THE COLONIST. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1913. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14620, 26 January 1918, Page 4

THE COLONIST. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1913. NEWS OF THE DAY.

The second song and organ recital given by Miss Mina Caldow and Mr H. Temple-White, assisted by the Nelson Male Quartette, in the School of Music last night, was well attended, and the audience were extremely appreciative in their reception of the programme.

At the Nelson Academy of Music the first term of the 1918 session will commence on Wednesday, January 30th. The director,.Mi- John Tait, A'.R.C.O., is now enrolling new pupils at the Academy rooms, Hardy street. In an advertisement in another column it is stated that since- the opening of the Academy in 1916 31 pupils have successfully passed Associated Board examinations, including two L.A.B. singing.

The banks in Nelson provincial district will bo closed on Friday, February Ist (Anniversary Day).

'xiie Nelson Technical School will reopen qn Monday, February 11th. Applications for enrolment will now be received at the school at the hours mentioned in the advertisement, to which the attention of parents and employers and intending students is directed.

A sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held at Brightwater yesterday, Mr F. 08. Loughnan, S.M., presiding. D. G. Cook was charged with driving an unregistered motor car, but the case was withdrawn by the police. The same defendant was also charged with using a motor car without having the registration mark affixed, and was convicted and fined Is, with costs 9s. Thos. Walker was fined Is, and costs 7s, fox riding a bicycle at night without a light. Mrs Annie Sharp was charged by the Inspector of Noxious Weeds (Mi-'J. A. Melrose) with failing to destroy noxious weeds, to wit, foxglove, and was convicted and fined £5, and costs 7s.

The Sacred Heart High School (Institute of Notre Dame dcs Missions), Manuka street, Nelson, will resume studies on Monday, January 28th. The parochial schools conducted by the Sisters will also reopen on the above dato.

The timetable of Emms's motor car service for Takaka show and races is advertised in this issue.

A certain firm had advertised a nonnicotine smoking mixture, made outside London, as a substitute for tobacco (writes a London correspondent). Six tons of the material used were seized at the factory, and analysis proved it to consist of ordinary forest leaves, darkened by some process and cut. It was reckoned to be the finest imitation tobacco ever seen, and if 50 per cent, of it could be mixed with genuine tobacco the adulteration would remain Ti.ndetected. Had the amount seized been converted into substitute the loss to .revenue Would lave reached £3840.. The company concerned was charged for an alleged offence against the Tobacco Act and had to pay a fine of £20.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr F. 08. Loughnan, S.M., Robert John Hay, master mari--ner, was charged that'he did on January 3rd, on the voyage from Wellington to Nelson via French Pass, receivt. on board the steamer Nikau passengers, having regard to the time, occasion, and circumstances, greater than the number allowed by the certificate of security, as increased by permit undei section 54. of the Shipping and Seamen Act, via., 43 passengers. On the application of Mr C. R. Fell, who appeared for the Collector of Customs, the case was adjourned until February 14th.

"The Tobacco and Matches Control Board," runs a notice that appeared in the British "Board of Trade Journal" before Christmas, "desire to call the attention of the public to. tie fact that the supplies of manufactured tobacco for civilian use are based on the maximum amount available month by month. The retail trade are being instructed by the board to restrict their sales during the... Christmas season to. tie ordinary ■ personal requirements of their customers, in order to ensure that the supplies which are available shoujd be sufficient for the ordinary consumption of all, and should not ,be depleted by ..extensive Christmas purchases." It appears that the British smoker who made a gift of tobatco at Christmas had to take the quantity from his own allowance.

Voile and Muslin Dress Lengths in choice designs at Trathen'a Sale. A wide variety to choose from, at os, 8s od, 11s 6d the dress length. Even though you may be well supplied, take our advice and buy a few lengths for next season. JPrices are bound to go much higher.* , .

A Government official;, who was in Sydney during the conscription referendum week, was amazed at the deliberate misstatements made by public speakers of the "No" typo. One speaker, who was apparently an educated man, told lis listeners that as a result of conscription, hardly a white man was to be seen in the streets of New "Zealand at the* present time, that work on shipping and on the waterfronts was being wholly done by coolies and Asiatics, and that farming'was at a complete standstill. Another speaker said, "We are going to keep every man m Australia that we can, for now that Japan is coming into tie war, the British authorities will band Australia over to the. Japanese as compensation."

A boy named Smytb had rather an unpleasant experience at the Gieyrnouth racecourse last week. He Vet into quicksand at the river, goinc down up to his neck. Fortunately his sudden immersion was quickly noticed, end he iva« pulled out with nothing n ere than a' good wetting. °

A unique excuse for evading n.'liUrv service was (the Christchurcfc. "Sun" states) proffered by Charles Edward Warden, who was tried by court-mar-tial for disobedience of an order to attend medical examination, his p.'ea being that he was by law exempt iicm rendering personal service because ids family in Scotland was paying feu duty. Warden was thus going 3 back over centuries to the days of the feudal system for lis plea, feu duty, according to Scots law, being the duty or annual rent paid by the tenant of a feu, or a grant of land, for which the tenant pays money to his1 overlord instead of rendering personal military service.

It is stated that 4000 American medical women lave been asked to register their names for service in 10 American women's hospitals. Some of those will commence their war service in the Women's Army General Hospital, the management of which is entirely in the hands of women, and we are told that tte funds have been raised by woman doctors. It is said that one unit of American woman doctors intends to open hospitals in the devastated regions of France and Belgium, and these hospitals are for women and children. Both nurses and doctors are to have lessons in France, so that they may talk to their patients, and at tie conclusion of these lessons they are to have an examination at a French hospital.

Sir Robert Stout, in his annual re-port as chancellor of the University of New Zealand, has the following reference to research scholarships.—"l have received an interesting letter from Professor Worley, of Auckland, in reference to research scholarships, which I shall lay on the table. He suggests that adequate financial means should be provided for D diversity Colleges to appoint demonstrators or assistants whose chief duty would be the conduct of research, but they should also be require©., to assist to a small extent in the teaching and to deliver outside, lectures. By assisting in the teaching they would gain valuable experience themselves; the students would benefit by being in contact with men actually engaged in scientific ami industrial investigations, and the professor would be relieved of a certain amount of general and routine work. By giving oxitside lectures they help to educate the public to the importance of science in the drily and industrial life."

American shoe manufacturers have it in their power to iucrease their sales in New Zealand in spite of the preferential tariff that operates against them, says a report issued by the United States Bureau dfrForeign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce. American shoes are as well thought of there as in other parts or jthe world, and the strongest bid for [patronage that a retailer can make is |" to show in his windows shoes marked I "latest American style." The business obtainable in the New Zealand market is well worth cultivating, for the merchants are a most dependable^ class of careful, conservative shoe dealers," and the people can afford to buy the higher priced footwear. Of the 2,000,000 dollars worth of footwear imported in 1916, only about 175,000 dollars worth came from the United States. There is little question that American shoes could hold a more important place in the market, says the report, if morel sales energy were at the back of them. Other shoes are being sold for fully as high prices as would have to be charged for American shoes, grade for grade.

Speaking at a recent meeting of the Marlborough Committee of Advice of the National Efficiency Board on. the subject of the employment of school boys for harvesting work, Mr. H D Vavasbiu- (Ugbrooke) said that he took sis boys from tie Wellington College; and he had gone through the harvest with these boys, five boys of his own, and two experts for such work as stacking. He could say absolutely that he tad toot been through a more pleasant harvest for the last ten or fifteen years The lads did what they were told, and did it with a good will. He would guarantee that any of those boys were now as good as any of the men he had last year. He appreciated their work and conduct tte more as these were in such great contrast to the heart-break-rng experience he had last year, when he was not in very good health, and had to deal with absolute wasters, who; brougit grog on to the place, got drunk, wasted their time, and struck every week or so for more money.1 Last season the harvest was to him a perfect hell; this season it was a real Heaven. He covld not speak too highly i of the way in which tie boys behaved I •- any farmer wanted his "tip" as to I the employment of college boys, he would say: "Take them every time." His experience was that they were worth as much as tte average men As for wages, the boys who had been working for him did not know yet how much he was going to pay them; hut he would say rere and now that he intended to pay them the full rate

. The Feildmg "Star" says that news comes from Wellington that the Cabinet has "under consideration" the appointment of a new Commandant, and that "an officer holding a very tigh position in connection with the New Zealand Forces in England will be brought to the Dominion."

™A i ve"-k"own resident of Wanganui, Mr. S. Cook, and his family, who were returning to Wanganui after a visit to jNlew Plymouth, were motoring past a harm at Stratford, when the owner of the property let some cattle out on to the road. Mr. Cook almost stopped Ins machine in order ttat a safe passage might be.made through the mob, but. unfortunately, the cattle resented the right of anyone else to the road, and they simply rushed over tl:e cycle and Ride-ear and capsized the party. Mr. Cook had a wrist broken and Mrs. Cook sustained injury.to hor spine as a result'of which she will be" laid up for some time. The children escaped un-