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TheDominion.Vol. 6, No. 1755. WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913, [ONE PENIS,V*
SHIPPING KOTICEO..
jJUDDART-PARKER LINE,
FAVOURITE PASSENGER SERVICE.Sailings (circumstances permitting).
FOR LYTTELTON AND DUNEDIN.Wimmera Friday May 30 5 p-mUlimaroa* Thursday June 12 5 p.m.Victoria Friday June 13 j P-m.•Wimmera Friday June 27 5 p-in.FOR MELBOURNE, via LYTTELTON.
DUNEDIN, BLUFF. AND HOBABT.Dlimaroa' Thursday Jtine 12 J P- 1?;
FOR NAPIER, GISBORNE,AUCKLANDAND SYDNEY.
Victoria Thursday May 22 4 P-®-Wimmera Thursday June 5 4 P-m-Victoria Thursday June 19 4P ,nl '
1 FOR SYDNEY DIRECT.Ulimaroa* Friday May 30 5 p.in.
. ''Twin Screw.All fitted with Wireless Telegraphy.Cargo must be alongside steamer one
tour before sailing time.All tickets are available also for stop-
over or return by ANY of UNION CO.'SSTEAMERS and holders of U.S.S. CO.'Stickets may havel by above-named ves-sels.
Head Office for New Zealand: QueensChambers. Wellington.
The undermentioned STEAMERS willleave (oircumstances permitting) aj
Jollow:—FOR KAIKOUEA AND LYTTELTON.
via COAST.WAKATU-THURSDAY, i p.m. . .
FOR FOXTON.AWAHOU—THIS DAY, i p.m.
FOR lILENHEIM.WAIRAU—THIS DAY, 11 p.m.For Freight and Passage apply to—
LEVIN,AND CO., i/l'D.. Agtntn.
THE following Vessels are appointed toSail as under:— ■
FOR WANGANUI.S.S. Huia This Day 5 p.m.
FOR BLENHEIM.S.S. Blenheim Monday 5 p.m.FOR NAPIER (Inner Harbour). GIS-
BORNE WHARF, AND AKITIO. ,
6.5. Ripple This Day 5 p.m.Cargo received as under: —For Napier-and Gisborne, Monday and Tuesday.For Akitio,"Wairoa, and Bays northof Gisborne, Tuesday.,FOR HAVELOCK AND PELORUS
BOUNDS.3.5. Blenheim This Day < - 8 p.m.
No Cargo received after 3 p.m.JOHNSTON AND CO., LTD.. Agenta.
Telephone No. 44.
■D AND O. COMPANY'SIT. ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
TO LONDON.Following are the proposed Dates of
Departures from Australian Porta, visSuez, for London:— . .
First and Second Saloon only.
Steamer. Tons.jSydney |Mel'bnc. Duo In.Mooltan 10,000 May 17 May 20 Juno 29Morest 11,000 May 31 June 3 July 13llarmora 10,500 June 14 June 17 July 27Medina 12,500 Jume 28 July 1 Aug. 10Moldavia 10,COO July 12 July 15 Aug. 24Haloja 12,500 July July 29 Sept. 7
All twin-ficrew ateam ere and fitted with.Wireless'Telegraphy Apparatus,x ROUND THE WORLD TOURS, andthrough bookings to New York; rates,onapplication.
Bates of Passage Money fo London(including Saloon Passage to Sydney):
Single Tickets, £47.85; to .£88....Return Tickets; £75 18e. and £132.Return Tickets available for two years.
JOHNSTON AND CO.. LTD., Agents,Wellington and Wanganui.
Telephone 44.~AND O. BRANCH SERVICE• (Late Lund's Blue Anchor Line).
HOB DURBAN, CAPE TOWN, AND' LONDON.
LeavesSteamer. Tons. Commander. Sydney.*Geelong S.OOO W.C.Simonds June 15*Benalla 11,120 - Juile 28•Beltana 11,000 - July 19
PARES: Wellington to London, .£l7 to£21; to Capo Town or Durban, ill345. to JBIS 18s. One Class Only.
"Twin Screw.Return Tickets available Aberdeen Line.
For all particulars, apply'toMURRAY, ROBERTS, AND_ CO.,.LTD.,
Wellington, Napier, -and Dnnodini
ORIENT LINE OF ROYAL MAILSTEAMERSFor PLYMOUTH AND LONDON, via
FREMANTLE, COLOMBO (Transhippingfor All Indian Ports), NAPLES./MAR.SEILLES. and GIBRALTARSteamor. Reg. From i'rora' From
Tone. Sydney. Mel'bne. AdelaideOmra'a 8,130 May !' May 28 May 30Orvleto 12,130 June 7 'unell .'unelSOtway 12,077. Juno 21 Juno2s June27Otranto 12.124 July 5 July 9 July 11Oaterley : 12.129 July 19 inly 23 jui y 25Orama 13,000 Aug. 2 Aug. 6 Aug. 8
• And Evoiy U Days thereafter.All Twin Screw Steamers.
: Wireless Telegraphy Equipment.FARESNEW ZEALAND TO LON-
DON: SALOON, Single, ,£l7 6s. to .£BB.Return, £75 18s. to .£132. Return Ticketsavailable for 2 years. ,
FOR THIRD-CLASS PASSENGERS. .
Special Accommodation in new 12,000-ton Steamers.
Spacious Promenarde Decks, Smoke-rooms, Ladies' Music-rooms (on ShelterDeck).
Two-berth and Four-berth Cabins eitq.ated on Upper and Main Deck.
Large, well-ventilated Din'ng Saloon onMain Deck.
Single, .£l9, -621, '£23; Return, „£3G,£39 I2s„ £i 3 is.Write for Illustrated Circular givingfull particulars.UNION STEAM SHIP CO. Of, N.Z., Ltd.,
Agents in New Zealand.
N.D.L. .NORDDEUTSCHERLLOYD.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL STEAMERS 1FROM SYDNEY TO BREMEN.Calling Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle,Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said,Naples, Genoa, Algiers, Southampton(for London), and Antwerp.
FARES.■ NEW ZEALAND-LONDON.
First-class, £75 18s.; Return, ,£llß ss.Secoiid-class, £44 Bs.; Return, J2CB ss.Third-class, £17 to'£2l; Return, £34 4s.
■ to £41 Bs.Reduced Faros through to New York.SAILING.
Leaves LeavesSteamer Tons Sydnoy Mel-
-11 a.m. bourne.Gneisenau BOS 1 June 11 June 14Kleist 0000 July 9 July 12Seydlitz 8100 Aug. G Aug. 9Roon 8133 Sept. 3 Sep. G
All Twin Screw Steamers fitted withWireless Installation.-
TO CHINA AND JAPAN.Regular four: weekly service is main-
tained by twin screw steamers from Syd-ney, via Brisbane, New Guinea, Mani.la,Hongkong, Kobe, Yokolinma, connectingat Hongkong with N.D.L. fortnightly ser-vice to Europe via Singapore and Suez.
FmJst^'Phono 193.
22 Harris Street, Wellington.
Royal mail service.OYAI, MAIL SERVICE.
Via SAN FRANCISCOTo
ALL AMERICAN PORTS BRITISHISLES AND CONTINENT,
Calling at RAROTONGA (Cook Group)and PAPEETE (Tahiti).
""" ■ From From DueSydney. Wellington.'Frinoo
Moana May if May 23 June 12Aorangi Juno 11 June 20 July 10Tahiti July 12 July 18 Aug. 7Moana Aug. 0 Aug. 15 Sept. 4
' *Twin Screw.And every 28 Day 3 thereafter.
All Steamors cnuipped with WirelewTelegraphy.
For particular regarding passages ana'teigh tnftfs? ys.s. CO. OF NJS. (Ltdi
"rgnHE DOMINION" PRINT-ING HOUSE will submit
Quotations on the Lowest Scale
for every description of GeneralPrinting [Work, . Telephone
1442.
SHIPPING NOTICES.
gOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
Avoid the Cold and Wet Weather andtake a trip to the
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS,Where
PERPETUAL SUMMER REIGNS.
T.S.S. ATUA, from Auckland, 17th JUNE.T.S.S. TOFUA, from Auckland, 15thJULY
ForTONGA. SAMOA. FIJI, '
T.S.S. NAVUA, for SUVA (direct),ISth JUNE.
RAROTONGA. TAHITI.T.S.S. TALUNE, from Auckland,
3rd. JUNE.
All Steamers Fitted with' Wireless'', Telegraphy.
—
.
Accommodation on Deck and SpeciallyFitted for the Island Trades.
For pamphlets, further information,etc., apply at
U.S.S. COMPANY'S OFFICES.| j
UNION STEAM SHIP' COMPANIOF
I NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED.(Weather and Circumstances Permitting.)
LYTTELTON.Maori* "7odnesdny May 21 8 p.m.Willochra Thursday May 22 5 p.m.Mararoa Thursday May 22 8 p.m.Maitai Friday May 23 5 p.m.Maori* Friday May 23 8 p.m.
"Turbine Sttamor.Cargo received till 3 p.m. only.
DUNJSDIN, via LYTTELTON.Willochra§ Thursday May 22 5 p.m.Maitai Friday May'23 5 p.m.§Only perishable Dunedin' Cargo received.MELBOURNE, via LYTTELTON. DON-
EDIN, BLUFF, and HOBART.Willochraj Thursday May 22 5 p.m.Maunganuif Thursday . May 23 5 p.m.
tWiroless Telegraphy-__
SYDNEY DIRECT.Manukaf Friday May 23 5 p.m.Moerakif Friday June 6 5 p.m.
Wireless Telegraphy.Cargo not reotivod after 3 p.m.
SYDNEY, via NAPIER, GISBORNE,AND AUCKLAND.
Maitai* Thursday May 29 5 p.m.'Tranships to Maheno at Auckland-
NAPIER, GISBORNE, and AUCKLAND.Monowai Monday May 2G 5 p.m.Maitai . Thursday May 23 5 p.m.
NAPIER-GISBORNE.Takapnna leaves Napier for Gisborne on
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, on•arrival of Mail Train from Wellington.
NEW PLYMOUTH TO ONEHUNGA.Harawa leaves New Plymouth Tuesdays,
Thursdays, Saturdayr, on arrival efMail Train from Wellington.
NELSON. NEW PLYMOUTH.'Corinna§ Thursday May 22 5 p.m.
■ jjOargu. Only.. . ,
NELSON, via PICTON and BLENHEIMPateena Wednesday May 21 12.45 p.m.Patcena Friday Stay 23 32.4 a p.m..Arahura* Saturday May- 21 12.45 p.m.Fnteena Mondny May 2G 12.15 p.m.
'No Nelson Cm go-WEBTPOKT, GREYMOUTH, HOKITIKA,
via NELSON.Arahura* Snturday May 21 12.45 p.m.Mapourika Tuesday May 27 i p.m.
»No Nelson Cargo.TONGA, SAMOA, and FIJI, from AUCK-
LAND.fAtua Tuesday Juno 17
tWireloss Telegraphy._
SUVA, LEVUICA, SAVU SAVU (FIJI),from AUCiCLAND-
Navua ; Wednesday May 21RAROTONOA AND TAHITI.
R.M.S.Moana Jeavcs Wellington on Fri-• day, ' 23rd May.
Talunc leaves Auckland on Tuesday,. June 3rd. ;.
CANADA, AMERICA, LONDON, Ete.'(Sen Special Advertisement.)
R.M.S. Marnma leaves Auckland on Fri-. ' day, 6th June.
Via BAN FRANCISCO.From Due
Wellington. 'Friseo.
Monna May 23 June 12Aornngi Juub «0 July 10
Ticket* available for stop-over or io-turn by Messrs- Huddart Parker andCc-'s uteamcrs.1 Bertha will only bo allptted to passu*,gers on production of passago tickets atCompany'n office.
Passengers trill only be allowed aboardon production of passage tioketa.
Latest time for reoeiring will bihad 'On application at Company s offici.
Railway Tickets from Lyttelton toChristchurch and to Principal SouthornStations, available for on« month, maybe ' obtained upon upplioation at th«Company's Office.
TUBancottvbb boctf,
AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND-CANADA.Via FIJI and HONOLULU.
CANADIAN-AUSTRALASIAN R.M.LINE.
In Conjunction with Oanadian-PacifioRailway.
Through some of the Greatest SCENICWONDERS of tho World to all parts ofCANADA, UNITED STATES, BRITISHISLES, and CONTINENT OF EUROPE.
ROUND-THE-WORLD TOURS in con-junction with all the Cape, Suez,China, and Japan Lines at LowestRaton. ■
STEAMERS TO SAIL.From From
Steamer. Sydney. Ancklatri.
MARAMA Jme 2 June GMAKURA Juno 30 July iNIAGARA* July 28 Aug. 1MARAMA Aug. 25, Aug. 29MAICURA &pt. 22 Sept. 26
•New 13,500 ton Triple Screw steamer.And at 28 days' interval thereafter.All Twin-Screw Steamers equipped with
Wireless Telegraphy.Pamphlets, Mops, and all information
free.UNION S.S. CO. OF N.Z. (LTD.).
Managing Agents.
The blue funnel line.HE BLUE FUNNEL LINE.
• ALFRED HOLT AND CO.THE FAST TWIN-SCREW STEAMERS.Carrying First Saloon Passengers Only.
TO LONDON, via SOUTH AFRICA.Will Leave Sydney as Follow:—
Steamer. Tons. jCommander Sails.ANCIIISES"" 10,000 IA. Warrali Juno 30NESTOR 14,250 I - July 28AENEAS 10,01)0 ,G.W.Walkei|Sep. 8
Wireless Telegraphy. Laundry.FARES, SYDNEY TO LONDON, from
.£45 Single; .£Bl Return.Sydney to Durban or Capo Totrn, from
£30 Singlo; ,£55 Return.Single-birth Porthole Cabins (when
available), £55 to Londou. •
Tickets Interchangeable with N.D.L.Line for Return via Suez Canal.
For all particulars apply—MURRAY, ROBERTS AND CO., LTD.,
[ Wollinaton, Napier, and Dancdin,
| ' SHIPPING NOTICES.
NEW PLYMOUTH -ONEHUNGAAND AUCKLAND SERVICE-
NEW PLYMOUTH TO ONEHUNGA.AUCKLAND.
6.5. RARAWA (1072 tons)Leaves New Plymouth Breakwater onTUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, on arrival of Express from Welling-ton. Weather, etc, permitting.FROM ONEHUNGA, AUCKLAND, TO
NEW PLYMOUTH—S.S. RARAWA (1072 tons) /
Leaves on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, andFRIDAY, connecting with Wellington Ex-press at Breakwater. Weather, etc., per-uitting.
Fares—Saloon 2-ts., Return, 425., Steer-age, 18s. Gd.; Return, 295.
Further information can lie obtainedfrom U.S.S. Co.. Ltd., and NorthernS.S. Co., Ltd.. Joint Aeonte.
LEVIN AND CO., Agents.
A NCHOR SHIPPING AND FOUNDRY-A- COMPANY. LIMITED.FOR NELSON, WESTPORT, GREY-
MOUTH, AND HOKITIKA. — TheWAVERLEY—THIS DAY, at 5 p.m.
FOR PATEA.— The AORERE-THIS DAY, at -1 p.m.W. AND G. TURNBULL AND CO.
Telephone 48(1.
FOR NELSON, MOTUEKA,.TAKAIf A,AND .COLLINGWOOD.—The TwinScrew Steamer NIKAU Sails—
. THURSDAY, May 22, at 5 p.m.SATURDAY, Mav 21, at 2 p.m.TUESDAY, May 27, at 5 p.m.
This Steamer has superior accommoda-tion for Saloon Passengers. .
Stewardess carried. Passengers mustprooure Tickets at our Office before theyembark.
W. M. BANNATYNE AND CO., Ltd.,Tolephone 1510. , Agents.
SOUTH TARANAKI SHIPPING CO.,LTD.
FOR PATEA.HAWERA-THURSDAY, at 5 'p.m.
THE SOUTH TARANAKI SHIPPINGCOY., LTD.
FOR WANGANUI.KAPITI—THURSDAY, at 5 p.m.
DALGETY AND CO., LTD., Agents.
S.S. JOHN,JjlOR NELSON DIRECT.
THIS DAY.Receiving Cargo till Noon.
G. T. HULL AND CO.,Johnston Street,
Telephono BGB. Agents.
SHAW, SAVILL, AND ALBIONCOMPANY, LIMITED.
The DireotLino of Steamers to Plymouth; 1 and London.
. Via Monte Video. Rio de Janeiro, andTeneriffe.
THE LARGEST PASSENGERSTEAMERS IN THE NEW ZEALAND
TRADE.,SAILINGS (circumstances permitting).Tons Com- Date of Pinal
Name, i Heg. mandor. Leaving Port.
t'ATHENIO 12,232 Grassland Jnno 12 W'igtn•OOIt'THIO 12.232 Hart ■ July 10Wlgtn•ARAWA 9,372 CI ay dun Aug. 7 W'igtn•TAINOI 9,957 Moffatt Sept. 4 W'igtn•IONIC) 12,232 Hoberts Oct. 2 W'igtn
'Twin Screw. fOalls also at Elo doJaneiro. iFITTED, WITH, WIRELESS -
TELEGRAPHY.Passages from London may bo arranged
here.For full particulars apply to the
Agents: ,
LEVIN AND CO., LIMITED.DALGETY AND CO., LIMITED. ;MURRAY. ROBERTS AND CO.. LTD,
rpHE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO.,1 LIMITED.MOST MODERN PASSENGER
STEAMERSIN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.For London, via Monto Video, Tehcrilfo,! and Plymouth '
Tons. FTom To SailRUAPEHU* 9,880 Wellington May 29PAPAItOA* 8,860 Wellington June 2fiREMUERA* i. 12,500 - July 24RUAHINE4, 12,000 — Aug. 21ROTORUAI 12,500 - Sept. 18
•Twin screw. tTriplo screw.ICalls Rio de Janiero.
FITTED WITH WIRELESS TELE-GRAPHY.ACCOMMODATION IS NOT SUR-
PASSED by any other Line.Passages from Lcndon can be arranged
at this end.For Freight or Passages apply toTHE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING
.COMPANY, LIMITED.
P. & s.pEDERAL AND SHIRE LINES.(Under Contract with the New Zealand
Government.)
Direct Service for Avonmouth, Liver-pool, Manchester, Glasgow, taking cargofor Continental and Amuncan Ports.
Final port.•DORSET May 21 LytteltonNORFOLK May 30 LytteltonSURREY June 20 Lyttelton*Wireless Telegraphy and Twin Screw.
EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FORFIRST AND THIRD CLASSPASSENGERS.
FARES TO AVONMOUTH (Bristnl)-FIRST-CLASS—.£42 Single; -EG6 Return.THIRD-CLASS-JE2O 10s., £18 10s., JBIG 10s.Return from £32.
For Freight and Passage apply to theN.Z. AInD AFRICAN STEAMSHIP CO..
LIMITED, Agents. ,
Union Chambers, Customhouse Quay.'Phone 1780.
The tyser line; limited.MONTHLY DISPATCH OF
FIRST-CLASS CARGO STEAMERS TOLONDON DIRECT., Steamer Tons Commander.
Burden.Hawke's Bay* 12,500 F. C. Lidstono.Makarini* 12,000 H. Hollis.Jluritai* 12,000 J. FirthNerehana* 10,000 J. R. Compton.Whakarua* - v- 10,000 A. H. Kemp.Maf-ere* 10,000 P. E. MelloNiwaru* 10,000 S. W. Ilayter.Mimiro 10,000 J. Duncan.Star of India* ... 12,500 F. J.Kearney.Star of Scotland*... 10,000 E.D. Beck.Star of Austral ...
10,000 F. W. iUlyatt.Indrabarali* 12.500 A. E. Holhngs-
worth.Indralema 10,000 W. Hodgson.Indrapura* 12,500 It. P. Graven.Star of Yictoria (building). ;
'Denotes Twin screw.,The above steamers were all built speci-
ally for tho Now Zealand trade, fittedwith refrigerating machinery of tho mostmodern type in charge of competent en-gineers, and aro noted for tho Exception-ally satisfactory condition in which theirfrozen meat cargoes aro being delivered.
Tho Company is prepared to carry wooland produce of every description.. Low-est Current Kates of Freight\V- M. BANNATYNE AND CO., LTD.,
Agents. iSuit; Fruit. Fruit.—Hawke's Bay
fruit supplied to your door fromHastings. Apples, best dess. Jonathan,Sturmer, 4s. 0(1. (201b. cases), 8s; 6d. (401b.cases); large ckg., 3s. Gd. Pears, dess.Winter Nelis, ss. Gd. case (tyb.). Otherbest Desserts, ss. Quinccs, is. cases (401b.).Citron Melons, Pumpkins, etc., 9d. andod. each. Cape Gooseberries, in 81b and151b. eases, 7d. lb. Freight and del.Auckland, 9d. for 2 cases. Coun-try stations, Od. Use Fruit Order Cou-pons, obtainable at all Post Offices, orremit cash direct. Household FfluitSupply Co., Box 70. Hastings (H.B.i ;
WANTED TO BUY AND SELL.M7"ANTBD—\Ye are Buyers of good
* * sound Sacks; highest prices given.Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street./PIANARIES, guaranteed singer, withnewvJ cage, carriage paid, for .£l, wolder. John Smith, 75 Campbell Sheet,Paimerston N. -
TGTOR SALE,11 One 20-2S h.p. ' Wo' clJP Motor-car; guaranteed .in pen?"condition. Only rim 9000 miles. Price.£550. Apply Box 106. Hastings.
FOR SALE, one Crossley Gas Engine,10 h.p.; guaranteed in perfect work-
ing order; any reasonable offer.Clarkson, Grain Merchant, Hastings.
WANTED Known, we have severalSecond-hand Triumph Motor Cycles
■ for Sale, latest pattern, at from iJU to
.£6O. Guaranteed in good order.- Adams sMotor Garage, Palmeiston North.
MOTOR CYCLE.WANTED to Sell, 8-li.p. 2-speed BatW Motor Cycle and Mills Side-car,
G months in use; owner leaving lor Eng-land. Apply Thos. 11. Oales, 125 WillisStreet.-
WANTED to Sell, one English-madoRubber-tired Brougham, I'olo and
Shafts, good order, complete, with ,nof Horses, Doubless Harness, exceedinglycomfortable and light running. Ownerleaving. Sacrificing. Apply opposite re-servoir, Mitclwlltown. Also 1 HansomCab, lloTse, and Harness. Bargain. Trials.'Phono 830.
FOR SALE,
HORSE SELF-CONTAINED1 O TANGYE BOILER, with Engineattached. All in good order. Pressureallower on boiler 701b. Apply
RATA CO-OP. DAIRY CO., Lm,^
BOTTLES! s BOTTLES I BOTTLES!
"PJANTED to Buy, Quart Beers, any" * quantity.Apply ,
M'GAVIN AND CO., LTD.,Brewers, Dunedin.
FOR SALE.WHITE WASTE PAPER.
IN any quantity. Suitable for Butcherswrapping.
Apply to THE PUBLISHER,"THE DOMINION."
HOUSES AND LAND WANTED-''AND FOR SALE.
WANTED, a House, about i rooms,near Town. "W.W.," "Dominion
Office. .
WANTED to Exchange, good rent-producing House Property, sliotr-
ing over G per cent., for Sheep or Dairy'Farm; equity up to ,£I2OO. Apply to"Value," "Dominion" Office. ■F~OR' SALE, Nelson District—Property
of 1000 acres good sheep and cattlecountry; 500 acres of Freehold and 5000.R.P., at 65., per acre; about 40 acresflat and undulating; threo miles of seafrontage; CSO acres of grass, 350 acres ofbush; house of G rooms, dairy, woolshec],dip. etc.; all well watered and subdivid-ed into 12 paddocks, wintering 1100 sheep;price, .£3 ss. per acre; stock at valuation.For further particulars , apply J. .W.Handeock, Anatimo, Nelson.
WANTED Known.—The Cheapest Placein town for Furniture is Radford'
and Co.'s, G3 and 65 Willis Street. HousesFurnished throughout, cash or terms.COMPLETE COURSES OF INSTRUC-
TION FOR ALL ENTRANCE.ANDPROFESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS.
Matriculation Solicitors' andBarristers' General Knowledge;
Junior and Senior Civil Service; Medical,Dental, Engineering, and Veterinary-Pre-liminaries; Pharmacy "A" and "B";Teachers' "C" and "D."
All University Degrees—B.A.,. B.Sc.,B.Cora.; LL.B.,' L.1.M., M.A., 'and LawProfessional, etc.
Our Courses cover all subjects. OurPublic Exam. Coaching Dept. is tho mostcompletely equipped and staffed educa-tional establishment in Australasia.Printed LeSsons and text books providedin all subjects. 'Failure is almost an.im-possibility under our system of coaching.Nearly 900 successes in these examina-tions.' These Schools are in reality a Na-tional Home-Study University.
Full particulars and fees upon applica-tion. Mention exam., etc., in -which youare interested. All courses now ready forimmediate enrolment.
HEMINGWAY AND ROBERTSON,25-40 Union Buildings,
Customs Street E., Auckland.(Established nearly 20 years.)
D' AISY" VACUUM CLEANER.DON'T SCATTER THE DUST.
Dust is a menace to tho health, andshould be removed from tho home bymeans of. a "Daisy" Vacuum Cleaner.Tho cheapest insurance you can have.Prices, from £3 10s. to .£3O. Call, orring up. 'Phojie, 3309.
RAND, WALKER AND CO.,• King's Chambers.
JAMES SMITH'SBUILDING EXTENSION SALE.
A SPECIAL LINE in MEN'S CELLU-LAR UNDERWEAR—Shirts and
Pants—and only a limited number. Anextraordinary bargain. Worth, Gs. 9il.each, clearing at Is. 9d.
JAMES SMITH, LTD.,Cuba Street.
. BUILDING CONTRACTORS'COURSE.
THIS Course has been prepared forthose who wish to become builders,
clerks of works, foremen, or assistantforemen. It contains all the necessaryinformation required for successful con-tracting. Tho most perfect plans areliable to bo ruined through ignorance onthe part of the builder or his foreman.The following subjects aro taught in thoCourse:—
Arithmetic, Application of Formulae,Geometry and Mensuration, GeometricalDrawing, Architectural Drawing, Prelim-inary Building Operations, Foundationsand Footings. Areas. Vaults, and Retain-ing Walls, Limes. Cements and Mortars,Concrete Construction, Brickwork, Terra-Cotta, Faience and Tiling, BuildingStones. Masonry, Carpentry, Roofing,Joinery, Stair Building, Ironmongery,Plastering. Glass and Glazing, Paintingand Decorating, Plumbing Materials,House Drainage, Water Supply to Build-ings, Gas-Fitting, Quantities and Estimat-ing, Provincial Building Law, BuildingContracts, Building, Superintendence. Arcfcrenco library of 6 volumes is sup-plied free with this Course.
Apply for our Free Circular. A specialconcession will be allowed to all Studentswho enrol during the month of May.INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
SCHOOLS, 63 Dixon St., Wellington.
SHIPPING NOTICES.
N *
IMPERIAL JAPANESE MAIL LINETo
MANILA, CHINA, AND JAPAN,Calling at
BRISBANE. TOWNSVILLE. ANDTHURSDAY ISLAND.
SAILING FROM SYDNEY.Steamer. Tons. Commander Date.
' Captains.Inaba Maru 0200 M. Yagi Juno 11Nikko Slant 5500 M. Winekler July fllCumnno Maru .*>ODO M. Sekine An;(. n
Saloon amidships. Two-berth Cabinsonly; each cabin fitted with electriofans. Linen washed on board at moder-alo prices.
Fare from Wellington to London, viaChina, Japan, Colombo, Port Said, DndMarseilles:—Firet-class, .£llO Single. Ro-hirn via Suez per P. and O. orOrient, .£IBB. . 1HUDDART, PARKER (Limited),
Wellington Amto, „
PROFfcsSfOMAL ENCACEMENTB.WANTED, Situation as Governess or
Nursery-governess; experienced withchildren; good references. "Musician,"Box 150, Napier.
TENOR Vocalist, Pianist, open for en-gagements, concerts, etc. Good re-
pertoire, songs, oratorios. "Music," Gor-don and Clotcli, Mslbourne. .
WANTED] thoroughly experiencedGovcrnoss to teach two girls Music,
French, Drawing, necessary. Apply, withreferences, Mrs. H. F. Norris, Wiiipawa.'V'OUNG Lady, educated, experienced,-8- has good home for three or fournico children, near Wellington, and goodschool. Write "Seaside," "Dominion"Office.riROYDON PREPARATORY SCHOOL,v Boarding and Day School for Boys
under 14 years of ago. Special Class forBoys under six. Miss Sommerviile, 81Hill Street. _j\f§TANTED.—lntellectual Efficiency.' * Language is Power. Grenville
Iyleisor can make you n Master of Eng-lish—fit you for larger enterprise, leader-ship and achievement. (CorrespondenceCourse.) Prospectus "E" free. Sole Rep-resentative, J. Rodger, 112 D LichfieldStreet, Christchurch.WANTED, a capable AGENT for tho* * Hawko's Bay district.Applicants will bo required to show
good knowledge of land and stock valwts.Apply toABRAHAM AND' WILLIAMS, LTD.,
Paimerston North.' ADVERTISING MEN.
"OOSITION waiting First-class CopyA Writer with organising ability.Send references, Sample Advertisements,Form Letters, etc. State Salary.
CHANDLER AND CO., LTD.,Advertising Contractors,
AUCKLAND.
CHILTON HOUSE SCHOOL,255 Tho Terrace, Wellington.
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOLFOR GIRLS.
Principal MRS. HENRY SMITH.Next Term will begin on WEDNES-
DAY, May 28th. Mrs. Henry Smith willbe at homo on and after TUESDAY,May 27th.
NEWTOWN SCHOOL.EVENING~CLASSES.
MR. E. H. WARD has Vacancies for _aFew Pupils in his Standard VI
Proficiency and Standard V Classes. AlsoBook-keeping, Shorthand, and Civil Ser-vice Classes. Every Evening, exceptSaturday, 7 to 9. .
BRONDEfjBURY,
DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL FORGIRLS.
Queen Street, Hastings, Hawko's Bay.Principals—THE MISSES LEE.
Special training given in PhysicalCulture.
Terms and Prospectus on application.
'JQANKS'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,•° 11 Grey Street.
Personal and Correspondence Tuition in,Shorthand, Typewriting, Book-keeping;Accountancy. Junior and Senior CivilService, Matriculation, Solicitors' GeneralKnowledge;' Accountancy, Medical andEngineering Preliminaries; Law Profes-sional, otc., etc.
BUSINESSES AND PARTNERSHIPS.JTIAURANGA! Tauranga!! Tauranga!!!JL Grand opening for first-class Bakerand up-to-date. Confectioner. Come andlook. ■IJIOR SALE, Saddlery Business, -£15, and
stock at invoice (about jC'SO), nearestopposition 20 miles. "Saddlery," "Do-minion" Office.
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■WANTED to Sell, Several Good Board-»
> inghouses, central; prices JB7O, JEIOOup; easy terms. Radford and Co., 03 and05 AVillis Street.
ANTED to Sell, Bakery, 30 sacksweekly, and smalls. One horse de-
livery. Nongents. Write "Main Trunk,""Dominion" Office.
FOR. SALE, sound cash Fancy Goods•. Business; low rental; good leiiso;
no goodwill; rising town. Wnto "Episco-pus," Manse, lnglewood.WANTED, Active Partner with .about
iSGOOO to extend highly paying .in-dustry. - Write "Industry," Gordon andGotcli Pty., Ltd., Advertising Depart-
ment, Wellington. .
BOOKSELLING, Stationery; and FancyGoods Business for immediate Sale,
country town; cash, .£(50; exceptional op-'portunity. Apply "Established," "Do-minion" Office;
to Sell, a well-establishedV » General Country .Store in Hawke'sBay, close (o Railway; good turnover;splendid prospects; good reason for sell-ing; terms if desired. For full particu-lars apply by letter to "Opportunity,"c.o. "Dominion" Office.
A REAL Good Investment—CountryStore with Post Office, Telephone
Exchange, and. Mail Contract, in pros-perous rising district; no opposition; onlya small capital required; also, severalold-established Country Stores .in thoFeilding and- Manawatu Districts. ApplyN.Z. Slieepfarmcrs' Agency, 31 HunterStreot, AVellington,
CARRYING AND AGENCY BUSINESS.
FOR SALE, established 13f years, 3carts. Turnover .CISOO. 'Not profit
,£125 per annum. Good office and yard.Prico of Goodwill and Plant, ->£100.Terms if necessary. Apply
TRAILL BROS. AND CO.,Agents, Gisborne.TO BUTCHERS.
FOR SALE, Country Butchery Business,including House, shop detachcd;
sausage machine, engine plant as a goingconcern; weekly turnover, 4 bodies, about20 small. Price .£BSO, cash requiredFurther particulars,
LAWSON AND SWAIN,Auctioneers, Te Awamutu,
BUSINESS LIST./TtiUEEN Street, Private Hotel, 23 rooms,X56 always full, £750, terms; .£IOO,Fruit and Confectionery, turnover .£2O to,£25; £105, City Tea Rooms, splendidstand; X'.iOO, Dining Rooms, City, well es-tablished, turnover X7O to .£BO weekly;owner retiring on fortune. Xl3O, Fruit,Greengrocery, Soft Drinks, otc., turnover.£SO to £70 per w-6ek, -dwelling attached.Grocery Business, easily worked, ingoingabout <£250.
Before buying write to the MovingSalesman for a list of properties.
R. J. ENTRICAN,12 Commerce Street, Auckland.
GOOD OPENING FOR GOOD DRAPER,
.£l5O A YEAR BUSINESS GIVENAAV AY.
mHIS is an exceptional chance. OwnerA of flourishing CASH Drapery andClothing Business, desirous of retiring, iswilling to dispose of Central FreeholdPremises and Stock at baro cost.
Stock about .£9OO, annual cash turn-over, .£3050. Light, roomy shop, store-rooms, etc., fivo living rooms, situate pro-vincial capital town.
Price for quick sale, .£ISOO. .No good-will. Write.
N.Z. BUSINESS EXCHANGE,187 MancWter Sttcet, Chrietcb.ui:ch,_
SITUATIONS VACANT,
SMART Young Carpenter Wanted atonce. Apply Ralph Scholes, Upper
Hutt."OTANTKD, a first-class Plumber. Ap-*' ply J. F. Adams, 11a Mulgrave
Street.1 a good Man, must be good
milker. Apply for address at "Do-minion" Office.
WANTED, Lady-help for country;easy place, 15s. Mrs. Ryder, Lang-
dale, Whareama.
WANTED, Jobbing Hand for CountryPrinting Offico; permanent. Refer-
ences to Box 11, Feilding. .
ANTEDTonpable Help for the coun-try, . small family. Apply Mrs.
Ernest Galpin, Woodlands, Marton.ANTED, a competent Lady-help, for
country; 15s. Apply Mrs. M'Gregor.Ilikcrangi.' Telephone '163 Mastcrton.
W''ANTED, thoroughly DomesticatedYoung Person to assist, evenings
free. 38 Oriental Terrace, Oriental Bay."TOTANTED, an experienced House-
VY maid, references required. ApplyMrs. Sydney Johnston, Takapau, Hawk© s
BAKER-Smart Assistant or Improverwanted at onco; good clianco to learn
smalls,-' age, wage, experience. Elder,Stratford.WANTED, capable Help or General,
Sheep Farm, country, wages 155.;references required. Mrs. Winin, Nga-paenim P.O.
TO JEWELLERS—Advertiser lias Vac-ancy for First-class Journeyman.
All particulars to "Goldsmith," do-minion" Office.■*/57"ANTED, Domesticated Lady-help forW Havelock North, llawkd's Bay. Ad-dress Mrs/ Sadler Smith, P.O. Box 13,Havelock North.
ANTED,_
Cook-Housemaid, meet lady11 to-day; lovely home; House-
maids, Cooks, Barmaids, Pantrymaids, 20others. 32G Quay.
ANTED, Capable General Servantfor country; wages 255., fare paid
after threo months; reference imperative.Apply Box 29, Waverley.
WANTED, Minersfor Storing; steadywork for good men; limited num-
lier inexperienced men can be placed.Apply "Consolidated," Reefton.''OTANTED, Married Couple, . elderlyVV woman, country; House-Waitresses,
225. Gd.; Several Generals, Motueka;Bachelors, city. Staveley, above Econo-mic.TKTANTED-All Classes of Domestics
* can 6ccure good, permanent situa-tions in sunny Napier through us. Callor write. Gray's Registry,' TO MACHINISTS.WANTED, Improvers and Apprentices
to Machine; Needlewomen, alsotaught machining. A. Levy, 117 Custom-house' Quay.
WANTED, Manager for Cheese Fac-tory, 2 vats; salary JCI6O. For con-
ditions, etc., appiy to F. Wise, Secretary,Rongokokako Co-o)>orative Cheese Fac-tory Co., Ltd., Ekclnhuna.
WANTED-I can supply promptlyevei'f description of Hotel, Farm,
or Private Servants—male or female. Ap-plications invited. Dominion Registry,10 , Manners Street, Wellington. 'Phono
' 550.
WANTED. Barmaids (toivn and coun-try),' Cook-general "and Housemaid
(together, town). Waitresses (town andcotintrv) .Lady-helpS, Generals 205., YoungGirl to" assist ; 10.§.y Copk, iprivate),,Com-panion-help, other's.' ; .Central Registry,220 Quay. 'Phono 1798. .
WANTED, Married' Couple, EastCoast, .£IOO year, JDIO bonus if stay
12 months; Married Couple (Rata), Mar-ried Couple (Hillorsden), Married Plough-man (Feilding). All classes of labourawaiting engagement.
N.Z. • SHEEPFARMERS' LABOUREXCHANGE,'
81 Hunter Street, Wellington.
jpOREMAN Blacksmith and Carpenter
wanted; wages, £i and .£3 16s.
weekly. Apply, ' stating experience, to
"32," "Dominion" Office.
WANTED.miTISTE and SHORTHAND 'WRITER.
. Apply toGRIFFITHS AND SON,
BLENHEIM.• CLOTHING. :
TJJKTANTBD, a Competent SALESMAN,» » with thorough knowledge of Cloth-
ing ahd Mercery; must have had buyingand indent experience; good position forlive man..
Copy references to accompany applica-tion; also'state salary required.
WM. PETTIE & CO:, LTD.,-Gisborne.
i JUNIOR CLERK."fIIfTANTED, for Wholesale Warehouse,
Smart Junior Clerk; typing andshorthand preferred,, but not absolutelynecessary. Apply, with copies of refer-ences, stating salary required, to
' "099," "Domipion" Officc.
' OPENING FOR BOY-.■OTANTED, by Hardware Firm, a Lad
v ? for Office Work. Apply, in ownhandwriting, with copies of references, to
"OFFICE,"Box 1482, G.P.O. -
WANTED. '
QMART BOYS, for SELLING 'THEDOMINION." Good Stands, avail-
able. Appb toTHE p UBLi SHEE>
THE NIREAHA CO-OPERATIVEDAIRY COMPANY,. LTD.
A PPLICATIONS, addressed to the un-XjL dersigncd, and.marked "Applicationfor Manager," will be roceivod UDto TUESDAY, JUNE the ,10th, 1913, forthe Position of Manager of the ,abovoCompany's Cheese Factory. Salary, .£275per annum, with houso and usual allow-ances. Engine-drivers' certificate re-quired, whey butter to bo manufactured.Particulars on application.
T. B. MASON, Secretary,Nirca'ha, Ekotohuna, •,
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COUNTRY HOTEL FOR SALE.
require a Tenant for a good Conn-try Hotel doing over .£IOO per week
average, mostly bar; 5 years lease. Rent,
£S. Ingoing, .£2BOO, including furniture.Free house for overythiug. Apply at onceto'
lIWAN BROS.,
Willis Street, Wellington.
A CORSET made to order, and fitted bya Lady Expert is of the utmost im-
portance to every lady. Tho WholesaleCorset Manufacturing Co., 108 a CubaStreet. If unnblo to will, send a postcard to tho above address, and our ladyrepresentative will call at four residency
81TUATION9 WANTED.
GOOD Shoer and General Blacksmithwants situation. Apply "Reliable,
"Dominion" Office.CHEF, experienced Hotel or Restaurant,
requires situation, -town or country,"II.," "Dominion" Office.•TXTANTED, Position Housekeeper, by• > capablo person, with one child 3
years old. Address Box 3, Bulls.WANTED, Position as Housekeeper, nil
duties; bach preferred; Rood cook.Apply "Competent," "Dominion" Office.DYER, worsted and woollen goods, at
liberty, 20 years' Leeds experience,ex. testis. "Dyer," Gordon and Gotell,Melbourne
ANTED, Situation Seed Warehouse,five years' Home experience.
.ill particulars to Wakefield, Oliwhiti,Hunterville. '
WANTED, by Young Man, Position asChauffeur, two years' expedience
running repairs. Apply "Sober," "Do-minion ' Office. .
WANTED, Situations as Parlourmaidand Housemaid, by two .sisters, to-
gether if possible; Napier preferred. Ap-ply Box 31, Featherston.
YOUNG Man, smart appearance, de-sires Engagement in warehouse, any
capacity; good salesman or packer; un-deniable references; bond if required."Alert," "Dominion" Office.
LADY, just arrived from England,■wants a post as Companion or
Housekeeper (travel if necessary); musi-cal, good needlewoman; good references.Apply "L.F.," "Dominion" Office, Wel-lington.
. BOARD AND RESIDENCE.UENISHED Double Bedroom, 92
Austin Street; fireplaco; use of con-vcnitflccs.
ANTED to Let, Single Bedroom,suit quiet, respectablo man. Apply
201 Willis Street. .
"57SJANTED to Let, singlo furnished* * Bedroom, h.c. bath, shower, 70
Cambridge Terrace.ANTED to Let, Largo Room andscullery, with grate and gas stovo;
every convenience; part fumisned. 11Bolton Street.THOENLEIGH, Boulcott Street-
Vacancies for Boardors; centralposition and good view of City and Har-bour. Telephone 1671.
URSE STRATFORD has Vacanciesfor Lying-in Paitients at her Private
Maternity Hospital, 26 Kilbirnie Crescent,Kilbirnie; Id. section from CourtenayPlace. Full Sots Baby Clothing alwayson hand.fTACANCIES—'Visitors, PermanentV Guests, Wentworth Private Hotel.
Clyde Quay, near Te Aio Station andwharves; Id. Eection; fine view; moderateterms. Under the new proprietorship ofMrs. Wedderspoon.-B. Bronkhorst, Man-ager. Telephone 1190/
AHA K A HOUSE,WAIKANAE.
ANIDEAL PLACE TO SPEND A QUIETHOLIDAY.
Fine, mild climate. Good trout fishing.(MBS.) E. M.' WILLIAMS,
Proprietress.
STONEHURST, SYMONDS STREET,AUCKLAND. New Zealand.
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS BOARD ANDj : RESIDENCE. ,
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Telezramsi "Stonehurst." Auckland,MRS. ALBERT A. BROWN,
Proprietress.
TO LET.
TO LET, Cockburn Street, Kilbirnie. 4Rooms; reht, 125.; modern oonveni-
ences. J. J. Boyd, Kilbirnie.
TO LET, Superior Suito of Offices,with' strong-room; very centrally
situated; rent, .£156 per annum. Apply"S. GEORGE NATHAN,113-115 Customhouse Quay
(opp. Bank N.Z.)
MEETINGS.
OTAGO BOYS' HIGH SCHOOLI JUBILEE.
A MEETING of Old Boys of this SchoolXJL will be held in tho Sports Federa-tion Room, opposite tho Supreme Court',on FRIDAY, 23rd inst., at 5.15 p.m., todiscuss tho celebration of the School sJubilee. It is to be hoped that all ex-pupils who arc in Wellington will attend.
J. R, BURT,I'. S. K. MACASSEY, Conveners.G. H. TURTON.
WANTED to Borrow, for 5 years, thoV v . sum of £400, on eood Leasehold
Security; lone lense broad acres. Forparticulars. Box 29, Ohakune.
WELLINGTON GAS COMPANY.fV LIMITED.
DEAR COAL! DEAR COAL!CHEAP 'COKE! CHEAP COICE!CHEAP COKE! CHEAP COKE!
COAL UP AGAIN IN PRICE.
NO ADVANCE IN 1 PRICE OF COKE!NO ADVANCE IN_PRICE OF COKE!
1/q PER SACK! -1 /oI/O PER SACK! JJO(Delivered)
SPECIALLY SCREENED.in ■ PER SACK! l //?
1/U PER SACK! -i-'vl(Delivered)
CHEAPEST WINTER FUEL.
All Ureters Promptly Attended to.Ring up Telephone No. 1129.
J. H. HELLIWELL,Secrctnr.v.
Ul/trEVA—The great American SkinFood.IyJL Clarifies and Beautifies tho Com-plexion- It develops plumpness to Face,Neck, Chest, Hands, etc. 2s. Gd. post£rO0«
ENTERPRISE TRADING CO .
:±l 'Sole Distributing Agent!,
Ask your Chemist for it. Nelson.
FOR HOUSE AND OFFICECLEANING.
Ring up 2969, Day or Night.
THE VACUUM CLEANING CO.
WE Clean Windows and Chimno.yß,Scrub Floors, Polish 1 loors, in fact,
do nil kinds of General and VacuumCleaning.
Wo sell Vacuum Machines, tho beetand easiest .to work, from , J!3 ,10s. andupwards. Ring up and lot us givo yon ademonstration at your home.
" TO PROPERTY AND FACTORYOWNERS. .
SAVE expensive plumbers' bills byusing the Cobra Pipe and Drain
Cleanser. It removes all obstructionsfrom closets and drains. Works roundthe most difficult bend. Anyone can useit. It Dover fails. Local users recom-mend it highly. Call and see it or sendfor illustrated pamphlet.
HAMILL BROS.. 4 Willis Street.
W"ANTED—A good cheap fuel, Coko,Is, 3d, per sackt Apply Gas Com-
SiSSt
pREPAID 'Advertisements in-
serted under any Classi-
fied Heading, not exceeding 16
.Words Is* Telephone 2644,
BUBINES9 NOfJCES/
WHY pay 2s. a bag for" ooal >Vhetf you 1,can get Coke at Is. pel? ba'g. atWorks, or Is. 3d. delivered by' ©a\? 06m-'I'any. ;
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W BARBER AS!) CO., Dyers and•Dry Cleanors, 125 Cuba St.. City.'
Tel. 226. .
|J>LA'JK Sheep, by Stanley Portal-O llyatt. Scud tor a copy of thisrealistic work, Is. 3d., posted Is. 6<lVMalm's Book Arcade, 97 Willis Street.TftSTANTED, .Cheap Coko instead . of.'V» dear coal; Is. 3d. per Back, deliver-
ed by Gas Company. .
DOCTORS never disagrc-o when Greon'aPharmacy is mentioned. Only pur-
est drugs used. Address Vivian Street.
CASTLE'S BismuA and Pepsin is aninvaluable Remedy in ijll cases of
Indigestion and Stomach troubles. Price,2s. 6d.( at Castle's Nowtown Pharmacy,Riddit'ord Street. '
Repairs and Overhauls toV ? any inlike Motor-car or Cycle, by
Mechanics only, at Geo. Bradley's HuttMotor Works. 'Phone 13G0; four rings/Wcl 1ingUffl Exchange. ■BURN Coko and savo money; Is. 3d.
per sack, delivered by Gas Com-pany-X&T ANTED Known—Gentlemen, tho
» « Smokeroom Loungo is now open attho Roso Toa Rooms, Commercial UnioDBuildings. v ,
JFLYGER AND CO., Undertaken'« and Einbalmcrs, 222 Upper Cubs
Street, Wellington. 'Phono 1073.
CHAS. A. FLETCHER, Chemist, Phni*macist, and Prescription Specialist.
Sole address, 292 Lambton. Quay. MailOrders promptly executed.WHOYLAND AND CO., Shop Fit-
• tors, Ghuzuco St., Airtight Show-case, Window Enclosure Makers.
HEATHER AND CO.—Motor Gc.rago,Edward Street, off Manners Street.
Cars stored, cleaned, repaired. 'Phone35C6. Cars for hire.(HENUINE Clearing Sale 0f..£500 worth
of new and second-hand Ladies'and Gents' Clothing, Boots, Gladstones,Trunks, etc, Mrs. Rosen, 120 TaranakiStreet.
STEVENS AND CO., Scrap Metal Mer-chants, Upper Abel-Smith Street,
havo for'Bale quantity Split Pulleys, varhous sizes; '8i b.li.p. Gas Engine,ccheatptfor quick sale.WAGE'S (Corner).—Mercers and Tailors,A Specialists, Ladies' and Gentlemen'sMorohant Tailors, 310 Lambton Quay.Wellington.TO ROWN AND JOHNSTON, Builders.D ond Contractors, Shop and OfficeFitters, Land and Building Valuers,Johnston Street. 'Phones 2417, 2821.
STUDY your figuro and have your Cor-sets made' to measure. If unableto call, send a post card to tile following
address, and our lady representative willcall ut your residence. Tho WholosaloCorset Manufacturing Co,, IOSa CubaStreet.
CLOTHING, BOOTS, etc..J-J purchased by Mrs, L. Helper, .13?Taranaki StTcet. Good prices offeredLetters promptly attended t'o. 'Phon«1517.
RG. KNIGHT, Sail and Tent Maker,• 53 Victoria Street. Horse, Cow,
Stack, and Van Covers stocked.
A BAILEY AND CO.'s Hockey Sticks' and Balls, all weights, at Whole-
sale Prices. Sticks, 3s. to lis. Gd.; Balls,Is. 3d. to 7s. Gd.—W. J. Seater and Co.,24 Grey Street; 'Phone U7i.
PUBLIC NOTICES.
I WILL not bo responsible for any debtor debts contracted by my wife from
this date.'. E. J. M. Applcyard.Hi Hairdresser, IG'
VJT« Lambton Quay, will remain Openall day to-day, and Close on Saturday at1 p.m. __
NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS,
NOTICE.
rE Restriction to Heavy Traffic ovoftho deviation at the slip on Hutt
Road is now removed._BY ORDER.
HOME FOR TIIE AGED NEEDY.nnHERE arc Vacancies forFour Women.,
Nominations will bo received by tho,undersigned up to Noon on MONDAY, \
2Gth MAY. ■ ■ 'CHAS. P. POWLES,Secretary. ,
WELLINGTON LAND BOARDELECTION, :
TO THE CROWN TENANTS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—I on)
again a Candidate for tho seat oc-cupied bv me for the past fonr years ontho Wellington Land Board. If my pastservices on tho Board warrant my being:again returned as your representative, I6Uall deem it an honour, and your in-terests shall, as in tho past, neueivo my.closest attention.
H. T. ELLINGHAM.To Ata, Horocka,
THE PRICE OF MILK.
HENRY BODLEY had the temerity to"bell the eat" while * the others
looked timorously on. The prico ofmilk must go up as surely as tho sunl»oes down, anil what caused it—a con-catenation of inexorable exigencies'! Oh,jio; say it: was mo, and lot* all ilie othershide behind the refuge of inc. Of course,tho public are furious, but what is tliosum of that fury-3s. 10d. on (lie pintdeliverv, spread over 92 days: otherwise,one halfpenny, per day 92 times. Comparethat with what they love to pay awayon tho Dreadnought.—l am, etc.,
HENRY BODLEY.May 20- 1913. .
T EKBW AND HEALE,MOTOR GARAGE.
Open Day and Night.Vulcanising done. Accessories
Accumulators charged. Cars for Hire,'Phono 871. NAPIER.
•TMTOTORISTS. DO NOT SHIVERWITHCOLD this weather, but
BUY A MOTOR VEST!7s. Gd. These Vests arc made of 7s. Gd.7s. Gd.' soft tail leather, lined with 7s. Gd. ■7s. Gd. wool to protect the chest 7s. Gd.7s. Gd. from cold when driving. 7s. Gd.
DON'T PROCRASTINATE,But SECURE olio of these VALUABLE
VESTS .
•T. E. EVANST158 Lambton Quay.
T' ' HE HAWKE'S BAY FRUIT GROW-ET!S' CO., LTD.
119 Cuba Street. 'Phone 3SGt. .
FRESH FROM THE 'GROWER.Apples, Stiirmors, 201b. eass, is. Gd.; 401b,.
Bs. 9d.,Apples, Largo Cooking, 201b., case, 3s. Gd.i
401b., Gs. Gd.Apples, Largo Cooking, 201b. cabe, 3?.>
101b., ss. Gd.Annies, I.<irge Cooking, 20lb, case, 2s.
Gd.; 401b. 4s. Gd.Pears, cooking, 201b. case, 35.; 401b., ss. Oct.Potatoes, 112lb„ 7s. 6d.; sGlb., is,jOnions, 281W Bs,; Hlb,, Is, 04,
WOMAN'S WORLD.MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM FAR AND NEAR,
[Bi ImooenJTO-DAY'S DINNER.
[Bpaoially Written for The Dominion.]
WEDNESDAY.Onion Soup. Rabbit Pie. Potatoes.
Vegetable Marrow. Mrs. Spencer sPudding. Sweet Sauce.
BABBIT PIE.One rabbit, 2' hard-boiled eggs, 1 des-
sertspoon chopped parsley, 1 tablespoonflour, salt, and pepper, bacon, 6oz.rough puff pastry, 1 pint stock or water.
First prepare the contents of the pie-dish by washing the rabbit in suit andwater, and cut it into nice joints; fill tho
with, first a layer of rabbit dip-ped in flour, pepper and salt, eggs sliced,and bacon cut in small pieces; continuountil the pie-dish is full; pour stock intodish. Make tho pastry, cover the pie-
dish; ornament with rose and leaves,make hole in top; glaze, and bake in ahot oven for the first 20 minutes, then in
a cooler oven, or on top of tho stove, onan asbestos mat. for about } hour longer,to finish cooking the meat inside the pie.
FOR TO-MORROW.Cauliflower. Stock. White vegetables.
Loin of Pork. Stuffing. Apples, l'ruitfor stewing.
Defiance Butter. All Grocers.'
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Women's Service at St, Mark's,A service for women was held -in St.
Mark's Church last evening by the Rev.Mr. Askew, who took for his text tho44th verse of the tenth chapter of thoActs of tho Apostles: "While Peter didspeak those words tho Holy Ghost de-scended upon all them that lieard thowords." It was to the household ofCornelius, the Roman centurion, thatPeter preached, and. it was upon Corne-lius, and thoso about hifn,_ that thoPrcscnco made itself felt. No doubt (thospeaker pointcd'out) it was' a matter forrejoicing to Cornelius that to them kidhappened the samo experience as to him-self. There was no doubt that to-dayfamily worship was a thing of the past,and to-day parents saw their childrengrowing up without any of the guidancegiven by religious observances. Child-Ten were a gift from God, and parentswero not fulfilling their responsibilitiesby allowing them to grow up withoutthe guidance of religiou. They very soonbegan to think for themselves, and, whenthey saw that their parents did not at-tend church services and took no heed ofreligious matters, they inevitably follow-ed in their footsteps. It was of littleuse to send children and not go them-selves. Spiritual riches were the richesto strivo after and to bo given first place.
General Baden-Powell in Glasgow.General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, tho
Chief Scout, recently visited Glasgow,and opened an exhibition of scoutcraft 111tho hall of tho sth Scottish Rifles, nestPrinces Street. Tho exhibition includeda great variety of cleverly-mado laecham-cal models, even of such elaborate con-trivances as aeroplanes and wireless, tele-graphy equipments, wood carvings, itirni-ture, drawings, etc. During the after-noon and evening wero given capital uis-
plays of gymnastics, sword excrciscs,dancing, fire, ambulance, and flag drills,
and music was furnished by the brassand pipe bands of Mossbanlt IndustrialSchool. Lord Provost (Stevenson pre-sided at the opening, and introduced thoChief Scout, who had a most enthusias-tic welcome, and who spoke a few wordsof encouragement to the boys. Others ontho platform included Sir Edward Ward,Sir Archibald M'lnnos Shaw, Sir JamesBell, -Bishop Campbell, Sir Gcorgo Beat-son, and Colonel Mackenzie. Alter theopening of tho exhibition Sir % RobertBaden-Powell attended a march past ofabout 1800 scouts.Plantation to a Lady Aviator.
Miss Trehawke Davies, a. lady aviatorof not®, was recently presented at thehouse of the Dowager Lady O'Hagan witha trophy offered to her through thoWomen's Patriotic Aerial League by theHon. Lady ■ Shelley in appreciation forher services to aviation, lliss lreh&wkoDavies is a fearless flyer, being taken upin weather when few aviators cared totrust themselves to the gale.
Welcoming the Hon. James Allen. »
A welcome to the Hon. James Allen onhis return from Eugland will be given bytho Auckland Women's Political ReformLea"ue in the Town Hall on Wednesdayevening, Juno 4. Tho Prime Minister (tholion. W. P. Massey), who will be unableto attend .tho civic reception on Juno 3,will bo present, as well as a number ofother Ministers. Dunns the evening Mr.Allen will givo a, resume of his workin England. An excellent musical pro-gramme will be rendered by a number ofleading professionals.
Mr. and Mrs. Oppenheim (New York)are touring the Dominion, and aro at pre-sent in Wellington, staying at tho GrandHotel.
The Petone Rowing Club is holding itsannual ball in tho Drill Hall, NelsonStreet, Petone, on Tuesday, June 3.
The second and final round of tho com-petition for Mr. Browning's prize is to baplayed at Heretaunga to-day.
Mrs; F. Fitchett has returned to Wel-lington from a visit to Auckland, and isstaying at Caulfield House.
Says our Wanganui correspondent,Madame Emily Briggs, the well-knownsinger, purposes leaving Wanganui short-ly for England on a healtn-recruitingtrip. She will bo accompanied by MissFlora Sutherland, who is also well-knownin Wanganui musical circles,
Miss Caselbcrg (Masterton) is visitingWellington.
Mrs. Keesing andher daughter remrnedto Wellington on Monday from a visit toMasterton.
Miss Skerrett has returned to Welling-ton from a visit to Auckland.
Miss Carter, who is a medallist and ex-pert in cookery, has started her cookeryclasses in Baruett's Buildings in WillisStreet, and is giving lessons in all kindsof advanced cookery. Her syllabus in-cluded lessons in entrees, gelatines, pud-din".l), and fancy cold sweets with decora-tions, confectionery (including nougats,caramels, fondants, and tho crystalismgof fruits and flowers), puff-pastry andcakes with royal and Vienna .icing, bon-hig poultry, and various miscellaneousdishes. Miss Carter has had classes forcookery in various towns in the .north,and is a very clear and concise exponentof her work.
Mrs C. A. W. Monckton, who lias beenill foi' some time, has returned to herhome in Otaki, much improved mliealth.
The weather in its disagTeeabje moodsi, most injurious to the complexion, lorconscientious advice and teeatment usitor write Mrs. Rolleston, Lambton Quay,Wellington.—Advt.
Women as Churchwardens..Many elections of women as church-
wardens have taken placo at the recentEaster fwtry meetings in England, andanions them is that of the Dowager Mar-chioness of Exeter, who was chosen atDeeping, St. .Tames, Lincolnshire. Thisis the Marchioness's fifteenth year of of-fice. The Countess Cawdor has been, ap-pointed churchwarden for the parishchurch of Shottermill, Surrey, and atWest Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Mrs.Fraser (who as Lady Dashwood, of WestWycombe Park, is well known), has beenoleeted parishioners' warden. A moreunusual appointment is that of Miss S. J.Hill, who has been elected sexton ofCrowland Abbey, Lincolnshiro-an ap-pointment which has been m tlio Hillfamily for 153 years. Possibly the mostcurious arrangement is that in a Southof England parjsh—an exceedingly HighChurch one—'whero one churchwarden istlio vicar's wife, and the other a leadingofficial of a Wesleyan C.hapel.Obituary.
The death took place at Hawera onSaturday of Mrs. Richards, relict of tholate Dr. Richards, formerly of Hawcra.The deceased'lady, who was 70 years ofage, is survived by two sons and threedaughters, viz.:—Messrs. John Smith, ofHawera, Richard Smith, of Mata Mata(Auckland district), and Mrs. P. H. Pease,of Omata, Mrs. W. B. Card, Helensville,and Mrs. Bert Clements, of Hawera. Tholate Mrs. Richards had 'resided in thodistrict for 10 years, and when sho enmothere first tho troubles with the Maoriswero far from settled. In common withother settlers she had to bear her sharoof anxiety in those stirring days.
Madame Clara Butt in Australia.In the course of an interview with a
representative of the Sydney "Daily Tele-graph," Madame Clara Butt said that inI)o Bussy sho sees as in pictures oftlio futurist painters of Paris tho open-ing of a new era, and a striving aftertruth, as against the old materialism ofthe arts of yesterday.
"As a matter of fact,' sho said, Igot myself very much disliked over thosopictures, even my husband cannot agrcowith mo; but still I like, for instance, theidea of portraying tho action rather thanthe poso of a dancer. The picture Irefor to is portrayed by tho artist as ncollection of eyes, and this may, at firstsight, seem curious; but what, after all,is the impression which wo get of a dan-cer in action ? Not a poso and not herfeet. IVhy, whenever I see Mile. Gcnee,who you will soon havo the pleasure ofwelcoming to Australia, what I carryaway with mo is tho charming littlo face,the pretty retrousse uose, tho upturnedcurved lips, and the halo of hair. Andif I wero a futurist painter, that is whatI should havo to paint. Tho samo maybo said of another canvas, oonsisting ofa fow brown streaks, entitled 'Sorrow.'People, howled at it, but, after all, itsuggested depression and misery, far bet-ter than much of tho old music, in whichthe dying struggles of tho horoino werooften drawn to quite a spritely air. Andas a .matter of fact, it isn't easy to bosincere in singing such tilings.
"Look at . the difference of Do Busny'sconception of tho end of Salome, wheretho hideous pageant is accompanied bymusic, which is also horrible, and tholast disgusted order of tho King, to 'killthat woman' is spoken in a single line.There is where tho great art conies in."A Generous Contributor.
There died at Green Island recently, intho person of Miss Margaret Ivirkland, onewho has been well known, amongst othertilings, for her practical support of thochurch to which she belonged (says the"Otngo Daily Times"). On several occa-sions her sympathy for tho PresbyterianChurch has iKen shown by generous and6iibstantial contributions. Tho GreenIsland Sunday School, in particular, hasreceived from her giftsamounting to about,£I3OO. With her'parents. Miss ICirklandarrived at Dunedin in the ship Maori in1552. Tho family assisted, along withother pioneers of the best type, to makeOtago what it is. Most of Mis 9 Kirkland'slife was spent at Green Island, but ontwo occasions she revisited Scotland. Atthe ape of 77 death came without unduesuffering.
THE' DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, MAT 1913.2
'• • 1 |j' * ■ ■ ■■■iii I. i.i.l iuiJu»Ji3rrwMTTrn'gnrT M**'l*'mmlMgggmgmnKg *8 Q
11 iClearing* out the "Lonely Ones '
p3™0 in Costume Lengths. |h . -Forty Odd Pieces -at Half or ' |
•h .Two-thirds Usual Prices.- 1®" | ' |
[J ' forty ladies can save half or one-thirdof this cost of 1\1 ~ T' their Costume Lengths by selecting one of these. LmJgmwHaßm charming "single lengths" which we are disposing
of, because our range is complete without them.
They are "lovely ones," but none the less at-.'•■.» . tractive for that. They include Friezes, Cheviots,
' Hopsacs, and TweedSj and they are new season's
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.v goods. I '
/ It is probable—almost certain—that there willbe something of "a rush" for these, the offer com-ing as it does just at the time when so many women
. . are buying Costume Cioths. • 9Therefore, we advise you to call without delay
and select yourE—say this morning, while the light I^JJB• .
v. SPECIAL PRICES ON COSTUME LENGTHS.
* " ■ > ttnop CHEVIOT COSTUME LENGTHS, in Vieux Rose, Amethyst, and.'I «>• ' Ectoda. Original Price, '35b. Gd. SPECIAL PRICE, 17s. 6d.
1 I' ' 7 only ALL WOOL CHEVIOT COSTUME in light and mid S^o,, Groy, Vieux Eose, and Reseda. Original Price, 599. Gd. SPLUAL ritu,!,,
' •. , 32rf. Gd. , / • . v ,
' : 3 only SELF STRIPE FRIEZE COSTUME LENGTHS, in Mole, Green, andBrown. Original Price, 395. 6d. SPECIAL PRICE, 245. 6d-
v ' ' 125 SPECIAL COSTUME LENGTHS. Oddments'in broken lines of our regular' fitocfc including Hopsaes, Plain and Knop Cheviots, Panamas, Tweeds, etc.
Prices ranging from 295. Gd. to 495. fid. SPECIAL PRICES, 14s. 6d. to 355. |
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I "STOP-PRESS" NEWS. I' 'A direct express shipment of the latest I i
CONEY SEAL TOQUES 1 \
has just arrived, and will be showing in our Mil- | jjlinery Salon.to-day. Prices, £23. 6d. to 495. 6d. I ■ . jI . ■ ' i "
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, p ~T~■ EVERY DAT-EVERT WEEK-EVERT MONTH—EVERT TEAR. fFffWf £ §»There must bo a good reason. Get in touch with our LADIES UNDER fil U<©4 0 0 HOtbyCLOTHING DEPARTMENT.' BETTER STYLES AND VALUES FOR LESS
ncMvieroSIONE if—THAT'S THE STORY. Note, our only Address- Ufc STa,
LEES AND CHURCH, "0 .»"»• stmt,SPECIALISTS IN LADIES' UNDERWEAR, 12S CUBA STREET. WELLINGTON.
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| ■ . ' Special ' Notice t f OUR WONDERFUL SETS WITHI fffiNlY FIELDER & Co., Ltd, f l'OI,CBU", ow,s m 4\ ..oujiv*** * y A FAC-SIMILE OF NATURE.I 8 Having Engaged a Special Designer frl Alt Future-. A
af a ondfl 'AEE NOW PREPARED TO SUBMIT SPECIAL PRIVATE b sinnle ißothI - DESIGNS IK OAK, WALNUT, AND MAHOGANY, |I • r AT VERY MODERATE PRICES. f to Permanent ... «lta.I IDE SPECIMENS OP DESIGN, PRICES, AND WORK. | T««, »•«££• M mf . MANSHIP. SEE OTO SHOW WINDOWS. fV ■ — — 1 faun _ i ■ I I■' I !■ rIT II If , New Shipments Carpets and Linoleums Now Opened. ?
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' 3 TIMES A DAY." j AND MORNING."THIS IS THE DOSE OF I THIS REFERS TO . |\ . .fo^W
ftITCHIE'S WIIM;PHOSPHATONIC ' %Skeasily the best remedy nnd pick-me- irritation -of all kinds. It roheves AMf. i\lit),'for restoring Vim and vigour foT that fisry itch and soothes all rnr j&SgMf \)
run down nerves. No matter what flamed parts. _ For eczema, ulccr- ' . |
irf tho courso of your nervous 'break- ated legs,-and irritation of> all Kindg |Ifdown a few doses of thisr touic will' it has no equal. 2s. td. per Jar. /JKTi. Iffput. you .right. 2s, 6d. and 4s. 6d. J pogt rrco fTOm•.Post Tree from >. # • l 1Ynl 1 "
.. - CHAS. A. FLETCHER, jr^V-WHGHEMISTj 292 LAMBTON QUAY. Recommended by
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■ '■ HiCHrFREQUEN CY; ELECTRICITY. Thehonot grocer will alway.TTSKLm"ES and Cnnw Nervous Diseases, Neuralgia, Insomnia, Paralysis, Lo- ' recommend Crescent Tea, be.ZV comotor Ataxia, Bheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, Lumbago, Indigestion, Consti- ,cause it is a Tea that comoi upjiation, Kidney au'd Liver Troubles, etc., expcc(ationi.
AXEL HOLTZ,' MASSEUE AND MEDICAL ELEOTEICIAN, . n**|- To«S
Telephone 2008. 123 Willis. Street. Wellington. & fSfl.—i— ' ii rich and strong, free from im-"T>" i, --..j.i,,, 111
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t ;p jpurities,- and the most
' Madam! Costiime Satisiaction_
«onomic.iTea on. market.
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;|M •• Any woman who-has worn an ELLIS COSTUME knows tho flm, wiTo^Turnhnlli\\ II truth of this! ■ _ ... • Wellington.- "K\ -She knows sho can go to ELLIS and depend upon her orders 1 ■ —
_i Z boing satisfactorily filled every time—there never was such a ' — '5J ' I thing as an ELLIS "MISFIT."
-Ul , ORDER YOUK WINTER COSTUME HERE-DON'T LEAVE
I J IT TO CHANCE. *
■ijfrß, ELLIS, ART TAILOR,'■ Featherston Street, opp. Union Bank.
THE ROYD GARLICK SCHOOL Or PHYSICAL CULTURE. »
MASSAGE AND REMEDIAL IIIEATMENT. (M fZIZItZpuS-S!r » v/ZTTDIEECTRESS—MRS. ROYi3 GARLICK,
SUSSEX CHAMBERS, MANAMA STREET. , Flowera-'9lM" ' • ■ ■ . Opp. b.P.O. » Does the cap At in your case forI none -lja. . _ _ , \ Jiuva vnnr handa lost their trcshdaln- EH
—; 1 — 1 " . " tincis'thronsh work, or from exposure _
</* 'rnrmr P\STR powerful germicidal and antiseptic E3 to tho waather? If tbey have, then
M pS«es, render the tcPeth absolutely immune from disease, and the S 2mouth delightfully, fresh and pure. _ T)T)TrP 1o E hands white, smooth, andas beautiful W
aidV. Kirkcaldie and Stains, D.1.C., and 0 SEc
70frL°'n
ur dealer does'not stock it, send Is. fid. for a Tube, post free, to u ™
ESI 3GR 081 fi CO., ; P.'O. BOX 035, WELLINGTON. H ®
. - ——~,u.pti x Jar coatinff 1/6 ivill last about >3n i nimii mm threomonths. m
CIATMALINE? SoSSSSSSSSPamnns -FaCC Crfeflm A i*£Ula
Q welllncton & Aucklnnd 1 HTho Exclusive Preparation «f 'Phone 3919. SAKE^S^mLDING8 , | 0 jf ' J ®
I THE VIENNA BEAUTY PARLOUR Featherston Street, |
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rf "'T TO THE LADIES OF WELLINGTONi/bnbrr«/ips rt> ' '1. notify that .lio is still turning out, t.i.,1 „:4i, w,,if diirestion can lake Amber Tips Tea with jj Costumes at a Cheaper Hato
TThoso troubledwithwea o —
ncr lb. tt than any other firm in Wellington.u absolute comfort, sopure and good is it. /, / -/ His only nddresa is—b6ul/COTTV ——
* CHAMBERS, Wcliiugtou.JHQtcaALE AQEfiIS, filS§3fl& lUflMeafiH MUMMB 1 Vhm m
CHIROPODY.
Mrs Haybittle, No. 2GS Lambton Quay,
over Orr, chemist, after many years' ex-perience, undertakes to cure corns, in-growing nails, bunions, otc. Relief from
these distressing complaints is guaranteedimmediately. 'Phone 1931,-Advt.
Violets arranged in dainty posies ornrettv Violet boxes; delightful gifts forfriends; delivered or mailed anywherei„ Dominion by Miss Murray. Vice-RegalFlorist, 36 Willis Street.—Advt.
Seventy years with one family is thern'rord of A servant, Miss Emma Lane, of•Sparkinhoe Street, Leicester, who is 81years old.
Wo will remove or pack your Furnitureto vour ,owu satisfaction, or return yourinonoy. Blake and Carlisle, 11 HunterStreet, 'phone 2017; 23 X'iric Strvot, 'phono
SUPERFLUOUS HAIRIA most unsightly disfigurement to any
woman's face is superfluous hair. Thomarket is full of alleged remedies forthis defect—many of them as dangerousas they are useless. Tho one thing thatcan be trusted to remove superfluous hairsis the NOVENA HAIR DESTROYER, Itremoves the hair instantly, without theslightest detriment to tho complexion, and■lfter being applied loaves a pleasant, coolBensation, which is to different from thoburning heat of other depilatories. Price,Ss. Gd.
Valaze Skin Food removes freckles, sun-burn, tan, and sallowness, and dispels alleffects of exposure to the wind and heat.It makes tho skin proof against all vicis-situdes of the weather and climate, , andrenders it clear, soft, and supple. Price,4s. and 7s.
It should bo particularly remarked thatValaze positively does NOT producosuperfluous hair!
Valaze Lip Lustre restores the colourto dull and faded lips; cannot be dis-placed by either biting or wetting. Price,2s. and 3s. Valaze Rouge Tenace, a na-tural colouring for the cheeks, which can-not be detected, and which neither heatnor perspiration has the power to move.Price, Is. Gd. and 3s. Valazo EyebrowPencil delicately darkens tho lids, lashes,and brows. ' Price, 2s.
Valazo Soap, containing many of thoproperties of Valaze Skin Food, is perfectfor toilet use, pure, and dainty. 2s. 3d.Valaze Powder for greasy, over-moistskins; and Novena Poudre for dry andnormal skins. Each in threo tints, 2s. Gd.a
Valaze preparations obtainable from allchemists; or direct, post free, from Mile.Holen Rubinstein, 55 Maison Valazo,Strand Arcade, Auckland.—Advt.
Miss Milsom desires to bring under thenotice of ladies and gentlomen tho verylatest methods and preparations for hairand face treatments. Guaranteed eurofor Alopecia, Areata (or bald spots).Genuine treatment of the scalp for oily,drv perished, grey and falling hair. Posi-tive' cure for Dandruff and Irritation.Writo for Miss Milsom's book (free), oon-tninintr full instructions for homo treat-ment Every client taught homo treat-ment." Scientific Faco Massage, astoundingresults after one course, with thoroughlesson M Is. Shampooing—Electrolysisfnermanent and painless), Hair-work,every description, latest Natural HairPads Switches, etc. Hair-dressing taucht.Mnni'rurinK. Personal attention. Strictlyconfidential. Miss Milsom, King's Cham-bers, Wellington. Telephone 814*
The Chilton House School, 255 The Ter-race, Wellington, boarding and day schoolfor 'girls, commences its next term onWednesday, Hay 28. Sirs. Henry Smith(principal) will be at homo on and afterTuesday, ida.v 27.
Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co., 2G Bran-don Street, will sell by public auction, attheir looms, three brand new and iivo
pianos. This sale will boheld on Friday, May 3, commencing at2.30 p.m.
Ex-S'ergonnt-Mnjor William Berry, ofCrudition, Devonshire, a Crimean veteran,who has just attained his eightieth birtn-day, is tho father of nine soldier sons,six of whom aro still alive.
A PRETTY FACETS often spoiled by the unsightly ap--1 renranco of SUPERFLUOUS HAlIi.Ladies cannot bo too careful nlxmt whattlioy uso for this trouble. Most depila-tories burn and mark tho skin m a ter-rible manner. Science has niado rapidstrides, and wo now havo a preparationCalled . on .
„'I—SO—LA,
which prevents hair growing, or if itlias already grown I-SO-LA will instantlyremovo it I-SO-LA is guaranteed notto mark or burn tho skin, and its usocannot bs detected. A few applicationswill entirely destroy tho worst growth,and in some instances only ONE applica-tion is necessary. Price 4s. 6d.
Cii;o. MEE. Chemist, I.amhtou Quay,'GEO. PKRROTT, Chemist, Manners St„Agent". Posted in plain wnled wrapperto ftsr jiddie&a for. 2d.
Jfcj Closed 1p | All Day
j TO-BAY.ijPrep&rimg & Remarking
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Thursday''Morning, j« ■> &t 9-30. - -
BE SURE AND ATTEND,- :
VEITCH ALLAN, =
Wellington's Busiest Store. \
Serviceable Costumes that are 1 SUN brandSmart am! Reasonably Priced. !
By one of tlie recently arrived Home boats RfltilllSV CIMTV Pfl V-tfiHr'I have received a new shipment of Smart "
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Costumes which surpass anything yet shown GhUtnQV.in Wellington for this season. H . ghesl Qua,| ly> Sold Everyw |„reiPriosd at 555,, 655., ,795. 6t1., and 84s. each. —:
They are exceptional value. Tailor-made t. selection; earty • "?««• MRS. ''i.V CKEIGfiIW 'HIXB, tho
" j ITJL well-known London Teacher on thoTWITS C< Tiff A nrfiCJTPWSANT Where the Good Art of Massago, announces that herIRS. . arc 1 teSi''be SUSPENDED FOR THREEHatS are. | MONTHS Duo notice of resumption264-266 Lambton Quay, Wellington. win bo given in the press.4 Intending Pupils are requested to com-
. , municate with Mrs. Creigliton Hale.
' '' ' J*"'l"*"''"!"'j'^xi''' '""fl Address: 27 MAY ST., WELLINGTON.OOMFLSXSOSH ADVXOSS.Tm weather in its disagreeable moods, is most injurious to the complexion.
Sittin? too closely overa fire makes, tho. skin harsh and dry, and very :often causes premature wrinkles. Certain diets, sleeplessness, an ms ay | "affWA"!5T\ Pr\I STAMFORD & Co.
Hairdressmg College,Cream on the market, foi its sale abioad sp. a• "masjststne'' to her i quality and quantity of Hairwork.
MRS. ROLLESTOA' can conscientiously recommend_
MANUALpatrons. It never fails to give mtefaction, a „g, . TOS|e( j jD work free, or allow on all ordens if freshthe growth of superfluous hairs. MARINE per■,«; 3s. M., posted, in I p, lrcllo.CM ' <iro rcquircd .
IrJ&f"4ro; and'electrical—with full- instruc personally treated b y
tions, from 21s. Singlo treatments, ss. Telephone 1599. Hairdircssiiiff for photo and eveningPersonal attention and strictest privacy. P > wcar a gpugjuijty. Special attention
SViFSS. ROLL E STOW, ei™m to orders by post. •ivairawß w w w 9 Comlwnra ma<lo up at 2s. per oz., also256 Lambton Quay, Wellington. The Hair and Specialist, j p Ure]laS(^
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FLORENCE HULLEN,enrr*wr?»hct« formura*3^t\ 'i'tione 1017. 191 LAMBTON QUAY.
vviiiis st„ woiiington, 7/1/w.p ' ri Dear Mrs. Hullen,—l have much pleat,rj j! ure in recommending you "RUSMA .fojit ■ ___
• o| tho removal of superfluous hair, havingBa /9*vi "Rf v TJP T M previously been treated by other epecial.,? W I l\\ R1 M j f\k !J( lots por medium of electrolysis, also depi.pa 63 I kfaT 04 M ra I Sb latorios, at great expense (ii7s) without■a Sfrnfif' &£& Ja> xawr «jj receiving any relief. I am gratefullyU thankful to you for your treatment- ofiS »« my case. Since undergoing treatmentBJJ, at your hands I am pleased to state that(a in not onlv has your remedy removed nilB» "I traces of superfluous hair but in additionFJ So ''as improved tho complexion wonder*JS ttirytf? a? fully.—Yours, etc.•f _ >8 't'lie original of this latter and other te»>
timonials may be seen at my rooms.—F-H.
fl rm M P REMOVAL NOTICE,
y 1 ir. pk L H rpnE MISSES MACANBREW ANDfa i£ iia 0 »i[ JL HAYES wish to notify Ladies thatS" they havo Removed from 77 Willis StreetR •. S to 87 MANNERS STREET (closo to|| ff Opera House)^
ATTADAMTRRO PIIDP CEYLON. ''"
FASHIONABLE FURS.U QUARANTBdU rUKC SMITH, Furrier, has removedSa. ■ I ItjL to No. 3 Manners Street. Ladiei•!
. »| should call and inspect her Btock beforeIn raffi-J® POUND H buying their Wintor Furs. BeautifulR . fil/ • » t> jjjack For; Silver Pox, Squirrel, .and ■■8" many other kinds to chooso from. Skim 'K ALL STORBKEBPBRS. .. imported direct. Como early and givos» . "I your order. Repairs a specialty.
DIRECT HOUSEHOLD FRUiT SUPPLY..in 1.. I, , 1,,,, i-~ ~r r|=y^.uil T>EST Dessert Jonathan Apples, Bs. per
, i> caso, is. half-case.jtjl " Br SncM Arnamm, TATE, Malcnrutanga Orchard, Greytown.
' ® U Satisfaction guaranteed or monoy i~e-a tffiffiaSS" S turned. Buyers aro requested to uso
1 HOW BETTER A THAU EVER | Fruit oOrdcr Coupons, obtainable at any '
1NELSON mMBftTE S1 ■ ■1 PSBBE mm TEAS 1.S»«BBgBB«gaS!Bgi ?SShkS«hi,&""o, S ■, : ~ ' '
~ Excesses, consult us about it. Our
CtarlstenlMS GaSte 53^j (( Modern Appliances. Spoctaclra of
; Inspect, our AxU Stock of SILVER AND • j a""""
| BLECTHOPLATED CHILDS 1 CUPS,. BOWLS, Jj o uAt.tFl^□ CHEMIST,; SETS OF KNIFE, FORK * SPOON, BATTLES, | '
;j EGG CUPS, FEEDING SPOONS, Etc. J •j Priccd at 4s. Gd. to £5, the Stock affords an j ,pi
'one 3263' '
,| ample choice to suit all purses.
I — I Opp. TH ARO HOUSE. ,BUY FROM 1 CUBA STREET.
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P ( &I1 VOUNG. LMon CUREX CREAM.i is. ® wJsL'ifioj ji Wondorful euro Eczema, Scaly Skit '' „-n r nmninM ntnv V Pimplos, Red Noso, Chapped Handi
Jo2 LAM MO A WLAI. j/ jjar ix,r'o Itch, etc., 2s. and Bs., all chenvll lifs, or post free. W. Clarke, Chemistug Victoria Street Anoklaad;
THE CHINESE & PRICEOF VEGETABLES.
OPERATIONS IN MARTS.
IS THERE A CHINESE CONTROL?
(By Telegraph— Special Correspondent.)Auckland, May 20.
Recent increases in tho prices for vege-tables in Sydney have been attributed tothe operations of a combine"among Chin-ese merchants. Inquiries wore made byan Auckland reporter this morningwith thoobject of ascertaining how far theChinese engaged in the trade regulatethe market in Auckland.
"There have been increases hern as wellas in Sydney during the reccnt weeks,"said a member of an auctioneering firm,"but we do not consider that the (Jhinesoare mainly responsible. Retail prices aregoverned "by tlie rates which prevail atthe auction marts, aud, in this 'conntc-tion, the Chinamen have only a propor-tionate voice." The salesman hientionedthat the most prominent increase of latewas in regard to root vegetables, whichhad gono up to tho extent of about 2d.per dozen.
At the Waiteniata Co-operative AuctionRooms it was learned that the sales thereare usually attended by 15 or 16 Chinese,who take an active part in the biddingfor the purpose of supplying their retaill'ruit and vegetable shops. These menappear to be held in kindly regard, inthis direction, having obtained a repu-tation for scrupulous honesty, readinessto oblige, and keenness of bargaining.
The Chinese view of marketing condi-tions in Auckland was obtained fromMr. Will Ah Chee, whoso firm has ■ alargo interest in the market gardeningbusiness. Ho said that their prices werealways regulated by those ruling at theauctions, and, therefore, any increaseswere the result of general' market fluctua-tions. "If we have a good deal to dowith regulating the market," said Mr.Ah Chee, "it is because our countrymenare mainly interested in tho business.With about two exceptions, there are 110European market, gardeners to sneak ofin Auckland, but there are a number offruit and vegetable shops which get theirsupplies from tho auction mart. Thesepeople have as much voice as we have intising prices.
Mr: Ah Chee added that, although thepublic did not hear of it, they had theirlabour troubles just as did the people inthe outer industrial world. When theChinese workmen felt that they shouldbe getting higher wages they appointeddeputations to wait on tho employers,and, if their requests were not met in asatisfactory manner, they went out 011strike. ' "Our- men have struck two orthree times during the past year," re-marked tho speaker. He added, however,that they usually managed to settle theirtroubles before they went very far, astho result of conferences between theparties concerned. "I could show yonfrom our wages book," he said, "thatsame of the Chinese in our gardens aregetting as much as .£3 per week, andalso that the usual wage for shop handsis from <£2' to 10s. per week. In fur-ther explanation, he s<V c' that the formerwere third or fourth-rate overseers. Inaddition to the wages quoted, the em-ployers had to provide keep for their em-ployees so that their businesses had tobe run 011 careful,lines to secure satisfac-tory results. In all, there are about 250Chinese market gardeners in Auckland.
From the foregoing investigations itwould seem that, notwithstanding thefairly heavy poll-tax (<£loo per individual)which Chinese have to pay on enteringtho Dominion, they possess the abilityto place themselves in the position of ex-tracting wages sufficiently remunerativeto very soon wipe out their initial out-lay and commence an accumulation ofprivate means.
EDUCATIONALISTS CONFER.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS,
(By Tolezraph.—Fross Association.)
Christchurch, May 20..The secondary schools annual conference
opened to-day in tho Canterbury CollegeIln.ll, Air. J. P. Firth,' president, occupy-ing the chair. There were present: Mr.J. W. Tibbs (Auckland Grammar School),Miss Blanche Butler (Auckland Girls'Grammar School), Messrs. J. M. Sim-mers and M. Ongley (Dannevirke HighSchool), .Miss C. M. Oruickshank (Wanga-nui Girls' College), Jlcssrs>J. M. Dovoand H. B. Watson (Wanganui CollegiateSchool), Messrs. J. P. Firth and Il'. M.Renrier (Wellington College), Mr. G. Lan-caster (Nelson College), Miss M. Lorimer(Nelson Girls' College), Mr. T. R. Cress-well (Eangiora High School), Messrs. C.E. Bevan Brown, W. Watson, and R. M.Laing (Christchurch Boys' High School),Misses JI. V. Gibson, IC. M. Gresson, andE. Crosby (Christchurch Girls' HighSchool); Mr. E. A. Belcher (Christ's Col-Ice), Jll'. F. W. Wattors (AsnburtohHigh School), Mr. G. H. Uttley (WaitakiHigh School), Messrs. W. J. Morrell andA. E. J. Parr (Otago Boys' High School),Miss F. JL Allen (Otago Girls' HighSchool), Misses W. H. Jl. King and J. F.Opie (Southland Girls' High School). Dr.W. J. Andersou, Assdstant-Inspector-Gen-eral of Schools, was also present.
Dr. Anderson expressed his great per-sonal satisfaction that the conference liadgiven the Education Department the op-portunity of having a representative pre-sent. As representing Jlr. Hogben, whowas unfortunately not able to be present,he would, he said, bo happy to do whathe could on behalf of the Department,and take a note of the wishes of the con-ference., The Department, he felt sure,would give the greatest consideration pos-sible to the decisions arrived at.
Jlr. J. W. Tibbs was clected president.Miss King moved, and it was seconded:
"That the conference present to the Sen-ate of the University of New Zealand aprotest against the new regulations pro-viding a revolving period for history inthe syllabus for matriculation."
After discussion, and on a division, themotion was negatived by 42 to 18.
Referring to what were previouslyknown as Civil Service Junior and Seniorexaminations, Dr. Anderson said that theywould be known in future as the PublicService Entrance and the Public ServiceSenior Examinations. There': would bean intermediate examination which wouldbe in two divisions, competitive qnd non-competitive, but the examination paperwould be the same for both divisions. Ex-aminations would be conducted under Instyear's Public Service Act, and the regula-tions made thereunder for the presentvear. It had been decided that the old'profcedure and syllabus should apply tothe Public Service Entrance (Junior CivilService) and Public Sen-ice-Senior Exam-inations. Under tho new regulations GOOmarks were the maximum for English,600 for arithmetic, and 2flo for drawing,and candidates were required to obtaina certain percentage of the total maximumof 2400. In respect to candidates whocat for the Public Service Senior Examina-tion, and who were not members, of thoservice, a fee would be payable.
FIVE MILLIONS A YEAR.
SUFFRAGETTES' ACTIVITIES.London, May 9.
The damage to property caused by theSuffragettes during the last three monthsis estimated at upwards of .£1,000,000.
To this sum must be added the increas-ed cost of protecting certain lives andproperties. Each member of the Cabinetis at all times guarded by defectives,and all suspected persons are being sha-dowed by pain-clothes men, wliilo specia\protection has had to bo provided forpublic buildings.
Figured out at this rate, the activitiesof the Suffragettes are costing the coun-try something like JC0.000.000 a year.
Tho militants intend lo enter upon acampaign of even greater violence in orderto avenge the defeat of tho Suffrage Bill,and the central organisation has declaredthat all previous outrages will be cclipsed.—"Sydney Sun."
THE TURF.final wanganui work.
(By Telegraph— Press Association.)Wanganui, May 20.
Heavy rain fell last night, but thetracks were in good order this morning,when it was fine for the winding-up gal-lops.
Aruak'e and Phosphorus ran a mile inlmin. 17 l-Ssec., Phosphorus being a lengthin front; neither was extended.
Deniss Onus and Blue Garment fin-ished together, three lengths ahead ofFort William, over five furlongs in lmin.4 l-ssee.
Byron and Passadena went six furlongsin luiin. '.'Osec.
Bercola and Bismarck jumped the bigcountry twice, shaping well.
The Native and Dorando beat Hawickbadly over two rounds on the flat, goingfast.
Stepney covered five furlongs in lmin.Gsec. Makara did a similar task.
Antarctic was a bit lamo after goingtwo ronndf at half-pace.
Multiply beat Otahu easily over sevenfurlongs in lmin. 35sec.
Nyland and Watchchain were schooledover the hurdles, and both ran off.
Sweet Breeze finished seven furlongswell ahead of Loekwood.
Okaihau and Armagh jumped tho bigfences; the former jumped well, but Ar-magh fell and hurt his shoulder badly.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.[By Glencoe.]
Acceptances for tho first day's handi-caps of tho coming Auckland meetingcioso 011 Friday next. There is also duoat the same time.a final payment for theGreat. Northern Hurdle;, two miles anda half.
AVith acceptances of eleven, eleven andtwelve in the Steeples, Hurdles, andConnolly Handicap respectively, theWanganui Club ivill, no doubt, be satis;
lied. Except in tho ease of Ngntiruanuiin the Connolly Handicap, there were 110unlooked-for pencillings. It may be thattho. son of Maniopoto has gone slightlyamiss. Ho was also a non-acceptor onthe second day of the Esmont meeting.
Surprise was expressed when TheNative was paid up for in both theSteeples and Hurdles. In whichever racehe starts he must be .1 bad horse to beat,but most people would like to see a racebehind him before he is extensively sup-ported. In any case he now looks biggerand stronger than ever, _ and the longspell which ho had 011 his owner's runat Levin has evidently benefited him. Inhis first few essays over the big fencesat Porirua he did not take kindly tothem, but he improved a good deal, andis now as good a jumper over brush ashe was over hurdles. News concerningAntarctic is not of a reassuring nature,and those who have seen him workinglately aro not pleased with his form.Okaihau won last year's racc, and, fromthat period on, he was always ' giviustrouble. The samo must be said ofhim this year, though with less em-phasis. Glenniore has only to bo as hewas at Riecarton, and he wili start fav-ourite. The Beaufort winner is fairlywell seasoned with racing, and, in thisrospeet, 110 will be at an advantage overthe others. Dorando is the horse whichWanganui people aro selecting to win.He has done a lot of work, and has doneit well. If Hawick were at anything likethe form which he showed at _ the "Na-tional" meeting, Mr. ilson's geldingwould givo a good account of hiinselt,but his prea'-'iit track work does notsuggest that lie is quite ready. In theHurdles the early favourite was ChiefMarshal, but Hickey's horse has easedsomewhat during tho lost few days, andXgatimaru has superseded him si> fav-ourite, with Daxbv Paul and Bercola alsoin demand. The two last-named aro goodstayers. This will assist them over ajourney cf two miles and a quarter. St.Kovhi," who was railed north yesterday,and will be ridden by L. Ilegarty, isalso spoken of as a .Tkclj- winner.
Nothing but Leonta- is for inthe Connolly Handicap, and, if W. Pricerides the big Conqueror gelding (or sonicother equally strong horseman) there 13little chance of his losing the positionof. favourite. Mr. Bristol's horse haswon five times out of his last six starts,and the Hawera win wasachieved in suchan easy manner that it is safe to assumethat liis owner is pleased that it is acase of fixed penalties at Wanganui andnot rehandicaps. If there is one horsethat the weight adjuster must feel un-comfortable about it is Leonta. Still,handicappers have extraordinary luck ottimes. Wo shall see if Mr. G. Morse isfortunate.
J. W. Lowe has an addition to his teamat Trentliam—a yearling filly by Birken-head from Vologda. 'The youngster,which was bred at the Waikanae stud,is owned by a West Coast racing man.Lowe's other youngster by Charlemagne IIfrom Monardo attracts very favourablecomment from track watchers. Theypredict a useful career for her.
Obligant, who broke down badlv atAwapuui last month, is still at Trentliam,.but it is expected that ho will shortlybo sent home to Gisborne to bo turnedout on his owner's Station.
The recent doath of the prominentIndian sportsman. Sir A. A. Apcar, wassudden. He was out on theracecourse ontho morning of his death, and was appar-ently in the best of spirits. At 3 o'clockin the afternoon he began to write aletter to his brother, and after finishinga few lines, walked into the next room,and collapsed. A doctor was quickly re-quisitioned, but death, it appears, was in-stantaneous, thocause being an apoplecticseizure. It is difficult to forecast whateffect the death of this well-known sports-man will have upon the turf in India, buta hope is expressed that his brother, Mr.Alee. Apcar, who has devoted all his timoto tliesltring for the past couple of years,may see his way to race the horses nowin the stable.
Gaelic—the ancient New Zealand-bredgelding by Bonnie Scotland—was sent outsecond favourite in the Federal Hurdlesat Moonee Valley on May 10. He wasridden by Ronald Cameron, but failed tofinish in better than third place.
When Covccoat returned to his trainingquarters at Findon after winning theLiverpool Grand _ National Steeplechasekst month, his stable companion,Jerry M. (last year's victor) was taken tothe station to await his arrival, and thepair were subsequently led through thevillage amidst the cheering of the in-habitants, who turned out in large num-bers to greet' Sir Charles Asshetou-Smith's famous '"chasers.
A New Zealand horseman, W. Cairns,rode Ngara, winner of the Novice Handi-cap at the Brisbane Tattersall's meetingon May 10.
Though the racing has not yet started,•several of the steeplechasers are alreadyknocked out. Yesterday morning tho rollwas added to by Armagh, who fell .itWanganui and injured his shoulder ratherbadly. This is bad luck for .J. William-son,'as tho bay horse had a rare dash ofpace for a steeplechaser, and looked likewinning races this season.
The Menschikoff mare, Lace Collar, whowas sent to tho stud last year tobe matedwith Gold Crest, recently rat into a wirofence, and ivas badly cut about. For sometime it was feared that she lvoulS die,but she pulled round.
FIXTURES.May 22 and 23—North Otago J.C. Winter.May 22 and 2-I—'Wanganui ,f. C. Winter.May 31, June 3 and s—Auckland R.C.
Winter.Juno 3 and 4—Dunedin ,T.C. Winter..Tunc 3 and I—Olaki Maori R.C. Winter..1 une IS and l'J—ltawke's Hay J.C. Winter..Tunc 25 and 2G—Jfapi»r Park Ji.C. Winter.July 3 and ■)—Gisborne lt.C. Steeplechase.July 16 and 19—Wellington lt.C. Winter.August 12, 14, and 10—C.J.C. Grand Na-
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HSSITTING OF ASSESSMENT COURT.
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MRS. SIIAPCOTT'S CASE.
His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Rob-ert Stout) presided at yesterday's sittingof tlio Supreme Court.
Henry' Shapcott and Sophia FrancesShapcott claimed ,£333 6s. as damagesfrom Melville lloneyman Robertson,whoso motor-ear was said to have rundown Mrs. Shapcott in Karori Eoad, nearthe Botanical Gardens, on tlio afternoonof December 21. Tlio plaintiffsare residents of Northland, and the de-fendant is a hotel licensee and mofor-earproprietor.
Mr. M. Myers, with him Mr. P. H.Putnam, appeared for the plaintiffs; andSir John l-'indlay, IC.C., with him Mr. D.it. Hoggard, represented the defendant.
Mr. Jlyers, in his opening address, saidthat the damages were claimed respectingau accidcnt which happened between fourand five o'clock on tlio afternoon of De-cember 21, Jlrs. Shapcott being run overby d&fendant's motor-car, which was attho time driven by n servant of defend-ant's. The claim was for .£3OO generaldamages and J.'33 Cs. special damages.Mrs. Shapcott and her daughter werewalking down the road when the carsuddenly came upon them, and beforesho could escape, Mrs. Shapcott wasstruck in the back, run over, and draggedsome distance. Plaintiffs alleged negli-gence, for whic'li the defendant was re-sponsible, in that the! car had beendriven on a wrong course, and at an ex-cessive speed, having regard to the nature,condition, ■ and use of the highway; ingiving 110 warning of approach, and infailing to stop the car quickly after theaccident..
Defendant, too, alleged negligence, say-'ing that Mrs. Shapcott failed to take no-tice of the repealed soundings of themotor-horn;, that she went to that side oftho road on which it was intended thatthe car should pass her; and that shefailed to cxercise sufficient caro in regardto traffic.
After a Short retirement, the jury offour returned with a verdict for theplaintiffs for ,£33 6s. special damages, and.£175 general damages, a total of .2208 Gs.
DIVORCE CASE.Henry Ernest Harvey was granted a de-
cree nisi against Ruby Ella Harvey, onthe ground of misconduct. Mr. D. G.Jackson appeared for tho petitioner.
MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
(Before Dr. A. W. if.'Arthur, S.M.)
SHOP-FRONT THIEF.
NOTICED, PURSUED, AND CAUGHT.
A man named John Arthur Jackson,who had previously been under the noticeof the police authorities—his last appear-ance being about two years ago—wascharged yesterday with having stolen i\pair of boots from the window-stand out-side U. Hannah and C'o.'s bootshop, inCuba Street. The theft, it was stated inevidence, was noticed in time, and Jack-son was pursued, captured, and handedover to the police.
The accused pleaded guilty, and in ex-tenuation of his offence, said that a"mate" of his had supplied him with li-quor, and persuaded him to lift theboots. Ho was convicted and ordered tocome up for sentence when called upon.
INSOBRIETY.Henry Andrews, previously convicted of
drunkenness,' was fined 205., with the al-ternative of seven 'drij's' imprisonment fora repetition of tho offence.
Three first offenders indicted for drunk-enness were convicted and discharged.
John Derrick, a previous offender, wasconvicted and fined 10s., with the alterna-tive of forty-eight hours' imprisonment,on a charge of drunkenness.
. BOX BURGLAR.
BEFORE THE JUVENILE COURT.A boy of fourteen was brought before
Dr. A. W. M'Arthur, S.M., yesterday, inthe Juvcnilo Court, on a charge of break-ing 'and entering, on Monday r.ight, a pri-vate house in Kelburne, occupied by Mr.L. James, local manager for Messrs. J. J..Niven and Co., tho engineering firm, ofNapier.
Mrs. James was out of town, and 3lr.James liad gone out for the evening, leav-ing the houso empty and in darkness. Onreturning home, in company with afriend, he saw a light in the house, andsubsequent investigation discovered thattho bearer of the light was a boy prowler,who was roaming about tho house, open-ing cupboards, and so forth. He wascaught and detained until the arrival ofDetective Lewis and Constable O'Dono-ghue, by whom .he was escorted to thopolice station, where he spent tho night.
From tho evidence adduced at the Juv-enile Court it appeared that the boy hadnot stolen anything, and had apparent-ly yielded to the temptation of enteringtli? house in a foolish spirit of adventure.After a lecture from his Worship, the ladwas discharged.
CIVIL CASES.
(Before Dr. A. W. M'Artliur, S.M.)
THE GUARANTOR'S LIABILITY.Judgment was delivered in the caso
Speight, and Co. (and others) v. Branigan,ail action for the recovery of .£lO2 J2s.7d., claimed by the plaintiffs under awritten guarantee. In respect of thisguarantee,, plaintiffs had advanced toEttie Emily Howell and Francis ElizabethBryan, publicans, both of 'l'aita, the sumof *£GI)0, defendant agreeing meanwhile topay to the ' plaintiffs one-third of thoamount of any loss sustained by themwith regard to this advance, with 7 percent, interest added. A loss of .£292 IGs.2d. had been sustained by the plaintiffs,and a claim for one-lhird of that amountwas rendered on July EG, 1912. Paymentwas refused, hence tho action. The de-fendant; commented his Worship, had ad-mitted tho guarantee, but held that thosofor whom lie went security should nothave been allowed to leave New Zealandbefore being called upon, to pay. Thisfact was disputed, but, said his Worship,it was not material. Quoting authori-ties, he pointed out that "the mere pas-sive inactivity of the person to whom theguaranteo i') given, his neglect to call theprincipal debtor to account in a reason-able time, unci to enforce nayment againsthim, docs, not discharge the surety."
Judgment would therefore bp for theplaintiff, the ;unou:;1: of the settlement tobo arrnnjrpd by the parlies. Costs oil thousual scale wore allowed.
Mi\ Tonus apnearod for the plaintiffs,and Mr. M'Gralh for tho defendants.
CABBIUBS OK FOKWARDINGAGENTS?
Judgment was also delivered in the easeof liiley and Co. v. Keir's ForwardingAsrency. This was a claim preferred byTtiley alid Co. in respect of damage al-leged to have been sustained by the non-delivery nf certain drills stated to havebeen committed to Ihe defendants fortransport from. Wellington to Punedin.The drills hail no! been delivered, andI lie plaintiffs therefore claimed JBl4 145.,damage for Hio loss of the drills.
In giving iudgment, his Worship rinot-ed extensively from authorities, and de-cided for the defendants wilh costs. Keirand Co. were forwarding agents, he held,not, carriers, and could not, therefore, behe!d liable mi loss for (he negligence ofthemselves or nf their servants. No suchnegligence had lioen shown by dircct evi-dence. •
CLAIM AGAINST U.S.S. CO.l-'urther evidence was heard in the ac-
tion by I'cier Craulord, wlmrf labourer,Wellington, against Hie Union SteamShip Company, of .N'eiv Zealand, Ltd., fur.£IOO, as damages received by him
» b»wl falluae from a ellp&, and
striking hi111 while he was assisting tounload the steamer Mokoia.
Mr. D. ,W. l'imllny appeared for theplnintifT, anil 31 r. T. M. Wilforil for lliudefendant company.
Owing to the absence through sicknessnf one of the principal witnesses for thedefence, the ease was adjourned for a fewdays, after hearing evidence.
UNDEFENDED CASES..Inilgment by default of defendants was
cnti'i'i'd l'ur the plaintiffs in the fallowing.
Hurry Gotlieb v. I". Walsh, £i Ms. (id.,costs 125.; T. and \V. Young v. J. ItayI'owell, .iJ'iS 12s. 7d.. costs £2 Ms.; John]!i™; and Co. v. Arthur E. HamiltonStyles, ,tt» lis. 6t|., costs 10s.; WelsbachLight Co. v. .loseph Vernon C'ritchfield,.£32 t(K. costs £2 175.; Public Trustee v.
Douglas, m costs .£■! Ifls. (id.; ]).
Lloyd Clay v. IMwnrd Marsh, X 3 lls.'M.,costs lis.; same v. Walter Taylor, ,£.l 155.,costs 10s.; A. W. Lister v. G. K. Matliie-sou, .£>l Gs. Gd., costs i; 2 I<<k; A. Mac-Miilau and Co. v. William Ward, «£j 7s.fid., costs XI 3s. Gil. j Colonial Motor Co.,Ltd., v. John David Howell, .i'B 7s. 7d.,costs .CI 3s. fill.; T. Tremayno v. JohnDixon, £2 145., costs 10s.; James A. Do-herty v. E. M. Campbell, .1:1 10s., costsos.; Stewart Timber, Glass, and Hard-ware Co., Ltd., v. tho People's PicturePalace Co., .£IG3 2s. 3d., costs £2 10s.
OTAGO BOYS' HIGH SCHOOLJUBILEE.
4In August tho Otago Boys' High School
celebrates its jubilee, the school havingbeen founded in 18li3. Tho school com-menced its career inauspiciously, as thesmall steamer which was conveying thofirst headmaster from tho sailing ship,by which ho had arrived at. Port Chalm-ers, to Dunedin, was wrcckod, and thoheadmaster and his family were drowned.
The record of tho Otago Schoolduring the fifty years of'its existence, isono of which any school might bo proud.Tho university results show every yearwhat a sound education is imparted to thehoys, while in athletics the school hasalways been particularly strong; and att.imes the school Rugby fifteen lias playedin senior grade matches with credit. TheC'adet Corps has always been a strongfeature of the school, and for many yearswas under Ilia command of Mr. G. 31.Thomson, M.P. As a result of theirtraining at school, a largo number ofboys volunteered for servico in SouthAfrica, chief among them being ColonelsRobin and Bauchop.
To celebrate tho jubilee ex-pupils of theschool will gather in largo numbers inDuneilin in August next; and an attrac-tive programme is being arranged. Therewill bo several football matches, of whichtho most interesting will probably lie thatbetween sides chosen from boys who wereat school befcre 1.800 versus boys whososchool days dale between the years IS9IIand 1900. Rumour hits it that in view ofthe advanced age of some of tho playersthe spells played win be five minuteseach, with ton minutes interval. At nighttho jubilee dinner will be held, at whichthree speeches will be made commemora-tive of the old boys of three differentperiods. The speakers will be. Mr. SaulSolomon, K.C., Mr. T. D. Penrce, rectorof the Southland High School, and Mr.F. H. Campbell, a present master of thoschool.
.On Sunday tho old boys will march inprocession -uider banners showing theiryears (or decades) of attendance, to theschool, where a ehapel service will lieheld. On Monday all will attend theschool for prayers, and after a speechby the rector, he morning will bo devotedto speeches on the history of the school,the speakers being Mr. Herbert Webb, Mr.(3. JI. Thomson, M.l'., and Major George■llitchie. In addition, it is expected thatthe Mayor ofDuncdin,-Mr. W. D. Stewart,who is an ex-pupil and n Minister of theCrown, will address the old boys. It isalso proposed to hold a garden party, adance, and a smoko concert, so that therewill bo plenty of opportunity for old boysfrom alt parts of New Zealand to renewthe friendship of their youth.
An announcement will be found in ouradvertising columns calling a meeting ofold pupils who aro resident in Welling-ton in order to ascertain "how many ofthem can go down, to Dunedin in August,and ako to arrnngo for some celebrationto l;o held in Wellington by those oldboys who cannot go south.
S.P.C.A.
: A meeting of the Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals was held yes-terday afternoon, Mr. J. S. Jameson pre-siding.. A resolution was affirmed, expressingthe sympathy of the society with thepresident (Mr. R. H. Webb) in his recentfamily bereavement.
The following donations were acknow-ledged .—Jlrs. A. E. Atkins, *£10; Messrs.Dalgety and Co., Herdman and ICirkcal-die, Gear Ment Co., Ltd., Briscoo and Co.,Ltd., M. Chapman, and F. Lambcrg; £1Is. each; Mrs. M. A. Williams and Mr.W. Johnson, ill each; Mr. W. Knight,lO.s. Gd,; Dr. J. Ewart, Messrs. A. R.Atkinson, F. do J. Clere, Miss Coates, 10s.each; Cathie and Son, T. A. Rob-erts, Kitto and Son, F. J. Caterer, Bal-linger Bros., W. S. Collins, W. H. Mill-ward, W. S. La Trobe, W. R. Bock,Kainpoi Woollen Manufacturing Co.,Meek and Von Haast, B.E.T. CJo., D.1.C.,V.8.N., Lady Atkinson, Dr. KingtonFyffe, ss. each; Mr. W. G. Hearne, 35.;Messrs. C. H. Barrett, Rouse, Black andSons, W. Parkinson, H. D. Edwards, W.Hendry, "Usual," J. M'lhvraith, C. Wat-ran, H. L. Breyenton, D. T. Stuart, C.Stewart, Miss Richmond, Mrs. M. Ken-dall, and Mrs. P. Aldous, 2s. Gd. each;Messrs. B. Cooper and W. H. Green, 2s.each; per Miss C. Havden (sales), Ss.:total, .€27 Is. 6d:
Consideration of the report of the con-ference proceedings was deferred untilnext meeting.It was derided to institute proceedings
against a carrying company for workinga horse said to be painfully lame in bothfore legs.
THE BEEF OCTOPUS.
TIGHTENING ITS HOLD.London, May 11.
A special article on tho meat trade thatis published in "The Times" states thatthere is good reason to fear that theBeef Trust is extending and tightening itshold upon the chief sources of supply.
It is pointed out that release of abnor-mal quantities of frozen meat during thopast tew months was"part of a carcfully-thought-out scheme, tho object of whichis not apparent to the lay mind. As anoff-set. to the greater supply arriving fromthe South American republics dwindlingquantities ore coming from Oie UnitedStates and Canada, while only muttonand lamb from the .Antipodes count intiie meat supply.—"Sydney Sun."
ACCIDENT AT ROCKHAMPTON.WOMAN'S KNEE HURT.
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leg got quite stiff. 1 got it lunccd by'adoctor, but could not get it to heal, thojiain I suffered was most excruciating;hearing so much of your Ko.wna I pur-chased a tin to see if it would be anygood. After the second application itseemed toease, the great pain, and had awonderful drawing effect. I' used twotins, which lasted me about a fortnight,and by that limo my knee was completelyhealed, and nil'my stiffness had left liivleg. I mil now as well and livelyas ever."
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greatest success in every State in theCommonwealth, with the best results forthis dstrofsng complant. Ini some casesit lias cured old and obstinate sores iu aremarkable short time, in other cases
nlogcr treatment has been necessary,butas it has been so universally successfulno one suffering from this complaint canafford net. to give it a trial. Rcxona issold by all Medicine Vendors in trianrru-larpots at Is- lid., or in large pots, hold-ing nearly four times as much, at 3s.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
W.C.T.U. AND BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.Sir,—Last week and again to-day you
publish a resolution passed by the Wel-lington Women's Christian TemperanceUnion opposing the platform of the Biblc-in-Statc-.Schools League. I am not .fullyaware of (ho facts, and am writing in thohope that some of Ihe leaders of thoW.C.T.U. will let the real facts lie known.What. are the personal views of the lead-ers and their reasons for them? Wouldyou give them the hospitality of your'columns to state' thoni so as to enlightenmany who, lilco myself, do not quite know-where 1 am in regard to the union. I'roniinquiries 1 am told that Morrinsville,Hamilton, I'iclon, Blenheim, Timaru,Wanganui, ami Auckland brandies of thoW.C.T.I'. have passed resolutions eitherunanimously or with insignificant minori-ties dissenting from the convention resolu-tion, and differing from the resolution ofthe Wellington branch. I have also sesiaa circular issued to members of the unionand signed by Mrs. M'Combs, and Mrs.Seed, amongst seven of the most promin-ent members of the organisation. Thiscircular states that the Convention madea mistake which, if persisted in, wouldpr.ssibly create distention in the union,and further complained that tho_ Con-vention did not ascertain the mind ofthe various branches before its resolu-tion. The circular also emphasises thefact that two district conventions and anumber of local unions had previouslypassed resolutions in favour of tho Bible-in-Stnte-Schools League platform. I amsomewhat muddled as to my own position.Did the Convention resolution representtlw real feeling of the members of theunion? Will its leaders pleaso enlightenmv ignorance.—l am, ctc.,y b TOTAL ABSTAINER,
[Possibly some of the leaders of thoW.C.T.U. will enlighten our correspon-dent as to how- far tho, action of theunion represents the views of tho mainbody of members as distinct from thepersonal views of its leaders.]
PROFESSOR HUNTER AND THELIQUOR QUESTION.
Sir,—ln your issue of to-day, ProfessorHunter, when commenting on the demandfor the Biblo in schools, says that thereferendum on tho liquor question, insteadof ending that matter has had just thoopposite effect. I shall be glad to learnon what grounds the learned Professorventures to make such an assertion.Surely he does not seriously call the pre-sent triennial vote a referendum. A sys-tem which gives the financially interested,the drunken, tlia dissolute, the wastrels ofsociety, fifty per cent, more voting powerthan the Reform party enjoy, is tho veryanthitliesis of a referendum.
I have never yet met a person who, hav-ing studied tho question, will support thisiniquity, unless he has financial interestsin the business, anil I am surprised thatProfessor Hunter can write 60 loosely ontho matter as he does in to-day'sDominion.
It may interest the younger generationof your readers to learn how this wickedand unjust handicap was forced 011 themovement for reform- A great wave ofpublic opinion compelled Mr. Seddon, thethen Premier, to do some-thing in theinterests of tho Temperance cause, so hodecided to give every elecior a vote ontho licensing question.. But, unfortunatelyfor tho party of progress, Mr. Seddon,who was ever loyal to the. interests oftho publican business to which ho former-ly belonged, rendered tho vote almostnuga+ory by loading the temperance voterswith a fifty per cent. handicap. CouldMr. Seddon, at that juncture, have onlyshaken himself • free from the old tradi-tions of tho Trade, and given the peoplea straightout voto with majority rule in-stead of minority rulo as at present, tholiquor question would have long since re-ceived its quietus.
A majority of 54,000 for destroying theliquor trade, root and branch, was re-corded at. the last poll, yet bccnusc vested!interests are considered of more momentthan the real welfare of the community,the trade is allowed to continue its death,dealing business in our midst.—I am, etc.,
■ ' A SQUAKB DIJAL.f May 19, 1913. '
THE PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE.
Sir,—The scene of attack on this much-discussed matter seems now to have shitt-ed from tho columns of your contemporaryto your own.I "am not suiro that it may not bo un-
becoming 011 my part to stoop to uotioathe perianal abuse that has been so con-spicuous a feature in the criticisms thathave been offered by various anonymouswriters, but 1 cannot well refrain fromprotesting against offensive lvl'crencesmade this morning by j-our correspondent"Square Deal" to my colleague in the re-cent inquiry—Mr. J. H. Hosking, K.C.—who is accused of practically dominatingtho Commission ill) tho interests of hisprofessional brethren.It •is surely hardly necessary for mo to
say that for fair-mindedness and honour-able dealing 110 0110 can present a higherclaim than'lUr. Hosking, and it is a verypoor return for faithful dischargo of amost important and arduous duty, wheretiio kgal question is, after nil, only oneamong the many weighty matters that hadto be considered and dealt with, that hoshould be subjected to a dastardly thrustfrom a hidden foe.
As for your correspondent's insultingreferences to myself, 1 treat them withthe contempt they deserve.I have not yet got into the way of being
dominated, at any rate iu the duration ofsubordinating principle to expediency;and, layman though I am, it is possible Ican draw an inferenco as regards legalmethods iu a State Department or else-where, that may not be very far frombeing tolerably correct.If your. correspondent will ba man
enough to come out into tho open I mayknow better how to deal with him.
In a letter recently addressed to Mr. J.A. M'Cullough, and not published withothers iu your issue of tho Kith instant,I stated that in view of recent experiencenotany consideration that could be offeredwould induce mo to undertake such workagain. I repeat that now for the informa-tion of "Square Deal." It is not [foodenough to make of one's self a target tobo shot at by such as he—l am, etc.,
A. MACINTOSH.May 20.
ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS.Sir,—The general consensus of opinion
iu Wellington seems to concur in the use-fulness of the Government's latest ap-pointment—that of Miss Agnes M'Leanas matron in ehargo of tho assisted immi-grants on their arrival in New Zealand.Naturally, if the Government is spendingmoney for a specific purpose, it is neces-sary that someone should bo appointedto take caro that thai purpose is served.But although nobody doubts the wisdomof tho step, yet it must be obvious thatono matron, however! capable, cannot doilia work for the whole Dominion, and wounderstand that further appointments oftho same sort arc to follow. Now, ifIbis is tho case, and others are wanted,I wish to make a suggestion. Can wo notprevail on the city ladies of tho leisureclass to volunteer to do the work gratis?Must every service to our country bopaid for? "This particular work is for thodirect convenience and benefit of thowealthier classes (the English domesticis always too expensive, n luxury for thostruggling woman with a large family,even when she can afford help of anysort). Cannot the members of the class-for whom the girls are intended be in-duced to do the work connected with themas a duty, and save the Government fur-ther expense. Probably it was wise tomake one official appointment, as it car-ries with it a certain authority, but 1propose that if others are wanted, ameeting of women should bo called, andthe most suitable elected.
A noted American, in giving his impres-sions of England, remarks on the verylarge amount of public work which isexecuted free of. charge by Englishmenami women of rank and wealth, lieeven mentions Ibis disinterestedness asone of three outstanding differences be-tween English social .life and that cfAmerica. He says, "it is the centuries-old instinct of tho English to have faithin 'noblesse oblige' as a real factor inlife." lie refers in this connection tothe late Duke ofDevonshire, who was shy
and awkward, and found public, speakinga kind of torture,. and yet devoted hislife quietly and unobtrusively to the exe-cution of public duties. "He was." con-tinues the writer, "typical of the class,which, numbering its thousands far lessconspicuous than lie, d» the work ot Eng-land, bncaii.se they consider it n duty.When EPglaiul arrives at her .Pass ofThermopylae, this large class will' have
to bo reckoned with, olid I ventiiro toprophesy that there will not be even 0110left to tell the news if things go againsttliem."
There is an ideal to live up to. It, isan American fashion for the rich anddistinguished to cut themselves off from(lie useful and political work of the coun-try, and to devote themselves wholly topleasure. It is a I'rench fashion tofly to the Government for a new Slateoiticial for every trifling necessity thatarises. Hut we are English, and let usadhere to the Mother Country's best tra-ditions and look to our' leisure class (Ispeak of wimpi—thero can hardly be saidto be a leisure class of men) to give apart of their, time, when necessity arises,for the benefit of the community.—l am.etc.,
A WOMAN WITHOUT LEISURE.
THE STORMING OFADRIANOPLE.
A WONDERFUL FEAT.
(By H. W. Wallis, in the "Daily Newsnnd Leader."
Sofia,Not, if you please, "Tho Tall of Adria-
noplc." Tho fortress tliil not "fall," it wasknocked down—stormed by desperate men,directed by military genius of tho veryhighest order. Is this excessive? Con-sider the facts. The place is strong bynnlture, invnded by three rivers, swollenthis week by the melting snows of thoKhodope, sweeping seaward in brown,rapid tloods, not to be trilled with. Thoone face uncovered by water is defendedby a series of forts echellomied ono behindthe other for mutual support. Of all themultitude of forts planned by Vou derGoltz, these were supposed to bo thestrongest, because arranged to guard 'thoono vulnerable spot. Not that any livingmail' conceived escalade as a possibility,but one must work by rule; there was astraight run in on the south-east face,and no water-jump, therefore let thefences he extra stiff and many.
On Monday night, an hour before thoattack began, I was travelling with alittle contingent of Serb officers, tall, fine,fat, weary men, who had left the Adria-nople lines that morning. "Nothing washappening." They felt they could bospared, would bo better employed inScrvia. How sick they must be to-day!O, yes, the besiegers knew the nature oftho nut they must crack. Said the Queento me, after her return from tho outposts,"Wo canu<yt; we must not. It would costtoo much life." So, too, different membersof the Cabinet during tho past four,months, have set it. at anything between13,000 and 20,000. General Ivanoff, on tho
evening preceding that long, abortivearmistice, told me, "I could take i't intwenty-four hours if they would untie myhands. Cost? Say, nine thousand."
Tho least of these estimates is formid-able. Lord Roberts was wroth with Kit-chener for losing under a thousand menill (in effort to capture Kronjc. Yet theBritish Isles—not to say tho British Em-pire—lias stores of men. What do thesefigures mean to a little nation of aboutthree-fourth's . the population of GreaterLondon? It was obvious they would notStorm Adrianople.
A Dash to Victory.Again, what general dare ask troops to
attempt such a service? Wo took I'el-el-Kobir, buit against iield guns only servedby fellahs. We failed at every night at-tack in Africa, and at some day attacks.Grant's army failed to storm Petersburg,U.S. Moltko never called upon Germantroops to attack fortifications. The ideawas out of date. There are limits to lu-man, endurance and courage, and theseBulgarians aro only twmity-months-trai'i-ed militia, heavy-footed ploughboys, "de-ficient in dash" (vide "Times' correspon-dent inside Tchataldja, after watchingSavoff's dysontcry-stricken regimentscrawling through bottomless nnul to at-tack fortified positions). So it couldn't bedone; and Shuckri Pasha agreed, and hisBelgian General': expert in fortificationagreed, and his seventy German otters,and their Belgian and Rumanian con-freres, and th',' fourteen Pashas agreed.It couldn't be done.
Theiii 011 Tuesday morning, March 25. alittle after midnight, a herd of cattlestampeded up tho glacis of the big fortand let off whatever contact mines tlnremay have been and filled up various pitsand trenches. After the beasts camo men.strangely attired. Bronze helmets andcuirasses had they, and held steel shieldsbefore them, whilst with wire-pliers theydemolished the Entanglements. It wa;idesperato service, but only .10 per cent,were hit. ■ Then came nine battalions ofstormcrs, and before Shuckri kirew uponwhich sector of his long front the tval
at tack was to fall, the Hig Fort was storm-ed, and its five hundred defenders I.udlaid down theirarms, and its heavy gunswere pounding the supporting forts be-hind it. The Shipka He/rimcnt (23rd) v.as"first foot." The Jambol men (29th) onlyji-ist behind. Some cavalry got into thocity with them, and for many hours cluiosraged and roared. Slinckrimado a splen-did fight of it. and did all a bravo mansurprised could do. Hi? attempted to cutthe bridges: the railway britlgo over theArda is still unusable at the week's end.He lulled all horses, fired some magazines,.-md fell furiously upon the Serb linesN.W. in hopes of breaking throui'ifc: Theytell me he refused to give un his swordmiiil collared and held; a Turk of theo'd sort, .and a gentleman, as n Bulgarianwho knows him assures me. He is al-ready Icilgrd at the Hotel Splcndide inSofia, and will be well treated.
Mathematics and War,But I am cut-running the event. Tho
chaos was a Turkish chaos; on the Bul-garian sido was the niniblo method of aperfectly co-ordinated machine. Every,company officer knew precisely how manyhundred yards he must run (in the dark,jf you please), and when, to the tick ofhis watch, he must halt, bear to thoright, deploy, and what not.
"It was mathematics," said a man tome who wears tho Slivnitza cross. No-thing was unforeseen or left to chance.The nino battalions marched from posi-tion to position, fort after fort fell. Atlast, by Wednesday noon, after someI hirty-six hours' lighting, resistance ceas-ed, and the victors could count thospoils.
They are very quiet about it. I can getfew details. They found six hundredand eighty guns of position, jsomo injured,some destro/ed, but most are in workingorder, and the best are already cn routefor Tcliataldja. They found in one maga-zine 100,000 new, Unused Mausers, andonly grumble that they aro not "our pat-tern; it complicates the ammunition to!"(Some people never will bo satisfied.) Thoprisoners were interned in the forts, andwill there remain until released. I hearfew accounts of the city's health. Thereis nothing that one could justly call anepidemic. King Ferdinand's state entryon Thursday was spectacular. PrinceBoris rodo beside him. The shops Hereall open, and the shopkeepers stood smil-ing at their doors. All looting had beensuppressed by a mixed force of Bulgar-Turk military police. But for the deadhorses everywhere there were few signs ofwar. and the few fires had been got un-der promptly. I hope to get in on Mon-day or Tuesday, but railway communica-tion is slill blocked by the broken bridge.
Meanwhile, Europe is face to face witha new factor —an army of small free-hold-ers, destitute of nerves, silent, fit, abso-lutely disciplined in all that counts,though slouching and slovenly to tho eye,literate to tho tune of 95 per cent., solrerexceedingly, and to be trusted withwomen, and with a perfect passion torgetting in with the bayonet. _ Wc havehad no such force in England since Crom-well's Ironsides: and shall never haver.tich a one again until the break-up ofthe estates and the re-settlement ofrural England upon English land. Butwhat is to conic next ? Men here talkeasily of stovmiii'r Tehataldja. Salonikaand Monaslir and Silistria present them-selves as minor difficulties to bo over-come,in turn —Imi to be overcome!
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Mr. V, il. Beebe's Polite VaudevilleCompany -attracted anotte appreciativeaiMiienoe to tho Opera House last ev*ni|iK»and from tho laughter and thenumber of oncores insisted upon, the ef-forts of the performers to pjeaa? waroeminently successful. Tho minstrel nrstpart was evidently much to tno liking ofthoso present, tho drolleries of "Wal JSock-ley and Will. White sufficing to keep thofun goin£. • KciMerson repealed his en-tertaining protean act; tho Arteens con-tributed a clever acrobatic turn, and theBartletts mad'e music from anything that'happened to li© around. The performancetrill Ixi repeated this evening. . .
THEATRE ROYAL.At tho Theatre Royal the bill has bean
brightened by the arrival of several newfaces and old favourites. Among tho latterIs Miss Beattie M'Donald, who was inWellington a couple of years ago, whenshe rasa great favourite'among habituesof tho theatre. She brings a budget ofnew songs, and sings them-well. Sho.isalso one of tho Arao-Almo, who makelaughter in a sketch entitled "Fun oil aClothe 9 Line." The melodious Serenaders,who look like becoming a permanent insti-tution, supply an interlude of harmoniouscomedy, and Miss 'Lillie Moore, Percy Dal-ton, and Hall Rainle make merry in 'theirrespective lines.
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HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.,There are .really two dramatic pictures
in, the present programme at HisJlajesty 6Theatre which deserve the "star hall-mark. Theseare "The Thief of Love", and"The Lost Son." Both storyettes Tiave adeal of dramatic grip, and hold the atten-tion' from beginning to end. "A Day atBouirneville," the model village of Cad-
in England, will also bo found ofinterest to those themselves intown-planning and beautifying.
NEW THEATRE.Miss Asta Ncilsen appears as the cen-
tral, figure in the dramatic picture, "AGirl Without a Country," which is atpresent being screenfd at tho New The-atre. The locale of the drama is theBalkans during the war, and deals thrill-ingly with plans of action, spies, treach-pry, heroism, and love-making. It is apicture to bo seen by lovers of good act-ing. >.
KING'S THEATRE. .
"To Right the Wrong" is the title of theoutstanding dramatic picture of the seriesnow being shown at the ICingrs Thffatre."Roderick's Ride" .is another pictorialsketch with a thrill, and "Quarantined,on excellent comedy incident, is in pleas-ant, contrast. Of local interest is the pic-tUTO descriptive.of a trip to Cape Kid-nappers. ,
SHORTTS' PICTURES'."Following the Star," the , story of a
stage-struck girl's adventure, is the chiefdramatic feature at Shortts, Theatre.Other pictures of merit are a hunting pic-ture, with an exciting "kill,' and LadyPeggy's Escape."
THE' EMPRESS THEATRE.-The last appearance is announced for
to-day and to-night of the current series
of tno Empress Theatre continuous piH;tures. "The Last Blockhouse," th» lvaiemCompany's spectacular Indian warfaredrama, lays special claim for ixipulantycwing to tho engaging nature ot the plotand tile stupendous scale on which thopiece is produced. A* large number ofreal Indians and troopers take part inthe enactment. Anotlier work which ap-peals to picture patrons is the J-aibincomedy-drama of slum life, entitled An-nie.Rowley's Fortune." Another success-ful item is the Edison Company s featuittdrauia, "A Will and a Way. A specialattraction is billed for to-morrow s change,named "A Beautiful Traitor.
THE BANDIES.That sprightly and versatile company
of high-class entertainers designated ihaDandies" aro to appear under tire flec-tion of Mr. Edward Branscombo at tiioTown Hall oil Monday. These clever peo-Die have mado themselves exceedinglypopular both by the general excellenceot" the entertainment ttcy present andtheir demeanour in private _ lite. ineprevailing atmosphere of their entertain-ment is humour so splashed into song,dance, and diversion that when thesensesare not being tickled by some droll con-ceit, there yet lingers more than a leel-ing of suspense in the air, waiting on thenext excuse to burst into .unrestrainedmerriment. Inane comedians and ballet'ciris have been cut out, while the slipping111 of side turns is entirely unknown. Vul-garity in any shape or form is dispensedwith, the artists Tclyin? on their naturalwit, of the characterisationof the absurdi-trs of human kind. The Dandies includeMr Claude Dam pier, character comedian;Mr George Morgan, light comedian; Mr-Oliver I'eacock, baritone; Mr. GavinWood, bass; Mr. Lepnard Griffiths, pian-
ist; Miss Hilda Lana. soprano; Miss Eve-lyn Ward, contralto; Miss Irene Vero,soubrette. Tho box plan is at the Dres-den. _______
AUCKLAND FISH MARKET.
MUNICIPAL ENTERPRISE,
IMMEDIATE START PROPOSED.
(By Telozranh.—Special Correspondent.)Auckland, May 20.
For many years Auckland lias discussedtho pros and cons concerning the estab-lishment of municipal fish murlcetS' andat last something deQiute is to be donein the matter. On Monday the Mayor(Mr. C. J. Parr) met the chairman ofthe Harbour Board (Mr. Giinson)and inspected several sites with a view toselecting a suitable snot for a building.It is intended that the new city mar-kets in Customs Street West shall in-
cludo up-to-date fish markets, but it yiUprobably be two years _at least beforetho big market scheme is accomplished,and the mayor thinks that tho public haswaited quite long enough for municipalcontrol of the fish market. Accordingly,iu company with Mr. Guusoru heseveral points along the waterfront thismorning, and ultimately an excellent *itowas agreed upon on tho , ne \Vn CC*r£t'ion area adjoining Goldie s Mill. IheHarbour Board will drive the piles togive tho necessary framework, and, theMayor has instructed the City kwjinoer(Mr Bush) to proceed forthwith with thoplans for a building, 70ft. by 30it. lhobuilding will-not.be of a pretentious na-ture, since it will only ')B elected, toservo the purpose until the new municipal•markets L t'ustoms Street are «ad£The whole scheme is to bo submitted by
tho Mayor to a special meeting ot tlieCity Council next week, and if the schemeis approved, a municipal fish market milbe established in Auckland immediately.
The system which will apply at themunicipal fish market will be sirnnnr tothat operating in Sydney and elsewhcr*..There will be a slab for each fisherman scatch, and the fish v/ill bp sold by auc-tion in lots to suit purchasers. In thisway shopkeepers, hotel and restaurant-keepers, accommodation house proprietors,hawkers, and the general public win beable to buy in quantities to suit their re-quirements. At present there is a nys-k'lii obtaining in Auckland by winch thefisherman arc compelled to restrict theircatches. Under tho municipal schemethere will be no such restriction. All thefresh fish available will ba accepted eachday, and the fishermen will receive tho•amount forthcoming at auction, minus a*mall percentage for auctioneering.
A "smoker" will be established in con-nection with ths mart, and when file sup-ply exceeds the demand the surplus canbe saved by smoking. In this way. itis bslicved that the public will be servedwith a regular supply of fresh fish atreasonable rates. Thei members of theAuckland fishing fleet are being asked thisweek to acquaint the Town Clerk withparticulars as to what extent they arcprepared'to assist tho scheme for the im-mediate establishment of a municipal fishmarket.
10 DREADNOUGHTS.THE PROPOSED EMPIRE FLEET
MR. CHURCHILL'S CALCULATIONS,
THE BRITISH FORGE AVAILABLE.
London, AprilMr. Winston Churchill formulated this
week, in a second great speech on theNavy Estimates, the policy by which hoproposes to have a forco of nine or tenDreadnoughts atvailnble in tho uext few'years for tho defenco of the Empire in thoMediterranean, tho Pacific, or elsewhere.This great scheme is not likely tobe unre-servedly approved of in Australia. Butas it is Great Britain's proposal, andmust certainly bo carefully considered at1any conference dealing with Pacific de-fence, it is well that it should be clearlyunderstood. Tho ten Dreadnoughts inquestion are not perhaps immediately
needed for the Pacific—and Mr. Churchillonly deals with tho position up to theyear 1917. But this is clearlv the fleet of10 or 12 capital ships on which, as wassome months ago announced in the "Her-ald," Mr. Churchill relies for dealing withthe Pacific situation in 1921.
Ho, with his advisers, lias come to theconclusion that the least number ofDreadnoughts that must he retained byGreat Britain in home waters must bo anumber which exceeds that of tho cor-responding German ships by three to two;that is to say,'England, in present cir-cumstances, must keep at 'home enoughships to give her a 50 per cent, superior-ity over her chief rival.
This having been settled, it has beenpossible for Mr. Churchill to work outdefinitely—what apparently lias never beenworked out before—the exact-surplus forcewhich Great Britain,will, during a cer-tain number of future years, be able tosend to tho outskirts of the Empire; or.in his own language, to use _ "for thewhole-world service of the British Lm-pire."
The results of the calculations whichMr.'Churchill now for the first time statesare that the naval forces of the Empire(not counting the Canadian ships, as theyare not yet voted by Parliament) couldspare for Imperial service up to the year1917, which is, as far as the calculationsgo, an average of from six to eightDreadnoughts.
In these calculations the Australian,\ev- Zealand, and .Malayan ships are in-cluded; but not tho second Australianbattleship, which has been announcedsince the speech was made.
"That." he says, "is quite sufficient forthe year 1915, with which we are at pre-sent' dealing, but, having regard to theresponsibilities of tho British/ Empire,both in the Pacific and in tho Mediter-ranean, and having regard in particularto the now development of forces in thoMediterranean, it is clear that the mar-gin of strength available for the_ whole-world service of the British Empire willnot be sufficient after the first quarter of1916 unless further steps are taken eitherby the Dominions or by ourselves.'
With Canada's Ships Added.The three Canadian ships, to points
out if Canada decides to have them built,would make all the difference in the ade-quacy of this force. There would thenbe a force of nine or ten Dreadnoughtsavailable.' *
"That," he adds, "in the absence of.further developments in the Mediterran-ean or 111 the Pacific beyond what is nowiu prospect, would be sufficient. If, how-ever, new developments take _ place ofsutih a kind as' to affect Admiralty prob-lems, or if tho Canadian ships were_ tomiscarry for any reason, tho situationwould have to bo reviewed. It is notnecessary at tho present moment and itwould bo premature for me to say anymore on the subject. I have given thofullest information in my power to theHouse, and I hope I shall not bb pressedto add to it. I could not accede to sucha request. It is necessary, liowever, tomake it clear that; the three ships nowunder discussion in Canada are abso-lutely required for 191G onwards for thewhole-world defence of the British Em-pire, apart altogether from the needs ofGreat Britain in home waters, that theywill play a Teal part in the defence oftho Empire, and that if they fail a gapwill be opened, to fill ; which. furthersacrifices will have to bo made withoutmuch delay by others."
This appears to be a definite statementmade for the information of Canada—that, if Canada decides against civinghelp, it will make the task of Australia,New Zealand, and England heavier.
Tha Two Policies,Although he did not refer to; the actual
Australian policy at all in this speech,or indeed in his speech of the week be-fore, except indirectly or l>y inference,the following important passage of Mr.Churchill's statement must presumablybe taken to cover it:—"I must repeat," ho said, ' that tno
Canadian ships are absolutely necessaryTot the whole-world defenco of the Bri-tish Empire from the end of 1015 orfrom the beginning of 1936.onwards. Thofact that they aro necessary is no meas-ure of their value. Thoir value far ex-ceeds the value of threo ships. We canbuild three ships ourselves if - necessary.Parliament has never refused to supplytho money for that which responsibleMinisters have considered necessary forthe proper discharge of the responsibili-ties of the Crown. It is the fact of this(Treat new nation coming forward, withall its measureless strength and possibil-ity, to testify to the enduring life of theBritish Empire that has- already producedan impression throughout tho world ofrnioro valine than .many Dreadnoughtships—(cheers)—<in impression through-out tho world which conducts both to thosafety of this country and to the peaceof nation c . (Cheers.) .
"From t?.is point cf view the differencein method which separates the proposalof Mr. Borden's Government fr,om thoseof that far-seeing Imperial statesman, SirWilfrid Lauricr, are not of vital impor-tance. The Admiralty have expressedthoir opinion, as it was our duty to do,
as to which is the most convenient methodand which method will be most quick audhelpful and will be most effective lorthe common good of the British Empire.But from a wider standard than anywhich the Admiralty can occupy theprinciple of Canada coming forward lortho world-wide naval defence or tho Brit-ish Empire is of inestimable value, amithat is the principle on which I under-stand Liberals and Conservatives in Can-ada are at one." (Cheers.)
Principle of Britain's Aid.Tho principle on which the force avail-
able for oversea defence js defined andascertained—and as far as one Kiiois s itis tho first time that any definite prin-ciple was ever formulated—was explainedbv Mr. Churchill as follows:-,'"I have dealt with tho GO per cent,
standard. On tho other hand, I shall I>Casked: What is tho maximum provisionavailable for the wlido-world service oftho British Empire, and in particular 111tho Mediterranean, in those years? Ithas always been understood, as I said lastyear, anil as the lion, member for Ken-sington recognised last week, that the GO
per cent, building standard against thonext strongest naval Power was to pro-vido a certain number of ships— the num-ber has never been publicly defined-forforeign service. AVe camo to the conclu-sion some timo ago that the, minimumstandard of Dreadnoughts which shouldbo maintained in Homo waters should bothree to two as compared with Germany—(Opposition cheers)—that is to say, thatone-sixth of the CO per cent, superioritymi"ht be considered availnblo for foroifpservice or for the general service of theEmpire in addition to tho surpluses, towhich I have referred. Again, 1 saythat there standards arc conventionalstandards, and they are not to be inter-preted unreasonably, nor ought thej tofx* interpreted in any ivay to 'fetter thefreedom of the Admiralty in moving thesliips as they may think necessary fromtimo to time, it being ridiculous to tellus that one or two ships more or lessmako any essential, difference, having re-gard to tho rest of the licet.
Tho Figures.
The actual detailed figures of the shipsavailable, under Mr. Churchill's, calcula-tions. lie gave as follow.—"i'ir'-l. not counting the Canadian
ships"' iio says, "appyins thij principleto tlio figures of 1913 and'l!M, it will hefimml that, niter providing for tho ,)0
per cent, superiority yi Homo waters,there .will bo SToilabls /ai foroisn serjice,
for the whole-world service of the BritishEmpiro-that is tho phrase which shouldbe used—as followln tho first quarterof 1915, 7; in the second quarter, i; in tno
third quarter, 5; in tho qH»r .7. In tho first quarter of 1916, 10, in
the second quarter, 5; in tho ttird quar-ter. 5; in tho fourth quarter, 7. In thefirst quarter of 1917, 9; 'and so on, anaverage of six and eight \cssels.
Then, reckoning the Canadian ships, He
continues: . ...
"From this point of view the reality
of tho need of the three Canadian vesselscan be well appreciated. TheJ' wouldraise the margin of tho strengthavailable for the general defence ol theEmpire after the main need in Homowaters has been met as follows: in JJio,
in tho first quarter, 10. In 191G, an tnofirst quarter, 13; in the second quarter,8; in the third quarter, 8; in tho. fourthquarter, 10. In 1917, in tho first quarter,12; and so on, an average of nine nrten vessels available for the wijole-v.orldservice of tho British Empire.
DEFECTIVE PHYSIQUE.
CONDITION OF TOST COASTCHILDREN.
(By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.)Hokitika, May 20.
Dr. Kerr Hislop,, Medical Inspector ofSchools, has now completed the lnspfic-tion of the leading'schools in theland district. In conversation with_a"Press" representative on. Saturday, Dr.Hislop gave some interesting particularsof tho very important work £c is engagedin. He said tue scheme of examinationwas very thorough. The children wereweighed and measured, their sight andhearing were tested; the doctors examinedtheir throats, their necks, and testedtheir hearts and lungs; their chestcapacity was noted; and a report upontheir spine and their general physicaland hygienic condition w.19 made. Hohad visited the Hokitika, Ross, Arahura,Kanieri, and Woodstock Schools, andquoted some general figures in referringto tho boys and girls in the second stan-dard, upon which tho examiners basedtheir calculations. In tho schools men-tioned the doctor found that 70 per cent,of the children had teeth that needed at-tention. There were 25 per cent, of tnochildren affected by enlarged tonsils andadenoids. The numlrers suffering fromenlarged glands of tho neck—and theseswollen glands wero generally due toseptic absorption from bad teeth—was,'sper cent. Indeed in oiio school all thechildren in Standard 2 had enlargedglands of the neck. Ho wanted to directattention to the number of boys and girlswho had postural defects, such as stoopedshoulders, pigeon breasts, and narrowchests. Nearly 30 per cent, of tho chil-dren hud some of these defects, one schoolrunning sohigh as 57 per cent. Dr. Hislopwas very much surprised to find so manychildren who had spinal curvature, notof course spinal diseases, but crookedbackbones, which were due to lack ofproper muscular development and to badposture. There wero 17 per cent, who 'hailspinal curvature, the highest being Jper cent, in one of the schools. IhedoctoT said that many of these defects ofthe spine had been developed during theschool life of the child. Very fewof thechildren had defective eytsight or hear-m lcked to mako a comparison betweentho children in the schools of the Wet-land districts and those of eome of tliocities, Dr. Hislop said that such a com-parison would bo difficult to makeout the records, tint from a general oh-servation 'ho said the teeth of. the cuil-dren ivere rather better in tins district,but the enlarged glands were much morenumerous. He nko observed that thoiewere more children in schools of tillsdistrict who had defects of physical de-velopment, such as stoop shoulders andspinal curvature, such eases were certain-ly much moro numerous in these parts.Dr. Hislop said that it was easy to ac-count for the physical- defects. It coiilclhardly be expected that the same highstandard of physical culture could be at-tained in these parts as in the cities.Tho teachers had very few opportunitiesof being trained in the science of phy-sical culture, and they could not pass onto tho children what they had not foethemselves. Tho absence of swimmingbaths in. most of the towns would haveits bad effects. There was nothing likeswimming exercises to remedy physicaldefects' and also to develop tho grow-ing boys and girls fully.. The varioustraining colleges were giving a course in
physical culture, and as those teacherswe're drafted into the schools many oftheir deficiencies would disappear and ahigher standard of physical developmentwould be reached.
DOUBLE PERSONALITIES.
EEIIAEKABLE STOBY OF A GOVEENMJ3NT SERVANT.
In a most interesting article on Auts-matisiu," contributed to the April num-ber of tho "Practioner," Sir George H.Savage, M.D., F.R.C.P., tells a remarkablestory of a case of doable personohtes.Prefacing tho narrative with tho remarkthat ho never savr the ptitiont, pd that hecannot verify or modify tho report, SirGeorgia eays:—
"A man who had passed a brilliantstihool and university career entered thoGovernment Service. Ho started, for thoEast in good health, but on a voyago howas lost at Port Said, and as notliinf: washeard of him for months ho was supposedto havo been killed. After many nioath?his friends hoard that ho was in a stateof destitution, far from where ho hadlanded. Ho could give no account of hisconduct or his expericncos. lie returnedto England, and alter careful nursing andrest lie was ready and willing to work.Ho 'had lost his Government appointment,but family interest, got him a private sec-retaryship in tho colonies, where lierapidly snowed his ability and was valuedhighly. Suddenly he was lost agair,, andwas absent for many months More hewas discovered in povrrty and distress v?another quarter of the world; a secondperiod of rest restored him, and oncemore ho started to make his way. Thistime ho started a ranch, and, with abailiff, madb. it a great success, till oncemoro he was lost and again turned upweak and ill in another part of the world.It was then that I was consulted, and 1was to se3 him on his return to Kng-Jand. I next heard that he has bosnplaced in an asylum. The doctor whoconsul!?d me died, and I never heard thesequel."
THE LIMIT OF LONDON.
GROWTH OP POPULATION NEARLYAT AN END.
I.ondon has nearly reached its limit ofpopulation. That is one of the conclu-sions in an interesting report issued afou- weeks ago on the decline in thorntablo value of London. Discussing thecauses, Mr. J. C. Spensley, assistantstatistical officer of' the London CountyCouncil, declares that while to some ex-tent increasing taxation and rates havohad their effect, tho chief causes areprobably thoso associated with the move-ment. oi' population, more especially themovement outwards. Thero has been alessening of the. demand for. house ac-commodation, involving ail increase oiempty properties and a reduction otrents. , ,
There can be little doubt, soys Mr.Spensley, that dissatisfaction with the oliltype of house in London is a factor ofconsiderable importance, in the outwardmovement of tho population. Moreover,it is a factor which afTscts almost allclasses of thc population.
"London," snys Mr. Spensley, ' hasreached tho stage when tho growth ofpopulation has nearly como to an end.Ho anticipates that the annual increasein ratable value in the next few yearswill not be great, but that there will besubstantial growth for some j*enrs toeome, largely owing to thc continuing con-centration of business and tho rebuildingoi business premises in thc central area.
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BIRTH.MARCHANT—On May 14th, 1913, the
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DEATH.DELLER—On tho 20th May, 1913, at his
lato residence,' Bushcroft, Masterton,George William Deller, aged 59 years.
THE WEATHER.
SUMMARY AND FORECAST.
Present indications ore for heavy south-erly (talcs, very colli and boisterousweather, heavy shoivere, elect and hailin parts, and snow on higher levels.The barometer will probably rise fasteverywhere soon. Very heavy sea 3 andhigh tides expected on all the westerncoast, dnd increasing oil-shoro elsc-whore.
The' barometer has been lower in thosouth than recorded for many years, 28.48inchos being registered at the Bluff at 7p.m. on Monday. Tho gradient, however,has not been so steep as on former occa-sions, for example, on April 15, 1910, when28.64 was recorded'. Stormy westerly wearther has prevailed, especially on tho WestConst, and' enow has fallen on tho higherlevels.
D. 0. BATES.Meteorological Office, Wollinfrton,
May 20, 1913,
DISTRICT REPORTS.(From Our Special Correspondents.)
Wanganui, Stay 20.—Very stormy weatherlaet night; gale from tlic north-west, withheavy rain; showers during tho day. Itis now blowing a galo from the south, withrain and hail, a-ccoinpauiert by thunder.
Feilding, May 20.—Rain ail night; inter-mittent showers during the day with hail;cold. gloomy night.
Shannon, May ZO.-Cold, blustering wetd<
Otaki, May. 20.—Bain last night. Fino'"orev'town, Mav 20.—Showery and windy.
Fea'therston. May 20— South-easterly wind;showery conditions: slaas falling..
Has tinits, May 20.-The morning was line,hut in the afternoon the wind changed
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Mastertoii, May 20.—Very boisterous day.Cold wind at night.
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A Hawke's Bay farm of 3GS acto.s is an-nounced for sale in to-day's paper by Mr.5, George Nathau, Customhouse Quay,.Wellington,
The Dominion.WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913.
THE OBLIGATIONS OF PUBLICMEN.
9What is known as "The Marconi
Inquiry" has been occupying publicattention in England for some timepast, and the latest London papersto hand would appear to indicatethat despite the fact that the Parlia-mentary Committee which is conduct-ing the investigations held over fiftysittings, interest in the matter is askeen as ever. Pages and pages ofthe evidence of witnesses at theInquiry have appeared in the lead-ing newspapers, The Times publish-ing a verbatim report of the greaterpart of the examination of all theimportant witnesses; and it is gener-ally recognised that the issue is onewhich must have an important bear-ing on the future standard of publiclife in Great Britain. The Inquiryarose out of unpleasant rumours,which gave birth to questions in theHouse of Commons concerning thodealings of Cabinet Ministersin Marconi shares. The sug-gestion appears to have ,beenmade by someone that certainmembers of tho Cabinet .had,by reason of their positions asCabinet Ministers, been enabled tosecure an advantage by which .theyhad obtained large profits from thebuying and selling of Marconishares. Ultimately the names of SirRufus Isaacs, Attorney-General, andMr. Lloyd-Geqrge, Chancellor of theExchequer, came to be associated'with the rumours, and afforded theMinisters named thc_ opportunity ofexplanation and denial. The circum-stances of the matter were such, how-ever, that it was recognised that theonly course which would afforcT afull and complete opportunity to allparties to make their positions abso-lutely clear was to hold some formof public at whichanyone having any informationbearing on the subject could attendand give evidence. A ParliamentaryCommittee was therefore appointedto conduct an investigation which itwas felt the high standard of poli-tical integrity demanded of Britishstatesmen in the past called for.
The facts of the transactions whichapparently gave rise to the disquiet-ing rumours now appear"to bo fairlyestablished by the numerous wit-nesses who have given evidence be-fore the Committee. The interpreta-tion to be placed on these facts bythe Committee yet remains to bp_ dis-closed. It seems that on March 7 thoBritish Postal Department acceptedtho tender of the Marconi WirelessTelegraph Company to erect and
i equip wireless stations _ at variouspoints in Great Britain, but _ theacceptance was subject to the adjust-ment of certain details. These mattersin dispute were under discussion forsome months afterwards, and thecontract was not actually signeduntil much later in the year. Themanager of the Marconi Companywas, Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, a brotherof Sir Rufus Isaacs, Attorney-General. Sir Rufus Isaacs some tendays after March 7, when the agree-ment between the postal authoritiesand the Marconi Company wasmiidc,bought some 10,000 shares in theAmerican Marconi Company, inwhich company tho British MarconiCompany held a controlling interest.Sir Rufus Isaacs bought these sharesthrough his brother, Mr. HarryIsaacs—who had obtained them fromMr. Godfrey Isaacs—and persuadedMr. Lloyd-George and the 'Masterof Elibank also to purchase 1000shares cach. , At this time it shouldbe borne in mind the British Mar-coni Company and the Governmentwere still in dispute on the detailsof the contract referred to. Itshould also be quite clcarly under-stood'that it was distinctly stated inevidence that the American MarconiCompany was in no way interestedin the British Company, and in con-sequence had no interest in or benefitfrom the contract with the BritishGovernment. The shares mentionedabove were bought at £2 each, andtwo or three days after buying themMr. Lloyd-Geoege sold 800 odd ofhis holding at an average of £3 Gs.Bd. per share, which brought him ina profit on the transaction of £743cash with 140 odd shares still inhand. Mr. Lloyd-George refused toadmit that this purchase was agamble or speculation in shares, al-though he had only held them a fewdays before selling again. A fewweeks later, when the shares haddropped in price, ho bought a largerparcel, which he still holds, and onwhich at the present market price hestands to make a slight loss. SirRufus Isaacs apparently could havesold at a substantial profit, but atthe present price of the shares is, atthe moment, a loser on the tran-saction.
In their evidence before the Com-mittee of Inquiry, both tno Chancel-lor of the Exchequer and the Attor-ney-General indignantly repudiatedthe idea that the British Marconicontract with the Government hadanything to do with the AmericanMarconi Company, or that they hadbeen influenced in any way in thepurchase of American Marconishares by any special knowledgewhich they possessed as CabinetMinisters. They also denied thatthey had received any advantagewhich the general investor did notpossess in the purchase of the shares,either through thegiood offices of Mil.Godfrey Isaac 3or anyone elsa. Asa matter of fact the evidence adduccdbefore the Committee of Inquiryfails to disclose any proof of corruptuse of their official positions, withthe object of personal profit, on thepart of the Ministers in question.But while this may be said to theircredit, the fact remains that they ap-pear to have placed themselves in amost unfortunate position. To quotethe Spectator (which had said practi-cally the same thing of Sin BufusIsaacs and was now referring to MitLloyd-Geohoe) :
Though hero again we must be carefulto ray, and wo say it from no sense ofcaution but from belief, that thero was nocorruption in (ho sense of taking moneyin order to betray the public interest,but only on extreme and amazing want ofdelicacy and discretion, and a positivelyastonishing willingness 'to risk givingcall.so for suspicion.
That is the point. .Should anyMinister of the Crown indulge inbusiness transactions of a naturecalculated to raise, suspicion in thepublic mind, and by so doing under-mine confidence in the integrity ofofficers of the Statein high places,and, moreover, possibly lay down aprecedent, which if followed byothers mighL lead to something in-finitely worse. It happens that atleast four members of the AsquitiiGovernment have expressed them-selves on this point in no uncertain
manner. One of the number is Me.Lloyd-George himself:Itwas not merely enoush, in the opinion
of the right hon. gentleman fMr. A.Chamberlain] that tin officer of the State<houid be incorruptible, but ho must nave110 association with companies, eitherpast or present association, which .wouldmako him open to suspicion. That is arule which. I call tho rule of Caesarswife. That is what he lays down, and Iaccept it fully.That was Mil Lloyd-George'sopinion of the obligations resting onofficers of the State in 1900. Mil.Ealdane on the same occasion, whendiscussing the rules which shouldgovern the conduct of public men,said:
I feel that these things produce a seliso
of uneasiness and unrest in 'the pub hemind. Remember how tho man in. tilestreet looks upon the ' Government. Holooks upon the Government as a nationalinstitution, of which ho is proud, and Holooks upon it in the same light as holooks upon tho Judges of the land. . . .
What is tlici real interest of tlio publicin the matter? It is that 'the Ministryshould by their conduct be lreo from allmisconception or suspicion in the publicmind.Mr. M'Kenxa and Mn. Joip Burns,both colleagues tu-day of Sir RufusIsaacs and Mr. Lloyd-George, spokein a similar strain, Mr. Burns in
the course of a forcible spcech declar-ing that he wanted the Empire "togo on cleanly and honourably, and itcan oijlv go on these lines as long asyou prevent Ministers from dabblingin companies.''' A ParliamentaryCommittee unfortunately is alwaysliable where party interests are in-
volved to be influenced in its judg-ment by party considerations. Thereport of the Marconi Committee,therefore, may not deal adequatelywith the very great and importantprinciple—apart from any questionof actual corruption—which is in-volved in the dealings of Ministersin American Marconi shares. Thatthe matter will be very fully thresh-ed out in the House of Commons,however, may be taken for granted,and it may prove extremely embar-rassing for some members of theGovernment.
THE CIVIL SERVICE & PARTYPOLITICS.
Electoral reform, with spccial re-ference to the Civil Service, was dis-cussed at a meeting held at Petoneon Monday' night, a resolution beingcarried protesting against "the rc-strictibns now placed on railwayand civil servants in local and poli-tical matters," and demanding "thatthe Government introduce legislationto grant all Government employeesfull civil and political rights.'' Thisis not a new demand, and it is onewhich has a plausible enough sound,but the objections to it cannot be solightly set aside. It would have a badefteefc from the point of view of theGovernment, of the. general public,and of the Civil Service itself. ACivil Servant who throws himselfinto the turmoil of a general electionmust cross swords with all sorts ofpeople, and make many enemies; andwhen subsequently he comes to dealwith these people in his officialcapacity, he can hardly expect tohave their full confidence. He wouldbe constantly accused of doing morethan justice to his own political par-tisans, and less than justice to. thosewhose political views differed fromhis own. It would also breed suspi-cion and distrust between heads ofDepartments and those employeeswho should feel called upon to ad-versely criticise Government policyand administration. Astill strongerreason why Civil Servants shouldnot have unrestricted liberty in poli-tical matters is the confidentialcharacter of much of the businessthey are callcd upon to transact. Inthe heat of an election contest theywould be liable, unconsciously per-haps in most eases, to make use,directly or indirectly, of some itemsof Departmental information thatmight serve their political purposefor the moment at the expense of thepublic interest. As a matter of fact,it is often difficult to distinguishbetween what one knows . officiallyand confidentially and knowledgegained in other ways. These twosorts of information may at_ timesoverlap. An excellent illustration ofthis is provided by an episode in thelife of the late Sir William Russell,the well-known correspondent ol ThcTimes, which is related in the Spec-tutor. Russell was in the UnitedStates during what is known as the"Trent" affair, and received confi-dential information from Mr. Mon«sos, of the British Legation atWashington, that there would be nowar. Russell, who was quite abovemeanness or dishonesty, kept thematter to himself until ,thc 11CWS be-came the subject of street rumour,and then he felt himself free to tele-graph to a business friend in NewYork, who had financial interests atstake, a vague but reassuring mes-sage. This message leaked out, andcauscd much annoyance at the Lega-tion by giving rise to disagreeaulorumours. The ethical aspect ofRussell's action is a matter for thecasuist to decide. Would ho havetelegraphed to New York unless hisofficial knowledge had given back-bone and colour to street rumours?If a man like Russell in a generousattempt to help a friend laid himselfopen to suspicion, how natch greaterwould be the danger of a Civil Ser-vant, who was alsp a vigorous politi-cal partisan, making a slip of asimilar kind; and- it would not re-quire many such mistakes to under-mine public confidence in our StateDepartments. Dealing with anotherphase of the question at the Petonemeeting, a speaker objected to therule which forbids Civil Servantsfrom undertaking private workwhich would bring them remunera-tion. Most people will have verylittle sympathy with this objection.Every Government employee shouldreceive an adequate salary, and if so,why should lie be permitted to com-pete for outside work with thegeneral public who have to _find themoney to pay him ? The Civil Ser-vants' have the vote,- and no onewishes to take it from th?m; and theonly restrictions, imposed upon tlicmarc such as are necessary to keep theservice free-, from friction, and toprevent party politics from under-mining public confidence in the StateDepartments.
A CASE FOR ENQUIRY
The assault, on a newspaper re-porter, for which five Territorialswore each fined £i> and costs by theDunedin Magistrate yesterday, is «i
matter which calls for I lie attentionof I ho Defence authorities. Theincident cannot he. regarded as finallyclosed liy the punishment of thesefive men, through Hie Law Courts.The Magistrate characterised theassault as a ''verv serious, cowardly,and unjustifiable" one, and counselfor the'prosecution stated that therewas "a great deal more behind 'which did not come out Id Court.
Counsel further alleged that the mencharged were merely tools, and thatthe assault was planned and insti-gated by commissioned officers. Thesearc very serious allegations, and ifpublic confidcncc in the officials re-sponsible for tho working out of thedefence scheme is not to be shaken,a full inquiry into the whole circum-stances of the case must be held. Thetrouble appears to have arisen out ofa report of a disturbance in campwhich had been published in theOtar/o Daily Times. We do not for a•moment think that, generally speak-ing, the officers or men of our de-fence forces arc so foolish as to thinkthat they are above criticism, but itis just as well that any of them whomay happen to entertain such anidea- should get rid of it at once.Free criticism is good for all publicpersons, civil or military, and thevery fact that such an occurrencc asthat which happened at the camp atSutton is possible emphasises . theneed for independent observationand commcnt. If tho impressionshould get abroad that the presencein camps of newspaper reporters,who are really the representatives ofthe general public, is regardedwith disfavour by the militaryauthorities, a feeling of uneasinesswould be caused, and a weaponplaced in the hands of the small, butnoisy, minority who have no lovefor the defence scheme. The best wayto avoid this is to give every facilityto press representatives to doHheirwork without fear or favour, and inview of the ugly allegations whichwere not dealt with ny the Courtthe necessity for a full and searchinginvestigation should be patent to themilitary authorities.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The postal authorities advise that theAVillochra, which sailed from Sydney onHay 17, has on board an Australian mail.She is due to reach Wellington to-day.
The Prime Minister told a reporter lastevening that it had been found necessaryto mako some alterations in tho plans ofthe new Parliamentary Buildings, and asa consequence it had been impossible tocall for tenders up to the present time.In ull probability, lie added, tho difficultywould be got over in. a few days, andtenders would probably bo called about aweek hence.
Tho firos which took place in the NorthIsland some months ago cost tlio Gov-ernment ovol ,£IO,OOO in defraying thecost of gross-seed to re-grass Crown lands,and in assistance to Crown tenants. Cab-inet passed tho accounts yesterday. t
"Ho has been present at every lunch-con," was an argument stressed by aspeaker at the Kew Zealand Club's an-nual meeting Inst night when ho was orat-ing in favour of tlio election of a certainmember as president.
The ratepayers of Eden Terrace have(says a Press Association telegram fromAuckland) prepared a petition to thoGovernor asking for a poll on tho ques-tion of joining the city under tho GreaterAuckland scheme. The petition was con-sidered by tho Commissioner of CrownLands and tho Valuation Officer, with thoresult that it will be forwarded to theGovernor.
A wireless message received last eveningstated that tho Willochi-a, from Sydney,will arrive in port at 5.30 this evening.
A man was arrested yesterday by De-tectives Lewis and Andrews on a chargoof having,, on Monday night, assaultedone George'Burt, with intent to rob him.Ho will appear in court to-day.
The damago caused by the recent floodat Wainui-o-mata is being rapidly madegood again- by the City Engineer's staff.The seating of tho main, which) was' dis-turbed by the stream, lias been replaced,to that the threatened danger to the bigwater-pipe need no longer be feared. Itis just possible that the .Railway Depart-ment will bo able to clear away tho debrisin tho big slip at Ngaknuranga sufficient-ly to enable the City Engineer's mento repair the broken main thoro in. a fewdays. This, however, is by no meanscertain, for it is impossible to say whatdifficulties may yet bo mot with in theremoval of the huge heap of earth.
Discussing tho over-supply of labour inthe market in Wellington, tho Mayor (Mr.J. P. Luke) stated yesterday that therewas no doubt that the position was be-coming. more serious as tho winter ap-proached. This ho had opportunity forjudging by the number of personal ap-plications he received lor work. Peoplewere, ho thought, coming from the coun-try districts and from other parts of the•Dominion in search of work, but all thework that was at all likely to be under-taken here could be done by the workersnow available. The city had no loanmoney to expend this year, and could nottherefore absorb uiucli, if any, of thosurplus labour supply. Ho wished to.make it quite clear that the unemployedmust not look upon the city as a havenof refuge.
A Chair of Bacteriology is to 1m found-ed at Edinburgh University with thoproceeds of a bequest of .£30,000 left bythe late llr. llobert Irvine. Tho sum inquestion represents the accumulated divi-dends oh 230 JCIO shares in one of thecompanies working tho guano deposits ofChristmas Island ill tho Pacific.
There is u movement afoot to bringabout an understanding between tlio NowZealand branches of the Merchant ServicoGuild and the Australasian Institute ofMarine Engineers for the mutual protec-tion of their interests. Contrary to astatement which lias been given publicity,thiscombination has not yet been broughtabout, although negotiations are proceed-ing. Jlr. Wallace (local secretary of theInstitute of llarino Engineers) states thatit is Quito wrong to say that "it is a factthat such a combination has been estab-lished" (vide our evening contemporary),"as tho institute is not in a position toagree to any such combination withoutthe consent of tho headquarters councilin Australia, and that has r.ot yet beenobtained. A joint committee, has beenset up, and has held meetings, but up totho present tho final basis of; operationshas not been decided. It is not antici-pated that there will be any opposition toan arrangement being • come to betweenHie officers and engineers—indeed, it is inall probability a movement that willspread to "tho other side."
The police authorities of Hull are (saystho "?«)«• York Tribune") seriously con-sidering sending men to tho western partof America to take lessons in the usoof the lariat. A cow-puncher has recent-ly been in Hull giving exhibitions, andthe police have been,so much impressed,that they have decided that it will be a?good tlnug to have a number of theirmen trained to use the lasso, which it isbelieved will provo of value in savingdrowning persons, stopping runawayhorses, catching thieves and pickpockets,and saving life at fires. Twenty menhave been selected from tholiuu constab-ulary to go to America. It is expectedto liavo them there in timo for tho springround-up on Bar Seven lianch, at Albu-querque, New Mexico. The experimentis being watched with much interest bythe J/ondon police, who are consideringadopting it for the regulation of motortraffic if it proves successful at Hull.
The Seamen's Union have appointedMessrs. D. Donovan, J. Carney, and F. T.Allen as their representatives at theUnity Congress in July.
Tliera have been ono or -two cases ofGcarlet fever at the _ Sunnysido MentalHospital,' and complaint was made thattho cases were not properly isolated. Mr.G. Witty, M.P., mentioned the matter onSaturday to tho Hon. It. 11. Rhodes, andtho Minister informed him that slops hadalready been taken to secure isolation. Itfurther measures wero necessary theywould bo taken promptly.
Tho actions which the city corporationproposed to take at the present sittings oftho Supremo Court against two lessees ot'portions of the Town Belt for failing lokeep their holdings clear of gorso andnoxious weeds aro to be allowed to standdown. It is understood that tho tenantshave set about clearing their land as re-quired. Another action, Boyd v. thoCity Council, a claim for J?2000 damages,alleged to have been caused to plaintiff'sproperty in Grafton Koad by tho floodwhich occurred in February, 1910, willcome before a spccial jury lato in thosessions.
Three arbitrations—possibly the first ofmany—concerning the rentals payablo onresumption of certain city leases on ex-piry of the first term of leaso will shortlybe "decided by tho arbitrators appointed.
Tho speed of motor-cars, in the opinionof the Chief Justice of Now Zealand (SirRobert Stout), was summed up by liiuiyesterday in the following words: "As Isee cars travelling the crowdedstreets of the city, it is amazing to methat there are not accidents every day."
Tho conference of representatives oflocal bodies to bo h'eld to protest againstthe very substantial incrcaso in the leviesfor hospital and charitablo aid expendi-ture has been fixed to be held in theMayor's Toom, Town Hall, at 10 a.m. onThursday week (May 29). His Worshiptin? Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) will preside.Keprescntatives will attend from the Wel-lington City Council, Onslow, Miramar,Karon, Eastbourne, Pctone, and HuttBorough Councils, the Jphmsonvillo andUpper Hutt Town Boards, and the Hutt,Makara, and Horowhenua County Coun-cils.
A curious motor accident happened onSunday ovening in Oxford Terraois Christ-church. Tho car was running along theroadway at a smart pace, when suddenlythe wheels became locked in somo way,tho result being that tho car chargedthrough tlie fience guarding thoriver bank,down the bank and into the river. Bymeans of block and tacklc and a squad ofmen, the car was hoisted out again. Therewas only the driver on board when thomishap occurred, and he fell into thewater. That was ireally this only incon-venience he suffered.
The Government steamer Tutanekoi,which has been waiting without successfor a week for a chance to repair thsbroken cables in Cook Strait, returned toport yesterday under orders to dischargeher deck cable-rcpairihg .plant. This hasbeen decided upon after careful considera-tion, owing to tho persistent bad weather,and tho fact that there is little chance ofan improvement for some time to come(vide the opinion of tine GovernmentMeteorologist). The Tuianeltai will bedismantled as a cable steamer, and onThursday or Friday will leave for Akaroaand the south to act as tender to H.M.S.New Zealand. This service was promisedthe people of the south when tint- battle-cruiser first arrived, and if th's> Tu.taiwkaiwas not available,-tlie Government wouldbe under the necessity of en«aging thoservices of other steamers, which would boan expensive matter.
Many of tho representatives of localbodies about Wellington aro much con-cerned over the big increases in tho \|os-l«tal and charitable aid levies for thocurivnt year. "It has come home to usmoro definitely than ever this yeitr thatwo don't know where we aro regardingour rates," remarked one representativeto-a Dominion- reporter. "We might saythat there will not bo any increase, andsay it honestly as Mayoj' or councillor,when down comes the board with its de-mands, which have to be met, whateverthey are. What the public do not recog-juise is that thei Wellington Hospital andCharitable Ai<l-Boaa'd is-a. direct taxingbody, and being so, a sharper eye shouldlie kept on its doings than is the case.All they do is to sit 'down, receive the re-ports o'f their responsible officers as towhat may bo needed during the comingyear, tot nip the lot, and striko a prorata, levy on Hie contributing body. Onething that should bo discussed is whetherthe board is making the ll?st possible useof its endowments. Judging by the man-ner in which it has absolutely neglectedto utilise the greater part of the land itpossesses fronting Adelaide Koad, thissK-ms to be a department which needslooking after."
Tho Timaru Hospital Board has, accor-ding to a Press Association telegram, re-
solved to prosecute a young woman fortravelling by rail when suffering fromdiphtheria. Two doctors, members of theboard, said this was a very serious mat-ter, as tho Consequences had proved. Thevoung woman did not know she was ill,and a source of infection. Tho resolutionstated that'a penalty 'was not to bo askedfor, but that as a means of warningothers the prosecution should bo insti-tuted.
At 9.28 p.m. yesterday tho Fire Brigadewas called to 222 Tiuakori l?«ad to sup-press a firo in a fivo-roomod two-storydwelling occupied by Mrs. Minnie Ilobin-son, and owned by Mr. Sampson, wholives in Malcolm Lano, off Tinakori Road.A bedroom upstairs, with its contents,was somewhat damaged by fire. Thocauso of tho outbreak was a lightedcandle, left with two children, who ventto bed and fell asleep, leaving it burn-ing. There was no insuranco on thecontents. Tho insuranco on the buildingcould liot bo ascertained last evening.
Discussing tho prohibition placed on thouse of preserved .albumen by the PuroFood and Drugs Act, which is to comainto operation on April 1 next, a lead-ing Wellington pastrycook, who notedwhat tho Minister for Public Health iiadto say unon the matter when approachedin Chvistchnrck last week, stated thattho ell'ect of the restriction would lx>stimulating to the egg-raising businessin New Zealand, if it proved tho reverseto tho public. He raised tho point thatDie blocking of this ingredient, whichwas largely used by many pastrycooks,would mean ft largely increased demandfor eggs at oil seasons of tho year, andconsequently enhanced prices, not onlyto tradespeople, but to tho public as awhole. The Minister appeared to stresstho point that the Act would not oper-ate against stocks on order. If that wastho case, what was to prevent any pastry-cook placing an order for preserved albu-men that would keep him going ior years—ten or twenty years? If that were done■—and he did not see how it well couldbe prevented—iho Act would operqto ar-bitrarily against the pastrycooks whohad not placed long-distonco orders. Itwas <i nice point,' one of many which thooperation of tho Act' would disclose.
There are forty-seven beneficiaries inter-ested in the HiilersJen Estate, purchasedby the Government for closer settlement,'i'lioy are tho seve.u sous and fivo daugh-ters of Mr. Williai.i Walkor, of Alel-bourne, tho four sons and two daughtersof Mr. Henry Walkor, of Middlcsboro',Yorkshire, the one son and; seven daugh-ters of Mrs. Hannah Lamming, of Brigs,tho four sons and two daughters of Mrs.Elizabeth Neave, of Wdnterton, the 0110son and six daughters of Mrs. ElizabethI'iiuier, of Lincoln, tho 0110 son of Mrs.Mary J. Richardson, of Torworth, and(he three sons and lour daughters of Mr.Ucorgo Walker, of Blenheim. It is.un-derstood that there will be 110 reservationof tho lionicstead block or any oilier partof tho property on behalf of tho vendors.
A Now South Wales resident was verymuch surprised tlio other day when thoCustoms authorities demanded .£l9 fromhim Iwfoi'a tlioy would hand over a pack-age of water colour, sketches executed bya little girl in England. The sketches weremerely childish drawings of 110 value, amihad been sent out in onfcr that the re-cipient (Mr. W. H. Lang,'of Corowa)might compare them with tho artistic ef-forts of his own little girl ,aged 13. Tlicr©wero nineteen sketches in the packagv, andit apppars that the Australian tariff do.mauds' Hie payment of ,£1 each, or 25 percent. 011 the value, whichever may bo thehigher, 011 all oil or wat/.'r colour paint-ings not produced by an Australian artistor an Australian student abroad. TheDepartment remained unyielding, and Sir.Lang decided to let ilicm ke;-p thesketches.
Tile liev. 11. C. Martin, the secretaryof the Hoval Army Temperance Associa-tion of India, will visit Australia nextmonth to confer with the various Govern-ments on the subject of the inimi«rationinto Australia of retired European sol-diers wlio have served in the IndianArnyv
Tbo quarterly meeting of the Teachers'Superannuation-Board was held yesterdaymorning. Twenty allowances, rangingfrom X'll 13s. <td. per to ,£l5O perannum, and totalling ,£I9SS ISs. 2d. porannum, wero authorised. Allowances totivo widows and live children. totalling;X'los per annum, wero granted, as weroalso refunds totalling iilMl &=, 7d. topersons who have left tho education ser-vice.
Some stir has been occasioned in ship-ping circles in Sydney by tho enforcementof 'Section HOG of tho British Merchants'Shipping Act. Tho Act provides thatwary ship carrying f>o or more steeragejinsssugers must pass inspection by a med-ical oilicer. This officer is appointed bythe State Treasurer, inspection being madeof the vessel before sailing, (o certify thatDie steerage passengers and crew of thovessel arc m a fit; state of health, and aronot likely to endanger -tho safety of trav-ellers. Section .'IOO of the Act has neverbeen rigidly enforced in New SouthWales, although passed in Great Britain20 years ago. A. start was to be made lastweek, however, with_ a thorough medicalinspection of the Xorth German Lloydliner Zieton before she took her departurefor Bremen.
Tho St. Jlark's Toting Men'ft Club con-ducted a debate last evening on tho sub-ject of the wo?kl.v half-holiday. Sir. Q.Smith supported the claim of Saturday,and was seconded by Sir. Jones, whilaMessrs. G. ltelnndes and D. Jlacdonaldspoke in opposition to tho universal Sat-urday half-holiday proposal. _ A livelygeneral discussion followed, in which anumber of members took part and eventu-ally tho claims of Saturday to Vb. tbo da}of tho universal half-holiday wore affirmedby a small majority.
Apropos of the City Council's decisionto have a by-law drafted to end tho hat-pin peril, it is interesting to note t,hat inAmerica, State after State has joined intho war against hatpins. Louisiana'snow law says the points must be covered.The penalty is a fine of 10 dollars or im-prisonment for five da>'6. Now Jersey's,statute requires a guard for every point.'. A woman who disobeys may bo fined from5 dollars to 20 dollars, and half of itgoes to the informer.. Several women inthat State have been seen with oorks ontho -ends of their pins. In Connecticutthere is a penalty of 7 dollars, or prisonup to 30 days, for thoso who wear pinsthat protrude. In no one of tlieso Statesliavo arrests been reported. •
PERSONAL ITEMS.
Tho Hon..W. F. Massey (Prime Mini*(or), the Hon. VY. 11. Herries, tli? Hon. F.M. B. Fisher, the lion. H. D. 8011, and(ho Hon. Dr. Pomaro aro in Wellington.The Hon. M-r. Fraser leaver to-day for tlieWairarapa. lie will visit Pahiatua, Ponga-roa, Kkytahuna, and Masterton, and re-turn to Wellington on Saturday. ThaHon. A, L. llerdman is at New Plymouth,and tho Hon. 11. H. liliodes at Christ-church.
Itr. George William Seller, for nine yearsMayor of Carterton, died to-night at tho
age of fifty-nine years, telegraphed ourMasterton correspondent last night.
The Chief Justice (Sir llobert Stout)was a passenger by the Mararoa for thosouth last evening.
Mr. George Howell, of tho Patea staffof the Bank of New Zealand, was pre-sented with a purse of sovereigns on thooccasion of his departure for Mannia,telegraphs our special correspondent.
Jlr. M. C. Davies, founder of the karritimber industry at Karridalo, died inPerth on Saturday week in his 78th year.Deceased arrived in Tasmania from .Eng-land with his parents when iivo years ofngc, and afterwards went to tho Black-wood diggings, Victoria. He was subse-quently engaged in tho mercantile ship-,ping business in Melbourne and Adelaide.His firm, Messes.. Baillie, Davies, andWishart, built tho second Adelaide sectionof tho railway to Melbourne. Tho laloMr. Davies went to Western Australia in1875, and acquired tho Karridalo Estate.He secured the timber concessions, estab-lished tho Karridalo mills, and fostered s
an export trade in karri.The Augustas'Barkway, lato rector
of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Launces-(on, celebrated tho diamond jubilee of hisministry on Sunday week. Ho preachedin the 'morning and evening at. Cat-rickChurch, where his ordination took place.
Tho death is announced from Adelaideof Jlr. Archibald Maclcifr, secretary of thoSouth Australian Commercial TravellersAssociation.
The ltev. Thomas BritlCn Angwin, a;leading Methodist minister, died in Ade-laide lust week.
Mr. Henry Holmes, an old Bendigonian,who died recently in Melbourne, bequeath,ed to tho Bemligo Hospital an estat«valued at £30,00(1.
Mr. W. Callendcr, general manager ofthe Bank of iW Zealand, who has beenvisiting Sydney and Melbourne on officialbusiness, is expected to return to Wel-lington by (he Sydney boat duo to-day.
Mr. Arthur Guise, who was privato sec-rotary to Lord Islington, lias l>eou ap-pointed private secretary to Lord Den-man,' Governor-Gcnel'al of Australia, and,accompanied by Mrs. Guise, arrived mMelbourne last week from England totake up his new' dntries. Mr. Guise wasformerly privato secretary to two Gov-ernor-Generals of Canada, the Earl ofXI into, and Earl Grey.
Dr. Charles I. iM'argeson has succeededDr. Tunstill as ships doctor on boardthe Maraina,
Tho lato Mr. Marcus Clarke, founder oftho-firm of Marcus Clarke and Co., ofSvdnev, left property valued for probateat «t'3'72,(i37. This is bequeathed to lilSwidow and children and relatives.
Mr. J. J. Frauklyn, minister of theChurch of Christ, Paddington (Sydney),lias Uen appointed organiser for thoDuncdin No-Lieense campaign, under thoNew Zealand Alliance, lie terminates hismiiuistiy nt Piukiing'ton. at- tho ojid orJune, and leaves Sydney 011 July a iorthe new sphere of work.
Mr. I'. ITally left for Palmerston lastevening to conmicnce there tho first of aseries of investigations into tho haddleisDispute, which arisoii) in t-ho Welling*ton Industrial District. On Thursday hogoes on to Napier, where lie will Htqun'ointo another section of t'ho teaddlers _ Dis-pute there, and tho. next day lie is tohear tho Trawlers' Dispute. On MondayMr. I! ally will go to Wangamy. and oilTuesday lie will hear the Saddlers Dis-pute tiiore. lie returns to,.Wellington, onWednesday, in time to hear that section ofthe Marine Engineers' Dispute nnectingsmall vessels, on the following morning.
Mr J I'. Firth, headmaster of the WeUlington Hoys' College, is at present visit-ing Chrii-tcluu'ch.
His Honour Mr. Justice Chapman hasgone to Palmerston North ■ to hold a ses-sion of tit; 1 .Supreme Court there.
The GovernWut steamer ninemoa,which leaves port early this mornii>„' forthe Cook Strait lighthouses, is taking- withher a number of lighthouse-keciKTS who
have been transferred. Mr. Dusting, latqof Puvs:>gur Point lighthouse, is to go tothe Brothers. Mr. Sl"Alpine has been pro-moted to principal keeper at Cape Camp-
bell. Principal Keeper Craig, ol W6Campbell, is to :;o to the brothers jißhihouse, ill place of Mr. Tutt, who is beingpromoted to principal keypcr nl StcphInland. Mr. M'Neii, lake principal keeperat Stephens Island, is retiring on supei-
animation.Mr. Kevnolds Deimisloii,, general nmn-
ager of the Little Theatre ni Sydney, hada innw escape whilo motoiing lastweek. His car skidded and threw him•out- with some violence,, on to the road.Fortunately his only injury was a fiac-lure in ibo elbow.
Mr 11-uTY li. Moffntt, formerly for 33vears haYbourmasicr ami wharfinger atMotuekn, and a very wc) -known residentdied at Mdiucka yesterdaj. 110 was ilyears ef Association.' The Hon. Robert Skeon Chief .Tustieoof Tonga, who has arrived at Auckland
a son of the lato Mr. K. hkocn. ofAuckland (uncle of t 10 Messrs. \Yilson ofii e "New Zealand Herald" I'wpr»e ary .anil was born in Auckland. Mi. \\ llso*Sen, of Wanganui, and formerly ofWellington, is a younger brother ol (ho
visitor. •
THE DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913;6
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DONEG VL TWEEDS, 10pieces, in mrw different colourings; 42in. lvule., Usual Price, ,2s. 3d. a yard. Price To-day, Is. lid. a yard.
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' 200 yards Silks, in red grounds, with fancy stripes, suitable for linings and under-i Usual Price, 2s. 9d. a yaid.
sliirts; 21iu,,
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IN THE MANTLE DEPARTMENT.ONE-PIECE DRESSES from our own regular stock, in Plain Silks, Satin Mes- ■'.aline, Poulard Silks. Slriped Silks, Shantung Silks, Cashmere, Ninon, etc.
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V BLANKET COATS, smart, well-cut garments, suitable for tho present wear; in
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ELECTION QUESTIONED.Respecting the recent election, underthe Public Service Act of 1912, of a Civil
Service Board of Appeal, there are somewho aro of 'the opinion that the electionmay be upset on the ground that twotoards are necessary—one board to dealwith matters of status, and tho other todeal with offences. Section 31 of tho Actslates:
"Any officer dissatisfied with anydecisio.i of tho Commissioner, or ofany person or persons to ivhom theCommissioner has delegated his pow-ers or functions, in regard to gradeaffecting such otiicfr, or in regard toclassification of the work performedby him or assigned to him, or in re-gard to salary or promotion, may for-ward to tlio Commissioner withinthirty days after such decision hasbeen notified to him, a notice of appealsetting: forth tho grounds of his dis-'satisfaction, and a Board of Appealconstituted in tho manner hereinafter'set forth shall thereupon considersuch appeal. . . ."
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If any officer is dissatisfied with any ,decision or determination of the Com-missioner .... he shall have tho rightto appeal to a Board of Appeal con-stituted in tho manner prescribed by
'. Section 32 hereof, and 'all the provi-sions of Section 31 hereof shall, mu-tatis mutandis, extend and apply toany such appeal accordingly.
TAXI-DRIVERS' OBLIGATION.
LEGAL FAHE'.jiuST BE TAKEN.(By Telegraph,—Press ataoclatlon.J
Auckland, May 20.A case involving tho obligation upon alicensed taxi-driver to accept a fare whennot engaged was heard at the Police
Court this morning, .Frank Norman be-ing'charged with refusing to carrv ayoung lady on April 27, though the legalfare was tendered. It was alleged thatNorman refused, saying the run was too'short.
Mr. Cutfccn, S.M., said the point was ofsome importance, because, unless the by-law was enforced, tho regulations fixingfares were useless. Drivers might refuseto. hire unless an unreasonable fare weropromised. He would not -impose a severepenalty this time, but would inflict afin6. of ten shillings.
CITY SINKING FUNDS.
LOAN TO GISBORNE.The Wellington City Council has,
through the Sinking'Fund Commissioners,agreed to lend ,€15,000 to the borough ofGisbome for a term of thirty years at 5per cent. The sinking funds for tho cityare increased by payments from , severalloan accounts by' about ,£20,000 «very year,and. the annual increase by interest isabout, J59500, so that the funds• increaseat the rntt of about ,£30,000 every year.In September, 1914, the city has to redeem*£25,000 worth of tho debentures in the
.£IOO,OOO City Improvement Loan, whichis repayable in four instalments in periods!of five years from that date. This willreduce tho annual increment of the fundby about -£1000, but the funds will veryquickly i!ecover their present earningpower. At present' all the sinking fundsare administered separately, although bythe same commissioners, and the methodis said to bo becoming unwieldly. Twofunds can not now bo made contributorsfn taking up tho same security, and goodinvestments are lost thereby, when, forinstance, ho 9ingle fund has sufficientmoney to take up a big security offering.It is probable ■ th-it the commissionerswill ask'-for'llegislation to.:periuit of thefunds being joined for this purpose when£uch ..opportunities offer.
CYCLONIC STORM.
! ANGLICAN CHURCH WRECKED.(By Telegraph.—Presa Association.!
Westport, May 20.A cyclonic storm yesterday did a gooddeal of damage.At Seddonville a six-roomed cottage wasdestroyed, and several , other buildings
were damaged.At Charleston, St. Mark's Anglican
Church was completely wrecked. Therewere various losses in chimneys andwindows at both places.
No damage was done in Westport.
THE CRAIG DIVORCE CASE.
RESPONDENT WITHDRAWS.(By telegraph.—Press Association.)
Auckland, May 20.When the divorce case of Thomas Craig
v. Zillah Craig and Henry Hargreaves (aSydney bank clerk) was called for re-hearing this morning, it was ■ intimatedthat the respondent and co-respondentwould not further contest 'the petition.Mr. Justice Edwards said he would deferconsideration till Friday to decide whetherhe could give a decision without takingevidence again..
BOY WHO SHOT HIS FRIEND.
DEALT WITH BY COURT.(Br Teleuraph.—Press Association 1 •
Auckland, May 20.The boy Sheehan, who ' fatally shotGeorge Fyfe at Parahaki, is to be sentto St. Mary's Industrial School. Mr.Justice Edwards said that this was thebest course to take in the prisoner's in-terests, it not being a case calling for im-prisonment.
The Judge, addressing the prisoner, saidthe crime was one of the gravest pos-sible to commit, but he did not think thoprisoner was a vicious lad. With carefuldiscipline he should become a respectablemember of the community. Sheehan,who is now fifteen'years of age; will bekept in the home till he is twenty-one.
IMPERIAL SQUADRON.
gift ship units,
WHY GIBRALTAR WILL BE ITS BASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright(Kec. May 20, 10.15 p.m.)
London, May 20.It is stated with regard to the pro-
posed Imperial Squadron that the Admir-alty intends that the respective Govern-ments contributing the ships shall settlethe itinerary of tho Squadron. Appar-ently there has been some misunder-standing about Gibraltar as the base oftho naval force, it is remarked, but theSquadron will not be tied to any port.It is necessary, though, for administra-tive purposes to choose a port wherespare parts, reserves of ammunition, andgeneral stores can bo held, and Gibraltarhas thus been chosen for tho ImperialSquadron, which will really be an Im-perial force, and not an accession to theHome Fleet.
[A _ speech by the First Lord of theAdmiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, givingan outline of the Admiralty's intentionsinjrespect to the gift ships, will be foundelsewhere in this issue.]
In the Canadian House of Commons,Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Leader of the Oppo-sition, in his final speech on the NavyBill (which provides for the gift of threebattleships at a oost of .£7,000,000 to thoNavy), said it was a hollow mockery tosay that an emergency existed in GreatBritain necessitating additional battle-ships in the North Sea, as Mr. WinstonChurchill, First Lord of the Admiralty,had deliberately decided to place the pro-posed Canadian gift ships not in theNorth Sea, but at Gibraltar. The Na-tionalists, continued Sir Wilfrid Laurier,could uow rest in peace, because theirsons would not be disembowelled whilethe warships remained under the shelterof the guns of Gibraltar.
CANADA'S CONTRIBUTION.
MR. BORDEN REPLIES TO SIR W.LAURIER.
(Rec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)Ottawa, May 20.
Tho Prime Minister, Mr. R. L. Borden,iu a speech at Toronto criticising Sir Wil-frid Laurier's opposition to tho CanadianNaval Bill, said the latter's attitude waswell expressed by a New Zealand states-man when he said that Sir WilfridLaurier's attitude was one of aloofnesswhen a definite proposal to aid the Empirewas proposed,_ with eloquent dissertationson the importance of Canada preservingher autonomy.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's policy, Mr. Bordensaid, was undoubtedly of a separatist na-ture, no matter how it was disguised.If the Senate rejected the proposals
contained in the Navy measure, Mr. Bor-den concluded, an immediatereipedy wouldbe sought by the-Cabinet, and it wouldundoubtedly be foimd.
COMPULSORY TRAINING.
INSTRUCTORS FOR THE COMMON-WEALTH.
By Telecrapt—Frees Association—Copyright(Rec. May 20, 10.15 p.m.)
Fremantle, May 20.The passengers by.the<slarmora, which
has arrived here?'frtfm.'lAttdon; 1 includefifteen time-expired soldiers of i'll bran-
of "the Service from India, who havebe(n engaged by the Commonwealth toacl as instructors under the compulsorytraining scheme.
POLAR HERO'S FLAGS.
PRESENTED TO GLOUCESTERCATHEDRAL.
By Teleiraph—Press Association- Cosyrltrhl(Kec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)
London, May 20.'Mrs. AVilson has presented Dr. Wilson's
sledging flags, which were found near thebody of the Antarctic hero who perishedin Captain Scott's dash to the SouthPole, to Gloucester.Cathedral, where theywill be hung among the war flags of theGloucester Eegiment.
A MYSTERY OF THE SEA.
SUNKEN'WRECK.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
(Rec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)Melbourne, May 20.
During dragging operations for asunken punt at Western Port, the dragcaught a snag.
A diver descended, and discovered thatthe drag had caught a large sunkenvessel. Tho wreck had a beam of fortyfeet, and was built of English oak.
A search of records failed to disclosemention of any such wreck, but residentsof Phillip Island state that they remem-ber years ago skeletons being found strewnon the.adjacent beaches, but it was neverdiscovered where they came from.
THE BRITISH EMIGRANT.
KEEP THEM WITHIN THE EMPIRE.By Tclesraph—Press Association—Copyright
(Kec. May 20, .11,30 p.m.)London, May 20.
The "Morning Post;" in discussing theproposals of Mr. Watt, Premier of Vic-toria, for aJarm for,the preliminarytraining of youthful emigrants, says it isdifficult to believe that tho British Gov-ernment has done all it might do to di-vert the stream of emigrants towards theDominions of the Empire.
The "Morning Post" suggests the hold-ing of a subsidiary Imperial Conferenceto discuss the subject.
THE SYDNEY BURGLARIES.
WOUNDED MAN DIES.By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright
(Rec. May 20, 10.15 p.m.)Sydney,.May 20.
Overton, the proprietor of the TyneLaundry, at Manly, who was twice shotwhile attempting to capture a burglarwho entered his bedroom and stole ,£2Oworth of jewellery, on the night cf MayG. has succumbed to his injuries.
WRESTLING.
ANOTHER WIN FOR ZBYSZKO.By TolesraDh—Press Association—Copyright
(Rec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)New York, May 20.The champion heavy-weight wrestler
Zbyszko defeated Ramana Caseaux, theItalian champion, in two straight falls.
CHINESE CRISIS.«
ANGRY SCENE IN PARLIAMENT.
MORE EXECUTIONS.
(By Telegraph.—PreEe Association.)
(Rec. May 20, 10.25 p.m.)Peking, May 20.
There have been two further executionsof persons who are officially described asrobbers, but who were really rebels.In the Assembly, the Premier, Chao
Ping Chun, was interpellated regardingthe.sudden arrest of Senator Shiatse, whowas accused of plotting.
Members generally denounced the ar-rest, and stigmatised the oppressive prac-tices now current in Peking, which theysaid were worse thdn under tho MauchuDynasty.'
General Tuati-Chi-Jui attempted tojustify the arrest amidst loud cries of:"Was this man a robber or a rebel?""Was he so dangerous that a band ofsoldiers, instead of the police, was re-quired to arrest him?" "Aro you awarethat Parliament is tho guardian of theliberties of tho Republic?"
Genyal Tuan-Chi-Jui was silent.Members again cried out: "The plot is
a fictitious one, and you are solely re-sponsible."
The House was adjourned.
PORTENTOUS OMEN.
JAPANESE-AMERICAN DISPUTE,
WAE RATES ASKED.
Br Telegraph—Freas Association—Copyright(Rec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)
London, May 20.Some inquiries have been made re-garding war insurance rates in connec-
tion with thf American-Japanese dis-pute over the anti-alien legislation ofCalifornia State.
The rates, which have been quoted,vary from ss. to 20s.
DECISION BY THE SWORD.IF JAPAN SUCCEEDED.
London, May 19.The "Pall Mall Gazette" says: "The
cloud in the Pacific is no bigger than, aman's hand, but it would bs perilous tocherish the belief that Japan would haveno chance of victory should matters cometo a decision by the sword. The UnitedStates would bo the champion of thewhite man in tho eyes of Australia, NewZealand, and Canada, while Britain wouldbe bound to Japan."
If the Japanese asserted their claimsuccessfully against America, tho Empiremight then, adds the paper, be confront-ed with a similar difficulty, as Australiawould no doubt reject a Japanese claim tosettle in the Northern Territory.
CALIFORNIAN BILL SIGNED.EFFECTIVE IN AUGUST.
Sacramento, May 19.The Governor of California has signed
the Anti-Japanese Act. It will becomeeffective on August 17 nest.
CONFERENCE WITH JAPAN'S. AMBASSADOR.
(Rec, May 20, 10.15 p.m.)Washington, May 20.
Mr. W. J. Bryan, United States Sscre-tary of State, and the Japanese Ambassa-dor have discussed the signingof the Cali-fornian Anti-Alien. Act.
FLOOD WATERS RECEDE.
MUCH DAMAGE IN N.S.W.
EAILWAY RUNNING RESUMED.By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright
Sydney, May 20.The floods in the Hunter River district
are receding, though it will be severaldays before the lower parts of West Nait-land are cleared. -
Oakhampton suffered the full force ofthe flood. The restoration of roads,fences, and embankments will involve abig expenditure. In addition to the lossesby owners of property through wasli-aways, the damage to crops has beenheavy.
A public'meeting is to be held at Mait-land to deal with the matter of tho sadplight of many of the town people andothers in poor circumstances who suffer-ed by the floods.
Railway communication from Newcastleto Maitland has been restored.
AFTER THE WAR.
BALKAN PEACE TREATY.By Tcleeraph—Pr<jss Association—OopyTiffht
London, May 19.The date of the meeting of the Peace
Conference has not yet been fixed.(Rec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)
London, May 20.Reuter's News Agency reports that the
Allies' delegates will meet to-day to dis-cuss in the draft of thePeace Treaty terms suggested by instruc-tions from Belgrade and Athens.
"NOTHING WRONG."
REPLY TO MODERATOR'S STATE-MENT.
By Teleeraph—Press Association—CopyrizlilMelbourne, May 20.
The police stoutly deny statementsmade by Dr. Rentoui, Moderator of thePresbyterian Assembly, that the whiteslavo traffic is rampant in Melbourne.
The Chief Commissioner declares thatofficers were lately specially detailed toinquire, and that they reported that theycould find nothing wrong. He thoughtlie could authoritatively state that thetraffic did not exist.
NE TEMERE DECREE.
STATEMENT BY ANGLICAN BISHOr.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrich t.
London, May 19.The Right Rev. Dr. Knox, Anglican
Bishop of Manchester, states that Redemp-torist Fathers are, conducting a missionat Burnley, and inducing parties to mixedmarriages to submit to remarriage, called"the blessing of the Church," in confor-mity with the Nc Teinere Djcree. A wifewith a child has left bur husband in con-sequence of the Redeniptorists statingthat she was living in open adultery.
The Bishop suggests that the fathershould bring a libel action against theRedemptorists.
REJECTED.
ORGANISATION FOR GENERAL STRIKE,
SYNDICALIST IDEA.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copjriebt
(Bee. May 20, 10.15 p.m.)London, May 20.
The Northumberland Miners' Council,by forty-two votes to nineteen, defeated aSyndicalist motion urging the organisa-tion of all grades of labour, with a viewto a simultaneous strike, but resolved toprosecute the demand for shorter hoursand the ini'rease of tlu> surface workers'wages.
WHAT DARWIN STRIKERS WANT.
IN VIRTUE OF APROMISE.Darwin, May 20.
Tho strike of members of the Amalga-mated Workers' Association employed bythe Federal Government, and who de-manded a wage of .JM for a forty-four-hour week, continues, strikers havingdecided not to resume work until thoAdministrator concedes lis. 3d. daily,which they claim in virtue of a promisemade by Mr. Thomas, Federal Ministerfor External Affairs.
fWhen the Strike Committee presentedits demands, Dr. Gilmth, the Adminis-trator, stated that he had no power togrant them, but he offered to submit' thematter to arbitration. This the men re-jected, and decided to adhere to their de-mand for £i a week for forty-four hours.]
DISMISSED DRIVER REINSTATED.London, May 19.
The Great Northern driver, whose dis-missal caused trouble, has been reinstatedunconditionally.
|"The railway men of Donoaster passeda resolution requesting their executiveto demand the unconditional reinstate-ment of the driver, or to declare astrike.!
COMBAT OVER "CROESUS."
VERY LIVELY TIME.COURT PROCEEDINGS THE OUT-
COME.By Telegraph—Press A£6ociation—Copyright
London, May 19.As an outcome of the dispute regarding
the ownership, of the acting rights ofIlenri Rothschild's coming play,"Croesus," and subsequent lively scenesat the Garrick Theatre, Mr. Hansen wascharged at the Bow Street Police Conrtwith threatening Mr. Arthur Bourchierwitli violeuce.
Mr. Bodkin, K.C., in opening the casefor tho prosecution, said that Hansen'sviolent threats and abominable languagehad caused Mr. Bourchier to fear bodilyharm.
The police gave evidence as to Hansen'sextraordinary behaviour when they ar-rested 'liini. It 'took four men to searchhim. Hansen had accused Bourchier ofswindling him out of ,£IO,OOO.
Hansen, who was still excited, explainedthat his condition was due to a pendingcivil action. His condition led the Magis-trate to remand him in custody.
FRENCH ARMY DEMANDS.
RADICALS* OPPOSITION.Br -Press Association—OoDrricht
Paris, May 19.M. Caillaux, an ex-Prime Minister, ad-
dressing the Radicals, said he opposedthe three years' army system. It wasundeniable that tho international situa-tion demanded further efforts on the partof France. More caro was necessary withregard to the training of tho reserves, andsome system of military education, of theyoung should be devised.
The Radicals' counter-proposals aim atthirty months' service with tho incorpora-tion of conscripts twice yearly.
PROTESTS AGAINST TRIENNIALTERM.
A MELEE.Paris, May 19.
Socialist agitators organised a soldiers'demonstration at Toul against triennialservice.
A major and lieutenant, wbo remon-strated, were roughly handled, being even-tually rescued by civilians, who thrashedfifteen of their assailants.
Cavnlry finally dispersed the meeting.
THE RELENTLESS CAMORRA.
A BETRAYER'S FATE.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, May 19.News has been received in London of
the death of Angelo Defino. Defino be-trayed ithc Camorra in Italy ten yearsago, and fled to Australia, where he wasfollowed. Thence he went to Argentina,but was unable to rid himself ofhis pur-suers.
His life was attempted five times, andeventually lie was shot in a New Yorkdancing-room.
A GERMAN BLUEBEARD.
CONFESSES HIS GUJLT.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
Berlin, May 19.Karl Hopf, formerly the world's foils
champion, who was arrested at Frankfortlast month on charges of poisoning twowives, and attempting the life of a third,has confessed that iie administered choleragerms to his third wife.
In tho meantime Hopf's housekeeperhas died from 'typhus.
[A quantity of cyanide of potassiumand arsenic, "and cultures of typhus andcholera bacilli were discovered in Hopf'shouse after his arrest. All the wiveswere heavily insured, the third for■£1000.]
AMERICAN TARIFF.
A BUDGET OF PROTESTS.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
(Kec. May 20, 10.15 p.m.)Washington, May 20.
English, French. Austrian, German,and Italian protests have been receivedagainst the prevision in tho UnderwoodTariff Revision Bill for the reduction offive poicciiiuni on goods carried inAmerican-owned ships.
The protests have been referred to theFinance Committee uf the Senate.
THE MILITANT WOMEN.•» ,
LOSE AN ALLY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright(Kec. May 20, 10.25 p.m.)
London, May 20.Mr. G. N. Barnes, Labour M.P. for
Blackfriars Division, speaking at Glas-gow, said that the Labour party had cer-tainly fallen out with the women Suffra-gists. The Labour parly hail not favouredmilitancy, and believed that such tacticsretarded the cause of women's enfran-chisement.
The party, Mr. Barnes said, supportedthe freedom of the press, and denouncedthe suppression of "The Suffragette."
CHRISTABEL PANKHURST'S HAVEN."MOVE ON, PLEASE"?
London, May 19.The Homo Offic-o is making investiga-
tions in Paris with the object of estab-lishing Miss Christabel Pankhursit's con-nection with suffragette militancy.
The Foreign Office is submitting evi-dence to tho French Government statingthat Paris is the headquarters of a dan-gerous conspiracy. It is expected thatFrance will require Miss Christabel Pank-hurst and her associates to leave withinforty-eight hours.
(Kec, May 20, 10.25 p.m.)London, May 20.
It is authoritatively denied that thoForeign Office has made any representa-tions to France about Miss ChristabelPankhurst.
NAVY CAPTAIN ON TRIAL.
COURT-MARTIALLED FOR COLLISION
DREADNOUGHT CENTURION.By Telegraph—Prcs3 Association-Copyright
London, May 19.During her steam trials in the English
Channel in December last,-the battleshipCenturion, one of the latest super-Dread-noughts, collided with and sank tlisItalian steamer Derna, 2210 tons, ownedby L. Mezzano, of Genoa.
The captain of the battleship, CaptainGuy Gaunt, is now being tried by court-martial.
The prosecution alleges that the Cen-turion's high speed at the 'time of thecollision caused'the sinking of the Dsrna.The matter of speed < had not been pro-perly considered. It also alleged thatthe battleship's course should havo beenaltered before and after tho collision, andthat further search for the Derna shouldhave been made after tho collision.
[When the collision' took place, thewarship was travelling at a speed oftwenty knots. The night was dark, andno trace could then be found of the ill-fated vessel. Later, a lamp found on thobattleship, led to the identity of thesunken steamer as the Derna." Only onebody was recovered.]
THE REBELS OF MEXICO.-$
STATE TROOPS REPULSED.'By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright
Nogales, May 19.The State troops' attack on Guaymas
failed. They -are now planning a seabombardment with a gunboat, aided by aiiaeroplane.
GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.By Telograph—Press Ascociation-OopjTight
PASSENGERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.(Rec. May 20, 9.15 p.m.) .
Melbourne, May 20.The Orvieto, which has arrived" here
from London, brings the following passen-gers for New Zealand:—Mr. M'Nsill, Mr.and Mrs. Bankart, Messrs. Brown, Bid-mead, and Healey, Mr. and Mrs. Maclvcr,throe daughters and three sons, Mr. Moor-house, Mr. and Mrs. Tnttersall, two sonsand daughter,.Mr. and Mrs. Woodward"and daughter, Mr. Coctor, Mr. and Mrs,,Treusch and child, Rev. Falkner and Mrs.Falkner, Mcsdamcs Vavasour. Ruhleman,aud Heydon and daughter, Misses Smith,Boulton, Irving, Paveymerrie, Waller, andKilgour ,and twenty-six in the third-class.
THE INSURANCE ACT.(Rec. May 20, 10.25 p.m.)
London, May 20.Dr. John Scurr, president of the Doc-
tors' Union, has been arrested for deliver-ing a speecli on the Insurance Act, incit-ing disorder at Leeds.
SALE or A STEAMER.London, May 19.
A Chinese firm at Hong-Kong has pnr-ehnsed tho P. and 0. steamer Naming(5078 tons). Tin December last the Nar-rung was badly damaged during a gale inthe English Channel, while bound forAustralia."]
TOUR OF INVESTIGATION.London, Hay 19.
Messrs. Watt, M'Bride, and Baillieu(Premier, Minister for Lands, and anhonorary Minister of Victoria respective-ly). have gone to Manchester. Liverpool,and Bristol. They will return to London'on Thursday next.
SYDNEY SCULPTOR'S WORK.London, May 19.
Mr. .Fail-lie Cunningham, a Sydneysculptor, is exhibiting a bust of CaptainWallington. Private Secretary to theQueen, and who at various times actedas Private Secretary to Australian StateGovernors and the Governor-General ofthe Commonwealth.SCHOONER GEORGE E. BILLINGS.
Sydney, May 20.The five-masted American schooner
George E. Billings, just refloated afterbeing stranded for nearly a week on asandbank in Botany Bav, li,ns been foundto be strained, and is leaking slightly.
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.Sydney. May 20.
James Grace, a resident of ICempsoy. isdead. He was aped 102, and was thaoldest Mason in New South Wales.
A SAD TRAGEDY.Sydney, May 20.
James Martin, a resident of Hillgrove,was accidentally shot dead by hisdaughter, who picked un a loaded gunwhich her brother had laid on a bed afterreturning from shooting.
SUGAR SURPLUS.London, May ID.
Kerr F. 0. I.icht, sntjar expert, ofMagdeburg, in his monthly circular statesthat'the production of beet suger inEurope shows an increase of 2,532.0110 ton*.He estimates that for the campaign tlierowill be a total surplus of 2,02G,000 tons.
HROICEN DOWN.London. May 10.
Lloyd's .stale that the Leylrind linerCaledonian is detained at Aden, an enginehaving broken- down. She will probablysail on May 21.
SOT,TiI HAND OF EMIGRANTS.London, May 10.
The steamer Belgic sails with fifteenhundred emigrants for Freniantle.
A ROYAL MARRIAGE.
KING GOES TO BERLIN.
KAISER IN CLEMENT MOOD.
By lelegraph—Press Association—CopyrightLondon, Mav 19.Their Majesties King George and" QueenMary have departed for Berlin, to be pre-sent at the marriage of Princess VictoriaLouise, daughter of the Kaiser, to PrinceErnest of Cumberland, 'i'licy were fare-welled at Victoria Station by the Prince
of \\ ales, the Duke of Connauglit, SirEdward Grey (Secretary of Slate forForeign Affairs), and others.
Berlin, May 19.Because of the approaching marriage ofhis daughter, the Kaiser has pardonedLieutenants Trench and Brandon, andBertrand Stewart, a solicitor, imprisonedfor espionage.
[Brandon and Trench were in 1910sentenced to four years' imprisonment ina fortress. Stewart (the fairness of whosesentence was very much questioned) waslater sentenced to three and a half years'imprisonment.]
PARDONING OF PRISONERS.PRESS OPINIONS.
(R-ec. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)
London, May 20.The newspapers applaud tho Kaiser'sclemency in releasing the prisoners.
Berlin, May 20.Official circles regard the clemency
shown as a compliment tho Emperor paysto tho British nation in graceful recog-nition of King George's presence at thewedding.
The newspapers mostly are silent on thesubject. The "Berliner Tageblatt" saysthat as Brandon, Trench, and Stewartdid not belong to the mercenary kindof spies, and have formally satisfied thelaw, their release will bo received withgratification throughout Germany, especi-ally when King George's visit demon-strates a mutual wisli for friendly Anglo-German relations.
The "Tageblatt Zeitung," while de-clining to criticise the Kaiser'saction, thinks that the release will causecriticism and regret in Germany, andtho public demand for sharp punishmentof gentlemen spies will be again' aroused.
ARRESTS FOR CONSPIRACY.
POLICE ACTIVE IN INDIA.By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright
Delhi, May 19.Twenty-eight Bengalis have been ar-
rested on a charge of conspiracy to wagewar against the King. It is believedthat eventually tho number of arrests willtotal fifty.
Tho Bengali newspapers arc greatlyagitated because of the renewed activityof the policc.
TRIAL MARRIAGES.
A "LAW" FOR GIRLS UNDEREIGHTEEN.
New York, April i.According to Justice Cohalan, of thoSupremo Court of New York, trial mar-riage in this State is a legalised institu-tion for girls under eighteen years ofage.
In recent years judges have frequentlydwelt on the anomalous conditions, whichpermit parents of boys and girls whohave married in haste with tho aid of acomplaisant magistrate or clergyman toapply to tho Courts for an annulment ofthe marriage on the grounds that the con-tracting parties were under ago at thetime of the ceremony. American girls aresaid to love a runaway match, and thoexcitement of climbing down an unneces-sary rope ladder or driving a motor-carto some town near by and there rousingfrom his slumbers an official competent topronounce them man and wife appealsirresistibly to many youthful imagina-tions. The sequel to such unions is notunusually an application to tho Courtsto annul the marriage. Even ill cases iiiwhich the parents gave their consent thoCourts have no recourse but to grant thodesired annulment.
Such, at all events, was the decision ofJustice Cohalan, who yesterday heard asuit to annul tho marriage of Mrs. EvaMundell Coster,/an actress in the Dnirj*Lano drama, "The Whip/' with Mr.Norman B. Coster, an official in the em-ploy of the Mercantile Safe Deposit Com-pany. "In effect," said the judge, "thepresent law in New York State permitsa girl who marries under the age ofeighteen, with tho consent of her parents,and leaves her husband before she attainsthat age, to come into Court and. as amatter of course, obtain a decree of an-nulment. This is to all intents andpurposes providing in such cases for trialmarriages. Tho remedy for this statoof things lies with tho Legislature andnot tho Courts."
Justice Cohalan found hat Mrs. Coster'smother consented to the marriage, butthe evidence of her father and tho doctorwho attended at her birth establishedconclusively that tho bride was exactlyseventeen when she was married. Sheis not yet eighteen, and was thereforoentitled to demand an annulment of thomarriage.--"Daily Mail."
WHY NOT A UNION?
FOR SANDON SEEDGROWERS,
(By Tolosrrapb.—Special OorrefiDontVmt.)Feilding, May 20.
In the course of an interesting addressat Sandon this week, Mr. C-ockayne ((Bi-ologist of thi? Agricultural Departmentstaff) made a valuable suggestion to San-don seedgrowers. Why not (he said) havea sccdgrowers' union to protect the in-terests of the industry? Mr. Cockayneshowed that Europe can take mono seedthan can be ssnt there, and he urged co-operation to raise the standard of swdsand improve the channels of distribution.
Mr. J. G. Wilson, who was in tho chair,said that lie rr.nlisrd that the suggestionis deserving of consideration, and men-tioned his intention of bringing it beforethe A. and P. Associations in this district.
CROSS ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
AMERICAN AIRMEN'S AMBITION.London, May 10.
Half-a-dozen Americanairmen announcotheir intention of trying to cross thoAtlantic in the summer.
M'Gee, of Rhode Island, will start fromNewport in July in a water-piano equip-ped with a quadruple machine. Ho willmake first for the Newfoundland coast,and will then strike out for tho coast ofIreland.
Vessels will be stationed on his routeacross the Atlantic 400 miles apart. Theywill be equipped with wireless, so thathe will be in touch with them all tholime. He will also bo able to renew hisstores of gasoline and obtain food fromthem.—Sydney "Sun."
TERRITORIALS FINED.
ASSAULT ON A REPORTER.
"COWARDLY AND UNJUSTIFIABLE."
(By Telegraph— Press Aesooiation.)Dunedin, May 20
Mr. Widdowson, S.M., gavo judgmentthis morning in (he case in which fiveTerritorials, James Carr liigby, ThomasAtkinson Bunbury, Cecil James S. Ni-cholson, Herbert Thompson, and KobertKirfcness, pleaded guilty last Wednesdayto assaulting uu "Otago Daily Times" re-porter by ducking him in a creek at therecent button camp. The magistratesaid"Thedefendants have been chargedwith, and have pleaded guilty to, wliatcan only bo considered very serious, cow-ardly, and unjustiliablc assault. Itwas also a deliberate and evidently pre-meditated action. I can only say thatthe conduct ol the defendants not onlydoes not redound to their credit as men,but it. casts a very serious rellection ontho discipline of their regiment. Hap-pily, I believe this is the iirst occurrencethat has taken placo in connection withthe Territorial forces, and I trust it willbe the last. Tho punishment for com-mon assault is imprisonment not exceed-ing two months, with or without hard la-bour, or a monetary penalty not exceeding.£lO with costs. I cannot treat this mat-ter lightly. I think that probably afairly substantial monetary penalty willmeet tiic case, and vindicate the law.Each of tho defendants will be fined asum of .£5 and costs, in default onemonth's imprisonment.
Mr. W. C. MacGregor (who appeared toprosecute) asked for professional costs.Mr. Hanlon (who represented defend-ants) submitted that they should not beallowed. Mr. MacGregor was importedinto tho case by the "Otago DailyTimes," and if they wislied to have theirown counsel then ttiey must pay him.He contended that it was a police prose-cution.
Mr. MacGregor said that lie came intotho case long before the police ' knewanything about it.
The magistrate said he did not thinkit was a case in which the police couldnot have prosecuted. Under the circum-stances, witnesses' expenses only would boallowed. Each defendant was then or-dered to pay his proportion of tho wit-nesses' expenses, 3s. each.
MR. WILLIS AGAIN.$
PARLIAMENT AND THE "BACKWASHOF SOCIETY."
A remarkable document was issued lastweek by Mr. Henry Willis, Speaker ofthe New South Wales Legislative Assem-bly, who, it will \be remembered, fig-ured largely in the public eye last year.Mr. Willis had dismissed some messeng-ers attached ■to the Parliament Housestaff, and on some comment appearing inthe newspapers, handed out a minute, inthe course of which ho said: —
"The Parliament House is overmannedin several departments. During my ten-ure of offico three drunken men have beendischarged, and the places have beenfilled by transferring steady, young, res-pectful men as niesseiigeds from . lowergrades. Several cleaners' refused billetsas night watchmen and bathroom attend-ants. One outdoor man refused work,and escaped dismissal by applying to theclerk of the 'Joint Control.
"Rules for keepiug the party rooms freefrom the backwash of society, who rollinto the premises after hotels are closed,have been disgracefully violated, whilediscipline is laughed at by messengerspacing the corridors confiding with mem-bers, whom they address by their Chris-tian names. • The most daring inebriateabout the place is bold and rude to visi-tors who come, to tho galleries to followthe debates.
"Notwithstanding tlio incorrigible con-duct of these old offenders, they have beenable to enlist intercession to prevent dis-missal. Now, however, there is notenough work to go round to keep fifteenwell-paid men employed. Amongst thoretired workmen several well-conductedmen are leaving the employ. ,
"I believe members of Parliament ex-pect the Speaker to nt all times piotectthem from the attentions of house ser-vants who are expensively intosicate.'l."
OBITUARY4
MB. GEORGE WILLIAM DELLER.The news was received in Wellington
last evening of the death at Cartertonof Mr. George William Deller, one ofthe best-known residents of the Waira-rapa, and a resident of Carterton formany years'. The deceased, who was 59years of age, was born in London, andwas educated in that city and in Hert-fordshire. As n young man he came totho colony in the ship St. Leonards (a.clipper of her class which was subse-quently wrecked in the English Chan-nel). lie settled intheWuirarapa, and en-gaged in contracting work for some time,chiefly in log-getting for tho saw-mills.In ISSO ho established in Carterton a but-chery business, and developing it onsound lines, became a considerable ex-porter of meat to the Old Country. WhenCarterton was proclaimed a borough Mr.Deller was elected one of the first coun-cillors. Ho was elected Mayor in 1592,and held that office for several years,during which time ho took a very activeinterest in all public affairs. He wasalso chairman of the School Committee,and a member of the'old Taratahi-Cartsr-(on Road Board. H was also a Free-mason, and a member of the . CartertonOddfellows' Lodge. Mr.' Deller leaves awidow, and an adult family of seven, allof whom are well-known in tho district.
AUCKLAND OYSTERS.
(By Telegraph.—Spccial Oorrespondon'..)
Auckland, May 20.Good wages aro being earned by theoyster-pickers employed on the beds atWaiheke Island, and large quantities ofoysters are being delivered to an eagermarket. During last week 507 sacks werodelivered at the State Depot—3s7 sacksfrom Waiheke and 150 from Russell.Eighteen pickers are 'at present workingin Pufiki Bay, Waiheke, under the direc-tion of an overseer, and, as the beds arejvfcll stocked, (lie men are gathering largosupplies. Thosa beds wero not disturbedlast season, and, consequently, the oystershave greatly increased in quantity andquality. Only experienced pickers aroemployed, and each man is permitted togather not more than three sacks per day.a maximum'which is generally reached atpresent. Tho limitation was imposed tosecure care and discrimination in picking,and though, at the rate of (is. Od. persack, the men are earning nearly .£1 perday, tho work has tho disadvantage ofdiscomfort, for it is all on "wet ground."In spite of unfavourable weather, lastweek's returns formed the highest for thepresent season. The oysters are broughtin from the nearer islands of the KaurakiGulf by launch, and, twice a week, con-signments nre delivered from Russell bysteamer. A shipment of 150 sacks wasexpected from Putiki Bay last eveni'i"nnd these ovslcrs will be on the marketthis morning. The supplies received ntthe Stale Depot are quickly absorbed, nndthe demand upon retailers is keenly main-tained. Orders from nil parts of tv-North Island, and from the South Islanda= far south as Christchurch and Grev-mouth. are b?ing filled from the denot.Stewart Island oysters are being sold inthe south.
MENACE OF FIREARMSIN BOYS' HANDS.
JUDGE COOPER'S OPINION.
I'OLIOD POWER TO CONFISCATE
(By Tclegraph.-Pross Association.)Auckland, May 20.
Tho menaco to the public safety arisingout of lads being in possession of pea-rillcs was tho subject of commcnt by Mr,Justice Coojier at tho Supremo Court to-day. His Honour's remarks arose out ufa rccent shooting tragedy near Whanga-rei, which resulted in a lad, Kdward Au-gustine Sheehan, pleading "Guilty" to acharge of manslaughter.
Alter committing the lad to St. Mary'sHome, his Honour said that he wishedto pass on to the public tho question ofthe use of pca-rilles by young lads.
"This practice," said his Honour, "hasbeen productive of a great deal of harmto the community. Many fatal accidentshavo been caused by tho use of thesoweapons by young children, who havo nobusiness to have firearms in their posses-sion. 1 really don't think that tho publiocan know the law in this respect. Undertlie Police Offences Act of l!)l)8 it is notlawful to; sell or supply firearms, orany kind of ammunition, to a personunder tho ago of sixteen. Neither is itlawful for any person, under tho agoof sixteen years, to have firearms orammunition in his possession. Tho ovi«deuce in the presont case shows that,on the Sunday morning when tho tragedyoccurred, theso young lads discharged nclower than 200 cartridges, and each' cart-ridge—had it struck anyone—might havecaused serious injuries. I cannot under-stand (with the law as it now stands)how it is that, for some years past, ladshavo obtained possession of theso pca-rilles, and tho necessary ammunition."His Honour went on to urge an amend-ment of the Police Offences Act in the di-rection of investing policemen with powerto confiscate pca-rilles or other firearmsand ammunition found in tho possessionof boys who are manifestly under theago of sixteen. As tho law stood atpresent (said his Honour) confiscationwas only legal after a conviction had beenentered against a lad for having a fire-arm in his possession.
( "I believe," continued his Honour,"that many of these accidents would havobeen avoided if, uhon a constable saw aboy of under sixteen years with a pea-riito, ho had tho authority of the lawto take that pea-rifle. 1 liopo my re-marks will roach tho ears of tho o 11-thorities, and that tho law will bo amend-ed in the direction indicated. I do notwish it to bo' understood that I objectto lads being taught tho use of the rillofor tho purpose of national defence, andneither do 1 object to efficiency being ac-quired in the use of the rifle for sport-ing purposes. What I do object to istho positive menaco to the communitycaused by usa-rjflcs ill th.o hands ofyoung boys. This is a public questionof importance."
Mr. Tolo (Crown Prosecutor) informedhis Honour that the polico already con-fiscated pea-rifles when they were foundin possession of lads under sixteen.His Honour: I am very glad that tho
polico have adopted this course. Whatis wanted, however, is that they shouldhave statutory authority in 6uch cti6M.
THE BATTLE CRUISER.PREPARATIONS AT WANGANUI,
(By Telciraph,—Hpooial Correspondent.)Wanganui, May 20.
Efforts aro being made to arrange folthe military veterans, residing in Palmer-ston North and visiting Wanganui nextinontii, to see the battle-cruiser. A meet-ing of citizens is to be held on Mondayevening next, to arrange for - tho enter-tainment of tlio officers and crew whileashore, if the weather permits tliem toland or (in case they cannot get ashore)it is hoped to be able to send somethingoil board for tho men.
Hie Maoris aro making arrangementsto take part in tho functions and a numberof leading chiefs intend to visit tho war-ship. The captain and officers are to boinvited to tho pa at Putiki, whero thoyoung Maori peoplo will give a liaka intheir honour.
CHILDREN'S OUTING. -
(By Tclograpli.—l'reaa Association.)
Christchurch, May 20.Twelve hundred children from the south'
are having the time of their lives to-day,Tho weather is fine and warm. Tho child-ren visited Lyttelton this morning, andwere shown over. the New Zealand bya special detachment of the crew. Theywere given refreshments and then re-turned to Christchurch, where tlicy werotaken in hand by the Tramway Board,which gavo theni an outing to NowBrighton. This afternoon they attend aspecial picture matinee, and then theirhosts will take lliora in charge and pro-vide an entertainment in the evening.
The New Zealand was lo bo closed tovisitors to-morrow, but Captain Hnlseywill receive an Oaniaru contingent to.morrow morning. The children will nr-rivo about 9 a.m. and leave Christchurchat 3.40 p.m. Tho children from the Out.ram schools will see tho ship on Thurso(lav morning.
The only citizens' function to-day is qsmoke ooncert to tho crew this evening.
AN ISLAND VENDETTA.
LIFE IN THE NEW HEBRIDES.
An. interesting, if somewhat gruesome,picture of tho condition of affairs in someparts of the New Hebrides was presentedat tho Presbyterian Assembly of New,Soilt'h Wales last week by the Rev. Ficd.l'atou, who told of tho efforts made tostop a tribal vendetta on Malakula.About a thousand natives assembled for afestival, nnd pigs wero sacrificed. Aminor chief, however, ran away with abig chief's,wife. There was much fight-ing between tho rival tribes, and tr.anychildren wero burned alive. One wasrescued by a French trader after hergrave had'been dug. Tho chief was urgedto ston tho vendetta, but ho would not.His wife was eventually returned by thoother chief, and tho wronged monarch,promptly ordered his son to shoot her.This was done with a bow arrow.Somo of the natives took refuge in thomission station, and ono night tho mis-sionary caught a hostile islander with hisgun pointing over the wall. Tho gunwas taken, and tho native questioned.He excused himself by saying that ho suf-fered from insomnia. Themissionary dis-believed him, because ho had crossed amountain, swum a river, and walked tenmiles, so must have started out hoursbefore. Eventually another man wasshot, and tho chiof agreed to stop thovendetta.
THE • DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, MAT 31, 1913: 7
TO-DAY'S PAPER.
SOME LEADING FEATURES,LEADING ARTICLES- Page.
Obligations of Public Men 6''Civil Service and Party Politics ... G 'A Case for Inquiry GLETTERS TO THE EDITOR—
W.C.T.U. and the Bible in Schools 4Professor Hunter and the LiquorQuestion 4Public Trust Office 4
Assisting Immigration iGENERAL NEWS—
The Dreadnoughts : 5Defective Physique 5Otago Boys' High School Jubilee iTho Storming of Adrianople 4Chinese and the Price of Vegetables 3Educationists' Conference 3Yorkshiro Letter 9Roscneath Affairs 9Public Service |Appeal Board 7Taxi-drivers' Obligations 7City Sinking Funds 7Cyclonic Storm 7Craig Divorce Case' 7A Boy Who Shot His Friend ... ■ 7
■ Tho Stranded Liner 8Auckland Harbour 8New Zealand Club 8Sick of Waiting : 8Menace of Firearms 7Tho Battle-cruiser 7 .Territorials Fined 7Mr. Willis Again 7Obituary ' \Auckland Oysters 'The Tragic Bandit 8An Island Vendetta '
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES ... 8COMMERCIAL 10ENTERTAINMENTS 5LAW REPORTS 4LOCAL AND GENERAL GNEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS 8PERSONAL ITEMS 6SHIPPING AND MAILS 9WEATHER REPORTS 6 and 9SPORTS-
TKe Turf 3Athletic. Snnrls 9 I
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A damson is growing from tho side of apo:-t in a garden at Tiptree, Essex. Twoyears "go a daimnn tree was taken up,and after being hid aside for some timewas converted into posts, Ono of theselast year produced a shoot which blos-somed and formed into fruit.
Mcs«rs. Gillies and Nalder, Fawer.n,have rewired instructions from Mr. P.A. Bremer, to sell the whole of his fam-ous Armadale stud, without reserve, con-Fisting of 30 lots, brood mares, stallions,yearlings, and two-year-olds. Cataloguesmay be had on application. The salo willbe held on Saturday, May 2t, commenc-ing at 12.30 p.m.
Owing to the New Zealand Governmenthaving purchased the Maori Hill Estate,in Southland. Mr. Duncan Cameron hasinstructed Messrs. Dalgcty and Co. to sellnt Wallncetown, Invercargill, on Tues-day, May 27, 1500 Floclt-boolc Homne.vewes. Full particulars may be had fromthe firm at Invercafgill.Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.For fiourhs and Colds, never fails, Is, Gd,',
Easter Island, with its mysteries andfascinations for the scientists, and lyingwell out of tho route of vessels tradingbetween Australasia and the west 'coastof Amoriea, was-willed at by the steiuncrKnight of the Garter, which arrived atNewcastle a few days ago. Captain Ste-phen?, master of the Knight of the Gar-ter, said that when they reached that is-land Governor Edmunds, an Englishman,and the only white man there, boardedthe vessel, and was welcomed. The na-tives were anxious to trade with tliosteamer's crow. In return for their goodsthey did not -seek money, but wauledclothes. Many exchiuiges were made withthe natives formeat, fruit, and vegetables.The gigantic earrings in ninny parts oftho island bear indications of early civili.sation, and hare long been a mystery,which remains to be sol -;d by scientists.An expedition of scientists from the Bri-tish Museum is going there next July,and nHut the same timo a party for theSmithsonian Institute, in America, intendsmaking investigations. Easter Island isgoverned by Chile. The Government hasa sheep station there. The wool crop lastyear was valued at .£.IOO.
A correspondent of the British MedicalJournal reports that an ovcrsa-r at a''timber mill in Lagos was caught by hiscoat-tails in a lly-wheol and swung roundfor an hour and a half. He was thenalive, but died three hours later.For Bronchial Coughs and Colds,Woods' Groat PcDßorraint Cure. Is, G<L*
THE STRANDED LINER.
DISAPPOINTING WORK.
MAT AWAIT NEXT HIGH TIDES.
Little news wag availaMo concerningtho stranded liner Indrabarah yesterday.Tho nor'-westerly gale which prevailed onMonday would havo the effect of bringing
■up a lumpy sea, and it is likely that thishas had some effect on thosalvage ar-rangements. Last evening tho wind veeredfrom tho west to tho south, and accord-ing to tho meteorological report bad wea-ther is forthcoming. Heavy seas are pre-dicted on .the West Coast.
Tho following message was received bythe Secretary of the Post and TelegraphDepartment (Mr. W. E. Morris) from thepostmaster at Bulls yesterday afternoon:—"At 1 o'clock to-day tho Indrabarahhad not teen moved, and tho sea thenwas getting higher than yesterday."
Later (at 8.30 jp.m.) tho postmaster atBulls telegraphecl: "Very disappointingday at Indrabarah, due chiefly to thecontinued high seas. Tlie general opinionis that operations will be suspended untiltho next high tide."
(By Telegraph— Spccial Correspondent.)Wanganui, itay 20.
The rough weather is interfering withoperations at tho Indrabarah, andjatest.reports'are pessimistic as to the chancesof refloating the vessel. Sho must. _itis felt, float bu the present spring tidesif she is to get off at all. It is estimatedthat 200 cars and motor-cycles made thetrip down the Parewamu Road (^r0,mBulls conveying those who visited thoscene of the stranded steamer.REINSURED . AT FIFTY GUINEA, 1?.
By' Telegraph—Press A33ocia-tion—Copyright(Ucc. May 20, 11.30 p.m.)
' London, May 20.The Indrabarah has been reinsured
at fifty guineas per cent.
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
THE BOULCOTT ST. SHOOTING,
•.'/ At the .adjourned inquest by the CityCoroner (Dr. A. W. M'Arthur; S.At.) intotho circumstances-surrounding the deathof "Alexander Thompson, whose body wasfound in Boulcotfc Street oil batlll'daymorning, formal medical evidence wastendered as lo tho cause of death.
Tho finding of the coroner was that thodeceased died from ' a gun-shot wound,eejf-inllicted., '
• -"SMASHED TO MATCHWOOD."CAR HIT BY LOCOMOTIVE.
(By Telegraph-Press Association.)
■ Dannevirke, May 20.A serious motor-car accident occurred
at the dangerous Firipiri crossing short-ly bei'oro 1 o'clock. The car was beingdriven by a young- malt named Dean, of
.Wellington, and contained Miss E. Sweet-apple, of Napier. When crossing tholino it was struck by an engine andsmashed to matchwood. Dean was seri-ously injured about tho head. He wasbrought to'Dannevirke for medical atten-tion. Miss Sweetapple had a miraculous
■ escape, being practically uninjured.The victim of the motor accident, Roy
Horace Dean, comes from Napier. Hodied four hours after admission to theDannevirke Hospital.
A TERRIBLE DEATH.Auckland, May 20.
An inquest was held to-day on WilliamSmith, who met' his death in a fire in aHobson Street boardinghouse early yester-day morning. Allen Morton stated thatdeceased was subject to epileptic fits, andoften went to sleep with I the candleburning. At tHe"time of'.fcho fire," wit-ness entered deceased's room, on hearinghim calling loudly, and found portion ofthe mattress burned away, and deceasedlying oil his back on the bed. He triedto lift him, but could not do so. Wit-ness went for water to try and extinguishtho fire, but was driven out by the heatand smoke. Dr. Coldicutt deposed thatin his opinion death did not take placeuntil after the man had been partiallyburned alive.
FATAL DISH OF MUTTON.Auckland, May 20.
After their evening meal, the principaldish being stewed inntton, Mrs. Mary.AimRowley,' and her daughter, residing atPonsonby Terrace, developed ptomaine■poisoning. Mrs. Rowley diod shortly after:rom heart failure. y Tho daughter re-covered. No explanation can be givenof tho cause of tho poisoning.
FROLIC ON A.DRAT.■ Hamilton, May 20.
Archibald M'Millan, aged seven, wasriding on a dray, when a companion jok-ingly attempted to push him over theside. Jd'Millan's leg was caught betweenthe spokes of a moving wheel, and wasbroken between the anldo and knee.
■< A NARROW- -ESCAPE.Christchurch, May 20.
One of the members of tho specialparty which accompanied the Dunedinschool children on thoir visit to Christ-church," Mr. J. Murdoch, a member oftho Mosgiei School Committee, met witha serious mishap to-day. .He was. stay-ing at Cpker's Hotel, and did not get up■this morning. On entering' his room ,atnoon one of the hotel attendants foundtho apartment full of gas, tho gas-jet inthe room being turned on. Mr. Mur-doch, who was unconscious, was at onceconveyed to the 'Christchurch Hospital,where his condition was pronounced tobe critical, though the chances of re-covery were considered favourable. Itis thought that when turning off the gason' retiring last night, Mr. Murdochunwittingly turned it' on again after tholight was extinguished. .
KICKED BY A HORSE..: Waverley, May 20.
Advices to .hand from < Hawera statethat Mr. Lanier, of Waverley; was thevictim of a severe accident there a dayor two ago. Tie was kicked on ' the headby a horse, and the latest bulletin is thathis condition is regarded as serious.DEATH FROM BLOOD-POISONING.
Greymoutli, May 20.An inquest was held to-day touching
the death of Bertha Elizabeth Bird, mar-ried woman, who died at Ngahere lastweek. A verdict was returned that de-ceased ' met her death through blood-poisoning.
PAINFUL GUN ACCIDENT.(By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.)
' • Wanganui, May 20.A man named Lagar was tho victim
of a very painful accident, and the in-cident serves'to show tho value of first-aid knowledge" to all shooting men. Ittranspires that with a companion, thounfortunate man was shooting near Ngu-tuwera, and, in attempting to dislodgea refractory cartridge-case, ho knockedtho stock of his gun on the ground, whentiie cartridge in the other barrel wentoff and blew, awa.v the first and secondfingers of his right hand. Fortunately,his companion was an adept at first-aidwork, and, help being summoned. Laganwas driven to the Waitotara Station, andthence travelled to Wanganui, wheremedical attention was procured and the.damaged fingers were amputated.
AUCKLAND'S HARBOUR.
WAS THE MAHENO INTROUBLE ?
A REPORT AND A DENIAL.
(By Telezraph.—Special Correspondent.)
Auckland, May 20.Tho "Herald" published the following
this morning:—"Tho steamer Maheno,when leaving Auckland for Sydney lastevening, went aground to the westward oftho Hobson Street Wharf. No assistancowas forthcoming, nnd after three-quartersof an hour the vessel dragged herself freoand proceeded on her voyage. TlioMaheno left her berth at the inner west-ern tee of tho Queen Street Wharf-at11.15 p.m., but contrary to the usual prac-tice, had not ft Iwwliiio out. The otherwestern,tee, to which such a line is usual-ly made fasf, being in process of demoli-tion, the vessel manoeuvred at low speed,and was then swnn'r on her anchor. Offthe eastern sida ot the Hobson StreetWharf the master backed the sitern of hisvessel between the Northcote Ferry teoand tho steamer Maitai, tho latter vesselbeing berthed at the eastern side of theHobson Street Wharf. The Mahenosteamed ahead again slowly. By this timeit was almost dead low water, and thevessel swinging slowly out to tho west-ward of tha Hobson Street Wharf struckthe mud about five minutes before mid-night. She drifted slowly in towards thewliarf, against which the 80-ton floatingcrane Mahua was moored, but just whenit seemed almost inevitable that a colli-sion would occur, she managed to steamahead a little. Then she stuck again, andagain moved back. The tide had by th'rnbegun to riso,,and the nor'-wester whichhad sprung up violently while 'the Mahenowas in difficulties, suddenly dropped.Finally, after"being in the mud for three-quarters of an hour, the vessel was n.bloto steam ahead, and with the assistancoof the deeper water got clear into the fair-way. She got properly away an hour anda naif after unberthing. It is about ayear since tho Maheno into 'almostexactly similar difficulties in the sameplace, where 'the water is undredged. Anextraordinary aspect of the occurrencewas that from midnight onwards, al-though it was known to several people
: that tho steamer was in uiiuculties, therowas not a single official or employee ofeither the Harbour Board or of the UnionCompany on the wharf to render assist-ance if necessary. Constable Baker, whowas on duty in the locality, went roundto the wharf to stand by. and ho and somerepresentatives of tlie 'Herald,' who went.down on receipt of a telephone racJpage, |were the only persons available. The vessel jblew'her whistle just before midnight, a jlittle after sho touched bottom to the Iwestward of the wharf. The constablestated that as lie was going round hemet a watchman who was customarily re-lieved at midnight, coming away fromthe Hobson Street Wharf, but no reliefhad arrived by 12.40 a.m. At one periodthe big steamer wa9 within -lOi't. or 50ft.of thoHarbour Board's big floating crane,and in her practically helpless state, witha strong wind blowing her towards thewharf, there was no small risk of herbeing driven against the crane. As amatter of fact, the appeal of those onboard tlie steamer for someone to catch aheaving-line, so as to enable a useful pur-chase to be obtained from the wharf,necessitated the constable sliding down awire-hawser on to the deck of the crane,and in the small party of onlookers, soak-ed with the violent rain, being pressedinto service.
The Other Side of the Story.To-night the "Star" comes out with a
counter-blast, as follows;—"Some diffi-culty was experienced last night in get-ting the Maheno out from her berth atthe Queen Street Wharf when slio wasabout .to leave for Sydney,. There was,
a. high northerly' wind blowing At the'time, and in order to get the right cant,Captain M'Lean let go the anchor. Asa precaution he dispatched a message byMorse codo to the Harbour Board officialin the tower at Queen Street Wharf, ask-ing that the tug To Awhina should stand-by in case of emergencj'. Captain Ser-geant (tho harbourmaster) was informedof the position by Captain Lockic, thenight officer in charge, arid he at oncomade all necessary arrangements. Thofact that the Maheno was swinging atanchor gave some people the impression—aquite incorrect one—that she wasaground,and although the tug was around in asurprisingly short time after the receiptof the message, tho Maheno had got clearof the wharf, and steamed down the har-bour outward bound at 12.50 a.m. At thetime the Maheno left the berth therewere four Harbour Board officials oniluty, in addition to Captain Lockie, andMr. Birch, of tho Union .Company's staff,had six men under his charge. The offi-cials of tho Union Company have ex-pressed thanks to the Harbour Board stafffor the prompt manner in which tl'ey.dealt with the situation. The arting-harbourmaster (Captain H. H. Sergeant),reporting to the Harbour Board at to-day's meeting, stated that a report m themorning press was entirely contrary tofact, and the allegations that the board'sofficials were not present were untrue.
NEW ZEALAND CLUB.
THE CRUSH AT THE LUNCHEONS.
The annual meeting of the-New ZealandClub was held last evening. Mr. C. M.Luke presided over a gathering of abouttwenty.
Tho report and balance-sheet (alreadypublished) were adopted. Tho president,who moved the adoption, said that theyear had been one of very great success,and from an educational point of viewtho club had achieved a great deal ofgood. It had come into touch with agcod many notable people who ■ passedthrough tiie- city during tho year, andhad been delighted with tho addresses ofthese visitors.
It was dccidcd to increaso tho annualsubscription from ss. to 7s. Gd.
It was resolved that the rules shouldbe altered by making the following amend-ment. to Clause G:—"(a) Tho officers ofthe club shall consist of a president, twovice-presidents, tivj past-prc&idents, secre-tary, treasurer, official reporter, and au-ditor; (b) tho executive of tho club shallconsist of tho above oliiccrs, with tho ex-ception of the auditor, and together withfive members of tho committee; (c) theofficers and the committee,, with the ex-ception of tho past-presidents, shall boelected at t.lio annual meeting."
Officers were clected as follow:—Presi-dent, Mr. A. I!.. Atkinson; vice-presidents,Messrs. R. H. Webb and F. S. Pope; com-mittee, Messrs. C. E. Wheeler, W. Hobbs,L. Birks, R. B. Davis, and ProfessorI'ickeu; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr.G. O. Sutton; hon. auditor, Mr. G. A.Hurley.It was decided to ask his Excellency
tho Governor (Lord Liverpool) to acceptthe office of patron.
The meeting resolved to thank Mr. E.Schwabs (who recently left Wellingtonfor Sydney) for the services he renderedas oflicial reporter. Appreciation of theservices of Messrs. C. F. IT. Pollock(ex-secretary) and R. If. Webb (ex-trea-surer), and C. M. Luke (ex-president) wasrecorded.
Oil the motion of Mr. C. E. lVlieelerifc was resolved: "Tlmt no visitors whoaro rot Wellington residents or businesspeople should he permitted at clubluncheons, and that if this does not effectan improvement in regard to overcrowd-ing at the luncheons' the committeelis empowered to close the membershiplist at 200."
SICK OF WAITING.
D BATTERY.
CRACK CORPS DISCONTENTED.
OFFICIAL NEGLECT..
I'or some time past considerable dissatis-faction has existed amongst the officersami men of D Battery over th-e way inwhich, it is stated, they have been ne-glected by tlie military authorities inconnection with the Battery's armament.Before the new defence scheme came intooperation, D Battery was tho crack fieldartillery corps in the Dominion. In 1010th's corps won tlie New Zealand ArtilleryEfficiency Shield nnd the Rhodes Cup for15-pounder field gunnery under activoservice conditions. It is now. practicallyspeaking, a back number. This dissatis-faction has recently been investigated bya member of Tun Dominion staff, anilwhat follows fnay bo regarded as a repre-sentative survey of the position of thoWellington Artillery Brigade from thoTerritorial soldier's point of view.
Obsolete Mountain Gur.s,In the old scheme of things there werefive field batteries in New Zealand, one
at each of tlie four principal centres andone at Nelson. Their armament, was thoold 15-potinder quick-firer. With the in-troduction of tho new defence schemecame a change in Hie policy of the mili-tary authorities, with regard to the fieldartillery corps, and amongst other thingsD Battery was converted into a MountainArtillery Corps, with four guns, and mulelransnort. At the same time an artilleryestablishment was croatal at Nanier, andanother at Palmerston North, and to meetthe requirements of training in othercentres the old 15-pounder guns weretaken away from D Battery, which thensat down to wait for its new mountainguns. The mountain guns duly arrived—it is not yet possible in these days ofrapid doings to cable for puns and netthem out by the next mail—and whenthey did arrive they v.'cr* discovered to b?obsolete. They remained in Nov; Zealandfoivsome time, while the men of D Bat-tery familiarised themselves villi gilnswhich were destined never to be fired, forthey wero finally sent back, a purchaserliavins beer, found for them somowhero inthe Balkans.
So the thirteen odd mules which thoDepartment had succeeded in gatheringtogether for instruction purposes in thetraining of the mountain artillery wereturned out to crass, and once more 'thegunners of D Battery sat down to waitfor their armament. By and by two oftheir old 15-pounders found their wayback to 'tho Artillery Drillshcd in BuAloStreet, and that is the present, stato ofaffairs. They hays no horses—these havopone eleswhere—e-r.dihe guns are only usedfor indoor instruction. The other day afine new howitzer batten- passed by, enroute for Palmerston. Tho predicamentof D Battery may well be' likened toTennyson's brook, slightly modified—"guns may come, and guns may go, butwe sit here for ever, apparently.
Grounds for Criticism.No doubt the general staff at head-
quarters—which means the General OfficerCommanding—knows what it is nhouf, butthere is in the Garrison Hall a fair num-ber of officers who respectfullykg to differ, and «i very materialpoints, supported by cogent reasons.From the. general body of opinion certainpoints may be taken'as affording groundfor criticising the policy of General Head-quarters orb tho question of tlte artillerycorps.
In the first place, tho personnel of amountain artillery corps must consist of.specially picke<l men as regards physique,for tho handling of the guns, the loadingup of the mules calls for more than thostrength of average men. That has beendemonstrated in the experience of theImperial authorities. Secondly, it lias Wenfound, in the same region of experience,that it takes about six years to raako anefficient gunner—of the AV class. Gun-nery is a specialised and highly technicalsubject, and mountain gunnery is themost arduous and complicated branch ofartillery work. Taking these fncts intoconsideration, and also noting the periodof training required for the territorialgunner, suggestion of critics that themountain battery should be establishedwithimthn Permanent Force seems to havereason behind it.
What Should be Done.In Palinerston itorl.li, where tho new
howitzers have gone, they can't Ret enoughmen for the battery, let alone officers—theHowitzer Battery '.is commanded by a ter-ritorial officer of subaltern rank, and lessthan two years' artillery service! Thefamo difficulty obtains at Napier, moTe orless. In Wellington there are more ap-plications for places in D Battery. thantho establishment will allow—th» wholeof the Wellington Field Artillery Brigadeconld b9 recruited in the city without anydifficulty. There aro plenty of experiencedand highly-trained officers, and numbersof seasoned non-coms. . At least two bat-teries cowld easily be established, whiletho Palmerston and Napier batteriescould bo converted into infantry or mount-ed rifles.
Tin? question that is put forward isthis: Whether it would be better to tho-roughly train the artillery brigade inWellington city by reorganising the estab-lishment or only half ir-airi the gunners,as in the case at present? Suppose thebrigade wcro recruited and trained inWellington., and efficiently trained—fieldKilns, howitzers, and mule guns—and warapproached. In hours from the re-ceipt t)f tho very first suggestion of war..a battery of mins could be detrained atPalmerston. In not much longer time a■second battery could lie detrained at N«-nier. By centralising the brigade in Wel-lington, and utilising one unit of horsesfor the instruction of the whole, a greatsavins■ of expense would be effected, andat « gain to efficiency.
Finally, who istoblamo for the presentnosition of the Wellington Field ArtilleryBrigade, and of I) Battery in particular?Ts the General Officer Commanding theForces nctinir on his own resnonsibilitycr 011 the advice of his artillery staffofficers at headquarters? If ho is actingon his own responsibility, then lie shouldbe prepared to justify lii 3 policy. Canhe?
THE COMING OF OIL FUEL.
CONCERN IN NEWCASTLE.
Tho big coal export trade from NowSouth Wales to tho west coast of SouthAmerica is being seriously threatened bytho competition of oil fuel. Mr. JohnBrown, the well-known Newcastle collieryproprietor and shipping merchant, . lastweek received two letters on the subjectfrom his Valparaiso house.. It was statedthat numbers of steamors engaged in theChilean nitrate trade were using oil fuelin preference to coal, and one nitrate ex-port company declared thnt it had effect-ed a saving of .£12,000 'during the last sixmonths by using oil for that period, asagainst coal for tho previous six months.Taking into consideration the total costof the handling and usage of both kindsof fuel, it had been ascertained that oilwas lis. 3d. per ton less expensive thancoal. It was therefore, a great induce-ment to take up oil as fuel in preferencelo coal.
"That is what we are Retting how, be-fore the 'Panama Canal is opened," saidMr. Brown, in discussing the letters witha Sydney press representative. "Whatwill we get alter it luis been opened?II; is a very serious matter for the men,and also for the collieries. It may meana reduction in the price of coal, ahd'nlsoin wages. How can the proprietors go onin the face of such a slate of affairs? Ifthe men are making claims upon the pro-prietors, which the latter cannot pay. lion-do they expect to get along? A differ-ence nf Hs. 9d. per ton exists in the priceof oil aiul coal before the Canal is opened,what will happen after the Canal is open-ed, and the nil can lie brought -to nowmarkets? That is what we are upagainst, and we want the men to see it,"he concluded.
THE TRAGIC BANDIT.
HEAD-FIRSTDIVE FROM PRISONROOF.
DRAMATIC CONFERENCE WITH HISCOUNSEL.
Paris, .A pril G.Lacombe, the Anarchist bandit who was
captured on March 11 at tho fair cf L:iYillette, and was awaiting his trial fortwo murders to which he had confessed,committed suicide yesterday by leapingfrom tho roof of the Saute Prison nitermaking his escape from the eurciseyard.
Taking advantage of a moment's inat-tention 011 the part of the warders, hemade a dash for the iron railings whichenclose the exerciso yard. Climbingthem like a cat, he got his hands on thatiled roof of one of the prison buildings,and hauled himself to the roof. Thenhe scaled a 10ft. wall. When warders at-tempted to follow he hurled the t'les atthem. Tor two hours he led his pur-suers a chase across the roofs of the pri-son buildings, jumping from one wall toanother. Warders, a magistrate, andthe governor of the Santo Prison imploredhim to come down, but when they placedladders against the walls lie repelled themwith a fusillade of tiles. "If you comeup 011 the roof," he cried, "I'll jump andkill myself."
Th? governor attempted to parley. "Ifyou want me to come down," said La-combe, "send for my counsel and the ex-amining magistrate. I will see then whatI mean to do."
When the magistrate appeared tlie ban-dit reproached him with keeping him inprison instead of examining him. "Iwould prefer death to detention."Then as lie walked about the roof l.e com-plained of the prison food. "If y.m willcome down," said the governor; "I willexamine you as often as you please, andI will have your food sent in from anyrestaurant you choose. What n.ore canI do?" he asked in a pleading \oice." Lacombo smiled grimly. "No, I havehad enough of it. My mind is made up.In'a few minutes I will throw myself intothe courtyard and kill myself," .
"No, you will not kill yourself," saidtho magistrate, "you will only maim your-self." '
"Leave that to me," was Lacombe'sreply. "When I jump I will kill my-self."
MATTRESSES AS SHIELDS.At that moment M. Boucheron, the pris-
oner's counsel, arrived, and when theother spectators had retired Lacombe con-sented to shako hands with him. But allthe barritser's efforts to*induce Lacombeto re-enter his cell wero fruitless. Thebandit's final words were, "At 11.30 I willjump from the roof and it will bo allover."
The governor ordered mattresses to helaid on the ground to defeat Jacombo'sdesign, and ordered firemen to give chase.The bandit mado such good use of thoslates that they had to retreat. Usingmattresses as "shields, they eventuallysurrounded him. Then Lacombo artvano-cd to the edge of the roof and shouted,"Tho moment has come."It was exactly 11.30, the hour lie had
fixed for his death. Turning towards hiscounsel, he said. "Tell my mother mylast thoughts : were of her. Good-bye toall by comrades." Bringing his handstogether as if to dive, ho plunged headdownwards to tho ground, lie fell 25feet, landing on his head. Death wasinstantaneous. As his body struck theground the occupants of the cells sur-rounding tlie courtyard, who had Iconfollowing the lescaped prisoner with eagereyes, yelled with delight, "Vive Lacombe!Vive i'Anarchie!"—'"Daily Mail."
THE FRIEDMANN CURE.
CONDEMNED IN AMERICA.
U.S.A. HEALTH SERVICE KEPOKT.Washington, May 10.Dr. Friedmann's method of treating
tuberculosis has bceD / -iractically con-demned by the United dtates health ser-vice, though the opinions in tho reportaro cautiously expressed.
Tho report was read by Dr. Andersonbefore tho Association for tho Study andPrevention of Tuberculosis. "~\Ve be-lieve," says tho report, "that wo aro notin a'position to express an opinion basedon tho present condition of tho patientswo havo observed, but tvo are in a positionto state that the effects so far observeddo not justify the confidence in theremedywhich has been given by wide-spread pub-licity. _ •
"l*lio reticence and vacillation of Dr.Priedmann havo not in any way been al-lowed to interfere with our judgment asto the effects of the remedy."
The report is signed by Dr. Andersonand Dr. Stimson.
Tho doctors add, apart from tho report:"In our opinion harm has been done bywidespread publicity, because it has les-sened tho confidence of tuberculous per-sons in the recognised methods of treat-ment, or has led to their interruptingtlieir use.
"We aro constrained to adviso personsagainst any lessening in the use of thosewell-known methods."
Concerning Dr. Priedmnnn's culture,tho doctors say: "Experiments have shownit.to.bo an organism having propertiesquite different to those of any tuberculinbacilli with which ive are acquainted."—Sydney "Sun."
DISEASE AND THE KNIFE,
OPERATIONS BECOMING UN-FASHIONABLE.
The libel action brought in London lastmonth by Miss Lind-af-llagebv, thefamous onti-vivisectionist, against Dr.Salceby and the "Pall Mall Gazette" ap-pears to show that the attitude of theBritish public toward "the knife" hasrecently undergone a considerablechange.People in England, according to tho"Argus" correspondent, are not nearly toready to be cut up by eminent surgeonsas tiiey were a few years ago. It isno longer fashionable to boast about tholoss of your appendix and part of yourintestines. Incidentally, one gathersthat in the opinion of Harley Street, asformed by what its doctors sec of Aus-tralians, tho profession m Australia isaltogether too fond of cutting up itspatients; while the London specialist indentistry tells you that his fellows in thoCommonwealth have carried to extremesthe theory that teeth should be extractedonly as a last resort. The "crowning"and "bridging" achievements of Sydneyand Melbourne dentists aro the marvel ofthe profession here. Then best Londonmen seem to do far more extraction th.ana few years ago j freaks in mouth "car-pentry" are strongly condemned.
SOCIALIST DOWNHEARTED.
"MOVEMENT HAS NOT PRO-GRESSED."
London, May 11.Dan Irving, chairman of the animal con-
ference of the British Socialist party, de-livering an address at Blackpool, said Dincongress was th? most disappointing anddispiriting ho had ever known, lie re-gretted the lack of enthusiasm; it showedthat the movement had not progressed.—Svilney "Siin."
MASTERTON NOTES.(From Our Special Correspondent.)
Mastcrton, May 20.The 3lnsterton Borough Council decided
to-night to wait upon the Minister forPublic Works in reference to the short-age of coal trucks, and to ask that per-mission be granted municipalities to sellcoal. The proposal to raise tho waxes ofthe borough employees to Ids. per daywas negatived.
AERIAL LINERS.
TOO CARRY 300 PEOPLE 4000MILES.
A GRANDIOSE SCHEME.
London, April 11.A special article in "The Times En-
gineering Supplement" deals with thesystem of airship construction plannedby Mr. A. Bcerner. The proposals show(says the writer) on what a grandiosescale and with what minuteness of detailthe building of airships is now beingworked out, at any rate on paper. Briefly,it may be said that he contemplates anaerial cruiser capable of carrying 3'Jflpersons, with all the comforts of a first-class hotel for a distance of -1000 mileswithout intermediate landing at an aver-age speed exceeding GO miles an hour.
The total length of the chassis is SSfift.—longer than the largest ship afloat—andit has a width of 82ft. Upon it is mount-ed a platform, 138ft. wide, which carriesthe gas balloons, each 16ft. in diameterand 72i't. high. 'These aro arranged inthree rows, there being 18 in each of theoutside rows and 1!) in the middle one.The latter consist of single compartments,containing hydrogen, whereas in oach ofthe side balloons there are ,'hrco compart-ments, an- interior receptacle being pro-vided which is joined lo the exteriorballoon in such a way ns to form a par-tition and divide it into two. This in-terior receptacle is filled with nitrogen,whiie the inner compartments next themiddle row, contain hydrogen and theouter bnc air. Tho whole of these bal-loons aro enclosed in a general envelope,the gas compartment thus formed beingfilled with nitrogen. It follows that allthe hydrogen is surrounded by a layerof. nitrogen to save it from tho risk ofinflammation; but, further, the arrange-ment serves an important function inpreventing loss of hydrogen. If, throughincrease of temperature or through risingto a great height, the latter gas expandsin the central balloons pressure is exertedou tlie outer ones, but is relieved by theair in the outer compartments escapingthrough safety valves provided for thepurpose, tlie stors of hydrogen not beingdiminished. If. on the other hand,tho hydrogen contracts, oyinj to loweredtemperature or diminished height, thopressure i? restored by pumping air intothe air compartments by means of a fan.Therefore, without loss of gas and with-out the use of ballast, tho airship canrise or fall in search of the air currentsmost favourable to its progress. The ver-tical limit of this upward and down-ward motion without the loss cf gas iscalculated at about 10,0ilUt't., and in orderto permit of this range the hydrogen bal-loons aro filled initially to only aboutthroe-quarters of their capacity. Thevarious gas compartments are further con-nected by a system of.pipes throughwhich gas can be x>uniped from me toanother as may be necessary to bring theairship to a level keel, should its hori-zontal equilibrium have been disturbed bypassengers congregating, say, in thesaloon or the cabins.
Propulsion.The vessel is propelled by 54 six-cylin-
der motors, 17 oi wliich aro placed alongone side and 17 along the other. As theyare of 150-200 h.p. each, the iMuimunipower available is reckoned at nbout 5100h.p. 'I'hcy are arranged some 12ft. orloft, away from the gas balloons, aifd thelatter arc protected from lire not onlyby tho envelopes of nitrogen already n.tn-tioned, but also by interposed layers ofmetallic gauzo which are designed to pre-vent the propagation of flame. Further,,a pipe connected with the nitrogen cham-ber permits the motors to be flooded withnitrogen in case of danger, and us a finalprecaution any motor can bo quickly un-shipped and thrown overboard. Tho ex-hausts aro collected in one main conduit,and their heat utilised for warming thecabins.
Method of Landing.Landing is effected withoutexternal aid.
A gentlo and regular descent is cbtainedby setting most of the propellers so thatthey force tho airship downwards, thoughsome of them aro made to work in tnovising direction, and a part of the peveris used to counteract contrary winds, andgivo a slight forward movement. P"efer-ably the vessel is brought down in aslightly inclined position, so that one ofthe pairs of wheels provided at cach endof tiie chassis may grip tho ground.Then, by means of the propellers thoother end is brought, down, and tho pow-er available is ample to hold the so'tshipto the ground until tho crew have author-ed it by cables in 3G5 different places.AVhen it has to be taken into a shed it ismade to descend in the same nav andfastened at ono end. Then a '.lumber ofwagons, running on rails placed concen-trically in a semi-circle round Die monthof tho shed, are placed under it, and whenit has been secured to these they aie innalong longitudinal rails into the shed. Adescent upon water is made in the samoway as upon land, though it is rot neces-sary to place the airship in an inclinedposition, and anchoring is effected aswith an ordinary vessel. Tho aerialcruiser is designed to travel on water aswell as in the air, tho speed being about40 miles an hour.
KEENER COMPETITION.
AMERICAN VIEWS ON LOWERTARIFFS.
EFFECT ON WOOL TRADE.
President Wilson's insistence on thenecessity that American manufacturersshould match themselves with foreigncompetitors, taken in conjunction withtho moderate reductions proposed in thenew Tariff Bill, lias had on the whole aremarkably favourable reception.
Manufacturers liavo recovered from thehysterical fright • with which thcy_ firstanticipated a Democratic tariff. "We aronot apprehensive," now represents theirattitude. . .
A typical expression of opinion wasthat made by one of tlio directors of thoGeneral Chemical Company, who, after abeard meeting held to consider tho Bill,observed, "It is true that wo went toWashington and heaped up argumentabove argument as to why tho tariff wallshould be raised and should stay high,but we now sco that this policy was amistake and recognise that ours has beenan over-protected industry."
In a similar manner crockery, china,and glassware manufacturers aro resign-ing themselves to the inevitable. Theydeclare that they can, with the tariff re-duced from 55 to 35 per cent., easily un-dersell British competitors in the Ameri-can market. Boot manufacturers . areequally confident. England is our chiefcompetitor, they say, but we are notafraid, for "whils tho cost of labour inEngland is lower than here, tho Englishproduction is correspondingly lower owingto the slower speed with which Englishoperatives work. We can easily beat thoEnglish in tho style of lwots, and, astlie English havo an unconquerable aver-sion to rapid changes in styles, Ihcy arenot likely to do much business in thiscountry.'
Steel manufacturers profess to regardtho liill with indifference, declaring thatthe German and British works have somany orders that tboy are unable topay "any attention to the American mar-ket. "\Vc> are now able to stand oil ourown foot,'' was Sir. Carnegie's verdict.The packim industries assume a non-chalant altitude, arguing that there isa real shortage of meat the world overwhich the reduction in this tariff willnot affect.
The alarmists arc the paper manufac-turers and certain branches of the ?o|.ton industries. •
The wool trade is the petted child otAmerican industry, but the proposal forfieo wool is surprisingly enough widelyaccepted as a step in the right direc-tion. The Ho per cent, duty on woollencloth, however, is criticised as insutli-cient to overcome tho great advantagesBritain possesses in her more intimateknowledge of the vastly differing finali-ties ns regards texture, shrinking, andblending. Moreover, it is pointed outthat despite the higher wages paid here,British operatives are incomparably moreefficient than American.
TRACKLESS TROLLIES.
A POPULAR SYSTEM.
COMPARISONS IN COST.
London, March 27.ItemarkaMe progress is being mado- in
this country and upon the Continent inthe development of trackless trolley sys-tems. This method of trans-it is especial-ly suitablo for use in towns in which,although the (radio is considerable, itdoes not warrant the expensive laying oftramway tracks. 'Trackless trolleys aroalso becoming popular ns feeders from theoutlying suburbs to the tram and motor-omnibus services of tho largest cities.They have been firmly established inAustria and Germany for some time, andby tlmr cheapness and efficiency theyseem to have given complete satisfaction.They appear to be well suited for Aus-tralian conditions, and a few facts abouttheir working and cost may be of interestto Australian readers.
Tho car or omnibu9 used in the track-less trolley systems is very similar to themotor-omnibus, and its carrying capacityis roughly the same. But the tracklesstrolley beats the petrol-driven convey-ance badly when it comes to cost. Inconnection with 10 separate sen-ices inAustria and .Germany, which employabout 4-9 cars, the average running costper mile falls slightly under sd. »Thisincludes interest on capital, all runningo_xiwm-?s, aind allowance for deprecia-tion. The cost per mile of tho overheadwiring for a double line is about iIOOO.It is estimated that on the good roads ofEngland trackless trolleys can 'be runfor lid. q mile, while a fair estimate forthe Australian roads would be about sd.Tho London County Council trains costabout Td. per car mile, although hero itmust bo remembered that the tramway
cars have a far bigger carrying capacitythan either the motor omnibuses or thotrackless trolley cars. One of tho great-est attractions about the trackless trolleysystem is tho low cost of installation.Tho service is applicable to any road Infair condition. It has cost the LondonCounty Council .£II,OOO a mile to laydown its electric tramways, while petrolomnibuses, although they escape thisheavy outlay, are severely handicapped iftaken off good tracks. It is contended "bytho trackless trolley people that they canwork economically over roads which aroimjiossible for successful petrol 'bus ser-vices. Tho average weight of tho besttrackless trolley cars does not exceed 5ions when loaded, while the weight of aloaded London motor 'bus is 0J tons. Thatadditional uOcwl., when driven over roadswhich aro not perfect, meajis a big billfor wear and tear.
Tho Cost of the Petrol Bus.The London General Omnibus Com-
pany, which operates some 2000 buses, issaid to run each bus for Bd. a mile. OnAustralian tracks, thowover, tho costwould probably be from 13d. to lid. amile, which is about the cost of runningthree buses in tho English provinces.Then it is stated that evep- bus owned bytho London General Omnibus Company isthoroughly overhauled once in nine days,which means that one-ninth of thovehicles are always out of running, and,naturally, this adds substantially to thecightpencD psr mile. If this is necessaryon London streets, which, by general con-sent, provido tho best running tracks intho world, it will bo understood that thowear and tear for motor omnibuses onthe Australian roads would be very heavy.If tho trackless trolley people can, ns theyclaim, run over Australian roads for f>Jil.a mile, their system is likely to receiveconsiderable attention from our municipaland Government authorities.
Trackless trolleys have been very slow-ly received into England. The best sys-tems appear to be those advanced by theforeigner, and when it comes to engineer-'ing the Englishman is very scepticalabout anything which is invented ormanufactured abroad. But this pre-judice is now -rapidly disappearing. Alargo number of applications for powersto run railless trolley cars will como be-fore Parliament during this year. TheLeeds Municipality, which pioneered thesystem ill England, contemplates spend-ing an' additional ,£50,000, Bradford.£IOOO, Brighton .£20,000, while Ctiestor-field, Derby, Huddersfield, Nottingham,and other districts are also taking up thenew means of transit. The LondonCounty Council is spending nearly .£70,000upon railless trolley schemes in Hackney,Eltham, and Lewisham. In Monmouth-shire arailless traction company has beenformed with a capital of <£135,000, and anumber of other private companies are invarious stages of development, ft maybo said that trackless trolleys have beendefinitely approved for Great Britain, andthe successful intrusion o£ the foreigner,in the face of all the wonderful progressin recent years by the motor omnibus andtho electric tram, is substantial evidenceof its cheapness and efficiency.
Overhead Transmission.A good feature of at least one of the
1raclcless trolley systems is that it hasdispensed with the fixed overhead trans-mission rod. In place of the rod aflexiblo cable is used. This enables thecars to operate freely on either side oftho roadway.' The cablo'can Ire 40 feetin length, and the car will travel just asquickly and efficiently when 30 or 40 feetaway from tho wiro as when runningdirectly underneath. The cable is so ar-ranged that tho filack is gathered up au-tomatically. Tho advantage of thisscheme over tho fixed polo is obvious. Thecar is enabled, unlike the clectric tram,to pull tip right beside the pavement, andhas no difficulty in negotiating the othertraffic of tho thoroughfare. But per-haps the best argument in favour of thoflexible cable is that it does not confinethe five-ton vehicle to a narrow, limitedportion of the road, and so it operateswith a minimum of hardship to tho track.Of course the cars run on rubber tyres,and on roads of fair quality a high stand-ard of speed can l» maintained withoutdiscomfort to passengers. I have seeiithesa cars working on tho Continent, andthe ease with which they thread thicktraffic at a high speed is remarkable.Vehicles of unlimited weight appear tobe doomed even in London, where extra-ordinary licenso is given. It is regardedas certain that within a few years themotor omnibus companies will be com-pelled to limit the loaded weight of theirvehicles to five tons or less, oven if thecarrying capacity has to be reduced.
Simplicity.Tho most favoured trackless trolley sys-tem has considerably reduccd the weight
of its cars by the clever elimination ofdriving gear. The electric power is trans-mitted direct to a gear contained in thohind wheels of the vehicles—a schemewhich is a triumph of concentrated mech-anism. Altogether tho trackless trolleysare delightfully simple. For instance, itis possible to work n traction service inboth directions without duplicating theoverhead wires and without that loss, oftimo which is common lipon a single tram-way track. The conductors who meetmerely exchange trolley connections with-out descending froin their cars, and passon after a pause of only a few seconds.In short, trackless trolleys give a serviceequal to a tramway service without thoheavy expenditure rpon rails, and arovery much cheaper than motor omnibuses.It is certain thai within a few years theywill be general in the outskirts of all
European cities, and will be found every-where in the provinces where tho popula-tion is not sufficient to justify expendi-ture upon tramway track. South Africais the first of the oversea Dominions tolake thorn ni>, and services are now beinginstalled at ISoekslnirg. Gevmiston, Bloem-fnntein, and Benoni.—"Sydney DailyTelegraph." ' I
STEAM IN THE SOUTHPACIFIC.
A GREAT DEVELOPMENT,Tho advent of tho Uiuou Steam Ship
Company's colossal and palatial linerNiagara may fairly be said to constitutean epoch in the maritime history of thesosouthern lands. A correspondent of tho..ydncy "Daily Telegraph" remarked,apropos of tho event, that other notablesteamers that liavo entered i'ort Jack-ton liavo demonstrated tlie steady devel-opment of ship-building, but it mii;lit.surely be asserted that none had awak-ened greater interest ill the potentialitiesot ocean transit than tiiis new red tun-neled liner.
r i"??' i *1? -J,11 Sydney awoke toi L J,1, ' 0. Company's mailjioat Chusan, 700 tons, had arrived from.Southampton in 79 days, and the journalsol that day proclaimed the fact under thoheading, "Steam at Last." A public ballwas held to celebrate tho event, and asimilar function marked the arrival ofthe Great Britain, a steamer which waswarranted to vpyago to and from Liver-pool under W days. As a matter of fact,tins grand old ship, wliich had a regis-tered tonnage of 351)0, made her passagesm nearer 50 than W days. In 1671, the St.Usyth arrived in Melbourne, 45 days fromLondon, and when tho Lusilania, the pio-neer of (ho Orient line, covcred tho same(instance 30 days, the possibilities aris-ing out of such abbreviation of time andspace were regarded with proat satisfac-tion. Many oi Iho present generation willlerneinbar the sensation which was causedin 3632 when the Austral, which wastermed "tho ship of tho age," reachedSydney, and shortly afterwards sank iniSeutral Bay through a coal port havingbeen Jett, (pen. Xow "a shin of anotherago has arrived, a ship, we mav caU ourown, for sho belongs to both sides of thoJasman Sea.
J-ho history of the development of steamtraffic between Australia and New Zea-land, and incidentally of the rise of tlwUnion Company, is a remarkable one: In185S, the A.S.N. Company held a con-tract to carry (he mails between Mel-bourne and Wellington, and some of itssteamers wore employed a little later totransport troops lor tho Maori war. In18G1, the same company was running theWonga Wonga and Kangitira to meet tlierush of gold diggers from Melbourne toOtago, and in the next year a regularmonthly service from Sydney to AVelling-ton was inaugurated by tho latter vessel.Thereafter the A.S.N. Company seems tohave been too much occupied with itsoperations on the coast of the mainland togive more than spasmodic attention to theNew Zealand trade.
In ISG3, when the West Coast rush setin, M'Mechan, Blackwood, and Co., ofMelbourne, ran the Alhambra, a steamerof 800 tons, to Hokitika, and tho Tas-mania S.N, Company withdrew theirsteamer City of Ilobart from the Sydney-Ilobart line, to compete with her. ThoTasmanian boat, though slightly smallerthan the Alhambra, was half as fastagain, and it is rororded that she some-times made two trips to her rival's one.In the result, however, the tortoiso won,for tho hare displayed a decided weaknessfor breaking down, which, the ownersascribed to tho fact that too much hadbeen taken out of the engines on the voy-age from Glasgow. The T.S.N. Companythen ordered two new boats from Scot-land, ono of which was the SouthernCross, which held tho blue ribbon inthese seas for at least a dozen years.She had been built as a bloekado runnerfor tho Confederate Government, and wasone of the ships seized on tho stocks bythe British Government, in consequenceof the warning of the United tSates re-garding the depredations then being com-mjtted by the Tyne-built cruiser Ala-bama. Tho second steamer was tho Dor-went, now a collier well-known in Syd-ney Harbour. The registered tonnage ofeach' of these steamers was about TOO.Unfortunately for the prospects of thoTasmanian Compauy, so far as the NewZealand trade was concerned, both boatsmade long passages out under sail, for illtho meantime M'MechaiyBlackwood, andCo. bought-and'stcamecl out'tho Oineo, ofnearly 1000' tons, and secured'a firm foot-hold before their competitors were ablo tomeet tiro requirements of tlio trado.
The M'M'rch.m-Ulackwood tine con-tinued to flourish through the later six-ties, aiyl the only opposition it had isthe New Zealand-trade was that of thoHero, a fine boat owned by Grice, Sum-ner and Co., ofMelbourne, and command-ed by the well-remembered CaptainThomas Logan. TheHero had been built,as a yacht for tho King of Sweden, andshe was not only splendidly fitted up,but wns very fust.
~Her tonnage was
about 800. She was tho first steamer tomake round trips from Sydney to Mel-bourne, via. the New Zealand pork.When the ill-slarred Panama and NewZealand Company cancelled all its ser-vices, M'Mechnn, Blackwood, and Co.bought most of its branch steamers, in-cluding the Rangitoto, Prince Alfred,llararua, and Claude Hamilton. Thisfirm was also Tunning UlO Aldin?n andCoorong in the Melbourne-Adelaide ser-vice, so that in 1870 .it possessed quitea respectable float. A littb later theyadded tlio Otago, and the. Albion, twoboats of 1000 and SOO tons respectively.Tho latter, after.vards renamed the Cen-tennial, li"S at tho bottom of Taylor'sBay, Sydney Harbour, as the Tcsult ofa collision. Tn IS7G this firm built thoArawatta and Ringarooma, and thesespeedy ships, which had a tonnage of1200, greatly raised'ihe standard of com-fort and efficiency wl\ieh had previouslyexisted in Australasian wat.?r.s.
TW> genesis of the Union Line began in1575, when a number of Duuedin businessmen floated the company to cater for thecoastal trade. Tho initial operations wereconducted upon a decidedly ui.prctcntionsseals, for the aggregate toimape of thethree vessels employed was only 7'21.Howevtu-, it. was not long before thellawca and Taupo, two handy boars,each of tliO tons, possessed of Rood speed,were built. In 1870 tli-» company was sofirnilv established (hat it was able topurchnse the Jl'Meclmn-Blackwood fleijf,which had aiready included Ilobart in itsitinerary. The Union Company nowbejrani to extend its operations by leapsand bounds, and a largl.l number of newships wero ordered from the Clyde.Among these was tho famous flier, the
Botomahana, which arrived in 187". Thisremarkable stcamor easily developed 17knots, ond verv soon broke all accords.She iras, moreover equipped in a styleunapproachod by any colonial craft ofthe dav. In the icarly eighties the com-pany's" trade expanded enormously, andas a consequcn:o many ships were addedto its fleet. The Wakatipu and Haurotowere soon followed by a bunch of fasterand laTgur boats, anion? which wore theTarawera, Manapouri. Wnirarapa. Wai-iiora. and To Anau. Later, the Mnraroaand Waikare met the demand for increasedspeed and Breaker (onnafe.
In 181)1 the Tas'manian S.N. Company,which had lost three of its boats ju ashort time, was absorbed by the UnionCompany for the consideration of 50.000shares. As a result of this transactiontho newly-built T.ilune, tho Oonah, I'n-teena, Flinders, Flora, and Corinna be-came red funnel liners, and a trade whichhas since marvellously developed passedto'tho new owners. In 18S7 the companyinaugurated a direct service between NewZealand and Calcutta, which has calledfor the employment of lalre ships. Thoconnection of' tho Union Company withtho trans-Pacific mail services dates from186(1. The two lines which it is nowrunning from Sydney to Vancouver andSan Francisco have necessitated the pro-vision# of those splendid mail liners theMakura, Tahiti, and Jlarama, ami nowof tho imposing Niagara.
Whilst, the company has been strikingout to compete with other great concernsengaged in ocean transit, it has not failedto maintain its prestige in homo waters.If. showed that it was alert to thoadvan-tages of the 'turbine when it adopted (hatinched of propulsion for the Maheno, theLoongana, and the Maori, though the ro-cently-nildcd Maungamii, which has al-ready established a great imputation forspeed and comfort, was fitted with recipro-cating engines,
Sinco 1801 Huddart, Parker, and Co.have teen running a service of fine boatsbetween Sydney and Melbourne, via thoNew Zealand ports; but the Union Co.
has continued to enjoy practically a mono-poly of Hi® Dominion coastal trade, in-clucling the carriage of coal. The trafficrequirements of the company liavo becomoso great that no fewer than 70 steamerswith an aggregate tonnage of 200,000 havehad to be provided lo meet them.
Tho fact that 'tho Union Co. hasachieved such wonderful results in lessthan 10 years not. only establishes that i(«management has been enterprising amiefficient, but that the trade of tho Com-monwealth and the Dominion ro-.ts onsuch a substantial ba,-is that; those whocultivate it sedulously may expect to bo."witU both htiads,
NEW ZEALAND NEWS.(By Telegraph.—Pross Association.)
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HEAVY SEA ON THE COAST.
BUSINESS PLACES FLOODED.Hokitlka, May 20.
An exceptionally heavy sea wasrunniui?along Hie coast to-day. Some of tlio busi-ness premises in Hevel Street, which runsparallel with tlie breakers, had the seawater running through them at high tidein the morning, and to-night the samethins occurred. Lucidly thisowners wereprepared, and had their goods removedfrom tho doors. Although damage re-sulted to tlie rear parts of the premises,it is not of an extensive nature. Old
residents stato that the sea has not beenso high for very many years.
BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.Timaru, May 20.
Dr. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop ofAuckland, addressed a meeting of about■100 last night against the 13iblc-in-SchoolsLeague. A resolution against league pro-posals was moved and seconded by twoUnitarians, and was carried unanimously.
TROUBLE IN A COUNTRY STORE.Invercargill, May 20.
At Otautau yesterday Jas. Chambers,35 years of age, was charged with assault-ing Archibald M'Arthur and doing himgrievous bodily harm. It was allegedthat accused was in,the Orawia Storewhen a territorial, who had been at camp,came in with a 'bottle of whisky in lus■pocket. Accused went.to tako the bottle,and M'Arthur, who was in charge of thestore, asked him to leave, which ho re-fused to do and challenged anyone to re-move him. M'Arthur approached ac-cused who, it was alleged, struck himon Uio forehead With the bottle of whiskywhich he had in his possession, inflict-ing a nasty wound, lie was committedfor trial, bail being allowed.
AN ELECTION RE-COUNT.Dunedin, May 20.
The re-count of the votes recorded atthe roeeiit municipal election at PortChalmers, which was decided upon as aresult of tho petition by Mr. Lunn andothers, was completed to-day. Tho resultwas that Mr. Lunn was four votes bo.hind the lowest successful candidate in-stead of one, as declared previously. Mr.Limn was ordered to pay the costs ofthe re-count J52 25., Court costs 45., andthe balance of tho deposit of £10 to bnforfeited. The re-count showed that, thovotes for only two candidates out of 15had boen correctly counted in the firstinstance, though the discrepancy In-eachcase was small.
ALLEGED BURGLARY.Grcymouth, May 20.
At the Magistrate's Court to-day Law-son Webster, alias ffm. Smith, on ' acharge of attempting to break and en-ter the dwelling of Isabella Kernish,widow, residing at Blackball, was com-mitted to the Supremo Court for trial.
PALMERSTON GAOL-BREAKERS.Palmerston North, May 20.
The Supremo Court opened this morn-ing. There is a very light criminal calen-dar. Groves and Fairley, the two escapees,caino up for sentence. The former wassentenced to sjx months' imprisonment forgaol-breaking, and two years for forgery,the sentences to bo concurrent. Fairliowas sentenced to six months' imprison-ment for gaol-breaking and' two years forbeing illegally 011 premises, terms to beconcurrent, iiotli prisoners had a list ofprevious convictions.
BURNS STATUE AT TIMARU.Timaru, May 20.
V Considerable) interest is being taken inthe ceremony of unveiling the statue ofRobert lhirns in tlio Park on Thursday.A special train has been arranged to comofrom Duncdin, and excursion fares willrule from Christchurch and Oamaru. Thostatue is of marble, the bust being life-size., It is the gift of Mr. .1. Craigie,M.l\\ and is placed near tho main en-trance of the park. Sir Robert Stout wiljbe tho principal speaker at tho ceremony.
x BANKRUPTS & BOOKS.Auckland, May 50.
At tlw Supreme Court to-dav, FrancisReginald Simmonds and Herbert -Mon-tague Henderson, grocers, who had becomebankrupt, pleaded guilty to a charge offailing to keep proper books, and wereeach sentenced to M days' imprisonment.
George Thomas Evans, wlio was foundguilty of having in his possession stolenproperly, knowing it to bo stolen, wassentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
NAPIER INNER HARBOUR.Napier, May 20.
At a meeting of the Napier HarbourBoard to-day, it was decided lo instructtlio board's" solictors to prepare a Billfor introduction to Parliament, authoris-ing the board to take a poll of ratcpeyeraon the question of raising a loan for thoconstruction of tho inner-harbour at PortAhnriri, capable of accommodating largovessels. *'
TIRED OF ROAMING.Auckland, May 20.
Wilfred Edward Harrison, an ablo sea-man from 11.M.5. New Zealand, gave him-self up to the water police as a deserterthis afternoon. He declared that he wastired of roaming round ashore. Ho wasclad in civilian clothes.
THE LAW CRIES "STOP."
UNSATISFIED SYDNEY DINERS."You can't have ice-cream; you've had
two courses already." This "(says theSydney "Telegraph ') was (he ver<!,ict ofthe Portia-like waitress at tho Civil Sor-vico Stores. Then she added: "Poo!Ilcro's the rule," and she indicated afly-leaf on the menu, which hore thotragic legend: "To comply with the con-ditions of the reccnt industrial award, a
'meal of not more than two courses willbe served in this tea-room." The mail,who had a penchant for Sicilian bombs,gasppd: "What! Do you mean to say thattho law is going to restrict my appetite?Oil, this is too much. The law will starveme. It doesn't understand my appetite.I've only hod soup and curried white,bait. I'll pay double for an ice-cream.''But Portia was adamant. "No," sho saidseverely, "the law says you've finished.Here's your ticket." Portia's verdict wasupheld by tho hiigher tribunal, the mana-ger of tiie establishment. "Having hadtwo courses, you can't get n third coursehere for love or money—short of buyingout tin's establishment, lock, stock, andbarrel." It was explained Or,it twocourses meant that the premises weroclassed as tea-rooms, while three coursesconstituted tliom n restaurant, and re-quired that the waitresses should be paid(is. Gd. per week more. Tho directors ofIho Civil Service Stores nro consideringwhether tliey will appeal against theaward; but, meanwhile they are experi-menting with their patrons' appetites. Thobomb-lover walked sadly away, wonderingwhether lie could solve the difficulty for
himself. If lie settled bis bill for twocourses and then walked three timesround his table, would he I/O a new cus-tomer? Or would.it be necessary (o walkout of the building, and then seek afresh table out of the perspective of theformer Portia-like directress of his ap-petite's destinies?
THE DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, ' MAY 21, 1913;8
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During the absonce of the grave-digger*for a couple of hours a pair of robin.tpractically completed the building of anest in the sido of a newly-dug grave inNarboroug'h (Norfolk) churchyard.- At a meeting of settlers in Blo6k !),
Moumahaki Survey District, held atWavcrley, §ays our special correspondent,the Ngaio Co-operative Dairy Companywas formed, with Mr. J. Palmer as sec-retary pro tem. It is intended to manu-facture chcese.
A Sivodis'h doctor claims to have dis-covered a proevrss of changim,' milk, intoa flno tlour that afterwards, through solu-tion in a. sufficient quantity of water, mayagain bo transformed into trilQiuiljc, li'itl}aE
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Messrs. Dnlget.y and Co.. Ltd., Welling-ton, have been instructed by Messrs. It.t'\ Hall, and A. IT. Cressweil, to sell byauction on their farm, Levin, tho wholeof their stock. The sale will be held oilWednesday, Mnv 2S, commencing at 1p.m.
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STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT CON-SUMPTION, ETC.
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ll.'it Anton Borltcj, a Hungarian artist,rut three of his pictures io pieces !(, viewof a numerous public nt the Budapest ArtExhibition to tpite the hanging commit-tee for,assinnins his works on uuflivour-ablo rlnre oa the walls,
ATHLETIC SPORTS.
BOXING.
EVENT SHARPLY TERMINATED.
BY THE REFEREE.
' EEOARTT-BEOMWICH MATCH.
(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.)Napier, May .20.
The Hawke's Bay Boxing Associationhad an unfortunate termination to theboxing contest . arrange*' between J.Hegarty and A. Bromwich at tho Prin-cess Theatre, Hastings, last evening, intho presence of a very largo crowd. Thomatch was for a purse of .£SO and ex-penses. At the commencement of tho
. fourth round the referee {Mr. Sampson,of Wellington) declared the contest, "nofight," and disqualified Bromwich.
Tho referee, did this in consequence ofBromwich's seconds having thrown in thetowel at a time when, in the referee'sopinion, the Sydney man was in a fitcondition to continue. Up to this stageHegarty had done all the leading, andhis work was so effective that, at theend of the second round, and, again, attho end of tho third, only the song savedBromwich from a knock-out. Tno l'imarulad showed himself the master from thecommencement. Time and again hulanded lefts with full force pn tho Syd-neyite, and occasionally followed this upby" punishing rights to the body. Heseemed much too strong and too quick forBromwich. who never got a chance toattack. He was badly "rattled" in thesecond round, and. in the third, spentmost of his efforts in ducking and clinch-ing.
As the gong sounded to commence thefourth round ono of Bromwich's secondsflung the towel into the ring. ■ .
The referee then went up to'Bromwich,who appeared , to bo desirous of continu-ing, and, immediately afterwards, statedlthat his decision was "no fight," andthat Bromwich was disqualified, as he wasquito fit to continue.
The unexpected termination causedgreat dissatisfaction to those jiresent.Subsequently Mr. Sampson stated to apress representative that, holding theview ho did, it was necessary to protectthe public by declaring tho affair void.He stated that, when appealed to. byhim, Bromwich was unwilling to go on.Bromwich, on tho other hand, alleges thathe was willing.to go 011, and blames hisseconds for throwing hipi over. :
JOHNSON V. PALZEK CANCELLED.The match between "Jack" Johnson and
"Al" Palzer, which was scheduled to takejilaco in Paris during June, is, accord-ing to tho "Sporting Life," for the timeboms cancelled. The cause of the rup-ture was Johnson's failure to put up theagreed forfeit, though he cabled that heivas doing so, and if. Vionno, the pro-moter, and Mr. O'fiourke, Palzer's inana-.ger, declared tho negotiations off.
Mr. O'Rourko and Palzer embarked onApril G for New York, arid on arrivingthoro it wis the former's intention topursue Johnson with greater vigour andInduce him, if possible, to post his for-feit with an American newspaper. ShouldJohnson be prevailed upon to do this,the match will bo ire-entered into, andM. Vienne stands, ' ready to stage. thematch at the Cirque do Paris the lastwook in September next on the sameterms and conditions that Johnson andPalzer li\ad agreed upon for the onejust cancelled. \ •
CRICKET.
ENGLISH COUNTY GAMES.
SOME BIG SCOKES: ' '
By Telegraph- -I'rens jlsioolatlon—Copyright.< .. May 19.
In the county championship cricketmatches, Lancashire scored 351 againstEssex, Makepeace contributing 127. iKent scored 180 against Oxford Uni-versity, Woollcy (not out) 224.
Surrey made 330 against Gloucestershire,Hobbs scoring 113 and Hitch 65. Glouces-tershire ran up 82 for three wickets.
Sussex put up 196, Fender scoring 87runs in seventy .minutes, and Middfe-axTeplied with 194 for eight wickets, J. W.Hearno 65 and "Warner 27.
Hampshire, against Leicestershire, made21!) (Mead 102),. Leicestershire losing fourwickets for 88.
Somersetshire knocked up only 90against Yorkshire,' Hirst 'bagging fourwickets for 33 runs. Yorkshire have lostsix wickets for 118, to wluch Hirst.hascontributed 40 (not out).
BILLIARDS.
GRAY IN FINE FORM.
By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrightSydney, May 20.
• In his match against Aitkeii, Gray, theAustralian billiardist, made a break of1199, mostly off tho red. This is a recordfor Sydney, and is only, forty below Lin-drum s Australian record.
HOCKEY.At the meeting of tho Wellington Hoc-
key Association on Monday evening aletter was received from the VictoriaClub stating that the opponents of theirthird elevep (the Hutt Valley team) hadfailed to put in an appearance on Satur-day. They did not ask for a win bydefault, but wanted a ruling on the mat-ter by the association. It was decidedto ask the Hutt Valley team for an ex-planation.
TJio Wellington Club entered a protestagainst Karori's win by ono goal to nilon Saturday, May 3, on tho grounds (1)that tho Karori goal-keeper lost his stickand immediately afterwards interferedwith a Wellington player, thus prevent-ing him from scoring; (2) that, in. theabsence of tho referee appointed, , thogame was controlled by a member of oneteam, instead of a member of each teamacting in his own half; and (3) that aKarori player carried the ball, then kick-ed it, and scored a goal. It- was decidedto dismiss the protest, as the evidencoshowed that the Wellington team refusedto take the whistle when requested to doso. The other two grounds of protestwere on matters of fact, iu which the,Teferee's decision was final.
The Xew Zealand Association wrotesinling that the annual meeting wouldbe held in Christchurch on .Tune 17.
The secretary (Mr. A. A. Benne'r) wasinstructed to endeavour to have the leasewith the Karori Borough Council com-
pleted by next meeting.
"THE WELLINGTON FOUR."
Four prominent figures in musical ac-tivity in Wellington, Messrs. Hodges,Buckley, Johnstone, and Bloy, all ofwhose plans for historical and nationalrecitals'havc been lipset srlnc« the ConcertChamber at the Town Hall is not avail-able, have issued a somewhat imnortantannouncement. Oil Wednesday, June 4,they will give a combined Concert in tholarge Town Hall. The concentration oftalent of this four is. of courre, a happyevent, ns thoy are all recrialists of jonffplatform experience. They state thatthey intend toleave alone anything severeor heavy, and that the public »iro to rn»ta menu of piquant music. They acid:"This is the Icind of evening that concert-goers are looking for."
OUR YORKSHIRE LETTER[
THE TRADE IN WOOL WASTES.
NEW AMERICAN iDUTIES ON WOOLAND ITS MANUFACTURES.
(Viom Our Special Correspondents.)Bradford, April 11, 1913.
Wo live in days when it can truly bosaid that in the' wool trade nothing iswasted, for every part of the fleece canbe used in ono way or another. Anyonewith even an elementary knowledge ofthe textile trade knows tnat every opera-tion produces sonio waste, but this so-called "waste" is not cast oh the dung-hill as was onco the case. It is iiscd intho production of serviceable goods ofsome kind. Without that usstul quad-ruped tho sheep, the whole human familywould be very badly off indeed. Tholittle animal provides food for the bodyand clothing for the back, and we ques-tion very much whether it is 9s widelyappreciated as it should be. Tho oldsaw that familiarity breeds contempt isapplicable here, for in 'these dnys ofbooming trade tho textile world is, figura-tively speaking, on the sheep's back,almost pulling off the fleece from itsskin. However, spinners and manufac-turers possibly appreciate the sheep morethan evor they did.. Even the wastetrade itself would be non-existent but forsheep, but instead of the number in-creasing in proportion to tho developingneeds of tho world, we are afraid thatthe greatest increase is taking place inpopulation. As we cast our eyes around,we aro under the impression that sheep-breeders aro appreciating their positionmore than ever, and we can safely im-press upon them the importance of mul-tiplying their stocks as much as possible,for tliera is nothing to indicate thatthere will be any surplus of wool grown.
THE WORLD'S SHEBP STOCKS.The entire wool and waste trade world
is laid undor a debt of obligation toMessrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., tor com-piling statistics showing tho world ssheep stocks. As already said, no sur-plus of raw material is being grown, butthe fleeces .which are being produced areproviding the trailo with sufficient rawmaterial to keep tho wheels of the lox-tile trade revolving. It will indeed bea sad day when Australia is again visit-ed by a few years of successive drought,as was the case from 1897 to 1902, foreverything points to the manufacturingworld wanting no less wool than wasproduced last year, when Australia turn-ed out her record clip, -the fact is re-markable that although that importantpart of Great Britain's domains is carry-ing a few hundred million sheep less thanwas the case in the early nineties, thequantity of raw material exported lastyear was several hundred thousand halesmore, all duo to tho improved class ofsheep which is being depastured to-da3.Tho reader will see that when a sheepis shearing, say, 2lb. per head more thanwas the case 15 ,to 20 years ago, it tellsa very different tale in 1 the number ofbales exported, and, as far as one is ableto judge, the world's output of wool, willrun more in that direction than towardsincrease in numbers. The followingtables show- the latest sheep returns _ andtho figures showing the population 01 theworld, contrasted with those for lew:
Sheep figures.Latest dates. • 1895.
Europe 182,515,920 198,194,214Australasia .....
117,011,654 110,561,331South America... 109,084,730 10j,,847,13-.North America... 03,486,952 5/,1j8,6D0Africa 50,293,014 31,890,Da2Asia 92,848,787 21,957,752Miscellaneous • ... • .
Totals 615,851,057 522,609,083Population figures.
Latest dates. 1895.Eurone 458,682,099 390,387,000Australasia 5,525,915 . 3,810.000floulh America..., -47,714.839 :
..
28,867,000North America...' .'i07i976,!)6K- ' r 88,895,0iW'\frica 14,455,433 1,710,225Asm *1,140,000 ■ 617,000Miscellaneous ...
—50,000
Totals 035,525,252 500,336,225•Wool-using.
Wo need not waste auy spaco in givingparticulars respecting the total output ofAustralasian wool, suffice it to say that itplays an important part in the social andcommercial life of Australasia, SouthAfrica, and the Itiver Plate. Our con-cern. to-day is to show what an immensetrade is done in the materials which comeout of the wool in the course of the pro-cesses through which it is put in orderto produce the best class of fabrics, etc.,and this trade comes off a good secondtest'to the primary trade in wool.WASTES AND THEIK DESCRIPTIONS.
There was a time in the history oi' thetextile industry when wastes, representedby noils, laps, shoddy, and burrs, were toa largo extent neglected; in fact, thepoorer classes of wastes at one time weroregarded as being entirely useless, jindwere thrown away. Those days havegoue by for ever, and there is no class ofbye-products from wool itself that is not acommercial and useable product. If wetake noils, these are the short hbresthrown out in the combing operation;that process simply combing out the longfibres, and separating them from theshort. Noils are a very important pro-duct, being produced in largo quantities,and when wo tell readers that reallysuperfine white noils are worth to-dav ashigh as Is. 9d. per lb., they will see thatthey cannot be in the least inferior tofetch such-a price. Of course, iDe noiltrade is specialised just the same as thewool trade itself, the various qualitiesbeing standardised. For instance, inlino merino noils we have what areknown, as clear noils, i.e., those in which,there-is a minimum amount of vegetablefibre, seed, shiv and burr being practi-cally non-existent. Then there areother fine noils where these materials arepresent in considerable quantities, andbefore these noils can bo used this obje-tionablo matter must be eliminated. Theonly process hitherto known for doingthis is carbonising, and this operation hasat least been brought to such a state of jperfection that the work can be done in
a most commendable way. The trade innoils is an almost universal one, on ac-count of the tremendous quantities of rawmaterial, for wherever combing is donethere is bound to bo noils as a result. Ofcourse, iu the process of combing the longfibres are mado into "silver" form, andare called tops. These tops are the chiefresult of the combing operation, beingmore valuable than the noil.
Noils are very largely exported, as wellas used by homo manufacturers in theproduction of flannels, shirtings, and anendless variety of woollen cloths, includ-ing felt hats. Crossbred noils are verylargely consumed by blanket manufactur-ers ; iii fact, they can be used into almostevery trade whero carded yarns are pro-duced. . , ml
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Then we come to laps. j.heso are theshort ends which become broken off fromtops, and are made in the drawing oper-ation. We are here entering a technicalbranch of the tcxtilo trade, and laps arelikewise mostly used bv tho woollen trade,and vry useful material they n.rc- J'would oo a scandalous shame if thefecould not be turned to good account, andlaps are largely sought after by the manu-facturers who buy noils. As a rule lapsare totally free fi'om seed, shiv and burr,these being to n very large extent elim-inated in the combing operation or foundin the noil. Good laps are always valu-able, fetching priccs within 2d. to 3d. oftops, and they contain the best ofwool.
Shoddy and burrs are naturally veryshort fibres, which are mado in the comb-ing operation. Tho word shoddy shouldnot be here wrongly understood. Thecommon idea of shoddy is tlint it is theproduct of woollen rags, and is associ-ated with the Dewsbury and Batley trade.Well, that no doubt is tho propel idea,still wool shoddy is produced in the comb-ing operation, and this by-produco is luirturally "all wool." As a rule, shoddyand burrs are put together, and presenta very queer appearance, particularly lothe uninitiated- The reader can well seethat when all the vegetable fibre is takenfrom the wool, a few _ shortfibres are certain to go with it.and it is these which are termedshoddy and burrs, and which have to )wcarboniscd before being fit for lisp. Whenthis is accomplished, tho resultant, ma-terial is naturally very short indeed, butit can be used, and has a commercialvalue. . .
One now conies to the spinning opera-• i: ia. and here wastes are the order of the
day." I'hero are the drawing wastes amithe spinning wastes. These are very valu-able, simply because they are the cmlsami threads which are produced in theoperations which take place ill convertingthe combed top into yarn. This processis too long to describe, but in every ma-chine it goes through there is hound toI>3 n little waste, which is sorted andsold. ,Tlion thero is the waste of theweaving shed. This is often known as"shoit ends," which comprises simply thelittle waslo that is ( made during theprocess of weaving. Seldom aro bobbinsof weft allowed to run entirely oil, butas the end .'is approaching the loom isstopped, and the yard or two of spunthread is palled olf by hand. This isfound to be far better than the piece con-taining the broken pick, for that wouldbo an imperfection. These "shoit ends"or thread wnsle are all taken and putthrough a garneting machine, and after-wards used over again in the productionof woollen fabrics. These thread-pullingmachines are. very useful, their functionbeing to take the hard, twisted threadsand ppen them out. This is done bvpassing them through sharp, revolvingcylinders, which have projecting teeth,and as the threads-go tlirougli the twistis removed, and they are torn into shreds,which, when opened out, can bo used overagain.
As ni ready said, the waste trado is anextensive as well as a valuable one. It isa question to-day of "gathering up infragments that nothing be lost." 'and thisprinciple can be truly applied to everybranch of the textile trade. Everythingto-day is looked into most carefully, andsurprising are the prices which are to-daybeing paid for every description of bv-products. Trade in all these lias latelybeen very good, and we believe that noth-ing'of a seriously injurious nature wilihappen in the future.
THE PROPOSED NEW AMERICANDUTIES.
The feature of the week in Ridingtextile circles has undoubtedly been tlioannouncement of the new duties on wooland woollen manufactures in tho Americanliousa of Representatives, and the infor-mation contained in the various cablesfrom Waslvngton has been read with con-siderable interest. We ne:d not mentionwhat effect the present e.xhorbiiant dutieshave had upon the trade and commerceof this district, suffice it to soy that not-withstanding almost prohibitive duties onwool and 'its products, the whole districtha 9enjoyed a state of prosperity. All thesame, the announcement of "freo wool,"together with a material reduction in theduties hitherto placed 011 tops, yarns, andpieces, has been very welcome news toeveryone connected with the industry.Tlicro are very few who believo that theproposed measure will ultimately becomelaw in its present form, but even if thereis a further revision and tho duties areslightly advanced, it is believed that morebusiness will be done with our Americancousins. A most favourable view is takenof the proposed new duties, and a con-siderable increase is expected in the ex-ports of every class of produce appertain-ing to the textile trade of tho West Rid-ing. There has been for years a unani-,mous opinion among travellers and tho'se'\Yorkshiremen who, after several I years'residence in the United States, have comoback, that the average class of woollenand worsted fabricswhich lias lately beenmade by American manufacturers hasbeen sadly defioient in wearing capacity,wliilo the very extensive use of cotton inplace of wool' lias in no sense tended tothe comfort or health. of tho Americanpopulate at large. Erco wool will placeiii tho hands of United States manufac-turers the privilege of turning out muchbetter fabrics at a -better price, and we6ee 110 reason why, with tho present duties,American mills cannot be run full time,and continue to enjoy a fair measure ofprosperity. Leeds, Huddersfield, and Brad-ford at ono time did a big business withthe United States, but during the lastfifteen years under the present duties, abig stride forward has been rondo byAmerican manufacturers, who. to-day arobetter fitted for meeting European com-petition than they were under the freowool days of 1895-9". The proposed nowduties will undoubtedly mean continuedprosperity to Yorkshire manufacturers aswell as a larger consumption.of..raw :.woolby American manufacturers themselves.
ROSENEATH AFFAIRS.
RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION MEETS.A. well-attended' meeting of the Rose-
nenth Ratepayers' Association was heltllust evening, Air. T. \V. Ward .presiding.
'Die City Council wrote stating that ithad been decided to make certain road im-provements in Lindrum Terrace, and toprovide a new hand-rail.
Tho letter was received, aiid it was de-cided to request the Outlying DistrictsCommittee of the council to meet a de-putation from tho association, and goover the district to investigate its re-quirements.
The association also decided to writeto the council asking it to complete_ thelighting of Grafton Road, as this is athrough road to Hataitai.
In order to assist the funds' of thoassociation it wag decided to hold a con-cert shortly in the Oriental Bay Kiosk.A committee was set up to go into thematter and make arrangements.
Some discussion took place iu regard tothe formation of cross-roads to connectthe main roads at Roseneath. "Whenthe main roads wore laid out no provisionwas made for cross-roads, and the asso-ciation considers it necessary that theyshould bo provided. In one instance, astrip of land has been given by the
[ owners in order that a cross road maybe formed, but in other cases it may benecessary to acquire private property fortho purposes of road-formation. This isone of the matters the Outlying Dis-tricts Committee of the City Councilwillbe asked to look into when they visit thodistrict.
WEATHER REPORTS.
(IT 4 P.M. YESTERDAY.Gape Maria van Diemen—W., fresh; baro-
meter, 29.68; thermometer, 60. Showery,hazy; Eca heavy.
Russell.—'W.S.W., fresh: barometer, 29.61;thermometer, 63. Cloudy; sea rough. :
Manukau Heads—S.W.. fresh; barometer,29.53; thermometer, <9. Overcast, showery;
Auckland—TV., gale; bajometcr, 29.55;thermometer, 56. Squally, showery.
Tauranjra.—S.W., lipht; barometer, 29.46;thermometer, 51. Overcast, showery; seasmooth. ,
Gisborne.—W., breeze; barometer, 29.36;thermometer, 54. Fair; sea smooth.
Port Ahnriri.—S.W.. lipht; barometer,29.30; thermometer. 50. Fine; sea smooth.
Castlepoint.—N.W., breeze; barometer,29.10; thermometer, 47. Cloudy; Eea, decreas-
'"wellinjrtori.—N.W.. breeze; barometer,29.15; thermometer, 51. Fair.
New Plymouth.—W.N.W.. fresh; barome-ter. 29.35; thermometer, 51. Overcast, rain;sea vcrv heavy.
Cane Ecmouf.—'W.. fresh; barometer,29.37;thermometer, 51. HnU showers; tea- rough.
WoneaTiui.-W., moderate (rale; barome-ter. 29.31; thermometer, 49. Fair; searouih.
Farewell Spit.—B.W., frt6h;, barometer,2930; thermometer, 42. Showery, seaheavy.
Capo Fonlwiud—S.W., moderate calo;barometer, 29.25; thermometer, 45. Squally,cbiivcrv; sea heavy.' Westport,.—S.S.W., fresh: barometer, 29.20;thermometer, 45. Showery, squally, sea
'"sten'hcni Island.-W., fresh; barometer,29.15: thermometer, 46. Overcast, hazy; sear°(Sipo Campbell.—'W., fresh; barometer,29 11- thermometer. 49. Olonuy; F-ea.Toush.
Kaikmira—W.S.TV.. breeze; barometer,2896- thermometer, 55. Fair; sea moderate.
Akaroa. Lighthouse.—W.. liffht; barometer,29 98' thermometer, 48. Clondv; sea fimoot.li.
p,>rt Chalmers.—S.Fi., fresh: barometer.29.97:' thermometer, 50. Overcast; sea mcd-Cl jfnitir<>t,«.—K.W.. moderoti (rnle; barome-ter. 28.89 thermometer, 39. Showery: searoueli.Bluff—"W.S.W.. breeze: bo remoter.- 28.94;thermometer, 43. Squally, sleet,
Mctonrolnsif.n.l Office. Wellington,' May 20. 1913.
SHIPPING NEWS.PHASES OF THE MOON.
MAY.Day. Hr. in.
New moon 6 7 54 p.m.Firiit uuartcr 13 11 15 p.m.Full moon 20 648 p.m..Last (imirter ...... 28 11 34 a.m.
3COOX.Sloon rises to-day, 4/6 p.m.; sete, 9.16 a.m.
Thursday.HIGH WATER.
To-day, 4.58 a.m.; 5.33 P.m.To-morrow, 5,55 a.m.: 6.23 p.m.
SOX.Sun ri£M>s to-ilay, 6.56 a.m.: set!:, 4.37 p.m.
, ARRIVALS.TUESDAY. 3fAY 20.
ORAWA, s.s. (0.29 a.m.), 110 tons, Nicholas,from Pictou.' - r „
AWAIIOU,- s.s. (5.45 a.m.), 407 tons, Man-le.v, from Foxton.WAIMEA, s.s. (5.50 a.m.), 452 tons. Steven3, from Wanganui.
MAHAROA, s.s. (7.45 a.m.). 2593 tons, Man-ning, from Lyttelton. Pa&teiißers: SaloonMisses Condell, Turnbull, Case-more, l>n*don, Smith, Buller. Michel!. Lavender, 3l.es-dames M'Master, Kurzel, Wright, Muirson,Armstrong, Anderson, M'Call, Temple; Lock-head, Turnbull, Captain Honckhouse amieon, Revs. M'Dowild. and Chappie, Judge
Gilfcdder, Judge • M'Cormack, Ohief Ju6ticePalmer, Mcd'srs. Joil, Williams, Chapman,Newsame, Harris, Loxnax, BischisKic, l>a.v-idson. Taylor, llcgarty, Valintine, Shall-crass, La- Roche, Bel), O Bricu, Dolman,Gvainge, Boyd, Kurzel, Edgar, osworthy,Wright, Gow, Gardiner. Anderson, MCall,Holland, Hunter, Resce, Rankin, Atkins,Robinson, Akere, Peck, Adams, Anderson,Durie, Grim-stone, Simeon, Atkins, Rogers,Brooks, Forsythe, M'Kenzie, Mitchell, Pres-ton, Carbon. New-son, Mawson, _ Bradley,Tompkins, Gummcr, Master Avison; wsteerage. ,
MONOI, s.s. (8.35 a.m.), 3433 tons, Ed-win, from northern ports. Passengers: ba-loon-Mr.«. Pasley, Misses Watson, Morris,Pearoc. Downey, Katten, Dawson, Messrs.Tiro, Collyer, Wahlors, Smith, Hurst,O'Brien. Wateon, Minister, Phillips. Heg-arty. Green, King, Short, Barry, Carr,Jfflips: 12 .Steerage.
.....„
.TUTANEKAI, s.s. (9.5a.m.), 811 tons, Post,
from Onok Strait.„
MAN A. s.s. (9.45 a.m.). 134 tons, Gibson,a.m.), 248 tons, Hay,
from Nelson and Motuska. _ _AMOKUIiA. Government training snip
(I.JO p.m.), 805 tnna 120 li.p., 13 knots, Hoo-per, from Auckland. . ..
TAVIUNT. s.s. (6.40 D.m.). 146s t-ons, Platts,from Lyttelton. .
NQAIIERE. e.s. (8 p.m.). 11C0 tons, Muir,from Lyttelton. , ,
„„ARAI'AWA, s.s. (8.15 P.m.). 268 t° Dß'Thompson, from Lyttelton.
KINI. s.s. (9.10 p.m.). 1122 tons. Wliyborn,from Greymouth.
JOHN". SR. (9.15 p.m.). 342 tons. Holm,from Lyttelton. s
PATEEiVA, s.s. (10.20 P.m.), 1212 tons.Whitc-Pareons, from Kelson and 1 Plcton.PasGeiiEcra: Saloon—Jlisses lountrson.Kempthorne, Parsons, Kelly. Gray, Innis,Revan. Oaranash, Wallace, jresdamcs Ken:
nett. Jl'lCav. Goodman, Coltiu-houn, Iximbie, Crozier. llnil Thompson.Walmer, Strochan. STjller. Fisher, Innea,Smally. Cnthie, Mcrorr. Wnlker.Aiken. Walton, Riobxrd.'ott, Banselow,Ginssrow (2). Edivnrds. Jicv. lumlierley. Bar-r!ay. Fordham, Jl'Ro.e. Tarrant, Lichczert.Wateon. Chapman. Franks, Hukdimson.Bowler. Cathie, Parsons (2). Oib-son, Strcehan, Wimhley, M Calluro 12),llroek, Vavasour. Skelly. Hiscins, Towns-hend, Cresswell. l'crlcer. Cook, F.W. r u "er,Swan. Archbiehon Redwood. Swindale, Mas-tevs GUscow. Wilkir.--011; 8 steerage.
HAWERA. s.s. (10.45 p.m.), 200 tone, Jack-son, from Patca.
DEPARTURES.TUESDAY, MAY 20.
NOEA NIVEN. s.s. (6.20 a.m.), 56 tons,Brmscy. for Cook Strait.
WAIIiAU, s.s. (8.30 a.m.), 93 tons, Deilej,'°KOWHAT, s.s. (10.45 a.m.), 792 tons, Ben-der. for Gisborne.. QUEEN OP TIIE SOUTH, s.s. (2 p.m.), 193
tons. Harvey, for Foxton.MAPOURIKA, s.s. (5.10 p.m.). 1203 tons.
Holmes, for Nelson and Coast ports.NIKAU. s.s. (5.10 p.m.), 245 t-one, Hay, for
Nelson and Motucka. .STOEMBIItD, s.s. (0.20 p.m.), 217 tons,
Orotty. for Wo-nganui.KAITOA. s.s. (5.25 p.m.), 350 tons, Gra-
ham, for Nelson.MONOWAI. s.s. (5.40 n.m.), 3433 tons, Ed-
win, for Lyttelton. and Dunedin. Pafpen-gorc- Saloon—For Lytteltoo-Mrs. Fn-irley,
Messra. Fairley, Donovan. Akhurst, andRobinson. For Dunedin —Miss Jflnics, Sir.Churton; 15 steerage for both ports.
KIMITANGI. e.s. (6.5 n.m.), 323 tons, Burno,f"r Lvt-telton and Chatham Islands.
RIPPLE, s.s. (6.30 n.m.). 370 tons, Carlson,for Napier and Gisborne.
MANA. s.s. (7.40 p.m.), 134 tons, Gibson,for
Jt 'VKAKOA, s.s. (8.5 p.m.), 2598 tons, Man-nine. for Lyttelton. Passengers: Saloon-Misses Guthrie, Cox, Mesdames }Yn-Uoii,•Tpff Guthrie, nnd Lucas. Sir Robert Stout,Dr. Withers, Messrs. Cameron, M Art-hy,
Law. Barnes, Ward, Baxter/, VaJlmtinc,Croil. Martin (2), lieece. BaxWl, and Tur-ner: 15 steerage.
KOONYA, s.s. (10.50 p.m.), 1091 t-ons, Prydo.for Grormoiith. ...
OPAW A, s.s. (midnight), 110 tons, Nich-olas, for Picton.
EXPECTED ARRIVALS.Kauri, Lyttelton, May 21.Tainui. Waitara, May 21.Wa-i.ra.il, Blenheim, May 21.Willochra, Sydney direct, May 21.Koromiko, Newcastle, May 21.Corinna, southern ports, May 21.Waliatu, Lyttelton, KaiUoura, May 21.Alexander, Wanganui, May .21.Jloana. Sydney, May 21.Waverlcy, Nelson, May 21.Kapuni. Patea, May 22.Stormbird, Wanganui, May 22.Victoria, Dunedin, Lyttelton, M«y 22.Ka.hu, East Coast, May 22.Norfolk, Waitara. Picton, May 22.Kimutaka, Liverpool, way gorts, May 22.Manuka, Melbourne, via south, May 22.Nikau, Nelson and Motaoka, May 22.Jlararoa, Lyttelton, May 22.Arahiira, Nelson and We£t Coast, May 22.lvapiti, Wanganui, May 22.Queen of the South. Foxton* May 22.Opawa, Blenheim, May 22.Aorangi; San Francisco, May 22.Mansapapa, Westport and Raramea, May
22.Alexander, Wanuatrai, May 22.Huia, Wanganui, May 23.Awahou. Foxton, May 23.Mana, Patea, May 23.AoTero, Patea, May 23.Maitai, northern ports. May 23.Ruapehu. Lyttelton. May. 23.Koonya, Grcymouth, J toy 23.Brisbane. Newcastle, May 24.Mapourika, West Const. Nelson, May 24.Echo, ICaramea, May 25.Itipple, East Coast ports. May 25.
PROJECTED DEPARTURES.Taviuni, New Plymouth, West Coast,
Waitap.u, May 21.Awahou, Foxton. May 21.Hinemoa, Cook Strait. May 21.Komata, Wcstport, May 21.Karori, Wc3tport, May 21.Kauri. Wostport. May 21.W-airau, Blenheim. May 21.Aorerc. Patea. May 21.Waverlcy, Nelson and West Coast ports,
May 21. . .Huia, Wanganui. May 21.Alexander, Nelson, West Coast, iila l. 2.Maori, Lyttelton, May 21.Pateena, Nelson, Picton, May 21. ,
Blenheim, lltivclock, Polorus bound,2L •
„ no 'Knniti. Wanganui. May 22.Willochra, Melbourne, via. south, May LLICnhu, East Const, May 22.Wakatu, KaiUoura, Lyttelton, May 11.Victoria, Sydney, via. north, MayCorinna, Nelson, Nev.* Plymouth, May 2—Mnraroo. Lyttelton. May 22.Nikau, Nelson, May 22.Tfawcra, Patca, May 22.K-apuni. Paten, Mav 22. .ICini. Grcymouth, May 22.Kait-ima. May 23.Maitai, Lyttelton, Dunedin, May 23.Moana, Ban Francesco, via ports, Majr 23.A-oransi, Sydney direct. May 23.
Manuka, Sydney direct. May 23.Atahura, Nelson, \\est LOA-.t,
Mapourika, Nelson nnd West Coast ports,
"STpplc, Napier and East. Coast ports, May27.
INTERCOLONIAL SERVICE:
JIOVEJIENTS OF STEAMERS.WILLOCHRA, due here from Sydney to-
day Saili'i May 22 for Melbourne, viasouth.MANUKA, duo here from Melbourne, via
south. May 23. Leaves same day for Syd-noy direct. ,
„ _
,~MATINRANUI. due here from Sydney di-
rect. Jiny 28. Sails May 29, for Jfclbourne,via t.hc south.
VICTORIA, due hero from couth Jfr.y <.Z.Sails same dnv for Sydney, via north.
JTOANA, due here from Sydney to-day.Sails Jlay 21 for San Francisco, via Baro-tonga ond Papeete.
OVERSEA SHIPPING.Steamers. From. Left. l)uc.Muritai ' London Mai'. ZO Moy 27fiu'ranm-a, London Apr. 6 June 18Rlnr of luilitt
...London Apr. 22 ■June 2}
Paparoa London Apr. 4 May 31Wahvcra. London Apr. 4 May 27Covinthie London Apr. 26 June 10lUinuUilia Liverpool Mar. 15 Jlfl.v 22iViwnru Liverpool A up. 3 ■June 27Kommeu Liverpool Mar. 13 .Tuny 27Kont Liverpool May 3 July 8Kakai-i .St. John Apr. 7 June 22DaunfcN Xf"'vi' orl j J' a .r - f. ,li ,ne llCourttlelil New \ork Feb. 30 Maj 25Crown of Toledo >-(.'«•} ork Mar. 3 June 2?Aborlonr pr* t! i IIWalbnm Ontowitft -
May 26'Aorflngl
—... Frisco Xjus. 30 iluy 2
SAILINC VESSELS.Daniel, n barriue of 299 tons, left I'ort
Stephens 011 April 29; 20 days out.Wanganui, a Ixmiuentine of 292 tons, left
Grafton. Clarcnce Itiver, N'.SAV., on May 16;three days out.
BY TELEOIiAFII.OVERSEA.
LONDON, ilny 20.Arrived.—lndralema. from Wellington.
FIiKItANTLE, Stay M.Arrived.—Marmora, from London.
SYDNEY.. May 20.Arrived.—Maunannul, from Wellington;
Ihmnata. from London.Sailed.—Wailiora, for Wellington.Sailed.—Courtfielrl, for Auckland.
• MELBOURNE, May 20-Sailed.—Orvieto, for Loudon.
COASTAL.TUESDAY, MAY 20.
AUCKLAND.Arrived—Murit-ai (6.40 p.m.), from Sydney.■Sailed.—Maitai (3 n-m.). for southern
ports. Passengers: Saloon—For Welling-
ton—Miss Smith, Mcedamea Conston, lioss.Brown, Messrs. ltobb, Brown, Birdie, andPnnsford. ,
Sailed.—Tofna (12.50 p.m.). for Tonga, andSamoa; Riinutaka. (3.43 p.m.), for Welling-ton.
NAPIER.Sailed.—Mokoia (1.30 p.m.), for Wellington.
NEW PLYMOUTH.Arrived.—Karawa, (5.35 a.m.), from One-
kSailed.—Rarawa- (8.30 p.m.), for Welling-
ton., PATEA.Sailed.—Hawcra. (9.20 a.m.). for Welling-
toD- PICTON.Arrived.—Wairau (6 p.m.). from Welling-
—Energy (7.15 a.m.), for Wellington.NELSON.
Sailed.—Waverley (3.35 p.m.), for Welling-
ton. LYTTELTON.Arrived—Maori (6.40 a.m.), from Welling-
ton; Kla Ora. (7.40 a.m.). from TimaruiCygnet (5 p.m.). from Akaroa; Wokatu (11p.m.). from Knikoura.
Sailed.—Kauri (6.10 p.m.). and Maori (8.55p.m.). for Wellington.
DUXEDIN.Arrived.—Manuka (2.20 p.m.), from Mel-
bourne; Storm (4.45 p.m.). from northernporta. , . _ ,
Sailed.—Victoria (2.30 p.m.), for Sydney#via Auckland.
CHANGE FORESHADOWED.According to information supplied by tho
Union Company yesterday, tho Willochra,at present under charter to t the UnionCompany, and running in the intercolonialrun, is to relieve tho Aorangi 011 thoSydney-WellinKton-'Frisco run during thonioiith of September. Tho Willochra is toieave Sydney in September for can Fran*cisco. via Wellington anil Island ports.The vessel meanwhile wiiJ remain in theintercolonial running. Nothing has beendecided ns yet as to what will bo done totho Aorangi.
'FRISCO BOAT DUE FRIDAY.R.M.S. AoraaigL now on tho way from
San Francisco to Wellington, via way ports,loft Rarotonga at 6 a.m. on Friday last forWeiliiißloii—half a dny late. Tho vessel ihcxnected hero on Friday morning, and willsail on the same day for Sydney.
INDRAPURA AT MELBOURNE.Messrs. Bannatyjio and Co., agents lor
tho Ty?cr Line, have received advico to theeffect* that the Indrapum arrived in Mel-bourne from London, after a voyage of 40days, on. Sunday morning last. The vessel
ii-j due at Auckland on Juno 4. ana shouldreach. Wellington about June 15.
AMOKUHA ARItIVESAt 1.30 p.m. yesterday the Government
training ship Amokura, arrived in portfrom Auckland, after occupying over aweek to do the trip. The Amokura leftAuckland at 11 a.m. on Monday last; andawing to the severity of the southerly gale,wa? only able to make very slow progress.She was forced to seek shelter under t.liolee of Mahia Peninsula, hut the gale mod-erated suflieiently to allow of her reach-ins Wellington yesterday afternoon.
KING OF TONGA'S YACHT.The new pleasure yacht Onclua., built in
Auckland for the King of Tonga, sailedon her voyage of 1000 miles to Tonga yes-terday afternoon, says our special corres-pondent. Sho is in charge of Captain Sten-beck, who has with him Messrs. W. Smin-nerton and E. Mansell. Under favourableconditions the Onchia should reach herdestination in about nine days' time.
WEATHER ON THE COAST.Advices received by the Union Steam
Ship Company yesterday state that theweather conditions at ijot-h Greyinouthand West-port nro again the reverse • ofpleasant. With a westerly wind prevail-ing and heavy sens on the bars, thcro isat present little procpect of any move-ments on the West Coast. Tho Aiahura(according to Infest advices) is still In-Groymouth, and an attempt, to cross thebar outwards will be made at 9 o'clockthis morning. In conscciueuco of her de-lay at Greyinouth, the Arahura- is not ex-pected to roach. Wellington until Thurs-day evening. She will probably omit Pic-ton on tho way to Wellington. The raraoadverse conditions prevail at Westport-,where tho liaituna- remains, unable to getout.
NEW VESSELS IN DEMAND.Advices from London stato that although
there arc paid to bo signs of a reaction insome departments of the country's indus-try, there are no indications eo far of aletriip in the shipbuilding trades. At tliopresent time it is estimated that an agcre-gate of about 2,CM,C00 tout! gross of mer-chant ships are ill course of. constructionin the United Kingdom. Yet there is stilla brisk demand for tonnage. Most of thocontracts recently placed were for trampsteamers or oil-tankers, but the liner com-panies are now coming Into tiio market.Many of them, of course, already havosteamers on the docks, but during the kistfew days orders have been given on an im-portant scale, although it is known thatdelivery must be delayed for some timeowing to the pressure of current orders.Barclay. Curio and Co., of Whiteineh, andSwan, ilunter and Wigliam Richardson, ofWallscnd,' arc to build six steamers for thoBritish-India Steam Navigation Company:Workman. Clark and Co., of Belfast, havothree vessels newly on order for the Buck-nall Line; Cammeli. Laird and Co., of Birk-enhead. have undertaken to build a largepassenger shin for the Prince Lino: Har-land and Wolff, of Belfast, five liners, of12.000 tons each, for t.hc Hoyal Mail SteamPnoket. Company's Panama service, andJohn Brown and Co., of Clydebank, asteamc for the Orient Company's Austrialian trade. This by no means exhauststho list of new vessels that aro being or-dered,—"Sydney Shipping List."
H.M.S. PYRAMUS.Tho following programme of the H.M.S.
Pyramus will be of interest to naval re-servists:—
_ _
Lyttelton and Akaroa, depart Wednes-day, May 28 (approximate).
Arrivo Picton and Polorus Sound Thurs-day. May 29; depart Friday. May 30.
Arrive Nelson, Friday. May 30; departSunday, June 1.
Arrivo Wellington, Monday. June 2; do-part Monday® Juno 16. »
Arrive Rusecll Thursday, Juno 19; de-part Friday, Juno 20.
Arrive Auckland Saturday June 21; de-part Monday. Juno 23.
Arrive Napier Wednesday, Juno 25; de-part Sunday. Juno 29.
Arrive Wellington, Monday, June uO.
MESS-TABLE GOSSIP.Mr. B. Ho.rt has joined the Hula as mate,
vico Mr. W. H. Stevens.Jtr. A. Reed, Eecond officer of tho Mono-
wai. haa been granted holiday loavc, andwill be relieved bv Jlr. A. Jl'Lellan. Jlr. T.Warland. third officer of the Maitai. lmasigned oil.
Mr. F. Jl'Conville. second engineer of theKomata, lias left tho vessel, and is to jointhe Maori.
Jlr. C. Le Guys, late of tho Kittawa.. hasjoined the Komata, as second engineer.
Jlr. 0. Granquicit, mite of the Ngahcre,has gone ashore on sick leave.
Jlr P. J. Dowell. late of the Coombar,has joined tho Ngalieroas second mate.
The Union Company's steamer Waihorawas to have left Sydney for Newcastle onSaturday last, in continuation of her voy-age to Auckland and Wellington. Fromthis port the vessel is to proceed to Lyt-telton nnd Dunedin to complete dischargeof Eastern goods. i
The Canadian-Australasian mail steamerjrakura lert Vancouver on Wednesday :if-ternoon lai-t for Auckland and Sydney, viaHonolulu and Suva. Tho liner haw oilboard 125 passengers in nil classes for allports. She is bringing 390 tons of corgofor distribution throughout. N.ew Zealand.The Vf'-i?i>l is expected to arrive at Auck-land on June 3.
The Government steamer Hinemoa is toinave Wellington cnrlv this morning forthe Cook tStrait lighthouses.
It; doesn't pay to play fast and loescwit h danger. I lei rid of Umt Couifh beforeit works'irreparable daninqc. "NA/.OI,"is the most reliable cure for Coughs anilColds, (ill il-jses lor I=. (id. Jluy a Xazollnlialfr.—A-.lvl.
A I'eadin:,' n.'ii;,'laud) workman tins ,hi»rretired upon a jii'ii~ii>n Iroiu his eniploy-oi's, after having completed G8 years ofcontinuou- service. I)uiink the whole ofthis time he lind only once le.-en Into forliis work, and lie well remembers the date—October S, liCl)-wliim his clock iiluycdtlim false.
MAIL NOTICES.
Subject to necessary alterations, ' mailswill close at . the Chief Tost Office as un-der:—
THLS DAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21.'Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Mo.na-
watil, ltangitikei, and Taranaki districtß,per MauawUu train (Thorndon Station),b.30 11.111.
Wang-a-nui, alto . Manawatu and B-angi-t.ikei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorn-lion Station), 3.15 p.m.1 Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train(Lambton Station), 6.3'J a.m. and 3.30 p.m.
Napier and Jlawke's Bay district, perMauawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8 a.m.and 3.15 p.m.
Auckland nnd district, also Now Ply-mouth and Wanganui, per Main Trunktrain (Thorndon Station), 10.50 a.m.
Westport-, per Komat-a, 10 a.m.West-port, per Kauri, 10 a.m.Pictou and Blenheim, per ttoirau, 11.20
a.m. „ ,
New Plymouth and Westport, per Tavi-uni, 4.20 p.m.
■ Groymouth. HokitiUa, and Keefton, perNcatoro, 4 p.m.
Nelson, Westport, ReefUm, Greymonth,Uikitilm, per Waverley, 4.20 p.m.
Victon, Blenheim, Nelson, per Patccna,11.59 a.m.
Uarclosk and Bays, per Blenheim, 6 p.m.Southern offices of New Zoaland, also
Greyinouth, llokitika, and ltcefton, perMaori, 6.15 p.m.
THURSDAY, MAY 22.Nelson, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m.Kelson, Now Plymouth, Oiieliunga, per
Corinna, 0.8) p.m.Southern offices of New Zealand, also
Australian States (duo Melbourne May 31),per Willoohra, 4.20 p.m.
Southern offices of Now Zealand, andChatham Islands, per Jlararoa, 1 6.15 p.m.
Kaikoura, per Wukatu, 3.20 p.m.Napier anil Gisbonie. per Victoria, 3.20
p.m.Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, .and Nel-
son, per Pattella, 11.50 a.m.Southern offices of New Zealand, per
Maitai, 4.20 p.m.FRIDAY, MAY 23.
Southern offices of 1 New Zealand, andGrevmoutli, Hokitika, nnd liecfton, alsoAustralian States, to connect with Wil-lochra, at tho Bluff (due Melbourne May31), per Maori, 6.15 p.m.
' Articles for Parcel Post for United Statesof America, per Moana, 1.20 p.m.
Cook, Tahiti, and Penrhyn Islands, alsoUnited State 3 of America, Central America,Wo;t Indies, and Canada (via San Fran-cisco, also United Kingdom and Continentof Europo (due San Francisco June 12), (duoLondon Juno 23), per Moana, 2.30 p.m.Correspondence for Continent of Europomust bo specially, addressed. Money-ordersmust bo obtained two hours before theadvertised time of closing tho mails.Otfylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Set-tlements, South Africa, ar.jl Continent ofEurope and United Kingdom, via Naples(due London June 22). per Jlanuka, 3 p.m.Correspondence for United Kingdom mustbe specially addressed. Monoy-ordtffs siustbe obtained two hours before the adver-tised time of closing the mails/
Australian States, also Lord Howe, Nor-folk, and New Hebrides Island, per Manuka,3 p.m. Money-orders must bo obtained twohours before the advertised time of clos-ing tho mails.
Mails for Fiji close at Auckland, perNavua, this day at 12.45 p.m.
Tho next best dispatch for correspondenceaddressed to Barotonga, Tahiti, Canada,United States of America. Central America.West Indies, and United Kingdom, will hovia San Francisco, closing at Woliington,per Moana, on Friday, May 23, at 2.30 p.in
The next best dispatch for correspond-ence addressed to tho Continent of Eu-rope will bo via Naples, per Jlanuka,closing at Wellington, Friday, May 23, at 3p.in.
Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyt-telton on Friday, May 23, at 4 p.m.
Tho parcels brauoh of the Post Officeis now located in the basement of thonew Post Office building, tho public ett-tranco being from Qrey Stroet.
The public are earnestly requested to re-gister ' all letters containing money orvaluables intended to Iks sent by post.
All books and sample-packets and news-papers for places within the Dominionmust be posted half an hour before theordinary letter-mail closes.
Unless otherwise specified, registeredletters and parcels-post packages must bohandod in and money-orders obtained onehour before the ordinary mail closes.
All the principal mails by tTain andsteamer close at To Aro and CourtenayPlace Post- Offices at tho same hours as atthe Chief Post Office, with the exceptionthat there is no late-fee clearance, andthat mails by tho ferry steamers forsouthern offices close at 6 p.m.
As Jlay 1 t.o 28 is a postal statisticalperiod, the timen for tho closing of themails at this office mentioned hereunderduring that time will be. as follow:— _
Mails for Australian States, also UnitedKingdom and Continent of Europo, etc.,via Suez Canal, will close at J p.m.
Mails for Canada, United States ofAmerica. Central America, West Indies,and United Kingdom (via Can Francisco),also mails for Rarotonga and Tahiti, willcln=e at 2.30 p.m.
jrail? for C.midn. United States of Amer-ica., Central America, Wci3t Indies, UnitedKingdom, and Continent, of Europe (viaVancouver). nl r .i mails for Fiji, and Hono-lulu, will close at 10 a.m.
A. P. DRYDEN.Chief Postmaster
Chief Post. Office, Wellington,May 21. 1913.
WIRELESS.The following steamers will tie within
call of the Wellington Wireless Station to-night.:—Victoria. Maitai. Maheno, Jlanuka.Navua. Tofun, Moana, Aorongi. Dorset,andTiitnii'-'l;ai.
Moana. en route Svtlnr.v to Wellington,expccti-i to arrive at her destination at 4p.m. to-ntorrow.
THE DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913; 9
M'Clinton's Soap is made from plantash instead of caustic soda. Duchess ofAbercorn says: "It is sweet and refresh-ing."—Advt.
Messrs. Chas. Begg awl Co., Ltd., Man-ners Street, have an annouilceui';nt to-day to the effect that they have a numberof new songs for sale.
Three dairy farms, of 150, 151', end 205acres respectively, are announced for saleby Jlcssrs. London, Goss, and Co., Ridg-way Street, Wanganui. . ,
Messrs. J. E. Perry and Co., Teildinj,announce th-e sale of 200 acres of Tara-naki land, also an Aorangi dairy fi'tm' of60 acres.
Warner's are the most flexiblo. wash-able, wearable corset we know. Welling-ton Drapers.—Advt,
Warner's rust-proof corsets fit beauti-fullv, shape accurately, are lieht, wearwell and cannot rust, break or tear. Wel-lington l)rai'.er«.--Advt.
A property (which is described as achoice dairy farm) of 07G acrcs, situatednine miles 'from a railway station, in theThames Yallev. is announced for sale byMessrs. Cumiiiing and Son, ,S5 QueenStreet, Auckland.
The usual weekly stock sale will lie heldat J'alinerston North on Thursday next.
The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile AgencyCo., Ltd., will sell a large i/uanlity ofstock nt their Levin yards on Friday, May25. Tho sale begins at 11.30 a.m.For Chronic Chest Complaints,
Woods' Great PeoDcrmint Cure, la, Gd,'
AMUSEMENTS.
Q. P E H A HOUSE.TO-NIGHT'. TO-NXGIIT'.
Punctually at 8 o'clock.POLITE VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE.POLITE VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE.
V. M. BEEBE'SCELEBRATED IVrERXATIONAL
COMPANY.Last- Night another Largo and DelightedAudience greeted this Superb
Duuble Company of
POLITE VAUDEVILLEAnd
MINSTREL STARS.And the unanimous verdict of Press andPublic is: That NothingBETTER; BRIGHTER, or CLEANERhas ever been teen in 'Wellington.
EVERY ARTISTIs Now a
FIRM FAVOURITEWith Cultured Amusement-Lovers.
PRICES: 35., 25., Is. Plan at theDresden. No extrn chargo for Booking.Day Salo at Christeson's.
TMI'ORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!A THE DANDIES' Return!THE DANDIES' Farewell!
A Harvest of Humour.GORGEOUS GALAXY OF GEMS.
S—NIGHTS ONLY-5HON., 26th; TUES., 27th; WED., 28th.
SMALL TOWN HALL.THURS., 29th; FRI., 30th,
OPERA HOUSE.Mr. Edward BranscDinbe'sCostume Comedy Company,
THE DANDIES! THE DANDIES!THE DANDIES!
THE DA NDIES! THE DANDIES!Please Note.—The Dandies' itinerary
positively preclude their appearing inWellington until next year.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow.You must see THE DANDIES
Ere it bo to-morrow."SPECIAL REQUEST NIGHT,
WEDNESDAY, 28th MAY.Requests must be in the hands of the
stage manager not later than midday postWednesday.
OPERA nOUSE-THURS. and FRI.GRAND FAREWELL NIGHTS,
When the Very Choicest Gems, selectedfrom the full strength of THE DANDIES'interminable repertoire will be submitted.
Prices: 35., 25., Is.Box Plan Dresden. Day Sales Christe-
son's.CLAUDE HAIGH, Touring Manager.
Life is short; it is belter In ask forthe br-l n'liile we call enjoy il, even ifwe take lc-~. Heller tie teetotal thandrink hail W'hi-ky. A>k lor "WHITEHORSE" WIJISKY, not merely••WHI.SJCY." ,
Th-' iiuanlity is slrictlv linnlcd, andonly ilruuk by the educated clasacs.—/dvt.
AMUSEMENTS.
HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.Proprietors JOHN FULLER AND SONS.
TO-NIGHT AND EACH EVENING THIS WEEK,THE MAGNIFICENT INDUSTRIAL PICTURE,
■ A DAY AT BOURNVILLB,"mvwMnanumh& s® *
AV IDEAL INDUSTRIAL TOWN.
BOURNVILLBBOURNVIL'LE. Hn Beautiful Environment.HOI lUN VI 1,1,E ' Working Whilst Nature Sniilos.BOURNVILLe! Us IfygU'iiic Workshops.BOUBNVILLE. The Superb Plant. .
BOURNVILLE. Its Wondrous Machinery.BOURNVILLE Tlio Employees' Recreation.BOURNVILLE. Its Swimming Baths.BOURNVILLE. A taclor.v in a liarden.BOURNVrLLE. Its Fire Brigade.
1 BOURNVILLE. An A 1 '1-resco Dinner Hour.Every Citizen should see this Picture, and roali-n under what conditions Labout
will work in the future.N.B.—This film equals in interest the famous Panama Canal Pieture; And
a Snlendid Programme of other Star films, including Maurice Costrllo in"THE COUNTERFEIT BILLS."
PRICES.—D.C., Is. Gil.; Stalls, Is.; Upper Circle, Gd. Theatre Telephone IGS.Plan at Christeson's.
THE KING'S THEATRE. mUE NEW THEATRE,-H- Manners Street.
Props., West's, Ltd.. and T. M. Donovan. (MacMahon and Donnelly's.)
TO-NIGHT AT 8. . CONTINUOUS PICTURES.A Beautiful Pathc Drama: Daily—ll a.m. to 11 p.m.
"GO WHERE THE CROWDS'GO."TO RIGHT THE WRONG. TO-DAY and TONIGHT. May 21stTO RIGHT THE WRONG. A Last Chance of SeeingTO RIGHT THE WRONG. Asia Noilsen ill
~ , , "A GIRL WITHOUT A COUNTRY.*nnnrptrr-c: lJ'ffiv ' WTOOSV
"A GIRL ■WITHOUT A COUNTRY."SRnrmnv-e inr' ' "A GIRL WITHOUT A COUNTRY."-RODERICKS RIDE, NAIOObA, A]|(l _iU th) M, 1(, l)i(icclll p )lolo.
Full of Thrills. Appealing story. l»]nys=. ■QUARANTINED. GAUMONT GRAPHIC. TO-MORROW,ST GOTH 4RD. A Wonderful Modern Drama,
MARY IN STAGELAND. "BEHIND THE MASK."Prices as usual. 'Pliuno 3113. . Tliink of it! Adult?. SIXPENCE,
Children, THREEPENCE.(JIHE EMPRESS 'lUEAIRE. j, j, A IJL , K R y Q y'A L,
r'n\vpi r vn!nTwl'l mr'iMMn's:b™wS Direction Brennan-Fuller, Ltd. .
n \ IIUURLb. M. THIS EVENING, AT 8.Daily 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. fctalL FULLER-BRENNAN VAUDEVILLE CO.Stalls, 3d.; Dies. Circle. Gd. o< . Prcscntiiißrmtuv SHARRAT AND LANG,
\ST VPT'V \RANCF of' Stalls The Versatile ami Ongiiial Musical~,,7 of hla ,'ls Comedy Duo.THE kalem s urcat »hl. ,\"\rn \\T n \i\in
"THE Spectacular Drama, Stalls •
r an ' Ainusimr ComedvLAST BLOCKHOUSE." 3d. Intioiluting an Aim siiiß Lomcay
MS''" BIOCKHOUSF'" Sl!3d
S MISS BEANIE M'DONALD,In w-wi hmSll^8
Indians Stalls ***** ■And"a HOST OF OTHERS. Sta'i'ls '^ooRE,"' 01 Kaßtim ° Dancc^•■
TO-M0Ir0W: Stalls 7,1IT?w\?V^\'vne VFljno^ *- omcl''eUll9,
"A BEAUTIFUL TRAITOR." 3d.' Tl™2gcd Two.HALL RAINE,
SHORTTS' CONTINUOUS THEATRE, The Clever Comedinn Vocalist.THE SERENADERS,
TO-DAY. TO-DAY. Hugh Huxham's Refined CostumeCompany.
LAST DAY Of LAST DAY D.C. ami 0.5., SUlls, Is. Plan.
_ Dresden ; Booking Gd. extra.The .Present Colossal Programme, — ;—:
Headed' by Vitagrapli's Exclusive Special, H \LL 'CHAMBER,"FOLLOWING THE STAR," *
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FARMING & COMMERCIAL.NEWS AND NOTES.
TRIAL WITH OATS.SOME .INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS.'
About a year ago some experiments withdifferent varieties of oats were initiatedat Canterbury Agricultural College, theidea being to try and find out what par-ticular variety of oat gave the test all-round' results, firstly as a winter springfood, secondly as a yiehier of grain, amilastly ns straw.
Thero were sixteen varieties of oatssown, as follow:—(1) Black Scotch, (2)Joanette, (3) Algerian, (>f) Gartons, (5)Sparrowbill, (6) Potato, (7) Kent Birlie,
IS) Sandy, (!)) Island Magee, (10) BlackTartar, (11) Duns, (12) White Tartar, (13)Black Excelsior, (4) Banner, (15) Danish,(16) Canadian. The sowing was done inMay, lt'l2, in a twenty-five acre paddock,and the areas of tho different' varieties ofoats ranged from one to two acres. Ewesand lambs were turned in about Septem-ber 12, an(l ina very short timo there wassome instructive evidence as to the likesand dislikes of the sheep. In almost lesstlnin a week,.some of tho varieties hadbeen eaten down bare to the ground,while others .had been untouched, al-though, to the eye, tlioy looked excellentfeed.' The Garton oats liad been eatenbare, and the liking of the sheep for thisvarietywas well shown, where other varie-ties had accidentally encroached.upon thoGartons in drilling, for'tho strangers hadbeen left severely alone. The IslandMagee received a fair amount of attention,but the Black Tartars were hardlytouched. The Sandy oat was well eatendown, Duns wero rather neglected, KentBirlie almost untouched, White Tartarswere well eaten, and tho Potato oats hadnot received much attention. The BlackExcelsiors had been sown with a thickseeding and a thin seeding (the formerby mistake), and where the seeding hadl/cen thick, the sheep had hardly touchedthem,'but wliero it. was thin it had beenfairly well eaten. The Algerian were welleaten down, and so were the Banners, butthe Black Scotch were hardly touched.The Danish were rather neglected, and sowero the Joanette. The Canadian werenot liked very much, and the Sparrow-bills were nearly untouched. Tabulatingthese res-.ilts, it-is found that, roughly,the oats may be placed in the followingorder of merit as regards green feed
. Gartons—Eaten bare.. White Tartars—Well eaten\down.
Algerians—Well eaten down. \
Banners—Well eaten down. '
Sandv—'Well ftiten down.Island Magee—Fairly well eaten.Black Excelsior (thin)-Fairly well
eaten.Diins—Fair.Potato—Fair.Banish—Fair..Toanctte —Fair.Canadian—lndifferent.Black Excelsior (thick)— Hardly toucned.Black Tartar—Sardly touched.Kent Birlie—Hardly touched.Black Scotch—Hardly touched.
- Sparroivbills—Practically untouched.The above results ftierely apply to the
stato of the paddock about one week afterthe sheep had been turned into it, and,may be taken as some evidence as to tholikes of sheep to particular varieties ofoats.
The next stage of theexperiment was thefinding out of the 1 grain yields of thodifferent plots. After eating off, the pad-deeb was shut up, and the crop allowedto Come away. It was cut ancl stoolced,and, later on, each plot was threshedseparately, but as it was not found pos-sible, owing to the exigencies of otherwork on the farm, to get all the plots inunder similar conditions, Dr. Hilgendorf,under whoso direction the experimentswere carried ont, says that not nntch re-liance can be placed upon the nltiriiateyields that were threshed outand weighed.The following table- shoiVs how the resultsactually panned out.—
Black Tartars—63s bushels per acre.Gartons—s7 bushels per acre.Duns—s7 bushels per acre.Other varieties—From 51 to 55 bushels
per acre.The last phase of the experiment is a
rather striking one. To try and find outthe palatability of the straw, the strawfrom each of tho plots was mado into asmall stack, tho line of sixteen stacks,all named, running parallel with theLincoln-Springston ltoad. A herd of cat-tle, numbering about twenty or so, wereturned into the paddock, and the waytliev have tackled the different strawslacks is instructive. They first went forthe Black Excelsior, and practically atethat right out; then they turned theirattention to the Algerian straw, and de-molislied that. Then the straw from thePotato and Kent Birlie oats, tho stacksof which wero side-by-side, was polishedoff, the first-named being slightly favoured,and the Danish was the fifth stack eaten.Dr. Hilgendorf was rather afraid that thecattle, when turned in, would start atone end of the line, and cat right along,or that all the stacks would he patronisedalmost equally, in which case little couldbo dcduced from the experiment, but. as amatter of fact, the Black Excelsior strawstack was almost the farthest away fromthe gate; then the cattle came right backalong the Hue to the Algerians, which wastho third fiom th 6 gate, then to the mid-dle of the line, where the Potato andKent Birlie stacks were, and then almostright to the cud, to the Danish. Theywere not at all promiscuous in their feed-ing, and were evidently guided by theirlikes and dislikes. As matters stand -atpresent, the palatability of tho strawfrom the various plots, and the state of'the stacks, seems to be as follows:—
Jilack Excelsior—Eaten right out.Algerian—Eaten right out.Potato—-Practically finished.Kent Birlie—Nearly finished.Danish—Well eaten.Canadian—Weil eaten.Baiiner—Very fair.Sandy—Very fair.Black Scotch—Fair.Gartons—l'aii'._Sparrawbi 11—Fai t'.Island -\lagec—l air.Black Tartar—Fair.Joanet.te—Hardly touched.Duns—Hardly touched.White Tartar—Hardly touched.
year it was intended l» go on witha similar series cf experiments this sea->oll, but the work of seed-selection is'-•rowing to such an extent that it willprobably be found impossible lc; continueon lines. Nevertheless what hasbeen done already is certainly not with-out interest, though Dr. Uiljendorf plain-Iv says that, he would not care to makeanv definite statement ns to the value ofdifferent varieties of oats on the basis ofmerely one season's trials.
A FARMER'S MISFORTUNE.
SERIOrS LOSS OF STOCK. .
A settler at Ohaupo had an unfortu-nate experience of special interest s far-liisrs who u>e a spray as a means of copingwith the blackberry (says a Press Asso-ciation telegram from Hamilton). It ap-pears-the farmer sprayed a paddock andkept the stock off for some weeks. Short-ly after putting them back on the pasturethirty-fivs cattle, mostly heifers, sickened.■V veterinary surgeon was called in, and
remedial steps taken, but eleven valuableanimals died.
THE VVHAREKURA ESTATE.Tlie attention of those in search of a
choice little daily farm is directed to theadvertisement of Messrs. Abraham andWilliams, Ltd., in • conjunction withMessrs G. A. Preeee and Co., who advev-
tiic subdivisional sale of the Whare-kuro Estate, the property of Mr. F. M. B.I.ovclock, situated on Milson's Line, with-in half a mile of the Palmerston bor-ni!"h boumlarv. This block of rich level'and i" to lie cut up into handy littledairy, farms, and the terms upon which itis to be offered to tho public will doubt-less attract buyers, as tho land is suit-able for all classes of farming. It ishandy to the borough and the markets ofPalnKTstoii.
S. I. DAIRY ASSOCIATION.' ANNUAL KEPORT.
A BE VIEW 01' THE SEASON.
Tlie annual report of the South IslandDairy Association of New Zealand, Ltd.,for the year ending May 31, states thattlie increase of cheese exported to GreatBritain from the Dominion is about -litper cent, (from this must be deductedabout 11,000 crates lost in the Turakina,which brings it down to 22J per cent., toland in London), and there is a decreasoin the butter exported to Britain fromtho Dominion of about 8J per cent. Theincrease in the export ot putter to Van-couver and South Africa, however, morethan makes up for this decrease to theUnited Kingdom.
The association sold locally this yearcheese to the value of <£12,000 at. from 7d.down to 53d., for the market has been adragging one, with a downward tendencyup tilt now, but owing, to the small sup-ply of cheese now ill sight, owing to thevery many large factories turning on tobutter-making, or separating the milk forsome other factory, the probability is, thereport adds, that wo shall see improvedprices for local cheese ere long.
The Home Market.Referring to the Home market, the re-
port says that the market both for cheesoand butter has been a great disappoint-ment to ali in New Zealand, more especi-ally the cheese market. . . . Butter hashad severafl adverso conditions against it.The unusual mildness of the autumn andwinter on the Continent and in Britaincaused increased production of butter.The large quantity of secondary qualitybutters constantly landing from Australiahad a, depressing influence. Here, it maybe noted, that Australian butter general-ly (a few choice Western District factoriesoiiiy excepted) has ruled Gs. to Bs. percwt. lower than tho average of New Zea-land. Tho inferiority of much, of thoAustralian butter,pulls the market downfor their own best butter, andaffects NewZealand as well. Then butter has aformidable antagonist in margarine.
Cheeso this timo last year was 735. to71s. per cwt.; this year it is about 5Ss.Of course,tt last season Britain, sufferedfrom a drought, and this season the makeof cheese in Britain would be greater, bfitprobably not above normal.
The position as to the imports of Cana-dian and New Zealand cheese for the pastfive years is given in tho following tableduring the four months from Novemberto February, which shows that the' ill-crease in New Zealand imports is aboutcounter-balanced by the decrease in Cana-dian cheeso, and also shows that duringthese months this season the New Zealandand Canadian imports combined are los3than t'liey were ill the three previousseasons:—
Here, says the report, it may bo statedt.liat Canada's export of cheese goes stead-ily down year by year, mainly due to herrapidly-increasing population consuminga greater quantity year by year. It doesnot, therefore, appear that the statisticalposition of the cheese market warrantssuch a big drop in prices as has occurred'this year. It appears thcra are otherreasons, some of which are given in thefollowing extracts from letters receivedfrom competent people connected withthe trade whose opinions are valuable.But it may be confidently said that priceshave suffered from tlm multiplicity ofagents employed 'to sell our cheese, many,of whom are only on tho fringe of thecheese and butter trade, and employbrokers tosell their goods in Tooley Street'and elsewhere as quickly as possißle.
Writing under date LondonMr. Ellison, representative of tho Na-tional Dairy Association, says:—"Theshort selling of cheese has, to my mind,largely been accountable for the lowprice (
this season, which I feel is inseparablefrom the guaranteed advance systemadopted by so many of rccent years. Thoanxiety of firms to protect themselvesagainst probable losses compels 'them tosell to cover themselves; the.v will get thebest price they can over and above theirguarantee, and 'then so long as they cankeep the market just above their guaran-teed price they let it remain there. Forinstance, this season . thero lias beenthousands of tons of clreeso sold at 6Gs.,fi7s., and in soma instance at higherprices; these orders can be filled thisseason, at Gls. to G2s. A profit of is. to,Cs. per cwt. is very nice for those doingthis business, and the evil of the thingis that those samo firms are selling con-signments from some of our leading fac-tories. Fancy the retailers who are pay-ing 675. and up to GOs. for New Zealandchleese under contract, who on the openmarket could buy at GOs. to Gls.,- wliatkind of interest have they in our cheese?Their feelings will bo anything but friend-ly. The G.W.R. in principle is bad, andcan, and docs, lead only to short sellingand koeping down the prices. It should,as a policy, bo objected to by our fac-tories; to ask a firm to give a guaranteeof this nature is asking it to commitcommercial suicide, unless at the samotime it has tho right to sell forward orshort, and no firm doing this can, strict-ly speaking, have the individual interestof the producer at heart.
"Commission goods should bo sold bycommission houses; we should supporttwo or three firms who would guaranteeto eliminate all these fancy guarantees,and try to support a natural market. Wocan get what wo want, but only if we arounited; the N.D.A. can guarantee throughits agents to return the highest pricesmade, I mean bv this legitimate marketprices and not faked returns given to mis-lead factories for a season. This being so,surely wo would bo consulting our best in-terests by working together. Tho G.W.R.system is only practised in connectionwith the New Zealand business; no othercountry except our own adopts it. Person-ally I would 'prefer to see our cheese soldoutright in place of this system, 'thepurchaser would then in his own interesttry and keep tho market as high as pos-sible."
Filling 'these Wis., 675. contracts withcheese now at 58s. is nice business. Is itwonderful that no honest united attemptwas mado to raise price;, when many of.those handling our cheese were in thishappy position of ■ having sold forward?
Several attempts were made to stop thedownward trend of prices, for by Feb-ruary, the short selling on ton of the for-ward selling, had completely demoralisedthe market, and the fact is the market has
been controlled by the short sellers, andeven those who had sold forward Uigelyi.:em to have become alarmed and anxiousto"stop the rot"; and some of them weroanxious to bring agents together and con-fer about keeping prices up. It was onlywhen Jlv. Ellison, tlie National DairyAssociation representative, stepped :n nndcalled a meeting of those handling NewZealand cheese, that anything was at-tempted. . Several conferences were held.It was agreed to sell at-a. minimum of.
(Ms., but now the market is down to 5Ss.The distrust of each other, and the divid-ed interests of those who had sold forwardand thos? who had not, was apparent atall these conferences, and there was noreal unanimity—the results, prove this.
After quoting other correspondence fromHome, the report goes on as follows:—These samples of a multitude of lettersr-eeived. all giving similar opinions andblaming "the other fellow," will give someidea of the position.
The association-have put forward vari-ous schemes I'm- uniting to improve mat-ters, and the National Dairy Associationhave done the same, but no good, hasconif of tliPin because factories did notanything like come inlo thesescheme-. "Home Knie" government pie-vail- at mo-l factories, and it. is not; sur-prising that directors of factories like tomanage their own affairs and deal withtheir own produce ns they please. Now.the C|i(jostioii, for consideration is—shouldanything more be attempted bv this as-sociation in the interests of those con-signing <'hoe-e? It is a most difficult mat-ter. If it were possible for all factoriesill i\"';w Zealand lo combine—Norlh ai.ilSouth Island to»etliei—and consign theiri-becsH only to four of the strongest andbc<t houses ill London for -ale. «onii' goodwould '-nrliiilily cnni" nf it. Or if • I he.V.H'lh and Hand Irgetlier agrt "d Insell monthly or even fortnightly, at onecentre oi tw.Oj $6 cheese shipments foi^
the month, listed on the lines of the- woolsales, some good would bo done, as eventu-ally a largo number of British houseswould have agents here to bu.r what theyinquired. Factories in Canada consignnothing, but sell everything aboutmonthly.
[£ we could really unite on. either ofthe above schemes freod- might be done.But the "if" is a very big one. Factoriesno doubt -will consider the matter. 'IImay be hero said that there is 110 man orbody of directors capable of safely fore-casting the future of the cheese market,and deciding whether to sell or consign:nor is there any man in J.omlon who coulddo so. We can all be wise after thoevent, and this year our lale-come wis-dom does not help v,=, but it is annoyingto meet tlfc> "I told you 'so man." whonever know more than the ro.-l of us acany time.
Kvidentl.v some of Hie best firms inLondon hart faith in the future of thecheest? market, for they offered in Sep-tember from GJd. to (i o-Bd. for the sea-son's output of cheese, and up to Is.Ad. for butter outputs. It is fortunatefor them, but bad for u?, that they scour-ed .so little.
PARORANGI DISPERSAL SALE.THE ROMXEYS OFFERED. '
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)Feilding, May 20.Mr. E. Short's dispersal sale commencedto-day, when the stud Romiiev rams, ewes,and lambs, were offered. Tile owes werooffered first, when the sale dragged alittle, but it brightened up ' when tho
rams were offered. Very good prices wererecorded over the whole day. The totalvaluo of tho sale was well over Thohighest price was o3 guineas for the ramRecord Breaker 13, tho purchaser beingMr. .1. 11. M'Lean, of Waitunn.The Hereford? will be offered to-morrow,and the Clydesdales on Thursday. Tiioweather was very wet, cold, and windy.Some of the prices for owes and 'tliobuyers are given as under by our Fend-ing correspondent:—
Stud Romneys—Ten two-tooth, F. R.iSparrc. at Signs.; 20 two-tooth, A. Wilkie,ten at Sgns.; -T. Knight, (en at 7gns.; 20two-tooth, F. File, nt Bgns.; ten two-tooth,Acton Adams, at 12gns.; 11 two-tooth, A.
: Millar, at Ggns.; ten two-tooth, A. Mil-lav, BJgns.; 11 two-tooth, L. Higgins, at7{gns.; 25 two-tooth, C. Innis (Neison),ten at 7gns.; L. Pleasants, ten at 6gns.;28 two-tooth, J. Barthorp (Taihape), tenat ttjgn;.; R. Todd, 18 at 3}gns.; fourtwo-tooth, F. File, at 'lgns.; 25 two-tooth,A. Millar, at Signs.; 25 two-tooth, J.Mathews (Tikokino), at Bgns.; 25 two-tooth, J. Bell, at ijgns.; 25 two-tooth,A. Morrison (Tikokino), at 9\gns.; eighttwo-tooth, A. M'Xiccoll, at flgns.1 Balmoral Flock.—Ten two-tooth, F.Hutchinson (Rivington). at Ggns.; 13 two-tooth, F. H. England (Rewa), at sgns.;15 stud ewes, J. Mathews, at Signs.; IG,W. Miller (Pahiatun), at Signs.; 1", J.Knight, at 3gns.; stud ewes, mixed ages,20, Acton Adams, at 2Jgns.; 27, J. Bell,at 2gns.; 25 mixed ages, .1. Knight, at23gns.; 20 two-tooth, G. M. Currie, at4gns.; sevon evres, Burford pedigree, studowes, No. 1, Halilnirton, at sgns.; No. 2,F. Morrison, at ,s.}gns.; Nos. .3, i, 5, 6,and 7, J. Matthews, at T>gns.
Parorangi Flock 77.—Five ewes, WaldenHarding, at Signs.; ten ewes, G. Wheeler,at 3gns.; 5G two-tooth, F. File, ten atlflgns., 14 at G.Jgns.; G. j[. Cnvrie. 23 ntSigns.; 26 four-tooth, G. Wheeler, atGgns.; G. A. Hunt, ten at 4gns.; C. A. .T.Levett, ten at Igns.; four-year, F. White,13 at 4lgns.; J. Kelly (Tokomaru). tenat 7}gns.; Dunlop and Wheeler, 15 atlens.; J. Kilgour, 15 at ijgns.; J. W.Cunningham, ten at s»gns.; F. File, 20nt 4igns.; G. Wheeler, eleven at 4.'.gns.;G. Wheeler, 14 at 4Jgns.; S. G. Perry,ten at Sgns.j G. Wheeler, ten at 3gns.;J. B. Gaisford, ten at 23gns.; H. Morri-son, ten nt 3gns.; .T. C. Kelly (Tokomaru),ten at 2igns.; Wereroa Training Farm,22 at 2}gns.
CANTERBURY A & P AFFAIRSPROVINCIAL CONFERENCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)Christchurch, May 20.
The second annual Provincial Confer-ence of the Agricultural and Pastoral As-sociations of Canterbury was held to-day.
By special invitation Messrs. D. Cud-die, F. S. Pope, and C. J. Reakes, of thoAgricultural Department, were present,also Dr. F. W. Hilgeudorf, of CanterburyAgricultural College. Mr. Reakes deliv-ered an address on the question of thehereditary unsoundness of stallions andthe steps* taken to deal with that condi-tion here and elsewhere. The followingresolution was carried;. "That, this con-ference endorse and npprove of the idea ofthe Bill brought forward by Mr. C. J.Reakes."
The following remits were adopted:—"That it is desirable that a Seed-growers'Association should bo formed in Canter-bury on similar lines to the CanadianSeed-growers' Association, which is doingsuch useful work at present in tho Do-minion of Canada."
"That the Government be strongly urg-ed to immediately take active steps in tliomatter of importing farm ' workers anddomestics."
Kcgarding the remit, "That for tho pur-]K)se'of organising persons enraged in theagricultural and pastoral industries inJv'civ Zealand it is necessary that achamber of agriculture 1« formed andthat such chamber should consist of (byhaving affiliated to it) all associations orbodies which are concerned or interestedin such industries," it was decided tobring this matter up at the Dominion Con-ference. Mr. D. Cuddie, Chief of thoDairy Division, gave an interesting ad-dress upon the dairying industry, speciallyemphasising the matter of herd-testing.
One man writes:—"l have received yourlittle book," but, what is more to thepoint, have YO[J received our little book,which gives particulars of tho famous"Victor" Vats which will help you toproduce better quality cheese? The "Vic-tor" is well made, and will outwear manyof the old-fashioned Vats. Of course, the"Victor" is renowned for its sloping bot-tom, which allows the whey to run freely.Send for booklet t6-day—you'll profitthereby. Albert J. Parton, Plumber,Carterton— Advt.
LIVE STOCK SALES.
llossru. Williams and Kettle, Ltd.. reportholding their fortnightly salo at the Dan-lievirke yards on Friday, when they offer-ed a fair yarding of sheep and cattle to arather dull market. They quote as fol-lows JlUcd-Fex lambs, from 4s. lCd. to7j. 3d.f.innd-msnth ewe?. Bs. 6d.; f. ondf.» wrlliers. 14s. 3d.: fifteen to eighteen-months steer?. £3; mixed-sex vrcaners, £i:store cow«. £4 15;.: fat cows, £5 2«. 6d. ;porUeTs. 17*. 6d. The same firm reportholding their fortnightly sale at, Woofl-ville yesterday, when there was a fullyarding of sheep and cattle. They reportclearing the catalogue of sheep, but storocattle mot with a sluggish market. Quota-tions are:—Mixed-sex lambs, 4s. to 65.; two-tootli ewes in lamb. Bs. 6d.; two-tooth weth-ers, 10s.. 12e., and 15s. 2d.: fat cow.?, up to£7 2s. 6d.: storo cows, £2 55.: springingcows, £7 17s. 6d.
COMMERCIAL ITEMS.
WOKLD'S lI.ON 01) K PIiODUCTIOX.To the order of the Imperial Parliament
there was recently ii'sued a White Papercontainint; statistics of the production andconsumption of iron ore mid pitr iron, amithe production of steel in the United Kinc-dom and the principal foreign countriesin recent years, with additionally the itu-norl-s fliid exports of certain elates oriron mid .steel manufactures. II elates thatthe combined onlniit- or iron ore in til( iten principal countries dealt with exceededin !'!10 139 million lon-, -mr] if (lie output■if liic minor cmtnines be added it. f= pro-bable !l"il the world's total prodn-liindurinjr that year was about lli milliontoiij. Complete statistics iro not ret avail-
INVESTMENT SHAKES.A sale of Wellington G,is shares (£lO
paid), at £16. and Westnort Coal, at27=. 9d., were the only transitions record-ed yesterday. The quotations were asunder-—
able for 1911, but the provisional figuressiiow that the world's total output is un-likely to ronoh more than 120.0C0.C00 t-ons,the United Kingdom's production figures,however, showing n slight .increaee. Tliotoial world'? supply of manganese oro in1910 was about, 1,930.000 tons, whereas theavailablo figures for 1911 show an outputof about 1,654,000 1 mm. or a decrease of266.0C0 tons. Statistics from Spain, France,,Greece, and Turkey have, however, not yetcome to hand, but it seems doubtful ifeven with these additional futures the 1911return will equal that of the previous year.
WOKIjD'S COAIj output.The total known csnl production ot the
world ill 1911, according to tile coal tablespublished l).v the Board of Trade, wasabout 1.050,090,000 ton?, of which the Unit-ed Kingdom produced more tlinii ouc-fourtli, and the United States more thantwo-fifths. Thi? excludes brown coal orlienitn. „
. . ,The outputs of the five principal conl-
nrodnciilK countries were:—
\s an exporting country, the UnitedKingdom still stands at tho head of tholist, with a not export of 87,040,000 tons, thenearest- rivals bcinc: Germany, with 24.727.000ton?, and tho United States with 17.603.CC0tons
TRADE IX ALLEN STREET.Fruit—The Aorangi is <lue to-day with
shipments of Island oranses and bSnanae.Tory little fruit is coming from New SouthWaief, the Willochra is bringing loss thanICO eases, consisting mainly of passionfruit and pineapples. Good supplies ofNow Zealand-grown rears and apples moavailable, • and the market shows a ten-dency to firm, owine no doubt to tho im-proved weather. Quinces are nearly overfor the seaman, only very light shipmentscoming to hand now.Tomatoes.—Supplies from tho Hutt dis-trict have fallen off considerably. A gooddemand exists for choice coloured fruit,whilst green tomatoes are dull of sale.
Vegetables.—Cauliflowers aro in excellentdemand, and consignments are recommend-ed. Cabbages eliow a slight, improvementon last week's rates. Parsnips and carrotsare realising satisfactory prices. Harrowsand pumpkins are in fair demand. Olioicocelery is bringing comparatively highprices.
Potatoes.—The market, has cased ss. perton, in the south, and "WelliiiKton pricesnow Title at £5 15s. to £6 per ton.
Onions.—Supplies of Victorian are flue onFriday. New Zealand-crown of fair dual-ity are selling at £9 ner ton; Victorian-crown pickling oniona are extremely dullof sale at Id. to lid. ner lb.
Flour is without alteration at £9 nerton, f.o.b. south, and £9 17s. 6(1., ex store,Wellington, less the usual discount,
Bran.—Supplies continue heavy, and thecurrent quotation is £5 to £5 ss. per ton.
Pollard.—Owing to importations fromAustralia, the New Zealand millei'6 havelowered their quotations by 10s. per ton,and botli New Zealand and Australiansorts ore quoted at, £6 15s. to £7 per ton.
Maize is in fair demand at 5a Id. to ss.3d. per bushel.
Oatmeal.—heading brands nre quoted at£15 10s. to £16 per ton. ex store, Welling-ton.
Oatina.. in 41b. bags, is selling at 10s. 6d,per dozen.
Oats.—The market is without change.Short feed, 3s. to 3s. 2d. per bushel; feedAlgerian. 2s. 9d. to 2?. lid.; seed Algerian,3s. to 3s. 3d.; heavy Dun oats, 2s. lid. to3s. Id.; discoloured oats, 2s. 7d. to 2s. 9d.
Hay.—Prime quality rye and clover, handpressed, is selling at £5 10s. to £6 per ton,
Chaff.—The Marlborough quotations havoadvanced considerably; prime quality, exstore, Wellington, is selling at £5 ss. to £510s. per ton, sacks in.
Fowls' wheat has "-ood inquiry at 4s. 4d,to <•. 6d. per bushel.
Eggs.—Fresh eggs are in fair demand at2s. 2d. per dozen; preserved, Is. <d. toIs. sd.
Butter.—Prime milled, in bulk, is reaJis-ins U}d. to Is. per lb.; good quality, IOJd.
Partridge Peas.—Good samples are sellingat <!s. "(i. to <s. sd. per buiviiel; broken peas,suitable for poultry. 3s. sd. per. bushel.
Prussian Bluo peo.e have moderate do-maud at 6s. per bralicl.
Capo barley is sla-v of sole at 3s. 3d.per bushel, and feed barley at is. Id.
Poultry.—Mens, 2s. 6d. to 45.; cockerels.3s. 6d. to 5=.; white ducks. ss. to 75.; IndianRunner ducks, <s. to fs. per pair; turkeygobblers, lCd. to lid. ner lb„ live weight;hens, 7d. to Bd.
CUSTOMS REVENUE.Customs duties collected at the port ofWellington yesterday amounted to £2358
12s. 3d. ,
GRAIN AND PHODOCE. ■ .(By Telograpii.—Press Association.;
Chrlstchurch, May 20.All sections of the grain and produce
trado report that business is very quiet,there being little offering and grain grow-ers holding firmly; but in view of the de-mand being for Dominion requirementsonly, there is apparently no immediateprospect of an improvement in prices thatwill induce holders to sell. There is nochange from late quotations, wheat, espe-cially short-berried, being firm, and thereis a fair demand for oata. The potatomarket is dull at present. Buyers areonly offering £3 lCs. to £3 12s. 6d., andthere are very few sellers, even at £3 155.,while some growers ore asking £4. Thebulk of the crop now being dug is there-fore going into pit. Merchants report alack of fresh orders, and their business, isconfined at present to filling those theyhave in hand. The onion crop in growers'hands is now in small compass, and thoprice lias firmed to £7 per ton. The sea-son is likely to be over somewhat earlierthan usual, as tho good prices ruling havecaused growers to sell freely.
WHEAT.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, May 19.Official quotations for wheat:—South Aus-
tralian. New South Wales, and Victoria,for prompt delivery, 375. 7}d.; on passage,38s. 6d. Liverpool futures, 91 cents; July,
(Hoc. May 20, 10.25 p.m.)London, May 20.
On tho wheat market the demand forcargoes is restricted; 38s. 6(1. has been bid,and 395. is asked.
MINING NEWS.WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET.
There was ' a further sharp decline inWaihi shares yesterday. At the morningcall a sale at 365. 6d. was made on 'Change,and in the afternoon sales were reported at365. and 355. 9d. Those were the only trans-actions recorded during tho day. TheQuotations wcro as under:—
STOCK EXCEAXGE.(By Tcleprrapli.—Press Association.)
/ Auckland, May 20.Snles oil 'Chan™ this morningWatchman, Is. 7d.Wailii, £1 17s. od.. £1 16s. 6d.Union Steam, £2 3s. 6d.The following sales wore made at tho
nfternoon eflll oil tho Stock Exchange:—Wailii. £1 16s- £1 Ifl-5- 3d.; Wailii GrandJunction, 17s. M.. 17s. Bd., 17s. 9d.; N.Z. In-surance. £5 4s. The following sale was re-ported:—Wailii Grand Junction, 17s. 6d.
Chrlstchurch, May 20.Sal"s reported on 'Chanee:—Mutual Bone-
fit Canterbury, £11: New Zealand Farm-ers' Co-oii. Association. £2 lCs.; Ross Gold-field?, 5'- 6il-; Grand Junctions, IBs. I?a..lE"''
Duncdin, May 20.Tlie following sales were reported on the
Stock Exebaiiffo to-da-y:—lTiiion Steam (exdiv.), £2 fc. 2*d.; Perpetual Trustees, £1 ia.
LON'IJON 1 MIXING QUOTATIONS.By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, May 19.Yrr-terday's closing quotations were:—
Waihi, buyers 375. 6i!., sellers Ws.; WaihiGrand Juiietion, buyers 17f1.. sellers IBs,;Talisman, buyers 365. 3d., sellers 9d.
A good many colds can l)n cure;! for ilipsum "of pislilfcii-peiirc, the pricc of aliotlle of NA/.OL! Tliis ellicacious rep--i-cly for Coughs and Colds is Iwlh immedi-ate and certain in action.—Advt.
TO INVESTORS.LET me Riye you tho benefit of lonj;
experience in Pnlenl-Mcdel, Design, |and Construction. Your idea is of tinvalue unless properly carried out mech-anically. Workmanship guaranteed. Cnll,write, or tin? 'Phono 2076'.
P. 0. VON lIARTIT/ISCH.Mccli. Eng.. 120 Gbuziiee St., vVellinglim.
InGGINSON & .MACSHANE.iSliarebroltrrs and Accountants,
113 i-'KAXIIJiIISTO.N ST-, WELLINGTONTelegrams—"Manaioa.
UPPER HUTT TOWN BOARD.
The forlnfehUr meeting of the UpperJlutt Town Board was held on Mondaypvoniii" la-t. Present: CommissionersWebb (chairman), Bengc, Bennington, Ed-wards, Kemp, Qtiinn, and Robertson. ThoRailway Department notified the board ofits intention to connect the Upper Huttstation with the local telephone bureau.It was decided to thank die Departmentfor its action, and for the prompt replyto the board's request in this matter. Itwas decided to appoint Mr. T. M. Wil-fcrrd. M.P., as I lie board's assessor at tliflsitting of the Assessment Court in con-nection with valuation' anpeals in thotown district. The board's contributionof ,£llO towards the cost of constructionof the Moonshine Bridge was passed forpatient.. Messrs. James Brown and J.D. Avery (secretary) addressed tho board,in tho matter of a request to liavo thohoard's assistance in the protection of itsstreets abutting the Waldegrave Park Es-tate and the Hutt Hiver, which is makinginroads upon the land and streets in thatvicinity. Commissioner Bennington's mo-tion "That a £ for <C subsidy up to ,£lObe given by way of special contributionwithout further liability," defeatedby four votes to three, aftera' lengthy re-cital of possible dangers by way of estab-lishing a, precedent in such matters. Tlioattendance of the ex-foreman (Mr. W. J.Wilkie) was responsible for discussion asto why some <loubt had been expressedwhy certain work in M'Leau Street was
hung up. Commissioner Eobertson movedthaj; tho elerk 1)9 given his dismissalthree months hence. As CommissionerQuirin hod retired meanwhile it was de-cided to adjourn the meeting until Sun-day next to consider what action should
■be taken in tnis matter.
THE DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, M.AY 21, 1913.10
Canadian. N.Z. Total.19(18-9 18,098 5,977 2-1,0771909-10 21,700 8,337 30,0371910-11 18,119 7,81(i 2D,9651911-12 15,802 9,514 25,3161912-13 13,829 11,367 25.19G
Huyers. f-ollorp.£ s. d. £ s d.
National Bank (now)....
4 19 0 —
Metropolitan liuildinK....
-- 12 10 0N./,. Loan and Mercantile 0 10 3 —
Well. Trust- and Loan ... 7 2 6 —
Christchurch Gas 7 7 0 7 10 0Wellington Gas (£10) 15 17 6 16 2 6National Insurance — 2 5 0N./j. Insurance 5 0 0Gear Meat (£1) 3 2 6 -
Meat Export 153s. 6d.) 2 19 0 —
Union Steam (new) — 2 3 3Union Steam (old) 2 3 6 2 4 0Mosciel Woollen — 3 12 0Well. Woollen (prcf.) — 2 16 6Westport Coal 17 6TarinEamntu Totara 2 4 0 2 5 0Golden Day Cement — 10 3Mnnninc and Co 4 2 0 --
Ward and Co 4 1Q 0W.F.C.A. (£5' 7 0 0 -
Tons.United Ht-at-cs 443.025.CC0United Kingdom 27J.899.CC0fiermanyFranco 38.023, CCOBelgium 22,683,000
The ecal production of the principalparts of the Empire wae:—
Tons.British India 12,716,000Australia 10.550,000New Zealand 2,065,000Canada 10,C82,COOSouth Africa. 6,780,CCO.
Buyers. Sellers.£ s. d. £ s. d.
Blacltvater 1 3 (l —
Con. Goldftelds 0 12 0 —.
New Sylvia 0 0 8 —
ProKi'Ct?s 0 7 0 —
lioss Reconstructed 0 5 3 —
Saxon — 0 0 6Talisman 1 19 0 1 19 6Victoria 0 0 15 —
Waihi 1 15 0 1 15' 6Waihi Grand Junction ... 0 17 0 0 17 9WaHanci 0 (I 3 0 0 5Watchman • 0 1 fi —
Drcdgo J 5 0 —
1
BenfifricellHygiene of the Mouth—.
Soundness of teeth.
Creeping!D Consumption never strikes a ®
!s sudden blow. It creeps its way 4| along.k First it is a cold; then a littlei hacking cough; then loss in i
• weight; then a harder cough; \then the. fever, the night sweats, ij andhemorrhages. j
S Better stop the diseasewhileic ;
; is yet creeping. Do you notp think so? " \...kieriSi FI * i
BOLD 75 YEABSals the one standard cough raed- <g •a icine of the world. It soothes, ji' quiets, heals. Useit" when your |i cold first comes on. Ask your [
: doctorabout this advice. Three ii sizes of this medicine. |
! Tohasten recovery, aid nature{ in every vyay you can. Be sure ;J to keep your bowels regular. \: Daily movements are absolutely j>\ essential. Ayer's Pills keep the [
£ liver active and the bowels regu- i1 lit. Dose, one pill at bedtime, |
gj | only onepill. k£? Prepared by dr. j. o. AYEH & CO., J.2 Lowell, Mass., U.8. A. Igj
When Meit IB|OrderingGroceries !S|
Be sure and Buy
fiiS• .'.'PICKLE
: -.S.SAUCE.Lf THEY MAKE COLD
n| MEATS DELICIOUS,I | - AND ENRICH THEfc| FLAVOUR OF THE/J§lL CHOICEST DISHES.
' FREE GIFT.-Saveyour "Pan Yan"Coupons'. A Hand-tome Plated PickleFork and Spoon, in I;{|j elegant case, is giv- 'fliljpr || ■ • en "way in exchange
' Wholesale Agents:,-ELLIS & MANTON,•
WELLINGTON.
will make you well and keep youi healthy. To-day is the best day a
J to commence taking it. Will you?
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jfm#• If r y vf nr
mf.f fl ) ' owiop ; \\mf'"- S CPI| It's so Easy 1j 'to avoid sleepless nights®
s- owing to cold feet! Go to |lr the nearest Chemist or Store if and purchase a E
\ DUNLOP! HOT-WfITEB B*Bli which v/ill give you several |jj v/inters' comfort, at a cost ra\ of a few shillings. p]; Mind you get a "Dunlop,"j|
'<■ because—being freshly made of j|i the best material—ihey do not |\ crack or leak. ||j Send direct (o uj if you liave any difficulty in |j
procuring a "Dunlop" Bag. Made in tsriouj lues tej: DUNLOP HUBBER CO. Hi« Melbourne,Sydney, pertu, Brlsbiuw, j£jV, Wellington and
; INVENTORS, I! CONSULT
HEMRY HUGHES, LTD.,! PATENT AGENTS,I 157 FEATUEiISTON STREET,
Estd. 1832. WELLINGTON.
7iplu 'SrK* ll' -SJiS, <»f Atst'Cia-.i. (ion. ;>'h! Joint('omjvaiiie.s' l.'rintiu<; ol every d"::cnj>lipil."Dominioii" General Printing Hous(\Dominwa Aveaua,
During the past tiro seasons (says, ourspecial correspondent), the WauganmDairy Company lias exported to the Homomarkets 22,(1110 boxes of butter.
INCUBATOHS FOR inin.-Now is theIjinc ft.' hook ynnr requirements for com-ing season, ('nil partienlnrr on appli-cation. A- and P. FOOD CO., Welling-toiit^rAdvlp
We arc showing this week several newstyles in Warner's rust-proof eorscts,with low fashionable bust and long overhips. Inspection invited. KirkcaluioandStains, Ltd.—Advt.
The attention of those apprehensive ofconsumption is directed by advertisementto Professor Raymond's "Treatise on Con-sumption, With Herbal Remedies."
A Thames Valley dairy farm of 124acres is announced for sale by Messrs.Milburn and Co., S3 Queen Street, Auck-
i land.
| AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.
MANAWATU AND WEST COASTAGRICULTURAL AND
PASTORAL ASSOCIATION,' Under tho Esteomed Patronage of His
Excellency the Governor,Will hold its
' TENTH NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW1 On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and1 Friday, June 17th, 18th, 19th, and
20th, 1913.Butter and Cheese Championships.
Fruits, Roots. Grain, and Seeds.Vegetables ani uoine Industries.
: MANAWATU POUJ/iTii" ASSOCIATIONWill also hold its Annual Show on the'above dates. A huge display of everydescription of Poultry, Pigeons., and Cana-ries. FAT STOCK SHOW. Grand Dis-play of every description of DairyingMachinery, and other industries.
Rugby and Association Football Matchesand Jumping Events. Entries close Juno2, IDIS. Schedules on application ifco Sec-retary, W. T. Penny, Boi 85, PalmcretonNorth.
PALMERSTON TAXI SERVICE.'Phone 620. Garago, Fitzherbert Street.VISITORS can rely on first-class Cars
and Experienced Drivers. Carsavailable night or day. Charges reason-able.
M. EBERHARD,Proprietor, Palmerston North.
FREEZING SHEEP AND LAMBS.
hpHE WELLINGTON MEAT EXPORTCOMPANY, LTD.,
Is prepared toPurchase FAT SHEEP AND LAMBS,
By Weight or at Per Head.
The Company also offers clients everyfacility for freezing on their ownaccount.
Prices can bo obtained on applicationat the Company's Offices, or from anyof the Buyers in tho country.
W. Q. FOSTER,Managing Director.
TPALMERSTON NORTH RAILWAYA REFRESHMENT ROOMS.
J. H. FLETCHER, Proprietor.
All Trains Mait sufficient time to allowpassengers to partake of Meals. Taste-fully served.
Ladies' Room specially providod.
The most Successful TYPEWRITERon the market to-day is
rj\HE YOST VISIBLE.
The number of Machines selling is proofof their popularity.
SIMPLEST IN CONSTRUCTION.LIGHTEST IN TOUCH.
PAD AND CENTRE GUIDE.Machines supplied on approval.
THE OFFICE APPLIANCE CO., LTD.,'Phone 1676.
Cuba Street, Wellington.Also:
7, 8, 9 Williamson's Chambers, Auckland.
ATTENTION!SUITS TO ORDER from .C 3 15s. to
.£5 103.COSTUMES TO ORDER, from .£! Is. to
.£6 10s.Wide Range Patterns. Latest Fashions.
Satisfaction .Guaranteed.JOSEPHS AND CO.;
Ladies' and Gents.' Tailors,•1 Willis Street
(Over Burlington Tea Rooms).
LUNCHEON. SUPPER, ANDTEA ROOMS.
IJUIJASi COMMERCIALRESTAURANT,
LAMBTON QUAY.AFTERNOON TEA~ A SPECIALITY.
Open 9 a.m. till 11.15 p.m.Open 9 a.m. till 11.15 p.m.
.TAMES FRASER, Proprietor.
Telephone 280G.
W. J. GAUDIN AND SON,COAT, AND GRAIN MERCHANTS.
40 GHUZNEE STREETandKILBIRNIE.T ARGE STOCKS of Coalbrookdalo andIj Newcastle Coals on hand. Promptdelivery ail parts City and Suburbs.
Telephones: City, 271; Kilbirnie, 3718.
ANTED K N O W N.Own Daily from Noon till 11.15 p.m.
(Except Tuesdays, when premises close at2 o'clock.)
PALMER'S LUNCHEON and SUPPERROOMS, 168'LAMBTON QUAY.
Tolophone No. 20.
JONES & CO.,CLYDE QUAY, WELLINGTON.
(Established 20 Years.)
CASII BUYERS OF LEAD, BRASS,ZINC. COPPER, IKON, RAGS,
ROPE & RUBBER. 'Phone 725.
\ CCOUNT BOOKS, Specially RuledA Forms, etc.—lf you want tho Bestin Sewn Account Books or in tho Looseleaf System (Douglas l'ntcnt), or if yourequire" nuy Special Forms, Ruled andPrinted, ring up 'Phone. 1933, or call onor write to "HUGH .DOUGLAS, Book-binder and Paper Ruler, 90, 92, 91 Vi ake- IHeld Street, and set complete satisfaction. J
II J ,liisiieClocKS.
, We arc showinij a Splendid As- jM?;;, p[«|gjI •J""' ll08 I
i about 15 inches high by 9| inches .
! Brass Lover Movements, which' strike the hours and half hours.; PRICE, Ms. each.
i or Dining-room Clocks, in Oak, |; at 17s. 6d„ 275. Gd., 325. Gtl., '.155., No_ 0 3312-HANDSOME OAK STKXK- B
575. Gd., 675. Gd. each. li\G CLOCK, 40s. fiCHIMING CLOCKS,
of Special Value in Oak Cases, with fine 8-Day Movements, striking thoWestminster Chimes 011 Eoft toned Tubular Gongs. J:5 10s. each.EACE CLOCIC IS CAREFULLY REGULATED AND OrLED BEFORE BEING
SENT OUT. MAIL ORDERS RECEIVE OUR PROMPT ATTENTION.
STEWART DAWSON f Co., Ltd.,JEWELLERS, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON. J
TRADESMEN! >.
QUICKER DELIVERY means a larger field of Customers!DOUBLING YOUR DELIVERIES for less cost means • lower prices and
Bigger Profits.Tlie 6H.P. "CLYNO" Light Delivery will do this for you.
CONSULT US REGARDING YOUR REQUIREMENTS.IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. CATALOGUES. TRIALS,
CYCLE & MOTOK SUPPLIES, Ltd.,Wellington and Chrislclmrch.
| SAMUEL DAWKS & SON. II SUPPLIERS ENGINEERS AND PLUMBERS, • REQUISITES,1 22 and 24 BRANDON STREET,I HAVE FOR SALE—B h.p. Multi Boilor (Crabtroe), 5 h.p. Horizontal Engine,| Five Brass-finishers' Lathes, 6in. centres; Screwing, Drillino Machine, Electro.L-aa^aanjissßranaaiaMaanMOCTOairaranEimßrarottMjaHjnjßCTnmjasaßaEaßOiMm
M ENT "pipes':IteSfi From 4 inches lo 42 Inches in Diameter.
\ ' HAVE PROVED THE BEST FOR CUL-WmiM!&W§im tt >-! VERTS, SEWAGE, and DRAINAGE.ll'SSSrtf Strength and Durability Guaranteed,
Full particulars. from—9 The CementPipe-Co., Ltd*
• MASTERTON . AND .HASTINGS. 1|
SeilTEl HISS! INSURAHCE 80.-, ITO.,Purely & N.Z. Owned Compasiy.
jffifi MABffiE, EMPLOYERS'LIABILITY, AND GENERAL ACCIDENS;
,
, ITS, POPULARITY DPS TO PROMTTNESSL :t> w GOVERNMENT w
S™ 1110 DEPARTMENT mThat's what you get using a
At 31st Dec., 1911, £207.105, SIMMSBRITISH MAGNETO
the Policyholders IN BONUSES.CONTINUOUS SATISFACTION
The above sum represents an addition A9<?n7?pnof £333,994 to tbo sums assured. The '
bonuses are now fixed upon aa. ascending FOR THE OWNER,Bcalo, it being arranged that the increases i ,rivTTmr>TTTPT?nshall become greater with the durationo' , jIA-\ ULALI UitJjlt,
the policy. Thepracticalworking of this ; And the New Zoaland Agents,arrangement /will be understood by an jinspection of tho followingexamples: ; TIIBNBjIjJ I JR IONpQ I iitBONUSES ON THREE £1,000 POLICIES, i 1 IttNBtLL ® tHMLiJ, UU
Toe Policy takmn out . I BLAIR STREET. Phono SCO.Bonuses • — —*g7~Y 4°'y "
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allottedago. ago. —
— r—£ s, d. i s. d. £ 8. a.
. 1902 30 0 0 34 16 0 40 6 0 jl.-
1905 30 18 0 35 16 04111 0 JZ 039is0° SI o Three London Remedies: X|
7— Zouth Gold Pills. / JTon 5" £4 8 0 £5 2 0 £fi 19 0 . /8over 1002) Zouth Red Pills, g
FARMING WITH Z° Uth Gree
EXPLOSIVES, Pills. X VfeuSrSAVES TIME SAVES ENERGY.SAVES LABOUR. SAVES MONEY. jF-4?) jrimtoodiately Ouroi 1PULVERISES HARD GROUND. AQ
FERTILISES THE SOIL. S <|>Xap idly Ou™ Oout,
50 to 100 Per Cent. Better Return in all g aDj
v.. „'c, | on your Storosor OhomistTHEREFORE—BIow out Yoor Stumps. a fsupplyinc, or write dircct to Zouth
AND Blow out yourj jjj ure ®°" n ston '
AND Sub-soil and Sub-drain.By means of ERUPTITE EXPLOSIVE.
SAFE! CHE AIM EFFECTIVE 1 . _
rissfffli." s jcsfA :;3 jp^DIAMONDthe same rates. BRANDEvery Farmer should write for a freocony of. the Eruptito Book, which givea ,err-»
fullest details of this new, method of |
stout Mter Street, Wellington, or by writing to 8 WW S (t fjSRnr 515. G.P.0.. Wellington.—
— r~ PAR .EXCELLENCE ||1By Special Appointment to His Excel-
lency tho Governor, Lord Islington, tSI^AK.C.U.Q., B-S.O.
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ACCUMULATORS CHARGED. CARS PROCURABLE'storedvtyres
tiand tubes
at' lmom mQ- ALL HOTELS
COURTENAY PLACE 1 wholesale* 'CASH BUTGHERY. I rj a |TM oCQ
FOR YOUR SPRING LAMB, ETC. |J. M '
ONE QUALITY—THE BEST. I |4 q VVILUSSTREET.niyn us a Call Before Goini? Klsovrhero.
'Phono 1228. —
...
I motors, I Territorials in CampIT is said. "It does not matter about , WILL FIND AN
the other parts of n Motor, asm "?lXS£,'S£r Electric Pocket LightFitted to a CALTHORI'E FRAME i VERY HANDY.completes the Best Value for any-body's money in MOTOR CYCLES. .
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,9 ' 3 Cederholm & SonMOULT AXI) ALEXANDER'S, I / MANNERS STREET,
Cuba Street,Wholesale Agents: Coun(rv Apcnta SELL TIIE RELIABLE ARTICLE*W. PARTON & SON. \V rantcd. •
THE DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1913: 11
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"'•'• THE STANDARD, OF the WORLD.
• OUB NEW SEASON'S STOCK OF HOT : : ;
-WATER HEATED MACHINESHAVE.-NOW ARRIVED. '
|fe"~ pETALTJMA -INCUBATORS have no STOOItTOH OfMLIfM 111 equal, and because tliey hatch€|j§jj" II 800,1 k , *e» strong, vigorous chicks, it is &MVU|| becoming a common thing .for those who vM'HiSri&ts
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SEND FOB LISTS, PART ICLUARS, AND PRICES._
Th® Sims HSrtIWSFG Co., Ltd., Wollinyton. BTORES-Williaand Tory Street!1 . • OFFlCES—Johnston Street.
pummiimiiiniiJinrauniwwiu'WMi'w.itiiiiiT^.iuMiuii.'uwgm.x.K.L.rjMi«»,,.l -»,,. 1,.. 1,.,.,.„~^~~Tn, 'Phones 88, 124, 161.Head Office: ■ Telegrams: , London Office: 0Wellington. "Duttilita, Wellington." 23 Lime Street.JOHN DUTHIE & CO., LTD., SflffllEL HO* LIS).
METALS AND HARDWARE MERCHANTS. 1WILLIS, MERCER, AMD VICTORIA STREETS.i r ■ . ~\ — —__
Carpdnters 1 Tools -Effiß . , hTrrrrfSea Galvd. Corrnd. Iron._.
• -P.jp : |r\ i|®&> . { oftanmrim 111iiiiiiiI»H. ■■ ■ hfcarrvr I '' F < F0«« 0000Machine Tools, ■ ra A ]|k fffi Portland Cemont. , I' jStation Requisites. IW *' /ML Iron and Steel Bars PURE BE'ERWi, \ !'•«-« P..U., " 1 DKIWC ONLY .Pumps. . . IpP: Jj w %\W. Galvd. and Blk. Pipes. :Weighing. Machines. 11| iVoldless Stl. Pipes, N jj STAPLES'.Oils and Paints, %J* \\ ' //s>'s' Tin Plates-ri\ " i\A "A°#Al ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL.Glass. . i Sheet Zinc, CONNOISSEURS
E,c '' Etc' . - 6232333 l/\ Pifl ,ron ' Etc " Etc- ; TO BE ABSOLUTELYCONTRACTORS for: Lonstructionai Steel, Waterworks Material, Tramway •W* y 5™ F" iP» 'fflMaterial, Metals, Tin Plates, Wire, Etc. Z B Hi! Sin Dt!, h ]AGENTS FOR: Dorman, Long and Co.' s Steel Joists, Indented Steel Bars. Kin- [
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near Stool Roiling Shutters. Manno sniann Steel Water Mains, North > /
Eastern Stfel Co.'s Steol Rails. John Shaw, Ltd., Steel Wire' Rope. 'Waukegan Barbed Wire. Clarence English Fencing AVire. Titan Best n'fim..Crown G. C. Iron. Patent Vulcanite Roofing Co. Alexander Fergusson and O.ficos: Molotworlhand Co.'s Genuine White Lead and Paints. [ and Murphy Streets.
TELEPHONES:■ 573, Town Dept.: 156, Country Dept.; 2564, Iron Store. j
JENKINS BKOS' GLOBE VALVES s'fiaiMl aS 2Sse Mead. g* QTFftjT &fn >B IThe great popularity of JENKINS BROS.' VALVES has brought base imita- I .„
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* & •tions on the market which are sold as 'JENKINS." To avoid these I ALEs AMD STOIITI-please NOTE that ail GENUINE VALVES have tho Trade Mark and Name, '
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"JENKINS 8R05.," stamped on tho body. | Acknowledged to be Absolutely JJENKINS & MACE, Wellington, j 1 THE BEST.
SOLE AGENTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. ! 17 4 19, Quin St., Wellington. 'PhoneS7|.|
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LAND NOTICES.
WANTED.
(gELLERS of Farms and Station Pro-
perties to send full details, includ-ing—
Price per acre.Carrying capacity.
How watered.Buildings.
Mortgage (if any).
Terms of sale, etc.
To tlio undorsigned, who has a large in-quiry for Properties of nil sizes.
H. ERNEST LEIGHTONj
AUCTIONEER, LAND AND ESTATEAGENT,
182 Featherston Street, Wellington,
AND LOWER HUTT.
HOTEL NOTICES.
rjIHE NEW ROYAL HOTEL,! Rungitikei Street, Palmcrston N.
ARTHUR HAYWOOD Proprietor.
Arthur Haywood having taken over theabove solicits tho Patronage of all oldand now friends. The Hotel is fittedthroughout with Electric Light, andaffords SUPERIOR ACCOMODATION toVisitors.
Speights Alo on draught.
' TAUIFF, 6s. 6d..P.O. Box 203 Telephone 94.
WHITE HART HOTEL,CHRISTCHURCH.
This is one of the most up-to-dato andbest Houses to Btay at in the Dominion,having only been rebuilt four years.
TARIFF:'Bs. 6d. per day.F. M. DREWITT,
Proprietor.
AVERLEY PRIVATE HOTEL,Marion Street (opp. Now To Aro
Post Office), City. ■Absolutely fvro and earthquake-proof.
Contains all modern conveniences andcomforts. A large promenade roof, over-looking Harbour.Tariff: 6s. per day; or from 255. per week.
MRS C. A. TREGONNING,'Phono 2947. Proprietress.
LAMD NOTICED.
I'AKTIUULAHS 01? I'IIOt'RHTIKH ronHAJ/K,
1-A UOUT GOO Acrefl, U'lwmhold, 00 yearn
to run. within 1(1 mi Inn of lluiitiiiKH.Whitors 2 sheep and 60 outllo. Goodwill,
|PfENTLEMAN'S lleautlfui Keniiionco ofabout 10 I'ooiiw, with i»botit .10 acresIttn'l. in orchard, lnwnn, garden, elo., 010.all modern convonianooii, including clou-tiic light, Situated about 5 mlleo fromNapier, Easy terniß. Furthor uartioulurßou application. ;j
- 1700 ACRES, 14 mlloH from Walpuku-r va» siiloyardii and railway sta-tion, J-roomed boiiKo with all convonf-oncos; woolblmxi and yards; subdividedj, number of paddockß; mostly plough-ablo; winters 2 owoa to tiio aoro; wollwoterod, Prico, J!10 los. per acio,
QOA ACKUtj, all limestone, 14 milesu • Ir. cm Hastings, and i miles toKailway tstuttoa. Wow 7-roomod House,oairy, storeroom, and wmMioubo, trapand dry Bhod. Subdivided into 8 pau-docks, all beautifully watcrod. Two Betasheep yards and plenty of fencing timbor
„ C<! rr.V! n K.onpaciiy !t eheep(mixed; and 200 head of cattle and fow- horses. Peroentage of lambs last Beason
• was J15., Price, £16 10b. per acre; JCGOOOcash.
With this property there is a Nativeloose of 125 acres adjoining with i yoarato run at a fow pounds a year rental,whioh will oarry 100 sheep and 100 headof young cattle.
> For further particulars, applyI[ DE PELICHET, M'LEOD, AND
CO., LIMITED.HASTINGS.
OTAKI LAND.XT'OUR Sections, containing areas of 800»- to 2000. acres bush- land.Fronting Otaki River and Main Road.
Eight miles from Otaki.Two Sections partly cleared.Land well watered.Will carry H slieep to the acre.
. Prices from M per acre.Easy terms. '
ApplyJ. B. FINLAY,
"Evening Post" Buildings,WELLINGTON.
UPPER HUTT,EASY PRICES! EASY TERMS!EASI PRICES! EASY TERMS!
WITHIN SUBURBAN RAILWAYAREA.
.55 ' ACRES: . 55Sections from quarter-acre upwards. Suit-able for Pleasure or Profit.SUNSHINE, ELEVATION SCENERY.
H. C. GIBBONS,MAIN ROAD, UPPER HUTT,
Or 180 Lambton Quay, WELLINGTON.WELLINGTON-^VESTMENT OF 100HOUSES TO BE SACRIFICED.WE have received definite instructionsto sacrifice 100' practically newHouses, all well Let, bringing in goodreturns, and situated in various parts ofthe City and immediate Suburbs.
The Owner is leaving tho Dominion atan early date, and prices placed on tho
'.various properties aro below actual cost,and show a good margin of gilt-edged in-vestment, some of tho Houses snowingfrom 15 per cent, on the amount invested.Several of the Houses are in blocks offrom 2 to 8, and should appeal to theperson wanting a real good investment.Further particulars from
LONGMORE AND CO.,207 LAMBTON QUAY.
(Solo Agents.) '
QA(\ ICiiES, 200 in grass, 20 crop, 10/S'±l} unimproved, all nice undulatingland; Anso 8 rooms; school 21 miles,creamery 1J miles, railway station 2J;watered by spritgs and creek; well fenc-ed; 12 pnddoclts; price .£ls per aero; ensh£500, balance 5 lo 10 years at 5 per cent.;carrying at present- 60 head grown stock.
No. 80iy(? ACRES, all in grass; house 4 rooms; ,iiJ school }-mile, cheese factory J-mile,railway station 1} miles; i paddocks, withplenty of water, and well fenced; price,
| .£2l per acre, .£250 cash, balance ar-| ranged. No. 86 .| KING AND CO.,
Land and General Commission Agents, 1HAMILTON.. 1
OA/I ACRES.—A model little SheepOX/rt Farm, highly improved, 1} milesfrom railway station; 75 acrcs ricli flat
rape land, worth ,£lO per acre. Thisproperty winters 700 ewes and 45 headcattle; for fattening stock it cannot bosurpassed. Freehold, JCI7 10s. per aero; -,£ISOO cash will admit purchaser. E. B. tHARE AND CO., Land and Estate *Agents. Pahiatua. c
A CHEAP PROPERTY. ®Q"| A ACRES, rich land, north of Auck- GO.tU land, 1 mile to creamery, P.0., dschool, and railway station; 500 acres cin grass, 200 native grass, 100 bush, 700 vploughable; 10 paddocks; carry 1200 breed- omg ewes, 100 cattle; first-class kauri ndwelling, 7 rooms, h. and c. water, etc,,also 4-room cottage. Price, £9; no mort-gage; good terms. Owner might Exchangefor small Dairy Farm. Ratliff LaudAgency,. Feilding.
LAND NOTICES.
CHOICE DAIRY FARM.THOROUGHLY BRAINED SWAMP.
HCKCJALLY PROFITABLE INVEST-MENT.
•STOCK, IMPLEMENTS, ETC..INCLUDED.
rniMMi;s valley, s piles from vail-*. way station, 1! mile*) from creamery
lind school, (i7l> acres specially rich flaxmid kiihikntoii swamp, black loam, amimi pent j thoroughly drained, with abun-dant. full to river, ami never flooded, 550iht(« in grass, 12G acres in manuka, allplimgluiblo, and well watered, 8 paddocks,currying 100 picked dairy cows, 2 pedi-gree bulls, .'lO dry cattle, 85 calves, 15pigs,anil 'I horses', capable now of carrying 200dairy cows and young stock, and easilyimproved to carry 300 dairy cows anilyoung stock. Buildings, two 5 ajid onoG-roomtd houses, 12-hail cowshed, with con-crete floor, and all other necessary out-buildings; an unqualified bargain, andspecially sound investment at JCIB anacre. Slock, implements, 'etc., included.PLEASE SEND FOR LIST OF FARMS
FOR SALE.. CUMMING AND SON,
AUCTIONEERS AND LAND AGENTS,I 85 QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND.Telephones: Office. 2082; Residence, 115.
\H. W. DRIVER, Buckland,Waikato Branch Manager.
HAWICE'S BAY FARM.Q(fJQ ACRES, Freehold, 148 acres L.I.P. ;OUO rent, £8 17s.' Sd. per Annum.Exceptionally good limestone country;flat and undulating, partly ploughable;can be heavily stocked; splendidly water-ed and subdivided; 5 utiles from railwaystation; 0-roomed Residence; telephoneconnected; yards, barn, etc.
PRICE, .ill per aero; easy terms. AnIdeal Farm.Apply
S. GEORGE NATHAN,AUCTIONEER AND ESTATE AGENT,
113-115 Customhouse Quay,. WELLINGTON.
DAIRY FARMS FOR SALE.VERY EXCELLENT COW COUNTRY.1 Qiy ACRES, very rich river deposit,JLf ' good Homestead, and every mod-ern convenience; would mako one of thebest stud farms in tho Dominion, beingclose to good towns, «nd tho centre ot>the best dairying district in New Zea-land. The prico is low' and only 10per cent, cash wanted, balance for termsat 5 per cent.1A A ACRES, rich land, good Home-XyV Ftcad and every convenience.Price loir, and only 10 per cent, cashwanted, balance for term at 5 per cent.
ACRES, originally flax swamp, 4-roomed House, cowshed, andstable. Price right, terms 10 per cent,cash, balance for term at 5 per cent.
! /)Q ACRES, rich alluvial land, 5-roomed! tV House, cowshed,' trapshed, etc.
Tho pricc is low, and tho terms only 10per cent, cash, balance for term at 5per cent. <
All the above farms are within half amile of good township, store, post office,church, school, etc., and closo to two oftho best market towns in tho NorthIsland, factory and creameries handy.
GILCHRIST AND K7DT).
LAND AND ESTATE' AGENTS.PALJIERSTON NORTH.
I IIAWKE'ti BAY DISTRICT.1 ACRES, originally bush coun-
i .LOI X try, .ill now. in English grasses,' with the exception of a few shelter[ patches, subdivided into 20 paddocks by
■ B.W. fences, and well watered. Shore3600 sheep and lambs Inst season. Build-■ ings iinclndo ' ,modern :.'9-roomed House,' with bathroom, storerooms, h tnd c.1 water, washhouso, i etc.. shepherd's oot-
\ tage of 5 rooms, stable, .harness-room,' stands with M.V. machines and petrol; engine, shearers whare with kitchen; 2
sets of sheep-yards and concrete dip.Pricc, ,£23,000, as a going concern, in-
cluding stock, shearing plant, imple-ments and furhituro. Further particularsfromC. B. HOADLEY AND SON,
LTD.,■ NAPIER AND HASTINGS.
STRAIGHT-OUT LEASE.QAA ACRES splendid situation, 1 mile/vUU ■ from post office and school; goodroads. All in grass and crops,' 5 acresnativo bush, li acres plantations, 80 acresbeen stumped, 12 paddocks,, splendid watersupply; house of 8 rooms, wash-houseand all necessary outbuildings; cowshedof G bales (concrete), first-class dairyingand cropping land, 250 tons of potatoessold off of property this year. Practic-ally nil ploughablc. Lease for 5 years at
- 355. an acre, with probable right of re-newal. Rent payable half-yearly ill ad-vance. Compensation to be allowed forfencing and buildings erected during termof leaoo.
R. U. HARDEN AND CO.,AGENTS,
KIMBOLTON.THE CHEAPEST PROPOSITION IN
THE DOMINION.1W AAA ACRES, Small Grazing Run;XI jUUV lease 174 years to run; ren-tal, .£25 per annum; situated 1 mile fromtho Taupo Totara Timber Company's line;all in rough feed, with tho exception ofCOO acres bush (good milling timber);bounded for 6 miles by Waikato River;
G miles post and wiro fcncing; 2 sub-divisions, carrying 1200 sheep, 300 headrattle, and somo horses; houso (3 rooms),woolshed. Price, for tho goodwillof lease, with -CIOOO cash down, balanco .at S per ccnt. OR WILL EXCHANGE.
Apply early toMESS ANA AND CO..Land Agents and Brokers,
HAMILTON, WAIIvATO.
A SPLENDID PROPERTY.nrA ACRES, 2} miles from Rising •<v«V Railway Township, creamery, 1etc., all in grass, and all plougliable; :well watered, all fenced, and well sub- [divided. i
Ono Houso, 8 rooms, with every con-venience, ana another ono of five rooms;all farm bnildings.
PRICE, .€lB per aero. .Terms, .£IOOOCash. This property is a BARGAIN.
ApplyGOSLING AND HIGGINS,
Agents,
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. .
MRS. TREGONNING, of the"WaverleyPrivate Hotel," wishes to notify
the public that she has taken over theColumbia Private Hotel, Cuba Street.Complete renovation and refurnishing hastaken place. Both Hotels will be undertho direct management of Mrs. Tregonn-ing,and are to be run in conjunction witheach othor.lf/jfK. RICHARD QUINN (late Provin-ItA cial Hotel, Upper Hutt) has takenover the Family Hotel, Lower Hutt, andinvites all old and now friends to givehim'a share of their patronago. Suporioraccommodation. Special Terms to Per-manent 'Boarders.
All liquors guaranteed true to name andlabel. Speight's Beer drawn from thewood.71,TR, R (TED.) SULLIVAN
Desires to notify tho travellingPublic that from tho 13th of MARCH ho
, ; has taken over the Well-knowuCOMMERCIAL HOTEL AT PAHIATUA.
A Home from Homo.E. SULLlVAN,'Proprietor,
NATIONAL HOTEL,Lambton Quay.
(Under New Management.)
"IMTR. H. F. CAMERON, late of WhiteItJL Hart Hotel, Uarton, has taken overthe above hotel, and hopes to welcome allold customers. Catering espeoially su-pervised by Mrs. Cameron.
Best of Liquors kept.
YOUNGS' PRIVATE HOTEL, 260a,Lanibton Quay (Hannah's Buildings),
Wellington, the most central, commodi-ous and up-to-dato Private Hotel in theDominion; bedroom accommodation for100; tariff, 18s. to 20s. per week; abso-lutely fire and verminproof; Bath, Smoke,and Sitting Rooms, on every floor; casualmeals from 3d., or 21 meal tickets for 145.;one minute from wharf, G.P.O. and rail-wayYork private hotel,
Feilding's LEADING House.One Minute from Railway Station.
Commercial men and holiday-seekerswill find this house up to date in everyparticular. Fifty rooms, excellent table,good attention. Entirely under new-management. ' Tariff 6s. 6a.
MRS. M'CONACHIE,Proprietress.
WHERE TO STAY IN WELLINGTON.hPEALANDIA PRIVATE HOTEL,£j Clyde Quay,(Near Wharf and Te AroRailway Station.)
Under Entirely Now Management.Cars pass tho door.Visitors and Permanents will find the
best of everything at tho following rate?:55.. per day; 255. per week. 'Phone 1650,
MRS. FIX, Proprietress.WELLINGTON.
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HOTET . GRAND CENTRAL, 107CUBA STREET.
Wellington'sLeading Private Hotel. Ac-commodation for 100 guests. First-classCuisine. Every modern convenience, lad-ies' Private Drawing-rooms,. Sitting-rooms,etc.. Lounges, and eight modern Bath-rooms, including electric light and electricfire alarms. Tariff, 6s day.i PermanentBoarders as per arrangement.
CONVEYANCES.OYAL MAIL COACH SERVICE, the
Shortest Route to and from Foi-ton.—Leaves Foxton daily, 6.30 a.m.; ar-riving Shannon daily, 8.0 a.m.; leaveShannon daily, 10.45 a.m.;,arrive Fox tondaily, 12 noon: leave Foxton daily, 2.30p.m.; arrive Shannon daily, 4.0 p.m.;leave Shannon daily, f1.15 p.m.; arriveFcxton daily, 9.40 p.m.
F. ROOT.
ROYAL MAIL Leaves CARBINESTABLES, Feilding, for Kimbolton
daily at 8.30 a.m. and 3.30' p.m.; leavesKimbolton at Noon for Feilding.
E. J. MOORE, Proprietor,- Feilding.
WALKER'S STABLES, BULLSForwarding Agent, Carrier, and
General Contractor. Coaches: Greatfordto Bulls. Vehicles, Horses, and Motor-carson Hire. Good Sample Rooms.
J. E. WALKER. Proprietor.
FLY AND young,ROYAL MAIL CONTRACTORS and
GENERAL CARRIERS, MASTERTON.All Trains Met. Commercial Travellers'
Samples promptly attended to. Neiv andUp-to-Date Sample Rooms. Agents forthe N.Z. EXPRESS CO.. Storage andStabling. Corner Dixon and BannisterStreets. St. .'ohn Ambulance available
■day or night. 'Phone No. 120, Private12?. P.O. Pox 50.
WE UNDERTAKEOURNITURE REMOVALS i.nd Storaz*
of sam# in Dry StorM.
Customs Clearing ana Forwarding uiGoods to any part of tko Dominion.Cartage Contracts of all Doscriptiooj.
HUNT, COTTRELL. AND CO.. LTD,
FURNITURE PACKED and REMOVEDTO ANY ADDRESS.
Goods Cleared Through Custom Houfo.Cheap Storago Accommodation for Goodi
of any Description.
KEIR'S FORWARDING AGENCY.76 Jervoin Quay.
I'oleDhono 1160.
TO LEASE.Q(r ACRES, all flat; house, cowshed,oO garden, shelter trees; Lease hasthree years, 225,; optional purchase. <£25;20 cows, 12 weaners, 2 sows, G store pigs,horse, cart, harness, 18 tons hay, 15 fac-tory shares. Price, ,£2BO tile lot.
W. INGLIS HUSBAND,, Land Agent, PAHIATUA.
OAfTA ACRES; between 2300 and 2400OvtJl/ acres in grass, balance bush;all undulating to hilly country; willcarry-2 sheep to the acre, besides cattle;good houso of 6 rooms and all outbuild-ings; woolshed, fitted up with machines,etc.; 13 miles from Pahiatua by goodroad. Price £7 fis. per aero. For fur-ther particulars apply to P. 1 ULIXDCH,Land Agent. Pahiatua. "
STRAIGHT-OUT Lease of 677 Acres for5 or 7 years at 10s. 3d. tier acre,
with compulsory purchasing clause at.£lO 10s. per acre; well fenced, subdivided,and watered. Situated about 14 milesfrom I'almerston North by good motorroad. Closo to cheese factory, railwaystation, etc. This is a very cheap pro-perty, and well .worth inspection. No. 1000
FREDERICK HERRING,Land and Estate Agent,
Tel. 624. Palmerston' North. P.O. Box 59.
FOR Sale, splendid Farm, at■ Rockville, Golden Bay, 100 acres ofgcod flat land, alongside factory, school,post office: or would sell in two lots, withhouse, sheds, concrete yards on each sec-tion; excellent: situation. Particulars from11. Shirt 1ifT, Stoke.
pTA ACRES, Taita, for Sale, to windup estate. 'The beautiful propertyknown as Laurel Hall, situate on main,road. 4 miles from Hutt Station, 13-room-ed house, largo barn, cowshed, otc. Anideal place for a retired business man.Been in present owner's family for 60years, and now being sold by Trustees tocloso the estate. Regular coach service.Telephone, P.0., Store, 3 mile, school Jmjle. Full particulars from M. W.Welch, Esq.. on tho farm, or F. P.Welch. Estate Accnt. Mastcrton.CHEAP Dairy Farm; 134'acres splen-did land, nearly all in grass, fewclumps of ljutive bush; Residence, 8rooms, , and outbuildings; 1! miles tocreainory, etc.; 35 miles vo cily; bargainat .£l6 acre; terms. GT. NORTHERNAGENCY, 5 H.M. Arcade. Auckland.
GENERAL Printing ill all its branchesneatly and promptly executed atmoderate charges at the "Dominion"General Printing House, Dominiou Av-enue. 'Phono 1412-
FRANICTON JUNCTION, WAIICATO.
TWO VERY CHOICE LITTLE DAIET. FAIUIS
OfA(\ AND GO ACRES, close to boroughtfcvr boundary, for salo on very easyterms.
Also,500 ACRES, suitable for cropping, dairy-ins, find sheep,
PRICE, only -Cl 3 10s. per aero. Easyterms.
Apply
FARMERS' LAND AGENCY,13 MAIN STREET WEST,PALMERSTON NORTH.
TO SPECULATORS I-j aA a ACRES Freehold. SplendidJxl/u sheoj) and cot tie country. Alllevel, about 1000 acres in grass and crops.2} sheep country; good house and build-ings, well watered and subdivided; wouldcut up splendidly into dairy farms;clucse factory about 1 mile, railway 7miles by motor road.
PRICE—<CIO per acre. Terms, ONLY,£ISOO cash; balance 5 per cent.
This is one of the. cheapest propertiesin tho Auckland Province.
HUNTER AND BANKS,Members of the Auckland Land Agents'
Association.CAMBRIDGE, WAIICATO.
CHEAP Farm, «s a poing concern—3ooacres semi-volcanic, adjoining the
creamery; carry 50 cons; includes 1!) eons,20 heifers and enlves, 5 horses, imple-ments, furniture, etc. Price, only XlO10s per ncre. GMF.AT NORTHERN
6 Jiu, Atcade, Auckland,
LAND NOTICES."I "1 A ACRES, within 1} miles of Feilding, all grass, fino piece of Totara Bush,» -l" all ploughablo, carry 1 beast to tlio acre. Houso and outbuildings. Wellfenced and waiered. Price .£6O per acre. Terms. - (No. 221 _W.)Jfi ACRES, 8 miles from Fcihtinsr, practically all ploughablo, and all but a few
acrcs in grass, 3 acres crop. llouso and outbuildings, etc.' Price, £25' peracre. Terms. ; (No. 318 M.)"j A Q ACRES, 3 miles Feilding, all grass. all ploughablo, well fenoed and dividedA'xO into 17 paddocks. Houso and outbuildings. I'rice, £b$ jmr'ncrc. Term's.' .Apply (N0..23 M.) '
VICTOR E. SMITH, BOX 59,.PEILDING.FREEHOLD SHEEP FARM. . ,
1 ACBES, Hawko's Bay, i miles P.O. and school, divided into 12 pad< •AiJUU docks; 800 acres flat, balanco low hills; fiOO acres ploughed and sov.udown; 100 acres crop; balanco surface sown; winters' 3000 sheep, 80 cattl<J;,',Jo-- dwelling. Price, J!9 per aero. Terin9, ,£2lOOl caßli,. balance 6 pcrcent. • ■ 'J. H. OLDHAM, LAm iS .r •
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TO BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS.Freehold Bakery, detached residence, stables, and all con«veniences, including up-to-dnto plant complcto. Doing Two Thousand Loavesper week, and large tmall-goods trado. Situated in good town and splendid dis-
trict. Satisfactory reasons for selling. Prioe, ,£9OO. For quick sale terms canbo arranged. Apply • .
TRISTRAM AND CO., :ELTHAM,
WANTED FOR CLIENT.SHEEP FARSI. 1000 TO 2000 ACRES.
WItANGITIKEI, HUNTERVILLE OR WANGANUI DISTRICTS.
t. iVO Purchaser wa^nS or IOOu acres sheep country, not too fafback, and situated preferably in one of the above Districts. Any property -submitted must be good value. Client will find JCISOO to X'2ooo cash, and cast for'6toc£. Wnto details to
LEWIS AND CO., 'LICENSED LAND AGENTS, WANGANUI,
17ft ACRES, R.L., with right of purchase; rent, 10s. Gd.; P.0., school, • and-i i,. factol 'J' 1 . n ."'e.' '>J' K°0(l rca< l| 'u grass, all flat and undulating and'ploughablo; now wintering 42 cows, 8 heifers, 17 yearlings, and 2fl fat sheep; wellwatered and fenced, 8 paddocks; G-roomed House, up-to-date, h. and c. water >machines, 3-cow plant engine and releaser complete. Price, lor Goodwill, • £1350; 1which includes 80 shares in Factory. Vory easy terms can bo arranged. For"full particulars, apply to . ■ - . •'
SPENCE & ' CO. ■ ■ ■ nLAND AGENTS, STATION STREET. DANNEVIRKE. "■ £
TJRIVATE HOTEL, one of the largest and most popular Houses in Sotorual'long lease, moderate rental; owner prepared to Ruaranteo income.BAT OF PLENTY FARMS—IOOO Acres, mostly improved, river for miles'onboundary; House, 6 rooms (new), shed, yards. Price, jCMOs. per acre; onlj JCfflWcash, balance 5 per cent.. Near creamery, 32.) Acres, all plouirhable and ingrass..well watered, fenced, and subdivided; no buildings; 2 miles from growing town-ship, J-mile from railway station, creamery, etc. Price, .£l4 per aero; jCGOO cashwill secure it. 219 Acres, all improved, with all necessary buildings, fenced andsubdivided; .811 nor acre.M'DOWEIiI AND CO., LAND AGENTS, ROTORUA.
/NBNTMUAN'S HATTER, TAILORING, and GENERAL OUTFITTING BUSK'NLSb. Situated on tho busiest side of Queen Street, right in tho heart uf the •business centre, a fine shop with a splendid window display. Tho building is animposing: and well built. There is a long lease, with an exceedingly low ren- •tal. The business is a very old-established one, and could bo greatly increased hf"progressive man. Tho owner is retiring from business, only reason for selling.Fullest particulars from the Agent. Price of goodwill' and fittings. .£750,Stock at vaWion. LQXJIS LEWIS.
ESTATE AGENT AND VALUER, VICTORIA STREET E„ AUCKLAND. •
EXCHANGE,QfJftA ACRES, Wairarapn, 23 miles; good buildings, woolshed, yards, and din.tiuvv etc.; near Masterton, carrying 1} sheep, besides cattle. Equity, JJl9,oott,>
C. C. ROSS AND CO. ' rMASTERTON. '
exchange for shee? farm; 1 ,100 ACRES, Feuding, district, all in grns •. 14 paddocks, well fonced and
. ~ splendidly watered, all ploughable, 10 acres tindef crop. Carrying 50cowsbesides young_ stock and shoep G-roomed house, bathroom, 12-bail cowshed. stables' •'
sheas, etc. PRICE, ,£43 per acre.ACreS ttt £i per aoro" Total JMOOO. Full par<"""'H. P. MCNBILL'AND 00.,
155 FEATHERSTON STREET, WELLINGTON.tjl 3. ACRES, Avondale, 8 miles from Auckland. Deep rich alluvial 6oil. Will '„ , Kr ° w anything. Handy to Railway Station.. Frontage to Waitcmatn. '
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W, D. MCLEAN,PHOENIX CHAMBERS, AUCKLAND.
H~F?E ,E VA'LLEY.—In this celebrated farming district wo have for' iVVi-Dv about 1000 ACRES of riclrla'nd, subdivided into ELEVENJib, alongside Creamery and School, aiid only. 6 miles from railwavstation,, telephone to the property. THREE of tho Farms.have established dairies <tsome partially improved, others unimproved, but easily cleared and ''worked '
Luhographed.plausaare being;prepqred:;: Prices range from £& to' ilß\ Mr 'acre! Iar.d easy terms arranged. Full particulars from '/• !■"'■■■ *
KIRKCALDY & CO..' ' ' ,Land and Estate Agents, 29 Fort Street, AUCKLAND. '■
Q.Q.RA ACRES, 0.R.P., rental, d£3G haifroarly; 750 acres now carrying 13 sheen *. j Pf 1, ,ftCt T /!nd cattle; 5-ropmed House, buggy-shed, and outbulldinrs,orchard, and plantations; 9} miles from Opotiki by buggy road, and tradesmendeliver goods at town prices.Threo miles frontage to road, and on probable railway route.PKiCE, £'l per acre, Cash or Terms. Full particulars on application toC. PIESSE'
LICENSED AGENT, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, AND AUDITORGISBORNE.
oopo ACRES, Freehold, 22 miles from Masterton by good motor road; .OuVJO acres in busli, lmlance in English grass; all easy rideable country.Splendidly fenced and watered. Winter carrj-in? capacity, 3000 owes, 2700 lioggetji, 'and 180 cattle. Six-roomed homestead, largo Bliearer.s' wha.ro and wash-hous?. 'New woolshed for fouir stands witb Machines. Now stable, o'liaff house,-trap- ' 'shed, workshop, and shoeing forge. Price J2B 10s. per acre. VFor further particulars apnlv to
DUNN AND RAWBON, ■. AGENTS, MASTERTON. . '
: CHEAP SHEEP COUNTRY IN WANGANUI DISTRICT.'
10l A ACHES, all in grass, 9 paddocks, well watered; good totara and maire • ■XOi't fencing; hilly country, rideablo, papa formation; 6mall house; whhre, 'woolshed, and yards; guaranteed to carry 3500 sheep. Suitublo either! breeding 1ewes or fattening; 23 miles from Wauganui by metal'road; 250 acres of above issmall grazing run; rent, 7d.; 16 years to run. Price, all over, £9, with '<£2000 ■cash, balance 5 years. '
W. O'CALLAGHAN.' ;
TATTERSALL'S BUILDINGS, HAWEB-A. : , ■FOR SALE, up-to-date Steam Threshing, Chaff-cutting, and Road Hauling Plant,
G h.p. Fowler Traction (nearly new), 3 speeds,' 2 tanks, 1801b. pressure, onsprings, 4ft. fiin. Marshall Mill, with folding elevators, ring oil bearings,.eto. Com-monwealth Chaff-cutter, 14in. mouth, double bagger, clip bag rings. Two 8-toriSpring lorries. One Sawboncb, two saws and mounted on wheels. One Spring Van,Jtted with two bunks. Four tarpaulins, ropes, ehains, and tools, a full kit of ex-tras. Nearly i;800 worth of contracts for this eoason go with the plant. Price fotquick said, i!l000. Solo Agent,
EDWIN ,B. DANIEL, ,LAND AND LABOUR AGENT, HASTINGS. H.B.
EXCELLENT SHEEP RUN FOR SALE. IKI ACRES leasehold, rent 15s. per.Ltlx aero, with R.P, at ,£ls per ocrot
£QAA ACRES, L.T. Title, 19 miles leaso Jws nlwut 15 montlis to ruii, nt onilOOIW from railway station, by Rood of which timo .£3OO of purchase moneyformed dray road. All the land is of tho must bo paid, £200 m 1917, and the b„I.very best quality grn7.ing country, all fJ lUX> ,V 1, ~
,^on! 1 lfj,;!lvl( 'ed intobeen heavy wish, on papa formation; 500 " paddocks, well watered, all m grass ex-acres ploughable, ivhen stumped. All in ® acres m crop; 4-roomea house,grass except about 200 acres reserves, outhouse, 5-bau cow-shed, pig-styes, andWell fenced and subdivided. Usual oj-hol' sheds. All undulate and'plough-homestead buildings, woolsbed, yards, din, . •
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dreamery and 1 ost Office adjoin-etc. Well suited for subdivision, having School opposite,' Railway Station 4frontages to two roads. Will winter 3 Goodwill .£2OO, or will sell as asheep to the aero, besides cattle. MO ss. F011!* concern for .£650, including tho fol-per acre • lowing stock, viz., 40 cows, 1 bull, 1
. rr . mTTT„„.„, nn mare, 2 foals, I milk cart and harness,A. H. ATKIIsSOIn AND CO., 1 trap and harness, 9 milk cans, i lyiick-LTD., ots and strainer, 20 cow covers, 1 liny.
wtttttitivrrt stack, 2 ploughs, 17 fowls, crowbars, tim-ber jacks, etc. Apply sharp, —
J. HARRIS AND SONS, .
MAIN TRUNK LINE. MARTON AND MABTON JUNCTION,
FOR SALE. PRIVATE HOTEL FOR LEASE. ■ffflflS) ACRES, L.T. Title, all in Rfass; ; 1OvUlf been heavy bush on papa for- _
„ T _..rr_ Trrnn ,motion; well suited for subdivision; T/ ,?•?. ? FURNITURF/. of modern,usual homestead buildings, woolshed with . ' .k'ty Private Hotel for sale. Built.,machines, dip, yards, otc., well watered; in brick and containing 50 rooms. E.xccp.-telephone to homestead; carrying IG,OOO ticnally well furnished nnd nll m splen-.sheep, G7O bullocks. Prico JCIO ss. per ii, '-LMndltlo!L+,? " '38 full, s 'wiaero; stock at valuation, easy terms. Full f011 ""- jparticulars obtainable from Agents- lo onWILLIAMS, HUNT AND CO., appHcafioa to
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Johnston .Street, WYLIE BROS.,WELLINGTON. 181 FEiTHERSTON STREET,'
AN INVESTMENT TilAT "APPEALS." WELLINGTON.
11 in ACRES, rich heavy dairying GOING CONCLRN, NORTH.JLittO land; situation, Wairaraua; QQK ACRES, situated 45 miles north ofclose to school; ideal climate and perfect ™<W Auckland, end G niilos from,roads; new modern cheese factory erected railway station, GO acres grass, subdividedon tho property. Milking sheds—machines into 8 paddocks, 40 to 50 acres valuabloinstalled—and piggeries built on most up- bush, mostly woll-grown puriri; remaindor.,to-date lines. Large family residence, is in rough feed, fern, and ti-trcc. All'stable, and alt necessary outbuildings, in undulating, ploughablo country School,addition to which Micro aro two other re- post office, money order and savings Ixink.sidcnces. Tho land is of the highest .telephone, hall, canning factory, andquality equal to tho best of Taranaki church alongside. House 4 rooms, oowshedand Manawatu, and will grow crops of 6 bails, separator. 6hcd, barn, stables, chaffany description to the greatest perfection, houso, otc.Admirably suitablo for cutting tip into 32 dniry oows, 12 yearling heifers, 1 bull;smaller areas. Portion of purchaso money 8 coming yearling heifers, 2 ponies, 2can remain at per cent. Owner's roa- plough horses, plough, disc harrows, tinoson for selling will satisfy any reason- harrows, horse-power ehoflcutfer, soparri- 'able person. Prieo and full particulars tor. cans, tools, double-sealed w.igonetle,on application to sulky, all harness and gear. Price, .£l3 10sABRAHAM AND WILLIAMS, A^GERAGIITY,
LAND AGENTS, AD itLAND.MASTERTON, or BRANCHES. _____
IjtOß SALE, 150 Acres, easy distancecheese factory, P.0., and stationA 0
'''niost a" ploushablo, new 6-roomed House, concreted cowbaiis'nine subdivisions, three miles waterfront- fitted with machines, stable, etc.age; partly ploughed, cropped, and grass- PRICE. ,C2G per acre; .C-100 cash; 45oil; run 50 cows now; two Houses and cows at valuation. Easy terms arrangedoutbuildings; daily boat. GT. NORTH- for balance.ERN AGENCY, 5 H,il, [Argado, Auck- ORBELL AND CO., Land Agents.lande I'Almerstoa North, . '
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Printed and Fubliehed bj Albert Illanton, "Coominglah," York Terraw, Orients 1Bay, for tho Wellisgton Publishing Company, Limited at '.he ItociftoTOlpt il* iQiipcs*, Btminion Agouti Wellington, Wednesday, Mav 21, 1913,
THE DOMINION, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1913.12AUCTIONS.
PARORANGI DISPERSAL SALE.NOTICE TO STUD MASTERS.
The' Great Dispersal Sale of ME. ERNEST SHORT'S Ktml j"?h6heep, Stud Hereford Cattle, and PedigTeo Clydesdale Horses v, ill bo continued 6"
FEILDING, TO-JDAY AND TO-MORROW.TO BE SOLD AT FEILD ING YARDS TO-DAY, 21st
MAY, At 12 Noon. .
a OQ PARORANGI STUD HEREFORD COWS, HEIFERS, and BULLS, lnclud-J-OO ". in? the imported Bull GOLDFINDER, and 41 Cows that haie bc.upasturing with him. •
10 BE SOLD AT ALMADALE STTJD FARM, 6 Miles from Feild-• ing, TO-MORROW, 22nd MAY, At 1 p.m.
M PARORANGI PEDIGREE CLpESDALE MARES, FILLIES, COLTS, and_Di- STALLIONS, including the Imported Stallions LONSDALL AbAl-N, siu* and ROYAL TREASURE.
. All the above stock can be inspected at any time prior to date of sale. In-tending buvws will met at Feilding Station and motored to the property
• Agency Co., Ltd., or Williams and ]
JOHNSONVILLE SALE.
TO-DAY," WEDNESDAY, 21st MAY.
A-BRAHAM AND WILLIAMS, LTD.,- will sell, as above, at 2.15 p.m.—40 prima bullocks7 prime vealers'
GO prime wethers, 120 prime" ewes", 60 prime ewes
60 prime wethers.7 "..60'prime ewes' v 50 prime-lambs
, l cow, to calve August1 American buggy
jpALMERSTON NORTH SALE.• TO-MORROW.THURSDAY, MAY 22.
17 forward bullocks60 4-year forward bullocks (good)20 choice Ilolstein cross dairy lieifers,
; iri calf to fesey bullIko, oiAccount of Robt. N. Moore, Esq.,
t Tiritea—40 344-year bullocks
100 2ji-3-year steers. •
■ ; ' LEVIN STOCK SALE.• friday! 23rd may, 1913.
D ALGETI' AND CO., LTD., will sol!,, at 11.30 a.m.— '
150 eWes, rumijng with blackface rams250 2 arid 4-tootlv wethers , ■'300 m.s; shorn lambs
' 700 2-tooth wethers (one earmark)...,..70.4-ycar. : owes.
-50 woolly lambs60 woolly lambs50 shorn lambs
120 fat ewes15 forward empty cows
- 25 heavy vcalevs. 12 3-year spring calving heifers
10 weaner steers,'« 8 store cows
_ ' 8 m.s.weaners■ 16 fat cows
..Account W. Tompsitt, Esq.—5 4 and 5-year unbroken hacks1 h.d. mare, with foal at foot
LEVIN SALE.. FRIDAY, 23rd MAY, 1913.
Abraham and williams, ltd.,will sell, at 1 p.m.—
310 fat ewes (lots)150 store ewes100 good hoggets100 woolly hoggets100 2 and 4-tooth "and f.f.m. ewe 3 inlamb200 hoggets.
• 50 breeding ewes57 2 and 4-tooth wethers50 shorn lambs80 fat wethers40 forward wethoTS30 fat lambs12 fat bullocks
' 1 thoroughbred stallion, by TheOfficer
9 broken and unbroken hacks andhalf-draughts, without Teservo
LEVIN STOCK SALE.
FRIDAY, 23rd MAY, 1013.
NEW, ZEALAND LOAN AND MER-CANTILE AGENCY GO., LTD.,•Bill sell in th|s.ir yards at 11.30 a.m.—
'• 24 dairy heifers, in lots, R.W.B.' 1 heifer, at drop
3 store cows3 Jersey weaner heifers6 choice Jersey cross heifers5 springing heifers4 heifers, in calf
17 mixed weauers •
'B0 weaner steers, in lots'2 fat. cows1 Jersey bull
- \ ' ■ HORSE SALE,
SATURDAY, 24th MAY".AT KEIR'S STABLES, Abel Smith St. ,A BRAHAM AND WILLIAMS, LTD.,fx have received instructions from Mr.f. Keir to Sell, as above, at 1.30 p.m.—
20 medium and heavy draught maresand geldings
Owing to the completion of his HarbourBoard contract, Mr. Keir has decided toEell the above horses. All the horses • areBound and staunch, and in good hard con-dition.'
On account of other vendors— -
3 light , harness horses3 harness horses1 light spring cart
.UNRESERVED CLEARING SALE OFDAIRY STOCK.
' , AT MR* HALL'S FARM,.' ARAP VEPAE ROAD, LEVIN.
:V ' WEDNESDAY, MAY 28th,At 1 p.m.
T>ALGETY AND COMPANY, LIMIT-yU' ED, . Wellington, have Tcceived in-structions.from Messrs. R. F. Hall andA: H. Cresswell to sell on the above fann,absolutely without reserve, a 9 they are
. leaving the district, the whole of theirherds of dairy stock, comprising—
- 23-cows." calving August and-Septem-, . "her.
3 cows, calving June2 cows, calving July2 cows, in full milk and calving again
.• in January','2 Jiirsey bulls _
*•• 7 Jersey cross picked yearling heifers
,1 H.D. 3-year filly, by Young GlenGyle, broken to all work1 colt,' (rising 2 years
■ 1 trap and harness', phaeton, blockdray, reaper and binder (Massey
. Harris), Perfection kerosenestove, cans, etc,, 5 tons hay, 2tons swedes, 3 porkers, fowls, etc.
■NOTE.—We have inspected and can re-commend the above herds.
Also, on Account of Another Client—6 cows, spring cahlers
FAT STOCK FOR EXPORT.
PRODUCERS are invited to oommuni-or'jb with us before selling Beef,Mutton, Lamb, or Pork, suitable forExport.
We are in a position to obtain the verybest prices available, and make forward
, contracts—paving cash on Freezing Com-panies' Certificates. It is our interest tosee that you obtain the last penny bothfor meat and bye-products.It will pay you to communicate with
M. .
MELLSOP, ELIOTT, AND CO.,PALMERSTON NORTH.
DREDGING Claim or Ideal DairyFarm; 200 acres freehold, for agri-
culture or dairying; good buildings andfences; first-class land, about half dredge-able, and adjoining prosperous DredgingCompany, in Waikaka Valley; closeSchool, Factory and Railway. A chancewhich requires early application at thePn° 6' JOHN- 0, BAY, .Gom,
Kettle, Ltd.
IMPORTANT iSALE OF PEDIGREESTUD BOOK DRAUGHT HORSES.
AT DOMINION HORSE BAZAAR,HAWERA.
ON SATURDAY, 24th MAY,At 12,30 p.m.
9AND NALDER have received
/' instructions from F. A. Bremer,Esq., to sell as above the whole of his
famous Arniadale Stud, \
WITHOUT RESERVE,I ■
Consisting of—
30 S 30BROOD MARES, STALLIONS, YEAR-
LINGS, AND 2-YEAR-OLDS.
The Auctioneers beg to draw special at-tention to the above genuine dispersalsale. The Stud has been established forM years, and nearly, all the stock to beoffered are either prize-takers or descend-ed from prize-takers.
Catalogues on application.
After. the sale, of Mr. Bremer's' Stud,the Auctioneers will offer a well-selectedentry of Draught Horses (workers), andalso well-bred Mares and Fillies.
THE LARGEST AND MOST IMPOR-TANT SALE., OF ROMNEY BORDERAND ENGLISH LEICESER SHEEPEVER HELD IN AUSTRALASIA. •
Owing to the New Zealand Governmenthaving purchased the
MAORI HILL ESTATE,MAORI HILL ESTATE,
In Southland, MR. DUNCAN CAMERONhas. iustructed the undersigned to Sell, at •
WALLACETOWN, INVERCARGILL,NEW ZEALAND,
ON TUESDAY, 27th MAY, 1013,
1 FLOCK BOOK ROMNEYIOUIP EWES, 2, 4, G-tooths, and fullmouth, put to ram 15th April,
300 ROMNEY LAMBS500 ROMNEY EWIi LAMBS' 70 BORDER LEICESTER EWES
70 ENGLISH LEICESTER EWES
THE Romncy Flock was started by thepurchase of the whole of tho late
Honourable Mathew Holmes's (Castle-rock) registered Romneys (1000) and 300Ewes bred from selected Birchwood Ewes,principally prize winners or their pro-geny (vide Vol II New Zealand SheepBreeders' Ass., South Island). Since pur-chase fresh blood has been introduced bythe uso of rams from Messrs. 15. Short(the late G. Wheeler),- Bealey, Holmes,Waimahaka. and flocks including cham-pion and prize takers.
The. Border Leicester.? were all pur-chased at Clydevale Dispei-jal Sale, 1907.Fresh blood has since been introduced bythe uso of rams bred by Messrs. Dowth-waite, M'Crostie, and Carswell.
Tho English Leicesters wero purchasedat the dispersal salo of the lato Furze
1 Buccleuch (vide Flock Bool;). Fresh; blood has since been introduced by the
uso of rams bred by Messrs. D. Grant,1 Ivelland Bros., and Reid Bros.
All the above sheep have been bredprincipally on hilly rough country, and
I will suit any climate or feed. . The great! successes already achieved in Australia
' by tho crossing of Romney rams with_merino and crossbrcd sheen show how'well they are adapted for that country,even on the coarsest, wettest feed, wherono other sheep will thrive.
CATTLE.POLLED-ANGUS —30 Cows and Heifers
bred from the pick of the wholo of theCnstlerock Herd, purchased from tho latoHon. Mathew Holmes.
DALGETY AND COMPANY, LTD.,
Invercargill and All Branches.
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SUNNY NELSON.
1 rjpHERE is no doubt about the great
5 future for apples. Nest year's crop
1 partly sold at advanced prices. Secure
: your land now at low prices. Easy terms,
o Absentees provided for. Material and" labour at cost price. Sections from 15
acres, good locality, alongside roads.Prices from JEB per acre. Come and see.
J. B. FINLAY,
"Evening Post" Buildings,
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WELLINGTON.rd
g SHEEP"country.
h IWH ACRES, with all necessary buil--1(11 dings, all freehold excepting197 acres Education Lease.
All grass except 170 acres, adjoiningKiore Railway Station.
Mortgages, ,£8700; Interest, 5 1-3 percent.
Z PRICE, <£11 per acre. Equity, .£IO,BOO.Exchange for good Block of Dairy Land
7 or Heavy Cattle Grazing Land.d J. H. THOMPSON.
LAND AGENT STRATFORD.* FOR FURTHER» LAND NOTICES SEE
EAGE 11.
AUCTIONS.
. SALE OF HIGH-CLASSDAIRYING AND FATTENING
LAND.. At
EMPIRE HALL, PRINCESS STREET.PALMERSTON NORTH.
WEDNESDAY, 4th JUNE, 1913,At 1 p.m.
SUBDIVISION OF THE LATE E. J.RIDDIFORD'S
LONGBUKNESTATE.
1645 ACRES.
44 FARMS. 44 FARMS.And 23 J-Acro TOWN SECTIONS.
A BRAHAM AND WILLIAMS. LTD.,A will offer by PUBLIC AUCTION aaabove—
The above famous Estate, subdividedinto. U farms, ranging in area from 13to 121 acres, and also 23 i-acro Sectionsadjoining Longburn Railway Station. ,
This magnificent block of land is thepick -of tlie far-famed Kairanga, andevery acre is of the richest descriptionpossible, the property is in first-class order, and has always been utilised forfattening, and some idea of its qualitymav. be gauged from the fact that it iscapable of fattening one bullock to theacre, and will carry five breeding- ewesto the acre.
There are numerous plantations andbelts of shelter trees on the Estate, and25 artesian wells havo been sunk, whichserve adjoining, sections; 40 miles of fenc-ing has alsolbeen done on .the plaoe. Theproximity of the Estate to the LongburnStation, Freezing Works, Creameries andSaleyards and also to the important townof Palmerston'North render it an abso-lute certainty that buyers at this greatsubdivision salo will benefit by a rapidinorease in values.
A creamery site has been reserved, andwill be handed over free to Trusteeselected by the purchasers of the vj.rioussections.
Terms: 10 per cent, wish on day ofsale; 10 per cent, in 12 months (orbuildings to the value of 10 per cent,erected); (on township sections, 50 percent, on day of sale); balance in 5 yearsat 5 per cent; with right to pay offsums of not less than .£IOO at any half-yearly interest day.
•Where specified, purchaser will bavothe right to tako one or more adjoiningsections.
AUCTIONS.
FRIDAY, 23rd MAY, 1913.At 2.30 p.m. •
AT OUR ROOMS, 26 BRANDON ST.SPECIAL SALE OF PIANOS.
To be Sold on Account of tko Companygiving -up tho Agency.
PIANOS! Q PIANOS!PIANOS! O PIANOS!
Absolutely Now, and to bo Sold WithoutReserve, comprising—
MASSIVE UPRIGHT GRAND, by SHEN-STONE, LONDON, in Buirr WalnutCase, very heavy and massive fullIron Frame; every modern improve-ment and possessed with an excellent,full rich tone; cost 60gs.
ENGLISH PIANO by WITTON ANDWITTON; a lovely-toned instrumentand especially attractive looking, hav-ing Inlaid Rosewood Case; cost *£60.The tone is beautifully balanced.
VERY FINE PIANO by ADALBERT,BERLIN, one of the best types of thesewell-known makers, and their latestmodel; cost .£6O.
Also,g SECOND-HAND PIANOS, including:
A very superior Bohm, equal to new, inwalnut case, full iron frame, full tri-chord, and perfect tone .
Collard and Collard Piano; a good instru-ment by this well-known makeAlmost new Broadway, Mignon, Chappell
and Co.
This sale is a good opportunity for thosewanting a good piano at their own price.Inspection invited.
A. L. WILSON, Auctioneer.
/A/j ACRES, Hawke's Bay, good rapeand turnip country, 100 acres
drained swamp Land, well fenced into 12paddocks; 6-roomed House and otherbuildings.
Lease has 10 years to ruii; Tent, 10s.per acre. Situated 6 miles from rail-way, town, and sale-yards, etc.
PRICE, £2 per acre Goodwill. 8988
OA A ACRES, Hawke's Bay, formerlyOvJU au heavy bush Land, . now in
for years, fenced into 7 paddocks,well watered; winters 2J breeding ewesjer acre; half flat land, half sunny ter-race. Buildings—Comfortable- Cottageand outbuildings. Situated 12 miles fromrailway and market town. -
PRICE, ,£l2 per acre. ' Terms, ,£ISOOdash. 8986
NATIVE LEASE.
ft1AA ACRES, Te Kuiti,..practically allploughable, well watered, • aid
has good road frontage; all in big heavyfern, partly bounded by stock-proofstream; 8 miles from railway station 'and10 miles from good railway and markettown.
This is a splendid bloek of country,suitable for dairying and sheep andcattle fattening. The Lease is for 42ycJars; rent, Is. 6d. per acre for first 21years and 3s. per acre for last 21 years.
PRICE, £2 os. per acre. ' 8984
HARCOURT AND CO.,WELLINGTON,
FARMS WANTED.
£0000 CLIENT with, about thiseum waits property in Wel-
lington District, to carry 2000 sheep.
£1000 with this amount
of cash desires to purchase
100 to 100. acres sheep country, in warm
climate.
Plans are now being prepared, and willbo obtainable at any of our brandies,and arrangements to inspect the propertycan he made with our I'almerston NorthOffice.
ABE AHAM AND. WILLIAMS, LTD.
WAIKATO, WAIKATO.LAND FOE SALE.
GIGANTIC SALE OF WAIKATO LAND.
By Public Auction,
On FRIDAY, JUNE Gth (Winter ShowWeek).
QC SE C T lONS.OD SECTIONS.
SUBURB BUILDING ALLOTMENTS,FROM ONE TO FIVE ACRES.
Within two miles of Hamilton andFrankton Junction, and only threominutes' walk to Golf Links. Easy terms.
, Sections at Frankton Junction.Also good FARMS of 100 ACRES to 500
ACRES.Full particulars on application to
H. S. OWEN,LAND AND ESTATE AGENT, ,
WARD STREET, HAMILTON.
M'ESSIEUIIS ABRAHAM AND WIL-LIAMS, LIMITED, have received
instructions from D. G. A. Cooper,Esquire, Registrar of the Supreme Courtof New Zealand, at Wellington, to sellby public auction at their Rooms,RANGITIICEI STREET, PALMERSTONNORTH, on SATURDAY, the 31st dayof MAY, 1913, at 1 p.m., the followingFreehold and Leasehold Lands:—
FREEHOLD-FIRST: All that piece ofland containing 249 acres 3 roods 13perches, bo the samo a little more orless, being Section 267, Block XV, Kai-rangn. Survey District, and being thewhole of the laud comprised and de-scribed in Certificate of Title, Volume76, folio 30, together with all tho appur-tenances thereto belonging.
This property is situated at Tiritea,about three miles from PalmerstonNorth by excellent roads.
Tho soil is a black lopm on sandyclay. Most suitablo property for dairyor fattening farm.
There is a good large 8-roomed Houseerected on the property, also stable,woolshed, cowshed, and other buildings.
SECONDLY: All that piece of landcontaining 119 acres 1G .pcrches, being theNative Land: Court Subdivision, Horo-whenua 9 B, Number 1. and being thewhole of the land comprised in Certi-ficate of Title, Volume 122, folio 124, to-gether with all the appurtenancesthereto belonging.
This property is situated about 4 milesfrom Levin Railway Station, consists ofrolling hills with small swampy flats.There is a good metalled Toad towithina few chains of the property.
LEASEHOLD—AII that piece of landcontaining -147 acres 2 roods 18.6 perches,being the Native Land Court Subdivision,Horowhenua 98, Number 2, and beingall the land in Memorandum of Lease,Registered Number 5635.This property adjoins the Levin Free-hold before described.
The term of the lease is twenty-onoyears from First July, 1898, at the year-ly rental of Three shillings per acre, pay-able yearly, and the land is held forgrazing purposes only.
Bates and taxes are payable by theLessee, and the Lease contains covenantsby the Lessee to cut and keep down anygorse or brambles which may be growingon the land to insure and keep insuredany buildings which may be erected ojithe land, and at the expiration of theterm to leave all buildings, fences, andother erections in good, repair and con-dition. fair wear and tear excepted.
Copies of the particulars and Condi-tions of Sale and Application to Sell maybe inspected at the office of tho Regis-trar of tho Supreme Court at Welling-ton.
For further particulars, apply to theAuctioneers or to Messieurs Chapman,Skerrett. Tripp, and Blair, Solicitors,Wellington.
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A BARGAIN.27 ACRES. ACRES.
Oloso toBLENHEIM.
THIS is a very fine property, situatedon the Old Renwick Road, 2J miles
from Blenheim. The liiiid is of exceptionalquality, being in the centre of Marlbor-oii/ili's best agricultural district. Thebuildings compris? a comfortable newhouse of C rooms, with every convenience.
Six acres are in apple orchard in fullbearing.
Six acres are in lucerne.Five acres fallow.Ten acres grass.
PRICE,' .£2OOO. TERMS, .£SOO CASH.This property we thoroughly recommend.
The orchard alone will return a good liv-ing.
GRIFFITHS AND SON,LAND AGENTS,r BLENHEIM.
JSI3OO cou Pu' downthis eum requires , mixed
Sheep and Cow Farm, in Wellington Dis-
trict; about 200 acres.
£1000 CLIENT could find thisamount of cash for'about
1000 acres, partially improved sheep
land, with good prospective value.
Owners who desire to purchaseor dis-pose of oountry lands are invited to com-
m'raioate with us.
MURRAY, ROBERTS, ANDCO., LTD.,
LAND DEPARTMENT,WELLINGTON.
DAIRY AND CROPPING FARMS
FOR ! PRIVATE SALE, AT REASON-ABLE PRICES AND ON VERTEASY TERMS.
CLOSE TO RATANA AND TUEAKINARAILWAY STATIONS.ACRES TO ACRES.
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THE WAIPU BLOCK/CONSISTS of 600 Acres Freehold,
through which the railway runs.It is subdivided into seven sections, in-cluding Rich River Flats, and land thatproduces 64 bushels of whoat to the acre.There are also some sections capablo ofimprovement.
Practically all ploughable. .
For further particulars apply to— ,
MURRAY, ROBERTS, AND' CO., LTD.,WELLINGTON,
OrC. H. BURNETT,
WANGANUI.
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LAND NOTICES.
■ , • . WAIKATO.FIRST-CLASS FATTENING OR DAIRY FARM.
fACRES, first-class drained swamp, 4 miles from Railway StationOOXf by good road; tho farm is subdivided into 6 paddocks, and iswell watered. There is a. new 5-roomod bouse, 6-cow plant milking shed, andall outbuildings. Milking at present 130 cows, besides carrying several head ofother stock.
Price: .£23 per acre.
Terms: JEIOOO cash, balance as arranged.
Title: Land Transfer. 214
N.B.—We have personally inspected this property, and can recommend it asone of the best dairy farms in the district. It could be subdivided into 5 gooddairy fsrms, having road frontage on three sides.
COOPER AND MANNING,LAND AND ESTATE AGENTS,
HAMILTON.
K)R SALE.
fJIHE CHEAPEST FREEHOLD SHEEP RUN IN NEW ZEALAND-
-6500 ACRES FOR £400Q CASH-PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Wintered last season equal to 4000 big sheep, and capable, when, improved, ofwintering 10,000.
PRICE, with 3000 sheep, valued at JG2OOO, .£2.1.000. _ TERMS, .£4OOO cash,balance 3 years at 5 per cent. Would consider accepting ,£2OOO cash, balanoe inapproved EQUITIES. TKub, Land 'at £3 ss. per acre that will winter 11 sheepper acre must be regarded as the cheapest land .in New Zealand. '
WM. LINGARD & CO.;WELLINGTON,7 SOLE AGENTS NORTH ISLAND,
THE PICK OF HAWKE'S BAY. /
1 OAA ACRES of the best of Hawke's Bay. Nearly all ploughable and well sub-divided. Splendid set of yards. No buildiags.
This land now carries 2 sheep to tho r.cre.Only 5 miles to an important market township,, where stock " eales are held
every week,PRICE, ONLY JCI2 ss. PER ACRE.
(loan ACRES, in the Hawke's Bay district, close to good' township, school,■vOUU post office, etc. Cottage, yards, etc., etc. 1000 acres ploughable. Carry-ing 4000 sheep.
PRICE. £7 PER ACRE.
FRASER AND CATHRO,QUEEN STREET, HASTINGS.
THE APPLE QUESTION.IN a Nutshell. What everyono wants in Apples is hifjli-ooloured, clean-looking,
firm-textured fruit. Now, Moutero lands supply this better than any otherland in New Zealand. Therefore, tho man who buys and plants Moutere land withthe best class of Apple Tree is going to supply a public want.' The man whosuppliesa public want gets paid for it, and paid well. Do not forget this, but getright in on Moutero Land now. Other than the profit, the life is healthy andpleasant, and tho climate of tho Nelson Province is the finest in the world.
Inquire from
Jrn TTATIM, T nnTh 12 AND 14 PANAMA STREET,. I. LiliJ., WELLINGTON.
'Phones, 2173 and 3830.
1300 Freehold, situated 12 miles ■ frojn ■ Napier, undulating limestone
country, large portion ploughable, well fenced into numerous paddocks,
well watered, with homestead, woolshed, yards etc. Winters 2400 ewes and 150cattle on grass. Price, .£ls per acre; terras as arranged. E/6
.WILLIAMS & KETTLE, LTD.,: NAPIER.
458 ACRES FREEHOLD.rrnis is an Ideal Sheep Farm'. One-half of the property is limo6tone formationJ- and the other sandstone. All of the land is good and all in grass with tho
exception of some shelter bush. Probably bomo 50 to GO nores aro flat, while agreat deal of theplaeo could bo ploughed. Adjoining tho farm is a reserve of some-thing like 130 acres, 50 of which aro down in grnss, and are utiliGed by the holderof this farm. The flats are exceptionally fine, surrounded by the picturesque forma*tion of limestone, they present a most beautiful and pleasing picture. The distanceto township, with steamer wharf, is 8 miles by good road, _ while tho railwav sta-tion to be built on the new railway connecting Whar.garei with the new NorthAuckland Main Trunk 'ine, now authorised will be 8 miles in tho other direction.School is half-mile. The houso is of 8 rooms and well situated, A barn with cow-ebe<i * and fitablo, sheep pens, etc., t constitute tho cut-buildings.' There is a email orchard with a lot of grapevines. The very finest limestone cave of the ; orth is eituated cnthis property, visited by many tourists. 550 sheep, 130 head cattle, and 8 horses areon the proporty at present. The grass is good and requires more 6tock to keep itdown. On the whole, the farm is the most pleasing in every vespect of anything inthe district. Price. £1 per acre. Terms, -£600 cash, balance 4} per cent. No. 610i
MACKESY AND SON,REAL ESTATE AGENTS, WHANGAREI.
ROBERT HOOD, .Telegraphic Address: LAND & ESTATE AGENT, P.O. Box 484.
Hood, No. 5, Tort Street,Arcade, Auckland. AUCKLAND.
nnE Puke, 4f13 acres Freehold, 2 miles from Railway Station, 1 from Post Office■1 ' and school, all flat, 40 acres crop, balance grass, well watered; houso 5 rooms,
cowshed, stablo, implement shed, L.K.G. milking machine; carrying capacity, 85cows, 100 young stock, and 20 horses. Price, <£l(i per acre; or will exchange forsheep farm.NORTH Auckland—l77s acres good shocp run; house 6 rooms, woolshcd, shear-
ing shed, sheep dip, cattle pens, etc., carrying capacity at present 2000 sheepand 200 head cattle. Price, .£5 10s. per acre.mE Puke—l47' acres, 4 miles from station, 1 from Post Office and school, 1JJL from creamery; all in grass, well watered; G-roomed house, hot and colawater,'stable and sheds; well watered by springs. Price, .£l6 per acre.
Oft A ACRES, Taranaki, all in grass except 4 acres shelter bush; factory and/Jul) school 1J miles; l-roomcd house, 19-bail cowshed and stable; orchard. Areally good place. Carried last season 35 cows, a number of sheep, and youngstock*. Tho price is low at .£lO. Owner will Exchange for house property. C52BEAUTIFUL AORANGI—Dairy Farm, 00 acres, school, P.0., 1} miles, creamery
1 mile; 12 acres crop, balance grass; all ploughable, 12 paddocks; well water-ed, will carry GO cows. Nice houso and outbuildings. Plico Right. Apply
J. R. PERRY AND CO., ESl imD<ilG.Ts'
AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY.1 (JpJA ACRES, Renewable Lease. GG years; rent, .£2B per annum. Goodwill,\£lGo.JL/vtJXJ Cash, .£6O, balance .£IOO, in two years.
This is the Cheapest bona-fide proposition ever offered. Apply
BAILEY, WINDLE- AND CO.,'Phone 801. WANGANUI. P.O. Box IG7.
THAMES VALLEY DAIIiYFAIi.M.-COW TO 2-ACRE LAND"m ACRES, 100 acres grass (no noxious weeds), balance crops, 12 paddocks,well watered, all flat and undulating, two-thirds of which is reclaimed
6wamp and heavy timber country. The property is carrying.4s cows, 5 horses,and 40 calves. Buildings consist of 5-roomed house, G-bail cowshed, large imple-ment shed, harness and store room, and other conveniences; only 3-mile fromP.0., school, and creamery. Milk turnover' for last season was ,£5lO. Price, only.£27 per acre. Terms can be arranged.
MILBUR'N AND CO.. „ ffiiSiß' NOW FOR EASY TERMS.1 £-11. ACRES, adjoining a■ township; all necessary buildings; large home;1012 close creamery and school, etc.■ PRICE, .£lO 12s. Gd. per acre. Only .£350 cash.fji-vsr ACRES, all necessary buildings; close to factory and school, etc.,vl°o PRICE, .£lO per aero. Only .£250 cash.1 KA> I'o, and 200 ACRES, Dairy Lease. NO GOODWILL.JLOU For full particulars, applv sharp,
LONDON. GOSS AND CO.,RIDGEWAY ST., WANGANUI. Box 183
nnn ACRES Dairy and Grazing Land, Freohold, 100 acres flat, balancc undulat-OUv ing. All in grass except shelter bush. Fenced into 10 paddocks, wellwatered by creeks and springs; 10 acres stumped and ploughed. Good 7-roomeddwelling,' 1 oowshed, largo hayshed, and trapshed, pigstyes, etc.; 2$ miles to factory,2 miles to school and P.O. Capable of carrying 100 head , including dairy cows.Price only Xl 4 i>er acre. XIOOO cash required. " 49
CAMPBELL, THOMSON & CO.,LAND AGENTS, DANNEVIHKE.
1 e ACRES, Freehold, good Wairarapa township; splendid 9-roomed resideneo andLO- outbuildings; beautifully-laid-out grounds, orchard, etc. Price, .£3500; nomortgage. Would exchange for Sheep Country, Wairarapa or Manawntu.FREEHOLD' Country liotol property, immediate possession. Price, ,£4OOO. Owner
will exchange for small Farm.IOK ACRES, Manawatu Line, exceptionally rich land; good buildings, otc.;Ino enuitv Jf!7750. Would exchange for slioep country, up to 2000 acres.
MILLER & RUTTER,35 PANAMA STREET, WELLINGTON.
A'~SPECIAL BARGAIN—SIice]) and Cattle Farm.—JC2 15s. per Acre—Auckland—£2 15s. per Acre.—l47o acres, 300 in good grass, 75 acres disced and surface
sown fern land, 200 acres of fern being surfacosown with best seed, 30 acres felledbush, and 40 acres ploughed land being laid down in grass; 5J miles fencing,seven wires; comfortublc house, thrco rooms, ctc.; 2-sheop-to-acre country; carry-ing 1000 sheep and 90 head of cattle, plenty of feed: Terms, ,£BSO cash, bnlaricoon mortgage. This i? tho making of a first-class farm, is situated in good district,and is'now a paying property. Nice undulating-land. ' With further improve-ments should bo worth treble tho money; 15 miles to R.S. road, frontage 11 miles, Gmiles to school. O.R.P. at 7s. Gd. per acre, cau bo mado freohold.
DAVID KAY, VULCAN LANE. AUCKLAND.-t -| i* ACRES, Waikato, a beautiful little dairy farm, l-mile creamery and school;J.X/ 7-roomed house and all convenience?; carrying 45 dairy cows; owner willlease or will sell; this is a splendid chance for anyone with a limited capital; thoprico is .£2l per acre, cash wanted only ,£350—(341). 4G2 Acres, Maramarua, 300acres grass, GO mixed crops, all ploughable, 14 paddocks, soil chocolate loam; G-roomod house, larße cowshed, etc.; P.0., Telephone on property; creamery andschool opposite; proposed East Coast Railway runs through property. Sold as agoing concern, everything included. Price ,£l3 per aero and only ,£ISOO cash,balance 5 per cent. (330) ,
HENRY CLAYTON AND CO.,03 QUEEN STBEET, AUCKLAND.
LAND NOTICES. \
THE BRITISH DOMINIONS GENERAL INSURANCESCOY. j LTD.
(FIRE DEPARTMENT.)
W- H. TURNBULL AND CO.DISTRICT AGENTS AND ATTORNEYS,27 PANAMA STREET, WELLINGTON.
RELIABLE AGENTS' WANTED IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
AJIK ACRES Freehold beach property, situate in North Taranaki, practically'<J all level and. plouglmblej well subdivided into convenient paddocks; good
G-roomed house, large cowshed with concrete floor fitted up for milking machines.Cheese factory and school opposite; {rentage io good rond and handy to townshipand saleyards. Good investment for dairy farmer. Price .£22 per aero. Reason-abio terms can bo arranged.QOf ACRES Freehold, all lovol, very rich Coast fattening land with sea frontage,«-»«<> all in grass, fonood and subdivided into oonvoniect paddocks; good 8-roomed house and outbuildings; 1 mile to township, saleyardu and school, } nulatc gutter factory; first-class inatellcd road. Prico £32 10s. per acre. Terms,*1500 cash, balance oan remain on easy terms to genuine dairyman. 4131
J.l A ACRES, good Coast land, L.1.P., at lOd. per aero; 380 acres in crass, andt: balance, 30 acres bush; well fenced and subdivided into 7 sheep-proof
paddocks; 4-roomed cottage, cowshed,.sheep jarda and dip; sufficient level to uiuk45 cows; balance suitable for sheep and young cattle;' 2£ miles to cheese' factoryand school, good formed road. Price, .£8 103. per acre. Terms, .£SOO cash, andbalanco can remain. |
KKA ACRES, 450 acres being Freehold Coast 'and, and KM acres W.C.S.R.,rent JEI3 10s, per annum, 15 years to run, with right of 'renewal; 450
M».'n grass, and balance good bußli land; 5-roomed house and outbuildings, wool-shod, sheepyards; convenient paddocks, orchard and garden. Prico £! Ps. pel-Cheap property. , 380*
NPWTAV TTTTVITt AUCTIONEER, LAND 4 FINANCIALiMll VV I UiM JllJNlx, AGENT, NEW PLYMOUTH.
manawatu fattening or dairy farms for sale.2£sft ji Brass, and 200 ploughable; three paddocks, .well watered!
v H miles railway, Loviu Saleyards; good metal roads. Handy to cream-ery. .Native Lease, expires'l932, at ss. per aero to 1924, lis. 3d. for balance term.24-0 all in all fiat and ploughable, except 50 acres; 6 paddocks,, i , fenced and watered; 6-roomcd house, 4-roomed cottage, washhouse. 1trapshed, large draught horse stablo andgranary; quarter milo station, half milocreamery; 4 miles Levin 'Saleyards by main road. Freehold (L.T.).
IfiO ACEES* all in grass and ploughable, (30-35 acres been ploughed), 4-roomod•V cottage and. yards, 5 paddocks, well watered. Situated on Kuku Road; 1mile from Railway Station, 5 miles Lovin, close to creamery; good metalled road.
Native Lease, about 20 years to run, at 30s. per acre.
llfi ACRES, all in grass, 50 acresi ploughable; cottagos; 3 good paddocks, wellJ..XO watered; 1$ miles railway, 5 miles Levin; good wad. Native Lease, C*pires 1932, at 2s. Cd. per acre to 1919, and lis. 3d. for balanco of term.
All tlieso Properties are at present used. for fattening sheep and bullocks, butwould make excellent dairy farms. Full particulars and prices au applica-tion to
DALGETY AND COMPANY LTD.,. WELLINGTON. . .
FIRST-CLASS DAIRY FARMS.1 "J rt ACRES, Freehold, splendid dairy farm, closo to creamery and two factories.
-L-*-<■» All good flat land, carrying a fino sole of grass. Well fenced and sub-divided into 12 paddocks. Abundant water supply; 7-rooaied residence, with con-veniences, outbuildings including a good cowshed with 14 bails and concrcto floor.Will carry 40 cows, besides a few head of young: stock, and several horses. Veryhandy to township and railway. Price, .£4l per 1acre. Terms arranged. No. GB3KP ACRES', Freehold, exceptionally rich dairying land. About 1J miles from a
factory and good general store, and only 8 miles from Palmerston. Fencedand subdivided into several paddocks. Well watered. No buildings. Price, XG3 peracre. Terms, .EGOO cash. Balance at 5 per cent, for 0 years. No. 76(*A 5. ACRES, Freehold, a very choke little farm, in tip-top order. Only one*-»-fc'i milo from a rapidly rising town, whore every convenience for tho farmeris obtainable, saleyards and bank. Splendid artesian water supply, 5-roomed house,stable, barn, trapshed, and cowshed, otc. Prioe, 452 10s. per acre. < t No. 75(Tiy ACRES, Freehold, a very choice little dairying property, all good : flat land.tJ I capable of. carrying 30 cows, besides several horses. Artesian water; allfeiued and subdivided into 8 paddocks, 5-roomed houso and outbuildings. Closo tofactory, school, and railway station, and only 6 nliles from Palmerston Price, .£5710s. per acre. No. 71A (f» ACRES, Freehold, one of the best little dairy farms on tho market, all splen-iu did strong grass land, and well sown down. Good artesian water. Only 1inile from flourishing town, where thoro aro all classes uf busiuoss being carried oil;saleyards, banks, etc., and ono of tho most up-to-date butter factories in the Do-minion. Seven-roomed residence, and all necessary outbuildings. Price, 450 peracre. Terms, 4700, balanco at 5 per cent. No.
ABRAHAM & WILLIAMS, LTD,,'RANGITIKEI STREET, PALMERSTON NORTH.
SHEEP STATION, £2 15s. PER ACRE.QA OA ACRE-Si Lfttid' Transfer Title; 2500 acrcs in grass, balance ill bush andOtc JU rough iced, 1500 acres flat and ploughable, remainder easy hills. Allthe property faces the sun, and is fine healthy country. Sheep and cattle doexceptionally well, particularly lambs.
The Property is situated in the East Coast, 5 hours from Auckland, and iseasy of access. With a littlo more improvement, is capablo of carrying betweer5000 and GOOO sheep. ' •
The buildings consist of an up-to-date Homestead of 8 rooms, with all mod'em conveniences, water laid on, telephone connected with Auckland, and full raneiof outbuildings. The property has 3 miles of sea frontage, with pretty sandybenches and bavs, and lovely harbour; good fishing;, shooting, etc.
The owners have decided to sell, and will accept the low price of X 2 15s. peraero if sold this month. Easy terms can bo arrauged. For further particulars,apply, at once, to
YOUNG AND JACKS10 DURHAM STREET, AUCKLAND.
EAST COAST SHEEP RUNS.POVERTY BAY.
kaa/\ ACRES, half improved; 2-sheep country, at .£3 per acre. Title, Reg,5000 Native Lease. IS years, at Is. 3d., renewal 21 years or compensati >n.2500 acres bush, sown English grass, S miles tencing; house, balautfe first-clan!bush-, will winter. 2 sheep and cattle. Only 4 miles fromthecoast,, *0 miles portGreat prospective value. , Terms, 6ay, one-third cash. Stock at valuation.
Write for full details to
C. G. BLOORE,POVERTY BAY LAND AGENCY, GISBORNE.
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. mmr MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS, NEAR PICTON.'HaIf in hoavy
homestead allnecessary farm buiklings. As a going concern with all stockand implements at M 10s. aw.
y* 14 land. 4 miles from FEA.THERSTON. Price XlO aero.2000 CuV"lip. Splendid spec; 1000 acres are level dairy laud, balanco un.dulating to hilly; fronts Wairarapa Lake.
! W. H. MORRAII AND CO.iLAND AGENTS, G3 WILLIS STREET, WELLINGTON.
£300
inspect t&Marc assumed thaUtlie returns, which are open for inspection.
"^WAIRARAPA FARMERS'.CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. LTD.
PAHIATUA, LAND, FINANCE, AND ESTATE AGENTS.<<
SHEEP RUN GIVEN AWAY . ,
and the present carrying capacity can be more ,han doubled. AULA,• ACRES Title, good lease for long term. Rent and rates do not exceed Hid. P»
acre-. Compensation for all improvements at end of,lease. 11l the'PJ° sC,j lAproperty will winter 4000 big sheen, besides cattle. About 1000 acres ilaj,1300 anil 1500 acres in grass and balance in rough feed, fern. "Xtjvisions. Smallbuch. The property is secure for all stock, and there are five suMlwaohouse, sheds, ami yaris. PRICE, only ..£3OOO. Terms, ha f ™s\Y\['^Z Lfull particulars of this splendid proposition. It is easily tho best tnii.„
"'H. LAMBERT ANDJO, kmotTHE LIVE LAND SALESMAN. PALMLRSTON NOKIU.
NORTH AUCKLAND. , , ,
1 trrn ACRES, Freehold, mostly all ploughed, 1000 in 300 liggt bush, bal-1579auce rough feed, 23.paddocks, 2 miles beach, wished,shearing machines, etc., 2 miles wharf, 8 miles railway. Iric , • P> • ,
DAIRY FARM, 672 500 acrcvs volcanic «>il, balanco inosth ri\er ua«,jwlin grass, save about 50 acres native bush, watered by M-bottom creek
20 paddoclcs well adapted for subdivision, houso 8 Toonis and comenienoes,
oottage, 2 miles station, milking 2 dailies, stock at valuation if <io irc<l.
. "IfOFFAT &N BALLARD.
LAND AND ESTATE AGENTS. H EXCHANGE LANE. AUCKLAND.
J. H. TAYLOR,ROTORUA LAND AGENCY,
HAS FOR SALERICH RANGITAIKI AMI. Mfl
A LL drains nud ploiißlmblo. pnTtlj wiVnDon't hesitate, for this is tho finest spec, in the market. IRICL, dnlj per acre.Adjoining Sections soiling at .£2O per acre.
CHOICE "DAIRY FARM FOREXCHANGE.
IGK ACRES, 13 paddocks, all in grass or cultivation, iich dair> or croppingUp land; 110 acres been ploughed; 1 nulo from town and factorj,house of 7 rooms, etc., stable, concrete A °01'-f'COVI "JIL rn inning over 100 cows; JMS per acre; equity, J11920. .ixcliango for GO <■<> 100 acres.
PARKER AND VINCENT, LEVIN.
