LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8104, 1 September 1904, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie autobiography of Richard Burgessy, now appearing serially iiu.the Saturday issu€a of the "Star," has: reached- the ; cwnmencement of the highwayman's career V in New Zealand, and the instalment that • will appear on Saturday next will contain the first of the New Zealand chapters. The dairy produce eaconaog* -rroject a* Hawera has been cordially received. ■ Tea buying houses (have signified tteir intention of 'being praapnt at tha opening «rf 'the exchange, on September 8. , At the Chrisfcchurob Magnetic Observatory, the ■' readings at 9.30 ai.m. to-day . were :— Barometer 30.094 and falling, maxi« mum temperature daring 1 preceding twentyfour hours 53,0, minimum during the wane period 40.9; temperature at 9.30 a.m., dry bulb 46.0, wet bulb 45.0, humidity per cent! 93, minimum thermometer on the grass 38.0. Cloud (0.10) 10. The wind wa» . south-west and the rainfall 0.005. The committee of the New Brighton Beautifying Association met in Hawker's Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr Checfclef -■'- in the chair. Reports from the various ; sub-committees appointed to attend to the;, tree-planting in George Street and- the lupin-, planting on the Esplanade were received 1 and adopted-. The secretary stated that the enclosures on the beach were now fin isb«dV and- ■ that some trees and plants had ****■ placed ■ therein, and planting would be continued. ' Several accounts w«re passed for payment. The Tourist Office was open on twerityseven days last month, and was visited byone hundred and forty-five personq, the daily average being, therefore, rather mow than five callers. Last month's record^ is slightly better than that for July, when 134 visitors were supplied) With information. A record waa. established on Grand National day, only one seeker after know- 1 ledgd calling at tie office, in spite of'ih* fact that the officer in charge had beea compelled to forego hi» holiday for ths public benefit. At the meeting of the Nev. Brjghtcai Beautifying Association on Wednesday night; the question of dealing with the djrifb Sand ■was discussed, and a general opinion was expressed that a vast amount of good might , be done if the Association had! funds to deal . with, the" matter. One speaker /suggested that the Premier might be induced to grant a loan to the Borough Council dor ; planting treea, lupin and marram grass, along the foreshore, thus reclaiming a great many acres of land which' at the present time is practically worthless. At a meeting of the Auckland division of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association the following: resolutions were carried!: — "That this division consi~ d«rs thait the Auckland' Hospital Board has acted unfairly to Dr Neil in suspending him without notice, and 'bringing him to a meeting of inquiry without informing him. as to the nature of the charges to ba brought against him; also, that in the opinion of this division it is desirable thai a Royal Commission be appointed to inquire into the management of the Auckland Hospital." ■ The Japanese are nothing if not loyal. To enable them to contribute to the war fund, many are actually denying themselves food. The following extract from the Tokio '"Socialist," of a recent date, yia quaintly illustrative of the- "internal economy" that is being practised:-— "Many • people here are «o muoh afraid of the effect of the war that some of them are saving, for the war fund by abstaining from breakfast. There are ninety pupils in a certain, class in one of the primary schools afcNagoya. The other day the teacher requested -. those who had come . to school without breakfast to hold up their hands. To the ■< teacher's amazement, no fewer than fortyout ot the ninety children made the dsclaratioh." V / State varnish works is the latest proposal. A Great Barrier gumdigger, in a letter read at a meeting of the Auckland Trades and Labour Council, last week, al- , leged that the price paid for kauri gunVto the diggers had gone down by £20 per ton during the last twelve months. •.■ Ha attributed the drop to the operations of a> trade combine in Auckland, and urged that as a remedy the Government should be urged to establish State varnish works, -which would ensure the diggers a fair price and establish a new labour-employing iadustry, A member of the Council advocate an export tax on unsorted gum, and stated that umorfed gu» nc * w shovelled into boxes and exported, in large quantities, to givje; employr ment to sorters in America and other foreign ♦countries.- Several speakers confirmed toe statement as to the full in tha price paid to diggers, and one stated that for ibe last five years sufficient unsorted. . gum had been exported to give constant employment to forty extra sorters. Th€ president of the Council said it- was ur« gently necessary that - the , Government should take in hand the gum industry,, which was a very important Auckland mo* nopoly. A motion -urging fEe Government, to put an export tax on unsorted gum was carried unanimously. ; The best modicine known is SANDER and SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Test it 4 eminent powerful effects incougbi, colds, influenza; the relief is iiisUnUn*ous. In aeriou6 cases, and accident! «< «ll kinds, be they wounds, bnrnji, scalds^ bruises* sprains, it is the eaf««t remedy— ; no swelling—no inflammation. Like sur- ~ v prising effects jirodiioed in croiip, dipV ;^ theria, bronchitis, inflainujation of longs, jwellingj etc., diarrhcea,. dysentery, «»• eases of the kidneys and urinary organ*. SANDER and SON'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT is in use at hospitals and medtaQ olinicf all over the "globe; patronised % his Majesty the King of Italy ; . crowns! with medals and diplomai itlnt«rnati«Bil Exhibition, AnMterdam. 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The net Customs duties collected at Auckland during August amounted to £76,989. This is considered a record for one month for the colony. An alleged wit was heard to say in town this morning that the Premier's Licensing Bill vcb a formidable monster, for it had as many as " claws 9 " on its poll alone. The Land Board will sit in Timaru tomorrow to examine applicants for two sections of land, one at Rosewill and the other at Eccleston- There are seventy-one applicants. " Influenza in Horses " is the subject of an address that will be delivered by Mr J. W. Colebatch in the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral rooms on Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock. A quantity of material for the Christ- - church electric tramways is on board the s.s. Buceros, which is expected to arrive from New York, via Auckland and Wellington, on Saturday. , V "Do you ever back horses?" a bookmaker's clerk was "asked at the Magistrate's Court this morning. "Very rarely — very, very rarely," was the -reply, given with the air of a man old in wisdom. j The .Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association's horse parade will be held on September 21. Two prizes are offered by the Association, £20 for the best draught Stallion foaled prior to June 30, 1901,. and £10 for the best draught stallion ' foaled since that. date. 'Entries -for the parade will close on September 17, at 1 p.m. /.. ■ A meeting of representatives of the nonconformist churches of Wellington! and' suburbs has resulted in the formation; of a council of churches oni tibe lines of the Dunedin Council, The Rev Dr Gibb was the organiser of the' movement, which emanated from the Ministers' Association. A ', public meeting for the election of officers -ht to bei held at the end of the present month. . ' . .' . . "I don't wish to cast any aspersions on any solicitor here," remarked 'Mr Haselden, adjudicating in a judgment summons case at ■ the^Magistrate's Court thia morning. "I know that they are often deceived by the representations of clients ; r - but for the future I jam not going to accept a statement that an application for adjournment. is made with, the - concurrence of the debtor." The disabled barque Boieldieu was taken out of tho Lyttelton dock at 8 a.m. today, and, with the aid of the Harbour > Board's tug and Messrs Agar and Thomas's steamers Purau and Canterbury, was conveyed to her former berth at the Gladstone Pier.- Mr George Humphries, consular agent for France, paid an official visit to the f vessel thia afternoon, i Messrs Anderson (Limited) are the successful tenderers for the new rudder for the vessel. A tiresome, quantity of evidence was given in a civil case at the Magistrate's Court this morning before the Magistrate nor any' other peraon present, except counsel for the plaintiffs, could guess the ultimate purpose of the proceedings. At length, after several vain appeals for a lucM leading, Mr Haselden remarked^ with a twinkle in his eye, that the plaintiffs did not know anything about the caie, and that the defendants did not seem to card The rush to book seats »fc Auckland to see Paderewski was a wild scene. Before , 8 a.m. a crowd had assembled outside, the booking office, and when the doors Were opened at nine o'clock people poured into the shop, breaking down barricades that Tiad been erected to stem the tide. At one time the doors of the premiseo had to be closed until those within had been attended, to. Up to 12.45 on the opening day, fire hundred Half -guinea and one hundred guinea seats were booked. Mr. H. W. Lucy writes to the " Sydney Morning Herald ":—" Sir Edwardi Clarke some years ago declined the proffered At-torney-Generalship, on .th© plea that it ■was not worth the while of a barrister in large practice lo accept it on condition, newly enforce<J, that he should not accept briefs from the public. The salary of the Attorney-General is £7000, the SolicitorGeneral being paid £1000 a year lees. That ■:■ wouW, certainly fall short of the average . earnings of a man holding Sir Edward ';.• Clarke's place at the Bar. Gradually, however, things have righted themi selves. -There has grown and V,. extended -jthe 1 practice of extracting ( feU^fer; tftiher than routine work coni; mohto the; Law Office. A return justihade to the House of Commons of payments ; made to Sir Robert Finlay, AttorneyGeneral, and' Sir Edward Carson, Solicitorx General, e)i|& that their fees ; : exceetF'tb.eir official salaries. During the; last financial year the Attomey-G«nera : l drew in fees the quaintly jjrecise sximpV V £12,9?4 7* 9d. The Solicitor-General fobbed 9d ters than £7069. The total income ; ;; of the head of the English Bar thus -work- .:• ed out to £19,921 7s 9d,, his colleague poc- :; Jketing £13,058 19s 3d. These incomes compare with the. £5000 a year, the raaxiV mum salary of a Cabinet Minister, and ■/-.'■• more closely with the £10,000 a year ' .' drawn by Lord Halsbury in his dual capacity of Lord Cliancellor and Speaker of the ,- > House of Lords."