TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 September 1913, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[t'lvlt I'JtKSS ASSOCIATION.]

PBOBATION FOB FOBGEBY. Wellington, This Day. At the Supreme Court, to-day, August Herbert Malorny, a young man, was brought up for sentence (before Mr Justice Chapman) on the charges of forging a birth certificate and a school certificate, with a view to obtaining employment in the Railway service. In placing the accused on probation for two years, the judge warned him that he must behave himself in future, otherwise he would be sent to gaol-as persons who fradulently forged certificates like tlie accused had done shouldered out young men who wvw entitled to a position in the service. "IT IS BCMorPED." Wellington, Sept I. Sir -loseph Ward to-day gave a denial to the statement made by a Teiuuka newspaper lliat he was entering into partnership with a well-known South Canterbury public man in the fro/en meat' busi-

ness. Sir Joseph AYard said he had neither considered nor had he been asked to enter into any such phog posal and he had no j;-,rtmtion of ' undertaking any business responsible ios of the kind. I'TLL OF IMPOPTAtfOF. (iisboi'iie, September 1. Tim case of J. R. Quin versus B. S. Floraneo, S.M.. application for a writ of mandamus to compel ■ the Magistrate to hear plaintiff'* ■ application for a publican's license • was mentioned at the Supreme : Court to-day. > This was a case which was ' brought to compel Mr Florance. : S.M., to hear an application for a ' publican's license, which had al- ■ ready been refused by Mr Barton. S.M., of (lisborne, on the ground ; that the police report was unfavourable. His Honour slated that the case was one of much importance, and . I lull he would like flic assistance of counsel af the Crown's expense. The ruling, in tins case, His Honour stated would be of importance to the whole of the Dominion. The case will probably be taken to-morrow. "Srcil A PIG-HEAD." Hamilton, August -.I. 'I'"'" youths, mimed Yoombos | rin /I. Monckiuan, were ordered to military detention by Mr Bawson, S.M., at the Hamilton Court to(<ky. i Magistrate tried to reason .with Coombes, but his efforts were useless. The latter staled if fines continued to be stopped f mm |,i s , wages he would cease work. He , was determined not to drill, and if .ever lie was forced lo cuter battle ■he would probably he shot in the hack while running away. | The Magistrate said it was no .Use trying to reason with such pig- ! headed youths, and he would sec who would get tinxl ',]>■<{ EIMNOXON WAICMMiHIvLLS To Awamulu, September 1. The Te A warn ut a Chamber of Commerce, in following up its efforts urging the iniiiiin'sing of the dangers at railway crossings found a widespread hut erroneous opinion that obvious difficulties had io be faced in the establishment of automatic signals. Reference to Mr Thomas Kdison, the worldfamed inventor, shows thai no such opinion is held by him. He sees no difficulties in 'this connection. Replying to the Te AwaI mutu Chamber from 'his lahorafoi'.v in Orange, Xew .Jerscv. on August I, Mr Edison savs: "Lei "'<' say in reply Unit there are many devices already in use where a train approaching a crossing nngs a bell electrically. This is simple. Any electrical engineers could apply fo y0,,,. crossings an electrical device which will automatically ring a bell at the crossings long in adyance of the (rain's approach.

WOMUX FirUFMASOXS. Auckland, September 1. ■It is reported that a Masonic Lodge, admitting both sexes, will be shortly opened in Auckland, and thai a 33rd degree Mason will be the first master. In conversation willi a Mason of the 33rd degree, a reporter was informed that such lodges exist m other countries, but do not interchange visits with lodges in which the membership is rest rioted Jo males. In America (here exists the Fellowship of Humane Rights, which may be described as a co-Masonic body. There are two lodges in Sydney, and one in Melbourne. This Order originated in France in 1872, when a lady journalist was initiated into the Masonic Order, but (he Grand Lodge promptly suspended the whole lot. This condition lasted for twelve years, when Tiro. Geo. .Martin, a member of the Grand Lodge of France, started to make members. Tt is now claimed there are some 17'! mixed lodges in France, with a membership of about 8000, and the Order in the Tlnited States has a membership of 12,000. Such lodges also exist in India and other parts of the v. WANGANI'f "Wangaiiui, August 8.1. Tin- representative hockey match between Canterbury and Wauganui was played yesterday in perfect weather on an excellent ground. A good game resulted in a win for Canterbury by six goals to two. The first half was very even, and the spell was taken with the scores two each. THe visitors asserted their superiority in the last, twenty-five minutes, and notched four more goals. Throp (3), Cummins, Hulberf and Holland scored for the visitors, and Brown and Marshall for Wanganui.