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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 5

':V:S';?'\=:\Sp»kiiie : :BJiowb'-I«hie''- Rinmtaka devia- \-'; •■'.'.tioh in. the course of: His address at , :■■■ ■Carterton; on Monday night, • Sir Walter Buchanan said that it had, been ■'..'. said in iie previous week that a sum ■ T'of £5000!'haa been placed on the Estimates in 1902 : for a survey Which was "made of a route; for 'the line., Ho "could not help thinking the reports of' ; .'. Jthe'newspapers were at fault. Ho' knew of.no surveys except thoseof 1899, Since ■■, .then'-'none: of .thai Governments suo- : ceeding had done anything. The pre- '.» sent : Government, however, had pledged : itself to go into; the question th'or- ■ dughlyi He was' sure the Government . would :carry out its 'pledge. Regarding • .'the routes, as far as he could see the balance of favour lay with the Tauherenikau line, because of its reasonable ; cost,'but-he believed that the Waihiii iValley had advantages, as its elevation -was not in. .any place higher than 100 ~; : sea level.. The only draw-•;'"'-'back Tvaa; the tunnel which would'be H . tihree miles In length, and, tunnels were ' 'Vcostly .as, instanced by the Otira venture. As far.as he could, he would : . 'see'.that not a day would be lost in getting, a .better route, because the ■ffairarapa; District; had suffered long enough from its present disability. (Apv;-.- plause.); ■; .';"'-'.: "■■ ■'-' ■ Mr. Eardley Turner, the well-known ■ ' English actor, who arraved from Sydney ■as a, member,of the Julius Knight Dra- ; rmatio Company yesterday,',•■ says that ~: recent ■ letters !from Home state, that :'.' •: when war was declared early in August a.good many of the theatres were closed down for the mid-summer-holidays as '■' tisual, and'-some of these have never ,• been opened at all,-with the inevitable : : result that a good number of players had been thrown out of employment. On an ' average\ salaries had been re- - ':■■ duced 60 per cent', in the case of those. ; employed, -both:.on the legitimate and ; vaudeville; stage.; In England, touring companies are granted a concession in the faresj .but' as soon' as the railway, y systems were taken over by the Government 'that concession was stopped, ' and apart from that'all touring arrangements were subject to the convenience 1 :of the military authorities, with' awk- .." ward results to provincial managers; The prices for admission to the London theatres had dropped to about half-. ' tates, and altogether the_ outlook, from' .the actor's- point of. view, was the .reverse of stimulating. ■■■'.■■•'-.■■

'"'.; Whilst the :local bodies, interested are pondering over the Government's decision respecting their: various'portions' for the cost of; reconstructing the Hutt Eoad, between' Wellington and"Petone, .- that thoroughfare: is stated to be, wear- ,/ ing badly, in patches; It is understood ' that an endeavour is now being made to come to some arrangement whereby' \, the Wellington City l Council will attend to the repair of the long road, its shareof the cast to be ho more;than it.would be were all the contributing.bodies to' - pay according to the scale fixed by Mr. W. S; Short.for^tlie. repayment of the • /capital cost. '; \- ■■.. /":-;.■; '•'MI ;'-, ';'■:'.-,.■_

• .When a r man will. enter a .Chinaman's shop: and rather noisily depart' with one of those unwieldly vegetable _ baskets • common to the business establishments of Chinese green-grocers/ something is very .'seriously amiss.;' Albert Clifford performed this stupid feat on Monday last", and Sing' On Kee,'whose shop_ it '... was, canierfrom the. domestic portion -' of the establishmentun. time.to see;a .'-.- gently-swaying .basket' with its holder (also gently swaying) disappearing out of the door.:. Then a constable happened along,; and.Varrested Clifford. .... iWhen Clifford appeared before the Magistrate yesterday: morning, : there, wore, two charges levelled against, him—druhken- :■'.' ness ■: and 'theft. -The; Magistrate took a lenient view "of the matter, and con- ■ ■.-. yicted iand discharged Clifford for drunkenness, and ordered him to come up for , sentence when called-upon for the. theft charge. ■ Clifford was also ordered to pay .witnesses.' expenses,6s. ..••.•;■ ."".. An interesting■ letter has recently been*received from -Mr;' A; B.> Hamilton 'i' (son of •K. "Hainilfon, of young New Zealarider studying"architecture in; London. Mr. Hamiltoni-;who-wag;fo'rmerlyi : with Mr.' :" W;'C;*Ch3tfield,-' :of,,thJfl'&ty ; ; writes' to.".his-, relatives : that the Architectural school which he had : been' attending has ,' been closed. The premises have been taken by the Government for a barracks ' and miniature rifle range, and all the pupils, with-the exception of about 20, navegone to the front.... Mr. Hamilton has won, several certificates and prizeß, tabludi^' the Jarvis/ Scholarship and £40.. He is now at a school known as .: the First Atelier Club, presided oyer by Mr. Davis, a well-known "London archiir tect. The chief instructor was-'a-French-man,;wnoha6 now rejoined his fegimentj and the'.whole'of the tuitron falls on Mr.'Dayies. .There are seveial New • Zealanders in the school. Mr. Hamilton had only one more examination to pass for the' A.R.1.8.A., ■ and'he hoped '■ to join a regiment'for the J front. ' Out-.-wardly London is going about its business very quietly, but there are camps , • and soldiers .everywhere, and. schools, shops', 'and business places: are being .depleted of. their young men; ;• ;'-'• ■' "Every elector whose :■ application form''has been received by the Registrar will receive ah acknowledgment," said 'Mr. Wright- aVWadestown last : -night. If the application-form is not ; ecknowledgedit has miscarried.' ;.: . The police, at are now making inquiries with regard to" the theft of £52 14s. Bd. which has been stolen from a private-office at the Epsom tram . barn, states the "Herald." The sum, which was sorted out into envelopes, represented the week's wages for the men on night-shift. The money was placed hi a drawer in, the office about five o'clock on Friday afternoon, and would have'been, paid to the men at 1 o'clock on Saturday morning! 'At ten o'clock, however, it was discovered that the drawer containing the' money had been forced open with a chisel, and all '■ 'the cash had-been removed;" >v:;■;

•'• A'feature; in connection with Maori Contingent in camp at Avondale during the past fortnight has been the splendid- singingjthatxean be ''beard, almost'' ovefv evening a long way off, states: tho "Star." About three hundred 'Avondale and New Lynn residents accepted; an> invitation extended by Captain Peacock :,to. hear the Maoris practise their hymns -in;-tho grandstand on the Avondale racecourse. The bymns,_of course, were rendered .in Maori,; which added/interest to; the occasion.

: "Tolorani Labour,'.' bbsened Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald at hi* meeting at Makara last night, "is-certain to. be a big factor in .the government of ■["■ this" and every other country."•'.. . .' ...

An Order-in-Council published in a Gazette Extraordinary, .published, last night; prohibits the export of wool from the Dominion-except' to other parts of the British. Empire, ;and ports in -the territory 'of His Majesty's Allies, in British, ships,or ships of the Allies. < In. the case of any other country the Min-. ister of Customs must consent to: the "sxportation of any specified quantity of Wool in a rpecified ship. ; '

An elderly lady wishing to enrol on the Wellington Central Electorate roll yesWday had dome difficulty in" explaining where she lived, as she stated to; the onroDing agent that the 'street in which she Tesided had no name. By a cross-examination it was: discovered that she resided in. the 6hort street between Upper Willis Street and Central Park, which the; Brooklyn tramcars traverse. There is no name-plate to indicate the name of the thoroughfare, and few of the people Who reside in ,it arc aware that it has a name; It was ascertained' on inquiry that the thoroughfare in question is called Huaka Street. The.City Engineer;(Mr. W. H. Morton).is at present making arrangements, to erect new enamel name-plates (white lettering on a dark which improvement is needed in view of tho comparatively recent alteration in Uio names of quite a number of City streets. ;

A very fine oast of a tunny, a largo fish weighing 1281b., which was caught off Kaikoura, is now on view at the Government Tourist Bureau, Hereford Street, Christchurch, Btates the "Sun.',' The oast will be on view for a few days, and will then be shipped to Panama for the. Exposition. , ', .

The. to the effect that drunkenness had taken place recently at Roto Boa! Island, where habitual drunkards are sent by the Stipendiary Magistrates for the treatment, were referred on Sunday night to Staff-Captain Haynes,. of the Auckland Salvation Army which controls the institution, states' the Auoiland "Herald." He said that about a fortnight ago he visit,ed the island and found .that on one day 'throe of the men interned there had been indulging in a concoction purporticg to be parsnip wine. The men did not become intoxicated, but were made very ill. None of the other men on the island had partaken of the "wine."

''I am opposed to land monopoly in any shape, or form* and agauißt the reaggregawon of estates —on this point I stand firm."—Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald, at Makara last evening.

Local residents and visitors to" the Palmerston' North Show will be pleased to learn that Godbers' Ltd., of Wellington, are the- caterers. —Advt.