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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 14 May 1915, Page 2

Timothy Wren was the successful applicant for the Woodvilie section, balJotU ed tor in Napier to-day. Notice is given in our advertisement colums that the partnership existing between Messrs Harold Doney and A. M. Pickering is dissolved from to-day. Owing to unsatisfactory news in regard to the state of her mother’s health Mrs Chamberlain has gone to Motueka. At an entertainment in Dannevirkc on Wednesday evening given by “ The Mascots” a gift auction gathered in £231,2 for the Belgian Fund. Mr W. Beale has had to go into the Pahiar.i!., Hospital with a poisoned knee. Cutest reports are fhat die knee has Iwn I opi--utcd on and the patient is progressing, ! ~ ;; li ill X;: v v ha-, in the last i\' .; ; o . .-11 strong! bon, .1 by 11 o addition , f ...uirinoa, fn the ia-t t'mv wei-k----i o ; ;i, -pi jnon in'.i': 1 ive. jved their pilots' , i i ■ i'os. and the Italian Army has n-w at its disposal 1500 aeroplanes and 20 airships. ■ There’s nothing better than a Ttew hell a Jack to shift those stumps. Our rock bottom price for these is 70/- each for D.P. Jack, ifprne and Co. 314’c Four Belgians have started work in Ralph’s mine at Huntly. Two were at Antwerp when the Germans entered the city, and with the other two were dev 1 spatched as refugees to Great Britain, j whence they were sent to New Zealand. At a meeting of the Auckland Engby Union, it was decided to write tq the Camp Commandant at Tpentham and ask him to permit the football team which recently defeated Wellington to visit Auckland and play a match against an Auckland representative team, the proceeds to he devoted to the Belgian Fund. A point for good Housewives. Always use SH ARLAN o's Baking Powder. Costs least; goes farthest. gives best results. The services of several gentlemen-well known in Wellington have been enlisted by Mr Matthews, director of the Po Idh;g Technical School, in connection with a winter course of lectures, arranged to he delivered at the institution. The lecmrors arranged for include Mr Charles Wilson, the Parliamentary Librarian. Mr J. W. Poyntmi, Dr. McNab, M.P., the Rev. J. Gibson Smith, and Professor Hunter, Mr 'V ilson proceeds to Feiktiug to-day to deliver the opening lecture of tbe series, “‘Fiance and the French,” which will be illustrated by lantern .pictures.

The butchers of Timaru have decided to reduce the price of mutton by one pen: y pc: ib. for all cash sales over the counter. Applications for the position of Secietarv to the Woodville Co-operative Cheese P ’ctory close ivith the chairman (Mr W. W ijht) to-morrow. Captain Arnold of the*Woodville Salvation Army has been transferred to Danlevirke, and Captain Cunningham to Woodville also Lieutenant Jackson.

T 1 0 0 are still one or two donations to tlia Belgian Flag outstanding and wo w mid ask for immediate settlement as it is necessary that this list be closed. Hrgard is coming, Friday, May 21. At the Supreme Court at Christchurch William George Maslin, formerly of Foxton, was acquitted of a charge of indecent exposure in the Christchurch gardens.

A late cable slates that the Goliath was protecting the French flank. 20 officers and x6o men were saved. El 4 was sunk in the sea of Marmora. Two Turkish gunboats and a large transport were also sunk.

A Napier wire states that Supper E, O. Ruddock, N.Z. Feild Engineers, Dardanelles, son of Archdeacon Ruddock, died under an operation for acute appendicitis.

Still the lists come in of comforts for the Expeditionary Forces, hut few of the collectors have more ground for congratulating themselves than have the Gisborne ladies who have gathered nearly 5000 pairs of sox for the Lady Liverpool Fund. They have also provided for all their men at the front, Having already sent new kitbags to Egypt ! Well done Gisborne ’. The Sports Protect ion League have issued a circular from Wellington combatting the proposal to include sports clubs in the war taxation proposal. In the opinion of the League the taxation should fall on all according to their ability to pay.

The wireless station on the top of the Auckland Post Office has been closed down. The authorities consider that the powerful station at Awauui, in North Auckland, which is in direct telegraphic and telephone communication, with Auckland, is sufficient tor all radio purposes. The Auckland instruments are not to he dismantled for the present. Those German fumes (says “ Ariel ” in the Dunedin Star) will roll right round the world and will suffocate a great deal of German trade. England, generous, and easy-going, and forgetful of injuries, may quickly fall back into her old ruts; but, you mark my word, Canada won’t forget those fumes. The German commercial traveller will, after the war, meet them in the doorway of every office he enters. The nation that murdered their gallant boys will be outside the pale for many a year to come.

Hugard is coming, Friday, May 21. “ I am not going to be a party to any kid-glove business in dealing with shortweight bread cases at a time like this, when the price is so high and there is so much poverty about.” Such was the declaration of Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., when bakers were before him on charges of having sold short-weight bread.

The maximum fine of £2O was imposed in each case, (from Auckland.) The death at the Dardanelles of Private David Shaw Baillie, of Dargaville, where he was well and favourably known,

■ecalls a fatal drowning accident which

happened in the Whan Creek 21 years ago, when Private Baillie was only three weeks old. A party of relatives and friends were out in a launch, which by some means was capsized. Mr John Baillie, of Henderson, father of the deceased soldier, went out in a dinghy in an effort to save his mother, sister, brother, and friend, but all were drowned. Deceased has a brother, Private John Baillie, also of Dargaville, with the third reinforcement draft.

The Premiers’ Conference at Sydney discussed the question of the American Meat Trust. It was resolved that steps bo taken to watch the operations of the moat companies in Queensland, also that the Royal Commission which inquired into the subject be approached by the Governments interested with a view to formulating a scheme of action. SSKugard is coming, Friday, May 21. Mr Peter Dawson, the baritone whoso singing is not easily forgot ten, is covering himself with laurels on his trip in the

Poverty Hay districts. On his return we hope that Mr Dawson will bo prevailed upon to visit Woodville, where ho has already many admirers.

A Wellington visitor to Woodville expresses surprise at the beauty of the district. Whariti displayed for her benefit

his softest mist effects the other evening ami the surrounding liills that have been finely tinted for a week or more, a tender purple veil which was particularly alluring. Indeed the season is delightful just now giving glorious views as well as perfect weather. Mother Mary Joseph Aubort is still in Home. Writing to the Sisters at the Homo of Compassion in Wellington, she says that she does not see much chance of leaving Italy at present. Mother Aubort, who will Ijo SO years of age next month has been busynursing among the vie-, thus of the Avo/./ano earthquake. She says that the horror’s of that disaster are almost indescribable. Many of the vic-

tims completely lost their reason, in several cases whole families wore destroyed,

and most pitiable of all hundreds of solo survivors are searching vainly for the remains of their departed relatives. Full range of Football jerseys, pants, hose, etc., now instock for the coming season at \V. Galbraith and Go’s. Tiro latest addition to the United States Navy —• the super-Dreadnought Pennsylvania—lids taken the water in Hampton Ivoads. For (lie present, at

loist, she will have the distinction of being the mightiest warship afloat. Of a displacement of :fl,■!<»') tons, she outranks

in this respect the mighty ships of Eng-

land's Queen Elizabeth class by ;>t)ootons, although the hi; ter are more formidable in speed and armament. The Pennsylvania i- designed to make 21. knots, and .•arrios I- I fid guns in IfUr in-Hu battery, : in- largest calibre gun America lias yet

put alio it Tim Queen Elizabeth lias a speed <>f knots, and can-ir « eight loin guns in her main battery, i'ho keels of the Pennsylvania aud the Queen Fiix.ath wore laid down in the same vear (1U12). but England has outstripped .America in the rapidity of comple igg construction. The British ship is now and has been for several weeks, pounding a way at the forts of the Dardanelles, but it will be several mouths before the Penusvlvaiiia will be realy to go into commission. Hagjrd is coining; Ffiday, May 21. There is a te-.clcncy just now to ecoiir omi-e in the matter of recreation. For instance a golf club in the Auckland district the other day decided not to publish b" -emit' of any matches through the i iratiou of the war. We should like to i-ik'how sit ;h decision was arrived at? ,-ver ha r rn can the indulgence in i • iicnv games and the public interest f-it in them do to patriotic sentiment wVtimr evidenced in recruiting returns O A Lie totals of subscription lists to the furl;? sVc know that there are still among us able-bodied men who have no possible excuse for loitering at street comers, on race grounds and etc. inste id of rallying at their country’s call but that those who cannot go to the fro it, who are physically unfit or have oth r pressing disabilities keeping them at h ime that these should be required to live-through a period of semi mourning seems to us absurd. We do not advocate the wasting of money or time in merely frivolous pmsmis me iv.amilui game.are not harmful and they help to brace us against the depression that inevitably follows the receipt of much o) our news I from the front, ’

School broke up to-day for the term holidays. Tenders are invited lor the cartage of timber and building material from the Woodville Railway Station, to the site of a new house on Mr Boltons Nikau property. Tho shareholders of Messrs Munson and Barr, Ltd,, Palmerston North, have generously .subscribed d 1125 to tho 80l- { gian Relief Fund, and a cheque for this amount has been received at the Standard office and paid into the fund. To provide a nurse for tne Red Cross Hospital at Malta, where the wounded from the Dardanelles will be taken. Mrs David Gillies, of Auckland, lias cabled the sum of iliOO to the British headquarters. Private David Lionel Smith, who is reported wounded was born in Wellington in 1 890. He is a son of Mr C. Smith, manager of tho Bank of New Zealand in Private Smith was on the staff of Bank of New Zealand, Foil cling, for some time. The latest fad among wealthy American women for the relief of conditions not in their own class is a “ School of Fathercraft ” —that is, tho education of men to become good fathers, and some of the papers have cartoons of instructors of classes on such subjects as “How to Dress a Baby,” “How to fill a Nursing Bottle,” “ How to Feed a Baby,’,, “ How to amuse a baby,” Wc. A resident in England writing to friends in Eketahuua, says:—“ We have been having New Zealand butter for some little time now. As a rule it is very good, and we pay is $d per lb for it. The English make is is yd per lb, but not so good.” In referring to the war the writer stated that all in shop windows was the notice “ Business as usual.”

The Prime Minister stated on Tuesday that there was now less ground for anxiety as to a shortage of butter for local needs. There are 55,000 boxes of butter in store to-day, and the factories are still working, although on a reduced scale, owing to the shortage of milk. He repeated his previous statement that all exports would cease if there was any increase in the retail price. Since the war began in August the Defence Headquarters offices in Wellington

have been open continuously, staffs working the round of the clock, day in and day out. A special department has now been set up to deal with the casualty lists received from the Dardanelles. Use “NAZOL” and you won’t keep a bad cold or sore throat above a day or two. Acts like a chirm. Got a bottle TO-DAY. At Wellington magistrate’s Court Barclay Hector pleaded guilty to three charges of fraudulent conversion of moneys totalling £837 12s 2d, received by him on account of the Senate of the University, of which he was till lately registrar, and he was remanded for sentence. The great attraction at the Palace Pictures to-morrow night is a Vitagraph comedy, entitled, “Never Again.” Tins picture is over 2000 ft. in length and is acted by the stars of the well-known Vitagraph Company. Mary Fuller will be seen to advantage in “An Affair of Dress,” being the third series of “ Doily of the Dailies.” Another drama which will be shown in two parts is “ On Suspicion.” A Scenic and a Topical picture will be shown besides the Australian Gazette.

The following will represent the Woodville Hockey Club, against Rnahine, on the.Recreatiou Ground to-mor-row ;—Messrs B. Cosgrove, A. Barkwith, W. H. Hoult, S. C. Howell, A. Cookslcv, C. Doggett, R. Grinlinton, B. Kelly, V. Grinlinton, L. Little, J. McCieary. Enter. A. Kirkpatrick and S. Thomas. “ It is not generally known ” said Mr J. W. Ellis, at Otorahanga “ that Kawhia was at one time the greatest exporting port south of the Equator. In the late forties as many as three vessels were on

the same day, loading wheat and other products for export to southern ports.” In connection with this reminiscence it is sometimes forgotten that Raglan in those days as a port, bid fair to rival Onehunga. Tested in thousands of kitchens, BIIARLAND’S Baking Powder has never failed to rise. Costs less than others —-worth more. Playing at Woodville on Wednesday in the Rugby competition, both the local seniors and thirds were successful. In each game the score recorded was 22 to nil. Mrs Grant at present in Switzerland, writing to her daughter, Mrs W. H. Nelson, states that site is working among people interned there. Letters are received from anxious relatives trom all over the world, but the most vague come from England making it most difficult to send replies. It is not generally realised how little the west of England up to this time, has has been touched by the war. Letters from Liverpool speak of prices as being almost normal, of an advance in most trades and phenomenal activity along the dockyards. Since the Lusitania incident there is evidently less security felt in shipping circles. But there is only a modification of the precautions re lighting No found to be imperative in London and eastern ports, President Wilson has decided to address a stern note to Germany demanding the discontinuance of submarine warfare against passenger steamers. The demand will be couched in language appealing to the humanity of the whole world. If it is refused, it is asserted that Mr Gerard, American Ambasadorto Germany, will be recalled, and Count Bernstoff will receive his passports. Only the best rubber heels used at the Woodville Boot Palace The Ladies of Holy Trinity Church held a very successful “ At Home ” in the Sunday school room on Wednesday alternoon, to welcome the new parishioners. The school was nicely decorated with

bowls of chrysanthemums and the seats wore arranged to make the gathering as informal as possible. There were several competitions during the afternoon and musical items were rendered by Mrs Scott, Misses Bean, Giles and Bailey. Delightful afternoon tea was provided and the singing of the National Anthem brought a very pleasant afternoon to a close.

The following story is told in the Queen: —There was a man of somewhat advanced years but youthful appearance who wished to enlist. Ho was really forty-five, but the recruiting officer said nothing when lie gave his age (wishing to do the thing handsomely) as thirty-two. “Any previous military experience.-’’ the oifieer asked. “ No—none.” Alter a pause the oificcr added casually. “ Any relations is the Army r” “Oh, yes,” said the recruit, pride obscuring caution for the moment, “ both my sous are in it.” B IMPISH WANGS FAMOUS FOB THK.EE CEKTUBIES. Few British firms can look back on so long and so honourable a career as the makers of the World's finest pianos— John Broadwood and Sons, Ltd. Founded early in the eighteenth century, this house lias maintained its pre-eminence by producing an instrument of sterling quality and of perfect design. The' Broadwood Piano has long been popular with music lovers. The Bristol Piano Co., Ltd., indeed, have placed hundreds of Broadwoods in New Zealand homes. Excellent examples of this renowned instrument, as well as of those other noted British pianos —the Samos, and the Collard and Collard—are always in stock at ‘The Bristol.’ Payment can bo make on terms so easy that one scarcely misses the instalments. The Bristol North Island Manager, M. J. I Brookes. Local representative, John I GfrwL ' I