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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13334, 24 March 1911, Page 4

. This mild weather does not suggest furs, hut we do,' because all our furs are in and ready for your inspection. W© would advise those who intend buying a new'{Ur this season to inspect our fur stock now, and get first choice. We have a choice range of medium and good. furs, and have every confidence in recommending them to you. McQruer and Co.

Two drunks were convicted and discharged at the S.M. Court this morning. Mr H. S. G. Harper presided. . , The latest addition to the Telephone Exchange is No. 671, Matipo Land Coy. (J. M. Wells), Wicksteed Place. Blackleg has made its appearance among stock near New Plymouth. One farmer, it • is- stated, lost some 20-months stock which had not been inoculated. »■ The Wanganui East Beautifying Society hope to have a good working bee tomorrow afternoon on No. 1 section, and request workers to turn up in good number?. . ; Residents of Wanganui East are reminded that the last day for receiving claims for enrolment on the district clectotal roll is Wednesday, April 12, at 5 p.m. An exchange says that there will probably be a considerable shortage in wool in Hawke’s Bay, and the wool is light and short in the staple. It is estimated that the total shortage will be about 15,000 hales. An inspector has been appointed to inspect all pigs put through bacon factories iir -Taranaki. The inspector in question Mr A. M. Spillman, arrived on Wednesday night (reports the Post), and will make Stratford his headquarters. •An egg-laying competition will commence at Papauui (Christchurch) at the thinning of April, which is creating some interest and over sixty pens are already entered. Mr C. L. Bridges is sending down a pen of white leghorns to represent Wanganui. A heated controversy is in progress in Patea in regard to the advisability of school committees claiming a Governmentsubsidy from the Keystone Picture Company, the conditions said to be attached to the latter entertainments being that the money obtained shall he spent in purchasing school apparatus from the company. It is not generally known by parents that children on the way to and from school are under the supervision of the headmaster of the school. Consequently, if any pupil should misbehave outside the school grounds during school hours that pupil is just as likely to receive punishment as if the offence had been committed inside the school grounds. There is one man who will leave the Ho minion with a very favourable opinion of it. It ik.Baron Yon Droste, who has been on an extended visit to New Zealand, and is returning shortly to the Fatherland. Writing to a friend, he says: “I have now seen most of New Zealand, and I have formed the conclusion that we have not a country in the whole of Europe like it.” Two young lady residents of Paekakariki had a narrow escape from drowning last Wednesday. They got out of their depth, and were in a bad way when three men went out to their assistance and brought them back to the shore. Both were unconscious, but were soon brought round and neither suffered any ill effects from their unpleasant experience. Mr Alexander Philip, LL.B., is the author of an ingenious proposal for a sim- . plified calendar, which (says a London paper) has had the cordial support of the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce. Briefly, it provides for a year of 364 days. New Year’s Day and the extra day which comeg in Leap Tear being each' regarded as a dies non. Under this scheme each month would contain thirty ■'days,- one day extra : being added to the thjrd : inonth of each quarter. The advanr tage would be that the year would be di--visible into equal halves and quarters; events such as market days, at present fixed’ for a certain day in a certain week of a certain month, would regularly recur on ■ the same date in each month;, each day of the week would have its regular date every year, and a perpetual calendar would be established. : A cry was raisd at Victoria Park, Auckland. on Saturday afternoon during the ■ progress of a cricket match that a boy was sinking in the soft mud at the rear of the Park, where the Harbour Board deposit silt. A large number of spectators left the cricket match and proceeded to the scene of the trouble, where they noticed a boy about ten years of age buried up to his shoulders in the silt. One of the cricketers, D’Arcy Comber, set out to rescue the hoy from his perilous position, but Comber had. only proceeded a few yards when he suddenly sank up to his waist in the .mud,. By this time the onlookers had gathered several pieces of wood and threw them to Comber to make a platform on which to gain a footing. After several attempts Comber was successful in reaching the hoy and pulled him out of the mud. Mr W. Lee Martin, who appeared before the Arbitration Court this morning on behalf of the Painters’ Union, asked the . Court to define “employer” in the agreement between the Union and the employers. He wished to know if it meant any man wfio employed a painter, or any man who was legitimately engaged as an • employer in-the trade. The Court thought -itmeant any man who employed a painter, if only to paint his own house. Mr Justice Sim said things were getting into an awful tangle, and he did not know where it would end. Some of these agreements between masters and workers were extraordinary. Mr Martin explained that they were onlv laymen, and it was not surprising that they were .at a loss when confronted with the legal aspects of affairs. The wide interpretation of employer would possibly lead to friction. Every man who employed a painter would have to join the Master Painters’ Union, and be subject to the agreement, and it would be deplorable if the present harmonious relations of the parties were to be disturbed. Mr J. Scott, a member of the Court, said the parties should have left matters of interpretation to the Act, which gave sufficient definition. The litigation in camera at Wellington, before the Chef Justice (Sir Robert Stout), which is exercising public speculation, not only in Wellington, but apparently the Dominion, owing to the apparently extraordinary attitude adopted by the Chief Justice towards the newspapers, was Ihe occasion of a visit by a pressman yesterday morning to Mr j. R. Reed (president of -the Auckland Law Society) for an opinion on the position. “It is certainly a most.unusual thing,” commented Mr Reed, "Tint there may be special circumstances in'connection with the case that warrant the course adopted. The Chief Justice is a man who is not likely to do anything inconsistent with the rules of British justice. I have never known of a case before where, unless there were reasons of public policy or in the interests of public morals, the court has been closed, and even in those cases reporters have not been excluded from being present, but have simply been ordered not to publish a report or to exercise a discretion in doing so, but it is quite futile to give any expression of opinion in the present case without knowng something of the circumstances. Personally I have not the slightest doubt that the Chief Justice has very excellent reasons for holding the case in caemra, and that he would not allow private considerations to weigh with him in a matter of that sort. I should imagine that in all probility the question will be raised in the House and a Select Commit- . tee appointed to go into the mattter, and I hare no hesitation in expressing the ■opinion that the report of such a Select Committee would show that the Chief Justice was absolutely justified in the coarse he has adopted.”

Tlic Rev. H. Mason, of Otahuhu, Auckland, visited the /Auckland Hospital grounds last week and located a water supply which he estimates will provide about 40,000 gallons a day. The Weather Bureau reports as follows: —Southerly winds moderate to strong; Weather probably cool and changeable, and showery weather may be expected; probably a very cold night; glass rise; tides and sea increasing; sea heavy; tides moderate. At Ashburton judgment was delivered this morning in the case of Henry Davis v Hugo Friedlander, when Mr Day, S.M., said he could not dismiss the charge on account of the triviality of the amount involved, and would therefore convict Fried-, lander and order him to-pay costs amounting to £2 13s. Advices received at Wellington from London from Mr John Redmond, leader or the Irish Nationalist Party, state that the Irish party delegates will arrive in Wellington by the steamer Rotorua, due on May Ist. It is understood the New Zealand campaign is limited to twelve meetings. Consumers of bread in New Plymouth have to pay 7d a loaf cash, or 8d if book ed, and the baking combine alleges that its members cannot afford to supply bread any cheaper. Referring to this important matter, the Daily News says the citizen wants bread just as good and just as “full weight” and just as cheap as does the hospital patient But the Hospital Board has 1 just been able to seal, a contract for the delivery of bread at l|d per lb, or 51 d per 41b loaf. No baker accepts a contract for philanthropic motives, and no baker can obtain payment for his bread at the doors of the hospital on the day of delivery. The question is, “Why does the citizen of New Plymouth pay 2ld more per 41b loaf than the Hospital Board?” Nelson is again testing the London market with fruit, having loaded the Rimutaka, which left for London last week, with 5,000 cases of apples. Considering how much they had to learn in the matter of packing and general get up, also that the fruit arrived in London when that City was plunged in mourning for King Edward’s death, the last shipment did remarkably well, and came fairly close, in some cases, to the average price for. Tasmanian fruit. Some of the Nelson fruit last year realised in London from 10s to 18s a case. The Government then guaranteed Id per lb. to grocers. It paid out J315 under this heading. On his return to Sydney from abroad a few days ago the Hon. Dugald Thomson, a well-knoivu Australian politician, related an incident that occurred in the Dominion Parliament House at Ottawa, where, he remarked, it might be expected that knowledge of the Empire should exist. “An intelligent, elderly attendant had shown me through,’’ Mr Thomson said. “He evidently concluded from some remarks of mine that I knew something of the inside of Parliaments. On my leaving he asked me, ‘Are you a member of the British Columbian Parliament?’ I replied, ‘No; I come from Australia. He became thoughtful, and at last said, doubtfully, ‘Australia; isn’t it under the United States flag?’ When I told him it was as much or more British than Canada, and about as large, he muttered, “Oh, I didn’t know'. I thought it belonged to the United States.’ I retired crestfallen.”