LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20039, 24 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The deadlock which occurred between the Public Service Commissioners and the Post and Telegraph. Association; has been ended.

The following telegram hag, been, sent by Mr Hunter, president of the Christchurch branch of the Social Democratic Party, to Sir Joseph Ward: "The action taken at Cttiristoliurch by Liberal members of Parliament .to form a Libe-ral-Labour Federation is taken as a hostile act. The new Federation will be treated as a 'scab' organisation by organised Labour."

At a meeting of the executive of the National Schools Defence League at Wellington it was reported that in three or four months the members of th,e League had secured, some forty thousand signatures to the defence pledge cards. The report wias adopted suggesting that the appointment of an organiser for the Defence of National Schools was a necessity. The report also set out the proposals of the Bible in State Schools League, and commented upon them categorically.

Owing, it is said, to the ascendancy of the "Hed Fed" section, in the Typographical Union, la number of compositors in the Government Printing Office have resigned from membership. It is pointed out that to engage in a strike as the union has been invited to, would not only mean the loss of positions, but for future contributions to the superannuation fund. A number of members considered the safeguards in the rules in this connection had been broken, through at the instance of the Federationists, and a choice had to be made, and had been taken.—Press telegram.

The man with nasal catarrh hasn't given "NAZOL" a fair chance or he wouldn't have the trouble! "NAZOL" cure* yfttarrh, sore throats, colds and eougns. 60 doses for Is 6d.

100 HOT WATER BAGS to be sold at wholesale cost. See window "Medical Hall," next "Newmarket Hotel.

An earthquake was experienced at 12.16 this morning. The shock, which. was fairly severe, lasted thirty seconds.

The stock sale at Eketahuna on Friday week is said to have constituted a record for the district, between 11,000 and 12,000 sheep being offered.

The points prize mi the three motor cycle races on the programme at thei Carnival on Saturday (a medal presented by Mr Temumu). was won by T. C. Goldsmith, who rode a 31-h.p. Royal Ruby T.T.

The first annual selctional teompetiitions by members of- the F Company for the handsome shields and medals presented by Lieut. Watson were held last night in the Drill Hall. Captain Cade, O.C. the Machine Gun Section, acted as judge.

The little boy, George Elliott, who separated from his elder sister on the Qarnivlai grounds on Sra^ufcday, and about whose safety considerable anxiety was felt on Saturday flight an|d Sunday, was located yesterday morning at Palmeston North. The child was restored to its parents. He* had evidently taken* the wrong train from Wanganui.

At the Magistrate Court yesterday a, Maori named Piko Paro admitted having used obscene language in a public place, and was fined £2, or an alter nativeof 14 days. A first .offending inebriate was mulcted iij ss. Two parents, for failing to send theiir children to school.; "were, fined 2s each, and;, an; "elderly man, agaiqst whom a charge of vagracy ; W*b preferred.- but ; which was withdrawn, was discharged. The defendant had been admitte-d as an inmate to the Jubilee Home. A number of by-law cases wereadjourned till April .22.

The following most ingenious and humourous notice appears in Friday's issue of the Napier Telegraph" :— " Notice to Residents, MiltonT&oad.—lt is more in sorrow than in anger, I beg to intimate to my neighbours that owirfg to the destructive tactics of certain fowls who visit my garden, I have) decided to take measures to enable them take a speedy transit from their happy hunting grounds to the bourne from which they will not return. So owners are advised to take means to prevent them straying where they are, not wanted. They cani call for the. remains.—J. B. Fielder. Napier, 20th March, 1914."

The circumstances touching the death of an old men named Edwin Hodren, 81 yeans of age, and a second-hand! dealer by occupation, were inquired into by the District Coroner, Mr. W, Kexr, ' S.M., yesterday, -^The facts, i&s adduced by the evidence tendered" by Edwin Hodren, painter, Hawena (deceased's son), T. J. Tracy, a man who lived in " the same house, and Joe Hiara, who 00-... cupied an adjoining room, were that the deceased was an active man of an independent nature, who lived by himself. He occupied a house in Ridgway St. On the 13th he was in good health. On that date he complained of diarrhoea, and of pains in the chest. __ He refused to see a doctor. Last' Friday, Saturday and Sunday he complained. At ■midnight on Sunday „ Hiara heard a noise issuing from the deceased's room. He went in, and found the deceased lying on his bed gasping. At. 2 a.m. yesterday, Hiara went in again, and" found the deceased lying dead on the floor. The police were informed. The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased "died of heart failure, as a result of seiyle decay."

In answer to an interjector at his meeting in the Wellington! (Mayoral campaign, Mr McLaren! said: "You want some facts about the wharf? I'll give you some. In 1899 I took, the secretaryship of the union, when there were veryfew members, and not a stiver in the treasury! When I. left it there was a big solid • union, with over £900 to credit. Most of it is gone now, more's the pity. Let me tell you this, that whe/n I, with others, was struggling to build up the uniion, some of the Reds who are against me to-day were against both me and the union. When I asked them to join the unionj they said, 'No. we are not compelled to, and we wonft.' These are the fellows who worked as non-unionists on} the wharf when the union was being built up, and they have the impudence to shriek now as if they were the onjly unionists in creation!. I have always beeto good friends with the old wharf hands, with the genuine men, and am so to-day as much as ever. In the ten years I was secretary they were never plun&ed into trouble, anil there are very few on the wharf who do nbt respect that fact."

For many years there has been displayed on city and suburban stations a poster headed, in large letters, "Victorian Railways," which purposes to attract thei tourist to visit some of the State's beauty spots, depicted in flaring colours, and only recognisable by the titles affixed to them. This production/" (remarks the " Age") has heenj describeid as a libel on Australian art. "We got an artist to do it many years ago," said Mr Fitzpatrick, the Chief Railway Commissioner, recently. "I don't know who he was," he added, "but there it is." Some criticism was levelled at the production in an interlude, ai^d the Chief Commissioner announced that there was to "be a new poster, as the one under discussion was considerably behind the times. While on the subject of Australian art (for, undoubtedly the department will engage an Australian artist to paint the new poster), Mr Fitzpatrick's attention was drawn to the fact ha one of he Briish railway companies was displaying a notable series of fine lithographic posters on its hoardings, which were the* work of emin/fent artists. Mr Fitzpatrick was asked whether it would i^ot be beneficial to the State to encourage local artists to produce posters of our beauty spots, so that tourists might be induced, by seeing them, to specfcl more time in the State than they do in visiting such, places. The Chief Commissioner thought the only person to whom such productions would be benjeficial would be the artist who was paid for doin^ them, but he added that the old posteir was to go, and to be replaced by a new one.