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General News.

The Turakautaki Pa Executive has issued invitations for the centenary celebrations of the capture of the Kaiapohia Pa, which are to be held at the Kaiapohia Pa on Monday, October 26th, at 11 a.m. "How do your men como to workV' was a question put to Mr George Matheson, pastrycook, of Auckland, in'the Arbitration Court at Wellington. Until this case was started," he answered, used to como in & motor-cur. No alteration was reported in the level of Lake Coleridge yesterday as compared with the report a week prevously, tli© level being 16G7.9-oft. This is over liiiw feet higher than the level twelve months ago, when it stood at 1658.85 ft. The collection at yesterday's community singing in the Civic Theatro realised £ls 13s 10d. One-half of this amount, £7 16s lid, is-to be given to the Marjorie Alexander Fund, and the othpr half to the Mayor's Belief of Distress Fund. The areas about Culverden have always been a rich field for the discovery of Maori remains. The ploughing of an old riverbed recently revealed a round Maori oven with almost a complete set of human bones scattered about it, apparently the remains of a cannibal feast. Many ornaments have been found on the native ground nearby.

A suiile "vvas raised at tho Supreme Court at Auckland during tho hearing of a claim for damages. Tho plaintiff, a waterside worker, was tinder crossexamination, and was aslced by counsel whether ho was an experienced wharf worker. The witness replied that he was a ''seagull/' and would not explain further. Counsel said apparently a "seagull" was not a member of the Waterside Workers' Union.

A furthor Step in the proposal to form a girls' cricket Association in Christ-' church was taken last evening, when over thirty girls met at tho Y.W.C.A. rooms and discussed tho matter. It was stated that at least eight clubs, the majority representative of business firms, would be ready to affiliate if an Association were formed. Another meeting will bo held on Thursday evening, when it is expected that tho formal establishment of an Association will be decided on. The Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association has applie.d to the New Zealand Association for dates for the provincial and South Island championships. The dates suggested are December 2(sth, 28th, and 29th (provincial), and Easter, 1932 (South Island). The South Island tournament is usually taken alternately by the Canterbury and Otago Associations, but this year the South Canterbury Association has also put in an application. Tho New Zealand championships, it is almost certain, will be held at Auqjdand at the end of January. So far the cost of the excavation carried out by the Police Department in connexion with the finding of the body of a girl on the relief works on tho Town Belt, Wellington, lias been borne by the Wellington Citizens' Unemployment Committee, and at a meeting of the committee yesterday it was docided to apply for a refund of the wages of the men engaged on tho job. It was stated that between SO and 100 men had been employed by the police for several days, and the Police Department should be made to pay for the work. —Press Association. The question of taxicabs carrying passengers along tho Hutt road, Wellington, in opposition to railway buses, was again before the Court yesterday, whqn two drivers, George Bennie and Cyril Victor Smith, were charged with owning omnibuses which were not licensed in the manner provided by the by-laws of the Petone Borough Council. It was argued that if they were, then the by-law is ultra vires and void, as no local body could raise revenue by a system of exacting license fees. Decision was reserved.—Press Association. The tramway track relaying work in High street has progressed to a stage at which the tramway authorities are able to announce that tho New Brighton and Bichmond trams will resume running over the stretch, between Cashel street and Hereford street on Sunday next. •Yesterday the Gas Company's workmen were engaged on the south-western side pf High Street- The laying of the bituminous carpet on the Qut*track between Cashel and Hereford (streets was completed yesterday. A start was made with putting in special work at the corner of High and Oasfeel streets; the special work at the corner of High and Hereford streets will be put in at the weekend. Given suitable weather it is estimated that the tramway work in High street, as far as Madras street, will be completed by tho end of next week.

From Cheviot, a lisLenor-in to Tuesday's community singing has sent £1 to the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville). The total collected on Tuesday was £.14 2s !)d, and this amount, and one-half of the amount taken yesterday, &7 16s lid, bring the total from all sources received to date for the Mayor's Relief of Distress Fund up to £260 16s 2d.

Since he had started business as a fruitei'or he had not sent a penny to his wife and two children in Cliina, said a Chinese bankrupt in New Plymouth, last week. "Then how do they exist?" asked the Deputy-Official Assignee. "Oli, most of them rely on their parents," said the interpreter. "There aro many Chinese in New Zealand who have not seen their wives or children for 20 vears, yet they seem to exist all right."

An adjournment in unusual circumstances became necessary during; the hearing of a compensation claim in tlio Supreme Court at Auckland. The illness of an essential witness made it impossible for liim to appear in Court, and as he happened to be an inmate of Mount Eden gaol, counsel for both parties and the deputy-registrar of (lie Court had to adjourn to the gaol to take his evidence there. This was afterwards admitted in Court, and read to the jury by the deputy-regis-trar.

"As to whether there aro three different kinds or degrees of negligence —ordinary, gross, and slight—lias been the subject of conflicting opinions expressed by Judges," said Mr Justice Heed in tho Supreme Court at Wellington in the course of a reserved judgment. His Honour said ho accepted tho statement of tho law as laid down in "Salmond on Torts," which said: The law does not recognise different standards of care or different degrees of negligence in different classes of cases. The sole standard is tho care that would be shown ih the circumstances by a reasonably careful man, and tho sole form of negligence is a failure to use this amount of ca re.

Wishing to attend a wedding in Greymouth on Wednesday, and be in Gisborno yesterday, a Christchurch business man, Mr J. A. Redpath, had recourse to an aeroplane. Ho left Christchureh on Wednesday morning and attended the wedding in Greymouth in the afternoon. Then he continued to Blenheim in a motor-car, arriving there early yesterday morning after travelling all night. At Blenheim he engaged Squad-ron-Leader Chandler to fly him across to Wellington, whero ho breakfasted and caught the Napier express. He left tho train at Hastings and proceeded to his destination by aeroplane.

An excuse that lie had been married only a few months, and was not aware that his wife owned property, was made by a man who was charged at Timaru with making a false statement for tho purpose of securing employment. "It is an extraordinary thing that you should be married even only a few months and not know she owned property," remarked Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M. "Some wives are pretty reticent about what they own, and what they have in tlicir stocking; but it's pretty hard to believe you didn't know she owned property." Defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months, and to make restitution of £4 7s.

The .Llactihi Community Committee,which deals with, eases of distress in the district, Jius suggested to tho mayor of Auckland that some of the money collected m tho lluapehu fund bo distributed to tho searchers from the Vvnunarino. Mr W. Harris, Mayor of llaetihi, said many men ou relief works, residents of Kaetihi, Oliakuna, idoropito, I'okako, and surrounding districts spent clays in tho search. They had lost clothing and had boots damaged beyond repair. They could not atford to purchase new articles out of their relief wages. Tho committee authorised the chairman to deal with any urgent case of damage to clothing caused iu the search on the mountain, in tho hopo that a contribution would be received from some of tho funds raised in other districts. Most of, if not all, the men on relief work took part in the search. N

The annual' meeting of the Canterbury Head Centre of the Royal LifoSaving Society, which was to have been held last night, lias been postponed till Saturday, October 3rd. Tlio postponement was necessary in order to tit in with the arrangements of the chairman, Mr P. R. Climie, whoso duties as a member of tho Unemployment Board keep him busy in Wellington except at tho week-end. A special sitting of tho Arbitration Court will bo held on November sth and Gth to boar tho freezing workers' dispute and their application for exclusion from tho general order. No other business will be taken.

An interesting anecdote concerning Uk> introduction of the common liouseily into South Canterbury was related by llotarian C. Howard Tripp to members of the Ti.ni aru Rotary Club yesterday, in an address on "Early South Canterbury." On hearing that the house-fly would drive out the blowfly, which was one of the worst pests of tho early days, tho speaker's father had visited Christchurch and procured some house-flies, which he placed in a match-box to bring back to Timaru. It was a two-days' journey by coach, ar.d when a stop was mado at Asliburton Mr Tripp released the flies from the match-box to give them a feed off some sugar, which, however, the flies did not eat, and could not he recaptured. These flies came to be known ;is "Tripp's flies."

The disappearance of tho rarer species of native birds with the growth of settlement in the South Canterbury district was referred to by Rotarian 0, Howard Tripp, in an address to members of tho Timaru Rotary Club yesterday. Thirty-five years had elapsed since tho kaka had left the district, he said. One had been seen at Orari Gorge, about two years ago, but this was the only one that had been traced. A beautiful whistler, the kaka built in holes of trees Jiko tho opossum, which was largely responsible for killing off these birds. The native robin, a magnificent songster, and very tame, had also been practically wiped out by stoats and weasels. The wckns had also diminished in number. Perhaps tho most beautiful songsters of all native birds wero the tuis, a number of which, singing in at Orari Gorge somo years ago, had given him the most delightful halfrhour of his liie. He had met only two men who had heard a similar recital, and the ii dications were that Captain Cook hud heard something similar in Poverty Bay, judging by his description in his diary. Railway passengers, when you arrive in Christchurch, please come straight across the road to our garage for o Gold Band Taxi; don't take any other. Make sure it is a Gold Band Taxi, as voir will save money by doing so, as our fares are half' the price of others. Lowest fare Is, 5 passengers and Luggage. Why pay wore? 'Phones 31-075 or 33-572. Thank you. —3 Maternity cases are specially catered for by the Gold Band Taxis. We are at vouf service day and night, our lowest fare is only 1.8, m save your money and biiy something for bahy. and always remember that it was the Gold Band Taxis that brought the fares down, and that you should always rido in them and help to keep the fares down. Thank you. —4-

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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20351, 25 September 1931, Page 10

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General News. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20351, 25 September 1931, Page 10

General News. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20351, 25 September 1931, Page 10

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