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Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 6

Since the Miscellany of Sport page went to press word has been received that the University evening sports meeting to have been hold on March .3 has been cancelled.

The estate of the late Mr Charles Speight, in connection with which progranted to-day, was sworn at under £250,000. There were no bequests of a public nature.

The Mavor (Mr W. B. Taverner; is advised that the French warsloop Cassiopee is to pay a complimentary visit to Dunedin, arriving March 21, and remaining till March 27. The narration of the late Mr Charles Speight’s acts of benevolence and brotherly kindness may be left to private retailings. An example ot his consideration for others in a matter of pure business stands on another footing, and may he regarded as told by the man who benefited, an Otago farmer. It happened years ago. Mr Speight went to one of the barley growing districts, as was his custom, to make contracts with the farmers for their output. At a mooting held in the schoolhousc the question of prices was thrashed out, it being agreed that it should be Gs per bushel. Only one grower stood out. He said the piicc would harden, and lie would not sign any contract at 6s. By the time the barley was harvested the market value dropped to ss, and the solitary holder was in such a fix that he came to town, saw most of the brewers and the agents, and found that they were fully supplied, so that his barley could not be quitted even at os. As a last hope he went to the Rattray street brewery, sjxw Mr Speight, and walked out with a contract in his hands to take the crop at the 6s which his neighbors had received. Tie tells the story himself, and declares that only one man in a thousand would have treated him so generously. A conference attended by twenty delegates of local bodies discussed the attitude to ho taken towards the commission of inquiry' with the Auckland transport system. Many local bodies having declined to appear before the commission and having favored the establishment of a transport board, it was decided unanimously to forward a letter to the Prime Minister stating that the Auckland local bodies did not desire the appointment of a commission, but considered that the best method to control transport there was by a transport board elected by the local bodies; further, that if the Government decided a commission was necessary it should ho composed of men with a knowledge of local conditions, and that all deliberations should bo confined to the desirability of constituting a metropolitan control board. It was also resolved that a deputation leave for Wellington on March 11, and that the Premier he asked to delay the appointment of a commission in the meantime.—Press Association telegram.

It is rather unusual in these days of unemployment for no applications whatever to be received for an advertised position. At the monthly meeting of the Otago Hospital Board last evening the secretary reported that two nurses had been needed for the Pleasant Valley Sanitarium. One application had been received, after which he had advertised for a second nurse. It so happened that the first applicant did not turn up, and no applications had been received in reply to the advertisement for the second nurse. It was decided that the vacancies be advertised in the four centres of New Zealand.

At the Supreme Court, Christchurch, before Mr Justice Adams and a jury, Wilfred Georgo Adams, painter, of Christchurch, sought a divorce from his wife, Clara Cora Adams, on the ground of alleged adultery with Henry Fisher. Petitioner also claimed from co-respondent £SOO damages. There was uncontradicted evidence that before the coming of co-respondent Adams and his wife had lived happily together. Tho jury assessed the damages at £4OO, and a decree nisi was granted.—Press Association. A tank of bitumen, which caught fire on the Main South road ; Caversham, yesterday afternoon, claimed the attention of the City Brigade. As little could be done to extinguish the blaze, the piachine i just stood by to protect the neighboring houses. A Hamilton Press Association telegram states that W. Ambler, a farmer, who was described a silver bettor, was fined £3O at Ngaruawahia yesterday for bookmaking. In the Auckland Police Court Selwyn Mays, solicitor, was fined £SO for failing to have his trust account audited.— Press Association.

On the occasion of tho two hundred and forty-third anniversary of the birth of George Frederic Handel, and in pursuance of an admirable policy of the cultivation of musical, literary, and artistic appreciation in children, the headmaster of the Normal School (Mr L. F. do Berry) arranged a short lecture on tho life and works of the great German composer at the school yesterday afternoon. Mr G, W. Johnstone briefly addressed the pupils of the upper standards on Handel’s gifts, and his career in the world of music, and reviewed the operatic and sacred works upon which the composer’s fame rests. Mr Johnstone’s remarks were followed with a great deal of interest by the children. A short musical recital served to illustrate the speaker’s points. Mrs J. Garfield Anderson phayod tho ‘ Largo ’ as a pianoforte solo. Miss Eva Scoff, sang two solos from the ‘Messiah’ ‘ J Know My Redeemer Liveth ’ and ‘Como Unto "Me.’ Another oratorio excerpt—‘Ho Shall Food His Flock ’— was sung by Miss Molly Vickers. Several gramophone records were also given. The grandeur of Handel’s works and the simplicity of tho material upon which they are built was thus strikingly brought home to the children. It is Mr do Berry’s intention to arrange a scries of similar appreciation courses.

Probate was granted by His Honor Mr Justice Sim this morning in the estates of George M'Hattic, Momona (Mr E. A. Duncan) Margaret Turner, (Dunedin (Mr A. I. W. Wood); Donald MMntyre, Kaitangata (Mr J. 11. M. Lemon); Rosetta M'Ewan, Ravcnsbourne (Mr A. 1. W. Wood); Charles Aston, Moa Creek (Mr W, A. Bodkin); Thomas Edward Wilkin, Mosgiel (Mr G. Gallaway); Charles Speight, Dunedin (Mr A. H. Tonkinson) ; William Turner, Waiwcra South (Mr_ G. J. Kelly). Letters of administration were granted in the estates of Jessie Morgan, Dunedin (Mr W. F. Forrester), and Andrew Heaton Leslie, Waikouaiti (Mr J. B. Nichol). At 11.27 this morning the City Fire Brigade was summoned to extinguish a fire in a four-roomed wooden house situated in MTvenzio street, near the Gardens. The outbreak was caused through a defective chimney, and tho flames had a good hold when the brigade arrived, but they were soon extinguished with damage to one room, the roof, and the contents. Tho house is owned by Mr A. P. Mickle, and insured in tho Norwich Union Office for £350. Tho contents were insured with the South British for £IOO.

The postal authorities advise that the Tahiti left Sydney for Wellington at 4 p.m. yesterday. Her Dunedin mails include 1.09 bags and thirty-six hampers, including eighty bags from beyond. The lot Is due here on February 28,

Fisher Bus Service caters for picnics, long distance tours by car or bus. ’Phones 11-234, 20-919 for prices.—[Advt.] For spectacles that, soothe the eyes consult W. V. Stnrmer, D. 5.0.1., G.A.0.C., 2 Octagon. Our business ,s exclusively optical. [Advt.l

Hart's bus leaves Grand Pictures for Waipori Falls at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday.