial was successfully carried out at Hokitika yesterday by the Mayoress (Mrs Perry), in the presence of a large representative gathering. At a social In connection with Catholic Federation at Christchurch last, night n resolution was passed protesting against the introduction of the Bible Into the State schools and the provisions of the Referendum Bill. Xotiee has been given in the House of Representatives by Mr A. At. Myers (Auckland Hist) to ask the Minister of Education whether he would consider the desirability of instituting in the public schools a system of compulsory training in domestic .science for girls, so that they might fit themselves for their future responsibilities in the home in the same manner as the lads of the dominion had to prepare themselves for their future responsibilities as citizens. Motorisis are much interested in the proposal to introduce a Bill to impose a tax on cars. The motoring community will welcome a moderate Lax if, there is an undertaking to apply it for the improvement of main roads. Tt is suggested by the New Zealand Automobile Union that the following would be a fair scale of taxation;—On motor oars not exceeding 15cwt. £1 10s; between 1 Scwt and 25cwt. £2: ears exceeding 2.9cwt, £2 10s: motor bicycles and motor tricycles, of whatever weight. I Os. The proceeds of such a tax have not been officially estimated. but it is safe to asstime that the minimum yield would bo £40,000 per annum. Tho annual meeting of tho Xew Zealand Motor Union, which is the aggregate organisation of the va.rions automobile associations of the dominion, will bo held in Wellington on Friday. The meeting will discuss a number of legislative and other matters of national interest from the motorist's point of view. The principal subject will probably be the Motor Regulation Bill, which the Government Intends to introduce during this session. Mr P. S. McLean, of Napier, will preside at the conference. Reduced prices for good underwear and gloves at UndriU’s, Opposite Post Office. x Thomson and Beattie. Eld., are offering some exceptionally cheap Black Dress Materials at their Re-building Bale. A good selection usually sold at 2/3 to 4/9, are being offered at 1/6 and 2/G. See tliis line, there are some splendid goods ajnongst them. x FIRST fact. you want groceries; second fact, you will get them cheap and good at Baxter's: third fact, you will get a nice bonus (a score of goods to choose from) if you ary a cash purchaser. x Don’t miss McNeil and nark's big sale of men's and boys' clothing and mercery' now on. Secure an outfit in suits, trousers, shirts, ties and underwear wl.Ue the prices arc right down. Our sale bargains arc unsurpassed. x You should read tbc Economic Outfitters' list of Sale Prices on the leader page of this paper; they are genuine. x Under Wholesale Prices—Yes. under London wholesale prices, and a stock of thirty thousand pounds to select from: all up to season’s goods. No doubtfuls are allowed to accumulate, and only high standard makes are sold. That’s the ticket that causes the daily busy hum at Price and Bulleid’s. This week is a week of extra special bargains, take for instance, a line of Ladies’ Blanket Paletots, the wholesale price of which was 39/6 to 99/6; \vc sell to-day at 27/6. Ladies’ Tweed Costumes. English and Colonial Wool, 12/9, 19/6, 17/6. 19/6. VTc are also clearing a fine lot of Toadies’ Winter Dress Skirts, these are fashionable goods in Navy. Black. Plain Colours and Tweeds, tho prices start as low as 2/1 I and rise to 14/6. Do you want a Now Sports Coat for 9.'11. worth 27/6; new Dolours, Fleecy finish. Talk about wholesale prices, the lines we are offering throughout the House could not he l>otight in London or Manchester at the price. x Tour own life or death may depend at some crisis on the quality of the medicine dispensed. Even in less serious eases you want strict accuracy. Mr K. Sommerv’lle. chemist. Dee street. Invercargill. assures us that he treats every prescription as if he knew that it meant the turning point in some, desperate ease. He treats every prescription as equally important and he could not give better drugs, closer attention, or greater promptitude if he were dispensirig for the King. You may place implicit reliance ip his pharmacy. Doctors will tell you so. He leaves nothing to chance. He supervises everything. You will be wise tu take your prescriptions to him. Prices are always reasonable. x Intending motor cyclists are now offered a rare opporlu n ity of securing second-hand motor cycles at ridiculously low prices. We have' fourteen whieh we intend clearing at such prices that will induce motorists to buy now. They have been all thoroughly overhauled, and include the following makes ; —Triumpu, Douglas, 8.5.A.. Xew Hudson, Indian. Matchless, King Dick. Premier, Humber. Aerial. Rover. In every instance they are offered at £.'o under their value. They alsolutely must he cleared irrespective, of price livery year a number of our customers commence the spring by exchanging for the latest now models which makes it necessary for our stocks of second hands to be sold out so til at we can accept the business. Wo are consequently compelled to clear our stocks irrespective of price, and herein lies the opportunity for those who want a second-hand motor cycle at many pounds under its value. Easy terms arranged. Inspection invited. Wilson tend Eraser. Ltd., Invercargill. x DRAINAGE, ff yon are instating a drainage system. get a price from Armour and Co,, Esk Street, and see what you save. We ernplov a full staff of licensed draJnlaycrs and are Sole Agents for the local drain pines and fittings. All estimates Cpoq. Telephone 32-). Opposite Times Office. x SYNOPSIS NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. On Page I. Wanted —Generals. Lady's help wants situation. Colin McDonald has some good bnsinesses for sale. On Pago 4 Goon goods at MrGmer. Taylor and Co.'s below wholesale cost. On P?-ge 6. Fullers' Pictures to-night at S. Lyceum Pictures fo-night at S. Notice re Education Board elections. Queen Carnival and Fete of Nations in Theatre to-night. On Pago 7. Price and Buileid offering half-eost bargains. 1000 meals a year cooked on the Orion. On Pago B. Rse Rockland basic phosphate, Wm. Todd and Co. hold furniture sale at Mary street on Friday. Wright. Stephenson and Co. have good dairy farm for sale. Extra entries for Woodlands stock sale. Henderson and Co, hold clearing sale ar Orawia on July 16. Wright, Stephenson and Co. have firstclass grafting property for disposal.