LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3570, 3 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the report yesterday in which were- yven the marks awarded Ash-bin-ton Convent pupils in the musical theory examinations in Juno, tho marks for honours wero, through an oversight, stated to be 86 instead of 80.

A Mount Seniors farmer, in conversation with a "Guardian "'representative to-day, stated that the sovorc frosts recently experienced had been responsible for the death of a number of lambs in that locality, and had also to some, extent affected tho fruit trees.

The committee of the Fairfield-NoM-lands Fete has handed to the County War Relief Fund a cheque for £137 "7s (sd, being balance of 'proceeds of tlie ieto held at Fairfield, last December. The total amount paid over to the War Reliel Fund by the committee amounts t0,£1337 7s 6d, and, in addition, about £75 in outstanding lias .still to come in.

A Press Association tel.ogram from Wellington states, that tho Law Society's' application to have. Charles Edward .1 i arden, <of Auckland, " struck oft' the rolls of barristers'and solicitors of tlw Supremo. Court was called upon be lore the. Court of Appeal. Mr yon Liansl, on behalf of the society, ■ said that it had been unable to find Harden to inform him of «tho hearing, arid the Chief Justice said that the Court would adjourn the matter till Thursday', to give Harden a chance of being present.

"If the sheepownora of New Zealand refu.su to pay the rates demanded by the shearers/, said Mr C. Grayndler. secretary of the New Zealand Shearers' Association, to a Wellington "J'ost" reporter, "and get their shearing done by free labour, will their trouble end there 'i With tho'knowledge the shearers have of New Zealand waterside workers and- thojr dislike of free labour niy association does not think they will" go back on the shearers by handling free labour." ,

The Curing Square Literary t and Debating Society hold its closing social in the schoolroom last ovenirig. Tho room was WeU filled with members and friends. 'The programme consisted or music, recitations, and competitions, and altogether a very enjoyablo evening was spent. The following items were contributed:—Piano duet, Misses V. Watson and Bryant; solos, Miss C. Watson, and Messrs McClymont and Judge; recitations. Miss Brown, and Messrs Todd, McClymont, and Cross. Refreshments were handed round, and the session closed with the singing of " Auld Lang Sync," and the National Anthem. The Rev. G.. Frost presided.

" Certain sections of the public hay« expressed au opinion that-during this disastrous war racing' should- be suppressed," said the president (Mr. J. B. Harcourt) at the annual - meeting of the Wellington Racing Club on Friday. " I am sure that those. wlio hold this view overlook the fact that large, numbers of men would be thrown out of cmplo'vmcnt, and that since the war startefl the' sum of £350,000 has been paid in taxation by the various, racing clubs, which, if racing ceased, would have to bo raised by other means; in addition, there is the large amount reeeiv.od by the railways for passengers, carnage of horses, etc. Tho clubs liave also made very large donations towards the patriotic funds, and winners hare also contributed most handsomely out of their winnings, ono prominent owner having districted over £15,000.

At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr 11*. W. Bishop, S.M., Alfred Bray, of Ashburton, was awarded .CIOO damages and costs against William Alfred Fhivoll for injuries sustained through being run into by defendant's motor-cycle anil side-car' near Canterbury Park on June .'?, 1915. Plaintiff in his evidence, stnted that ho a^fonded tho races at Canterbury Park m\ June 3. and was walking on the loft side of the road with a friend to catch a train. The traffic was considerable, and all Kmnp; the one way. He was walking very near the grass at the side of the road, \vlu*n a motor-cycle knocked him over from behind, and he fell back on the. side-chair, and from there to tho road. He was taken home, and laid up for nine weeks under the doctor.. In couseononco of the accident he * had sustained heavy expenses, in extra w;ij_ros about .C-'V), taxi hire arid medical expenses about £10. ,TFe .could just <zet, about with sticks, as the kneo-enp had been liroken.

A new kind of iire-iiend is abroad in Sydney (writes^ a correspondent). A short time ago" it was discovered that two at least of a series of firi\s which did considerable damage at city business establishments had been caused by | some criminal or mentally-unbalanced I person placing amongst inflammable goods small parcels of cotton waste, saturated with a, chemical compound which, on . drying, and oxidisation, bursts into Jlamc. During tho Just week-end a series of seven attempts to i-iiuse. fires in the city by tho same means was discovered. Happily, the outbreaks caused by. the ehomieaJlvtreated eotton-wiifde- 'placed in the shelves of shops and other places, weiv all discovered in good time, and no serious harm resulted. Three of -the attempts were marie in drapers' shop*,, two in the shops of hardware- merchants, and two in one of the biggest timber yards in Sydney. Naturally, business people are very apprehensive, and, like insurance- companies, pray that the elforts of tho poli"o to get hold of the perpetrator of thewt hum dangerous acts of incendiarism may be promptly successful. There' ia talk ol alien enemies being Jit Uio bottom of +Jie J)iLM'noss. 'bnt ilio police say that Ohmi- investigation's to date do not bear out tln\ iheorv.

The ljin-gesl Motor Factory in -the British Mmpire.-—Uec-out visitor* to Canada, by the All-lied rout«\ oommrnt on tho, woudorful growth of Cau;idimt industrial centres. ■ Tho largest motor car factory in the British Mm]im> i,s situated in the town of Ford, Ontaiio. Hero is carried on the manufacture , from raw Canadian materials o( tho finest quality obtainable, thu wellknown and reliable .Ford Oar. The number of Ford csirs shipped from this factory in ono day in enormous. For instance, on Saturday, May 20, 170 oars were shipped to overseas dealers. As the weekly half-holiday occurs oii«Saturdn'y in Canada,, this nnmber o!" ears' shipped proves the capacity of this i enormous factory. The ralwe of in?- j terials purchased in U.S.A. for each] Canadian t('ord Car is only £5. Buyers of Canadian Ford Oars aro assured that their money is circulated in the. British Empire.' Oil