NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13095, 2 May 1911, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A tartan bali in connection with the Nelson Provincial Scottish Society wih be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday evening next; Prizes will be given for the beßt tartan sash; The quarterly meeting of the Rabbit Island Domain Board was held yesterday afternoon, and was attended by Messrs J. Graham, M.P. (Chairman), W. Coleman, James Hunt, Ghallies, G. Best, A. P. Ailport, and J. O'Connor (secretary). An offer by Mr. Percy Adams of trees for the Babbit Island was accepted with thanks. Some minor matters were dealt with and the Board rose. A Masterton Press Assocation wire states that severe frosts itave been experienced in that district during Saturday and Sunday nights. These frosts will have a damaging effect upon the young grass. To-day a poll of the ratepayers, says a Hokitika Press Association wire, will be taken on the question of the Harbour Board obtaining a loan Of £25,000 tjo .continue the works in progress for the improvement of the port of Hokitika. Last night at Hokitika a well attended meeting (says a Press Association tckgram) decided to invite the Irish envoys, Messrs Redmond, Hazleton, and Donovan to visit Hokitika and deliver addresses on the Home Rule question. Arrangements are also being made with the surrounding districts in connection with the proposed visit. Messrs A. Bensemarin, Jas..Harvey, and C. Drogemuller, having been the only persons nominated for the three vacanfcies on the Upper Mputere Road Boards have been declared duly elected; On Saturday afternoon the Federal Hockey Club defeated Wai-mai at the Reserve by 3 (Kerr 2, and Miller) to 2 (Bradshaw 1 and one from a scramble) . Messrs Floyd and F. Ryder refereed. Both teams included some new players, but neither club haA its strongest XI but; A New Plymouth Press Association telegram states that Mr. E. Griffiths has just purchased, in Jersey, for Mr Charles Goodson, of Hawera, a yearling Jersey bull, which won the first prize on the island. He is a son of the great champion Noble of the Islands, and is the first first-prize winner over the whole of Jersey yet purchased for Now Zealand. A Dunedin tram-conductor was incapacitated last month by coming In contact with a long pin in a lady's hat in a car, whereby his eye narrowly escaped injury, and the City Council has agreed to pay him full pay (£2 16s and doctor's expenses (£1 10s) during the period he was absent from duty. The suggestion was made (says an exchange) that a by-law might jet be necessary to prohibit the use of these hatpins in tramcars. At the lasSt meeting of the Loyal Nelson Good Templar Lodge Bro Preen gave a report of the recent Grand Lodge session held at Dunediu. He stated the delegates were well received and entertained by the Dunedin members and that the next meeting of the Grnd Lodge would bo held at l\ew Plymouth in 1913. He answered a number of questions, and was heartily thanked for his report and for representing the Lodge. The Nelson branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters' and Joiners' has adopted the following resolution, copies of which have been torwarded to all the labour unions in the Dominion, and to the Acting-Premier: " (1.) That the Customs tariff, amounting to an income tax of 3s Cd in the £ on the wages of working people, while landowners and capitalists with an income of £10,000 pay only one half-penny in the £, is an injustice so gross and shameful that the workers should refuse to vote for any Parliamentary candidate who is not prepared to demand its immediate abolition." " (2.) That in the opinion of this meeting tho policy so ably advocated by Mr. Arthur Withy, general secretary of the New Zealand Land Values League, of untaxing labour and labour products and taxing land values instead, is the only statesmanlike policy before the country—the only policy that will bring to all classes of wage-earners the economic freedom and justice they have so long been denied—and therefore we call upon the wage-earners of every constituency to close up their ranks and at the forthcoming general election return candidates who will support Mr. Withy's land policy, which is now the policy of all true Labourites in the Homeland." Messrs. Bisloy Bros and Co. will hold a stock sale at Richmond to-mor-row.

Mr. W. Lock will sell contents of auction mart on Thursday next. The Temperature.—At three o'clock thi3 morning, the t) enncreeter outside t'lis office regi3tere) 42 degrees.

There has been a good deal of criticism in regard to the water supply and municipal administration generally, but it is satisfactory to note that considerable interest is now being taken in Council affairs. There is great diversity of opinion as to the merits of candidates for the Mayoralty and City Council, but the public are unanimous that Lock's Emporium is the best and cheapest place to furnish happy homes at. Lock holds by far the largest and most up-to-date stock of furniture and furnishings in Nelson and buyers can rely ttpon getting the best value for their money every time. A poet signing himself "Wordsworth. 1' sends us a poem from which we give two verses as follows:— We are proud about our city, And its progress and the rest, And we always swear its people Are the heartiest and best; But the best of all good fellows Would be lost, the people say, And the city suffer sadly, Were our William Lock away. What is home without a mother, Or a table or a chair? Half the homes about the city Own our William's tender care. If you want for cash or credit Anything on earth below, William Lock iB sure to have it, He's the man you ought to know.

What in .the-world's the, use of-fret-ting • O'er life's troubles every day ? All our blessings thus forgetting, We've some blessing anyway. One great blessing all may finger, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, to Drives off oolds inclined to linger, Makes us "well and keeps us fit.