OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 6, 9 February 1910, Page 4

OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

February 5. Railway* Must Pay. /TA K MILLAR is still talking to I I | deputations about the rail.j I 1 ways and the way to manage / them and their belongings. Two things come out from the farrago that gets into the newspapers. They are tho expressed determination of the Minister to make the railways pay with out coming on the Consolidated Fund—i.e., the taxpayer —to supplement, and the certainty that in the matter of economy the Minister is on the right track. For the first, it is quite true that the Government prided themselves for some time on the fact that they were making it a question of policy to be content partly with the indirect advantages of railway management. But the truth is also as prominent that the time has gone by for any exceptional treatment of any section of the railway users. The time has come for the railways to be regarded as a business concern to be run “on its own.” That they can be so run is proved by the evident readiness of so many people to take them over at a Tent and feather their nests out of the poor, dear, delightful, unsuspecting travelling public. Therefore the Minister, though apparently out of agreement with the expressed sentiments of his distinguished predecessors in office, is acting with consistency, as well as with the logical consent of his colleagues. The only difference between his management and the management which certain people would like to see brought about is that the profit will be enough, but not abnormal, and the consequence will be that nobody will bless his stars that he was born a drone, with a prodigious power of sucking blood from the well-endowed, and the art of hiding his little game.

Running Empty and Running Full. For the second point, the right line. Of course, every railway man will tell you, if you ask him politely and without any apparent desire to suck his brains- a thing every expert blocks on principle —that the right line of management is to keep the train miles down to the minimum. In other words, the more the miles of full carriage, the better will the railways pay, and the more, trains are run empty the worse will be the railway balance sheet. It seems absurd to dwell on such a self-evident proposition, but the fact is that the railways are not regarded by the public with anything approaching to understanding. No doubt this cutting down of the facilities offered for carrying nothing expensively may be overdone. There are many critics who think it has been overdone already by Mr Millar. But they are like tin; rabbiter who is afraid of losing his job, and therefore lets go a good few’ of the best breeders, so that bunny may show his gratitude with perennial recurrence. These critics want a grievance, but it is apparent that they are going to bo wiped out by the ordinary course of events. This the latest figures prove elearlv, with £273,000 increased revenue and £85,000 additional expenditure. Going to the Bottom. Mr Millar has won golden opinions in another direction by ordering the survey ef the Raugitoto Channel. The practical man declares that he cannot see what else in the multitude of the conflicting evidence tho Minister of Marine could have done than go to the bottom of the •ea for the truth. In this connection it cornea with a shiH'k that the New Zealand Shipping Company has determined to offer tho r.ipanni for sale over in Melbourne, where she got into safety after an uncommonly long and plucky fight on the part of all concerned. it reminds us that the company has been exceptionally hard hit during the last few months. A company which has deserved especially well of tho Dominion, inasmuch as it rescued tho people from the monopoly of Shaw, Savin in the old days, which tho pioneers remember well enough. They inaugurated the first shipments of wheat and other grain to the London market, which up to that time was regarded as inaccessible by water from New Zealand. After that the company led the way into •team at a time when the future of tho

Dominion was looking particularly blue. On the whole, it has been a very publicspirited company, which, though not started exactly on philanthropic principles, nevertheless did place the public benefit high in its scale of consideration. It therefore deserves much consideration, particularly as it has met with undeserved hard luck with three steamers of the first-class. These disasters have walked into the company’s chest one may readily compute to the extent of a cool hundred thousand or so. The loss is no doubt partly covered by insurance, but in these eases of big repairs there is an element of the uncertain and the unsatisfactory always; besides, there is certain loss. Fate has certainly not been at all kind to one of the institutions that has deserved best at her hands. Better no doubt from the material point of view to have made a total loss; like the Wanatah, for example. The shipyards of the United Kingdom are full of stories of how many firms refused to tender for the construction of this vessel, which they declared was doomed by her very plans to disaster. But these things you hear only- in the cabins and saloons of the ships that frequent the port of Wellington. The subject never finds its way into print, and the big ship lies somewhere at the bottom in the very odour of maritime sanctity. At any rate, the owners are not worried with the necessity for making extensive and expensive repairs.

Sacking the Large Sack. While we are talking railways it is as well to mention the satisfaction of philanthropic men with the determination of the management to enforce the regulation limiting the weight carried in sacks. It is an open secret, notwithstanding the outcry on the part of certain merchants of the old school, that the heavy sacks are responsible for the large proportion of men who become prematurely old before they are forty->five. Hence the heavy penalties that are exacted in all cases of excess over 200ibs by the Department. The publie likes the penalties because they are a guarantee that obstinate people will not make it their business to make profit out of disobedience of the regulations. Military Matters. Military matters are brisk in connection with the visit of the Marshal. There is nothing definite to report, however, or to gossip over. There is comfort for the military mind from another source. It appears that Lord Roberts has just discovered that the Dominion has accepted the principle of compulsory service, and he has warmly told the Dominion what he thinks of such highminded patriotism. To which all we can say here is that it is the first time Lord Roberts has during a varied and most eventful career had occasion to ask for the benefit of “better late than never.” Civil Service Changes. The changes in high places have been received with favour. Everybody is sorry to lose Mr. Warburton from the Auditor-Generalship, because it is universally recognised that he had the honesty, firmness, grasp, and independence necessary for the position. At the same time the opinion is just as strong and widespread that Colonel Collins, 1.5.0., has the same qualities for the position and sundry others which will make his occupancy of the post pleasant to all men. But it must' be remembered in this connection that there is not a mind more independent and determined than the Colonel’s, but as it is accompanied by tact, judgment, kindliness, modesty, justice, ami above all things thorough familiarity with the history and practice, to say nothing of the principles, of the auditing of all the public accounts, which he knows like his pocket, as the French say in their inimitably forcible manner, he is likely to make the best AuditorGeneral we have ever had. Dr. Fitchett was a member of the Public Trust Board, and happened to feet fatigued with his duties of tho Solicitor-Generalship. There was, therefore, one reason why he should bo put into command of the Public Trust Department. Moreover, there were two things which weighed. Firstly. Mr. Poynton w’as due for promotion, and the Advances position is promotion, when put together with the Under-Secretaryship of

the Treasury. He has to win his spurs as Under-Secretary, a position of which he has absolutely no experience; so that his acceptance of the office is somewhat of an experiment. But he is an able man, and as there was no one in the Department quite fit for the promotion, the best thing has been done. In the second place, as to the Solicitor-General-ship, it has been for some time evident that there could not be two kings in Brentford. There was, in fact, a surplus of talent. It was not always easy to recognise seniority, and when opinions were asked of one man, which the other thought should have come to him for the solution of the enigmas concerned, it was not the happiest of families in that high place. Thus Professor Salmond is installed in the right place for him, without any disrespect to the other man, who has had a very hard time of it during the last few years, and deserves the promotion that has come to him in the guise of redistribution of offices. The main thing is that the service is generally better for the changes, and as Mr. Warburton’s experience and uncompromising character, together with his great knowledge of business, general and particular, is retained for the Advances Department, there is really nothing more to be said, except that the Cabinet has kept its eye successfully on the public interest throughout. Even the Opposition journals are apparently quite satisfied. One almost wishes that the numbers of the party were somewhat larger, for it is not often they approve tacitly of the doings of the Cabinet. Opposition Blank Cartridges.

The political war is carried on nevertheless. The enemy uses blank a good deal of course, for at this season there is not much ammunition of the more serious order. A ease in point is the pretence of warmth with which the explanation of Mr. Fowlds, in re the education expenditure is being assailed. Words apparently fail the Opposition organ here to characterise the reply he has made. The head and front of the reply of course is that it is so good. Hence it must be attacked as dishonest. The main dishonesty seems to 'be that the Minister has had the audacity to declare that the £47,000 of the endowment income has been a good thing for the Education Department. "We are asked to believe that this is a most disingenuous statement. But the irate critic forgets that the endowments were earmarked for the Education Department. Had it not been for that, the department would have had to take pot luck, share and share alike with the rest of the service in the distributions of a revenue increased generally by a not ear-marked £47,000. It simply would not have got the whole of that money. It would have had to share it with others. Hence the statement of the actual faet was a stroke of great power for Mr. Fowlds. Moreover, the real place of pinching is somewhat further back. The Opposition, and many others, insisted for manyyears on reductions of revenue. Well, the Government reduced the revenue considerably. The result is that there is not as much money to spend as there would have been had there been no reductions. Those who approved so heartily of the reductions have no right to abuse the Minister because ihe has not as much money as they think he ought to have for carrying on the service. To eat your cake and to have it at the same time is a thing impossible, as we were taught in early life, These critics have forgotten. But as I said in the beginning they are only firing blank. The Coining Storm, Something more than blank is being fired about the bookies. The worst of the gentry have broken out in a bad place, proving at Miramar the rottenness of pony racing as sometimes practised. It is quite immaterial what was the cause of that disgraceful exhibition. It is enough for most men that the whole thing was due to the class of sport prevalent at meetings of that sort. These are doomed under the Act of last Session of course. But their enemies are not satisfied to denounce them. They are making the running strong against the bookie generally, and there is a row brooding which will burst next session. There Will be a trial of strength in re the bookie without a doubt. A counter is threatened against the totalisator, but no one believes that any harm will come to the popular instrument. Echoes of the Australian Strike. Newcastle has its echoes here. During the week those champions of the

Labour cause, Messrs. Richardson Rae, and McLaren, M.P., have contributed their quota to the discussion, and very, strong they have shown themselves to be «s champions of their friends. It is a good case on paper. But the ease will be settled before long on the lines they dislike so much. On the whole, however, the public does not like importations from the other aide, as witness the applause accorded to the prosecution of A certain newspaper. About that matter, one cannot at the present stage say anything, of course. But of the other it is pretty certain that the defeat of tho men of Newcastle will not cause any on 6 to wear mourning here. It will be one of the misfortunes of our best friends in which we take a certain amount of rather keen delight. The lesson is good for the world, for it seems that despite the fact that there are several undeniably good points in the case for the meet, points involving the “vend,” the shipping ring, and the general uncertainties of the coal market, the strike is, after alt, the worst remedy, as ineffective and unprincipled. The dock strike of 1889 is quoted by Mt. Richardson Rae as an example of the efficacy and righteousness of the strike method, and this ex-M.P. for a N.S.W. constituency and ex-labouC leader of the Mother State, lias soma right to speak as one knowing many things necessary to discussion, and he puts his points well. So does Mr. McLaren, who is beginning where the other; left off. Both forget that the world has advanced a great deal since the time of the Dock upheaval, in the direction! of proving the general unfitness of the strike remedy and the superior efficacy, of arbitration laws justly administered. Then there was no remedy but force. Now there is every reason for avoiding force. Hence public opinion then stood by the dockers, and now turns its back on strikers in sorrow surely but without hope of alteration. The Dock in Difficulties. The dock continues to puzzle the engineers who are responsible as much as the ■public, which is not. The former no\y are lamenting that they have come almost to the end of their experiments with various kinds of cement, all of which refuse to do the right thing iit deep water without the coveted coffee dam, and there is talk of their having to go to Japan for wrinkles; the Japanese solving the difficulty, it is said, by the use of scoria in their concrete. Now, •there is much scoria in this country. While we are waiting for the next movs, we have the protests to consider whiclr are rising thick in favour of the discarded cranes of the King's Wharf. The criticism gaining ground outside is that; the Board was too much in a hurry to capitulate to tire protest of a single firm. It should, we are informed, in many keys of complaining fierceness! have told this firm that the cranes ara new. and for that reason slow, that this* defect will disappear gradually, that all users of the wharf must therefore submit, and that if they can make out as case for a rebate the Board is ready to listen. That would have saved the cranes, whereas now it seems that sixteen thousand pounds liave been thrown into tho sea. We want that money taken out and put back on to the wharf. A violent discussion at the Board's meeting about the Board’s habit of going into committee adds point to these things. It also serves to exonerate the chairman from responsibility for the practice, and happily it does not show that the practice is doomed. Ten Per Cent. The Gas Company has just added to the happiness of the N.Z. gas list by completing a nice dividend of 10 pec cent, for the year. It reminds us ail of the incandescent mantle of a dozen years ago. which sheltered gas with apparent completeness from the rivalry of electricity, or at all events gave it a new, lease of life. Wellsbach was the name associated with the change. Therefore the prosperity of gas companies reminds one of Wellsbach. The name, however, reminds some readers of the “Scientifiq American” of a paragraph recently appearing to the effect that Wellsbach had invented an incandescent mantle to bo used with electric lighting, and was abou£ to exploit the same for all it may ba worth, to the consternation of the owners of gas shares. The story gives force ot a sort to the company's complaint that the Council docs not permit them to compete against its own electric installation for the lighting of the city. It does not at the same time lessen the deslm of the citizens to avoid buying the conic pany out at high figures.

Money la Abundance. *> The Trust and Ix>an Company of Wellington emphasises the return to prosperity with a good dividend. The fact reminds us that the building societies have reduced their deposit rate, and that the announcement has been made that the banks intend to do so shortly. Moreover, it is now freely stated in financial circles that there is abundance of money ior investment on “gilt edged securities” Hthe phrase sounds somewhat peculiar, being decidedly restrictive) at 5 and SJ. It does not matter too much to the farming community, for the order with them since wool went up is not of the "cashing Up” kind familiar in doleful times, but of increased receipts on consignments. iWith wool keeping up to its present noble proportions of price, they will have no difficulty in understanding the growth of large sums awaiting investment, even on securities that are not too gilt on their edges. Fresh Air.

There is a letter going the rounds of the Press here of import most touching to our people, who, whatever their grievances, have no lack of food or fresh air or country wanderings in their lives. It is from the head of the Pearson nest •of newspapers, and it makes moving appeal for help to the Fresh Air Fund started and administered gratis by that ifirm for giving outings to the poo'r children of the great cities. They spent last year a-quarter of a million in this way, paying all expenses of administra'tion themselves, so that every penny reached the little ones, each of whom got a splendid day out for ninepence sterling. It is the newest and best edition of the nim'ble ninepence that has yet been issued to an astonished public. There was, in addition, provision for giving a week or a month to those little children who required an extended stay in the country. What all this means has been brought home to the public !by some pathetic words of the Mayoress, iwho, addressing one of her many meetings the other day, narrated her own experience some years ago with this (Fresh Air policy, which has been practised by good people at various times in tire great city of Babylon. She told of the stupefaction of amazement and the helplessness of delight with which the children brought from London to the neighbourhood of Brighton beheld green trees, flowers, and pleasant meadows for the first time of their lives. They rolled in the grass, they absorbed the scent ■of the fresh earth, they plunged their bands in the eool fragrant grass; they actually forgot to eat of the good things piled up beside them by their entertainlers, and that though they were as hungry as they could be. But hunger •was an every-day experience, while this —well, it was Ifeaven, or the nearest thing to what they had ever heard of as the Acme of Bliss. Between the plain facts of the letter and the shading »o opportunely and pathetically filled in by Mrs. Newman, there is likely to be a stream of ninepennies setting towards the great slums of the Old Country.

Fenny Dreadfuls Again. The young people reminding us of their existence are not solely of the outer world. Before the Supreme Court !we have now waiting to be dealt with a couple of boys, who, according to Ithoir counsel, have gone wrong through the reading of "penny dreadfuls.” It has of course been made to appear that the *penny dreadful” requires a something more than mere reading for its due effect. There must, be lack of parental ■control, and in this case that has been proved abundantly. Still, so far as the iboys are concerned, there is not much in the point, for the essence of the thing is that they are not themselves altogether responsible. Boys are not abnormal monsters, who appear suddenly to perplex and annoy mankind. Their ■wickedness, when they are wicked, is more their misfortune than their fault. Our system, however, is such that their misfortune very soon does become their fault. Here is the weakness and the pity of the position, which will neither of them lie removed by the abolition of “the “penny dreadful."

Commissioner Hay. Apropos one reads with pleasure of the doings of the Salvationists in our midst. A visiting Commissioner—TuspectingGcncral would be the appropriate word, according to the principles of Salvationist phraseology—is going round the country at the spec! of lightning, inspecting, bolding meetings, retailing statistics by the yard, exhibiting the energy •f the order in all its wavs normal and

abnormal. With all this one is familiar by long acquaintance with the ways of the Army. What strikes one most in this instance is the practical statement of this Commissioner, that Governments do not seem to understand that the principles of Christianity are the best for the reform of all possible abuses. Commissioner Hay just contents himself with saying so, and then he passes on to the hundred and one points of the Salvationist line. These he handles with the accustomed ability of the chiefs of this remarkable organisation.

The new proposal of the new Prophet Enoch —some water has passed under the bridge since the first one said anything particular—though made afar off, concerns us nearly. It is on the face of it a good proposal enough. It means the endowment of British cities with endowments of colonial lands, in order that they may mend the evil of poverty and pauperism among their people by settling the endowments with suitable persons, thereby benefiting themselves and the Empire to which they are so proud to belong. This is following municipally the line struck out some years ago by General Booth, who at that time was very sanguine of success. The rock he split on was the objection to the presence of paupers and worse who were sure to be brought out by his scheme. He promised to control them, and the wonderful organising power of the Salvation Army was a guarantee which he could well put forward. But he failed nevertheless. Will the new prophet Enoch succeed? It is a question for those who have large quantities of land for the settlement incidental to the proposed scheme. This Dominion has but little land left for disposal at first hand, and the devotion of lands bought hack hardly lends itself to anything of this kind. For us to join the scheme would be much like offering a stone to a collector for a charity. Moreover, if we had the land we have not the necessary land law, for the Statute Book contains provision for only acquir ing land in a certain way, known to all men. We shall watch with interest, however, the way in which the Australians, Canadians, and Africans wrestle with this subject. Tlvey all want population, they all have vast areas on which tosettle the same, they will none of them have the right to feel safe against the disturbing influences of national migration until these areas are less empty. When that time comes they will be mrist profitable people for us to trade with. We hope by that time to have turned our wealth of iron and water powers to such account that we shall be the manufacturing nation par excellence of the Pacific world.

When Day Breaks, Some carping we note about the High Commissioner's cable quotations of prices current. Farmers throughout the Dominion will, of course, readily understand the desire of interested people to keep business of this sort—vital to the farmer, for it affects the price of everything he raises—under the original bushel of darkness. Hence he will readily understand also the violent objections now raised to these quotations as being too high to be trustworthy, as useless to all practical men, and so forth. Happily also he will also as readily understand the general defence made of the quotations, as giving the producer the best news of the markets which affect him, which news is for him the safety valve of the position. When day breaks, it is said, that the pieces go into mourning (morning). When this day of truth breaks from the High Commissioner's Office, we all know who are the pieces that go into mourning, and we can recognise their lamentations; at which we can also laugh with the humour .of the man who laughs last.

Mysterious Disappearance. A case which Messrs. Stafford (for the Public Trustee) and the children and next of kin of Richard Tuck well (deceased) brought before Mr. Justice Cooper, sitting in banco, last week in Wellington, presented such remarkable features that his Honor was moved to remark: “This appears to me to be another Tichborne case. It certainly contains excellent material for a novel.” The case was referred to, but briefly, in August last, when Mr. Justice Cooper had before him a petition for direction lodged by the Public Trustee re the will of George Tuckwell. It appeared that Tuekwell went to Australia in 1880. and had not been heard of since 1883. The judge on that occasion ordered that advertise-

ments be inserted in the chief papers circulating in the principal cities of Australia. in order that the Public Trustee might be separately represented in the Court when the matter was argued. The advertisements had been published as directed by his Honor, and to-day he declared that George Tuckwell was dead, and that he died intestate, that he was never married, and that consequently there was no issue. The facts of the case, as set out in the affidavits and other documents, and from his Honor’s remarks, are certainly curious, Richard Tuckwell was a farmer ut Karori in the early days, and made a fair competency. When he made his will he provided for his wife, who predeeeased him, and for his children. After this, the balance of his estate was to he distributed among the children on the coming of age of the youngest of them. George Tuekwell, the eldest boy, went away to Australia, and while he was away his father died, in 1882. He came over to Wellington afterwards to learn of his interest in the will, and it was in 1882 that he was last seen in Wellington. He was then unmarried. After his departure for Australia a second time Tuekwell corresponded with his relatives here with some regularity, and letters were received from him up to 1883. Then they suddenly ceased, and from 1883 up to now no letters had been received from him by his relatives in New Zealand or elsewhere. He had brothers in Australia, and the last relative who saw George Tuekwell alive was his brother Archer, and that was in Sydney. Inquiries made subsequently showed that George had shared lodgings with another man in Sydney, and at his lodgings in 1887 there was a box of his containing papers. Advertisements were published in Australia and New Zealand for George Tuekwell between 1892 and 1898, but with no result. However, in 1893, a letter was written to a brother of George Tuekwell in Wellington, purporting to be from the missing man, and asking for photographs of the family. The brother who received this letter was satisfied it was a forgery. Then a letter came to say that a former friend of the Tuekwell family was coming to Wellington, with a power of attorney from George Tuekwell, to collect the moneys due to him. The sum involved is about £9OO. The money was claimed from the Public Trustee, and the power of attorney was addressed to him. It was said that George Tuekwell was then at Cobar, New South Wales. The friend in question said he was coming to Wellington. He admitted that the writing of the let'er was his, but that it was at George Tuckwell’s dictation. Evidence was clear, said his Honor, that the friend had been in Cobar under an assumed name, and that he received a telegram from Wellington in reply to inquiries made in connection with George Tuckwell. The friend wrote to his mother in Wellington, and some of the letters were obtained by the police. They contained inquiries as to the money left to George Tuekwell. The friend's family refused any information of his whereabouts to the police, and efforts to find him had been fruitless. No claim had been made on the Public Trustee from anyone on behalf of George Tuekwell. The indications were, his Honor said, that tho friend obtained possession of papers from George Tuekwell, and from them obtained information of the death of Tuckwell, but there was no indication ot the registration of his death, and it was quite possible that' he died under an assumed name. In 1905 the matter came before his Honor, who made an order for the Public Trustee to hold the funds until he had made further inquiries. This was done, but with no result. It had been men Honed that a George Tuekwell had married at Narrandera, New South Wales, in 1897, and that his wife instituted proceedings for divorce, but her husband's identity with the George Tuekwell in question was not established. In 1893 a conveyance was taken by a well-known Wellington solicitor of land at Kaiwarra, which George Tuekwell had been left by liis father. This land was paid for, and the proceeds sent to the supposed George Tuekwell. A fraud, his Honor -aid. was successfully committed in 1893 by someone impersonating George Tuekwell, and this person attempted to claim the moneys held for George Tuekwell by the Public Trustee. His Honor presumed George Tuekwell to be dead, unmarried, intestate, and that ho died prior to the coming of age of Valentine Tuekwell (the youngest child I, and lie thought it would be wise for the Ihiblie Trustee to hold the fund for further period of six months, and, pro-

viding no applications are received at Hie end of that time, to receive in order for the payment of the money over to the persons entitled to receive it. New Zealand Rifle Association. As a result' of representations made by Captain .Skinner, the New Zealand Rille Association meeting at Trenlham has been postponed till March 4. so as not to clash with Lord Kitchener's inspection of local volunteers on the 2nd. Preuure of Judicial Work. His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards, who has been the judge in the Auckland district for the [>ast seven years, has at last beeiT obliged to dechue publicly that the work in the Auckland judicial district is more than one judge can possibly cope with. The work in the northern half of the island of late years has increased by leaps and bounds, and the number of circuit sittings has been augmented. His Honor has made representations to the Minister of Justice in the matter, and it is probable that before another year has passed, there will be two permanent judges in the northern district. 1« will, no doubt, surprise those guileless persons who imagine that when the Court is adjourned the judge's work is done to learn that during the sessions here Mr. Justice Edwards is hard at work in his chambers night after night, fre-

quently until long past the midnight hour. Dr. Findlay, Minister for Justice, speaking of the pressure Of work upon judges, stated that temporary arrangements had been made to relieve pressure at Auckland. There wars a little difficulty .just now, but the Chief Justice would be able to resume his duties about the middle of March. Meanwhile the judges were endeavouring, he thought successfully, to meet the pressure, which was due chiefly to the fact that for the first six weeks of the year two judges were absent. Mr. Justice Sim had been able to give a great deal of • assistance while not engaged in the Arbitration Court. Dr. Findlay said that he recognised Mr. Justice Edwards as one of the hardest worked judges, being in a district where a large amount of dTiminal Work had to be done.

Suicide at Wellington. A single man named William Anderson, aged 34 years, was found early on Saturday in a backyard with his throat cut. Anderson resided in a house at Cambridge-terrace. According to a report made to the police, the daughter of the occupier of the house, on returning last night from the theatre, met Anderson, and was assaulted by him, sustaining a split jaw and broken nose. The matter was reported to the police, who found Anderson lying in the backyard with his throat cut, having evidently committed suicide. Jealousy is said to be the cause of the trouble.