Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3944, 29 May 1913, Page 4

Local and General.

A meeting of Mangapapa residents last evening decided to form a borough. A full report of the discussion will bo found on page 7 of this issue.

A large number of Gisborne residents left yesterday for Auckland for the approaching race meeting, Tire Wollington-Frisco mail despatch of April 25 arrived in. London on 27th inst.

The current “Gazette” gives notice of the issuing of naturalisation papers to Peter Jensen, watchmaker, of Wairoa.

The “Gazette” notifies that authirosation for the laying off of Tees and Dale Streets, in the Borough of Gisborne, of a width of not less than 66 -feet, instead of 99 feet.

“Don’t believe the man who promises to give you all sorts or good things for nothing,” the Hon. Captain Tucker counselled the rate-payrs of Mangapapa last night. “He is either a foe] or a knave/’

The Gisborne Operatic* Society, which is shortly to stage -'Les Cloches do Comcville,” had a voice-testing evening in Samson’s auction mart last evening, some 50 applicants being put through. A further meeting will be held shortly.

The Government has acquired a block of 600 acres of land at Levin for closer- settlement. The-laud will cut up into at least seven farms, and will come into the possession oi the Government at the end of Augu>t. It is said to be suitable for nil agricultural purposes.—P.A. For his first conviction for drunkenness a man was yesterday fined 10s and costs (4s Od), or 24 hours’ imprisonment. M'harc Carroll was fined 10s and costs (2s), or 24 hours’ for drunkenness, and for procuring liquor while prohibited was mulcted in a fine of £1 and costs (2s), or three days’ in gaol. The necessity for extending the/ mail delivery service at- Mangapapa was touched upon by Mr. Duncan at the meeting or the ratepayers last night-. He explained that the service had been extended before, but since then so many new houses had been erected that it was again ne essarv to do so. It was agreed to approach the Chief Postmaster on the subject. A Timaru P.A. message last night stated 'Tho battleship just before dark, and anchored about a mil-? off shore. Children are t-o visit her first thing in the morning, and adults later. Besides the. usual courtesies, an important function will be tho presentation of large si'k flags from the women of Ifew Zealand at Caroline Bay. If the weather is fine this ceremony will he foil -wed by sports. Tile weather promises to be suitable, if the southerly hre; »e does not raise a sea. There, was rather much swell for tran-ferving children to-dav.

V ’i’c discussing ether matters with a ‘“limes'" reporter ye<t;-'.d:y. Mr J. T. Sheridan said he was gr.-aliy surprised to find during It’s trip to Australia. that a-rity of the proportions of Brisbane was even worse off than Gisborne, at least in one respect—it had no sanitary system whatever. The position was so acute that the Government had taken the matter up and a vote on the Estimates was promised for the work, which would be carried out hr the Government, a rate to be struck to provide interest and a sinking fund.

A “Gazette” dated May 21 contains tlie following caution in connection with the extension" of the Gisborne breakwaterShipmasters and" others are hereby notified not ta turn sharp round the end of the breakwater when entering or leaving the inner harbor, as the breakwater is being extended 500 ft from the end of the present breakwater, on which line cement blocks are being deposited. The end of this extension is marked by a small red buov. Charts, etc., affected: Admiralty'Charts Nos. 3321 and 3343; “New'Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, chapter iv., page 127. “This Commission is in the position of a man who eighty years ago was asked to forecast what the world would be like in 1913.” This is how Dr. Cockayne sums up the task of the Forestry Commission. “In eighty years,” he said, “the world has completely changed, and in another hundred years—who knows?” “Well, said' the chairman (Mr. H, D. M. Haszard), “who eaii say that in one hundred years’ time we will not bo nblo to convert ordinary straw into hard iis&» her by a three months’ process?” “Nothing is impossible.” sard Dr. Cockayne, “judging from Cur rate of progress during the past few years.”

It is not very often that legal authorities of over a century ago are quoted at tho Supreme Court, but an instance in point occurred at the criminal session in Auckland on Saturday. During tho hearing of a. case in which a man was charged with a serious offence, Mr J. R. Reed, K.C-, appearing for the prisoner, quoted a learned judge whose name has long been only a memory. Mr. Reed submitted that the views propounded by the learned judge in question were equally as applicable to-day as they were a hundred years ago.. “He was no doubt a learned judge,” remarked his Honor (Mr. Justice Cooper), with a smile, “but we must remember that he believed in guilty witches, and sentenced them to death.” “That may be, your Honor,” responded Mr. Reea, “but that was a very popular heresy in those days.”

Fourteen hundred and ninety-five yards—all in five-yard lengths—-is a big purchase for Swiss embroideries and insertions, but they are a lovely jot— *sueh dainty and choice patterns—and all marked down at a; very ktW figure: Those Who' ate* fond* of; hie#’ -work and; at very:low-pricesrtflfopkpgb* mm**-*-, &

The thrilling story of military intrigue, “For -Their Country,” will bo repeated by Patho Pictures at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night.

A large crowd visited the Bamaroai Mission salo at Holy Trinity Schoolroom yesterday and last evening, and curio seekers will find much to interest them by paying a final call to-day.

In his speech- at the Garrison Hall, Dunedin, last week, Bishop Cleary mentioned that the- Homan Catholics of tho Dominion in their fight for religious education had supported their demands by an expenditure of some £2,000.000. In Auckland city alone in tho last two years the sum of £42,090 had bec'n spent by them on religious education.

An appeal for hearing in open Court in tho case of Mr ,T. It. Quinn, who was recently refused a certificate of fitness as a licensee, has been forwarded to tho Minister for Justice. The petition, which is being sent through Mr. W. D. S. MacDonald, ALP., bears the signatures of many business men and prominent residents, including a leading light in the no-lieenso party, the support of which, it is understood, is extended to the petition. The petition claims'that the weight of evidence already taken is in Mr Quinn’s favor, and holds that the applicant will be. suffering from a grave injustice if he is not granted a re-hearing before a Magistrate .appointed by the Department. ' Between 300 and 400 signatures aro attached to the petition.

There’s no might in the pen nor the. sword' without someone t-o wield them. Not- the instruments, not the system, but the man makes glasses fit. —A. W. J. Mann, Chemist-Optician.*