LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10824, 18 July 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Scholars of the Elgin School hav< given 4s to the Scott Memorial Fund, Francis Sinclair Shearer, late oi Tinwald, but now of Bankside,wlieelJ wright, has been adjudged bankrupt oil the creditor's petition of William HenH Collins, of Ashburton, timber a.nq hardware merchant, trading as W. H. Collins and Co. Mr PurnelJ appearec for tho creditor. *'

The following vessels will ho withic range of the radio stations to-night Auckland —Ruahine, Moana, Maitai Wimmora,, Willochra, Kumeric, Ulima. roa, Ventura, Tofua, Victoria, Taint; and H.M.S. Pyramus. Wellington— Maunganui, Tofua. Victoria, Willochra, Tahiti, Moana, Ulimaroa and Ruahine, In connection with the jubilee of th* Otago Boys' High School. to be. _celei brated in Dunedin on August z* Mj F. H. Labatt, secretary of • tho 01c Boys' Association in Christ«hurch has- received advice that th< Railway Department has docid ed to issue. tickets at excursioi rates to ex-pupils attending the jubilei celebrations on presentation _ of then members 1 . tickets, and the {Jmon Sieau Ship Company hae also agreed to gran a concession on the same lines. - : ,* ■ a *

The question of aldr6rtis9men¥';'dis plays in Labour Day processions ha been occupying tlie attention _ of; seye Tal trades unionists for some time mst The. question will be definitely deoide< at the next meeting of" the Aucklan< Labour Day Celebration Committee There is a feeling that the occasioi should be essentially one upon whicl prominence is given to Labour and it interests, and that a purely advertit ing display which does not represen any aspect of industry may not appro priately be included in the procession. A plucky action on the part of o man unknown was 'witnessed at Peton railway station on Tuesday evening When the train leaving Wellington a 5.5 had just drawn up at Petone lady passenger in alighting apparent!; slipped and fell heavily on to the liri< striking her head severely against th couplings. A young man who witnesse the occurrence promptly jumped be tween the carriages and extricated th lady just as the train was about t move. She was conveyed to a waiting room, where it was found she was su] fering from severe shock.

It will surprise inany people to lear that thero are between 20,000 . am 30,000 deer in the district controlle by the Wellington Acclimatisation St clety. The animals have increase enormously during the past few yean and unless they are checked they, ar likely to become a great nuisance. M C. H. Bould, one of the Society' rangers, lias just returned from th Haurangi Forest' Reserve*, betwee Marti nborough a-nd the sea coast, an reports that, in accordance with ii structions from tho council, of tlia body, ho and some assistants have she about 200 inalfonns a-nd weedy hindf In his opinion, at least 2000 mor should bo killed.

There have been instances, it i stated, where employers have dii regarded orders from tho Magii trate's Court attaching the wages c employees under the Defence Act. '1 is stated that the Defence Act }vi be put. into operation shortly again: an employer of a lad who has bee fined. The action will be taken undc section 11, sub-section 12_ of the D< fence Amendment Act, 1912, whic is as follows:—"If and as often t the employer makes, default in the pai ment of a.ny money in satisfaction < any such charge that money shall bi come a debt due by him to tho Crowi and recoverable by action accordingl in any Court of competent jurisdn tion."'

The question how most profitably 1 cxjxmkl the money raised at the We lington Citizens' Carnival is now little noaror solution. Tho Citizen Association Cariivrnl Committee lie. a meeting recently, when many fichew were under review, and ifc was final resolved to confine further oonsideri tion to three schemes, namely: I*l Pirie Street Reserve; improvements i the Town Belt, Nairn Street; and tl construction of a road somewhere < tho harbour side of the hills surroun ing the citv. The committee. togotb with the City Engineer, the City Fore ter and the Superintendent of Cn He-serves, will make a general inspe tion with the object of determinu how tho money is to be finally all catecf.

The Marino Department has reeciv. a reply from the liglithouso-keepors Stephen Island with regard to Cn tain A. Fisk's complaint that win the Aorero was only seven miles c tho lighthouse on Sunday flying di tress signals no notice was taken 1 tho keepers. One of the lightkeepo who was on watch all Sunday stat that ho saw what looked lilco a smr steamer under sail, but he could di cern no signals. There wero tinmen at the signal station on Suuda one of whom was a member of the or? of tho steamer Hinemoa. and well e peri&ncod in nautical matters. '£ evidence tends to show that the Aoi'o was too far away, although there a powerful telescope at tho lighthons The lighikcopers mention throe or fo oilier vessels which, they signalled <

Sunday, proving that they were a teudii/g to their duties.

Tho weathor waa very unsettled generally this morning. 'threatening westerly conditions prevnilpcl, and lilin Was reported throughout "Wcstlaucl. Tho employees of Cullen's, Limited, liavo (riven £2 3s to tlio Coal and Blanket Fund. In a letter to tho Mayor forwarding tho sum, they express ahopo that employees of other linns m the city will flfo «oni»ibvi*cc3 to t..0 .umi. Tho Scottish Society hold iU monthly ceilidh last night, Chief Macintosh presiding. Three now members weio ©looted. A musical programme \yto carried out, those contributing being Misses Gil nwu r and Pa liner, Mrs t.i - piour, Messrs M'Leod, Materson and Malcolm. Pipe-Major Craig played.a Election on tho great Highland U' l " (nines. Miss Bessie Macdonnld was tl.o accompanist. Misses Soilness, ) unci Forbes and members ot tin juvenile class gave Highland dances. With regard to the Heathcote County Council's refusal to allow the niem>eis of tho St Martins Burgesses Assoeia•tion to celebrate Arbor Pay by plai iug trees and shrubs on }}bvto s o> tintl Wilson's Bond, Mr U Kc°", eouiitv cliffinnaii, stntel! Road is only a chain wide, andif tiees were planted on tho footpath tho Svouhl bo made too narrow, and uould Also he broken up. lf \'3d ho planted on the road they "ould, ho idded, prove a hindrance to traffic, and if accidents resulted bo o to opinion that tho Council } \oukl 'liable. The Council to do all it could to further the_ beautifying of tho district, and permission granted to plant trees on Y, lute s •Boad. where thoro was httle tiaffic. The olanting would bo commenced tomorrow. During tho hearing of an 0 nfc tho Magistrates Cout to-dry considerable tunc was spent n d covering what had happened at tlio Police Station when tho accused, a vouth, was before tho senior sergeantIt was stated that tho youth, who had been arrested-on the charge made a statement to the sergeant and named two witnesses who could corvoborato lus Rtorv. The two witnesses, the seigeant said, were examined in the presence of tho accused.' Mr Cassidy, addrossmg the Court, said that it was time that tho Court expressed its opinion about the cross-examination of accused people •at tlio Polico Station Senior-Ser-geant Matheson said that the accused had not been cross-examined, but that fhis statement as to the corroboration of two Witnesses was merely being 111- : quired into. Tho Magistrate, Mr 1. A. .13. Bailey, S.M., said that the crossexamination of prisoners by the police was certainly without justification, but in tho present instance he was satisfied that thero had been no cross-examina-tion.