GENERAL NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 13 June 1924, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

The Winter Show which was held by the Canterbury A. and P. Association last mouth, resulted in a loss ol about £6OO.

Air T D. Burnett, M-P-, for Tern uku , savs that if the Tekapo powci scheme is adopted,, woollen nulls will bo established immediately at

The Waimato District Hunt ot, Wednesday, recorded a vote ot condolence with the relatives of the late Mr J. S. Rutherford, who was a keen supporter of hunting.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning bcioro Air E. D. Mo.Je\, S.AI. George Martin was fined 10 s and costs for riding a bicycle Stafford Street without a light.

Tack Tars who visit the port ol Tinian! will shortly be very veil provided for, as Hie new Sailors Host, which is being creeled at the waleifront. is now nearing eompleliou. .ho building is being constructed of brieit, and is "of an artistic design.

The heaviest pumpkin at flic Rotorua winter show, grown by Air J. N. McLean, weighed 1271 b. ; with pumpkin at about id per lb, this works out at 10s 7d worth. The heaviest three swedes, grown by Air J. Giant, ot Kopuriki,’ turned the scales aL 801 b.

At a meeting o£ the Christchurch Presbytery on Wednesday, the clerk was instructed to write to tim 'i i maru Presbytery drawing tlmi' atuvii lion to the opinions o£ the Judic.al Committee regarding the matter m ministers receiving calls through a Presbytery.

\t 1 lie annua] meeting of tlio New Zealand Clvdewlale Howe Society. -Vr J. A. Johnstone referring to too tact that the supply ol working draughts was below ren ni renien ts, there hav.na. been a shrinkage since 1911 ot more than 20 per edit . . Ho regret ted :.Lo that lately the weight and duality oi Clvdesdalo hor-.es had (leteriorati.nl. New Zealand was the finest wn.nl ry m the world lor ihe breeding ol weight.',, active ('lvded.de-. and an unlimited ’markei was wailing exploitation in Australia.

Mr F. Lawton, chief officer of the s.s. Holmdale., met with a painful accident yesterday afternoon, and had. to come ashore in order to receive medical attention. While working on the vessel, he ran a chisel deeply into one. ol his hands, severing an artery an/J losing a great deal of blood.

The “Herald” agent, Waimate, reported that all copies of the Jubilee number were sold by Wednesday evening. Quite a number of people were surprised at the size of the issue, and several were heard to exclaim, when purchasing a copy, that they required only one paper.

The population of the Dominion at March 31, was 1,293,934, an increase of 4731 during the quarter. Including Maoris, the population is 1,34/,/04. The births during the quarter totalled 70S1, compared with 6b23 during the first quarter of 1923. The deaths totalled 2385 compared with 23/1.

The moulders’ dispute on a Dominion basis, came before the Conciliation Council at Wellington yesterday.. As was the case in the engineers dispute, the secretary of the liunployeis Association stood firm for a 4/-hour Negotiations were broken olt and the whole dispute was referred to the Arbitration Court.—(Press Association.)

In conversation with a local fisherman yesterday a “Herald” reporter was informed that since the recent stormy weather the catches had been very pool*. Verv few ‘ l iluts y h.9.d been taken, while with the line small hauls of groper, cod, and Gournard had been securetl. He expressed the hope mat the present fine weather would continue, is stormy weather did not conduce to successful fishing.

To-day and to-night a speoial street collection will be made with tlio object of augmenting the Mayor’s Coal and Blanket Fund. An energetic committee of ladies will collect during the day, and in the evening the Pipe Band will parade the streets and make a furtliei appeal for funds. The cause is such a deserving one and the calls, on th» fund are so numerous, that it is hoped a goodly sum will be realised.

A sub committee appointed by the University Senate decided to nominate the following for the award of two scholarships by the Imperial College ol Science and Technology, London, and the New Zealand GovernmentH. L. Richardson, M.Sc., Victoria University College, and H. O. Askew, M.Ss., Canterbury College. The nominations have been forwarded by cable, and a reply is expected within a few days.

One of the chief factors in the low average of production for the dairy cows of New Zealand, stated Mr AII. Cockayne during a lecture at the Central Development Farm, was the fact that owing to the poor condition in which they came through the winter they were not in full production until November or Docomber. The provision of adequate winter feed should be the first consideration of the farmer.

At the Supreme Court at Christchurch yesterday morning, the hearing began of a claim by It. K. McCandless larlane for £4OOO, from Norman Rutherford, damage allegedly caused to the property and stock by grass fires lit by defendant’s servants in January. Ail the parties are North Canterbury sheep farmers.

At Auckland yesterday, Mrs Anne Hill was fined £lO on a charge of assaulting a Samoan boy by beating him with the end of a tyre with wires in it. Defendant admitted that she gave the boy a good thrashing, and would do it again. The Magistrate said such treatment could not be allowed in New Zealand, though it might have been the custom in Samoa under the Germans.

The St. Patrick’s Miniature Rifle Club started its weekly competitions with a match at 25 yards for the president’s trophy. The following members tied :—F. Bart os,' C. Clarke:,, ft. .Fountaine, and Rev. Father O’Ferrall. The highest scores off the rifle were—F. Bartos 70, Rev Father O’Fcrrall 69, J. Murphy 68, C. Clarke 68, E. Fountaine 67, C. Knight 67-.

Mr G. J. Sealey is endeavouring to arrange for a meeting of those residents of South Canterbury who came to Timaru in the ship Peeress in 1871, the object in view being the holding of a reunion of those early immigrants. When the Peeress arrived off Timaru fifty years ago the sea was too rough for her passengers to land, and after remaining at anchor for two days to see if the sea would abate, she went on to Lyttelton, and landed, her Timaru passengers there.

People who happened to be in the Arcade shortly after one o’clock yesterday afternoon, were left agasp by a young man on a bicycle,, who swerved in from Sophia Street and rode at top speed through the Arcade, narrowly missing a collision with several persons. It was apparent that this young man had not made a study of the municipal bylaws, or If so, showed a cool disregard for them.

Considerable interest was evidenced in the work of a gang of men employed in tearing up the planks on No! 1 wharf yesterday. A steam crane was utilised 'for tho purpose, an iron hook being placed under the plank it was desired to shift, then, when the signal was given, the steel hawser swung up, tearing the baton with it. It is intended to take up a large section of the wharf and relay it with fresh planking, as in certain parts the wood is badly rotted.

The fortnightly meeting of Star of Canterbury Lodge, was held in tho A.O.F. Hall, George Street, on Wednesday night, Bro. H. M. Evans, N.G., presiding over a fair attendance of members. First nominations for the various offices wore received. The report of the sick visiting committee was very favourable, only one member remaining on the sick list. Sick pay and accounts, amounting to £l9, were passed for payment, and the Lodge closed at 9 p.m.

It would appear that magpies are not always the cause of the interruptions on the Coleridge line. On Tuesday last an interruption was caused in a new way. A tree was being cut down just beyond Hororata, and in falling, it snapped a telephone wire. The wire flow ha Hi, anu tor a fraction of a second touched one ot the power transmission lines. This cans ed a short circuit, and for a tew seconds th e transmission line was out of r.ci'on. The interruption in Chritchurcii lasted foi sevetal minutes.

y |AniM’r who was in Timaru yostorI, *. ;iu nt imicd. in conversation with a "Yloriild" nportcr, that he had just completed -owing an extensive area ot bis la mi in w Itout, and?lie had never kno'vn wheat- to “go in’’ better. There had been licit her too much nor too lit lie rain, and tho ground was in perfect. order. Another farmer, from an entirely different part of tho di.strier, gave the same testimony. Nature Las a wonderful way of adjusting things, as if to compensate for the protracted drought of last .summer and winter, so far as it has gone, has been unusually mild. Though it is now midwinter the grass is still growing, vul the countryside is looking better a! the present time than it did all summer. There are indications of early spring, as even the birds proclaim, by their early morning songs, and all the doleful predictions of a long and hard winter promise lo bo falsified.

“The Land of Potholes” was the apt description (says the “Grey Star”) of the Westland road system between the Kanieri township and Lake Kanieri. It is sometimes said that there is only one blackberry bush on the West Coast, but it extends from tno end of the district to the other. If that bo true, it must be equally correct that there is only one big pothole mi the road to Kanieri. Motor lorries carrying timber are blamed for most of the damage to the road. If Lake Kanieri is to retain its popularity as oiie of the most beautiful scenic resorts of the Coast, urgent measures must be taken to _induce motorists to make the trip. At present a speed oi more than about five miles per hom is inviting broken springs.

The half-yearly meeting of the Juvenile Branch of the Loyal Timaru Lodge of Oddfellows was held last Wednesday evening. Bro. P. Beal presided over a good attendance, and the district officers paid an official visit. One candidate was elected and duly initiated. The sick report showed considerable improvement, only one member remaining on the funds. The election for officers was keenly contested with the following results:—President, Bro. Maynard Mackay; vice-president, Bro. Percy Kemp; P. President, Bro. P. Beal; R.S.P., Bro. Jas. Martin; warden, Bro. L. Cullimore; inner guard, Bro. Ernest Lane; outer guard, Bro. R. Gilson. The newly-elected officers were installed by Prov. Dep. G.M. Bro. T. E. Webb, assisted by Prov. C. S. Bro. Oborn. The lodge was aftenvards addressed by the district officers upon the duties of Oddfellowsbip, regularity and punctuality being specially stressed as necessary qualifications.