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West Coast Times, 15 January 1913, Page 2

A cable message from Ottawa reports that ll.lMl. the Duchess ot Cetm.n „ is steadily recovering. Founded in 1774, tli« I-ond.m I''re Itrictde which, bv alt Act ol 1888, ti... or .1.0 sists of officers ami men. The Mnnawaui Herald says it is whispered that Air. .1. 0. Wilson, president of the Now Zealand l-nrmcvs Union, is to he called to the Fppi House.

l( is estimated that tho Insurance Act will cost the London and NorthWestern railway. £64,060 a year ,the (treat Central £20,000, the North-East-ern £40,000, and the Croat AVestern £60.000.

Air. N. B. Haszard who recently passed his second officer’s examination, left Hokitika on Monday evening, on route to Wellington, whore he joins the s.s. Alamika, width is engaged in the regular service between New Zealand and Hobart and Melbourne. Another sign of the times. there were only eight bankruptcies in Dunedin for the year ended last month, as against, twenty-seven for the previous year. Invercargill, on the other hand, "hand, show mi increase for the past year. There were sixteen bankruptcies there, as against eleven for 1911. The members of the New Zealand University Senate meet in Auckland on January 18th. Sir Hubert Stout, the Chancellor, will preside over the proceedings, which are expected to last about ton days. Besnlts of tbe matriculation and Junior University scholarship examinations are published when the Senate meets, and among other business is the consideration of the recommendation made by the Professorial Conference with regard to the new scheme for the B.A. degree. A very pleasant evening was spent at Staines ami Darragh’s tea rooms last evening, the occasion being to hid goodbye to Miss Kitty Peillon, who is about to leave for the North Island. Mr. L. Dwtin, in making a presentation. which consisted of a gold bangle an 1 broach, in a very happy speech relerred to the many good qualities of the departing lady and wished her every happiness in her new homo. Mr, A. Heinz replied on behalf of Alias Peillon, after which music and games were indulged in. The singing of “Ankl Lang Syne,” brought to a close a very enjoyable evening. During 1!)12, 16,000 immigrants arrived in Victoria, and by the time those now on the water have reached the State the Immigration Department will have augmented tho Slate’s population by il.IKi persons (says the Sydney "Telegraph” of December 61st).‘ In 1911, 0770 persons came to Victoria bom the United Kingdom, so that the pn sent year’s figures constitute a hi" wol’m T , ho tolal nr ' ™pit;d iwiuh has been set down as bavin" been brought to Victoria by assisted Firm settlers is £82,582, which will he rr, to £m,nGa> " i,en now on the voyage arrive. Air thorne, the Minister eontrollim. i,™ I torhi\'' ° XP '' OSS( ; (I llis Pleasure at VicS SmWSS the year just East evening the Dominion AIW l 0 b’b'.graplied the tu If w ,s 11 miliary and forecast- "The ""TCI’ fell low in the Son'll, m V’’ Sf';«:"i;r en y aheady at |b P Bluff. \VosteHv ospecianv'^r* 0 tee’SouH. ’"Tfi •’il.v winds, veering to southerly, with squally weather conditions; The harnnmter w,JI| probably tall in tJ IO A,,,.,], for a short lime, and rise in t | K , ■ outh, though it is very unsteady there, and a further fall is likolv to , a temporary vise. Changeable weather, with heavy showers -and some electrical disturbances is prohalde in most parts of the Dominion.”

Speaking at the launching of the Lyttelton-Wellington ferry steamer AValune (a sister ship to the Maori), at Dunbarton, in November, Capain McDonald said the AA'alnne brought up the Union Company’s fleet to 71 stoam-io-qaollll an Wegato tonnage of r-i.rflHl, as compared with three steamers ol a tonnage of «]], when the company was registered in 1*75. The population of Dunedin when the. company was registered was 15,090, now the company, directly or indirectly, snpP" rtt i" . tm Hi 15,000 to 10,000 'persons. their fleet of steamers. .Messrs William Denny and Brothers had built forty, and the best compliment ho could pay the firm was to tell them that they had a steamer built for them thirty-six years ago, and, although she had run on unchartered rocks, sunk another steamer, and knocked .away a few piers, which had evidently linen in her way, she was still running, goiimstrong, and was a general favourite on the route. The AVahino is generally similar to the Maori. Her principal dimensions arej hrmgth 37-lft. breadth u_tt. depth z.,tt Sin. Accommodation is provided for 400 first-class passengers, and about- ISO second-class. The boat equipment is on a very eomnhto scale. " ‘

There are 33 registered guides in the Rotorua district.

Ladies and childrens millinery half price at Addisons.— Advt. It is stated that- a recent Wellington bride was presented by her father with a dowry equivalent to £IO,OOO. Attention is directed to notices appearing in our advertising columns in reference to land for selection and pastoral runs for lease by public unction.

Ten shillings per day is being .offered for labourers by the contractor for the Temnka high-pressnrs water supply. Even at, these wages men are hard to get. Wild pigs have not been driven nut of Southland (says the Western Star), for one day recently two young fellows killed seventisni in one Jay up the Wai.au district. The Westland Schools excursion to the (irey racecourse lakes place to-day, the (rain leaving Hokitika at 9.50 a.m. amt the return train leaving the racecourse at 0,1(1 p.m. The proposal to hold a United Druids picnic, on the Greymouth racecourse has been abandoned in consequence of several of the country l-odges withdrawing from the project.

The Nelson Colonist, says ; We learn that, amongst others, Mr. Thomas Edwards, .local manager of the Nelson section, Inis been invited by the A 1 mister of .Railways Lo make application for the position of general manager. In response to a telegram conveying the congratulations of many prominent citizens to Sir Walter Buchanan, the following reply lias been received by tin- sender of the message;—"A thoSsand thaqks to self and friends.”

During last month 68 vessels (GO steamers ami eight sailers), visited Gisliunie. i This constitutes a record, Iteiag the largest, mmiher of vessels that, have yet visited Gisborne during one month, During December, 101), the total vessels Ihlit, arrived at (Jishorne was 56.

Mes-rs Brown (manager of (he Weslpurt Coal Company’s mines), C'roll (Westport-StockUMi), and AlcCafi’cy (T'upnnga) visited Grey month <m Monday in connection with a meeting of the Coal Mine Owners’ Association, which was held last evening. The conference was a private om*. The late Airs Jessie Blair, of 1,00 Creek Farm, near Out ram, Dunedin, left (according to a Dunedin telegram) .CIISO among local charities.—.£2so goc.s to the, Presbyterian Orphanage at (Irani’s Brae, £2OO for St. Margaret’s College, £6OO for Knox College endowment fund, £2OO for the .Salvation Army, and £2OO for the Karltane Hospital. At the adjourned inquest hold at Oreymonth on Monday afternoon touching the death of James Mullins, whose body was found on the North' Beach on the Bth inst., Sergeant Fgali intimated that he InuTno further evidence to bring on liehalf of the police, and the District Coroner (Air. E. Page), announced that a verdict of found drowned would be returned. Great reductions in ladies blouses and dresses at Addisons.—Advt. In a letter from the Secretary of the Blackball Company road sit Monday night’s mooting of the (ireymonth Harbour Board it was stated that a strip of paint was scraped ott the Nga-v here, and suggesting that it had been caused by her touching a portion of an old wreck on the bar. The Company asked that stops he taken to remove the obstruction, and the Board decided In instruct the Harhnnrmasior to report.

AVe know it would come ! As Mahomet would not go to the mountain, the mountain has come to Mahomet—• precariously balanced on a soap box. Bishop Crossley bus set the example by addressing the Auckland working men from the Queen Street wharf. AVhy should AYollington bo outdone? There is no reason why tho clergy of Wellington should not bold a combined demonstration on the Queen’s wharf next Sunday morning.—" New Zealand TTmes.”

A well-known character about I’icton attired in a white cambric sail, was the victim ol a jokist on Boxing Day (stales a local paper). “The sun had evidently proved too warm, for his constitution, and lie lay himself down in a shady nook for a quiet nap. Aleanwhile the joker came along with a pot of black paint, and figured the white coat with the Orthodox broad-arrows. The innoeent victim aftenvimis paraded the streets in what looked for all (he world like prison garb, amt wondered why he was the cynosure of all eves.”

.This season .Alosses S. Kirkpatrick and Co., Ltd., have been excepiionally busy camiing green peas (says the Nelson Cnlonisl). For the past two months one machine has shelled over nine tons of green peas a day, of about six hours. Altogether the firm lias handled some thousands of sacks of peas, and lias in stock at the present tmie about 50,000 tins. Fruit is now coining freely into the factory, and the firm is turning out about ten tons of jam daily. Labour is source, and employment could be found for quite one hundred extra hands.

Air. AA'illis, Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, who arrived in Auckland on Saturday last with Mr.: AVillis and thtoe members of their family looks (states an Auckland correspondent), the picture of health. He told a reporter that he had not come to New Zealand either to lx* cured of :m illness or to he rested, “I’m afraid.l’m rushing for a fight,” he said. “There are no more worlds to conquer in Australia at tho moment, so I’ve come across for something to do.” AATiat Air AVillis proposes to do is to go first to Kotorna, thence to Wellington, and so on to Christchurch, Dunedin, and Lake AVakatipii, and about the end of January to sail from Wellington for Sydney.

More applications than were expected have been received by tile I,a hour Department lor registration under the Barmaids Registration Aet since the amending iegisiafion of last session was passed. The Act of hist session did not entitle any additional barmaids to legistration bnt extended to Juno 1. the period in. which barmaids entitled to register under the Act of 1911 can rcg.stor, It- was not expected (states the Dominion) that more than a dozen applications for registration would he sent in, hut that, number has already been exceeded. In some cases wives ami daughters of licensees who did not consider it nesessary to apply for registration in 1911 have made application since the extension of time was granted. If omen so placed are not required to register under either the original or the amending Act, but registration secures to them the right of working as barmaids in any hotel, as paid servants or otherwise. Two weeks’ sale of summer drapery, commenced on .Tan, 13th at Misses Addisons.—Advt.