NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 20 April 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Dovedale flower show will be held in the Public Hall on Fridaj next.

At the ciibbago match held last evening the Carpenters won a close and exciting match, the scores being, Carpenters 13, and Union 12.

A remarkably Healthy state of aftairs is disclosed by the banking returns oi tlie Dominion for tlie first quarter ol the present year, for bank returns arc a sure index of tho commercial and financial conditions of a country. In* free deposits are larger this year than j last by £1,484,472, .the fixed deposit*! are greater by over £500,000, the Government deposits have increased by £1,111,085, circulation by £31,070, while advances have decreased by the large sum of £2,008,781. The advances and discounts combined show a decline for the year of £2,326,026, while the fixed and free deposits increased by £2,070,882, which moans that since March of last year tho country has improved its position by £4,396,908. This is a magnificent recovery from the slump of a year or so ago, andhas been brought about by" the combined influences of enforced economy, a bountiful season, ajid high prices for wool, butter, and other produce. Now that the prices of meat, too, are good, th« prospects for the ensuing year arc very favourable.

' It is understood that' Mr Henry Baigent has disposed of the Masonic Hotel, at Nelson, to Mr T. C. Madge, formerly of tho Post Office Hotel, at Colltngwood.

The" autumn show of the Nelson Horticultural Society will be held next Wednesday, and entries close on Monday next. The display of chrysanthemums and fruit promises to be very fine.

With regard to the new wing at the WakefieJd School, which required certain alterations before the younger children can be • accommodated, the structure was inspected by Mr A. T. Maginnity (chairman) and Mr W. N. Franklyn (member), of the Nelson ■Education Board on Monday, and will come up for discussion at the meeting of the Education Board next week.

In the past it has been a common practice at the Magistrate's Court for solicitors to for adjournments in cases where the amount of the claim has been reduced by the defendant, but leaving a balance. An application of this kind was made yesterday when the Magistrate (Mr J. S. Evans) intimated that in view of the alteration in the law, which necessitated a defence being filed when there was any, he was not disposed to grant an adjournment. It ""'a* only stringing out the matter, ne said, and making -the Court a debt collecting machine. Of course when a defence was filed there perhaps would be a reason for an adjournment. Plaintiff's solicitor said that defendant had paid 10s on account, and had premised to pay tho balance at the end of the month, but in the circumstances he would ask for judgment, which was given.

Mr A. T. Magiiuiity (Chairman of the Nelson Education Board) and Mr W. N. Franklyn (one of the'representatives of the middle ward) visited Kohatu on Monday to enquire into the matter of the drainage of the Motupiko School playground. They were met by the members of the local school committee and the adjoining landowners, and heard what they had to say on the subject, which presents some 'difficulties. - The whole question will be fully discussed at the meeting of the Education Board to be* held next week.

A lantern lecture will be given in the Baptist Church this evening by Miss McGregor, of the Ramabai Mukti mission, in aid of the child widows of India.

Five nominations were received to fill the five vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Nelson- Permanent Building Society, viz., Messrs H. Baigent, I. Jolins, and L. Kerr (who sought re-election), and Messrs W. W. Snodgrass and E. E. Trask. Messrs R. Catley and J. E. Milner, being the only persons nominated as auditors, were re-elected.

The little commune of Kisszekeres, in Hungary, cotisistiug of but 80 houses and stio souls, lias just taken a remarkable step in regard to' tho estate of the late General Haynau. This general earned 'an unenviable reputation by his ferocious methods in suppressing the Hungarian revolution in 1849 — so much so that when he visited England in the following year the draymen of Messrs Barclay, Perkins, and Co., whose brewery he had just inspected, belaboured him in the streets. Popular delight was so great that the general left without satisfaction, the Government not daring to prosecute the assailants. General Haynau returned to his estate at Szekeres, wJiich by his will was to be presented to the commune on the death of his daughter. This has now taken place, and the commune has declined to accept tile gift, ordering that the estate should be left to fall out of cultivation and be called the "Bloody Meadow." »

Steps have been taken by the Australian Commonwealth Government to establish forthwith wireless telegraphic stations at two points in the Commonwealth, and an opportunity 01 testing the commercial value, of the system will soon be ' afforded. Tenders were recently called for the equipment of stations near Sydney and Fremautlo, the tenderers to provide alternately for the transmission of radiations effectively for 500 miles, 750 miles, 1000, and 1200 miles, "showing the price or each range. The apparatus is to be capable of communicating with ships of war or toyal mail steamers, or other steamers equipped with wireless. Five tenders were received, and the prices, showed a remarkable variation. That accepted was the tender of "Australasian Wireless, Ltd.," at £4150 for each, station.

As sorghum for green feed is being increasingly sown in several districts in New Zealand, farmers would do well to note what Mr W. J. Spillman, of the* U.S. Department of Agriculture has to say on it:— "You may be interested to know that down around San Antonio, and in other sections of western Texas, where there is a large body of experience, with sorghum, farmer^ claim to be able, to tell when_it is sale to turn cattle in a sorghum field merely by a glance at the field. You know that is a very hot, dry region in summer and fall. Farmers down, there tejl me that when the sorghum leaves show the least tendency to curl the cattle must be kept out. A. great many of them will turn cattle on sorghum fields early in the morning or even late in the afternoon, ancl let them stay till about nine or ten o'clock the next day ; but when the heat of the day begins to come on they would take the cattle out. From this it would appear that it does not bake» a prolonged drought to cause the development of prussic acid in sorghum, but that it may occur within an hour or so when the conditions become favourable to it." There are four periods when pasturing cattle on sorghum is dangerous j when it is very young, when the leaves are curling by reason, of drought or shortage of moisture, in second growth, and when it is frosted.

■ Twelve years ago a Nantwich' shoemaker named George Robinson was carrying some roses whon a lady passing by said: .-"What lovely roses!" Robinson proffered them tp« her, and r she expressed" her'thanks, saying she wished to place them on her mother's grave. Recently Mr Bourne, a solicitor of Llahdudno ,- called on 1 Robinson, and informed him that a Miss Parrainour had left him a legacy of £120. Miss Parramour was the lady to whom he had given the rofles.