LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The local State , School -resumes on Monday next.
Waverley has just opened a Ladies’ Rest Room. The members of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild were entertained at a most enjoyable afternoon by Mi’s Perreau at her residence yesterday. The Eastern Cable Coy. advises that communication with Tokio and Yokohama is totally interrupted since 12.30 p.m. on the Ist inst. Traffic for places beyond Osaka is accepted at senders risk only. A resident of Avenue Road writes complaining that cows are allowed to graze in that locality contrary to the by-laws. He desires to know “whether, in the circumstances, he can have the same priviledge for grazing his horse?”
Here is a good Kipling story from the “Pall Mall Gazette”:• — The talk at the dinner table was of the pronunciation of English words. A lady, turning to Kipling, said:— “Mr Kipling, did you ever realise that sugar is the only word in which the ‘s-u’ is pronounced as if it were ‘s-h-u’?” “Sure,” answered Kipling.
The ordinary meeting of the local Borough Council will he held next Monday night at 7.30 o’clock.
Tt is officially announced that the new Federal postal rates will operate on the Ist of October.
According to a Government report the women of the United States used 9,000 tons of face powder last year.
A proprietary concern operating in [he Wairarapa last season is said to have made a profit of £5,000 out of one dairy company alone.
Nearly everything is governed by rings, Mr Buddo was telling the House. “Shipping is governed by a ring, money is governed by a ring—” “Matrimony, too,” said Mr J. R. Corrigan. In London they are discussing the question: What is a' club? The best answer was given by the Bishop of London years ago. He said that a club was a place where the women cease from troubling and the wicked are at rest.”
The following appeared in the “Lyttelton Times” fifty years ago: “Telegram, Wanganui, August 28— The Presbyterians have passed a resolution in favour of instrumental music in church. The malcontents are likely to secede.”
The public and those interested in the dairy industry are cordially invited to attend to-night’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the Town Hall when Mr John I. Fox will speak on various phases of the dairying industry. A London cable message states that the Tainui left Southampton with a record freight of children. These are of all ages, from infants in arms to children and sturdy youths, going out under the New Zealand Government’s scheme, which encourages the admission of entire families. Mr -T. C. Retter, late of Foxton, met with a serious accident on Saturday as the result of which he is now lying in the Otaki hospital with a broken leg and minor injuries. Riding out of a side road in the Waikanae district on a motor cycle, he collided head on with a car coming from the direction of Wellington. The evcle was completely wrecked.
For refusing to agree to increase the affiliation fee from one penny to threepence a member, for the? purpose of assisting to finance the Daily Herald (the British Labour paper), the Cardroom Amalgamated Union, with a membership of. 70000, one of the strongest unions, in the cotton trade, was expelled from the Trade Union Congress. The general secretary of the union in a lei ter to Mr Bowerman, secretary of the Trade Union Congress, points out that 11,000 members voted in favour of the levy and 39,000 against it.
“If public opinion can he made hr realise that politics are now a barren field and direct its future attention to the necessity of encouraging science more than politics it will do untold good,” declared Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at a, luncheon of the Auckland Rotary Club. The remark preceded a glowing picture of the enormous potentialities of modern science. “The- outlook in politics is gloomy,” said Mr Poynton. “If is like a treasure house now nearly empty, bcsciged by its former dependents. The future progress and uplift of our race will lie by science, not polities.” Continuing, the speaker said that there might be too much politics in a State to the neglect of the other method of progress.
The stranp-e influence that the great Maori chief Te Whiti held over his tribe before the death which he defied overtook him, still remains with a few of his faithful followers known as Te Whiti-ites (states an exchange). Te Whiti commanded his intimate followers among other things that they must not. accept rents from the native lands nor pay any rates or taxes ia-.respect thereof because he believed the land would one day come hack to the Maoris. This command has been more, or less faithfully obeyed by the ok]’warrior’s disciples and to this day a few of them absolutely refuse to accept the proferred rent which" has been accumulating for years in the hands of the Native Trustee. Just as resolutely they re* fused to pay rates to the local bodies, and this latter fact had led one or two of Te Whiti-ites into trouble with the Ilawera County Council, which is now endeavouring to obtain payment of rates from the accumulating rents held by the Native Trustee.
The Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (Sir W. Irvine), at Wesley Church, Melbourne, said the development of the young men was the most important thing in the community. There were three maxims for them. “Learn to think alone,” was the first. Pew people could do this. Every problem a man solved himself was worth to him a hundred that others had solved. The second maxim was: “Don’t be afraid.” Experience had taught him that differences in men Were far oftener differences of courage than differences of brain. No man should say “I am not fitted for this particular task.” An ordinary man might never be a Shakespeare, a Milton, or a Napoleon; but he could take up any intellectual task and carry it through if he had courage. The third maxim was “Learn to speak.” He did not mean political speeches, but he did not deprecate the ambition of a young man to lead his fellows. A slovenly tongue was often the effect of a slovenly brain. These maxims or mottoes covered most of the practice, efficiency and well-doing of life.
There passed away at Levin yesterday the wife of W. C. Nation Esq., in her 79th year. The local Silver Band played" a number of much-appreciated, selections in front of the Royal Theatre last night. | The C. M. Ross Coy.’s windows will he lighted between 7 and 8 o’clock on Friday evening when ladies can inspect the latest creations for spring.*
An old man, aged 85, who applied for help from the Mayor’s Coal and Blanket Committee at Christchurch, yesterday, said he had married a woman 50 years younger than himself. The committee declined his application on the ground that some of his 27 children should have come to his aid.
Inspector W. 11. MacKinnon, in charge of the police force of Palmerston North, has received notice of promotion to the position of superintendent to Christchurch, and will leave on September 14 to take up his duties. He will he succeeded by Siib-Tnspeelor J. K. Simpson, of Christchurch, who has been promoted to ail inspectorship.
A judgment debtor told the Magistrate in the Ashburton Court (states the Guardian) that he earned only £2 15s a week as a teamster, and liaAawife and seven children to keep. It was impossible to liveon that amount. The Magistrate, ill, stating he would not make an order for payment of the amount owing, smilingly ‘remarked that the judgment'.'debtor had done his duty in one way, and advised him to do it in another.
Addressing a gathering of London County Council teachers, Lord Robert Cecil observed, that ,it used to be said that the hand that rocked the cradle ruled the world. “I am not quite sure that that is not out of date,” he added. “I am told that if they did they would probably get into trouble with the hygienic authorities. I think the hand that marks the blackboard rules the world.”
A rather remarkable coincidence occurred in one of the Dunedin Presbyterian churches last Sunday. The pulpit in the morning and evening was occupied by two different preachers and for a lesson each chose the same chapter (I Corinthians, ,Ist. chapter). Then for a text to preach from each selected the 18th verse of the chapter. Those who attended each service heard Ihe subject treated from two totally different standpoints.
In illustrating to a meeting of dairy farmers in Masterton how Now Zealand butter loses its identity as soon as it leaves the shores of the country, DU A. E. Fear stated that Lipton’s, an English firm, were ordered to have butter which they were selling as the New Zealand blended article analysed. The result revealed that a pound of butler contained loz. of pure New Zealand butter and 15oz. of fat, and not the purest of fat at that.
The United States War Department announces that during the nine years the Panama Canal has been m service, 20,474 commercial vessels, of a tonnage exceeding eighty-four million, have passed through the canal, paying tolls exceeding 7(1 million dollars. The canal has recently become quite profitable. Tolls last July totalled in excess of two million dollars, the canal showing profit of 500,444 dollars a month. The cost of operation is (100,000 dollars monthly.
Examinations have no terrors for some students, although perhaps their knowledge is not invariably accurate. A secondary school pupil in Auckland lately astonished the teacher who asked for information about the city of Cairo by saying it was famous “for sugar, rum, molasses and Bulgarian bug.” A pupil treading the upward steps of domestic science, in answer to a question declared that a dish of water was placed in a gas oven “to catch the flying fragments of bone and meat.”
A Sydney cable states that Dr Haddon, dealing with the subject of anthropology, stated that the earliest remains of man in these regions, found, were in Tasmania, and dated back before the last glaciation of that region. There was no doubt lie walked from Asia to the East Indian Archipelago. This early Tasmanian was related to the early inhabitants of New Guinea, and quite a distinct race from the Australian aborigine. The latter was probably one of a migration from land to the west of New Gui- V nea. There were thus two’isolated peoples —the Tasmanian, whose culture was of the Stone Age, and the Australian.
“I come from a place described as the Windy City,” declared Mr H. W. Ileegstria, of Chicago, at tlie annual meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. “We are accused of many-things in Chicago, and recently we were accused of an advanced state of efficiency which I did not know existed. We. had already been told that we used every part of the carcase of a liog for packing and that we used the squeal for gramophone records, hut now I find that we have advanced another step further, for it is alleged that we are crossing hogs with centipedes in order to increase the ham output.” (Laughter.) Always welcome when nights grow damp, Always welcome in home or camp, Always welcome to young and old, Always -welcome for cough or cold, Always welcome when infants droop In the distressful throes of croup. Always welcome because so sure Welcome Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 23
So far Mr Stan Austin has not boon übio to got into cable communication with his mother and sister in Japan and for whose safety anxiety is felt. Mr Austin has communicated with the Minister of Internal Affairs who is endeavouring to get a communication through. Another district resident in Japan for whom anxiety is felt, is Mr H. N. Thomas, brother of Mr P. E. Thomas of Palmerston North, 'and an ex-pupil of the Palmerston North High School, who is connected with the oil Helds just outside Yokohama in the heart of the disastrous disturbance.
A considerable increase was shown in the number of registerations at the unemployment bureau of the Auckland branch of the Labour Department last week. A total of 210 applications for employment were received. This is an increase of 01 compared with the figures for the previous week. Some difficulty is being experienced in placing unskilled labourers and the number of unemployed skilled engineers is unusually high. Of the 210 men seeking employment, 178 were classified as labourers and of these 22 were only fit for light work. Among the other trades represented wore:"Fitters and motor mechanics six'-ofaench, farm labourers five, and butchers and firemen two each. During the week 10 men were plac<eVT : m employment, seven of whom were engaged by the Public Works Department.
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