TOWN & COUNTRY

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15397, 14 July 1914, Page 6

TOWN & COUNTRY

The following is the Rer. Mr Bates'* weather summary for yesterday:— ''Strong west to southwest winds- have prevailed, with unsettled and showery weather, especially on the TV*«*"i Coast and in the northern and southernmost districts, and changeable conditions oa the East Coast. The barometer- has men in the south during the past 36 hours. Present indications are ',- for Etrong southerly winds. ' cold,'_ changeable and showery weather, with, the barometer rising everywhere."-'"

flic "Wellington Motor Club •at its annual meefcng, decided to the Government to compel all. vehicles to carry in addition to side lights either a taii light or an efficient reflector. Clark McConachy. of Timaru., the boy champion billiard player, conceding an Oamaru amateur .champion'sSo m 750. won easily by 242. He made one brkeak of 117 mostlv off .the red.

_ The planting of fruit trees in the Nelscn district is oroceeding stead:lv. The steamer Regulus. lately loaded lit Napier a hundred tons of" fruit trees from Hawkc's Bay nurseries Tor Nelson.

At Christehurch last week, amongst a batch of defaulting Territor;a-s, one was fined. £4 and two others. £3, aud each of them was. deprived of civil rights for three years. Another was fined £4, and ten £3.

The steep hill by the Glen-iti store has got into rather a bad state thi3 winter, and at the request of Mr R. J. McKeown (member for the riding) the Levels County Council decided'. at a speciai meeting en, Saturday, to'have its condition improved. * .""-'!' During the last sis month's the Kapler Laud Office has offered 37 holdings for selection—a total area 6-52 acres—irhile twelve holdings,, jrith a total area of 4346 acres, made freehold, and four small,.gracing runs, with an area of 14,636 thrown open for selection. Experiments made at the Government farm at 'Ruakura, Waigato, to determine the influence of manures on the feeding value of pastures., Jiave proved 'the superiority of basic; ; slag. The plots .have carried an average of eleven sheep per acre for the ,' 4 past

The annual conference of the Municipal Association will be opened inj.We!lington to-day. The agenda paper is a long one, containing remits relating to purely municipal; matters, and seventy-seven dealing i with the relations of municipal, and jother bodies and statutes affecting municipal affairs.

The Hawke's Bav Education Board finds the £3OOO allotted to it pearly for : the repair and 'insintenance of schools insufficient; for the purpose- A member stated that thi* borer is in many of the schools, and these .buildings will presently have to be replaced. The Board needed £BOOO for tbiß-pur-pose now, and they have only £SOOO in reserve. - .

* The Court of the Royal Humane Society sat at Christchurch last week and awarded a number of honours for life-saving. The gold medal awarded to Joseph. Pou, £.ged' 28j" for rescuing from drowning ten persons who could not swim, when capfeized from .a hoat at Otama, Thames.- yßut for Pou. all would have been, drowned.

The proposed erection of a memorial to the late Sir Arthur Guinness -was mentioned at -a meeting of the Greymouth Harbour Board when Mr,. VR- L-ettlo urged that active steps should be taken to further the project, and application be at once made to the Government for the promised grant. The Mayor said he intended to call a meeting of the Memorial Executive Committee at an early date, and added that the amount alreadycollected was nearly £IOO. A special meeting of the Levels County Council was held on Saturday for the purpose of drawing up a schedule of duties for the man who is to take charge of the Council's engine and road-making plant. Mr C. "N. Orbell presided, and there were-also present—Messrs- R. J. McKeown.•■ T. B. Garrick, -arid A. H- Abbott. The business was'gond into very thoroughly and it was decided to call applications for a man to take charge of ihe-plant. It was also decided that a trial of the -new plant should.be held on the TVai-:ti road "before nexi meetinE of the Council. ........

The Railway Officers* Institute sessions at Dtmedin were concluded lass week. A great" number of questions wore considered, and it- was decided:- — (1) That superannuation rights should be conserved for members disnrss'ed after thirty years-' sei-vice*. (2) that offiL>ers have no confidence in the present chairman of the Railway Appeal Board; (3) that thr management bo asked to apuoins staff and promotion Board to deal with staff questions; (4) that tho management be asked to review the nvatter of hours at, certain.statiohs where they were eoiisidtTed/fcxcessive; (5) that members of the professional branch of the service be placed on-tie same footing as the same branch on tho public service; (6) that the delegates pay an annual visit to each branch of the Institute.

Mr V.-. lsrale. representing the Swedish Iron and Steei Co.. is at present in Christchureh investigating the general prospects of the. country from tho point of view of establishing an iron and steel works in the Dominion. Sir Isi ale was recommended to. cbnie To this country by die High Commissioner at, Home, and bears letters to various members of the Cabinet, who will !>_-. able to give him full information as to the nossibility of the successful, establishment of works on ji largo scale in the coim'rv. 'Jf wo come here."' said 3lr lsrale to a reporter in Christchurch, '-it will mean the investment of from £80.030 to £100.000.. but as you will understand we will not venture upon the undertaking without- full inquirv into the. labour and general condition?. Tn our Swed : sli works, -we make steel with electrical crucibles, and a* 1 was told water power was avail - able in this country the same method will !>.? employed in all probability. Of course to establish the same system here we would have to brin;: out our own men." . . .

The best motor car in the world today is undoubtedly the Rolls Ro'yce. The chassis alone of this car costs £IOOO. Add to that your body, lighting, and the usual up-to-dato sniffs, and £ISOO is about, the price your car will cost you. This to the man of moderate means is of course a financial impossibility. But what ,is probably just as good an investment at tttc monev is the latest Darracq at £375. This car has all ihe latest improvements, and commands the respect of intending buyers. ... ..

'A few early lambs are to bo seen in the. Pleasant Point clistrirt. 'The mallard clucks on tlie Acclimatisation Society's reserve at Temuka have commenced to lav.

Lady Stout will speak at the Parish llall, Temuka, at 2.30 this afternoon, irbt this evening as stated in a news item- yesterday. • ■ A, Tress Association ' message from fK'dney last night staged that the weather there is bitterly cold, with hard i'ijosts and snow in the highlands.

ißcfc'rring at yesterday's meeting of the. South Canterbury.. Acclimatisation Society, to the way in which the riyers are'depleted by worm iishiug.it was said tlat in the Pareora river one day four boys caugh't 240 trout with the worm. A picture benefit at Olympia, Waiinate. furnished £6 (50 per cent.), to Mo', building fund of the. Bible " Glass rooms- Theso are now- nearing completion. " •

A Press Association message states tit at Mr Gordon' Harper has been selected as the Government candidate

• 'for the Riccartoh seat, in opposition to • ; ••atr-j.G. Witty. >l,u> /The Caroline Bay caretaker (Mr A.' ~,.F..,Gibson) reported to the Borough r Council yesterday,. that the border. '.along Ben venue? Cliff had been dug up '■■ and' was ready to be planted. Mr • Bone,, nurseryman, Gleniti, had kindly ;, .presented 150 shrubs, but to complete . .the, work satisfactorily 100 more trees :;.-oughts to be purchased.' ""' "

Wy keen interest is being taken in the children's ball to be held in .the Choral Hall.on Wednesday, 22nd inst., ~ from ,6 to 10. As many inquiries • .have been made regarding i'ancy dress • being- worn at this function, it, has been decided to ■ make fancy dress r quite, optional. . "Fancv . dances by ~',; Misses Fay Duncan,.ifiita".'Burn's, Irene ,/ Donaldson, the .McClatcby Bros., will , be, j added to the programme, and should' be quite .an attraction/ At the Magistrate's Court at-Geral-...dino.,'. yesterday several Territorials

:'v.erp".siim.moned before Mr Dav, : y.M.y ~, for'.failing to attend ~camp. * "H. c! ; >-L!lery, T. Loach, and G. . Davie were each fined 40s and costs. Ihreo other eases were dismissed on medical certi-

.. fiea'tes. Judgment by .default was given * in .three civil cases—-G. Wonier v. J. ;H.; Smith for £3 4s lid, costs 17s; sairio v. D. for £3 5s 7d, costs, 'Ss';"and Dr Paterson (Mr liiglift) v. W. Bennett (of Hastings) for £lo'ss Gel, •'-costs 7 20s. •■,"''"".

''',.A'.return of the'earnings of the. . buses' for the three months ended .June;: showed receipts, as,7follows:—-Sol-tit"' Street £l3B lis!" 6Jd, Wa'i-iti r ßoatl £223 Us 6d,' King Street £79 14s 3d, Waimataitai £6O 10s sd; advertising rights £3O, sundries £2 3s "i'Sjd-} total £5.51 14s' Bd. The ex'.■;'p?nses (including drivers' wages £ll2 14s 'Bd, conductors' wages £49 16s' Bd, 'petrol £lO7 7s l0d) : totalled £238 16s,' a credit balance-of £153 7s ' ! '4fl; ' 'There was' a accumulated credit of £l4O. '

'"'Men employed by the Public. Works ! • Efpartmcnt are busy making a road to■jvmls'the elbow of the* south' branch of ''tlio'Waiihap river, where it'strikes the ;h cliff 'SOO yards above •Mr R.ichards's This is in preparation for, on the main engineering wcrk in the Waihao Downs railway ■>'-'eftension, the cutting of a ledge on the '■' ''fs'cei of this high bank.- A prominent ' '.\faihaoruriga farmer expressed the opinictc!'(writes our Waimate correspond '/'dintV-'that the- <3dvernmeht' ought to ". aiquire- three or four more ' prop'ertie.: "■ o<t tht'i'e before going very far with tie extension of the' Waihao ( Dowps rsilway, and that there sire properties ui<% sale. .

: ; New Zealand may expect a. visit from ■'•' ex-preaident"; of tlie United 'States,-,in the notiar. distant future, declared .Sir Joseph Ward iipiaiv addresstat the- Celtic; Club in Wel- ' liigton. Sir Joseph .added that when ■•ldi was in America ha had spent a day " r with -Mr Roosevelt; who had struck Km as being a fearless, progressive , ,nan,,a visit from whom smuld do the ~ country a_ great deal of good. Both tie late King Edward and Mr Roose- ', ..Telt'i Sir Joseph, had shown ,'l\ tiat'they knew a great .deal about New - -itijiand. "They both knew," he said, most important racecourses I ,;^ ; e l si.t.uated hero." (Laughter). If tti'ere vei'e'aiiv restrictions on deer-shcotiug " when Mr Roosevelt visited this conn- '' "tti'j " Sir. Joseph suggested that they ' 'sabuld. be removed for "the tiimj being, ib&cauae the ex-president would want a ''much larger bag than the-most liberal '"regulations would allow.: ..';....; ''. !

.i .Jn our advertising columns the sub> L-.j<Bts. of. Mr Dan .Crawford's lectures ,r hnr-Timaru on Wednesday, July 22nd, ;aife. announced. In Trinity Hall, at -{flp.-mi, Mr Crawford ■ will speak of. -.the work done .by Mrs Crawford, the "White Angel " of Central Africa. ,r/H}is is-one of the greatest stories ever -.-told-of women. Professor De.ttman, '■< who presided at one of Mr Crawford's . lectures in Auckland, declared that lio .had come to the lecture with a keen '.expectation,' but his enjoyment, was '■•-'. tern-times greater than his expecta-tion.-.--It was an ■ intellectual• treat of >.:tlie highest order, and was- educational !amd 'illuminating to .a .thrilling decree nin regard to Africa. '- The Town Hall 'in Auckland was packed to hear the -; ItctureiT.. By Mr Crawford's express ..'desire no charge for-admission is-'to "be .Ttrade, but a collection will he taken to defray local expenses. He has so much to say tha,t\he will; n.«t 1.. Timaru show any- lantern slides. . J,i Olvmpia Hall at 8. p.m. Mr Crawford will deliver his lecture ." On the ~|Tnril .of; Livingstone ,atid Beyond." ,- ; ffchis jis one of his best.Uud.nd other •man-has such a message-to-give

iVi-Tho conversaziono in. connection with the parish of Otaio and BlueclifTs was held in the parish hall at St. . .Andrews, on Thursday - evening ■ last, £ resided over by the vicar,. -, the Rev. ... i..; Carsley Brady, and .was decidedly : one of the most successful gathering's • .of«tho kind ever held.' A capital pro- .'. gramme was gone through, and much Enjoyed,., by all , present, Among those who contributed musical items < mny be- mentioned Mrs ©arslov Brady, who played an introductory pianoforte .solo., and also all the accompaniments .during. the evening; Mrs Foxon, .Messrs- W. L. Howard, T. F. Hammond,, S. Cague, and the vicar. The • pieces wore all well chosen and popular, .-and • drew forth '■ loud ,Mr,, Howard furnished-a full and in- . teresting. report of the financial affairs of .the parish, which were in a sounder condition than ever, and at ,the conclusion of his statement was f'wen,,,-! hearty round of applauw. he Guild provided a bountiful supply of choice refreshments. Mf Howard informed the fneeting that a first-class concert would be given in the parish hall during full-moon next month. A hearty vote of thanks was given to the ladies for the refreshments and to the ■'contributors.' of musical items. ■ • '•

REGENT CIGARETTES v ill pl ( > ase ©very smoker. Smoke fiicm and share .ip the,. Great Free Gilt -'theim;. V'rite for Ereo Gift Catalogue to R.'fint- Box 831. Wellington. Sixty Froo'Gifts;. 50 No r matter how delicate the stomach, von can take Baxter's Egg Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, for it is a most paltitfiblo blending of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil with tho rfypophosphates of Limo ;ind Soda. Cihldren liko it so well;' t)i£y never miss a' dose. Jt is fnitimw for its euros. In reputed'riuart nottfe: Pi-ieo 2s 6d :i ehr!i at Baxter',; Phnnnaoy, Theatre Buildings, Tmiirn... "YOU NEVER, KNOW YOUR IjUGK" except when you see Martcll's Blue and Silver Label, then you're fcJURE of it. ...

Some good boxing exercises will be seen at J. Fitzsimmons's room tliis evening, according to tho advertised list of those who are to be present.

A meeting is convened at Pleasant Point t'or Saturday evening, to consider the celebration of the passing of the Home Rule Bill.

The Plunket Nurse wishes to thank all tlioso who so kindly left clothing at her office for the purpose of relieving distress. Attention is drawn to the hour ot Mr W. -Easton's lecture in the Oddfellows Hall to-night at 7.30, and not at 6.30 as previously stated.

A singing class is to be added to tho list of "classes at the Temuka Technical School, commencing to-morrow evening. Miss Wai-iti Fyfe is the instructress engaged, and as she is' conducting large classes elsewhere with success pupils may join the Temuka' class with full confidence. Mr 6. Cardston will meet the ladies' committee of the Timaru Bands' carniva 1 this afternoon, and the general committee in the Arcade Cafe this evening at 7.30, when Mr Cardston will submit his proposals., The Palmerston North carnival, which closed on Saturday evening realised over. £IOOO. About 86.000 votes were recorded in the Queen competition. Replying to a deputation of co-op-erative workers on the railway construction works throughout New Zealand the Hon. Mr Fraser stated that 'he had always seen the m'stake of the socalled co-operative system as it existed' at present. He agreed that men should ba free to make ur> their own gangs. As a matter of fact the small contract system he had introduced the real co-operative system. A price was fixed for a certain job and the men could' band together to take it up. At the same time the community would not stand employing men who did not give a fair day's work for a fair day r s pay. He was making careful inquiries into tho whole question. A man named James Don was brought before Mr J. McGregor, J.P., at Fairiio last Friday, and remanded •for a week on a charge of stealing a •cash box containing 4 „£20 from a bedroom of the Tekapo Hotel. It was stated that the window of the room was left open, and that boot marks inside and outside the' room corresponded with the prisoner's .boots: also that he had been hegg'ng for money at the hotel, yet seemed^to have plenty w*hen ho left;. and when arrested at Faiiiie ho. had a pocketful—about £8 —in small ■silyeiv such as a country hotelkeeper would have. A Picnic Hint.— ; When boiling water in a vessel -without a lid, so as: to keep the smoke out, place a piece of wire just across" the. top. This. catches the steam and keeps the smoke out of the water/and your tea will taste nice made in an open billy.

' For the tired feeling following on a hard day's work, there is nothing so refreshing '■ and invigorating as a few minutes' appjication of the Veedee. Its gentle soothing action, tones up the nerves and removes the fatigue from ■the system generally. Nervous persons who suffer from insomnia will find that the Veedee will speedily remedy that state of affairs, and that a few days treatment will enable them to sleep like the proverbial top. Anyone desiring to see and try the Veedee fox himself can do so any day by calling at the Veedee Institute, the Arcade, where the Veedee Specialists are-giving demonstrations and free trial treatments

Pure drugs and lionest service are essential in the dispensing of your doctor's prescriptions; you obtain both when you take : his prescriptions to Baxter's Pharmacy, where each and every prescription is dispensed by qualified . chemists. Baxter's Pharmacy, Theatre Buildings, Timaru. ..; Of great.'value in convalescence— Baxter's Quinine Port Wine. It is nourishing and strengthening; will brace you up quickly, restore the lost appetite, and digestion, and build up the entire system. Each dose does good. Price, 2s 6d per botile, at Baxter's Pharmacy, Theatre Buildings Timaru.... ° '

No wonder the housewife grows so enthusiastic over Camp Coffee. Boiling water, a bottle of "Camp," and she can have most delicious, invigorating coffee any time, anywhere, in half a minute. ...

You have no idea what big bargains people are getting at Hannah'k Shoe Store. They cannot resist buying, the prices are so low, the quality so high. See us for value. R Hannah and Co., Tiraaru.