LATE LOCALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11216, 23 October 1914, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

The telegraph office advise* tJiat registered code addresses may now be used for inland telegrams.

Mr H. B. Sorensen, Danish Consul "'in Christchnrch, wishes to know the whereabouts of two Bophus Ludvig Larseir and r; I*. Petersen, for whom ho has-documents. Messrs Simpson and AY illiaiu« havo viven £3 3s to the Firo BrigadeKeerea- ■ tion Fund in recognition of the bng*do's promptness and efficiency 111 subSuing a fire in the firm's shop on October 14.

At a sitting of the "Jjrrenilo Oourt this morning, before Mr 1. A. i». - Bailey, S.M., a juvenile was charged ■with stealing the Bum ot 1-1 6s from his brother'.' Another juyenilo was charged ■ with receiving 10s from the first ac- " cus'ed knowing it to have been stolen. 1 The evidence showed that the hrotheri iJopt in the same room, and the • accused abstracted the money trora lus brother's pocket- He bought a razor and toilet powder with the money, ot which £2 7s 6d had been reoovewl. , . The Magistrate discharged hoi.li accused, as ho did not wish to piejudicc their chances of getting wor*;

An immense amount of damage was done by frost to crops of potatoes, ' ' beams, cucumbers, marrows, melons, tomatoes, etc., in tho Otaki district on Sunday night. A peculiar tiling about tho frost (says the " Otaki Mad ) was that its elfects were most varied even '.in the same garden. In some rows •'certain plants escaped with only a little s blackening, while others were complete- > ,ly killed. This is thought to due to = • tlie presence a little breeze. The . potatoes will recover, but will, or course, be retarded in growth, but *■ beans, cucumbers, etc., will probably bo completely wiped out. The frost' will doubtless have caused thousands of pounds' loss to the- market gardeners in Otaki. Frost lias also done considerable clamage to potato and tomato crops in. the Masterton district this '• week. •'The Prime Minister came back here > from the elections in a minority," declared Sir Joseph Waid in the House on Wednesday night. -Mr Massey: "Nol" Sir -Joseph Ward: Does the Primß Minister say that he did not come back in a minority. Why, lie : U ask us to believe that the heavens

don't exist next." A Government mem- ' ber" Then how did ire get here.* Mr J. Vigor Brown (Napier): Toasted ' ' cheese. 1 ': (Laughter). ' Sir Joseph Ward: •'An overwhelming majority of the people declared themselves in tlie Liberal party at last election. Mr Nosworthy: "Then -why .are you over there ?" Sir Joseph Ward: " Because ; J would not have stooped to the methods which yon adopted. I would rather not j\, .hold: : office in the way von gentlemen Jo'ver there secured it.' (Opposition apsK/plause.) -• .'"-'•'One of my friends wrii-es to call upon me to .forbid the soldiers of the : Salvation.Army to take up arms in th is war," writes General' Booth in his latest English. "War. Cry."His ' ground for making'that' request is,that j rho purpose of all war is to hill, , and \hat, therefore, all war is murder. I cannot accept thai, statement. 1 fuifj nothing in the Bible'to'support it. Tho : Old Testament, in which wc read the great command, 'Thou slwlt nob kill, contains many evidences J,hat in days gorio by God both used and approved ' s - rigijteous wars. .. . Some ot the nearest k followers of Jesus Christ aud the -.. Apostles were evidently soldiers serving in the national armies of that time, nnd nothing is to prohibit their doing so. I could not, therefore, pro- "' f 1 claim that all war is murder—it - would not bo true." Tho General adds that i : he has com© to the very definite conelusion that he could not permit any officer of the Salvation Army, who is not already required by law to do so, . . to become a combatant. ■There was an exposition of the ob- ' vious in tho House on "Wednesday night —• plain proof that the Government- does ■ ■ not like to be reminded that , the Conservative majority in .. the . Legislative Council has killed a Liberal■ measure, ; * ways the "New Zealand Times.'' Mr Payne was speaking on the Legislative Council Bill, and maintained that its *. principle was bad because It allowed a Tory majority to dominate, the Upper House for some years. ." Only the other day," he said, " they threw out Mr "Wuford's Factories ; 'Amendment: Bill, designed to benefit poor, hfird-working women slaving ; away in the woollen •" mills." The Prime Minister: "That's out of order." The Chairman (Mr Malcolm): VThat is not-in order." Mr Payne: "All right, sir, I've said all J want, and'l'm ashamed of them .that's all." Mr Malcolm : " Tbc honourable jceptleman must withdraw that statement- J ' Mr Payne: "All right sir; I withdraw it, although I may think it." Mr Malcolm: "J don't want to deal severely with the honourable gentleman, but he must not comment on tho Chairman's ruling." Mr Payne: "Yes, sir. I don't want to make yoxtr .position difficult, sir." (Suppressed laughter./ ■tit seems thai, besides being an rd- • venturous navigator, the ccnimander. of the German cruiser Emden is somewhat of a practical joker./ According to ?;d- ---'. vice nceived 111 Fremantlo last week from Colombo, a British vessel recently had a most unusual experience She was on her way to Colombo from Calcutta, and when she got to the Sandheads indicated that she wanted a pilot by showing a blue. lightsand furiously sounding the horn. Presently a soarcidight was thrown across the vessel, and tho captain promptly shifted his course towards the light. Much to his consternation tho 1 vessel using the searchlight began to move in a circle round his ship. Making free use of nautical terms, he asked, those using the searchlight what they were playing at. Their ship, however, continued to circle round, the circle getting bigger and bigger every time, with the merchantman still in hot pursuit. Then' tho mysterious vessel put out the searchlight and disappeared. The skipper found he had been pursuing the Emden! The captain of that cruiser told his little joke to one of the fkipj>ers of the five vessels lie had captured tho day before. Letters from England at present ore ' full of thrilling, and «t times, ghastly details. One man, a doctor in an English 'hospital, writes of tho wounded Belgian refugees brought in. Out* •little girl of sis years had both her hands cut off. From this particular hospital went three nurses to the front, and one of them has been horribly, illtreated and disfigured by the enemy, in a London hotel, where another correspondent was staying, thore were several Germany who wore closely watched by the police. One evening, while they were playing billiards, a, paper was picked up under the table, winch. was the carefully-drawn plans of the water supply of London, and on further search two phials of microbes, enough to kill thousands of people, were discovered in tho effects of the men. Afterwards the London , water was tested every five minutes, m caSo tho plot had succeeded, bat, apparently, it had been found out in ' time. A lady who was once a, resident here, and now lives in London, was at tho Belgian Relief Depot, inquiring shout some friends. It was tho sad- .. dost, sight, Beside her, someone was. asking tor news of relations, and got the answer: "AM dead, except the baby," The Belgians arrive daily in hundreds, and are put into halls Abide for thorn. French is almopt as much heard in some parts of London ■ now as English. She had many interesting conversations with the wounded .at.Srb Thomas's Hospital. Nearly ail I the men had been through Mans, which ~ was a veritable hell—so terrible that it was a wonder anyone got. through alive.. Most were suffering from collapse from physical strain or accidents, and all were eager to got back to fight. Those who had been through the Boer ff ar said it was. child's play compared .with this, but that it. was.pleasanter—- - llie term seems pathetically absurd piling in a friendly country than,m .1 .hostile' one- as tjuv 'I ,*