ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT.

Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 6

ANSWER TO A CORRESPONDENT.

“Curious” —The figure is correct. She was to have been, sold for breaking up at that price.

The Dominion Meteorologist last night issued the following information: Another depression is crossing the Dominion to-day. Pressure is high to the westward, an intense anti-cyclone being centred over Victoria. Winds westerly, backing again to southerly and increasing to gale force at many places. Seas in New Zealand waters moderate north to East Cape. Elsewhere rough. Moderate to strong south-west to south winds in the eastern Tasman. Seas moderate to rather rough in the northern portion and rough in the southern portion. Weather cold, squally and showery generally with further snow on the high lands and in the southern districts.

Advertisements relating to Railway and Public Notices, Financial Statements, Meetings, Tenders, For Sale, Lost and Found, Holiday Resorts, Professional, etc., appear on Page 2.

James Carruthers Black, a young man who bought a car but could not keep up the payments and had pleaded guilty to false pretences and forgery, was admitted to probation for two years, says a Wellington Press Association message.

Major and Mrs Bear, who have been appointed the divisional command of the Dunedin division of the Salvation Army, will be welcomed by the Invercargill corps on Monday evening next at S o’clock in the Tay Street Citadel. The gathering will be presided over by Colonel David Gunn, of the National Headquarters, Wellington. The speakers will include his Worship the Mayor, who will extend a welcome to the new officers on behalf of the citizens.

Good business was done at the All Nations’ Fair at Victoria Hall last evening. The various side-shows were well patronized and the consulting room of Professor Blanc was thronged with clients. A clever entertainment by the Copper Top Minstrels was well received. The fair will be open this afternoon and closes to-night. During the evening the Marist Brothers’ pupils -will appear in a programme of marches and choruses, and the minstrel troupe will make their final appearance. Altogether a bumper night is expected?

The following were sworn in at Gore as fire police yesterday morning by the Mayor, Mr D. L. Poppelwell, and Mr Frank Young, J.P.: Sergeant fire policeman, John Mathews; corporal fire policeman, A. N. Stevenson; fire policemen, G. Gerken, Wilson Williams, Leslie Smith and David Tait. Mr Fred Wallis, junior, captain of the Fire Brigade, was also in attendance. At the close of the swearing-in ceremony, Mr Poppclwell thanked the fire policemen, on behalf of the citizens of Gore, and the Fire Brigade for their valuable services rendered during the past year.

The fortnightly meeting .of the Loyal United Gore Lodge, M.U., 1.0.0. F., was held on Thursday evening, when N.G. Bro. Howard Hay presided over a fair attendance of members. A large volume of correspondence was dealt with, and sick pay amounting to £lO passed for payment. The visiting committee reported on the visitations made by it. The majority of those on the sick list were making good progress towards recovery. The N.G. reported that, accompanied by several local brothers, he attended the meeting of the Shamrock, Rose and Thistle Lodge at Invercargill on the occasion of the official visit of the district officers, and had taken the opportunity of presenting P.G. Bro. A. Haynes with a gold-mounted tobacco pouch as a slight token of the esteem in which he was held by the Gore Lodge. It was decided to challenge the Druids’ Lodge to a card match to be played on a date to be arranged.

A very fine programme will be presented at the Civic Band’s recital to-mofrow evening at the Civic Theatre. Mr Albert E. Bruce and Miss Winifred Sanderson, who are recent arrivals from England, will make their first appearance in Invercargill, and they come with a reputation of being vocalists of a very high standard. Mr George Gunn and Mr J. Cardno are artists who need no introduction to local audiences as their numbers are always of a superior class. Little Baby Doreen Thomson, a tot of only six summers, will sing “Daddy’s Lullaby.” The band will play four numbers, including the classical overture "Zampa,” by Herold, and the grand selection from Wagner’s opera, “The Flying Dutchman.” The concert promises to be one of the best yet offered on a Sunday evening and music-lovers should not miss this treat. Arrangements have been made to have the concert broadcasted from 4ZP. The Sunday evening band concerts are always very popular in the city and they will probably prove just as popular to listeners-in in the country.

For information regarding the issue of holiday excursion tickets for the King’s Birthday and Dunedin Winter Show and Races readers are advised to study the Railway Department’s advertisement which appears in this issue.—Advt.

The Central Fruit Shop (next Noble’s), Dee street, for quality. All choice Fruit in season: Sweet oramres 8 for 1/-; Choice Grapes 1/- per lb; Bananas, Passion Fruit, Chestnuts, Violets, etc.; also Cauliflowers, Celery, Pumpkins, Carrots, Parsnips. Someone has always something worse to sell for less, but you get quality here. F. Perrow.— Advt.

Saturday shoppers are advised to shop at Chas. Lewis’s stocktaking sale commencing Saturday. Great reductions at the Grand Corner. —Advt.

Hosiery values. Coloured cashmere from 3/9 to 5/6, silk and wool 4/6 to 5/9 and silk 2/11 to 10/6 at Miss Noble’s, The Baby Shop, Dee street.—Advt.

In the morning early, Before you go to work, Cook Hitchon’s Bacon curly, Be sure you do not shirk.—Advt.

Those raven locks streaked with grey, point to the relentless march of time. PRICE'S Albanian Hair Restorer will bring back their natural colour. Get from your chemist, or post free, from 3/- from MISS M. PRICE, Riverton.

Its high time you put an extra pair of blankets on your bed. Winter is here! Send to Thomson and Beattie Ltd. for a pair of “Rosedale” soft finished snowy white blankets. You’ll never get better value than this firm offers now. Single bed 35/6 for 22/6; double bed 47/6, for 27/6; extra double 52/6, for 32/6 pair.—Advt.

Foxes are very much to the fore again in England this year and with the throwover tie have again taken pride of place with the ladies, it being realized that the fox choker is the smartest and most economical fur to buy because it can be remodelled and re-dyed after a few seasons wear. We have always recommended foxes and hence we are at the present time carrying the largest stocks in Southland both made up and in the pelt at prices that are unheard of in other centres. The Mutual Fur Co., Tay street. —Advt.

“Outside” in the/ Rhodesian sense is all that lies beyond the . range of the townships. In her latest novel : .. “Susan Outside”

Sheila Macdonald has related Susan’s experiences in the “wilderness.” They afford delightful reading; she is an engaging personality. Supplies 6/- copy at Hyndman’s, Dee street.— Advt,

To-day is Empire day. ■ Frank Clifford, aged 41, nightwatchman on the steamer Maunganui, was fined £125, or three months, for importing opium into the Dominion, states an Auckland Press As sociation message. In the Magistrate’s Court at Ashburton, John Ernest Dobbin was fined £lO on a charge of selling four bottles of beer without a license. Mark George Mayson, on three charges of converting moneys, the property of his employers, the Farmers’ Co op., totalling £lB 15/-, was admitted to two years’ probation.—Press Association message. Ngaio Jane Turner, aged 18, in whose home was recently found evidence of burglary and theft, also two revolvers and a waddy weighted with lead, was sentenced by his Honour Mr Justice Blair at Wellington yesterday to three years’ reformative detention. It is supposed that some person was behind Turner.—Press Association message. Robert Harvey Campbell, who last month was tried on a series of breaking, entering and theft charges, but was. committed for trial, yesterday pleaded guilty at New Plymouth to a charge of attempting to obtain £25 from J. H. D. Power, hotelkeeper, by means of a valueless cheque. He was committed for sentence. —Press Association message. . The unusual sight of the interior of the Magistrate’s Court being lighted up during the daytime was witnessed yesterday. Shortly after 10 o’clock yesterday morning, a heavy fall of rain took place and the atmosphere became so dull that the Magistrate and counsel found it difficult to read what was before them. A court official attempted to turn on the lights in the body of the court, but all except one refused to function. The lights on the Magistrate’s desk were then turned on. At a meeting of the Invercargill Accountant Students’ Society on Thursday evening, Mr F. A. Webb presided over a fair attendance of members. The first lecture of the 1930 season was given by Mr Webb, the subject being “Auditing.” The lecturer gave a highly interesting and informative address covering all the most important points in auditing, stressing in particular the following points: The growing importance of auditing in the modern world of commerce where companies are handling the greater part of business; that an auditor must not be merely a checking machine, he must make the most of his skill, experience, and judgment, understanding every transaction before he-passes it. At the conclusion of the lecture a general discussion ensued, after which Mr J. R. E. Sutton thanked Mr Webb for his lecture. Mr Justice Kennedy, in the Supreme Court yesterday, delivered his reserved judgment on the application for maintenance brought by Jessie Mavis McLean (Mr B. W. Hewat) against Thomas Harold McLean, of Lochiel, farmer (Mr H. J. Macalister). Last week his Honour granted the husband a decree nisi on the ground of his wife’s desertion, and. the interim custody of the child of the marriage was given the wife, who sought maintenance at the rate of 12/6 a week until the decree absolute should be pronounced. After dealing with certain aspects . raised by counsel during the hearing of the application, the judgment held'that the applicant was entitled to maintenance at the rate of 10/- a week from the granting of the decree nisi until the decree absolute should should be pronounced. Costs £3 3/- and disbursements were also allowed her. In the City Police Court yesterday morning before Mr E. C. Levvey S.M., John Harold Halliday and Reginald Athol Hob- ■ son, at present inmates of the Borstal InI stitution, appeared for sentence on a charge of, on March 22, 1930, at .Waikiwi, unlawfully converting a motor cycle, the property ol Matthew James Dyet, to their own use. Detective Sergeant Hewitt, who appeared for the Police, said that the accused had been dealt with in the Supreme Court and they were convicted and discharged. Dennis Ronald Bissett, John Henry Wilson and Eric Alfred Chapman, also inmates of the Borstal Institution, appeared on remand on various charges of converting motor cars to their own use and theft, all the offences being committed in the North Island. All the accused elected to be dealt with summarily and pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Hewitt said that the boys had escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm in February and had travelled up the North Island for some distance. They had already been dealt with on some charges. On the recommendation of the Probation Officer (Mr C. G. L. Pollock), who said that the accused were the making of good citizens, they were convicted and discharged. ' In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., being on the Bench, John A. Marshall and Thomas H. Marshall, of South Invercargill, farmers (Mr F. G. Hall-Jones) proceeded against Edith Annie Jones, of Tramway Road, Invercargill, widow (Mr G. J. Reed) on a claim of £2O 15/3, being legal expenses and witness’s fees incurred by them in respect of an application under the Land Drainage Act, 1908. Mr Hall-Jones stated that in October, 1929, an application had been made by Mrs Jones against the plaintiffs for leave to. cut a ditch through the plaintiff’s property and the result of the Court’s decision then had been that the Marshall brothers would not suffer any damage and that no compensation should therefore be paid them. They had incurred legal expenses to the extent mentioned and as the Land Drainage Act contained a provision that all costs charges and expenses reasonably incurred by an adjoining owner should be paid by the applicant, the present action had been brought for the recovery of these. Mr Reed submitted that the Court should not review the decision of the Drainage Court on the question of costs, which had not then been adjusted, inasmuch as such a review would amount to practically a retrial of the proceedings. He quoted English statutes to show that there had really been an omission from the New Zealand Statutes on the matter. The Magistrate stated that he was unwilling to go into the question of another Court’s decision and suggested that the case be adjourned sine die, which was agreed to by the parties. “Because it is mellow and well-matured, it has become New Zealand’s favourite — Dewar’s whisky.”—Advt. To-day if you require hose or vests and underclothing see our selection and low prices first. Wicks’ Hose and Vest Shop, Dee street. —Advt. IT’S WINTER-TIME! Get Your HOT WATER BAGS now, from STEWART’S PHARMACY. All Bags are fresh, And Every Bag Guaranteed. —Advt. “Sally In Rhodesia,” that entertaining tale of South African experiences has been followed by another volume along similar lines entitled “Susan Outside?’ Susan’s experiences afford delightful reading; she is an engaging personality. Let us introduce her to you. The author is Sheila MacDonald and the price is 6/-. Obtainable from the New Zealand Book Depot, Esk street, Invercargill. (Advt.) “It mends the gross mistakes of Nature.” —Butler. Everyone agrees that one of Nature’s biggest mistakes is a distressing cough or cold. But the secret of mending all complaints of the throat, chest and lungs lies in the penetrating qualities of Baxter’s Lung Preserver. This wonderful specific _ gets to work quickly. Soothes the bronchial passages and eases breathing. Protects the lungs. An excellent tonic, too. Be sure you get “Baxter’s.” Bachelor size 1/6. Generous-sized bottle 2/6. Economical family size 4/6.—Advt.