LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1329, 17 May 1918, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A petition in bankruptcy lias been filed by Frederick Pearce, jun., builder, Harewooil Road, Papanui. A Wellington Pre-? Association message states that the Hon. G. W. Russell stated to-day that the number of soldiers now in mental hospitals in the Dominion is 52.

On the application of Mr Cuoingham, acting for creditors, his Honour Mr Justice Herdnian this morning adjudged James Stewart, of Christchurch, dairyman, a bankrupt.

Tito aged 20 reservists, O. Paulsen, • carter, 7 St. David Street, Lyttelton, and C. V. Whitta, motor mechanic, 604 Worcester Street, have registered for enlistment at the Christchurch Recruitin}; Office.

Mrs L. Brown, 97 St. Asaph Stres*, has received word that her husband, 8. Brown (late of Tinwald), has been removed from the seriously to dangerously ill list, and on May 10 was transferred to the Bth General Hospital. He has had his left leg amputated at the thigh

The Christchurch draft for the 42nd Reinforcement is to assemble in King Edward Barracks at 3 p.m. next Monday. The barrack's will be closed to all but members of the draft, who will gain admittance at the Cashel Street entrance on production of their orders to parade.

Once more the old, old pun—the sinner this time Sir Robert Anderson, the victim the chief dental witness ljefore the Defence Kxpenditure Commission. "I have never heard a man discourse so delightfully on such a painful subject" Th*t joke has been painful for two or three bored generations.

Poor Carbine! After life's fitful fever he sleeps—ill. His head will adorn the wall of the Auckland Museum, protesting dumbly against such a decapitated outrage. His skin, secure in his lifetime from vulgar profanation, will receive the imprint now of every curious lounger who chooses to visit the rooms of the A.R.C. His bones have long cried piteously from Melbourne. Is it cricket!

If you want to escape service, learn to trim a lamp. In support of its appeal the other day for an assistant lighthousekeeper at In.ercargill, the Marine Department declared that the man was positively irreplaceable. Returned soldiers had been tried, but invariably drifted back to laughter and life. One seems, however, to remember dimly that an Industrial Conscription Act was talked of in the far-off days before the—Flight

Christchurch enjoys no monopoly of S.D. cranks. Listen to brazen Wellington. At a meeting the other night of the S.D. League, it was seriously urged by one impassioned member that all married men in camp should be liberated each week from Friday night till Monday morning. Another, no less ardently, dadared in connection with the demand * for £2 2/- a week that our wives '' should be free to enjoy life" in our unfortunate absence. There was some laughter —but not much.

The first of the Scotch Society monthly gatherings for this season was held last evening. There was a veiv large attendance. Mr A. W. MeGillivray was re-elected chief, and the following chieftains were chosen:—Messrs R. R. Smith, A. Clark, and S. McDonald. During the evening Mrs R. Macdonald, Miss Marshall, and Mr A. R. McDonald contributed songs, and Mrs Hugh McLeod, Mr S. McDonald, and Master nughie Hunt recitations. Members of the juvenile dancing class danced reels, the -three Misses Brackenridge a fling, the four Misses Buist a reel, and Miss Collister a jig. Piper MeAlister played several selections. The evening concluded with a short dance.

The following are the divorce fixtures i for the civil session of the Supreme J Court commencing on Monday:—Before la Common Jury of 12: J. H. Parkinson I (Mr K. S. Williams) v. A. M. Pa'kinsou and L. Poison (Messrs K. Tw)-nehara and W. J. Hunter), dissolution; J. T. Birch (Mr Smithson) v. Christina Birch (Mr Wilkinson), dissolution. Before the Judge alone: Maud E. Flanagan (Mr Alpers) v. Christopher C. Flanagaa, dissolution; Henry R. Jones (Mr J; K. Cuningham) v. Emily T. Jones, dissolution; Lena C. Teed" (Mr F. K. Hunt) v. William Teed, dissolution; Helen J. Le Suer (Mr Alpers) v. John J. Le 6uer, dissolution; Arthur G. Wilson (Mr * Johnston) v. M. Wilson, dissolution; Francis B. M. Carter (Mr Johnston) v. Arthur R. Carter, dissolution; Louisa M. * Taylor (Mr Donnelly) v. Albert V. Taylor, dissolution; Gertrude M. Thompson (Mr F. K. Hunt) v. Harry B. Thompson, dissolution. The application of the employers in the boot industry in Dunedin fcr suspension of the award governing the industry has been refused by the Arbitration Court, whieh was constituted a commission to inquire into the matter. The boot operatives' award provides for a limitation of apprentices to the degree of one apprentice to three journeymen, and the employers asked, under Section 25 of the Regulations of the Trade and Commerce Act, that the number of apprentices to be employed should be unlimited. The application was strenuously opposed by the union. The commission, in its report, states that the alteration asked for is not necessary or desirable. The existing pressure may be only temporary, and the alteration would be unfair both to the apprentices themselves and those operatives who have enlisted, as they might find on their return to the Dominion that they could not find employment.

One of the exhibits in a Police Court case against two men charged at Wellington on Wednesday with the theft of £4 from a lady passenger on the sjj. Maori on her voyage from Lyttelton to Wellington on Saturday night last, was a two-up set. It consisted of two fourinch thinnish slips of white pine ant) a double-headed penny. The victim of the '"friendly game" believes that one slip only is used to throw the pennies, and that there is no deception about that stick he can see, because he handles it when his turn to toss comes round. The other slip, similar in outward appearance, is handled only ljy the winner of the game. Towards oie end of the stii-k a slot had been eat into which the double-headed penny is slipped. Two genuine pennies are placed on the stick when the faked toss is made, but the thrower's thumb eovfcrs one. When the throw is made, the prepared penny slips out of its sloL and tbe unsus]K><-tiug victim deplores his unusual run of bad luck. When the men i-onicrned were being searched at the police station by Sergeant .Mathieson after arrest, one of them was observed to slip something from his pot-kct under a mattress, and the "exhibit" was discovered. Truly the quickness of the hand deceives the eye, but this last time the hands were not quite quirk enough. Hun prisoners receive .10oz of meat per week in England: the Germans never give ours more than ll'lor.. Insist on getting genuine NAZOL—. it's worth while. No cold i« NAZOIs> proof—ami no cough or cold remedy is bo money saving as genuine NAZOL. J