TOWN & COUNTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14040, 25 October 1909, Page 5

TOWN & COUNTRY

' "A concert will lie given in the Kingsdown School to-morrow evening, when a. programme of musical items, drill and dialogues will ho given by Ihe pupils.

Should to-day lie too wet the presentation of iirizes and the competitions hy the Tiniaru Indies' Golf Club will bo postponed until Friday nest.

During the tree-planting operations in Wellington last winter the corporation planted over 42,000 trees, comprising from '2"j to 30 different species.

The company parade, of the Torfc Guards ordered for this eveniug is cancelled, the- Drill Shed being engaged and the weather being against outside wotk.

The revenue collected at the Cus-tom-house, Timaru, last week was as follows— Customs duties) £443 2* 10d: beer dutv, £42 10s 3d: other receipts. £24 5s 2d; total, £">o9 ISs 3d.

Members of ihe Druids Lodge are reminded that the lodge will receive an official visit from the District Grand Lodge officers from Christebnrch to-morrow evening.

V meeting of the Woolbrokers' Association will be held in the secretary s office at 11.15 a.m. to-day, to consider a notice of motion "That the practice of weighing in wool and supplying valuations be discontinued;" the o,uestion of advertising wool fades hy the Association instead of hy individual <«».«, and general business.

.The box plan for the Pirates of Penzance is now open at the Dresden. The assortment of photographs ('he work of Messrs Malian and Jlahord) of varions members of the company now exhibited in the Dresden window, is cau-nng a large amount of interest. To-night the final rehearsal will ue held and to-morrow night commences the season of three nights.

New Zealand, says a Wellington naper, pavs a large sum of money ior thi maintenance of technical schools, which were founded to improve the raring generation's power to lieneht itself individually, and the community <renerally. Some observers are. beginning to ask whether the results are commensurate with the expenditure. And ifVthe schools are not accomplishing all the good claimed for them, what is the reason? Ae frank confession by the heads of these institutions might help ta-hasten the day when the schools will register their full measure of utility, hut in the absence of a straight-out stiateinent, one is compelled to draw deductions from the cautions utterances ibst- have been recorded. We are hoping that the whole problem of the technical schools will be intelligently reviewed at the Education Conference next January. .

'.Wellington's new dock was designed to\aeconimodate the largest type of afloat. Since the plans were prepared - only a very few years have passed —so few. in fact, that, the tlaek is incomplete stilt —hut the extraordiiiarv increase in the size of men-o'-war makes it quite insufficient to accommodate the largest class of modern ships. - Some leading citizens of Wellington are jwving the authorities- to take steps to have the incomplete dock at. Clyde-quay. Wellington, broadened /and' if necessary, lengthened also) to nn extent that will enable it to aceonrriodate the latest tvne of British battleships. It is considered that this is Wellington's chance. Collione Dock. Auckland, it is contended, doc* not meet this requirement, and the dock at Hongkong is too sn>->H to receive the latest war vessels. Pin inly nut. there is no dock in the southern hemisphere at-the present time capable of holding a" super-Dreadnought: This position so serious to the l«eal bnneh -if the British Navy League that a denn--t&tion from it waited unmi the Wellington Harbour Board l»st week to urge thnt speedy stens be tsil-eu to remedy this state of things, and the Board" agreed that the engineer should so into the matter and report on the cost of enlarging the dock.

The Land Settlement Finance Bill, brought down by Government's message .recently, is essentially the measure introduced a year ago. Its purpose'is to enable groups of purchasers to bur an estate for Kulxlivision amongst them, and to raise the purchase money by means of a loan guaranteed by the Government. Five or more persons may. by agreement, form an association; and purchase in' the name of that association any estate of mot less than 250 acres. The persons making the application must put forward a scheme of subdivision. in areas of not less "than 50 acres, and it most be approved by Order-in-Council. On the completion of the. purchase, the estate will be transferred to the association, and the various allotments be transferred to the several members. Every purchaser will be required io give a mortgage to secure the purchase of bis allotment, together with the necessary interest and expenses, and -the total be paid off in twenty years. Tho BUI also provides that the transaction aiusb be subject to the limitations of area under the Land Act. am! residence is compulsory until one-third of the purchase money has been paid.

A special general meeting of the Timavu Branch of the Amalgamated Society of .Railway Servants was held m the railway library far the purpose of considering the proposed alterations *ji rules and other business for the triennial confere-nce which is to be held m Wellington next February- There was a fair attendance of members anil -Mr V C "Watson occupied the chair. A -new member was proposed and accepted On it being made known to the meetine that the Knginetinvers and .Fireman's Association wen: approaching parliament with a view to getting a, clause in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act referring to the amalgamated society altered, so tliat tuej may be recognised as a separate asBociation and that tins, would be detrimental to the majority o ir.»il«a>m en the following was *=uried unanimously—';l bat the L> jSußraiidi of the A.S.R.S. enters it*.most serious protest against any attempt on the part of Parliament to amend the Arbitration Act tor the pur-Jose-of ondermining the Bgwer ■ and Sffity of the Amalgamated Society ot Bailway Servants, a society or*, to aII £tfUray workers irrespective of departSor grade." At th.s stage the chairman wishing to move several preoptions in connection with business gftte conference, Mr J. Annear.was elected to the chair A great deal >A mehA and important business lor the conference to deal with : w - l *l"\ ib' ugh The most discussion en.-uwl on the present constitution of the exe!c«tive conneit of the society, each branch of the railway service not-jc-ing fairly represented thereon, Ihe meeting decided that each branch ot *he service should lie represented on the executive, by two members, one .o be elected in the North Island and one in tße South Island. A vote of thanks for U* attendance was carried by acclamation to a visiting snpperannuated jnember a*d votes of thanks to tnchairman terminated a most enthusiastic meeting. Messrs 1;. C. Watson, H. M. Bobertsoxi and J. P. Hughs').! announced their Intention of standing for delegate to the conference. There hera£ only one required this should bo a keen contest.

Mr D. Mahoney draws at tout ion to the. lease- of a ii«K"»l country hold he has for e:ili'.

The receipts of ihe Wellington harbour Board last, year were £172 O.HL and of that sum £113,000 »"* l ,: " a ~,lt m wages.

The Governors of tlie Gishorne High School have decided to endeavour to establish a boarding house in connection ttitll the school, to be available. ,l JHisMhle, by .March next.

The Rimutaka, which arrived at Wellington last week injm l-«»■ ">■; brought live thoroughbred Clydesdah horses-three mares, a stallion, •">< ~ ,„ul. The animals are consigned to Alessrs Dalgetv and Co., on behall ol Mr K. Short, of l'aioraugi.

One of the commerce tourists, in reniarkllig to a Christehnrch „„ the fin,'' quality ol New Zealand land, also remarked ..» the fine prices Instead of the cheap land one would expect to litid in a new country, t.iere was not much difference i., the prices ,t Home and in New Zealand, said he.

•What has been achieved at. Timaru mi'dit have been accomplished at Na- - years ago. What would tins have Ineaia-r An immediate and rapid ~. creased business for the merchants, and -reatlv increased prosi>crity lor tho producers from Napier to Dannevirke So says Mr A. Hoithw.ok ot the breakwater harbour at Napier.

In Southland the Navy League is takin" the line .of the National Defence League. Their annual report says—"The work of the local branch has iain largely in fostering the Cadet movement hv the award ot prises tor efficiency in drill and in rifle practice. The committee views with satisfaction the »00.l work being done throughout Southland hv ihe school Cadets.

A Commission t.tlir- Stipendiary Maoistrate) has been sitting to take evidence, and report to the Government on petitions from land-owners oi certain parts of the Borough of Hastings, to 1)0 taken out of the borough, and gi.en back to the Comity of Hawke's Hay. They urge that they are heavily rated in the borougn. and cannot benefit from the heavier borough expenditures, especially on sewerage and roads.

A Ministerial reply to a question in the House was that the question of taking steps to prevent the Flour Milling TrTist ami the Associated Bakers from exploiting the public by fixing arbitrary prices for flour and bread is receiving consideration, and proposals will be submitted to the which will Vie in the direction oi giving municipalities greater power than they possess at present.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, has issued a circular to tlie officers of his Department, threatening them with instant dismissal if they disobey the regulation that forbids Civil Servants giving information to the papers. Kven the "New Zealand Times,'-, a strong Government supporter, condemns this as a foolish curtailment of the usefulness of the Department.

The '.'Dominion" estimates that the rise in the price of mutton and lamb is equal to 4s Id per head of sheep, taking tho average carcas at 561b., and 2s BJd per head of lamb, taking the carcass at an average "of 281b. If this advance can be maintained throughout the season, nud. our-shipments are as as they were during the - past twelve months the gain to New Zealand would be:—On mutton, 1394,693 7s (id; on lamb, £546,976 12s fid—total. £911,670.

Arrangements have 4ieeu completed, says an Invercargill paper, for a motor service to ply between iAimsdm and Lake Manapouri during the coming summer. The distance, about forty-eight miles, will be covered by the motors in about three hours in ordinary weather, as against ten to twelve hours taken by the coach. The cars to be used are two 30 h.p. Darracqs, and a 12 h.p. car for smaller parties. These motors, says the paper quoted, are identical with those used on the Mount Cook service with such success.

When people got itp the other morning in Sydney, they found the pavements of the city spotted with red, and deposits of brick-coloured dust were noticed on the leaves of plants in the city and suburban gardens. The spectacle was a remarkable one, and the peculiar appearance of the trees and shrubs caused much comment. The rain of the previous evening had fallen from or through a dust cloud, and it was suggested by the experts that the dust came-from a distance of at least a thousand miles, and that it travelled at a great height from the earth's surface.

Mr Robert Guthrie, speaking of the tours of inspection of the. Informal Hill linns Commission,.said that they were fortunate in having line weather nearly all the time they were out. They liad a few had days, but they could not afford to remain under shelter, their time was so short. .Some days thev worked very long hours. One dav they were out by 7 a.m. and at 5.30 n.m. had twenty miles to go home." They had Fust rate station horses that day. or they could not have done it. Every station owner and manager they met was perfectly willing to give them information on any point "whatever, ami he believed that thev gave it as conscientiously as williiiglv." "Look round for yourselves, and ask us whatever you please r" expresses their attitude towards the Commission. The Commission was well received, hospitably treated, and furnished with guides and horses too whenever their own hired hacks were unequal to the work. The runs inspected in the Ashburton and northern country were the very roughest back i-oun-trV. the slopes and spurs of the backbone range: the lenses of the runs on the frontal ranges do not fall in lor a few vears yet.

V novel point respecting the authoritv of a school teacher over a pupil ] occupied the Stipendiary .Magistrate at Gore for several liours last lliursday. The female teaclier of a small school in the neighbourhood had a dispute with the school-cleaner, a daughter of the Chairman of Committee, and the cleaner at the end of .September refused to continue the work. On October Sth the teacher told one of the boys, a son ot the chairman, to sweep out the school, and he did so. His father told him not to do it again, as he did not think itwas part of school duty. To following Monday the defendant again asked the boy to'clean out the school after -t had closed for the afternoon, but he went home without doing so. The next morning the >«> v w:is thrashed by the teacher for refusing to carry out her instructions, and an action lor assault was brought against her. The Magistrate thought that the case .woultl not have been brought before the Court had there not been the previous dispute with the chairman's daughter. As to pupils cleaning a school, he thought they might properly be called upon to do it in an emergency, when the ordinary arrangement had broken down, as ■ was the case here. As the boy had 1 refused to obey her order*, the teacher | was entitled to punish him, as it was j quite apparent that it a teacher's autborit - was not upheld a school might us well bo closed. He therefore disI missed the case. Professional costs of I £•.! "_'s were allowed against the prosecution

Ouo of the British delegates _ to -the Chamber nt' Commerce Congress brought his son oii(. from Homo with him with the idea of tho latter taking mi land in .Australia. Alter coming io Xow Zealand, however, the young nin " determined to settle in the Dominion, and it is probable that he will go through a course at Lineoln College holme up a IViriu. "W 1 ha.l had my way. lie would have oulv taken aivav hall' <>l' his fortune. 'l'll.. State should have had the other hall'." Thus Mr Witty, M.P., in ioliing the House of .Representatives the liistory of a man who came to New Zealand with a. capital of £'">, and amassed a fortune of £50,000, yet on the eve of his departure for the Old Country cursed New Zealand at the top of his hent because the taxation of the country prevented him remaining hero. There lias been a sharp rise in the price of sheep in Otago during the past day or two. One or two experienced dealers wore through the Tuapeka district lately, picking up all the funvardcfinditioned lines, and are said to have scored pretty heavily. .V local dealer lias stated lhat he picked up a. line of -10(1 sheep, for which he save 16s 6d. and two days afterwards he was offered 20s per head for the same sheen. A month or five weeks ago the same sheep could have boon bought for 13s or a irille over.

A notice served noon Auckland merchants by the Colonial Sugar Company that the price to Auckland consumers will be increased ~>s per ton lias caused a good deal of public indignation. This rise in price was the sequel to an inimation given to the HaHwiur Board by .Mr Philson. representing the company, that if the Board imposed upon the Sugar Companv Ihe export wharfage ol Is per ton. which is levied upon other local exports, the whnle cost of the dues collectable on the company's 'export trade would be levied unmi the consumers of sugar in Auckland.

At the last meeting of the Duncdin Technical Classes Association Mr T. Scott said that employers were anxious that their lads should attend the classes. Jf the director were to keep a list of tho places where the students were employed, and informed the emplover of any case of irregular attendance on the' part of the students, it would have a considerable effect on the attendance of the school. Many oi the employers had told him that their lads must* either attend the classes or lose,their positions. Such a register would have a- considerable effect, especially on the plumbing class. The director agreed to carry out ihe suggest tail.

llr Honayne, general manager of railways has written as follows to the Christehurch branch-of tho-Society untile Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: •in regard to the question of the running of a through train for stock irom liivercargill to Christehurch, I may say that tho department is prepared to run a special train, provided a sufficient load is guaranteed, but traffic between the two places is very small and intermittent, and not sufficient to warrant the department in making special arrangements. • The goods services, however, arc mostly arranged so as to allow transit from liivercargill to the Christehurch district within reasonable time."

In replv to Mr Hanan, who asked that, as "the Invereargill-Christchurch through express leaves so, early in the morning, the refreshment car should lie put on from; liivercargill, the Minister for Hailways says that the running oi dining cars on the express trains south of Dunediu would involve the department in a very large additional expense in respect to the staff and provision for the management of the cars. The cars at present running in the North arid South Islands are unremimerative, the total receipts being barely sufficient to cover the wages of the staff and the stores, tho barest margin to cover the cost of reoairs to the cars, and absolutel- nothing towards the expense of hauling them. Under these circumstances, he is not prepared to recommend the extension o fthe dining car system to other trains. What thinks the Silent Member, Mr. C. A. C. Hardy, of Mr Craigie's record asks the "Evening Post." Will there be competitions by the stopwatch, between the two Canterbury members, and will they split seconds in their ambition to secure the belt for brevity? By his half-minute homily Mr Craigie will perhaps make himself moro widely known and more gratefully remembered than ever he eon Id have done by a long series of interminable harangues. The public may not long remember what lib said, any more than it will remember what some of his loquacious brethren said in a period of a hundred times thirty seconds, but it will not forget him as the man who spoke for half a minute. Thus has lie been lifted into the public eye on the second hand in half a round, while the hours which talkative fellow-legislators have consumed, have, merely served to blur them in the mist and smoke of their own creation.

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As everybody who has tried to do so knows, the, collecting °f debts without the police is not so pleasant as filling a comfortable Government billet ; but notwithstanding the disagreoabloness of the job if would seem that there are (says the Duuediu "Star"') many people willing to have a. try at it. The Dunedin Hospital Trustees yesterday afternoon received no less than seventyeight applications for the position of colloclor of dobis. The pile of applications, of which each one, no- doubt, represented a sturdy hope, was "referred to a sub-eonimittoo to reduce tho number to eight, and to report Io ;> meeting of til"- Truslees when a final selection will be made.

Mr Clark (Chalmers) had some suggestions as to taxation to place before the House .of .Representatives the other night. He thought that already the farmer, and under some conditions the worker, were sufficiently taxed. His proposition was to increase tho tax on the totnlisntor. Last year we in New Zealand nut nearly £2.000,000 through thetolalisator. out of which'the Government had received £30,000. An extra tax of ',. per cent, would have yielded £IOO.OOO. It was only a matter of time before the totalise tor Mas wiped out of New Zealand. Whv not wipe out the bookmaker.—(Hon. Members: "Tommy rot! - ') —and make money out of the tolalisator

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A slight irritation in the throat may lead to *a hacking cough. Zymolo Trokeys stop it; they soothe tho irritation and strengthen tho throat. 14

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-MENTS. C.F.C.A.—Tenders for lease or purchase of farm.

Harold Rollinson—Siddeley and Renault motor cars.

Power Boat Club—Meet at Excelsior this evening. T. and J. Thomson —Prices of showweek goods.

Wood and Amyes—Managers Phoenix Assurance Co.

Begg and Co. —Scatters about musical instruments.

Concert —By Salvation Army Band, to-night. D. Mahonoy—Goodwill of hotel for sale.

Timaru Port Guards No parade this overling. Robert J. MeKeown—Wants a ploughman. Timaru City Rifles—Notice re bazaar goods. G. Bracefield-—ls reducing price of beef.

Loan Company—Tenders for leasing farm.

Kingsdown School —Concert to-mor-row evening.

Theatre. Royal—Pirates of Penzance to-morrow. >

Mackenzie Collie Dog Club—Meeting on Saturday next. Timaru Lodge of Druids—Official visit to-morrow evening. liurdley and Son —Prices of new Indian goods.

The White House —Best Nottingham iaco curtains. A Gabitcs—Hats to fit all heads. Lost —Bead bangle; reward at "Herald " Office. Hedges' Bros. —Go-carts for babies. Wanteds—Six notices.