GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16728, 10 January 1920, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

Tho auction announcements of Jones, McCrostio Co., H. C. Smith, McKenzie and Co. Craddock's Agency Co., New Zealand Loan and 3lercantilo Agency Co., Lawrio and Dalton, Harris Bros., Tonks, Norton and Co., AV. E. Simes and Co., Harman and Stevens, Brown, Little and Co., Dalgcty and Co., Farmers' Saleyards, and AVright, Stephenson and Co. will bo found on pages 15 and 11 of this issue.

All tho Canterbury rivers wero reported clonr yesterday exccpt tho Ran git ata whicfi was "dirty."

Tho Fire Brigade was called out to 223 AValtham road, tho residence of Mr F. AVooley, at 8.21 last night, but on arrival found that tho outbreak, which had occurred in tho washhouso, had boon extinguished by tho occupants before doing much damage.

Tho Jlev. S. J. Hoban, of the Sydney Central Mission, ia visiting tho Dominion this month for tho purpose of conducting tho anniversary services of tho Duncdin Methodist Mission. Ho will conduct both services at tho Durham street Methodist Church on Sunday, 25 th inst-., and will .lecture on Monday, SCtli inst.

Up to the present, anglers visiting tho mouth of tho Ilakaiu river havo obtained very poor sport, tho majority having to Ih> content with an occasional fish. Probably tho best bag of tho season was secured one evening recently l>v Dr. Thompson and Mr Denby, who landed eleven fine fish averaging 7-1 lb, the heaviest ■neighing over lGlb. Messrs Denhy and Scott larided scvon good trout one evening during the holidays. Reporting to the Canterbury Education Hoard yesterday, the Appointments Committee said that the Kaianoi School Committeo had renewed its application for tho continuance of tne secondary department of that school, and had forwarded an undertaking signed by a number of parents who had promised that their children would attend the school. Tt had Ijecn agreed to forward to tho Education Department the particulars supplied by the Ivaiapoi committer, with a recommendation from tho Board that the secondary department be continued.

Christchurch has a deserved reputation for tho excellence of its public gardens and parks, and any movement which is calculated to add* to the attractions of these delightful open spaces should, and no doubt will, have tho hoartiest support, of tho citizens. With a view to raising additional funds tho Christchurch Domain Hoard proposes holding a gold nugget art union, when prizes to tho value of £270 will be open for winning. The whole of the proceeds from the art union will go to assist in tho upkeep of the public gardens and parks. Mr C. AY. flervey is tho hon. secretary of tho art union, and those who want hooks of tickets should apply to his office.

The Nelson "Colonist" states that Mr Walter McDonald lias returned to Nelson after an absence of liearly thirteen years. Mr McDonald joined the Canadian Kilties Band at Greymouth in 1 ( .K)7, and with that organisation toured Tasmania, Australia, Cevlon, India, Uurniah, Egypt, Italy, France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, eventually finishing in Ne>» York. Mr Mc]>onald then returned to Eugland, and after remaining there for some time, again crossed to tlio States, in the old Australian convict ship Success, which had been purchased l>y' an American millionaire for exhibition purposevs. Mr McDonald then settled in the State 3, where he married. After lib wanderings in various- narts of the globe he is quite satisfied that New Zealand is the best country in the world, and lie intends to remain hero with his wife and family of three children.

That the youth of Auckland is enterprising is beyond doubt, for, des-pite the fact that the schoolboy is at present enjoying his anual vacation, no fewer than SO turned up on Monday morning to an Auckland firm to sock "temporary employment. There were vacancies for two to assist in the distribution of somo 50,000 calendars. Probably the prospect of accompanying thoro in chargo of operations in gigs in and around the city, and last, but net least, earning pocket-money, accounted for the "big bid made (says the Auckland "Star"). At 0.30 tho stream of applicants had not finished pouring into the establishment, where a clerk was kept busy at tho counter supplying the necessary information. The unsuccessful band "took the matter philosophically, and as they wended their way out of Customs street, and back to their homes, jhey could be heard to remark, referring' to the selected pair, 'Good luck to them. As for us, better luck next time.''

Owing to the fact tnat some of tho Canterbury mcmlvrs of Parliament v.-;ll not l*> able to be present at the meeting to which ihoy were invited bv tho Progress I-oagne oil the 21 tit inst.. the dat,> of the meeting has been altered to Tuesday. 20th inst. An Auckland district newspaper, the "Tr.akuu Press.'' has cca-ed publication. Under the stress of tho high cost and M-areitv of jiapor many country journals litiil it. difficult to keep g-ung. The •Tuakau Press" is the first to Miceumb to present adverse conditions. Jtidirinix bv the requests for employment that have been made during this week. Marlborough apparently has a I>oniini<iii-wiiie reputation as a hive of industrv (states the "Express I. Lal«uir i- plentiful, and work is scarce. Incoming nassenner cars and boats bring seeker* lor employment in the harvest ju Ids, and the position to-ua\ is that unempl"vment in Blenheim is marked. A substantial proportion of the available labour is made up of returned soldiers.

The shortage of copper coins, which ha- been fell for some time in Auckland among other places in New Zealand, has Ik'cu relieved slightlv by a recent- consignment from Australia (says Wcdnesdav's "Herald"). The arrival of £'t!"0 in pentiies, and £150 in halfpennies from the Commonwealth was a unique experience for New Zenland. But the quantity, which weighed some 10.0(X)!b, is proving only of temporary assistance, and the banks are oagerly awaiting tlie remainder of tho consignment, in value. The resignations agreed to by the Canterbury Education Board yesterday totalled -13. Mr K. H. Andrews (chairman of the Board) said that some had resigned on account of promotion, others were leaving on superannuation, and others, all ladies, were leaving tho Board's service in order to bo married. Mr W. P. Spencer remarked that the loss of the ladies would not. of course, be favourable to the Board's work, but would bo in the liost interests of tho country as a whole. "Wo must not discourage them," commonted tho chairman. The Canterbury Education Board's Manual and Technical Committee, reporting to the Board yesterday, stated that it had received a communication from tho Education Department, slating that no funds were available for the pijjpose of sending domestic science teachers to tho Otago University for a year's training. It was recommended that tho chairman of the committee, with the chairman of the Board, should en-operate with the Technical College Management in an attempt to be made shortly, to provide that home science bursaries should be tenable in Christchurch on tho samo lines as the bursaries were now granted in Dunedin. Tho report- was adopted.

An innovation was tried with great success on the occasion of Un? concert by the New South AVales Slato Orchos'tra at Hamilton on Thursday night (telegraphs our Auckland correspondent). A well-known local musical enthusiast has been laid aside through illness for three or four years, anil it was suggested that his rcsidenco fhoukl be connected by telephone with the thentro, so that ho could listen to tho music. This was done, and tho invalid 1 states that ho heard everything quite distinctly, and enjoyed tho concert immensely. Mr Henri Vcrbrugchen, tho conductor of the visiting orchestra, was keenly interested in tlio experiment, and expressed pleasure at the satisfactory result. It is stated that this is tho first, timo such an innovation has boon tried in Australia or Now Zealand.

At the Magistrate's Court yesterdnv the case came up of a prisoner who escaped from Pntmrun gaol some timo ago, and annexed a cyclo belonging to one of tho officials to get away on. Ho was charced with the theft of this, but Mr V. G. Day, S.M.. said it was a question whether a prisoner could be held to have stolen any article which ho used to make his escape with, if he did not try to traffic with it afterwards. Some authorities said that if a prisoner took a horse to escape with and turned the horse loose when ho had finis Tied with it, he could not be charged with tho theft of it. In this case the accused had not tried to sell tho cycle, but, on the other hand, it had not been turned loose, for it was in his possession when arrested. It was a iiioo point in law. As the accused had to go bo fori) tho Supremo Court in any caso, tho point was left for tho Judge to deal with.

This New Year lias gladdened tho hearts of ono Auckland family, and has elevated it front the position of, if not exactly on the rocks, at all events of frequent financial stringency, to one of comparative opulenco (says tho "Star"). The central figure in the romanco was a family man, who, in theso days of high cost of living, had found tho two or three months particularly trying from a financial point of view, so much so that his wife had helped to eko out the family purse by acting as cook to a suburban homo. During tho holidays he was advised by ono of tho local banks that, a draft awaited him at the office, and, on making enquiries, found that ,£3OOO had been in the custody of tho hank for six months, but. owing to frequent changes of address it had not been possible to traco the owner. It appeared that tho father of tho man had recontlv died in England, and had left a fortune of £00,000 to be divided between tho son in New Zealand, and three other members of tho family. The £3(100 was merely an instalment on account of the immediate]? available securities, and his further share would bo forthcoming in due course.

Snvs the Melbourne "Argus": Bolshevism is thorough when it is ordered, as reported hv cable message, that a horso should he shot merely because it is too aristocratic. Even a prize pig would not feel safe in the company of those advocates of fraternity and equality. There would bo something in tho pig's breeding and general demeanour to show its superiority to tho Bolshevik, and that would be fatal to the pig. Behind tb.is new code thoro seems to bo an instinct of self-preservation. Tho destruction of tho fi sl implies tho safety of the dogcncra;.?, and if a man can show that lie is of a low typo he has established his right to live* Apart from that, there scorns to ho no reason why men should kill a liorso merely because it was said to bo wortli £31,000. As food it would not liave been wortli that sum. A\hen meat prices wero under discussion, Mr Tudor complained inconsffP'ontly that some person hnd paid •tOfx) guineas for a ram. In Russia tho ram would not have escaped with a mero censuro by a party leader. This two incidents, however, so far apart indicate tho spread of class consciousness.

Strong exception was taken hv Mr v ' , ~t us' chairman of the' Canterbury Education Board, at yesterday s meeting of the Hoard, to statements made by Mr 11. A. Parkinson, secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute, to the effect that "the largest four Boards had made their uistricts watertight compartments, to which outsido teachors could not gain admission, * and that the \\cllington. Canterbury, and Otago Boards had "made use of committees in order to shirk their responsibilities in tho mattor of appointments: they had made a practice of sending to the committees three names of applicants, and tho committee not infrequently made a wrong choice, and sometimes had not the data on which to make a proper appointment." Mr Andrews said that so far as the Canterbury Board wag concerned, those statements were quite contrary to fact. There were innumerable reccnt examples of the appointment of outsiders to positions. Mr Andrews moved:

"That the New Zealand Educational In-titute be called upon to publicly dissociate itself from tho statement "made by its secretary, Mr Parkinson, as appearing in the public Press, in regard to appointment* by the Canterbury Education Board.'' Th° carried unanimously.

JSUvtric current will be off in tho south-eaM portion of the city from <> a.m. until 3 p.m. to-morrow. Two men appeared in tho Police Court at Auckland yesterday. charged with making Ki'ts on the racecourse at recent summer race nicotines. One was fined i'.'iO a::d the other J. 20. All the agony of Rheumatism can he avoided and the disease itself remed-ed by ridding the system of excess uric iui.l. For this purpose nothing is so go,id as J.oa.-bv's Rheumatic Pebbles. P;ice 2s tlil a Ikix. at all chemists and >"t< res, or from lioashv and Co., Chem-1 ists iopp. Hallantyne's). 6 " Characteristic." " distinctive." "true to lift-," are expressions we hear by these who have their portraits mado !>y StefTano Webb. We are pal tieularly successful with children's portraits. Petersen's Buildings, High street. Christchurehe. Telephone 11159. o Elxiny Brushware and Hand-Mirrors. Messrs Ilastie, Hull, and Pickering annotince the recent arrival of a vorv lino selection of these goods, and solicit inspection. The lines are of excellent! quality and value. d Nothing rcduces tho letting or Felling value of a house or furniture so much ns the ravages of wood l»orer. Exterminate it w'th Wheelband's Fly Exterminator. 519 Colombo street. <5 January and February are our hest months for sea ha thing. 1-adie® should see our stocks of Bathing C-aps and Beach Hats. Colours to match any costume, and prices moderato. Tho Reach Hats are also ideal for motoring. E. Cameron Smith, chemist, <H> Worcester street. 0 Furniture. Furniture. Furniture. Residents of Rangiora and North Canterbury can procure all classes of Furniture and house-furnishings at Christchurch prices from Johnston and Son. >ote the address: High street, llangiors. 7 General Carrying of all sorts undertaken by J. M. Heywood and Co., Ltd. Their plant of horses and vehicles is ono of tho "largest in Now Zealand. 6 There is a cleanness nml sweetness about clothes that liavo been washed with "No Rubbing" Laundry Helpand the pure "Golden Rule'' Soap that is verv delightful. Wardcll Bros, and Co. 6 STUDEBAKER CAR RirRTTITER EQUIPMENT. There is no part of motor mechanism over which tho experienced motorist is moro faddy than in the matter of the carburetter. This is the veritable heart of the car and a tremendously high percentage of engine efficiency, power, and economy depends upon a proper correlation liCLween motor and carburetter. We have all heard of motorists who are continually experimenting with different types of carburetter, hut this is a class of research in which the owner of tho now model Studebnker need not embark. Studebnker's highly skilled laboratory experts have mndo tho selection after exhaustive and exact tests. They have prescribed the famous Strombcrg carburetter for the Light Four, and tho equally famous Ball and "Ball for the Sixes, and the wonderful records of economy and flexibility made Tiv the new Studehnkers testify to tho excellence of their jwlcrmont. See tho Studebnker Xmas Exhibition at otir High street Showrooms. Adams, Ltd. 18