NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12808, 1 June 1910, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A social ill connection with the All Saints' Tennis Club will bo held in the Church schoolroom on Friday evening, for which an attractive programme Eas been arranged. Ine Club's new court will bo opened on Friday afternoon. William George Burton, junior, of Nelson, fruiterer, has been adjudged. a bankrupt, and has filed the folio wing statement of assets and liabdities with Mr W. Rout, Deputy Ofccial Assignee:—Dr., unsecured creditors, &Uj 10s 7d; cr., secured creditors, idol 10s 6d: value of securities, £475 surplus to contra, £140 9s 6d ; cr., stock-in-trade at Nelson, £50 ; book debts, £80 estimated to produce £W ; turniture. £20, surplus from securities £id &, M; totol, £350 9» Gd; surplus £57 18s lid. Secured creditors, i.M4 10s 6d, value of secunty £4(5. Unsecured creditors '.— Levin- and Co., Ltd., £25 15s 6d; Griffin and. Sons, Ltd., £19 4s 3d ; Laery and Co., £t<h, Wellington, £9 9s lid; If E. Hall, Hope, £7 14s ; Nelson Seed Company, in 18s 10d- G. H. Thomas, Wellington,^ 14s 6d;W. R. tote £10 6s 4d ; Neale and Haddow, £3 lls 10d: E. Grove and Son, ±>3 5s sd; J. R bodson and Son, £9 12s 9d; D. Merliuo, £1 6s 4d; M. Chapman, 9s 6d; H. Pickup Stoke £2 bs; E. Prout, 6s 6d; Hallcnstem Bros., Ltd., £1 14s 9d; S. Kirkpatrick and Co., Ltd., £3 10s 8d; Kuch and Co., Wellington, £2 16s lOd; estate- of T. Go - man £9 Is 3d ;A. It. Klitchuig, l'2s M; Cock and Co., Ltd £31 7b lOd: Harley and Sons 15s; R. Hudson and Co Ltd., Dunediti, £6 9s ; Bond, Finney, and Co., 8s 6d; S. Winn ,4s; A. W Shallcrass £3 2s 2d; W. A. Roughton 14s 7d ; J. Savage and Sons, Ids ; Nelson Tinware Co., £1; G. Salmon, Us: F. Savage, Tapawera, £1 4s; W. .Wakeßcld £2 17s 9d; Bock and Co Auckland, £2 4s 6d; Bisley Bros, and Co., 15s; R. Lucas and Son, £1 Is 6d; J. Holland, 10a lid; Australian Hen, Sydney, 5s F. Mitchell, £3 9s; iShirtlik, Richmond 12s 6d: H, E. Nightinjrile £2 Is 9d; W. Morns, 10s; T. R g SinTinetl, ss; T . Pettit,' £119. 3d ; City Council, £2 Is 4d ; J. C. Mercer £17 6s ; Madren and Opia, £4. Total, £192 10s 7d. At Wellington on Saturday Robert Corkhill, who was found guilty of the manslaughter of Christopher Dennis. Smith, was put forward for sentence in the Supreme Court before the Chief ■Justice. His Honour said ho regarded with horror any attempt on life, but considering prisoner's state of health, and the fact that he could not live long, he would be sentenced to the nominal penalty of six months' imprisonment without hard labour. "London Opinion" says that according to "an experienced- journalist," who has twice travelled through Canada recently, and spent the greater part of one winter there, the prairies in winter are for many thousands "a frozen hell." He gives a startling account of the sufferings of the settlor who is obliged to live during the onforced idleness of a "sub-Arctic winter" on slender resources accumulated as a worker for others during the summer. The settler's hut is a dot in a sea of snow, with silence everywhere, and the cold- frequently 50 degrees below zero, a sleeper's breath sometimes becoming solid ice on the blankets. This writer even goes so fay as to say that the intense loneliness brings on "prairie madness," a malady that often leads the sufferer to self-destruction. These are things regarding which the emigration literature preserves a cautious -reserve, preferring to dilate upon the charms of the Canadian summer. Mr Mathqwß, Labour member for Melbourne Ports, in a repent speech, said that the Federal Labour Party had its eye on industries which did not pay a living wage, such "as the jam industry, that only gave 36s to 36s per week, instead of £2 Bs, for 48 hours' work. No industry that could afford to pay the latter wage 'should be allowed to carry on, for ifc would be better to import the j^m. Again, in tho iron tradb ironworkars' assistants until tho finding of the wages board, only got 6s 3d per day, but the pay was now fixed at 6s 9d. It should have been 7s. Money is not the only thing wanting to develop Australia (says a writer in the "Sydney Mail"), "fr© want farmers making a comfortable* independence on moderate-sized areas, instead of tho huge stations, which in many cases absolutely strangle progress in districts essentially suited to closer settlement. The weak point is that tlie land has a speculative, value, and the buyer has to pay a stiff price for what the owner originally got for £1 per acre, besides having made a fortune off. We want to stop land values booming as a result of closer settlement, fostered at the expense of the State, and want to allow such term» as will enable the newer generation of farmers to make ttun land pay for itself .