NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1050, 30 May 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The new carpenters' and joiners’ award for the Wellington country district, which comes into operation on 22nd April next, provides that 46 hours must be worked weekly between 7.40 a.m. and 5 p.m., with a half holiday on Saturday. One hour for dinner, but by arrangement half an hour can be allowed between May 15th to August 31st. Wages per hour. On outside jobs where four or more workers are employed the foreman to receive not less than is a day additional wages. Piecework is prohibited. Country work (more than six miles from a chief post office) to be paid for at ordinary rates plus is 6d per day extra. Apprentices are limited to one in three or fraction of first three. A preference clause is included in the award-

The local Psychical Research Society has had two visits from the spirit of Mr W. T. Stead since the Titanic disaster (says the Taranaki Herald). On Sunday evening he described to the members present his last actions on the Titanic. He saw a little child crying lor its mother, so he took it and secured it by a rope to a plank, soothing it at the same time by saying it would soon see its mother. Then he tied a rope to a woman, who was immediately afterward drowned before his eyes. His own turn came then. There was a momentary confusion in his mind, and then he found himself walking on a beautiful beach, where the shells and everything seemed to be bidding him welcome. Here he met his old friend Tolstoi, and as they walked along the shore they saw a tree, which they approached, and there they met the Red Indian whose spirit Mr Stead had so often met before.

Harvad University, Boston, is planning for an electrical era. An alternating current transformer, with a capacity of x,000,000 volts, a machine twice as big as any hitherto constructed, is to be installed in the university. This is the first step in a movement to provide heat, refrigeration, light and power for Boston direct from the coal-fields of Pennsylvania. Moderate estimates place the date at five years hence when Boston will have done away with sooty chimneys, its coal - carrying system, and its facilities for disposing of ashes, and when coal strikes will not worry the householder or business man. Boston will then be using electricity generated hundreds of miles away in the Pennsylvania coal-fields, where coal costs a rew pence a ton. Since the great strike in Britain, states a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, American electrical engineers have been studying with renewed ardour the problem of replacing local furnace heating by electrical energy.

ENGLISH CHOLERA CURED,

“Recently a customer of mine called in to purchase some goods, and was violently attacked with English cholera,” writes L. M. Morrin, Otahuhu, N.Z. “I induced him to take a dose of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, which immediately effected a cure. I might add that on numerous occasions I have used Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy this way, and it has had marvellous effects on the sufferers.” For sale everywhere. —Advt.