NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 89, 21 May 1914, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Mayor lias received £1 from Agnes Emma Hill for the Coal and Blanket Fund. A cable message from Leeds states that manufacturers report that lower quality goods are going freely to Australia and New Zealand.

Three seamen on the Kapuni, who refused''duty yesterday, and caused the vessel to be delayed, were each fined two days' pay, with 16/- costs, at the Magistrate's Court to-day at Wellington.

In connection with the fund that is being raised for the purpose of erecting Open Air Homes for Children, the general canvass of the suburbs will commence to-morrow morning, when it is hoped that citizens will respond readily for such a deserving object. The man who perished in the Manchester Private Hotel fire at Wellington on Sunday morning has been identified as George White, a flaxraill worker, lately employed in the PalmerBton district. He was about thirtyeight years of age, and a native of Bradford, England.—Press Association. At a meeting of the Works Commitete of the Woolston Borough Council held last night; the following councillors were elected: —Chairman of the various committees:—Cr Geo. Lilley, Works Committee; Cr W. Fuller, Lighting Committee; Cr T. Badcliffe, Baths Committee; and Cr A. V. Mountfort, Reserves Committee.

•/The next sitting of the Arbitration Court will be. held in New Plymouth. A "social" evening was given by the St. Albans Bowling, Tennis, and Croquet Club in the Rugby Street schoolroom last evening. >Thefe was a large attendance of members and friends, and a very enjoyable evening was spent. The occasion was the prize distribution and musical and other items were contributed by Mrs D. Elwood, Mrs Nicholls, Misses P. Raphael, D. Parsons, E. Croxton, Sealey (2), Messrs F. Nobbs, Croxton, and Montgomery. Refreshments were supplied by the ladies.

The following programme will be played by Dr Bradshaw, city organist, at the Organ Recital to be given in His Majesty's .Theatre at 8.30 p.m. on Sunday next: —(1) Morceau Symphonique, "Homrnage a Mozart" (op. 65) (J. B. Calkin); (2) Andantino in G Minor (Cesar Franck) j (3) overture to musicdrama "Rosamunde" (Schubert); (4) song, "Angels Guard Thee" from the "Berceuse de Jocelyn,'.' (Godard);. (5) Caprice Orientale (Lemare); (6) Suite Gothique (op. 25) (Boellman): I. Introduction (Choral) leading to 11. Minuet .Gothique, 111, Priere a Notre-Dame, IV. Toccata; (7) Le Badinage Jest") (Mailly); (8) march in C Major from the pianoforte duets (Weber). A start was made yesterday with the operations which are designed to result in the total destruction of the remains of the steamer Devon at Pencarrow Head, Wellington. A squad of fifty members of the 8.N.Z.A., under Lieut. Thring, went out to Fort Dorset, and fired eight or nine rounds from the 6in mark VII. guns, with armour-piercing and lyddite shells. The operations were in charge of Lieut. Thring, and were witnessed by Colonel Johnston (Director of Ordnance), and Major Hume, from the Janie Seddon. It is reported that the armour-piercing shells did not find enough resistance ,to cause them to explode, and went right through the vessel, and that the lyddite shells proved much more effective, the bridge and funnel suffering severely. The range was something over 4000 yards.

Canada, and her affairs were the sub-, jeet of some remarks made by a visitor from the big Dominion to a Wellington "Post" representative yesterday. Last fall, when he took his departure, he stated, something of a depression prevailed, due in a. large extent to the slump that hW occurred after the boom hj: real estate. Fortunes were Still being made in land transactions, but money, ar few months ago, Showed r a tendency to be tight.. Immigrants were still pouring" in from overseas, and money, a few months ago, showed in the towns, the labour market sometimes became glutted. Owing to the heavy preferential tariff in favour of British-made goods the large manufacturing firms in the United States were opening up, or had opened up, establishments in Canada—this especially applied to the motor car industry. He* had no doubt that the country would soon recover from any temporary .disadvantage it might be labouring under, for, although its area was larger than the United States, its population was only some 8,000,000 as against 90,000,000, and with its huge forests, mineral wealth, and vast areas of cultivable, unoccupied land, its future was exceedingly! bright.