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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13337, 28 March 1911, Page 5

The census will he taken on Sunday evening next. f'.. There was a clean sheet at the Police Court this morning. Mr J. S. Clark, Wanganui, has applied for letters patent for a bicycle dressguard, ... There are now 1500 societies and groups for the propagation of Esperanto situated in all parts of the world. The latest addition to the Telephone Exchange is No. 737, Mr W. U. Smith’s residence, Wanganui East. On Sunday afternoon the Garrison Band will give a recital in the rotunda in aid of the Neville Thornton benefit fund. The programme -will be announced later. . _ The high-power wireless telegraphy station for the North Island will he erected in the vicinity of Doubtless Bay. Both Sydney and Suva arc to be within the range of the station. The Weather Bureau reports as follows; —Heavy northerly gale, veering. Expect Unsettled and cloudy weather; very heavy rain may be expected; rivers rising; glass fall fast; sea considerable off shore; tide* moderate. - At a meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council last Friday,, the Mayor reported t that the negotiations for the purchase of the gasworks had been completed, and a cheque fpr-;iE33,840 13s 9d bad been paid to the company. This completed the purchase of the. plant, goodwill, rights, book debts, and land. The accounts of the company show that the amount earned la«i year produced a profit of equal to 6 per cent, on £50,000. The Garrison Band will serenade Mdllc. Dolores from the balcony of Cbavannes’ Hotel to-morrow evening. Their programme will include a cornet solo, “Abide With Me,” by Lieut. G. Buckley. It will be remembered that on Mdlle. Dolores’ Iqst visit to Wanganui the band accorded f her a similar compliment, and at the conclusion the famous singer, with all her wonted graciousness, had a piano wheeled out on to the balcony, and delighted the waiting crowds with a song rendered in her own charming style. Of all the sights to be seen at Akaroa. the one that interests most is “Pompey,” a quaint penguin, which wanders along the beach in front of the town, and often takes a ..walk abroad up and down the streets. He seems to have got an idea that he is part of the town, and he gives an impression, by his consequential air that the town belongs to him. He is moulting just now, and while he remains in his present somewhat featherless plight he lias ne - i given a comfortable home in a • lied In - longing to a gentleman in business. He has not eaten anything for somg days, but as he made a wonderful meal just before the moult came on he is in as good condition as can be expected in the circumstances, and he has probably made up '.'3 mind to compensate himself for his fast as soon as he appears in public again in : il the glory of his new coat of feather,. A touring party, consisting of an English visitor, his wife, and their daughter, who came out to see the sights of Australia and New Zealand, have had an unenviable experience. When they arrived in Auckland on Monday, says the Herald, a pathetic tale of painful misfortunes, and of a;trip curtailed, was told to a reporter. Somewhere not far from the sunny outskirts of Sydney madame lost her footing on a flight of steps, and. slipping, seriously, injured a limb. That was the first disaster to overtake the tourists, and the secodd, and third followed in quick succession. After dining in a fashionable Commonwealth restaurant the daughter was suddenly taken ill, and a doctor who was called nr’pronoirnced her symptoms to be those of ptomaine poisoning. Then on he ■ way across to the Dominion a jagged piece V of glass from a bursting bottle flew up and nadly cut a portion of the male tourist's face. The result is that the party will leave the shores of this country for England : t a, much earlier date than was contemplated on setting out. The farmers of North Otago are (says the. Oamaru Mail) the least complaining, so far as outward manifestation goes, of what they are enduring, and the position of the pastoralist during the protracted dry period that has ensued is certainly not an enviable one. To even the most casual observer it is positively painful to view the district,and to note the parched, bare appearance of what are usually wellcpvered grass paddocks, and besides the Scanty herbage there is such a shortage of water. As to the area covered by the scarcity of feed, North Otago is perhaps fufferinc the most; but farmers in the Oamaru district are by no means alone in their trials. From Palmerston to Dunedin the position is almost desperate. Contrast the, unfavourable condition of affairs in the south with the pleasant prospect seen north of Christchurch, where grass is plentiful, water in good supply, winter crops looking well, heavy drafts of fat sheep and lambs going to the works; and all assisting towards the prosperity of the farmer. The Cheviot settlement never looked better, and the settlers there are indeed to he congratulated on having such a splendid season. On the north line, the country between Waipara and Culvcrden. usually dry-looking at this season of the year, is specially favoured by a good sole of grass. Further south the same good conditions prevail. The Hundalec country :s specially richly grassed, and the green, luxuriant appearance of the grass and tiic profusion of clover around Kaikoura and the Clarence district can only be aptly described by saying that South Marlborough la u pastoralists’ paradise. ° A number of our readers have requested us to elucidate the judgment in the case of Phillips v Bartrum, recently heard liftfore Mr Justice Edwards at the Supreme Court sittings here. The case was brought by a party of btishmen to recover £3OO. being the agreed sum between the parties to be paid for felling 200 acres at £1 10s per acre. The defence wa s that the men had not done the work according to the specifications. The proceedings were brought claiming payment, and a lieu on •the • land of the defendant under the “Wages Protection and Contractors Lien Act, 1908.” Such procediugs can only be properly brought after the “coranletiou of the work.” The Judge decided that as the men had not completed the work according to specifications he would necessarily have non-suited them but ter a particular reason. It appears that Mr Bartrum wrote a letter to flic men telling them they had better terminate the work. This was just before the whole area of ■ bush had been treated by the men. and whilst two or three acres remained nnfelled. The Judge decided that the letter was not a determination of the contract under powers which Mr Bartrum expressly had to knock the men off if they were not doing the work satisfactorily, but that it was merely a suspension of the work, at the same time intended to keep .the contract alive. If that letter had not been written, or if it had been an express determination of the contract, on the • ground that the men were doing unsatisfactory work, the men would have been rion-suited, and would have got nothing from the Court. Mr Bartrum, however, through- Mr Cohen, his counsel, stated to tie Court that he was willing that the plaintiffs should have judgment on “Quantum meruit," that is for as much as their work ( was worth. This they got, but with- , . -out ’costs.

Wc have opened up a particularly choice range of dress tweeds, really nice good*, at very moderate prieps. Our exceptional buying facilities permit us to buy these goods direct from the manufacturer*, eo these goods come direct from them)ill to our store. Needless to say, the patterns! are specially selected, and the prices rang#from Is to 5s 6d per yard. There is * special window display twiMsv in one of our large windows. Mcflruec and Co. ' .