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Southland Times, Issue 19100, 19 November 1923, Page 4

The sporting news in this morning’s issue will be found on page 7.

The Edendale Dairy Factory is now receiving 7600 gallons of milk daily.

Yesterday some members of the Town Council visited Sandy Point Domain and inspected the work being done in erecting a long, straight dune as part of the scheme for anchoring the sand.

There is a keen demand for good store sheep in Wanganui at present. Most farmersnow have an abundance of feed, hence the desire to convert it into cash by turning oufc fats later in the season. The Wairarapa District Poultry Farmers’ Association has been advised by cable that eggs shipped about two months ago have arrived in excellent condition, free from breakages, and are retailing at 2/2 per dozen.

“Have you been underneath the house to see?” asked counsel during the crossexamination of a witness in the Supreme Court at Wellington. The dispute in question was regarding the condition of a dwelling sold to this witness. “No need to do that,” replied the witness, “you can sec underneath the house from inside.” The judge joined in the laughter that followed the witness’s unexpected answer.

“Although I come from what is known as the Queen City,” said Mr F. Bartram, MLP., last night, “I must say that the Queen City has a very beautiful princess in the south.” He went on to refer eulogistically to the appearance of Invercargill and the absence of anything in the nature of slum areas and said: “Although the Queen City has many beautiful jewels in her raiment, she also wears a lot of dirty underclothing—dirty wretched slums.”

The weather for the past week has been fine and warm and very close at intervals at Middlemach. Lambs are doing very well, and the farmers who have marked lately on he hills have had some very good percentages returned. Crops are doing well, and there is every prospect of a good season coming on. Farmers are busy just now planting turnips, and if the season continues as it is doing there is every prospect of good crops of turnips for the coming winter.—Otago Daily Times.

Although the weather took a threatening appearance on Saturday morning, it soon cleared and the week-end was beautifully fine. Yesterday afternoon a programme of music by the Battalion Band attracted a large number to the Rose Gardens. The Band was in splendid form and the various numbers were greatly appreciated. On Saturday evening the Southland Pipe Band played a number of selections from the Rotunda which were listened to with evident pleasure by a large number of bystanders.

An address on “What the Labour Party Stands For” was given by Mr F. Bartrain, M.P., for Grey Lynn in the Victoria Hall last evening. There was a good attendance, presided over by Mr T. Stokes, chairman of the Invercargill Branch. Mr Bartram was attentively listened to during a vigorous address of an hour and a half. At the conclusion of his speech, a hearty vote of thanks was carried by acclamation. Mr Bartram will go on to Mataura to-day and will address meetings during the week on the way to Dunedin, where he is due to speak on Saturday next.

“I have seen more sunshine in the last three weeks,” said Mr Bartram, M.P., who has been visiting Southland under the auspices of the Labour Party, at his meeting last night, “than I have seen in Auckland for six months.”

A Dunedin message states that at half past three on Sunday morning a serious outbreak of fire occurred at Kaitangata, resulting in the destruction of a block of four shops in Exmouth street. Two of the shops were insured for £3OO each, but the other insurances were unavailable.

The fine weather yesterday attracted a great many people to Riverton Beach. Motor cars galore, besides slower means of travel, were employed in taking people from Invercargill to the beach and one car owner told a Southland Times representative that he had no difficulty in getting his car through to the beach.

Telegraphic advices from the north state that owing to unfavourable weather in the morning all sports fixtures for Saturday were postponed. In the afternoon the sun shone out and the weather cleared considerably. At Auckland the trots .and cricket competitions were also postponed on account of the heavy rain. The trots will now be held on Wednesday.

A bandmaster has drawn attention to an extraordinary coincidence unlikely to recur for a hundred years. The test pieces for the North and South Island contests are identical. He explains that the selection was made independently by the North and South Island Associations, who usually ask a British house to send suitable pieces. Apparently the Britishers duplicated the selection. Both Associations’ pieces are “The Flying Dutchman,” “Life of the Czar,” and test march, “Sons of the Wild.”

An amusing incident occurred at the meeting in the Victoria Hall last night when Mr F. Bartram, M.P., was speaking. He had just been drawing the distinction between useful and useless labour and had included an earlier occupation of his own, canvassing for orders for books, in the latter category. The next occupation that received his condemnation was insurance canvassing which aroused merriment in the front seats where a gentleman of this calling was seated. Nobody appeared to appreciate the humour of the situation better than the canvasser himself and the ex-canvasser, Mr Bartram.

The usual monthly meeting of the South branch of the W.C.T.U. was held in the Elies Road Methodist Church on Tuesday afternoon. The president (Mrs Pasley) presided over a fair attendance, several apologies for absence being received. The reading of correspondence, the passing of several accounts for payment and the nomination of members were attended to. As it is usual for the W.C.T.U. to run the tea room and rest tent at the Summer Show held in December, the subject was discussed and Mesdames Pasley and Robb were appointed to take charge of the tea room and Mesdames Piper and Carter and Nurse Griffiths to take charge of the rest rooms.

The prospects for pastoralists are better than they have been for some time, was the announcement made by a mercantile authority to a Dominion reporter at Wellington last week. He declared that this year’s lambing had been better than that of last season, and there had also been more breeding ewes this year. The wool was coming off the sheep’s backs in good condition, and of a bright character. Altogether,' he said, the prospects for farmers was bright. The first wool sale of the season will be held at Wellington on November 20, when it is expected that the catalogue to be offered will comprise close upon 10,000 bales.

In the Supreme Court, Auckland, William Farrelly, a young man who absconded and was brought back from the Argentine, was charged with the theft of £530 when manager of a firm at Te Kuiti (says a Press Association message). Counsel stated that accused spent £3BO of his 6wn and his wife’s money over a serious illness of his wife and children. Mr Justice Stringer said that the individual circumstances and aspects of the case were a matter for the Prison Board. He cculd only take cognisance of the facts that the man was in a position of trust, and had endeavoured to avoid detection by forging vouchers of payment for money. He sentenced accused to two years’ imprisonment. Victor Henry Simmonds, aged thirty-nine, convicted of indecent and common assault, who, had a bad record, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.

Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P. for Masterton, in the course of an interview at Wellington said that he did not think Mr Massey was likely to go to the country on his return from the Imperial Conference. “There are no outstanding difficulties in the way for him to carry on,” he said. “The Government has not been defeated on any policy matter yet, and it does not appear as if it will be.” He was convinced that the Prime Minister had a sufficient majority to carry on, and that the present Parliament, in the ordinary course of events, would fulfil its natural terms. Should the Prime Minister successfully survive the present Parliament, he will have gone a good way towards realising his ambition to equal the record of thirteen years as Premier established by the late Mr R. J. Seddon. The Massey Ministry came into office in 1912.

The Wellington correspondent of the Christchurch SUn states:—“All the elements of a “Donnybrook” are offering in the activity of Bishop Cleary to push the sale of The Month. For 50 years the Tablet, printed and published in Dunedin, has been recognised as the “official organ of the Catholic Church in New Zealand.” Bishop Cleary, before his elevation, was editor for a dozen years. He is now a Bishop by appointment, but still a journalist by inclination. Hence The Month, printed and published at Auckland. Agents are touring the territory of the Tablet and pushing The Month in open opposition. The present editor of the Tablet is Dr Kelly, who carries a blackthorn as well as a fountain pen. Bishop Cleary is an essayist mainly, but a very rapier in controversy. When the clash comes there should be the fun of the fair. Dr Kelly, backed by the studied pronouncement of the Archbishops and Bishops of Australasia, takes his stand against Prohibition. Dr Cleary is a Prohibitionist at heart. He is also a Conservative in politics. Dr Kelly, like all good Irishmen, is “agin the Government.” Dr Cleary is a votary of suaviter in modo. Dr Kelly loves the fight. And the good bishop has all the parochialism that Mr Alpers admires in the Aucklander. Dr Kelly is for the place where the blood runs red—the West Coast, for instance. I shall climb up into, the rafters when the row starts.”

Bishop Radford, of Goulbdrn, one of our. leading Anglican prelates (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Wellington Post) has put a ban on confetti-throwing at weddings.- He regards the practice not merely as dirty, but as frivolous in the extreme. The significance of throwing a handful of rice at the newly-married couple, as expressive of a wish for a future of plenty, he can quite understand, but the habit of throwing confetti he describes as “silly tomfoolery.” “Why,” he asks, “make a mess of God’s front door, and rob a sacred rite of its sanctity?” Then someone asked Bishop Radford why the Church of England prohibited the decoration of churches for marriage ceremonies. He stated that the custom was not prohibited. It was merely discouraged, on the legitimate ground, he said that the decoration of a church with flowers and greenery should mark only religious festivals held to the glory of God and not to the aggrandisement of individuals. Bishop Radford says that to take possession of a church and decorate it to one’s own liking is simply attempting to convert the sacred building into a private room for social festivity. All the other bishops and clergy only want to be converted to Bishop Radford’s way of thinking, and then weddings will be about as cheerful as funerals. A correspondent in one of the newspapers says: “Why cut out the only little happiness that some married people enjoy before they are disillusioned!”

A Sydney cablegram states that Helen Bishop, 26 years of age, attempted suicide by leaping over the Gap. She missed the rock and struck the water, a distance of 200 feet below. She then swam to a fishing boat which rescued her. She was sent to the hospital suffering from contusions and a probable fracture of the spine. This is probably the only case on record where the leap has not proved fatal.

A Dunedin stamp merchant has received a communication from Berlin to the effect that, as the German currency is for ever jumping up and down (mostly down), the Post Office has found it necessary to keep on printing new stamps; and, as it is impossible to keep abreast of the changes, the authorities have decided to abolish stamps and return to the method of seven-ty-five years ago—namely, handing in letters at the office and paying for them.

Comment is often made in papers about the man who is making £2O to £25 per acre yearly off his place, and many Poverty Bay farmers regard this as a wonderful achievement (says the Poverty Bay Herald). It may interest them to know that there is a farmer in this district who has taken £l6OO off a place of 40 acres every year during the past five or six years. As far back as 10 years ago he was taking £lOOO a year off his place. That shows what can be done by careful and scientific farming.

An angling enthusiast who has just spent a good deal of time whipping the Mataura River, informs the Wyndham Farmer that, whereas in bygone days one would seldom see anyone trying his luck on the ripples of that stream, he recently visited a spot near the traffic bridge at Menzies Ferry and there counted no less than ten rods and lines in action within a few chains of each other. The deponent added his belief that the Mataura is going to prove a veritable paradise for disciples of Izaak Walton. Mr Robert Robertson, an Edendale crack, landed ten “spotted beauties” from the Mataura River on Wednesday afternoon; they were of an average weight of 2-lb.

A native of Tairoa Heads, Otago, predicts a fine-weather summer. This forecast is based on several deductions ’from nature study. In a few Words, a warm summer of fine easterly weather may be looked for, because myriads of tiny whale feed are already swarming in at the entrance of the harbour, because cabbage trees are blooming freely, and because the kowhai bloomed luxuriantly this spring. Another indication of coming settled weather is that barracouta arrived off the Heads this year in October—the old-time month of arrival. For several seasons past it is stated that only a stray barracouta arrived in October; this season they have been comparatively numerous.

Advice to the young men in the Post and Telegraph Department to specialise was given by Mr H. D. Grocott, formerly Chief Postmaster at Wellington, when speaking at a valedictory function on the occasion of his retirement. Things had developed so rapidly in the last few years that he predicted that mails would be carried by air. In the latest aircraft there were fullyequipped sorting rooms for mails. In referring to the amazing growth of the telegraph and telephone business and wireless, which was still in its infancy, rhe possibilities to his mind bewildered the imagination, and the future would give the young men of to-day far greater opportunities than they had ever had in the history of the Department.

“Business is good right through the United States,” remarked Colonel W. D. Holgate, of Auckland, who has just returned from a 11,500 mile tour of the United States. “Everybody seems prosperous. Wages are high, and the cost of living is, I should say, fully three times more than it. is in New Zealand. For instance, the dinner that the Government provides at Marton railway station for 2/6 costs 8/6 in America. One thing that impressed me about the Americans is their love of country and of their own particular State. There is no place in the world equal to it with them, and that helps to boom the United States. They have full faith in the future of their country, and their ideas of business can only be described as colossal.”

The other day the American Mammalian Society asked me the question. “Where do elephants die?” says Lieuten-ant-Colonel Gordon Casserley, the wellknown hunter and author. Now, although I have lived and hunted in and ranged widely through the great Terai jungle that stretches for hundreds of miles along the foot of the Himalayas, I have never seen a wild elephant that had died a natural death. Nor, although I have asked jungle tribesmen, hunters white and brown, planters and forest officers who have passed half their lives in the Terai, have I found anyone more fortunate. For it is a still unsolved mystery, the question of where these great mammals pass away. In all countries where wild elephants are found legends have grown up of hidden deathplaces lost in the heart of vast forests or in untrodden mountains to which the animals retreat when instinct tells them that their end draws near.

Special line quality underskirts. Princess and other styles, Reduced to 12/6 at SMITH’S.— (Advt).

Great success has been achieved by the “Maclark” suite to measure. Of hundreds already delivered not a single complaint has been heard. Fit, style and high quality attend every suit. Large selection of best colonial Worsteds and tweeds. Prices £4 17s 6d, /o ss, £5 12s 6d, £6 10s 6d, £6 18s, £7 ss, etc. Order now from McNeil and Clark, next News, Dee street. — (Advt). Special values in Millinery at Thomson and Beattie’s. Pandan Beach Hats, wide brim, special price 1/6 each. 20 only natural and black Rush Hats, superior quality, 3/6 each. 24 Fancy Straw Hats for children, latest shapes, 7/6 each. 100 Trimmed Hats from London, featuring the latest styles and colour ideas. See these to see what value in Millinery really means. No two alike, 19/6 each.—(Advt).

Owing to our increasing business we have to enlarge our present premises and in order to make room for the builders we have decided to reduce stock by giving a discount of 2/- in the £ off our already low priced Curtain Materials, Blinds and Window Furnishings. Madras Muslin from 1/per yard. Bordered Casement Cloth from 1/3. Lace Nets in great variety.—Williamson’s Art Blind Factory, corner Dee and Yarrow Streets, the Soft Furnishing Specialists. — (Advt). UNDERWEAR AT CUT PRICES. During this week very special offerings in underwear are being made. The prices cannot be repeated, and to secure any of these specials you should come early. Bargain line of natural fleecy chemise vests with open fronts, extra good quality, usual price 7/11, bargain price 5/6. White flannelette nightgowns, our own manufacture, usual price 8/11, bargain price 6/11. A bargain table of corsets in all the best makes, sizes 21 to 36, usual prices 7/11 to 39/6, bargain prices 3/11 to 25/-. See special advertisement on page 7. H. & J. SMITH, Ltd., Invercargill and Gore.— (Advt).

A fresh Star Bargain every day at Lewis’s. Every day, for two hours only, we offer a big Star Bargain, which is displayed in our star window. Star Bargain hours are between 3 and 5 p.m. only each day with the exception of Wednesdays, when the Star Bargain is sold between IQ and 12, for we close at 12 on Wednesdays. Lewis’s Ltd., the store that shows the way —pre-eminent for quality and value since 1802.—(advt.).

The latest advance of the jeweller’s art, is the exquisite mill grain setting. Thia displays diamonds to greatest possible perfection, and is a secure and appropriate frame for such beauteous and sparkling objects. Any article of jewellery manufactured to special design and price. We cater for all. Buy from Rankin, Tay street, Invercargill, ai d secure the latest in rings’ etc. the inventive mind of man has produced.