NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13531, 27 July 1914, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Western Union advises that tele graphic communication with San Domingo City has. been restored.

The dates of a series of meetings to be addressed by Mr R. P. Hudson, Reform candidate for Mctueka, are advertised in this issue. The first meeting will be held at Tapawera on Monday evening next.

The Citizens' Band-played a choice programme of music at the Port yesterday afternoon. Mr F. N." Jones's inagnophone rendered some excellent items. There was a large attendance of the public. The band will give 'a, concert at Stoke .on"Sunday afternoon next. ■.

One of Lord Charles Beresfoid's tenants who conducted a small iudertaking establishment was one day asked how the business was getting along. "Grand, me lord!", he exclaimed. "I have now the luckiest little hearse you ever saw. Glory be to goodness! it was never a day idle since I got ;;!"

It is* requested that all accounts against the Chittenden Assistance Fund be sent in by Friday, - the 31st inst.'

New potatoes grown under an ice plant on a clay bank are on show maa shop window in Port Chalmers, says the Dunedin''Star."' Sergeant Dougan (formerly of Nelson) grew the potatoes in these conditions. In February he planted a potato amongst some decayed vegetable matter, which had accumulated under the ice plant. By and by the shaw showed thtough and seemed to flourish. On Wednesday morning the frost had nipped the shaw. The sergeant then put his hand under the ic© plant and found a little heap of new potatoes. There were over a dozen in all, and the largest two of■ the potatoes weighed over soz eacli. This Ts-regarded as the earliest, new potatoes ever grown at the port.

Before commencing his address at the men's service in Christ Church Cathedral yesterday afternoon, the Rev. T. Fielden Taylor made a suggestion that it would be a good thing to form a general debating society in Nelson, in order that the men of the place might become ; better acquainted with each other and mutually improve their knowledge of literature, social and political questions, and public speaking.

There was a disturbance near the Central Hotel on Saturday evening, as the result of which a young man was arrested for using obscene language. Constable O'Donnel had some difficulty in securing the man in question, owing, it-is alleged, to the interference of a companion, who was subsequently arrested, and will be charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with, obstructing the police.

At the Westport Kennel and Poultry Club's show, Mr S. C. Crisp secured four firsts and five special prizes, including the award for the best dog in the show, with the Cocker spanial Stour Right Sort; also the challenge trophy for Irish setter, with Doon. In the poultry section, Mr H.. F. West scored a first and special for OH English Game black-red hen.

Party government, as we know it to-day, is a form of autocracy thai should have no place in a democratic community. It destroys individuality, fosters hatred and recrimination, and degrades our parliamentary institutions. —Wairarapa "Age."

Exhibitions have just been given in London of a contrivance whereby a person using the telephone may actually see.; the person he is talking to.. The result is said to be quite sati-sfac-toxy, but unfortunately the cost is at present too great to make the invention a commercial proposition.

A novel method of scaring avay birds has been adopted by a Kentish farmer. He has killed* a number of cats, had them stuffed, and placed them in various attitudes among the branches of the fruit trees in his orchard. "

A delegate with an Irish name announced towards the end of a long discussion at the Farmers' Union Conference (states the "Dominion") that he was going "to add some remarks so as to shorten the debate."

The: .New Zealand Farmers' Union decided at its conference at Wellington to claim the right to elect a representative on the Board of Agriculture and expressed tha opinion that tho dairying industry should be more fully represented on the Board.

Between April 1 and June 20 67,960 persons were carried on the New Zealand railways, an increase of 4191 over the traffic for the same period of 1913.

"I object' to a.sking for a subsidy for medical men to look after cattle when the working men in the towns do not get a for doctors to look after their wives," said Mr. W. B. "Matheson at the Farmers' Union Conference when it was proposed that a-system of subsidised: veterinary-surgeon clubs should be provided by the Government. The proposal .(says the "Dominion") was defeated. ,

Little Girl: |'Mrs. Grey, ■ mother' wants to know if you can lend i.s a dozen eggs. -She wants to put 'em under a hen." "So you've got a hen sitting, have you? I didn't know you kept hens." "No, ma'am, we don't;but Mrs. SmitH is going to lend us the hen that is going to sit, and ma thought that if you'd lend us some eggs we'd find a nest for ourselves."