NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13053, 13 March 1911, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Park Lane will be closed to vehiccular traffic to-day.

The Town Clwk advertisos that all accounts against tho City Council must be rendered not later than noon on the 2&th inst.

The water will be shut off for a certain portion of Hardy street from 1 to 4.30 p.m. to-day.

Messrs. E. Buxton and Co., local agnett? for the New Zealand Shipping Coy, received word that the Ruahine arrived at Wellington at 9 a.m. on Saturday.

Nightly a lamp twinkles from Beacon Hill (says the Wellington "Post"), and Morse talk Is flashed! far Ovoi' the sea. The record so" far is a convOiStU tion across a gap of twelve miles, be*~ tween. tho Signal Station and the Government steamer Tutanekai. Men of the mercantile marine are quickly becoming profici'vit in the dot-a'.ul-dashing, but they are still some way behind the expert operators of the warships.

Wo learn, says thci "Golden Bay Argus," that .some intending purchasers, from Canterbury and Wellington, of land lately offered for sale by the Taitapu Gold Estates, allowed themselves to be "chok«d off" from even looking at the country, by statements made to them in Nelson. They may now bo interested to note that about 550 acres of the ostata near the furthese end of the subdivision, have just been sold at a satisfactory.figure. The purchasers aro Messrs Richards Bros., sons of the first buyer of land from the company, who with their fatlior have worked on the land for the pajst six years, and have now got the greater part of it in grass. This transaction serves, at least, to show that those who know the land and climate think well of them.

- A most imposing sight is afforded spectators at Triangle Valley, P"PonEa by the stranding thore or IoU black-fish, which appear to have bce.n either driven ashore by stress or weather or (as often happens) been lel_t by a falling tide on the. extensive mudflats which exist all along the inside of Farewell Spit. Tho stranded fish consist chiefly of old cows and young calves of all size's and ages, and most of th"m are still alive, although lying there since Monday last. Some, hundreds of people have lately journeyed to the spot to view the unusual and interesting sight, says the "Argus.

A seaman named William Hollis was charged at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday morning, before i.lr J. b. Evans S.M., with stealing from the steamer Nikau during the passage between Nelson and Motucka onl< nday, one electro plated cruet, three cnir<t bottles, one bottle of sauce, one tin of jam, and one bottle of vaiuJla essence. Sergeant Mullaney, who prosecuted, ou behalf of the police, Psked for a remand until Monday. In reply to the Magistrate accused pleaded .not guilty to the theft of the cruet, but admitted stealing the nm and one bottle from the .cruet, jhe sauce and vanilla ha said he kn?* nothing about. A remand was then granted by the Magistrate, who said it was practically a plea of not guilty, until this morning.

A sitting of the Arbitration Court, his Honour Mr Justice Sim P^s'« !1,! S ; will bo held at the Provincial Hall tins morning when several compensation cases will bn heard. The cases down are as follows:— Benjamin V likinson (Mr E. B. Moore) v. Waimoa County Council (Mr Hayes), claim ior £200 compensation for injury received while employed by defendants; iaare Hiparaiti (Mr Maginnity) v. Lewis Stewart (Mr Harlcy), claim for LMO compensation for death of the son of claimant while in the employ of defendant; Edward Henry Collins (Mr O II Foil) v. Union Steam Ship Company', Limited (Mr Maginpity), claim for £150 compensation for injury received while working on tho Mapourika.

The advent of wireless telegraphy in New Zealand is regarded by the operators ii) tho Telegraph Department as providing an avenue for promotion. Within a few months sonic of the lower power stations will be connected, and the officers stats that the manipulation of the instruments should presont no difficulty after a vrtry short instruction, while the technical knowledge should readily be acquired by one* who has a grounding in electricity and magnetism. Therefore, the officers trust that the executive* -lid staffs for these stations _ will bo drawn from their own service, and fbr> + the department will not deem it necessary to employ outsiders.

The Tomperature.—At throe o'clock this morning," the thermometer outeide this office registoret 52 degrees.

It is said that poets are bom, not made. There are many budding poets in tho Dominion, who only require, as the waiters in tho United States say. a "little encouragement" a le velop their latent talents. _ Byron sends us a poem, from which we quote two verses. The poem extols .Lock's Great Furnishing Emporium, which undoubtedly is the cheapest and best place to purchase furniture and furnishings. Lock continues to give big bargains.

"If tables and chairs you are lacking, If a range or stovo you desire, Lock's will-chosen stock's at your ser-

vico, He has always the thing you require; If a sewing machine's your ambition, The Atlas is just what you need. And you'll find tho old proverb is truthful, For Lock's is a friendship indeed.

"You may journey to Sydney or Lon-

don, ' To Melbourne, Chicago, or Cork, You may ransack tho houses in Paris, Or tho marts of Berlin and New

York

But you

won't furnish better or

cheaper, Nor find any "house that can shine With William Lock's Warehouse in Brixlge street— He's the King in the Furniture Line/