NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13775, 16 July 1913, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Chinese residents of Napier have donated £25 to tho funds of tho Napier hospital.

Mr William Langdon, oi" Westerhold, recently sold a fat pig to Mr &. J. Cox," of Ashburton, the dead weight being 4001b.

Canterbury will export about thirty tons O f honey this season, and the local consumption is) still,. growing fairly rapidly. . % ' .

A seat on the New Yok Stock Exdhango has'been sold for 38,000 dollars (£7400). This is the lowest price paid for a seat a seat since 1900.

Whue in Wellington last week, Mr B. C. Bobbins (Mayor of Taurauga) made satisfactory arrangements with tho Public Trust Office forva loan of £30,000 for municipal improvements.

A German charged' at Franlffurt with enlisting men on behalf of the .branch Foroign Legion was sentenced to two; and a half years" imprisonment for disloyalty.

At the annual convention of tho British musical trades at Brixton it was stated tihat the output of pianos in England is 100,000 a year.

Mr. E. W. Knowles, formerly proprietor of the Napier l'Daily Telegraph, lias given a section of land m Kapier valued at £1800 or £2000 for building a Plunket Nurse Home.

British farmers may obtain forecasts of tho wea,ther irom Juno 1 to September 30, from the Meteorological Office, South Kensington, on payment of Is 6d a week in addition to telegraphic costs..

A blight-resisting potato is said to have been discovered by Mr John Harris, of Eaetihi. Experiments made by him ■ aro reported to have stood the- most exhaustive tests for five successive years.

A, rich young tradesman named Hube-r, from Neuchatel arrived at Geneva on his honeymoon trip, and went mad. He is now confined in tho lunatic asylum, and his wife has returned home. According to Swiss laws the bride has the right to divorco tlio bridegroom at onco by going through a simple legal formality, but she is Stall in 3ove with her husband, and declares. •she will (Stick to him.

Of late a number of instances of young girls being molosted after dark in tho streets of Pctone have been reported. .Recently two girls were walking' towards i&flir home, when a young man suddenrts pounced upon ono of tho girls end Knocked her down. Tho combined efforts of tlio girls made tho assailant, who is described, as a. young man of about eighteen years of .ago,; with-.'hair parted in tlio centre and minus a, bat, beat a hasty retreat. On Sunday night tho police arrested a man on four charges of attempted criminal assault.—"Times."

Siarriagos at sight are not peculiar to Western Canada". In Bulawayo a young couple presented themselves ono Saturday afternoon on the magistrate's tennis lawn and interrupted the game bo demanding to be married. Tho magistrate refused; declared he would not have 'his only holiday spoilt, his office being closed for the day. Tho lovers were insistent; they were trekking at once to take possession of a farm a hundred miles up country, and must !>o married before they set off. "Why on er.rth," said tho magistrate, "did you not como to see mo this morning?" "Hut pleaso, sir, we only met at lunch lor the hrst time."

A bravo deed was done and a good. lifo was saved by a railway porter, W. Self, at tho Cam am raLway station on Friday evening, says the Cliristchureh "Evening/.News." Just as tho s.3B'"cxpross train had got fairly under.weigh and was moving past the railway platform, Porter J. Woolford, while hi the act of closing one of tho railway carriage pletfo/m gates flipped and dropped between the carriage- and tho odgo of tho platform. Porter Self, in a flash of thought, grasped Woolford. and held him lip, but unfortunately ho was unable to proient one of Woolford's. leys from being badly cut about. .■

What is called the "lazy"husband"law will come into effect in tfe Mtato of Washington thia month. Its object is to force a lazy husband to work for tho support of his family, and it seeks t;» achieve that object in a direct and vigorous, fashion. Instead of being sentenced to gaol, & -man on being found guilty will be sentaiic&d to v, term of work, tho State undertaking, to find work for him, and to give hia wife and family <3s per day as long as tho sentence- lasts. Most_ of tht> -work will bo done on the public roads, and the labour is hardly likely to bo of a character to make a lassy husband anxious for a second term. Tho benuty of the law (observes an Australian critic) is that it does not punish the innocent; but strikes, directly at the guilty, and -may be reasonably expected to effect-a cure.

The- executive committee of the battleship Mow, Zealand's visit voted £1 1& to tho cy.reif.kor of the Municipal.' Chambers, not £2 2s to tho caretaker's wife as inadvertently stated in the report in yesterday's issue. The Ladies' Guild of St. IVter'.swill hold a social in tho Foresters' Hall, \Vakapuaka, on Friday-evening next. , Attention is drawn to tho concert) to be given by the Nelson Savage Club i J tl i £,, J h<*-tro Koyal on Thursday, July 24. i-Je&orv-ed seats may be booked at Jackson's. > Miss Puglio, of Christclmrch will' ?^ d,r ?sf« I 1i ooi I? {58 in tho Oddfellow:.-' Ha 11. Wakefield, to-night, and In tho • Anglican Sunday school room, Motu'oka, to-morrow, both meetings coni'nencing at 7.30. . A civil sitting of-,tho Magistrate's Court was hold yesterday t morning, Messrs. W. Lock and B. H. Moller, Justices, presiding. A number of cases, ■w«ro. called upon and were either adjourned or struck out. Judgment by, default was* entered in one case only ' Waimea County Council (Mr. H. HaV--1«3') v. Jolin Jaeobson, claim for balance■of. account 16s lld>, with costs £1 3s.

The adjourned public meeting to consider what steps shall b» taken to celebrate Arbor Day in JSelson will bo--held at the City Council Chambers this, evening at 7.30, after which the annual meeting of the Nelson Beautifying Society will take place, when the annual . report nnd balance- sheet will bo presented, and other business transacted.

In the Supremo Court at Wellington' on the 7th inst., on the application of Mr W. Vernon Rout, probate of tho will of James Knight Calley, of Nolson, was granted by His Honour MiJustice Chapman, to Minnie Calley, the sole executrix named in the will.

The Rev. W. L. Salter, who has just concluded a very successful gospel mission in this city, will commence a short mission this evening in the Kichmond Baptist Church as advertised. Mr. Salterns gifts as an evangelist aro wolf-known,-especially in the Methodist ami Baptist Churches throughout tho Dominion. The evangelist i<s a. man of" wide experiences having spent 34 years in the Christian ministry in this land. 18. years as a Methodist minister, ami 16 years as a fully accredited minister of the Baptist denomination, to which he ' now belongs. It is notified that all are heartiiy invited to these gospel, services, and Sankoy's hymns will bo, used.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states that while the 7.30 train last evening to the Hutt wa-s between Wellington and P«tone a lire brokeout in a second .class carriage. On arrival at Petone the station staff suppressed tho flames, which had by tliatr time damaged the flooring to seme oxtent.

A Hokitika telegram reports that as. tho ■ outcomo of the fight between two.young men, which occurred at I-Jari-hari, South Westland, on the 6th ih&t., during the progress of which one of the* parties^ Ronald Adamson, lapsed intounconsciousness and subsequently d\ed. Samuel John Godfrey was charged yesterday, before Mr Hewitt, S.M., »Vitk unlawfully killing the deceased iinder circumstances amounting to runslaughter. Lengthy evidence wastta r en, and the accused was com/m^d for trial at tho next Supreme Courc «■{■- tmg.s at Hokitika. The ac-cast-l, tr.r whom Mr Wolls appeared, reserved bi«defence. He was admitted to bail: himself in £100, and two sureties or £100 each.

A cheque ior £750 tho amount collected and' subscrib-ed towards theQueen Mary ' Ward for women anrl children at Pnlmerston North, has l>eeU: accepted by that Hospital Board.

In a. case heard at Sheffield, in whick a. tobacconist was fined 10s. for selling, tobacco to a schoolboy; it wav stated by a schoolmaster that, owing to ft-p-articular form of sickness among the lads, he made investigation, and found no fewer than fifty pipes in thepossessioa of tho lads.

A schoolmaster, illustrating to a juvenile class tho meaning of tho word "slowly," walked across the- room in the manner tho word indicates, and then, turning to the- class, asked; "Now, can anyone toll mo how 1 walked?" to which ono of the pupils.replied: "Yes, teacher—bow-logged!"

"Lan Mac'laren"' u&od to tell a story: about an absent-minded man who,' boirsg unablo at the moment to recall tho nauio of a friend to whom ho was speaking, thought- to get over the difficulty by inquiring—"Lot me see, d» you -spoil -\otir naiuo with an 'c' or an 'i' ?" ''My namo i a Hill," \ras the stern n vply.

"Some people," said tho llov. Vallance Cook, at tho mission meeting in Wellington on Saturday evening, "have the idea that we Methodists are a STnall community. They seem surprised when I tell tiharn that we number more than the Anglicans, and that hi. the world there- aro thirty millions of us."

Sir Wilfred Laurier was- once- making an electioneering tour_ in' Ontario. where- thero was a stirring-up of rao»and religious prejudice. One day Sir Wilfred received a telegram from a Quebec Liberal, which read: "Report: in circulation in this country that your children havo not been baptised. Please- telegraph denial." Tho antiwar camo as follows: "Very sorry to say the report is corroct. 1 have aa> children."