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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 431, 13 February 1909, Page 4

A very attractive list of properties is advertised by Messrs W. H. a'urnbull and Co. m this issue. Tho list includes a. fine residential property, situated at EichmoAd, 8 milea from Nelson. It will be remembered that tho British Board of Trade enactec last year that on and after January 1, 1909, candidates for • masters' or mates' certificates in the mcr- ' cantile marine must pass the St. John Ambulance Association's hrst aid'examination beforo such certificates could be allotted. Tho now regulation has been found to bo a somewhat awkward stipulation to seamen studying for certificates who are at sea, as it is difficult to get sufiiciont time at one port te attend the five essential lectures. To overcomo this difficulty seamen find, in attending lectures in one port, a scheme- has been devised whereby a candidate who is at sea can attend lectures m any port bo mav happen to be in, and each attendance will count in his favour, but until all tho hve distinct lectures have, been attended he is nbt permitted to go up for examination; that is to say that if ho attends tho first lecture twice (in ono or more different ports) it only counts as ono lecture To enable this scheme te bo carried out the local secretary issues to tho candidate a form on which there aie spaces for each lecture, opposite which the signature of the surgeon-instructor ' mubt appeal - To mako doubly sure that "all is square and aboio board," the candidate is given a card peimitting him to at'tond lectures in other but tho home port, which must be signed by the secretary of the class and roturned to tho centre secretary, originally issued it. So far this yeir Mr. J D A>cry, local secretary, has dea't in tho above minner mth a dozen candidates, and is satisfied the arrangemeut is as good as can be devised under tho circumstances. Tho electrical stud} craze is now beann" fruit. " Aro you a conductor?" isked ah 3 of an ommbu3 guard. "I am," Knlied tho courteous official "Whit js jour namo?" "My nsimo is Wood." " Oh, that can't be," said tho boj, " for wood is a non-conductor!" i Lady (to hosier)—"l want somo collars and ties—for mj huiband " Hosier—"What sire collars, ma'lamo?" Lady—"Well really I forget" Bos.cr—"ls it thirteen»" Ladj—"\es, that's the sire. How did \ou guess" . Hosier—"Woll, gentlemen who lot thcis wives bu\ their colhrs and ties usually take about that sizo, inadame " The Postmaster-Genera,! hns decidod that, as a special concession te officert, nnd men of tho Kojal Navy, tho tlueo lotters 1J M S which used to "be counted as three separate words, shall m future bo reckoned as one word in the address of an inland telegram totenued for one of his Majesty's ships. '