The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1909.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10065, 5 February 1909, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1909.

Mr Ernest Searle, of Waitaki High School, who was 17th on the list in the Junior Civil Service passes, has been appointed to the architectural branch of the Public Works Department, and will leave for Wellington nest week, Mr W. Pryor, the secretary of the Employers' Federation, arrived *in town this morning by the first express from the south, and will meet the members of the local Association this evening. The s.s. Rakiura. (Mr H. F. Gibson, agent) is expected to arrive on Monday with transhipments from Dimedin. The s.s. Kotare. for which vessel Mr Gibson is also agent, will arrive on Saturday with a cargo of timber for Messrs M'C'allum and Go.

The s.s. Fakeha left Tiniaru at about noon to-day and should arrive here at 5 o'clock, and will be brought in on the hi'di tide about 6 p.m. There are 600 bales of wool and 7000 carcases awaiting her here, and it is expected that these will be loaded bv Saturday night. She will sail thereafter for the north. Mr Walter Sumpter reports having had a most successful sale on behalf of Mrs Simpson yesterday afternoon. The sale commenced with the property, consisting of a modern six-roomed house and freehold section, at the corner of Wansbeek and Lune streets, which, after keen competition, was purchased by Mr R. P. Hay for the sum of £677. Immediately followed the sale of furniture, every lot being disposed of at most satisfactory prices to the vendors. St. Luke's Choir have decided that on Monday evening, the"22nd inst., they will give a vocal and instrumental recital in the church, the proceeds to be devoted to the Children's Bread Fund. Mr Jack. London, writing from Tasmania, to one of his fellow Socialists in Christchurch, says : "Unfortunately my illness has been more serious than at first appeared. The doctors don't know, anything about it, and frankly say bo. So serious is it that I have cancelled all arranged bctures in Australia, and have declined to make any public appearance whatever. Also, this illness has compelled me to abandon the voyage of the Snark, so you see it is no laughing matter. Therefore, I shall be unable to give any lectures in New Zealand. I expect to be over there somewhere in the next month or so. and to sail from there to the United (-Mates." The workers on the Cheviot Railway co-operative works were paid on Wednesday, and in the evening they held a m»etini. It was stated that the pay was very unsatisfactory: the range of pay per man varied from 4s 2d to 8s lOd, but the majority received only 5s or 6s. The men decided to combine and a union was formed, about fifty men joining. At the meeting of the Canterbury Land Board the following transfer was approved. :L.i. p. 923, Lot 2, Block IV.. Waikakahi Settlement,. 101£ acres, Robert Kerr to Peter Brynes, of Morven. Mr James Calder applied for tenancy of part of the Hook riverbed adjoining the Mills Settlement, and the application was granted. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister of Trades and Industries, arrived by the first express from the South to-day, en route to attend the ba;.;met to be tendered the Hon. D. Buddo at Kaiapoi to-night. The Hon. G. Jones and Mr M. Cohen, editor of trie Dimedin Star, also proceeded North to be present at the gathering. Writing to the New Zealand Times from Dannevirke in regard to the recent marble discovery, a correspondent who visited the locality cays:—"The general character of the rock is limestone. We were shown round the ground secured by the prospectors, who pointed out to us the different places where the marble wa6 found. One piece at the foot of a Epur contained two hundred tons or more; in fact, they have not got to the bottom of this piece. There are three different samples of marble in this block, grey, blue, and white. Experts who have worked.up pieces of it say that it chisels easily, takes a first-class polish, and can be .utilised for/any kind of work marble is used for. The prospectors informed us that they intend to thoroughly develop the property before forming a company. The facilities for transit are good, as 15s per ton will land it at the railway station. The hills are from 500 feet to 1000 feet high, in clear country, with occasional patches of manuka scrub. Small pieces of marble have been picked up along this 6ame range by the settlers for ten miles, but it was taken for auartz. These men, I understand,.have been prospecting in the locality for three years on their own resources. They are both miners of the old type, and deserve to be rewarded." The Greymouth correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes: —During the month of January over two-hundred men applied for work at the Greymouth Labor Bureau, and of this number about one hundred and twenty were provided with work on 1 the railway extension work at the State collieries. There can be no denying that from a worker's point of view the present is a most critical period. The closing down of the Greymouth harbor works in itself was a serious matter, as it threw out of employment nearly thirty men. The most serious factor of the situation is that only a few sawmills have resumed operations, and even those only work for it few days per week. It is anticipated that over 800 men are directly affected by the prevailing- depression. The only safety valve to the presence of unemployed is the railway works at the State collieries. Over one hundred! men have been sent to work there during the past month, making the total number of men employed_there nearly five hundred. A rumor is current in town to-day that a" slight reduction of wages of sawmill hands is about to be enforced. ,■

Complaints sometimes reach New Zealand (says the Evening Post) of the way i in which frozen meat cargoes are handled I in discharging at London. According to an officer for many years engaged in Home boats, it is' at this end the trouble takes place. Loading under difficulties in open roadsteads from lighters is often attended with damage to the carcases. In a heavy swell the slings may knock the side of the ship and upset the"equilibi'ium of the frozen mutton. Then carcases tumble out of the canvas into the hold', and the result is bruised flesh and broken shanks. Hence the complaints. The' handling at London, says the Post's informant, is above reproach. The late Mr Alexander Henderson, exdetective of police, whose death at Auckland was reported in yesterday's issue, was formerly one of the best known police officers in the Dominion. He joined' the force in 1872, and for some time was engaged on gold escort work, in the halcyon days of goldmining in Otago. In 1874 he was appointed to the detective force in Otago, and since that time lie had served in various towns, notably in Dunedin, Christchureh, Wellington, Gisborne, and Auckland. He held the rank of Chief Detective up to the time of his retirement. Four months ago he was given three months' leave of absence, and at the expiry of that period lie retired on superannuation. The deceased officer was recognised as being one of the most capable in the service, and his ability as a prosecutor was undoubted. He was particularly well known in Otago, where the news of his decease will be received with deep regret by a wide circle of comrades and friends.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie told a deputation at Dunedin yesterday that the cry throughout New Zealand was for economy of expenditure, and he was satisfied the people were going to get it. Some elements of a serious railway accident were present in the running of theSydney express past Wangaratta one night 'last week (says a Melbourne message to the Sydney Morning Herald). On approaching the station the train did not slacken speed as usual, and the spectators on the platform were greatly surprised when the train dashed along the platform siding at a tremendous speed. The pace was so fast that the signalman could not hope to make the customary exchange of staffs. Apparently the Westinghouse brake was not acting, but the loud grating of the wheels as the train travelled past indicated that some brake-power was being applied. The train ran half-a-mile past the station, and slowly hacked to the station, where the driver made an examination, and shortly afterwards proceeded, without further trouble. Many passengers showed alarm, and tho dining-car bore evidence of the dangerous oscillation which occurred when the train swung over the points of the platform siding on to the main line. After passing the station two windows were broken ; one large pane being smashed through a waiter being thrown backwards against it while walking in the car. The road was clear beyond Wangaratta. last night, but the incident showed that an appalling accident might have happened if, as occasionally occurs, another train had been, waiting outside until the express pulled up at the platform. In the course of a lecture on refrigera tion, delivered at the College of Agriculture, Edinburgh, Professor L. M. Douglas said that in the storing of meat, as in the cooking of meat, muscular tissue must be regarded as an extremely bad conductor of heat, and, as a consequence, can only be chilled or frozen slowly. Conversely', it can only be thawed out slowly. The rer.son why frozen, meat decomposes so much on the surface is because of the rapid thawing out of the tissues there, and while the centre of a piece of frozen meat may be perfectly hard and sound, decomposition may have set in on the outside surfaces which have been exposed to a high temperature. In cooking, the nonconductivity of meat is illustrated by tho fact that it takes a long time before the heat of cooking or roasting reaches the internal parts of the muscular issue. Bones, however, were good conductors, and thus they acted in an entirely opposite way to muscle, and this explained why, in cook, ing, it was found that the meat close to tne bojies might be perfectly cooked, and at the same time the internal part of the muscles might be in an uncooked state. The army of youths and young men who spend their Sunday evenings in the city streets indulged on Sunday evening in one of their most popular pastin- -. a manhunt (says the Lyttelton Times;. The object of the pursuit was a y0;.,.i who was foolish enough to chase a couple of girls who had made some remark which gave him displeasure. Two or three hundred I men at once joined in the chase, which circled round'the Cathedral, along Colombo street, and easterly along Gloucester street. In Gloucester street the crowd caught its quarry, who was rapped with a stick and jeered at, but was not further molested. The girls, who had been interested specteators, next received the crowd's attentions, and one of them became frightened and fell fainting on the footpath! Detective Ward and a constable had by this time arrived on the scene, and the girls were taken into a boarding-house pending the dispersal of the mob.

Count Deym, Acting Consul-Goneral for Germany .in Sydney, referring to the statement of Major Daniels, of America, that Germany has a strong naval base at Siinpsonshafen, said :—"I know a little about this matter. I was at Herbertshohe and Simpsonshafen a year ago for about six; weeks as the guest of the Governor, Or 1-1 ahl, and had a number of opportunities of getting information in regard to the colony and everything connected with it. Since that time, besieds the official correspondence going on between the Con-sulate-General and the Government of the islands, I have been, and am, in constant private correspondence with Dr Hah'l, and as a consequence know everything that is going on in the colony. The Nord-deutscher-Lloyd. some years ago, at a rather heavy expenditure, erected a wharf or pier at Simpsonshafen, which merely serves tile company's own purposes, and, as a- fact, can just accommodate the monthly mailboat and some few interisland "traders. Besides the wharf they have erected a copra shed, and some water tanks, and a little office building. That is .all the company has done there. I cannot understand, how one can attribut any other than commercial purposes to the erection of these structures. To the best of my knowledge nobody intends to create a- naval base at Simpsonshafen or anywhere else in the colony. At any rate I will say that not the slightest beginning in this direction has yet been made. In fact, there is not the shadow of such an intention so far as I know. There is not even one piece—.one cannon —in the whole colony, which is a vast territory, and nothing whatever in the shape of a fortification or defence work of any kind. There is absolutely nothing than can beeven compared to a defence work or fortification. I would not speak so positively if I really did l not know the subject. Simpsonshafen and Herbertshohe, the capital, which are only separated by a distance of a- few miles, consist of some dozens of tropical houses of the slightest structure. There is not one solid building at either place which could ever be used as a fortification of any description. One cannon could destroy Simpsonshafen and Herbertshohe in a, few minutes." Even in Russia women are winning their way to positions of trust in active competition with men. For example, Fraulein G. Zind, of Plock, Russian Poland, has been appointed city physician in Charkoy, against the organised opposition of all the men doctors in the city. It was expected confidently she would not be named for the office, by reason of the power of her opponents. She appeared before the appointing board, however, and in support of her application said she pointed only to her record as a student and her practical experience. The boai'd took her at her word, and in a comparison of all the candidates she was found to be the most promising. So she was appointed, the explanation being that the choice was made imperative by her superior fitness. Practically the entire responsibility for the health conditions of the city will rest upon her. She has been praised as one of the most brilliant doctors in all Russia, and even those who opposed her for office were forced to admit her qualifications for the position. To cure any kind of headache in twenty minutes take Stearns' Headache Cure. Gives positive relief and leaves the head "clear as a bell." No bad effects, no narcotic drugs. 2 Elysian.—A Guaranteed Cure for Influenza. Obtainable from Milligan ar.d Bond and Adan: Mackdy. The Benicia Disc Plough is death on twitch.—North Otago Foundry. Mr S. J. Davys, Dentist, will visit Kurow on Thursday, 11th instant, and may be consulted at Mr Spiers' Hotel. "Red Cross" Ointment is a powerful antiseptic; is non-irritant; soothes and heals.—ls 6d. chemists and etrocers. WANT ANY CARRYING DONE!' If so, we have a staff of competent hands, with vehicles suitable for all kinds of

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