LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A proht. of £53?& has been mad® b; the HawkeV fJa-y Farmers' Meat Company iu its first .year's working. The amount.' which is equivalent to 12 per cent on tho paid-up capital, is i.> fi carried forward. It has been decided by the council of tho \ew Zealand Locomotive Engine<lriv<; Firemen and Cleaners' Associa* t.'on to scud a strong protest to thd Pn»:e against the Governmf .it '• .inactivity in not bettering the wrge> and l conditions of locomotiva men. On Tuesday next, at 8 p.m.. the I Clirisrchurch Musical Society will re- ' j peat Haydn's oratorio, " The Creation," | which was recently given to its sub- | serlber... The Bishop has placed the Cathedral at the disposal of the Sd- ! e'eiy. and the performance will be given j in aid of the fund for Wounded and Invalided Soldiers. i In connection with the Lyttelton J affray (reported on page 3), James I M 'lhvoen appeared in the Lyttelton ' .Magistrate's Court this morning, he-, j fore Mr G. C. Smith, J.P., charged ! with haying assaulted John Sullivan ! and inflicting actual bodily harm. Aci i used was remanded to appear to-mor-row. In the House the Hon A. L. Herdman, replying to a question by Mi* Pa>ne, stated that a fee of two hundred guineas was paid to the SolicitorGeneral for drafting the Cook Islands i Bill. The preparation of Bills not i part of the duties of tho Solicfitor- ; General, but in the present case ,it- was i considered advisable to obtain h's ser- ' vices, in view of the speoial difficult ■ ties attending the matter. j A boy who was indulging in the j luxury of smoking a cigarette in bed i was responsible for some excitement in . J a house in the city soon after 6 p.m. ] yesterday. He set fire to the bedi clothes, and nearly set fire, to the house, which has two storeys,'and nine rooms, The Fire Brigade was called up and attended, but the fire was put out before any damage was done, except to the bed clothes and mattress. Cheers in church are a novelty, hut at the Wesleyan Church in Adelong (New South Wales) a few days ago portion of the congregation gave way to lusty "hurrahs" when Private Bubb was married, The whole of his com-rades—twenty-four of all denominations—assembled ill the church to witness the marriage ceremony. At the conclusion the soldiers cheered. The bridegroom left for Mount Horeb immediately, entraining at Mount Horeb for the camp at Cootamundra. At a conference of sharebrokers which is to be held in Wellington about the middle of September, a scheme for the formation of a sharebrokers' association will be submitted. The proposed association will incorporate all the Stock Exchanges in the Dominion. Provision has been made that the membership of the association shall include shareholders situated in places where Stock Exchanges do not exist. The officers of the association will be elected at the general conference. A Press Association telegram stfttea that a great deal of anxiety is felt regarding the whereabouts or I>r F. C. Batchelor, one of the leading medical praot.tioners in Dunedin. He left NvW Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Foroe with th 3 rank of lieutenantcolonel, and was invalided back from Egypt recently. Since returning to Dunedin he has undergone an operation in a private hospital and is in a weak state of health. On Tuesday, he ex< pressed the intention of going to Onslow House to make inquiries about accommodation there, and about 1.30 p.m. he was seen in the vicinity of that establishment. The new tramway time-table in connection with the Sumner cars came into force yesterday, when a motor with a trailer left the Square at 6.13 p.Ttt. Although scheduled to make a nonstop run between Madras Street and Ciifton, an unexpected delay of one and a half minute was made at Bamford Street, waiting at a loop for the incoming cax. In spite of this, the car made the trip to Clifton in twenty-one minutes, and completed the run to the post office in twenty-three and a half minutes, thus effecting a saving on the old system of about twelve minutes. The passengers expressed themselves as well satisfied with the initial step. " I would not trust my money to five farmers to run a mercantile.business," said his Honor Mr Justice Hoiking, sitting in Chambers,, at the Supreme Court, Wellington. "A co-op-erative dairy company means ' one cow. one share.' If they are to run & stock and agency company, buying and selling farm implements, dairy stock, pedigree stock, buying and leasing land for the purpose, running as wide a busiess as that of ——they should call themselves something else than co-op-erative dairy companies. They are mercantile companies, and should stylo themselves such. They should call themselves a dairy and trading company." At a meeting of the Wellington Education Board' the chairman, the Hon J. G. W. Aitfeen, said that the Di lector of Education had informed the board that £2289 had been raised by the school children in New Zealand for f:he purpose of providing motor ambulances for service with the New Zeeland troops at the front. The sum, had been expended) in the purchase of five motor ambulances, at a cost of £450 apiece, and 1 these had been sent to Egypt. On each ambulance was a metal plate inscribed, "Presented by the School Children of New Zealand for use with the Expeditionary Force." Tlie High Commissioner had beeil aeked to epply any balance re<mainin;* m maimer as nearly as poss : Me m accordance with the wishes of the donors. William Bcaoli, the Australian re-"-ponuble for the use of the rifle periscope which makes the job of filline the Turk with lead more comfortable is (savs the ''Bulletin") of the farnib of Bill, one-time world's champion sculler. Young Boach and assistants commandeered all mirrors within 000-e* 1 of Gallipoli, and 2000 periscopes were fixed up. The effort and its success has been brought under the eye of the military panjandrums. Tho idea, of course, is not new. Years ago it wai demonstrated at B'sley (England!), but m'litary figure-heads pooh-poohed th<? notion that troops would ever get elosf enough to make the thing of any value. The "belief that modern artillery wa< formidable enough to slay everything j within to ten miles was tool strongly entrenched. The cognoscenti! having been proved hopelessly wrong, an id?a sim'lar to the one used hy Beach and his mates, is now bein<r woi hod on by the B.S.A. people, after 1 bc-ing in the Inm boy room for years. A few weeks ago a description was cabled from Gallipoli of a struggle wh'ch to' k place between an Australian soldier and a Turk. It was indicated that they were both big men, and that in some way they came to grips without weapons, and each sought to overcome the other by sheer strength. They and struggled near the edge of a cliff, and finally, locked together, they both fell over tho cliff into the sefi. below. Tho struggle did not cea&o there, however. Tlie Australian, itwas stated, grappled with his adver*arv in the water, and finally overcame and drowned him, and then swam ashore. The story then seemed to sacrifice truth to picturesqueness. but it turns out to be tobstatially tru*. except that the hero of the affair was a New Zealander, and not an Australian. An Auckland doctor, _ writing from the front, recounts the incident, and says that the man concerned wa* Charles Savory, of Auckland, one of New best known footballer* and a champion heavy-weight boxer. Word wa* ree ived in Auckland recently that Savory wa* struck by a shell when in action at Oallipoii, and killed instantly. I