GENERAL NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

BOROUGH COUNCIL'S CONDUCT. Before the business of the Borough Council was commenced last evening the Deputy-Mayor (Mr Ilawkey) said that lie wished to refer to the proceedings of the Council table on the previous niglit. They were not very creditable to the Council as a body, to say the least. He might refer to them in very much stronger terms but would refrain from doing so. The only way that he could see to stop these unseemly scenes was by strictly enforcing the standing orders. As chairman of tho meeting he was determined that they should bo put down, and he had made up liis mind to enforce the standing orders strictly, without fear or favour.

Councillor Porter: "I am very pleased to hear it, Mr Deputy-Mayor." Councillor Watson: "Hear hear."

Just after this, when some tenders were to be -openeil, the Deputy-Mayor said he had been in the office that afternoon, and in order to save time at the meeting that night, he had opened the tenders with the Town Clerk and had them catalogued. Councillor Watson said this was a departure from the standing orders to which he 'personally objected; he did not know what other Councillors thought of it. At this the matter dropped.

THE ANGLICAN MISSION. The Anglican mission in Wellington which concluded with thanksgiving services in the various churches, lias caused a remarkable revival of interest in the work of the Church (states the ''New Zealand Times''). The mission has in several respects been unique, for it is the first time in the history of the Anglican Church in New Zealand that missioners have come in such a body from the Mother Country to spur on the Church here to further effort. The missioners' services so far, whether in city or township, have certainly proved eminently successful, and their influence will unquestionably be felt long after their departure. Their visit will stimulato the local clergy to renewed zeal, whilst it has drawn back to the folds many who by indifference and lack of sympathy have drifted away from tho Church. The series of addresses have all had a very high ideal. Tho missioners in particular suplie<l much food for thought individually in their remarks on the duties of Citizenship and the question of business and commercial morality generally. They leave us assured of the_ fact; that they have done good, and with wishes for similar success in the South Island.

GOVERNOR ON " CRAMMINC.'* A pleasant reierence to "cramming" was made by liajrd lsliliton in bis speech at "Victoria College on Saturday night (savs "The Dominion"). He had just aliuded to tho commission, of wiiich he. was chairman, to decide whether Britain [should join the International Congress on liadioTilography, and he remarked with a smile : "I remember that tho students of \ ictoria College jeered "when I used the word 'cramming' on a former occasion. 1 can assure you that nobody crammed more than 1 did in connection with that commission. I had to examine such witnesses us Sir Oliver Lodge, Mr Maskelyne, and Mr Marconi. \ou can imagine that I used to do a lot of cramming. I used to spend long hours the day before, with the respective gentlemen I was going to examine tho next day. (Laughter.) That is a tip for some of our young friends." (Laughter and Applause.)

THE SHOW. Farmers and all intending exhibitors at the Tiinaru Show should bear in mind that entries for sheep, cattle and pigs close with the Secretary (Mr J.'-. L. Orbell) on Saturday next. Other entries must bo made not later than Wednesday next. Some members of the Timara A. and P. Association have complained. r,hat they are not allowed to take thenhorses and traps on to the show grounds on show day, although other members who drive to the show in motor cars are allowed to pass ill without question. This, it is contended, is undemocratic, as well as unlair lo those who cannot afl'ord a motor car, and calculated to harm the Association. The explanation, however, is simple. • On enquiry from the Secretary (Mr H. L. Orbell)' it. was ascertiiinetl that motor car agents buy space on. the show grounds at Is per foot of frontage for the purpose of areonnndating cars belonging to their clients, and it is this space which is used by the carowners who are given access, to the grounds. Already for the approaching show, motor car agents have paid £l2 to Mr Orbell for car space. But in nnv case the show grounds are not large enough to accommodate all the t'-nris -iid horses which come in on show day, and as it would he quite impossible "to differentiate between me find .nv.othe'". nil are out. with the exception of those who have to cart entries on to the ground,_or are otherwise encaged there. It is obvious that a. miscellaneous collection nf horses and trans on the ground would be a source of danger to the public even suppocpnilia neoessnxy room ffflfi available.

TO-B AY'S ATTRACTIONS. To-diiy sees South Canterbury people with ii. varied list of attractions before them, ami it yesterday's promise ior favourable weather holds good Lhe holiday should be pleasantly spent. In Timaru the big tiling of tin l day will be the Labour Day demonstration. At 10.30 a.m. a monster procession, expected to be one of thi" largest ever seen he're, will leave lUelvillo Hill, going through the town and reaching the I'ark by way of Stafford and King streets. At 1i2.U0 p.m. the sports will commence ill the Park. Outsidu of the town there is also a jjood deal doing. A. train will leave T.maru for tlio Albury races at 8.40 a.m., and as the Ileitis aro good, fine .sport should be witnessed at the country meeting. The sports at Woodbury are sure to be successful, as the majority of tlio district cracks are competing. On its courts the Timaru Tennis Club will open its season, and other outdoor sports will also lie in full swing ill various places. In the evening the Battalion Hand will give a. concert on the liny. Five rinks from the Timavu Bowling Club will leave, for Ashburton at 7.T0 a.m. Among the workers' displays in the Labour Day ptroc.ession will be the Furriers, Carpenters' Society, Woodworkers' Vnion, Waterside Workers, linkers. Bricklayers, and Shearers. Carts owned by grocers, butchers, bakers and others will also take part, and the four bands are also expected to join in. Both the poster conmetito/.s and the decorated bicycles will bo in the procession, and will be judged immediately on arrival at the Park. The shearers' display will include a. traction engine and trucks, and therefore this will be the last item. Processionists are requested to gather at Melville Hill at 10 a.m. Displays which can pass round the Ova.l in the Park will do so, and others that, cannot on account of the trees at the east end will'proceed direct or turn to the right or to' the loft. TTot water will be provided free at +he Park, and members of the bands will be given lunch and afternoon tea*

TIMARU STREET IMPROVEMENT LOAN. Deputy-Mayor Hawkey yesterday received tho following telegram from Mr Craigie. M.P. :—"I am pleased to tell you that State Guarantee Board have provisionally granted our Street Improvement Loan of £OOOO at three and a half per cent."

BACK FROM RENO. Mr W. F. Corbett, the well-known sporting writer, returned to Sydney 'last week after a four months' trip through America, during which he visited most of the big cities of tho United States, and travelled over 13,000 miles of railway. Mr Corbett says the boxing contest between.Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson at Reno, for the heavy-weight championship of the world, was the poorest thing of tho kind ho ever saw. Jeffries suffered badly from scare from beginning to end, and at least 2J of every 3 minutes round was occupied in clinching. Mr Corbett was much impressed with many things ha saw, particularly- tho telephone services of the different States, which were as near perfection as possible, and tho elevated and underground railway systems of New York, which are to be widely extended during the coming year. Much depression exists throughout the country. Americans appear to know little of Australia, and less of Now South AVales than of Victoria and New Zealand'.—Sydney "Daily Telegraph."