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Southland Times, Issue 19393, 6 November 1924, Page 4

The following is the Dominion Meteorologist’s weather forecast, sent out last night: Present indications are for moderate to strong south-east to south-west winds, with cool, changeable weather, and passing showers ni northern and East Coast districts. The barometer has a rising tendency.

When the House of Representatives adjourned last night, the only business remaining was the Appropriation Bill, which will be put through its final stages when the House meets at 10.30 o’clock this morning. The session will then terminate.

Dealing with Mr Wilford’s continued criticism of his financial proposals, Mr Massey said in the House of Representatives yesterday that his Christian name of Thomas was apt enough Scripturally, but really it should be “Jeremiah.”

At the Bluff Police Court yesterday, before Messrs G. R. George and R. A. Cruickshank, J’sJP., three statutory first offenders for drunkenness were convicted and fined the amount of their bail, 10/- each. A prohibition order was issued against one offender.

When the House of Representatives was discussing the Finance Bill yesterday afternoon, Mr A. L. Monteith, the member for Wellington East, complained that clause 23 relieved an employer of the necessity of paying boys sent to camp their weekly wage. In cases where there were a number of boys in a family, this was going to prove a great hardship.

Speaking on the Finance Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday morning, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr T. M. Wilford, commented adversely on the proposal to increase State shareholding in the Bank of New Zealand. While such a course might be advantageous to the State, it would not bo for the country, for it was not good that the banks should pay big dividends and charge high overdraft rates.

An interesting lantern lecture was given in the Central Methodist Church, Leet street, last evening, by the Rev. A. A. Bensley, on the missionary work that is being carried out in the Solomon Islands among the native population there. The results which have been secured to date were dealt with in a comprehensive way by the lecturer, while a series of lantern slides which were thrown on the screen gave the large audience present an excellent idea of the life and customs followed in that remote group.

An open-air concert, which was very much appreciated by a large number of citizens, was gjven from the Rotunda in Pots-Office Square last evening, by the members of the Battalion Band, under Bandmaster H. Berryman. The several items which comprised the programme showed careful selection, and enabled the band to give a good account of itself, as well as demonstrating the fact that the individual members are practising assiduously in view of the Auckland contest next February.

A telegram from Christchurch states that Dr H. T. J. Thacker asked at yesterday’s meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board why the warship Dunedin had not been welcomed on her arrival at Lyttelton. The Chairman replied that the Dunedin had been given a welcome when she was with the Special Service Squadron. Dr Thacker: “But she’s our ship now. It’s a shame.” After discussion, the Board decided to suggest to the Mayor of Christchurch that entertainments fQX Xljp men be .arranged,

The Railway Department has decided upon a reduction in the conveyance of motor spirits, distillate, gasoline, naptha, naptholine, benzole and benzoline. This is in accordance with the Department’s scheme to counteract motor competition.

The North and Central branches of the W.C.T.U. held a very successful jumble sale in the Sylvan Bank Hall yesterday afternoon, when the greater part of the clothing left over from previous sales, was disposed of.

On Mondey close on 30 Territorials Cadets under 18 years of age, assembling from within three mile radius of Wyndham, went into six days’ training on Wyndham racecourse. The youths have meals and beds at their own homes. S.S.M’s Connolly (Invercargill) and Williamson (Gore) are the, instructors.

In the office of a Hawke’s Bay rural local body the following missive, written by a contractor to the clerk, is preserved among the most sacred archives of the institution. The effusion, scrawled across a postcard, is as under: “Dear Sir: Please send me the specifications for Job. No. 1234. P.S.: They are here.”

“There is a limit to this suppression of names,” said the Magistrate, Mr G. Cruickshank S.M. in refusing to make an order forbidding publication of the name of a defendant in the Court proceedings yesterday. “I don’t know why some people are so anxious about it,” he continued “but I dare say the Court news is read by many.”

A record price was established at the Gqre sale by Dalgety and Company Limited for a line of 95 Romney ewe hcggets, which were sold at 46/-. The hoggets were bred and vended by Mr James Craigie, Waikaka Valley, and were by rams bred by Mr W. G. Ladbrook of Howe. They were very well grown, nicely woolled, and will be a line of two-tooth ewes that anyone would be proud to possess next season. The time-honoured custom of burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes was revived among the juvenile sections of the community in Invercargill yesterday, and in the early hours of the evening many parties of children were to be seen in the streets soliciting pennies for the purpose of purchasing fireworks and sending their respective “Guys” to their doom, to the accompaniment of deafening explosions and the more picturesque display of sky-rockets and Reman candles.

The weather at Queenstown has been very changeable of late, writes the correspondent of the Southland Times. During the last week there were several cold nights and mornings, and rain has fallen at frequent intervals. On Tuesday there was quite a good fall of snow on the tops of the mountains, but it is now fast disappearing under the sun’s rays. Growth is still retarded a good deal owing to the absence of warmth in the soil.

In reply to representations to the effect that if the departure of the ’Frisco steamers were delayed a day, business people would be able to reply by the outward mail, the postal authorities point out that one day would benefit Wellington only, but other places would require up to three days, .and this would dislocate the connections in America. Already it is difficult to get New Zealand mails here handled promptly, and the holding up of the steamers here would disarrange everything.—Press Association.

An Eastern District boarding-house keeper is anxious to locate a person whose touring kit includes only a pair of flannels and a tennis racquet. This man arrived at a country township, and, after arranging for a room at the boarding-house, walked along to the tennis courts and took possession. He had an undisputed run for nearly a week before he decided to leave for fresh fields. With his flannels in a brown paper parcel and his racquet under his arm, he took to the road, and when last seen was headed for the next township.

The first annual general meeting of the Veterinary Association of New Zealand was held, with a representative gathering, at the Royal Show at Palmerston ’North yesterday, says a Press Association wire, Dr C. J. Reakes presiding. A searching discussion of the clauses of the newly drafted Veterinary Surgeons Bill shortly to appear before the House took place, the Association as a body agreeing with the clauses as they stood. The following officers were elected. President, Dr Reakes; Vice-Presi-dent, Mr A. M. Brodie; secretary and treasurer, Mr W. T. Collins; Committee, Messrs Kerrigan, Snowball, and Patterson.

During counsel’s address at the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland on Thursday a man who had given evidence earlier in the case sprang to his feet and shouted excitedly: “You’re a liar! I say you are a liar, an absolute liar. It will not sit here and listen to what you say about that woman.” Mr W. R. McKean, said “Take him out of the Court,” and two friends tried to do so. As the man wanted to say some more, Mr McKean said: “You leave the Court, or you will be arrested if you stay here.” The man then went out, and a little later came in, went into the witness box, and apologised to the Court for what he had said. The effectual “squashing” of an irritable disciple of Mrs Grundy by two happy old gentlemen armed with vast quantities of rice with which to sprinkle a happy bride and groom, was witnessed at the departure of the midday express yesterday. The young couple were being farewelled by hosts of friends, and confetti and rice was flying about in the time honoured fashion when a few grains alighted on another traveller who, with many scowls at the party demanded that the fun should cease. Senseless practice,” he muttered. “Ought to be put a stop to.” He might have interfered further but with whoops of delight two jovial friends of the bride and bridegroom descended upon him and two large bags of rice were poured over his furious features. He glared balefully at the hilarious crowd and swallowing hard subsided into a corner to rid himself of the thousands of little white pellets with which he was adorned. What an American would describe as a “shooting affray” happened in the Union Bank of Australia, Christchurch, on Monday afternoon, states the Press. It was not a “hold-up” organised by bobbed-hair bandits, however, but an accident which might have been followed with more serious results. At about 3.30 p.m. Keith Nevill, a junior employed in the Union Bank, escorted two of his friends through the place. Eventually they arrived at and entered a certain room—presumably a strong room, because there was a loaded revolver in it. Nevill picked up the weapon and carelessly handled it. He accidentally pulled the trigger, with the result that the gun discharged, and the bullet, which flew perilously close to all three, lodged in the arm of one of Nevill’s friends named Howard Paynter. The unfortunate lad was immediately attended to and removed to the Christchurch Hospital, where he was operated upon. A loss of £12,000 a year is being made by the Auckland Harbour Board on its docking and ship-repairing facilities, according to a statement made by the Chairman, Mr H. R. Mackenzie, at the meeting of the Board on Wednesday. The matter was brought up by a letter from the Auckland Chamber of Commerce in which the Board was asked to state its intentions regarding the provision of a large dock and up-to-date facilities for reconditioning and re-fitting larger vessels at Auckland, to prevent this lucrative work going elsewhere. The Chamber desired to meet the Board to discuss the matter, reports the New Zealand Herald. It was decided to receive a deputation from the Chamber at the next meeting of the Board in Committee, but the Chairman remarked that the Chamber’s informants apparently did not know the position, as the Board was losing £12,000 a year on the facilities it had already supplied. Instead of the business referred to being lucrative, vessels visiting the port were not using the facilities already provided.

In the course of an interview with a Chronicle representative at Wanganui, Mr J. Douglas, of London, pointed ou that at Home they heard a good deal about the Dominion, but in his opinion there was room for more propaganda concerning it. “What you want is a proper appeal to the right sort of men for immigration. It is not the ‘down-and-outer’ that you want here, but the solid man with some knowledge of agriculture, who is prepared to adapt himself to general conditions,” observed the visitor.

Although Sir Robert Stout’s method of playing football when a boy was enjoyable, it probably would not meet with a great deal of favour from the selectors of an All Black team of to-day. Speaking to Shetlanders in Wellington last Saturday, Sir Robert said when he was a boy football was played more for the fun it gave rather than for the sake of winning the game. He explained that perhaps 30 or 40 boys would select two of their number as captains, and then sides would be picked, each captain selecting a player in turn. The number of players varied, and new sides were picked frequently.

“None of us should be here: I could have settled that fire in five minutes,” declared a confident witness in the Kaikoura station fires cases at the Supreme Court, to the amusement of Judge, jury and counsel (reports the Christchurch Press). He mentioned that in the North Island he had experienced a bush fire that destroyed 2500 sheep, and intimated the contempt he felt for the insignificant blaze that was the subject of the action. Later, when accused by counsel of not having a “fair, open mind,” he said: “I’ve got no more to gain out of this case than you have.” “Well, I certainly hope to get a little more out of it than you,” counsel returned brightly.

Once having tasted blood a rat will come back for more, and will tackle a sleeping adult without compunction, says the Manawatu Times. A Palmerston North family last week decided to utilise a conservatory leading off the verandah for sleeping quarters. On reaching home one night, the bread-winner found the house in consternation. At about 11 p.m. it appears that his little son in the sleeping porch gave a shriek that foretold some untoward circumstance. Investigation disclosed that the child’s hand was covered in blood, and the middle finger neatly bitten through. A bathing in water and the use of an antiseptic put an end to any danger. Later in the week the lady of the house, who was also sleeping in the conservatory, felt a sharp pain in her shoulder and woke up to see the rodent sitting calmly on her pillow. The next day a trap was set, and the rat, a huge one, was caught.

The authorisation of the railway from Miller’s Flat to Roxburgh recalls two or three interesting facts. One is that the first sod of the line to Beaumont was turned at Lawrence by Mr Seddcn on December 1, 1905. In his speech Mr Seddon made the promise often since referred to: “He did not hesitate to say that Parliament would grant a further extension. The Government had been most modest at starting, only asking an authorisation for thirteen miles, but it had been then and still was intended to proceed further. The work would be expeditiously proceeded with, and Parliament would grant appropriations. He advised the people along the route and up the Molyneux to go in at once for planting fruit trees and to get ready for what was about to come along as if it were already an accomplished fact.” The other fact worth bringing to light is that a LawrenceTeviot Railway was proposed as far back as 1873, and the propounder of the scheme was Mr James Hazlett, who on July 10 of that year induced the Provincial Council to set up a committee to inquire as to the advisability of constructing with the least possible delay a railway from Tuapeka or Tapanui to Roxburgh, Alexandra, Clyde and Cromwell. Mr Hazlett was appointed chairman of that committee and it reported a fortnight later, recommending the construction of a light line to Cromwell and its extension to Roxburgh. It is an old story of how that proposal was driven ashore by a political cabal. Now, after fifty years, it is launched again.

Permission has been granted by the Town Council to the Hibernian Band to hold a sacred concert in the Municipal Theatre on Sunday evening, November 9. The Band will be ably assisted by Miss Mae Mathieson, the talented soprano.—Advt.

Special purchases to be sold at specially small prices. See the displayed advertisement on Page 3 of this paper, in which Thomson and Beattie, Ltd., quote a number of specially well bought lines at clearing prices. (advt.)

In view of the near approach to the closing date of the Christmas Mail, it behoves all who wish to remember their friends with a pleasing Christmas Gift to call at once at the Bible and Book Depot, Dee street, and secure their Auckland Weekly, Press, Book of Views, or Christmas Cards. The Home Mail closes Saturday at 9.30 a.m. (advt.) ENGLISHMAN PRAISES ‘PULMONAS’. This gentleman expressed gratitude for the great relief from these pastilles. Gassed in the war and left with only one lung, heavy coughing often assailed him, numerous English remedies were tried but none gave the quick certain relief like ‘Pulmonas’. They cut the phlegm easily and can be depended upon for relief from the throat and lung troubles, coughs and colds, etc. At chemists 1/6 and 2/6. — (Advt.) Reduction in price of best quality English brushware —Ebony, Xylonite, Aeronoid, and Silver-back Brushes in ladies’ and gent’s lines. Our complete stock of the above lines have been reduced in price and are now based ou the latest English suotations. T. M. Rankin, Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Optician, Tay street. (Advt.) The Question: —Yes, it Is a question of groceries. Groceries of first-class quality at lowest prices for prompt cash at Baxter’s. You save easily shillings in the pound by buying for ready money at Baxter’s, S.P.Q.R.—(Advt.). SMOKER’S THROAT. Inflammation of the delicate membranes of the nose and throat is readily soothed and healed by a daily irrigation and disinfection with warm Fluenzol. 1/6 and 2/6. —(Advt.) “Live wisely and well”—Britton. Never tolerate any bronchial affections, coughs, or colds. Nip them in the bud with Baxter’s Lung Preserver. The remarkable medicinal properties compounded in this splendid specific promptly drive away stubborn coughs and colds, and also give gratifying relief to the throat and bronchial passages. "Baxter’s” is rich and warming—a firm favourite with young and old alike. It is also a dependable tonic, revitalising the blood and nerve cells. Always keep Baxter’s Lung Preserver handy. Obtainable at all chemists and stores. 2/6 a large bottle. Family size 4/6. iadvt.)