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Southland Times, Issue 17790, 16 October 1917, Page 4

The Pacific Cable Board advise that the “time of transmission is again normal.” At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr Jas. Ward, J.P., a statutory first offender was fined 20/- for drunkenness; and another was convicted and discharged upon payment of 2/- cab fare. Fish are' very plentiful about Pegasus just now, and a fine catch, totalling three tons, was brought to Bluff on Saturday by the Savaii, as the result of a three days’ trip. While the high wind was in progress on Sunday morning a fire broke out on Bluff Hill and rapidly ran round the face of the hill through the thick scrub. Several houses were in danger for a time, but a band of fire-fighters was successful in beating off the flames. The cause of the outbreak is being inquired into. An Order-in-Council fixes the prices of bran and pollard when sold otherwise than by the manufacturers. The rates are based upon those fixed in May and now are: When sold in a quantity of half a ton or more, bran £4 and pollard £7 10/- per ton; when sold in a quantity of less than half a ton, bran £4 2/6 and pollard £7 12/6. Hitherto it has been the custom of the Invercargill Y.W.C.A. to hold an annual Christmas sale in its rooms for the purpose of augmenting its funds. This year, however, the Association has decided upon a new course. For the Christmas sale is to be substituted a Street Day. Therefore Saturday, December 8, is to be the Y.W.C.A. Street Day. A good story was told by the Rev. W. Ready, of one of the hospital ships, showing how the Americans themselves regard the entry of their country into the war. A number of the officers were dining in a restaurant at a> port of call on the voyage' to New Zealand, and, during the course of conversation, an American lady remarked to them: “Say now, I guess the Kaiser and the Germans might as well go to bed now we’re in it.” It has been pointed out to us that the two farms which Mr Thomas James Smith, of Matuku, Mossbum, who was before the Military Service Board in Invercargill last week, is managing, are his mother’s and his own, and not his mother’s and his soldier brother’s, as we stated. One of the other two farms which we mentioned as being under the care of a third brother, eight miles away, is the soldier’s. The war has drawn the suffering nations into very close sympathy with one another. A touching story was told by thp Rev. W. Ready, chaplain on a hospital ship, concerning the death of an Auckland soldier who died before reaching his home, and was buried at Tahiti. At the military funeral the French garrison turned out to do honour to the fallen soldier, and the French community took the responsibility of erecting a monument to his memory. Subsequently the girls of a large French Protestant school requested the principal to tell the chaplain that, so long as their school lasted, they would see that fresh flowers were kept on the New Zealander’s grave. In acknowledging a welcome home extended to him at Wanganui, Chaplain Blamires, who has just returned after three years’ service, assured relatives that they need have no anxiety concerning the welfare of their boys except when there was a “stunt” on. The boys yere getting a lot of fun out of -life, though, of course, they would prefer to be home. The bombardments were very fierce and dangerous, and there was great risk. The New Zealand boys were well fed, better than any other troops at the front, and in this respect their conditions were infinitely better in France as compared with Gallipoli. The sanitation was excellent, and the general organisation was wonderful. “ Our community is undoubtedly degenerating,” declared Dr R. M. Beattie at a “Baby' Week” meeting at the Auckland Town Hall. “The insanity rate and the number of cases of nervous diseases are both increasing.” The fact, he said, was shown in the many men rejected under the Military Service Act. The Plunket Society was saving the lives of babies, but many of them were unfit. The unfitness of the community was being increased. This, he asserted, was due to the Public Health administration. Delicate children were saved, but were left stranded, whereas, not only should they be saved, but they should be made fit.

In the Public Works Estimates for the current year, the amount of £27,000 has been voted for passage-money in payment of reduced fares for nominated immigrants, 1 as compared with £32,000 voted under the same heading last year, when the sum of £7425 was expended. Under the heading of passage-money in payment of reduced fares for immigrants, other than nominated immigrants, themselves applying for re-duced-rate passages to New Zealand to the High Commissioner, the amount of £15,500 appears on the Estimates, as compared with £IB,OOO last year, when £2648 was expended. Last year £1385 was paid in refunds of passage money, £2OOO being voted for that purpose, while a similar amount appears under the same heading on the current year’s Estimates. A very valuable adjunct to the work of the Y.M.C.A. with the New Zealand troops at the front is the travelling kitchen motorvan donated by Mr Percy McHardy, of Palmerston North. In gratitude for the generosity of the donor and for the free refreshments supplied from it, it has been christened by the boys, “Buckshee Mac.” The van has done excellent service as a rapid means of transport, and also, in enabling the Association to carry out many, “Buckshee stunts” when the men have been on the march. The New Zealand Division is so mobile that it is imperative for the Association to have means of getting about the country quickly, and “Buckshee Mac” is now an indispensable part of its organisation.

Of the four Invercargill soldiers who were expected to return by yesterday’s express, two arrived, and the others will probably reach; here to-day or to-morrow. As the number returning was so small no formal reception was arranged. It was unfortunate that a large portion fil the Mayor’s farewell address to the troops yesterday should have been lost in the din of hammering within the railway station. Of course business is' business, but it seemed a pity that arrangements had not been made for the five minutes’ of the speech to have been devoted to planing, boring, or ..some other of the'more silent occupations of the builder. Brahma, the Indian deity, is represented with four heads looking to the four quarters of the globe. Whether the world is aware of his gaze is a matter of conjecture. \ The whole world, however, knows Green of Gre&ley, or, at all events, his goods. Hyndman’s, Dee street, are selling a big line of his famous pie dishes and mixing bowls, universally known as the best, aj; low prices. THE ECONOMIC Ladies’ Outfitters’' Speciality is ’Costumes. Now is the time to purchase. Stocks are full and our styles are perfection.—(Advt.) Superior Enamelware at BAXTER’S. Direct importation. Particularly good qua! ity, and prices ,low —wonderfully low, con ; sidering the state of the market. Small profits; quick returns.—(Advt.) Invercargill grocers are not too shy to tell thrifty wives that “NO RUBBING" Laundry Help does wash clothes clean without rubbing or injury to hands or fabric. 1/- packets every time.—(Advt.) Good quality Rubber Gloves can be procured in all sizes at 2/6 per pair at THOMSON <fe BEATTIE’S. These Gloves make an ideal protection for the hands at Spring-cleaning times. —(Advt.) Don’t worry about the JTea tax. At 2/per lb your grocer can supply you with the famous DESERT GOLD Family Blend Tea. It is a full-flavoured Ceylon tea — delicious, wholesome, and economical;— (Advt.) FLOOR COVERINGS, including Linos in various qualities, in a fine range of designs. Carpet Stfuares in Tapestry, Brussels and Axminster; Carpets all makes; Sofa Rugs, Hall Rugs, Hearthrugs, Door Slips, Carpet Runners and Coir Mats —imported specially for the present season’s trading—haVe landed in excellent condition and are now showing in the Carpet Department of the BON MARCHE STORES) Tay street (Price & Bulleid, Ltd.). The values are in every instance unquestionably in the buyer’s favour. Messrs Price <k Bulleid, Ltd., buy largely and only in approved markets goods of sterling merit—goods that will give satisfaction ih every way. They will be pleased to give quotations and prices for any of the foregoing lines.-—(Advt.) New Summer Shirts and new Boaters now opening at UNDRILL’S, opp. T/oat Office.—(Advt.) It is a remarkable fact that various lines of merchandise pass through cycles of activity followed by a few years of somewhat limited sales. This has applied particularly to the bicycle trade. During the past twelve months in both Canada and U.S.A. there has been a remarkable increase in the sale of push bicycles, with the result that manufacturers have concentrated on turning out cycles with a more permanent finish, which has been lacking in the past ten years. This cycling boom is now being reflected in New Zealand, so that sales of Bicycles have been more numerous this spring than they have been in the past four years. Messrs T. W. VICKERY, LTD., anticipating this demand and appreciating the improved designs, large bearings and especially the excellent electroplating on copper of the Canadian Ivanhoe Cycles, secured this Sole Agency for Southland some twelve months ago, and are now prepared to deliver these Cycles, Ladies and Gents’, at £l2 10/-. They have no hesitation in saying that no cycles arriving in New Zealand for the past ten years have such excellent plating and general design as the Ivanhoe Cycle. They also consider that the falling-off in sales of new cycles during the past six years was due to the poorness of plating apd general falling off in quality of Bicycles arriving, as compared with the cycles of ten years ago. Beautiful display of Crash work in many new and attractive designs. These beautiful goods speak for themselves. Cushion Covers, 2/6, 2/11, 3/6, 4/9, 5/6. Table Covers, 4/6, 4/9, 4/11, 5/6. Sideboard and Piano Runners, 1/6, 1/11, 2/11, 3/fi 3/9, 4/6. Table Centres in round and oval designs, 1/6, 1/9, 1/11, 2/6. Cosy Covers, very special, 2/6, 2/9, 2/11. Crash Stamped Work, in Table Covets, Table Centres, Cushion Covers, Cosy Covers, Brush and Comb Bags, etc. We are clearing the balance of our. stock at these keen prices—1/3, 1/6, 1/11, 2/3, 2/6, 2/11, 3/6, 3/11. Cushion Tops in Satin, Japanese scenes, 1/11. Cushions, Satin and Poplin backs, 4/11 each. Satin Cushions , 1/6. Sateen Cosies, 1/6. Cot Quilts in Jap. Silk, beautiful shades, 4/6, 4/11, 6/9 to 11/6. Beautiful Down Cot Quilts, 3/11 to 15/6. Larger sizes Sateen Down Quilts, 45 x 45, 11/6, 13/6, 19/11. Cot Blankets, just the thing for baby, soft and woolly, 2/11, 3/6. Inspection invited. H. & J. SMITH, LTD., Prompt Service Store, Tay street. —(Advt.)

We have landed a few of the latest model countershaft 41 hq>. B.S-A. Motor Cycles; excellent for solo and sidecar; economical and reliable British machines. Terms, etc. G. W. WOODS & CO., Dee street, Invercargill.

“Trifles often change us.’’—Thomas Bracken A cough or cold is apt to change a cheerful, happy disposition into a peevish, miserable one. . Take a dose of BAXTER’S LUNG PRESERVER and you will be free from such annoying and weakening ills. Coughs, colds, sore throats, chest and bronchial troubles are quickly relieved with Baxter’s, a proved remedy of 50 years’ standing. Good, also, for children. Their health and happiness are in your keeping. Those with weak throats or chests, and who are subject to coughs, colds and chills, should take Baxter’s regularly. Always haye a large 1/10 bottle in the home.— (Advt.)

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. On page I Lost, dog. • Lost, rods. Lost, badge. Wanted, man. Wanted, boy. Wanted, girl. *. Wanted, clerk. Wanted, board. Wanted, slabby. Wanted, general. Wanted, scutcher. Wanted, bushmen. Wanted, quarryman. Wanted, ploughman. Wanted, housekeeper. For sale, Buick motor car. For sale, B.S.A. motor cycle. Try Bray Bros, for vegetables. Remove your freckles with Rodex. Don’t miss Professor Inglis’s Lecture on Friday next. On page 3 Kihgsland’s boot values are unequalled. On page 6 Southland Farmers’ Co.-op. have some nice farm properties.