Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3296, 15 August 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

The Superintendent- of the Government Advances Department lias advised the Mayor that provisional approval has been granted to the loan of £-5000 t-o the Gisborne Borough Council for hospital purposes.

As will lie seen from the advertising columns of this issue the Mat a where stock sales will he held on Friday. -\uoust 2ot'h, in order that they will not clash with the Hunt Chib’s meeting on fhe preceding day. His Excellency the Governor has forwarded the following communication to the Mayor:—“I am commanded by his Majesty the King to ask you to convey to the people of Gisborne an expression of his Majesty’s cordial thanks for tlieir message of loyalty and congratulations on the occasion of his Coronation. Yours, Islington, Governor.” Probate lias been granted by Mr Justice Edwards in the estate of Francis John Wilson, deceased, on the application of Mr Stock.

Among the applications to he placed on the accident fund of the llugby Union received at last- night’s meeting were those of 11. Skillen (Kaiti-City) and F. Snowden (United). The latter, so it was stated, received rather serious injuries to his mouth and had his front teeth dislodged, thereby rendering the services of a dentist necessary. The former application was granted, hut Snowden’s application was held over till the account was presented. The question of adequate training accommodation for- the Poverty Bay representative team was brought up at a meeting of the Union last evening, and it was eventually agreed that Mr Howard should interview the Pastimes Club regarding the obtaining of a room. The Wellington Garrison Band has written to Mr James Chrisp stating that they intend visiting Gisborne for the contest. Four other class A hands from the Auckland, district all express, their intention of competing at the contest. A meeting of the executive will bo held at 11 a.m. to-day at Mr J. R. Kirk’s office.

The local Parliamentary election roll* have been completed as far as the collecting of the names is concerned, and about three-quarters of the forms haver been checked. About 2300 ucav names have •to be added, so Mr H. E. Hill, tho Registrar, informed a reporter yesterday, and a good many changes of address Avill have to be made by the enrolment officers. When all this work, is completed several hundred notices calling on people who have left the district to show cause why_they should not be struck off the roll will be issued.. Mr Hill anticipates that he aviH be notified of the changes in the boundaries about the second week in September, and after that he will finally complete th© roll and got it printed. “We are losing a lot of money through tho hedge,” remarked the secretary of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union at the weekly -meeting of the Management Committee last < evening, apropos of the manner in which admission was gained by some indmcluals to the Victoria Domain when football, matches were in progress. He explained that wore several holes in the fences, and instead of paying for admission, some people got through these gaps, consequently the Union lost a lot of revenue. Mr Howard agreed to look into the matter, and Avith the assistance of tlie caretaker lie will attempt to swell the Union’s funds by blocking up the gaps with barbed wire, and so leave only one entrance —the gate—to the Domain.,

-Regarding the Ranfurly Shield -match Mr H. E. Maude stated at a meeting of the Management Committee of the P.B.R.U. last evening that the Union had about £3O in hand for the tour, and thjt the Union Avould probably give £3O, 'making the total fund £6O. The tour Avould probably cost £IOO, and this avou ld leaA'e £4O to be raised. He did not think that they should take into consideration the gate, but he would like to see the Union recei\ T e something from this source. About twenty or twenty-five players, he thought, should be selected to go into training, and he suggested that each of them should be asked to put up the sum of £2. Those who were not chosen iri the final selection would have their money refunded at once. If there were arry proceeds !ro,jn the gate the Committee Avould, on the return of the team, consider whether they should remit the amount paid by members. The matter suggested was held ot r er till next meeting. , number of cases of breaches of by--law Ao. 31 Avere olealt Avitli by Mr W'. A. Barton, S.M., in the Magistrate's yesterday. Bertram Lewis, Alfred Poster and G. Buscke pleaued guilty to having cycled over the Balance Street footbridge and were fined the usual amounts. For riding a bicycle on the footpath -Albert Mason Avas lined 15s and 7s costs.

Men sometimes dream of enormous wealth stored deep in the earth, below tn. 3 reach of miners, but experts aver tuac there is little or no ground to oehei e that A*uluable metallic deposits lie very deep in the, earth's crust. Such deposits, it is said, are made by underground waters, and. owing to the pressuie on the rocks at great depths the waters are confined to a shell near tne si.rface With ffr exception (the scientific America ' avers), ore aeposits become too. lean to repay working . m ' °OoCht. Fine mines in ten, talcing the aa orld as a Avhole, are poorer in the second thousand feet than in the nrst- thousand, and poorer yet in the t-i.iiu thousand than in the second. On her recent trip from the Chathams the Himitangi, owned by the Chatham islands Fishing C-ompanv, brought b-wk to Wellington a peculiar specimen** or rieh. It has a head like a sehnapper. and a bod a- or the shape and size of a aapuka. Y\ hat it exactly is nobodv appears to know at present, but it is being kept m the refrigerator fer examination by the expert of the Dominion Museum. It is stated that there =ee large quantities of this species of rw-in H]' - C - iathams - and « F unite possible that it may form an addition r ° Xl -e dietary of the public.

The. Roman Catholic communitv are rSe ?, I r° nster - hazaar at the epui n rial!. l-o run for about a fortnigiit at Show time. One of the attractions aa"! i 1 be a tug-of-war eompetitioii, open to teams of 15. for which the first prize Avill be £2O. Two teams, die Scotch and the Irish, are alreadv in the fie'd. These sides were organised through the friendly rivalry of the joint secretaries to the recent Irish delegate mission, Messrs R. 51. BirreJl J. Hen ncssy. Beth these gentlemen are. confident of getting together teams which will carry off tho prize, and are scouring all parts cf the district for iiKeh" men.

A rather stylishly-dressed married woman named Annie Treves, who is living apart from her husband! was called upon, before Mr. A . A. Barton. S M., yesterday, to satisfy the Court that she was unable to contribute towards the maintenance of four of her children at present in the Xelson Industrial School. Giving evidence on her own behalf, defendant said that she was the wife of Albert_Treves, and they had six children Four of these were in the Industrial School, one was with friends at Auckland, and one was with the father, whose whereaboutswere.net known. The child at Auckland was about four years of age, and this was the only one towards whose support she had contributed Defendant did not remember the total of the- amounts she had sent, hut she would' sav it came to about £2 a year. She was a general servant, and she received los a week and keep, and it took all of this to provide her with clothes. His Worship remarked that ho thought 10s a week was quite enough to keep defendant in clothes. *Asked if she could not make some offer, she said she would try to pay 2s 6d a week. Remarking that he thought 10s a week was enough for her to spend on dress, His Worship made an order for the payment of os per week.

The heavy south-easterly range is said to be still prevalent on the coast, and all day yesterday large breakers kept piling unceasingly into the bay. The fresh southerly breeze which sprung up about- noon swept across the rollers as they came up, and carried away clouds of so ray. making, the beach appear as an arc of foam. A Philadelphian has invented a pneumatic boxing glove that some experus believe will 'cause the old "pillow” type to be discarded. The inventor, a trainer of pugilists and fight referee, evolved the" new glove from his many years’ experience in the prize ring. He was spurred to the realisation of his idea of a perfect glove by reason of the fact that in training it was desirable to avoid injuries, and the old paddedglove, no matter how carefully it was used, was never a sure protection. JWithi the pneumatic glove, with its cushion of air, it is impossible to cut or bruise an opponent in boxing practice. For thic reason the glove would seem to he a good thing for gymnasiums and for all friendly bouts where it is the object of the opponents to score points without hurting each other. Messrs Miller and Craig, auctioneers, will conduct an important sale of furniture and household effects at 112 Berry Street, at 2 p.m. this afternoon.

Work in connection with the Kaiti septic : tank appears: to be proceeding satisfactorily, A commencement is to be made almost immediately with the flooring. In the advertising columns of this issue the Temperance and General Life Assurance Society notify that Mr. F. H. W. Traill has been appointed permanent broker for Gisborne, and policyholders! are requested to in future pay all premiums at his office, Lowe Street. This well-known office lias at present £269,722 invested in New Zealand in municipal securities, and their funds at September, 1910, totalled £1,024,j/.J. The society issue special savings policies for children, and their industrial policies are claimed to be the most popular in Australasia.

War has been declared against -the United States Shoe Manufacturing Co., a huge monopoly, which reputedly controls' all hut ten of the 1400 shoe manufacturers in the country. The company’s contracts to .manufacturers provide that the latter shall use only the machines belonging to the trust: No machine is ever sold outright, and the company collects royalty of 3d on every pair of boots made, which returns four' times the value of the machine in a single year. It is expected that the Grand Jury’s investigation will bring about the conviction and imprisonment of this notorious combine.

Two first offending inebriates, _ one of whom was a Native, were convicted and each fined 5s and 2s costs, in default 24 hours’ imorisonment, before Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.