TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1922, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

[by telegraph—per press association]

BISHOP AVERILL’S VIEWS. AUCKLAND, October 13

“Personally, I am not technically a prohibitionist,” said Bishop Averill at the opening of the Anglican Synod todaq, but having noted the terms in which the General Cynod had expressed itself he concluded it was the bounden duty of the Church to face such a .question as a drastic amendment of the liquor laws, inasmuch as a moral issue was at stake. Personally, he disliked the principle of prohibition, and would infinitely prefer to see men and women living self-controlled lives where no such drastic measure was needed, but they lived- under tbe law of prohibition in other directions, and so long as human nature was what it was, it would be impossible to have the ideal state in which no Ten Commandments and no prohibition ary laws were necessary. Looking at the question from a Christian standpoint, and giving his personal attitude, the Bishop said: “I cannot conscientiously vote for the continuance of a trade which T am convinced docs mere harm than good to my fellow-creatures. To me it is merely a matter of conscience, and I desire to I give every man credit for acting as his conscience, but it must oe his conscience, and not his inclination or prejudice.”

Tlie Anglican Synod to-night debated the liquor question. The debate was adjourned.

OFFENCE AGAINST CHILD. DUNEDIN, October 13,

At the Magistrate’s Coure,. Phyllis Corrie Davis aged eighteen, pleaded guilty to exposing a child in a manner likely to cause injury.

The accused was an inmate of the St. iVncent do Paul Orphanage, and was licensed out at Southland. While there she was assaulted by a man, though no complaint was made at the time. She returned to the orphanage, and gave birth to a child on September lGth. There were eleven occupants in the dormitory, but none knew what had happened. "When the others were at breakfast tbe accused took tlie infant down the fire escape and dropped it over a 7 foot fence into the street where two hoys saw it. Their mother cared for the child, which was not injured. The accused was convicted and admitted to probation for three years.

THE DAVIS CUP. AUCKLAND, Oct. 13.

Interviewed aboard the Niagara today. G. L. Patterson, captain -of the Australian Davis Cup team, said he considered that the Australians did very well against, the Americans. He did not really expect that they would heat them ; he thought the odds were (cur io one on tbe Americans, and this \, as how it turned out, the Americans winning four games and the .Australians one. Patterson indicated that tie weakness of the Australians’ backhand vas their undoing. Incidentally lie mentioned Hint Johnson had changed bis game, and was not using his forehand so much. He was relying lucre on his backhand, which was a very deadly weapon.

The Australians came ashore to-day, and were entertained to luncheon by the local tennis authorities. Subsequently they played exhibition matches, and left again by the Niagara to-night.

MOUNTAINS AND GLACIERS. AUCKLAND, Oct. 12. In a further interview to-day, -Mr (,i. K. Mannering, of Christehiircli, who has just returned from a holiday m Switzerland, said that ironi the mountaineering point of view, he is still ot opinion that the New Zealand Alps use as fine as those of Switzerland, with the exception of the Matterhorn, which he elimbed. On the .Matterhorn one call take a mule up 10,800 feet at which height there is a hotel. Mt. Cook, on the other hand, involves the negotiating of crevasses, ice difficulties and snow fields as compared to the rocky footing on the Matterhorn. With regard to glaciers, Mr Mannering pronounces tiie celebrated M.er de Chico, the best-known glacier in the world, as much inferior in size compared with the Tasman glacier, it being only half the length or the Tasman, and not a quarter its width. It will be recalled that the Tasman glacier is eighteen miles long and two miles wide. The eahle railways up the Swiss Alps were referred to by Mr Mannering, specially that at Jungfrau, the tunnelling for which through several mountains took twenty-two years to complete, and which carries tourists op 11,500 feet, leaving only 2500 feet to tie climbed before the summit is reached. Hundreds of people use this railway daily, and at one of the stations in the heart of the mountains there arc sometimes as many as five trains shunting at one time. New Zealand, of course, does not possess any such railways although the provision of sleeping lulls and op ning up of new routes are two improvements of loeent years. . The New Zealand Alps are 2000 to ,‘fOOO feet lower than the Swiss Alps, hut on the other hand wo have Alpine conditions at 7000 feet, whereas in Switzerland tiie snow and ice conditions begin at 10,000 feet to 11.000 feet. The lower snowline in New Zealand is one feature that makes our Alps so remarkable.

A SERIOUS CHAR OK. TK KTMTI. October 11. At the Magistrate's Court this morn ing Will David Anderson, mail contractor of Aria, was charged with committing an unnatural offence at Pnrahika on October 13. On the reading of the charge, which was of a particularly nauseating nature. Sergeant Foarnley applied for a remand until Friday next, which was grunted. Bail was refused.

THE HERMTTAOE. TIMARU. October 15. Over eighty visitors from all parts of tiie Dominion, are the guests of the Aft. Cook Motor Co,, at Mount Cook Hermitage tin’s week-end, to mark tiie formal taking-over from the Government by tbe company of the Afountnin Hostel. The visitors were entertained

to dinner on Saturday night. Hie dinner being presided ever bv the Ron. Mr 1 .ee, representing the Government.