LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9919, 6 August 1910, Page 7

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

1 His Honor Mr Justice Sim left for ITimaru to-day to hold a sitting of the Court there. He will sit .fit Oamaru on Tuesday, and for the jresi of the week at Dnnedin. ' A sitting of the Supreme Court to : ideal with bankruptcy business, will be held in Christchurch by his Honor Mr iTustice Sim on August 30. riot August (20, as previously announced.

; There was very heavy rain in Auckland last night. The rainfall for the five days up to 9.30 a.m. to-day was |2-67in. Many low-lying parts of the town and suburbs are inundated. Only light, rain* was falling at noon. The [Wellington-Auckland lacrosse match -irill be played,' but nearly all other sports have been postponed.

1 The field trial for spaniels to be held *>n Monday at Bottle Lake reserve,promises to provide an interesting day's eport. It is reported that rabbits are very plentiful on the reserve, and the fifteen dogs entered phould. supply keen competition. Con(Vepr&es will leave the secretary's ✓efhoe at 9.15 a.m. on Monday. j The Auckland Local Bodies' Association is forwarding to the Prime Minister and * the Auckland members a jßtrong protest against the, reduc/tion of the subsidies to local Ibodies,' and asking the Government to give further powers to Road Boards in wnnection with the formation of new ,roads and directing the course of roads about to he dedicated. *

i Arrangements for the Dog Show to \be held during Grand National Week lare well in hand. A contract has been J let, for the complete lighting of the ( show, and the carpenters are now busy I erecting the benches for the dogs. The 'secretary has secured from Dimedin (the whole of the fancy wire divisions 4hat were used there so effectively in eonInection. with the Dtmedin Kennel Club's rrecent show. Record entries have been jreoeived in both the bulldog and the j cocker, spaniel classes. \ A; meeting of the Christchurch South (Branch of the New Zealand Labour iParty was held in the Sydenham last evening. There was a rood attendance, and the president, Sir H. Hunter, was in tW chair. It was 'resolved to hold the next meeting in the Trades Hall on August 26, when |Miss R. 0. F. Mitchell would deliver tn-n address on " State Banking." Mr Campbell., the party's organiser, delivered an address on the platform { adopted by the Trades and ; Labour ConferenceLord Islington in officiating at the reopening of the bazaar in aid of the Wellington Mission to Seamen on Thursday, claimed that he addressed himself to the movement on behalf of seamen with a peculiar hereditary solicitude. Though he could not claim to be a sailor himself, both his father and three generations before him spent the greater part of their lives on . the sea, in the British.Navy, and he was proud to say all in turn attained the rank of admiral. "So perhaps," said His Excellency, "seamen may feel that* beyond the fact that 1 am Governor of New Zealand, there is a certain personal appropriateness in my being associated with the movement. Let me add that there is no group of the Empire's servants more honourably identified with the Empire's history than those who go down to the sea in ships."

A rare chance of procuring the latest and best heating apparatus. Just landed, a Coventry Heating Stove, j complete, with 30ft of 4in cast-iron (piping, rings and joints, water reservoir, chimney, et-c. A youth can fix it. Call and see at W. Congreve and ■ Sons. Ltd., Colombo Street, City. : Price £ll 10a. XliW

Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., at the Juvenile Court this morning, convicted a boy aged ten years of Felling .news- . papers while under the minimum ago. Ho cautioned tho boy and discharged , hi in. Tho Prison Reform Association at ■ Duiiedin, while warmly endorsing the main features of the Indecent Pnblica- ; tions Bill, has recommended that Magistrates should bo empowered' to pre- , rent the publication of evidence when : publication would be prejudicial to nublic morals. Speaking at the Philosophical Society's meeting in-.Wellington on \Ye-d- , nesdav night," Mr M. L. James said that tho claims of the German language should be taken more into consideration. It was as necessary as Latin 1 used to l)o in former times. He referred, ho said, to a reading knowledge of German. The utter neglect of Oriental and Oceanic languages in the New Zealand University was shocking, and ; those languages never could be fcho-,: roughly dealt with under the present decentralised system on account of the cost which would be involved. Surely this country before all others should give prominence and pay special atten- ; lion to Oceanic languages and history, , and--absolutely nothing had been done for the study of Oriental languages. In the matter of morals, he said, tho Hebrews were their teachers, and "Hebrew " should therefore be a subject of study in our universities. There should be travelling scholarships, and any great work done, in that direction should be marked by distinctive recognition. The sad story of how Now Zealand lost two farmers, two prospective husbands, and two millionaires ail in one stroke was told in the Rouse of Representatives on Thursday by Mr A. E. Glover. His remarks arose, he said, out of the unsatisfactory state of tho Vancouver mail service, in that there was a lack of connection between Suva and New Zealand. Two young American millionaires who were coming over to New Zealand to take up land took the Vancouver boat, and 1 landed at Suva, intending, to take the first vessel to Auckland. . They evidently found life at Suva, slow, and determined to go to Sydney, and proceed from that port to New Zealand. They got to Sydkey, and as surely as they did tho chances of New - Zealand getting two . millionaire settlers were shattered, for tho Sydney people treated these millionaire squatters royally, showed them ranches that appealed to them, and now the two Americans are farming somewhere near the Blue Mountains. "We have lost these two young men," said Mr Glover pathetically. " They might have married two of our daughters. These are the men we should cater for." Not one-half the sickness occurs in the I'r.rramatta gaol, near Sydney, since the introduction of a new system of dealing with the .sick, or those who say they ai'e sick. So says Mr I. Salek who has just returned from Australia, where he became greatly interested _in the prison .system of Now South Wales. The gaoler informed him that shamming to be sick' was indulged in to such an extent that the sick ward was often full of patients, who had a real good time. Now they treat the sick in their own cells. They are carefully looked after, th(.yi'o are electric light and electric bells in each cell, and the medical attendance is all that could he desired; but there is not a third of the sickness that used to be when all the patients were accommodated in one open ward, and had the 'f sweet companionship" of their, fellows to distract them whilst malingering. " While going through the Parrainatta, gaol," said Mr Salek, " I was taken into the kitchen, and there saw the rations being carefully weighed out for each prisoner. I noticed one man standing by and apparently doing nothing, and' I asked who lie was. It was explained to me that, each section of prisoners was allowed to appoint a man to watch the weighing out of the rations, so that no man could he treated unfairly. I was rather surprised, but none the less pleased, to see that , 'he authorities allowed such a concession, perfectly proper as it no doubt was." Visitors to Christchurch during National Week and the public generally will be given an opportunity of witnessing the finest exhibition of prize meat ever displayed in the city. It consists , of First, and Special Prize Beef from W. B. Clarkson, John Ferguson, Mr Birdling and W. C'. Rutherford, of Mount • R-ose; sheep—F. Bull's First and Special prize Shropshire Down, which sold at a record price for New Zealand, also W. G. Rutherford's, which ■ took Champion Prize for best sheep' in show, and John Withell's First Prize Ryland Sheep. First Spring Lambs of the Season. James Knight, High Street. 7832 BUILDING SOCIETY LOAN v. GOVERNMENT LOAN. Information as to the advantage of a : loan from a. Building Society over a loan from the Government is sometimes asked for by persons who contemplate joining the Central Building :■ Society of Canterbury (Permanent), : the new Building Society just started! The position is simply this: Under the Government, workers can secure a loan for a period of 36£ years, and in 36$ years they pay over £IOO interest on every £IOO borrowed. In the Central Building Society a person who secures an appropriation is advanced £3OO absolutely/ free of interest, and the person who has to buy an appropriation pays about ;G2O interest on every £IOO borrowed. Thus, on a loan of £3OO, from the Government the borrower pays over £3OO in interest during tho term of the loan, as against', under the Building Society, absolutely no interest (where an appropriation is seoured) and about £6O where the £3OO is secured by , tender. It must not be forgotten, too, that where interest is paid on a loa!S> under tho Building Society, the interest goes into tho funds of tho Society, and the particular member paying tho same therefore receives back a certain amount of the interest -when dividends' are declared. Under the Central Building Society it takes about lis years to pay off a '£3oo loan, as against 36J years under the Government. We might mention that during the past month quite a number of people evidently recognising the advantage of a Building Society loan over a Government loan, have come into the office of the Central Building Society and booked shares rather than wait for the representative to call 011 them. The directors are particularly anxious to encourage the public to come direct to the office to subscribe • for shares, because this means a saving in the way of representatives' Balary. All who intend to take up shares and have not already applied, should put in their application at once, so as to be able to participate in the October ballot. The secretary of the Society, on receipt of a post-card from any intending subscriber, addressed " The Secretary, Central Building Society, 102, Hereford Street," will be pleased to forward a copy of the rules and full information. 1599