THE COLONIST. SATURDAY, -SEPTEMBER 7, 1918. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14861, 7 September 1918, Page 4

THE COLONIST. SATURDAY, -SEPTEMBER 7, 1918. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Appeals by reservists drawn in the recent ballot will be dealt with by the First Canterbury Military Service Board to-day.

Owing to the departure of the Mapourika on Tuesday being timed for 3.30 a.m., the Nelson quota for the 46th Reinforcements will be farewelled at the Drill Shed on Monday evening. at 7.30 o'clock.

In a report concerning the arrival in Jerusalem in April of 1600' Armenians, rescued by the British at Es Salt, Syria the Armenian belief Committee pays a warm tribute? to the British rescuers. The cavalry, it says, helped the refugees when crossing the rivers by carrying a cliild in each arm and holding the reins between their teeth, and the officers,..including the commander, gave up their motor cars-to the children and invalids.

The- Inspector of Police, Wanganui, received a wire from Raetihi statin"that a. returned soldier named John McLennon had been found dead on his section at Mangaporaa Valley, having been' itUled/by a. falling tree." The accident -appeared to have happened about a. fortnight previously. The place is aboiit 20pules from Raetihi. The deceased vhad-% relatives in the Doniinion.. ' ";'

.iWlSolvajbioil:* imy's *Beach, Hand Almond Fair,, proceeds of ,wh~ich go -toward their' annual self-denial appeal, will be opened next Wednesday evening by thq Mayor- (Mr W. W. Snodgrass), and will be continued on Thursday ( and Friday. A first-class programme is provided for each evening, which should ensure- a good attendance of the public. Captain J. B. Hino, M.P. ? who was wounded in Palestine some time ago, and recently returned to the front, left via Sydney in an Australian transport with aboub 500 troops on board, consisting of New Zi-ulunriers, Australians, and RaroLongjins. Captain Hinc, who \i<i in command of the draft, has the honour of being the first New Zealand officer to be in command of an Aostraliau troopship.

Mr B. Page, the Wellington city organist, in at the Dunedin competitions, rei'crfpd to the work of Jlr Arlliur Alexander, a native of Dunedin, in the Old.World, and remarked that in iho opinion of musicians in London he had a brilliant-future as a composer. The famous musician Savonoif had stated that Mr Alexander was going to be one of the greatest British composers. While his works were little known in England, said Mr Page, they wore well known on the Continent.

The West" Coast Fanners' Co-Opera-tive'Lime Company's kilns at. Jioss arc now in mil swing/and producing about 50 ton& of burnt lime per wc^k. This is being railed to farmers as expeditiously as possible, some of the lines being sent out- in a bagged condition after having been .slackened at the. kilns,, but the greater portion is bcin£ sent out in bulk, loose in trucks, winch is an advantage to farmers.

A complete agreement has been-ar-rivdd at by the Conciliation Council in the Wellington brewers, bottlers, bottlewashers and aerated water emploj-ees' dispute. Slight alterations were made in the general working conditions, and an all-round increase in wages was decided aipon. Under the new award ■brewers- and malt-house workers will be paid £3 for the.first three months and £3 2s >kl thereafter, as against the present rate of £2 17s 6d. Bottling-storc workers will receive £'!> 17s 6d and £3 respectively, as again&i £2 los now.

Some excitement, was caused on the wharf at Grejmouth (says the "'Argus") when the Kaitangata was about to sail for Sydney. It appears that i'our of five firemen who were under the influence of liqufjr seemed to have hatched a grievance at the last moment against tnc ship and made up their minds to leave. When the ship' swung into the stream, they rushed aft, and made an attempt to reach the wharf. Two of them, indeed, succeeded in reaching the wharf in spite of the remonstrances of the ship's officers. Fortunately, some of the police force were at hand, and promptly and vigorously passed the drunken' firemen back* to the accompaniment of some very lurid language by the firemen. The vessel eventually got away with a full complement.

A sensation was called at Capetown by the murder of Denis Gordon Glanville, a junior clerk of the Standard Bank, whose body.-',was discovered in the bush."in-the suburbs in July. He had been shockingly injured about the head, and his throat had been cut. An investigation led to the arrest of a fel-low-clerk, Percy Dargin, aged 43, married, described as a native of New South Wrles. The mysterious feature of the affair is that Glanville was lured to the spot, where he met his death, by letter, winch was missing. He also received letters threatening that he would be shot, while he was previously lured to another suburb late at night also by a letter. Dargin, when charged, denied all knowledge of the crime

Motu,eka: To-day, Saturday, will be another big day at Trathen's Sale of Jas. A, Wallace's stock, Motueka.*'

In his cross examination of tiie- plaintiff in the Brown: vXVenables and Muivanah' libel action in Napier, Mr C. P.. Skerrett. E.C., laid stress on a speech made by Mr Brown in the House of Representatives containing the following:—"A Chinaman can come here with his wife and if a child is bom. in New Zealand it is a Britisher. You might as well say that if a duck brought out a lot of hens they would be ducks,- or you might say that if, a chicken was hatched inside an oven, it wquld.be bread* Now a.duck is a duck, arid a chicken is a chicken, and a German is a German." The audience-in the body of the Court was highly amused when counsel endeavoured to elicit the meaning'of the icryptic phrases from the member for the district, without much success. Mr Brown finished up by saying- "You know when we want to * illustrate a point, we often use such — er — er" "Twaddle," concluded Mr Skerrett

Dean Inge, in a recent sermon at St. Paul's, said the determining factor of the last 100 years' civilisation was that everything was measured by quantity and nothing by quality. Not the best, but the biggest, was our ideal. We gloated-ever all the increases in wealth, population, -exports "imports, and territory, and the result has been to make us slaves of machinery which was meant to serve some human ends. We had been following a false, childish and inhuman ideal, which seemed to succeed brilliantly for a ftime, and now had brought us to the present state of affairs. Competition, for merely ouantity ■of goods for maximum " profits, wages and so on always led men to dislike their work and their labour. All the joy which sweetened toil was lost, and no increase could male a workman happy and contented because he was a man af.ci not a machine-: ■• -JSFo -jxigJi profits could make an employer happy because he was a man and hot a walking account book.

The two medical inspectors of schools in Auckland have 70,000 children to look after. When asked how they did their work, one of the inspectors said that she was able only to give attention to the children in Standard 11. She hoped, however, by the end of eisht years, to have seen just once, as they passed through that standard, all the younger children in her district.

( The fact that total prohibition of the ; liquor traffic tends to increase produc- ; turn and makes for general efficiency • has been well illustrated ■by the two (neighbouring American States of Missoun and Kansas., The former has ;l twice the population of the latter and has all the natural advantages of mar-' ket facilities1, mineral deposits, forests ; and agricultival lands, yet the assessed valuation of Kansas is nearly six times that of Missouri. Practically every town m Kansas owns its electric light plant, waterworks;, and. sewer system, while 'many Missouri towns of from , 4000 to 5000 people have neither paved streets, waterworks, nor electric systems. In a statement made in 1915 'by the Governor of Kansas, reviewing the previous year, lie stated that of the 105 counties 48 had not sent a prisoner to the gaol, and 87 had not contributed any patents to the asylums. Motp than a dozen counties had not called a jury m ten years to try a criminal case. Surely this is 'worth* etrivinjr for in New. Zealand. Be sure you .sign the right Petibioar Look carefully, or you may,bo induced to snnport a nroposnl asking for nathnrtlfeationvof the Drink Traffic with nil its attendant evils. The-. Alliance Monster Petition is the one that every patriotic citizen should support. Sign , it and no other.* .