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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 591, 6 August 1913, Page 4

The law is being enforced in Pennsylvania which requires that a couple intending to marry shall present a medical certificate before the ceremony is allowed to take place.

Mr Graham sells on Saturdav at the Mart, a lot of groceries, drapery, hardware arid seed potatoes, also furniture seized under warrant.

In the coui'3e of his speech when ] responding to a public welcome, Sir I Joseph Ward'sald it was true jthat he ! was well known in London, in fact, he thought he might say he was known by (;uiie two thirds of the taxi-cab I drives, it had its drawbacks, in that he always i'elt that it was encum- ! bent upon him to recognise the comi pliment paid him. A two-light window in St. Mary's Cathedral. Auckland, to be filled with i stained glass in memory of Mrs Selwyn. wife of the first bishop of New Zealand, ami mother of the second bishop of Melanesia, will be unveiled on the afternoon of August 19th. The window which is to be erected over the south door of the chinch, is from ; a design by the Ven. Archdeacon ! Walsh, and represents the presentaj tion of ihe Child Christ in the j Temple. The cost has b?en subI scribed entirely by personal fiiends ; of Mrs Seiwyn. The window Will I be [Jin a corresponding position to that recently erected over the north door in memory ef the late Mrs Cowie. With the omect of carrying out experiments in their districts several branches of ihe Farmers' Union in the Auckland Province have decided to co-operate with the Department of Agriculture. A small committee of active members of each branch has been chosen to interest itself in and supervise the experiments undertaken by individual farmers. I,'ieven : branches are going to work in ibis : connection. A varied selection of : experiments will be carried out, including the testing of roof and forage crops, the renovation ci pastures, and the growing of mai::e, sorghums, and millets. The commit tee of the Pap:: kura branch is. going to work with ike i local school, and will plough up ami j cultivate a section of land for school j plots, putting it; in perfect order lor! seeing The school thru takes entire charge. I

'ilic aborigines in the far northwest in' Australia are showing a teniMiry wi be more Mian usually trn-abiesome. A man named l'ilc.hoksi, o;-riipi np, at. Eight-mile Well, waa mind creel while asleep by blacks, bis p:;cks hi m;' ransack* d. ] A.- :;:; e.irieonu Ed '..'■■ MJll'erings ik.a.imh poverty the brother of "Tom ilnbiin." t iii' ;ni|iti iar novelist and story write]-, shoi his wife and child dead at his home mar Great Missenden, Buckingham. He then committed suicide. The remains of a prohihslnric tomb have been discovered at Forres, in Elgin. The tomb is stated to he that of a braehyeephnlous man, about five foot four in height dating, perhaps, three thousand years before Christ. The latest; "freak" entertainment was given in Newport. The hostess, Mr Stuyvesant-Fish, was dressed as Mother Goose, and the guests impersonated nursery characters. Mra Robert Goelet appeared as Little BoPeep, with a specially trained lamb, which participated in the ballroom festivities. The entertainment cost £12,000. Ex-President Castro, who was supposedly living quietly in the Canary Islands, has caused a sensation by reappearing at the head of an armed force of Venezuelans. According to advices the President has been granted dictatorial powers in order to cope with the rebellion. It is reported that the rebels have been defeated. "He has a frightful record," said Sergeant Nicholson, when John Kermody waa charged at the Court in Ballarat, Victoria, last week, with having no visible means of support. "Kermody," continued the sergeant. "was one of Captain Scott'B gang when the bushranger, better known "Moonlight," was imprisoned in the Ballarat gaol, from where ho and his companions escaped by the aid of Kermody when the latter was a youth, and the junior member of the gang. "Moonlight" waß originally a bank clerk, and a lay reader in an Anglican church at Ballan, and was subsequent ly hanged in New South Wales. Kermod's only failing during the past few years has been that of drinking to excess, and he has not troubled the police much." Kermody was remanded for seven days. "The shipping companies seem to have us in the hollow of their hands, and charge what they like," remarked Mr Ewan Campbell, president of the Agricultural Societies' Conference on Friday. Mr F. S. Pope, secretary for Agriculture, said that the Government had done all that could be dine. The High Commissioner had made representations to them in London, but they had refused to do anything, and had given unsatisfactory reasons. A German estimate of the world's wheat crop for 1913 states that the indications point to the largest production on record. The total estimated amount is 511,200,000 quarters, including 11,100,000 quarters from Australia.

A Japanese, who was captured at San Francisco, admitted that another attempt had been made by Japaneße emigrants to secure admission into California. It was done by means of crossing the Pacific in a small Chinese junk. During rioting at Cawnpore, which arose out of the demolition of a mosque by the civic authorities, the police fired on the rioters. Thirteen were killed and thirty-one wounded. One policeman was killed and forty were, wounded.

Chicago aspires to be the first noiselees city in the United States, and its governing authorities are devising regulations, compelling street vehicles to use rubber tyres, tradesmen calling at houses to wear soft shoes, motor-cara to be muffled, and hawkers to advertise their wareß n confidential whispers. It is even proposed that the toostera should be required to forego crowing. The roosters in suburban Chicago are as great a nuisance as the gramaphones, and there formers have suggsted two methods of overcoming the trouble. One plan involves isolation "in boxes which prevent the birds extending their necks," and another entails a slight operation with the object of severing a vocal chord. The cut is said to be painless, and it substitutes a low whistle for the morning crow. Perhaps a later ordinance will deal with the loud clothing commonly worn by the men of C hicago. A Danish engineer has just patented an intention which be calls a "soldier-automaton," an automatic machine replacing the line of skirmishers for defence purposes. It consists of a cylinder which \i buried in the ground, and may stay there for years without being damaged. The cylinder n connected with a signal station, (our or five miles away, and by electric transmission it can shoot up until it is well above the level of the ground, firing at the same time 400 shots in a horizontal direction. A number of these tubes would be more efficient than a line of skirmishers and the enemy would have no warning of their whereabouts. The inventor claims that in time of peace the land where the applianaes are buried could be used for crops, but it doe 3 not seem likely that it would become popular as a place l'or close settlement. For more than lf>o years brick has been used for paving in .several of the principal towns of Holland, and since 1 y72 it bar. bcp.n •■:;!> naively employed in America on I'n'.mlry to;m\ as well aa on :. i v i ■ < ■ t - . I'rvk pavements of oxpariaaaiha mm ■;:*■ i <t Pave been laid in I.ivorpord, < 'imUeahaim and in SiaiVordabi; ■■. i'u; i he 1 aau h a attained wmv not <v aaa-nai to ha : :\\ iafamm y in ;ia imitn! Stales, inciv o\( ■'■;: ah. the i i i c ia aladd to be ; :aa a I ■> t a : o y i :. i .■• a:,hi r ordinary emaiitaaea 'aaea aavae; m varioiiH /•.iraa'irim > Pma ia'a (mm..- lu d vainaide t. \ia emm v. : hmein; the impel t anaa oi :;paa mai< rah' . mi \\ m kaatn ■ finip. la ii'a a a hj; iek pavmrn iiia liave

In Auckland there are .only 80 doctors, and 20,000 of the population of the city have been vaccinated, and ho mai y people arc seriously ill as the result of vaccination that there are scarcely enough doctors to go round. Several lending medical men teen by a Star representative on Wednesday Iriht stated (hat never in their experience h»tl they known such serious results to follow vaccination. Patients :ire ill in bed, racked with excruciating pains.

The Blen'ot aeroplane presented to the New Zealand Government by the British people should shortly be on the way out to this country, according to Sir Joseph Ward. In an interview in Auckland, according to a dent, he described the machine as a beiautiful one, valued at about £1750. One contributor in the Old Country ha said, gave 600gns towardß its cost. Lord Desborough, chairman of the Aerial Fleet Committee, 50gns and the Standard newspaper lOOgns. The aeroplane, he said, had a magnificent engine, eminently adapted for aerial purposes. "**

Numerous and varied are the enquiries which an overseas mail brings to the Labour Department. This letter from an Oxford graduate who is preparing a work dealing with the settlement and avoidance of industrial disputes. The wi iter asked eleven questions, the first of which alone would require special knowledge and very careful enquiry to answer. It was "Has the Arbitration Act succeeded in raising the real wages or conditions" of the workers?" Almost as much was Bought by a correspondent from Oregon, who aßked for information of a technical character in regard to the use, present and prospective, of gas and electricity in the chief centrso of New Zealand. He desired to have the questions answered in order that he might judge of the prospects which would be offered by the Dominion from this point of view. A third letter contained no enquiry but was of a more welcome character, for it announced that a labourer with a family of ten—including four daughters who were domestic servants—was coming to the Dominion in the hops of obtaining employment.