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West Coast Times, 21 March 1910, Page 2

A meeting bf the Joint Library Committee willti e held at the Library on Tuesday next at 7.30 p.m.

The Fire Brigade members are reminded of the practice to-night wind takes place at the usual hour.

The Dunedin Star learns on the best authority that Armstrong, captain of the Australian Eleven, is anxious to to settle in New Zealand, provided he can get permanent employment.

During the service at All Saints Church last evening the Rev. H. S. Leach made very feeling reference to the recent sad drowning fatalities in this district, which have cast such a gloom of sorrow over the whole community.

Following 'on his all round performance against the Australians, W, 1 atrick, of Wellington South, against Wellington North captured eight wickets and caught the other two, thus having a hand in the disposal of the whole side—a record for the season. Wonder whether Patrick will get a place in the next test team.

Rugy football is making its way m Germany, Mr G. H. Harnett has received from Mr Carl Eckormeir, of the Fuss-Sport-Verein (Hanover) a request that he might use his influence to get the champion rugby side of Germany a couple of games in England at Easter. The German champions are welltrained and play excellently together.

Mr U. Shannon, of Wellington, South, has been appointed handicapper to the Westland Trotting Club. The choice is an excellent one, as Mi Shannon has the performances of horses at his finger tips. The genial Uilc is a great authority on racing and is one of the best known scribes in the Dominion in this particuar branch of sport.

Canon Pollock, of Rochester Cathedral, England, is now visiting the West, Coast as a forerunner in connection with the Church of England General Mission at the end of the year. He will give an address to-morrow evening at 7.30 at All Saints Church and hold a conference in- the schoolroom afterwards to which all parishioners are invited.

The Deputy-Mayor has received the following telegram from Mr Waterfiekl, private sectretary to His Excellency the Governor:— “Deputy-Mayor, Hokitika,—We are just leaving the West Coast and his Excellency desires me to convey to you and the people of Hokitika district his grateful thanks for the kindness and hospitality shown to him during his farewell visit.—(Sgd.) Waterfiekl.”

The gates at the first three matches of the Australians in New Zealand realised £3BO, £2Ol, and £342 respectively. These with £214 at the Dunedin match, give a total of £1340 for 3.) matches. The New Zealand Cricket Council and interested cricket associations’ are evidently likely to make up some at least of the deficiency left by the visit of the last English team.

The following is an example of the thoughtfulness always displayed by his Excellency the Governor. Mr Fitzgerald received the following urgent wire from Otira; “Fitzgerald, Wainihinilu: His Excellency desires me to convey to you his grateful thanks for the hospitality he found prepared for him at your liouse and much appreciates your thoughtfulness in spite of your great sorrow.—Signed, Waterfiekl.

The Hokitika Bowling Club have received an invitation from the Westport bowlers to play a match at the latter place during the Easter holidays. Members who would like to go are requested to send in their names to the secretary or Mr A. B .King before Wednesday next. Up to the present 4 links have promised to go, leaving Hokitika on Thursday evening next, and returning on Monday.

The sale of privileges for the Easter meeting of the Westland Racing Club took place on Saturday last by Messrs Mark Sprot and Co. The tw booths were knocked down to Mrs Briggs for £4O (No. 1) and £3O (No. 2). The refreshment stall (£3) and the fruit stall (ss) and two booths for the Tuotting Club meeting £lB 10s (No. 1), and £8 10s (No. 2) were also lx light by the same lady ,wh'o also was the successful bidder for the sports meetin booth, paving £3 los for the laltei.

The H'okitika Municipal Hand intends competing at the forthcoming ( Oicwnouth Hand contest. < The body of Joint Carley (one of the 1 victims of the recent fatality) wtis washed ashore on Saturday last on the Barrytown beach, some 18 miles north of Greymouth, The. funeral will take place at Hokitika on Tuesday next. 1 The Pollard Opera Company left by 1 early train this morning for the north. | The company play a season at Christ- i church, and next make a southern ■ tour, prior to their leaving for Australia.

At the Greymouth Athletic Championship meeting last week the Highland Heel was won by Melba Sargison, Elsie Mclntosh, Flora Mclntosh and Alice Stopforth. This is the third occasion on which this quartette have been first. The win carries a gold medal each to the successful competitors. Mr Prank McGregor (Hokitika) is to be complimented on the success of his pupils. Asserting that she had not eaten a morsel of food for 42 days, Mrs M. K. Cummins, of No. 248, Elm Avenue, Long Reach, California, stepped down from her wheel chair and walked round the room. Before, tindertaking her fast Mrs Cummins had been unable for two years to go upstairs. When she left her chair she walked up the stiiirs. Sensations of hunger left her, she says, on the fifth day of her fast. She is going to break her fast because water, which has been her sole diet, has become so repugnant to her that she can scarcely force herself to drink.

Large audiences and eloquent ad

dresses were tire order of the day at Mr Patou’s meetings yesterday. At the men’s meeting Mr Paton spoke in strongs terms of the vile newspaper. No man who wishes to he pure should touch the paper that circulates obscenity under the sickening pretence of doing good. The choir again did excellent service in the Church and at the Theatre. To-night Mr Paton gives a special address on “Hypocrites.” The “man in the street” is apt to object to religion because of the hypocrites. Men are specially invited to

come and hear Mr Patou’s version of the “hypocrite” question. Everybody welcome. The decision to refer the differences between masters and men in the Bradford wool strike to arbitration is a sign that gradually hut surely, the world is beginning to tire of commercial wars. Old lands are naturally conservative. The freedom of the individual is a fetish

before which the workman bows, and he dreads any restriction that will preent him from “doing as he pleases,” as ha would term it. Hence the reluctance in Britain and America to adopt any legal form of arbitration such as obtains in the Dominion of New Zealand. Legal arbitration may not absolutely prevent strikes, hut it certainly minimises the harm they are calculated to do. The public thereby recognise the possibility of securing a commercial peace that is only rarely disturbed, and consequently, are not ready to support those who wilfully throw themselves out of employment.— Oamaru ‘Mail’

When the 9.52 tram from the Clock Tower (Christchurch) to Lin wood was slowing up the other night at the inter-

section of Stan more road adn Worcester street, it was run into by a motorcar coming from the direction of New Brightqn. The motor-car is alleged to have been on the wrong side of the road. The result of the impact was that the front guard handrail of the tram car was carried away, and more serious damage was only averted by the promptitude with which the motor man stopped the tram. Another collision occurred in Manchester street the previous day, shortly after four o’clock, when one of Heywood’.s pantechnicons, which was turning out of Tuam street into Manchester street, came into contact with a tram-car (: 01 the railway station, with the result that the top portion of the pantechnicon was damaged. An interesting break i nthe mon Aonv of adverse winds and tides cam > (o those, on board the four-masted barque Andromeda a day or two ago in Cook Stiait, when a forgo school of porpoise.-, put in an appearance. The crew arm;* cd themselves in trying to harpoon the visitors and the porpoises invariably proved the better tacticians. They seemed to abound in hundreds. At last one big member of his species ventured too near the ship, the harpoon was prompt and before long he was being raised by means of boat hooks to the deck. The captured porpoise was about six feet in length, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. Its flesh, though coarse, made a change in the diet of the crew. Off (lough Island, in the South Atlantic, some members 'of the ship’s company succeeded in capturing three big albatrosses by means of a bait secured to a line following astern. The wing bones and the thick warm skins were preserved. The flesh is coarse and unpalatable, though highly esteemed by some Oriental nations, notally the Chinese.

The March Windsor Magazine is an attractively varied issue, full of good fiction by distinguished novelists and articles valuable and entertaining, lavishly illustrated throughout. The place of' honour is given to a long story, which is concluded complete in the one number instead of being divided into parts, by Beatrice Harraden, author of “Ships that Pass in the Ngiht.” This story, “The First Wife’s Picture" is one of the most moving pieces of work

that any novelist has produced for some time past. Its theme will create a

good deal of discussion amon gpeople interested in problems of the kind. Justin Miles Forman contributes a large instalment of his fascinating new serial “Bianca’s Daughter” in which the interest mounts steadily higher; Kdward Noble tells a thrilling story of the

sea ; Barry Pain is as amusing ns ev-

er in a sketch entitled “A t icibus Circle," and Clotilde Craves contributes a ghost story with a remarkably novel plot. The articles include an account of the Banking House of Coutts with many new photographs, and a football article by IV. I. Bassett. Fourteen pictures illustrating the reign of Alfred the Great form the instalment of “Kngland’s Story in Portrait and Picture,” and the fine art section includes a dozen of the charming childpictures of Mrs Seymour Lucas, with a coloured plate of One of the most popular. Alogether a notably attractive number. The Windsor Magazine is on sale by Mr W. Goodrich, bookseller, Ilevell street.

We understand that a social and dance will be held in the Boating Shed on Easter Monday night under tlj us ual popular management. The new racing regulations governing the holding of meetings by unregistered clubs seems likely to put a strong check on the pony racing meetings which have grown up in different district if they do not extinguish them altogether. . . Those connected with this particular branch of horse racing have themselves mainly to hlume for this. The meetings on the whole have been conducted in a most unsatisfactory manner. On occasion* the most barefaced swindles have been worked at some of the meetings and while offenders have sometimes been brought to book, more often have they escaped punishment—North Auckland

Times. Ten shillings a day for water were being paid by some few people in Ballarat prior to a good shower some few days ago, which replenished in some degree the exhausted water tanks. The season had throughout been an exceptionally dry one, and rain was often eagerly looked for. A heavy rain fell over a wide district on Wednesday night, and proved most acceptable to all. Some of the crops in the district anil in the south generally have suf-

lered iro mthe drought, this being particularly the ease in respect of winter turnips, several fields of which have developed signs of blight. The fine weather has been most favourable for cereals, and as a consequence the quality of the wheat frVnn the south thi* year, millers say, is as good as, and in many cases superior to, much of the wheat from the more popular districts of North Otago and Canterbury.

In and around Auckland within the past two years sea-bathing has.become

relatively as popular as it is in Sydney and mixed bathing is rapidly making its way in the public favor. So long as proper shelter or dressing room accommodation is provided and the costume regulations are enforced, we can see no valid objection to the practice, and any interference with it would obstruct the public enjoyment of one of the healthiest and most delightful of all open-air recreations. Wo lnqv, therefore, that, with all respect to the prejudices of New Brighton’s Mayor, the men and women ol New Zealand will lie content to leave protests against mixed bathing to the curious people who in America draep piano legs and clothe nude statues, and in the words of a groat satirist “prefer to regard Life as immoral and unnecessary.”— Auckland ‘Star.’