AILING HOUSEWIVES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 9, 1 March 1911, Page 4

AILING HOUSEWIVES.

BILIOUSNESS AND HEADACHE? ENDED. BILE BEANS. WOMAN’S TRUE) KRIEND. As a family medicine, Bile Beans are unequalled, and a box should be in every medicine chest. “I cannot speak too highly of Bile Beans as a general corrective,” says Mrs. M. Glanville, of Somerset-street, Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand. “About four years ago I was a martyr to biliousness and indigestion, and often had severe attacks of headache and dizziness, which caused me to neglect my domestic duties, and considerably impaired my appetite. In search of relief I tried numerous remedies, which only resulted in spending money without obtaining any benefit. Some friends then recommended Bile Beans, and I decidea to give them a trial. I felt a decided improvement for the better after I hail finished two boxes. After persevering with Bile Beans my appetite returned, the dizziness and headaches disappeared, and finally the biliousness amt indigestion ceased to trouble me. My health waj restored, and 1 was completely cured by Bile Beans.” Both old and young have a friend in Bile Beans, for they are mild in action* do not gripe, and are easy to take. Bilq Beans arc a proved remedy for indigos, tion, biliousness, constipation, headache, bad breath and sluggish liver, stomach disorder, piles, fainting fits, that tired feeling, general debility, lassitude, anneInia and female ailments. A dose or twqi n time may save pounds in doctors’ bills.

Orwmming. . Mr. pe Ia Mare, a graduate of Victoria College, spoke trenchantly last week for university reform, at a meeting pf tk® Graduates’ Association. “ It is got fieesssary,” he paid, “ to a university flegree in JNetf' Zealand that a candidate fekoulu have seen a university college, |hat he should, have spoken to a unia ersity man, that he should have listened tq a University professor. He need not even listen to the Chancellor’s speech on fapping day, but may send his fee by Igtter and receive his scroll by return »Ost. University training in the sense »£ attendance at a university institution 1,3 110 necessary qualification for our university degree.” Speaking of Victoria College, he says:—“ I feel that I am understating the case when I say that a majority treat the college as a night school, and do not even take sufficient interest in the surroundings to buy the College magazine. There is a scramble !or a degree which is within the reach of ,ny sturdy crammer. Soft subjects are in demand, and brainy men strain for the Extraordinary results, double firsts and pouble-banked degrees, which mean mental gluttony, and end in mental indigestion. A Rhodes scholarship may ba granted on the strength of the very thing Which has made the candidate forsake Ifcfe fellows, and which would, if this were tin ordinary trust, ensure his disqualification. We have night lectures,” continued the speaker, “and offer degrees to hardworked school-teachers, public servants, and law students, who begin their study hfter a day’s work. To such the degree means something practical, and they cannot be blamed for taking the shortest Toad, the road which is free and open to all. Now I do not contend that these fehould be prevented from taking their degrees. I believe that a great national Work is achieved by opening to such the highest road, but I see clearly this, that jhe time is coming when the university Will have to choose between two paths. It will have to say, “No purely night Students,” or “ Degrees only on the guariantee that real university training has .peen received.” W cannot be content With shams, and the present system is doomed.” East Coast Railway. At the monthly meeting of the Waihi Borough Council last week, a letter >vas received from the secretary of the 'Auckland Railway League asking for the borough’s co-operation in organising a jrlp of inspection over the route by representative men, including members of Parliament, with a view to convincing them of the necessity of immediately Commencing the work of construction (from the Waihi end. The council resolved to co-operate with the Auckland Railway League, undertaking to coach the inspecting party from Waihi to Taui'anga and supply them with- all necessary information. Harbour Board Representation. Tile Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union have brought out a member to (stand for a seat on the Auckland Harbour Board, the selected member being Mr. E. E. Canham, wharf labourer. The tanion consider that the time has arrived When the Waterside Workers’ Unions of the Dominion should be represented on (the different Harbour Boards, and they Asked the Hon. J. A. Millar (Minister for Marine) to make provision in the Harbour Boards Amendment Act for representation of waterside workers’ Virions. The Minister did not see his way clear to grant the wishes of the union, and the step referred to above (has been taken. New Zealand's Brink Bill. The following statement showing the “Drink Bill” for 1910 has been prepared by the Rev. Edward Walker, who for some years past has annually calculated and published the Dominion’s expenditure on alcoholic liquors. The srink bill of the Dominion for 1910, calculated as usual at per gallon rates pn. the quantity which passed through the Customs and Excise amounted to ijE 3,803,438, being an increase on the previous year of £175,301, or £3 13/lf per Iread of the population, this being fin increase per head on the previous year of 2/o}. The “bill” is like a barometer for showing the current spending power of the people. Anyone may form his own estimate of what the figures would be if the increase (after

fSssing the Customs and Excise) of the »jhantity of liquor by methods known to the trade and the actual cost to the consumers, not at per gallon, but as sold across the bar, could be calculated. Probably five million pounds sterling and five pounds per head of population, or £25 per householder is less than was really Spent on liquor in New Zealand last year. For purposes of comparison, Mr. Walker says, the expenditures for both 1909 and 1910 may be quoted, the figures covering the period from January to December 31 inclusive.

Increase, 19,228. Note.—Spirits and wines estimated at £2 per gallon; imported beer -at 6/ per gallon;Dominion beer at 4/ per gallon. The population is calculated by taking the mean of the four quarterly estimates issued by the Registrar-General, nnd adding Maoris 247,731, as per last Census, but not the population (12,430) of the Cook and other islands in the Pacific annexed to the Dominion in 1910. The slight apparent excess in the totals is accounted for by unexpressed fractions of a farthing in'-the amount standing over them. Mr. C. M. Gray, of Christchurch, who for a number of years calculated and published the annual drink bill, estimated from the Customs and Excise returns calculates that for the 16 years from 1870 to 1885 inclusive it averaged £2,599,553 per annum. This would give for the fifteen years from 1870 to 1884 inclusive a total of £38,991,295. Following this are given below the annual expenditures for the twenty-six years which have since elapsed to 1910 inclusive. The estimated population prior to 1896 and. onward has -been inclusive of them. For 1897 and onward the year’s expenditure is reckoned for the 12 months from January 1 to December 31 (inclusive), but for the year 1896 for the twelve months from March 30, 1896, to March 30, 1897, and similarly for the

Total for 41 years: £108,138,853. Prior to 1870, in the days of the diggings, the drink bill per head per population was much heavier than it has been since, cheques and gold being “knocked down” with the utmost recklessness, so that, in the absence of the figures, it is difficult to form an estimate of the drink expenditure on the cost per gallon basis for the thirty years. Of the country’s history up to 1870, an estimate •which would bring the total to the present time up to £ 125,000,000 would

probably be much within the mark. It must be remembered that this cost is estimated upon the actual quantity of which the Customs and Excise has taken cognisance, and as if the customers purchased it all by the gallon at ordinary per gallon rates, and takes no account of dilution and adulteration, nor of the much greater cost of a gallon to the consumers when it is served to them by the glass or the nip, or. of the cost to the man who “knocks down” his cheque for just what he may get when drunk and helpless. It is obvious, Mr. Gray says, that £250.000,000 might be a moderate estimate of the amount that has been squandered for liquor involving many millions more cost to the State to cope with the consequences. Comparing the increase in the consumption of drink with figures taken from the police reports annually laid upon the table in Parliament Mr Gray gets the following results: — 1901, separate persons charged with drunkenness, 8,032; not known to have been previously convicted 4,456; vear 1902, 8244 and 5205; year 1903, 8815 and 4944; year 1904, 9615 and 5268: year 1905, 8707 and 5141; vear 1906, 9,210 and 5144; vear 1907, 10,203 and 5809; year 1908, 16,343 and 5,840; year 1909, 16,657 and 6.042 — making 47.946 separate persons in nine years. If they were not official police figures, Mr Gray says., this one black record of a single form of the evil fruits of the liquor traffic would seem incredible. Yet only a fraction of the offenders reaches the court. It is obvious that if we had the figures for 1910 the last ten years would show over 50,000 (separate persons brought before the court for drunkenness, against whom there was not traceable any- previous conviction- Such experience, taking the present population roundly at a million ('it was only 823.000 in 1901, and allowing for those who have come and gone in the ten years we were to make so large an allowance as that) these 50,000 have been taken from a population of one and a half millions. That would mean one person >n every thirty each fresh year. Lady Rider Killed. Miss Beatrice Gray, aged 19, whilst riding a horse an the ladies’ hack competition at the Rotorua show, was thrown, and struck a post and wire fence. The horse she was riding was a racehorse named Hutiwai. It bolted, and went, round the ring about three times. When nearing an exit it appeared to swerve, and .threw its rider off. Miss Gray never regained consciousness, and died at the sanatorium at 7.15 in the evening. Deceased was the main support of her mother. The Mail Service. The report of the council of the Chamber of Commerce, Auckland, refers thus to the question of improving the mail service between America, Europe, and this Dominion: “Correspondence with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Spreckels Company had given ground for hope of the re-establishment of the former San Franeisco-Auckland service, which had proved so satisfactory in the past, but it was announced that the New Zealand Government had entered into an agreement with the Union Steam Ship Com-

pany to subsidise a service by that company’s steamers between New Zealand and San Francisco, via Rarotonga and Papeete. This precluded any possibility of the restoration of the old service, with the Spreckels Company were prepared to undertake. The Chamber, by resolution of a general meeting of members, protested against the arrangement entered into, on account of the inferior class of boats to be employed and the length of time to be taken on the trip; also objecting to the relatively high subsidy paid. This contract expires in October next. The Vancouver service has received close attention throughout the year. From April to November last very pressing and important negotiations passed between your council and the Postmaster-General (Sir Joseph Ward). As publicly announced, success followed the efforts made, with the result that from August next the Vancouver steamer, under a five years’ contract, will, every four weeks, call at Auckland. This fine service will be a very valuable asset to the commercial and other interests of this city and of the Dominion.”

Coastwise Cargo and Seamen’s Wages. In consequence of representations made to it by the Federated Seamen’s Union, the Marine Department' has instructed Die Superintendent of Mercantile Marino at Wellington to see that the FederalHouldershire line pays the crew of the Durham the coastal rate of wages during her recent trip from the Bluff and Dunedin to Wellington. Inquiries made by the Department show that the cargo which, the vessel shipped at the Bluff nnd Dunedin was intended for a Home port. Her destination, however, was altered, and the cargo had .to be transhipped to the Sussex at Wellington. The Department agrees with the Union that the vessel was brought within section 75 of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1898, with regard to. the payment of coastal wages when carrying eoastwise cargo. . Widened Municipal Franchise. Up till last year a person to qualify for the municipal roll at least had to pay £26 a year in rent, but during the session which has just closed the franchise was widened considerably, and the An Island Royalty. Burly King George of Tonga is making another visit to New Zealand, the immediate purpose of his trip being to see off the Crown Prince, Tungi, who is going to England for the Coronation of King George V. While in Auckland His Majesty Will transact business connected with his island kingdom, and spend some time on pleasure trips to Rotorua and other places. The Prince is going to England by way of Sydney, where he will be joined by a minister of the Wesleyan Church, Who will act as cicerone, on the tour. ■His Majesty in the course of an interview, said the prospects of Tonga just now were very good, and providing there bo no hurricane' this season, the year should be a record one. In common with other parts of the Pacific, the group is moving with the times, and more modern methods are being introduced into the cultivation of the land. An instance of the modernisation of the people was afforded in the recent outbreak of measles. Although Europeans look upon this complaint with impunit'-, it is not so in the island, where it r jflfc riot when once it gets a start. Witn Hie spread of education, however, the islanders were able to adopt sensible methods?of combating the epidemic, and the result was a considerable modification of its effects. Speaking with regard to the recent prosecution of the manager of the Native Cooperative Company, the King explained that the writ was issued through '’ the British Court by an auditor appointed to examine the company’s books. Trout Fishing in New Zealand. General Hogg, who has been paying visits to New Zealand for the fishing since 189.3. was a passenger to Wellington by the Corinthie last week. He a rived in Tasmania by way of Australia and the Far East. In conversation with a “Post” reporter the General expressed somewhat pessimistic views regarding trout fishing in New Zealand. “It is not for want of telling,” he said, “for those responsible for the stocking of waters and care of the fish have been told by people in New Zealand who know what they are talking about again and again. There has been a most foolish policy pursued with regard to the fishing, or rather the want of any definite practicable scientific policy. Lake Rotorua is already spoilt for flyfishing, not trolling. Some men, excellent in other walks of life, had failed with the fishing. They have been conspicuous for their want of pisciculture. Weak, poor conditioned fish have been stripped, and the result has naturally been a deterioration. So far as Rotorua is concerned it is a thousand pities. Now Tanpo is too large for such meddlesome incompetence to have such dire effects on the fly fishing as at Rotorua. At any rate, for the present I read in the “Fishing Gazette” of a man who took some tons of fish’ from Taupo; that’s not sport, that’s butchery. No, the fly fishing in New Zealand is not what it was, not what it ought to be, well did it begin.” Cwnadn and the Empire. Mt. Cha.np Clark's suggestion that the United States of America should arrange for taking Canada into the Union did not tn vet with the approval of a o*

American citizens who are making a leisurely cruise round the world, and who arrived in New Zealand last week by the Corinthie. Mr. Lynds, one of the party, “ and I think I can speak for the others,” he said, informed a “ Post ” reporter that Mr. Clark’s remarks on Canada were not made' in good taste. “You are not quit® so well acquainted with our form of government as you need to be, or can be expected to be, to thoroughly understand tlie position, but on ’4th March Mr. Clark’s party, the Democrats, will be the dominant party, and our House will be controlled by that party. Mr. Clark will be its presiding officer, therefore, wo are (certainty, I am) very sorry that Mr. Clark should have made the remarks about Canada that have been attributed to him. I do not think that from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Texas, you will find the slightest feeling among Americans which can in any way be construed to favour annexation of Canada. “ Mr. Clark is a jovial sort of man, and full of good humour. I do not think he meant anything but a joke, but it was a pity that it was ever expressed. I feel sure all Americans who think will regret that the remarks on annexation of Canada were ever uttered by Mr. Clark.” rolls for municipal elections are now very similar to those that are used for the Parliamentary elections. The local bod'-xs have been very busy lately making up their lists, and some of them are so bulky that the work is not yet completed. Most of the increases have been due to this widening of the franchise, but, in addition, the suburbs reflect in their rolls the remarkable increase in population that has taken place in the past twelve months. At Onehunga there were 1724 persons qualified to vote at the last election. This year 2200 names have been placed on the main roll, and the supplementary roll will probably have 300 or 400 additional names. Grey Lynn added 402 this year, and struck off 198, leaving a net gain of 204, which brings the total voters on the main roll to 4326. Already 150 names have been received for enrolment on the supplementary list. Newmarket main roll has now 780 voters, compared with 532 a year ago, and the supplementary already shows about 100 names, with a fortnight yet to go before the date of closing. Federated Labour-. “Labour in New Zealand is now organised into two distinct bodies, industrial and political,” said the Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.C., who is at present on a visit to Auckland, and was interviewed by a ..“Star” representative. The Hon. Mr. Paul, is a member of the executive of the new Federation of Labour, which has taken the place of the various Trades and Labour Councils of New Zealand. These latter bodies, instead of being isolated, self-governing institutions, now merge into district councils, and become part and parcel of a Dominion organisation. By this means, says Mr. Paul, it is "hoped to achieve a closer consolidation of labour, and to prosecute a more vigorous policy on the industrial side. The first Dominion conference of the federation will be held in Christchurch at Easter time, and the registration of the new organisation will follow. It will be purely an industrial organisation, as the Osborne judgment in England would, it is believed, apply in a similar respect to the New Zealand Federation of Labour if it asked for registration, and contained political planks in its platform. With the Federation of Labour there also springs into existence a distinct organisation known as the Political Labour party of New Zealand. Branches have been created in every centre, and these are all working on uniform lines, with the exception, perhaps, of Dunedin, which branch has deviated in some minor respects in the form of its political organisation. The reason for this, says Mr. Paul, is that for a large number of years, after 1890, a workers’ political committee was in existence, with the result that almost invariably they returned a Labour ticket to Parliament for the Dunedin city and suburban seats, the members returned being pledged to a platform, and an undertaking that if not selected they would not contest an election. One elected many times by this organisation was the Hon. J. A. Millar. Then in 1905 a new organisation was brought into existence, and the object was to extend it all through the Dominion. Either it was premature or too ambitious, for the movement was not widespread, and Dunedin had to retrace

its steps. The Labourites of the Southern city are now adopting the same platform, and in a large measure the’ same constitution, as the other cities, and organised Labour in New Zealand will, in the Hon? Mr. Paul’s opinion, play a very important part in the genera Selection of 1911. ■ A Lively Encounter. A passage-at-arms between member and chairman occurred at the Dunedin Harbour Board meeting last week, when Mr.Beleher charged someone with hav j ing convened a special meeting of the Reserves Committee, and Improperly invited Ravensbourne residents to be present at that meeting. “1 do not know who invited the deputation,” Mr. Belcher was saying, when the chairman (Mr. Barclay) said that it was he. . . . Mr. Belcher: Then 1 say that it is a disgrace to you to admit that. Chairman: 1 ask you to withdraw that. Mr. Beleher: I will see you as far into Avernus as you are out of it before I will withdraw it. Mr. Barclay again asked for withdrawal of the expression. ■ Mr. Belcher: You can ask me ten thousand times. ... Mr. Barclay: I have under section 23 of the by-laws to declare that Mr. Belcher is guilty of an offence. ' Mr. Beleher: You are a fine judge (here he laughed, you are, and no mistake about-it! You are a ‘ fine judge! 1 would not trust you to judge a dog fight. Mr. Barclay: I have indicated- that 1 consider it o'ffens.ive; What may follow 1 shall not say just at present. You will perhaps know it later. Mr.’ Belcher went on to say that he considered that this had been the inception of a bit of the “hole and corner” business. The members of the Board had - treated him' like dirt, but he believed he had brought them to a position where they feared him if they did not respect him. lie ' had made the Board conduct its business properly, and intended to do so. He had now drawn the chairman’s attention to the fact that he had done something wrong and improper, and it was not for him to apologise to the chairman, but for the chairman to apologise to the Board. . During the course of subsequent remarks, Mr. Belcher informed meinwers 'that he did not care a straw for the lot of them, individually or collectively. Wholesale Horse-stealing Alleged. At the Auckland Jptalice Court last week, before Mr. k. C. Cutten, three young men, Herbert Parker, W. Stewart, and Arthur Smith, were charged with the theft of horses at Otbrohanga. Mr. R. A. Moody appeared for Stewart, Mr. Pilkington for Smith, and Mr. J. R. Lundon for Parker. - Acting-Chief Detective Macmahon explained that for a long time horse-stealing had been going on in the Otorohanga district on almost a wholesale scale. In December a horse van was ordered, and the three accused trucked seven horses by rail to Remuera, consigning them in the name of A. Bell. They were sold at Buckland’s saleyards. When arrested, Parker said he had caught the horses on Anderson’s run. Smith and Stewart admitted helping to catch the- horses, and the latter said Anderson had told him they were Maori hdrses, and that they could take them away. Considerable evidence was given by the owners of the horses, who stated nobody had any authority to remove them. The three accused pleaded “not guilty,” ami were committed for trial, bail being allowed in two sureties of £SO, and personal bond of £IOO. Further charges were preferred against Parker of theft of five horses valued at £ 100. Accused pleaded “not guilty,’’ and was committed for trial, tire same bail as in the previous case being allowed. The Coronation. The Prime Minister has received the following cablegram through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated London, February 24. ~ “A committee of both Houses of Parliament representative of all parties wish to convey to you a formal invitation to eight members of the Dominion Parliament to be their guests in London r.t Waldorf Hotel, from Saturday, Juno 17, to Saturday, July 1, inclusive. This

period includes the week in which the Coronation is fixed to'take place.'Applications have been made for the Ea'rl Marshal to assign them places in Westminster Abbey. “As it is anticipated that those accepting this invitation may desire to prolong their visit in eider- to see something of this country, the committee hope to be able later on to extend the invitation for one week in order to enable visits to be paid to the more important English towns, but it is .not possible, to speak with certainty on this point at present. "Owing to the exigencies of space, it is not possible to inelude in the formal., invitation to the Coronation and to subsequent festivities, the w.ives and daughters of the members' invited. At the same time, the committee will fee glad to provide hotel accommodation for one lady—being wife, or daughter in respect of each member, information to be sent to reach here by March 4, giving full particulars as to the expected number of ladies coining, and whether wife or daughter in each ease. In order to avoid aiiy misunderstanding and disappointment, the committee wish to state this clearly, that though they can only recognise members themselves as their formal guests, they will do their utmost to make the visit, not only of members, but also of the ladies accompanying them, as pleasant and agreeable as possible.” Interviewed to-night in regard to the invitation, Sir Josph Ward said, “I am sending a copy of this message to all the members of the House of Representatives, and asking them to • telegraph their replies. I recognise that the time in which the replies have to be in London is short, and that it does not give much time for consideration by those to whom the message is being sent. It is proposed in the event of acceptance by members of the House to extend it to five Government members and three Opposition members. It will lie noticed from the cable that this invitation extends to the time named during the visit to London, and does not of course include the cost of passage either way. Personally, I shall be exceedingly glad to see members of the House avail themselves of the invitation, and that the full number invited may be abl« to go to London.**

Quantity Total cost Cost per iu gals. Decrease in £. head. 1909. £ s. d. Spirits 719,130 22,478 1.438,260 1 8 2 Wine 138,679 10,156 277,358 0 5 5 Beer 252,450 19,370 75,785 0 1 5i (imported) Beer 9,283,920 163,760 1,836,784 1 15 Hi (Dominion) ——. , — Totals — — 3,628,137 3 11 OJ . ■ — Decrease — — 123,831 8 0 u Estimated population, 1,021.214. Increase, 26,780. 1910. Decrease. Spirits 767,617 48,487 1,635,234 1 0 6 Increase. Wine 152,418 14.739 306,836 0 5 10} Beer 271,6* MJ 19,150 81,480 0 1 6} (Imported) Beer 9.399,440 215,520 1,879,888 1 16 1} (Dominion) — — Totals — —— 3,803,438 3 18 1} — . — ——— Increase — — 175,301 0 2 Oi Estimated population, 1,040,4421

Year. 0 s Estimated 0’ 4k. rox. 04. b’-ICl © *1 »«bo Ct Co’t-Hp p © CN'tOCO W©f® population. of co w w co cocoeo w wppp« 0 to J«2 mm piojopp ?* 10 w tojo 9 : p i"c c? © § io c< ci. ? ip J c! "ci to 8 p ® Je 2 8 0 ct 8 **. * ~ x t* -1 © p paw p 74 .-’ x t* 5t pp go p co 7 7 o< w p Estimated cost of liquor : --b c>-'l'z ;i|; 00-'1 Q«Oi»wa>ii p>-Xxbt ' x ;c © -4 to ±> 4* to © x ~i © © w p -p e< w 0 0. ce © co ci uu ; BM xc HCTO OOOlwC 5»«XOOtO« ©CDODUOKOdik consumed. ’ c: co co w w :o co co co co cc co w co t j w w w co w tfk w co eo co co ?b Cost per head — » 7 r - ~ "’ CO 0 A © 4* to 00 at ►- Ot 00® <33 OCQOOl © © p» of population.