NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13825, 23 September 1913, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

■ ■'■■■•■;■ . ■'. '• ■ •■.'.■■ j CJ The horse- parade held under fho auspices of the Nelson A. and P. Association will take place at Rich- is mond Park tomorrow afternoon.^ k o: Yesterday morning a wire worm s< about six inches in length was drawn tl through a tap at this office. Persons ir in the-habit-of-drinking water direct tl from the tap should take warning: ti .■■>■■-.■ :; - '•■ ' ■ - " L Pick-pockets are reported to .have T been active,. recently in the. city of }\, Wellington, especially at places of en- H tertainment, and several losses h.ivo gi been reported by victims, states the h Press Association. st is A Press Apsociatioii messjigo from y< Dunedin states that inquiries from ti headquarters ooncorning the state- Cf mont in Sydney shipping circles that of the Union Steamship Company intend- ti ed calling for tenders shortly, for two m passenger steamers for the Pacific fa trad<?, elicited the information that pi tenders for steamers were- being called, ci but for what trade is not being dig- m closed at present. / 'jfa

Taranaki possesses forty-one butter, factories and seventy-seven'ehoese factories—total, 118—of which fifteen arc dual factories, and. . mal^e both? butter and cheese, s Besidesb theso there are fifty skimaiing stations. . Farmwork in Southland district is well forward this- year. The exceptionally mil&winter has permitted farmers" to make an early start with their spring 'work, artd- a correspondingly early harvest should, be.the result. Miss Mario Motto's violin recital will take/place next Monday. Miss Motto., has met' with very warm receptieiie I wherever she has been heard in New '•Zealand. She will be assisted by^Miss Phyllis Fell and ah entirely new programme has been arranged. The Nelson people need no further introduction- nor encouragement to appreciate what is shortly in store for them. The box plan opens at Jackson's to-day. Another complete underwriters' survey of the wrecked steamer Itevon. is now being carried out by the representative© of Lloyds, and on their report will depend tlie disposal of the vessel, which appears to bo holding together well.—-Press Association. Yesterday morning Mr. A. H. Hounsell, representing the shareholders of the Nelson Coalfields Ltd. waited upon Mr. T. Cawthron in reference to further prospectiHg for cjoal i& the Waimea basin. The position; «f the company and details of the work that had been done were placed before Mr. Cawthron, who advised that the bal-. ance of the unexpended capital should he placed at interest for twelve months. Mr. Cawthron 'also intimated that ho would take sufficient interest in the company, to, ensure that thorough tests would bo made in the future. It is probable that future operations will be:carried but to the westward of the recent bore at Stoke, in the vicinity of the Western Entrance, where indications of coal are said to kave been found. Tire Hastings correspondent of tin? Napier "Telegraph" states that eels are very plentiful in the creeks along the Maraekakaho road, and a resident about throe miles out says he caught no fewer than 58 in one night. A fine specimen, measuring 4ft 6in in length and weighing close on 19lbu, caught in that locality,, was released in the corporation tanks. The following horses have so far been entered for the stallion parade to be. hold at Richmond Park to-morrow: Mr. Durbridge's Maharanui; Mr. T. Martin's Imperial Bell Boy; Mr. W. Martin's Black Beldon; Mr. James Young's Prince Darnley and Silver Gift; Mr. Thomas Roughton's Bobbie Burns; Mr. J. E. Barham's Mighty Atom. There seems <n-ery probability (sayß the Waiau correspondent) that Mr W. A. Banks will carry the Reform banner through the Hurunui -electorate at the ■next election, thought Mr Banks has not yet .made a definite ]>ro,nounct>ment.. Reformers throughout the electorate are very anxious that" he should stand, as he is very popular and well-known from end to end of the constituency. "fie is a good boy," said a, father of his son at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Land Board,"when making an excuse for not having fulfilled the residential clause in his lease. "He will settle on the land as soon as he get* married." The Commissioner: "Has he got a girl?" The father: "Yes, two or three, and ho will marry oncof them. —-(Laughter.) I suppose he will have one of them. He isa good colonial." "The 'Skyscraper' is a blunder frou every point of view," said the Mayor Olr C. J. Parr) during the course of his lecture on "Town-planning" at Auckland Institute the other night. "It shuts put the air and the sun, bo badly wanted in out streets. Where •land-"is as high-priced as it is in New York this .is. the sort of. thing which is forced upon the owners. I am afraid our land in Auckland is'getting high-priced. We shall have to bo very careful to see that 'skyscrapers' are not built here." Actu?.tod by the thought of Christmas, and holidays, the Young Women's Christian Association in Dunedin has organised a holiday savings club in. all th-:- .large firms. The scheme baa evidently met with favour, for already hotween 150 and 200 have joined, and more have expressed their d&siro to join. The idea of this club h saving in small instalments. Any sum isv accented from Id up to £10. When any girl's account reaches this h.r.i amount-she must draw it out and deposit_it in her own name. All the money is to ho paid out a week before Christmas,'to b*s used for holidays or to ho transferred directly to the girl's own banking account. Nearly £16 is the united total of small amounts to ho banked us the result of a week's offort. Postal officials fire sometimes sot some curious problems in order to ascertain the correct destination of letters. The other day a, letter, en-closed-in a very, big envelop© measuring 15in. one. way and about 9iti. the yt-her, was dropped into the Timaru letter box. and the only -address on it took thc'xform of a life-siz/e-caricature if a man whom the officials were evilentally expected to know. There was i penny stamp on the top corner of the Jnvelope, and the words New Zealand it the ..bottom.'corner. 'With charact'istic perspicacity, the "Herald" says, ;he postal officials filled 'in the missno- address-as J. Vigor Brown, Mayor >f Napier, and subsequent inquiries ndicated that the letter ha« been sent. :o the- person for whom it was intond»d. 109. Trafalgar street, for 7s Gd lever vatch.es; 12 months' guarantee. Post rce; send for one to-day.* Louis Kerr for new engagement ings, bracelets, necklet pendants, irooches, wedding rings, marble clocks, adies' and gents' watches.* One of the most interesting exhibits n the Maori. section of the Auckland ■Juseum is a,n- ancient flute. It .is laimed to be the identical instrument pon which .Tutanekai. played sweet msic on an island in Lake* Rotorua, aiising the dn'skv beaiitv Hinemoa to wim across to discover by whom such harming sounds were;produced^ "The City of Sunshine," as Nelson i often styled is becoming widely nown throughout the Dominion, not nly through its climate, the proposed slar physics observatory, and the. Caw--hron Pa,rk, biit also its educational istitutions which hold their own with be beet. The. city also has an attraeIve and ' permanent ..\! exhibition in ock's extensive fux% *(itur,e- y emporium, his is an up^to-date establishment, aving over 13,000 feet of floor space, [omo builders by . .purchasing' their oodg at Lock's oan save money besides aving a very wide, range-of^ goods to jlct from. ,The furnishing of the home an important matter, especially when ;>u are cmbarkinsT on it for the first mo. There ire many details to be jnsidored,1 and the money question ;ten dominates everythins. The furniiro must be good and reliable, and it ust afford the utmost possible value ir the money spent. Lock's cash rices are absolutely the lowest —you in obtain ■everything required for the hoe, and -the firm guarantees eatiskction. 1

The annual meeting of the Waimea ] Tennis Club will be held at Spring . Grove on. Thursday evening. 1 •■■s.■■ - • •'. -:. .1 '■■■•. The. last-,inilitary defaulter has" been discharged'",from Alexandra .barracks (says tne "Dominion"), where he has .been undergoing military detention, a course of training by way of squaring his account with his country in terms of the Defence. Act. Excitment was caused in Sturt street, Ba.larat, last week, when two young men fought desperately. They used,teeth, nails, and boots, and botn bled 'proiueely. -Thta prize'evidently was a young woman, who, after taking part in the argument, vainly tried to make peace. After the tight shelinked arms with the victor, and he walked off jauntily with her. Mr John Walton, of Greymouth, reottitly attended his ftorty-kourth annual meeting of members''of the Greymouth Jockey Club. Mr Walton was one of the original members of tbe club, and actually participated in the pegging off-of tho reserve upon which, the Omoto racecourse is situated. He has been a member of the committee since the inception of the club. Mr, H. -M*Brido, of Outram, had, a miraculous escape from a serious accident on the Mangatua Hill last week says the Taieri "Advocate"). He sliped when getting oft'- his wagon' which had a load of four tons, and the front wheel went over his right foot. It was found that no bones were broken, and a few weeks' rest will enable him to get about again. The Wairarapa "'Times" reports that in addition to fences blown down and sheets of ir«n blown oif roofs in the Hinau Gully, district during the late gaie several chimneys wero, brought down by the wind. At Mr. A. Daysh's farm at Belvedere a big pine tre© was blown over and fell through the roof of a shod,' smashing up a reaper and binder, and damaging a gig. A Southland potato' grower % has dc~, cided to plough several acres in owing to x the unremunerative prices ruling. Ho consigned four tons of seed to Auckland a, week ago, and netted less than £B'tho lot, a return that does not warrant the employment of labour in digging, and lifting. Other' growers (says the "Southland News") have had & similar experience, having been too late with their crops to ba able to take advantage of the much higher prices that obtained some months ago. Ono of the Southland's bush settlers had a very narrow escape the other day from being kilted by an explosion of gelignite. He had hanging up on a post in his stable^ a sugar bag containing six or seven pounds of this powerful explosive, and in passing it with a naked light in his hand ho accidentally set fire to the sugar bag. He did not notice it for a moment or so, and when ho .did tho bag was in flames. With great presence of mind he snatched the burning bag, threw it out of the door as far as he could, and then sought shelter behind a" wall of the stable. Kortunately there were no caps in .-the- parcel, and the gelignite enly burned. The flare, whicji it is estimated was at its best over a hundred feet high, was seen from various parts of the district. Beyond the destruction of the explosive, no damage was done, though it was entirely due to the settler'© courage that his horso and stable were not burned. - i The amount spent by the amuse-ment-seekers in New Zealand exceeds per head that of most countries, and Invercargill accounts for its sha.TO -(says Wednesday's "News'?). The' expenditure in i.his direction during the last fornight must .have totalled something in the vicinity of £2000. The takings at the Gay -Pierrot Fair, which ran for eleven nights, amounted to about £1000, out of which," however, expenses have to be deducted. The receipts on tho-occasion of the Sfauth-■•land-Aus\tralia football match were about £200, -while i-s scorns safe to assert that inoro than double this amount was taken in connection with the screening, of the world-renowned picture drama "Quo Vadis?" at the 'Zoalandia Hall. There is also to be taken- into consideration the large sums taken at tho Lyceum Theatre, at the Otago-Southland Association football match on Saturday last, and other entertainments and functions, such as church bazaars., etc. The fecundity of tho loathsome housefly, which is beginning to make its appearance with the 'return of warm weather, is shown in some tables prepared by Dr Herbert D. Pease, director cf tho Department of Bacteriology in New- York. A fly maggot hatched from an egg on September 1 could become an sdult fly on September 20, and on that day would be rer.dy to lay 120 egiLrs in kottio convenient garbago heap. On October 6, 120 adult flies would leave the- }n>an, and probably sixty of them would bo females, wind) would lay 7200 <'ggs on October 20. November I "would >-.cc tho appearance . of 7200. flis*. 3600 being females, nnd on November ! 4 43:2,000 eggs woii.ld.be , laid. Six w^ekjs^lu.ter :the" dosctiiidants; / of the origin.-?' fly would actually mini- v ber 13,000,000. Actually tho/.increase * does iiiore:;^; at rhis'..paceI,' or eke, "tli-3 ' earth would <"juiekly be buried bsuoath j tho in?.."•!■; r.i i!i- s. but thore is no doubt ,^ that iind<>.r J.-.'.ourabk-conditions tho , insects multiply with appalling rapidity.-. Dr■ Po-a^s's figures-should help -, tbe hoxise holder to understand what a crime ho may bo committing when he neglects r»n o{>]»r>rtunity to "swat" a single ny which bus settled within a his reach. Mr Fred Eason, of Kat-oa, bad a ° «omc;Avhat unpleasant experience in being benighted in th-e bush towards * Glenomaru on Wednesday night (reports the "Clutha Leader). He had some cattle grazing thsre, and uvnt over for them, but niglA.camo on bofore ho got clear, and, experienced, bushman though tie is, ho- could not make Jii.s way out. A. search jisrty w ivas organised tho next morning, but Mr Eason got out by% his own cri-rf"f?v- '^ aurs about 1 o'clock in tho afternoon. Fhe experience was a. trying one, as s< Wednesday night Avas one. of the roughest of th<? year, and Mr Easop. bi s gejroing up in; years. :,. - •:- i', ■ ■ • ' J. ' * . . ai jJI <lo not b^lipve ijicre is one soman 'iff -"'ci .th<foF,und?'\vho doesn't d; felievo por placSf is the home; but . vhen she is coifipel!odv,";.by changing fi conditions: of-society to learn her own T iving. 'a,itd frequently ,is the only iuppbrt of her mother, sisters, _ and sr brothers, her working cionditions oc ihould be fitted to Tier health and-rom-ort, not only for her own sate, hw'c Iti or the. sake of coming generations," - S£ ays an American woman, who is ■•» nembe-r of "the Womati's League which f ,+ s working hard for the better oondi- 2( ions, of working women in the United states. •' a • Th© Thermometer.—At three o'clock ;his morning the thermometer outside m his office registered 43 degrees. at For Influenza take Woods' Great 'eppermint Cure. , Never fails. Is 6d-, k s 6d. The fame of Moutere apple lands has j Ai nread from one end of New Zealand to h« other. 'Those interested should not. J-i ail in road the announcement in the: - idvertisoment columns on page 8 re-.iiJ ;arding tbe Etiby Bay Estate.* ■

j The road race, Richmond to Waka* field, is postponed until October 11th. Acubbage match,played at Wakapuaka last evening, between teams from the Wakatu Association and the Waka~ puaka district resulted fri a win for th©. former by 15 games to 10. The annual meeting of the'-Appleby; ■ Tennis Club'will be.held on Friday Right. Notice is given of the civic reception to-day of the New South Wales foe t baft team, and citizens &ra asked to obsorru a""half holiday to-morrow afternoo*,. when tho-Loague match will, be n-lav-ed. About 7.30 last evening attentions was attracted by an unusually brilliant and beautiful meteor, which "traversed ' the heavens from north-east to sri.tliwest, lighting up the countryside in its passage. In connection with the scientific* branch of the Nelson Institute, lh* Henry Travers, F.L.S., will lectnm inext Tuesday evening, ok the natural history of New Zealand. A Nikau settler states that weasel*-' arc killing young lambs in that district no fewer than eight lambs in. a paddock having been found dead on*> morning. They all. showed signs of having been attacked by a weasel.