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Evening Star, Issue 20140, 3 April 1929, Page 8

Two petitions were placed bed ore the Mosgiel Borough Council last night, one "regarding the Fire Board poll and the other regarding the statutory halfholiday poll. Both petitions were accepted", and it was decided that the polls should bo advertised to lake place on the same day as the municipal elections. A proposal to bring Mosgiel mirier a fire board was lost when it was last submitted to the ratepayers. The statutory hall-holiday at present is Thursday, but the bulk of the shops close on Saturday, and there appears a general desire to make tho latter day the holiday for all.

A motor car which was purchased only about a month ago tor £olU capsized and was completely destroyed by lire near Ramarama (Auckland) yesterday, Those in tbc car were Mrs G. Pezaro, Mr and Mrs S. Pczaro, Mrs V. Israel, and Master S. Pczaro. The car skidded in a greasy patch on the bend, and flames burst from the bonnet. Tho passengers were momentarily trapped and helpless, but one of the party forced his way from the binning wreck and pulled out the . others. No baggage could be saved, Mr Pczaro losing bis packet wallet containing papers and money.—Press Association.

The Mosgiel ]to rough Council is not satisfied with the time taken in travelling to Dunedin by the 6.50 p.m. tram. The district traffic manager was approached in the matter recently, and he, forwarded a letter to last night s meeting of the council, in which he .stated that the matter was being looked into and that the council would ho advised further in the course of a few days.

A statutory first offender for drunkenness appeared before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, and was fined 10s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. He was a man of many aliases, for helms answered to the names of Clark, Landy, Landrey. and Bryan, the Christian name in each case being Robert.

The postal authorities advise that the Golden Cloud, now at Auckland, from San Pedro lias eight parcel receptacles for Dunedin. These ikeuld 1 reach here acorn; Friday newt.

Dunedin holiday-makers were flocking back by the thousand yesterday. Inward trains were all well patronised—the 5.50 p.m. from Central Otago bringing 400, the 6,23 from Goro 450, the 6.53 from' Invercargill 400, the 8.11 from Oaniaru 500, tjje 8.54 from Christchurch 360, the 9.37 from Christchurch 220, and the 10.55 .from Invercargill 200. Tire later outward trains also carried good loadings—4.4s to Invercargill 650 and 11.20 to Christ,church 250. The traffic to-day was a little above normal. The express that left Christchurch, at 8.50 a.in., and was due hero at 4.25, had 380 on board at starting.

Ait Auckland Association telegram states that' an anonymous donation of £2,000 from an Australian lady, under the name “Cornstalk,” has been received by tho _ secretary of tho Melanesian Mission (Major Stuart “Robinson). The only condition is that the money is to ho used in building a new hospital at Mala in the Solomons. A new feature coming to the Empire Theatre on Friday next is ‘The Legion of the Condemned.’ By a most unfortunate error last evening’s notice not only titled the picture ‘The Foreign Legion,’ hut also gave the story of that picture, which has already been shown in Dunedin. Every picture-goer knows, of course, that the Empire does not use “second run” pictures, hut the error was none the less regrettable.

From information in the possession of the South Island Dairy Association it is estimated that the export of butter and cheese for tho shipping season that usually ends iip May will he 5 or 6 per cent, above that of last season. The Tourist Department is continuing its policy of enabling its responsible officers to visit all resorts so as to gain first-hand knowledge as a guide to them in dealing with inquirers. Mr R. (L Sincock, chief clerk at Dunedin, ami Mr A. G. Hill, of tho Wellington office, are to on Friday for Milford, one of the star attractions in the South Island. The business at tho Dunedin office this Easter has been fully up to expectations. Just prior to Easter this year the Dunedin general merchants who trade in. provisions were exceptionally busy, storemen and clerks having to work overtime to get out the rush orders. Tho experience was a. reminder of old times. and quit© inspiriting. Of the last shipment of Samoan bananas to New Zealand about 1 ,UUO cases wore sent on from Auckland to Dunedin, or no more than n quarter of the- quantity that this market could have taken if the fruit had been in good condition.

The withdrawals from the Dunedin Savings Bank prior to and presumably for the Kastcr holidays were not this year so heavy as usual. Depositors tools out a lot of money in December, and as the accounts so drawn upon have not had much time to build up again the presumption is that some of the customers had to he content with light expenditure on the Easter holidays. Probate has been granted by His Honour Mr Justice MacGregor, who is at present in Wellington, in the following estates:—Elizabeth Finch, Northeast Valley (Mr W. L. Moore); Susan a O’Kane. South Dunedin (Mr S. C. Herons) ; Panina Rosina Alice (Houston, Dunedin (Mr F. S. Brent); Robert MTvenzie, Dunedin (Mr F. Ik Adams) ; Mary Swan, Dunedin (Mr R. R. Aspinall) ; Mary Smith, Caver&ham (Mr F. B. Adams') : Her Johnson. Lawrence (Mr W. Allan) ; Annie Hughes, Dunedin (Mr P. S. Anderson) ; Davfid Grieve, North Tnieri (Mr J. M. Paterson); Johanna Thomas, Dunedin (Mr A. I. W. Wood); and Donald MacBeath, Opoho (Mr R. R. Aspinall). Letters of administration wore granted in the estates of Francos Jane Hansen, Hawca Flat (Mr AT. V. Lousier); Arthur David Harding, Dnnedjn (Mr H. Brasch) ; George Westwood Kidd Miller, Fairfield (Mr J. Lang) ; and Jane Chambers, Dunedin (Mr E. J. Anderson).

The assertion is made by or on behalf of Air Allan Wilkie that four of the plays chosen for hi.s current Shakespearean season have never before been produced in Dunedin. ’The statement is correct in regard _ to ‘ Coriolanus ’ and ‘ Ail’s Well That Ends Well.’ As to ‘ Much Ado About Nothing ’ and ‘ King Lear,’ the qualification “ in recent years ” should bo appended. ‘ Much Ado ’ was a favourite with our lathers and mothers, and nine productions of the comedy arc recorded. 'The appearance of Gliarles Wilmot as Dogberry was a feature of the cast at the Princess in 1807; William Hoskins and beauteous Florence Colville took the leading parts in four presentations from 1871 to 1876: in 1877 Airs Scott-Sid-dons featured the heroine, supported by George Darrell and J. B. Steel: two years later the celebrated William Croswiek and Helen Ashton included this piece in their repertory; and in 1881. Herr Bandmanu and Louise Beaudct were seen in the principal loles. ‘ King Lear ’ has been produced on four occasions in Dunedin, by Henry Thibet and Airs Harry Jackson in 1808; by Henry Talbot, supported by Mrs Walter Hill in 187(5; by William Croswiek and Helen Ashton in 1879; by W. E. Sheridan and Louise Davenport In 1886. Croswiek >■ Lear was accepted as the best of his time. Over £lO5 was distributed in prizes at the recent Dominion Draughts Congress at Damievirkc, constituting a record for tho British. Empire. The record was previously held by New Plymouth in 192-5, when the prizemoney was ;CUH) (ssivs a Daunevirko Pi ■ess Association telegram).

A Dannevirke Press Association telegram states that William Joseph Donovan, a- tobacconist, was remanded to April 15 on a charge of loitering in a public place for the purpose of belting. It is expected that the equipment and stores will all he taken out of the holds of the Byrd Antarctic ship, Eleanor Holing, by to-morrow, when she will proceed to Port Chalmers to tic up alongside the City of Now York for the winter months. A Dunedin inventor, Air R. Ferguson, has brought under the notice of the Alinister of Railways a- device l for the protection of shunters •handling tarpanlin-eovcrcd trucks. The .source of danger at. present is that the tarpaulin covers tlie. handrail which the shunter would otherwise grip when ho jumps on the brake to bring a, truck to a standstill. The invention is being referred to departmental experts.

His Honour Air Justice Adams lias fixed Monday, April 15, as the date lor the hearing of the action by the City Corporation against the Dunedin Arcade Company, Limited, in which the corporation is asking for an in junction to prevent the company irom closing the Royal Arcade as a public right-of-wav.

Another gilt Ims been made by Mr I l '. S. Potter, of Auckland, who .last week presented an acre of land to Takapuna for park purposes. Last year Mr Pottei\ handed over an area at Panmure to the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand for the erection of Masonic homes, and he has now written to the executive of the Grand Lodge offering a property at Papakura of nine and it-half acres in extent, with a, cottage, almost new, to be applied to the purposes of a Masonic orphanage. Mr Potter undertakes to convey this property to the Grand Lodge "free at all encumbrances, and to maintain it until such time as he is prepared to endow it.—Auckland correspondent.

Messrs Chas. Bcgg and Co.’s popular musical recitals arc .now « regular monthly feature. _ The April gramophone recital will be held in (he piano salon, Princes street, on Monday, April 8, at 8 p.m., when the latest records will he demonstrated on the Columbia Kolsler electrical reproducer. 'J ho Railway Department advertises in this issue that, commencing on Saturdav next, week-end ’ excursion tickets will be issued from Dunedin to Roxburgh. Artificial Eyes.-W. V. Stunner, G.A.0.C., D. 5.0.1., specialises the fitting artificial eyes, also their comfortable adiustment.— [Advfc.] J