Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3871, 6 March 1915, Page 4

Local and General

At a meeting at AYairoa Mr. L. Ft. Reynolds said the Government experts had stated there were 6000 h.p. availround 150 to 170.

Mr. A. H. Davis has been appointed secretary to the AVairoa Harbor Board, vice Air. J. O. Scott, who is going to the front. There were fourteen applications.

The patriotic spirit of Disborneites could not be questioned after the outburst of cheering .and applause which greeted the screening of “The Clowns of Europe” at the World’s Pictures last evening.

The Education Board lias accepted the tender of Messrs. Winter and McLauchlan for additions to the Ngatana. school, the contract price being £355.

“There is no necessity for anyone in tliis district wanting medical advice,” remarked Dr Collins, while giving evidence at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning. “Representations to the authorities'will always secure medical advice free of any charge.” “Oh. it is not so serious as all that,’’ remarked Air. \V. A. Barton, S.M., to a young man who was endeavoring to clamber into the clock at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, when called upon to answer a charge of breaking the Borough by-laws. A magnificent star drama, “King in Name Alone,” is the chief attraction at the Opera House. This is 4000 ft. long, and right through the drama marches a tragedy of two noble souls, who wished! for nothing more than liberty to cherish each other in peace aud obscurity.

Chatting to a “Times” reporter yesterday, a visiting woolbuyer gave it as his omnidn that the present high prices of wool would maintain as long as the war lasted. The manufacture of 'khariki was responsible for the abnormal rise. Six months after the war ceased, he considered, would! see an appreciable drop in the price of wool. A young woman, aged 18, appeared! before Mr. AY. A. Barton, S.M., yesterday, charged with alleged concealment* of birth at To Arai A r allo v on February 3 last. The case was remanded‘until Tuesday next, owing to Dr. Wilson not being able to attend, on account of having undergone an operation to his hand. “Now that the Imperial Government has commandeered the output of frozen meat in the Dominion, it is to be hoped that something wiil bo done to regulate the retail price of meat, remarked a gentleman closely associated with tlie stock trade, to a “Times” reporter yesterday. He stated- that local butchers were obtaining their supplies at the Matawliero stock sales at about 3d l per lb., and tlieie was something radically wrong when the price of best meat in Gisborne was beiinr charged for at the famine price of lid per lb. An Auckland visitor stated that the price of best undercut steak at Auckland at the present time was Is Id per lb.

A» marty as ISO members of the "British House of Commons were engaged on active military service - m tb& early part of January.

Tile drought is having a serious effect upon the dairy herds jn th© Wairarapa, and it is feared that there v/ill be heavy losses of stock in the winter.

Those interested are reminded <>* tlio monthly public meeting or the “Order of the Star in the Kast tomorrow at 3 o’clock in. Findlay s rooms.' “Christ in Man” will ha the subject and the vocal solo, “Son or mv Soul” will be rendered during the meeting.

Some idea of the task the shipping companies have had in handling thi s season’s produce is pointed out by tno ’Trade Review. Since January there Inis left these shores 265,000 bales or wool, 224.000 boxes of butter, 154,000 cases of cheese, 44 7,000 carcases of mutton, 730,000 carcases of lamb, ami 120,000 quarters of. beef. The approximate value of this cargo would be three millions sterling.

Wheat is now being harvested in tlie Bayswater district (says yio “Western” Star”). It is reported that in the Hcddon Bush district » farmer was offered £2OOO for bis ciop on 100 acres. Land is now being prepared for jiutumn sowing, and it is quite evident that next season there will he a much larger area under this cereal.

“The favorite presentation to our soldiers seems to he a wristlet watch. The worst wound I saw in Africa was that of man who was shot through, the wrist while Holding his rifle firing. If it had not been for the wristlet watch the wound would not have been so much, but the presentation watch being there, his wrist was blown to pieces,” says a medical correspondent of a Dunedin paper.

At Mr A. A- Fromm's sale yesterday Mr J. M. Samson put up tor auction a Union Jack and a silver mounted shaving set, the proceeds to go to the Belgian Fund. The articles were knocked down, in the first place, to Mr T. Witty, for £l, .then af.w about a dozen people had biu •■'•nd Returned the goods it was found •r/’t the Belgian Fund bad benefited to the extent of £7.

“The witness is worthy of her hire,” said Mr T. Hutchison,.SAL, m the Invercargill S.M. Court the other morning, when awarding witness’s expenses to a girl of 15 (says the “Southland News”). Counsel ror the defeated litigants had objected to payment of witness’s expenses on the ground that the girl was employed only in assisting in the housework at home, hut this objection was overruled-

Plunket Nurse Sykes will arrive m Gisborne to-day, and raav be consulted at her offi.ee, 114 Grey Street, between the hours of 2. p.in. and 3.30 p.m. daily, excepting Wednesdays and Sundays. The committee great!— regiet that there was no nurse available last month, but the delay was unavoidable. As there have been many mothers inquiring for Nurse SvKes, -t is hoped they will now avail themselves of her assistance.

Apparently (says the Hastings '"ln•mine”) some care.e.sness resulted in tar getting into the water mam, and a lot of it was conveyed to the bath on Wednesday during the operation of filling. All the swimmers came out with a considerable quantity of spots of tar all over them, which took a lot of trouble to get off. A few spots of tar in the afternoon tea may result in old friendliness being broken off for ever. Who knows ?

George Torrie, of Mangapapa, was charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning with a breach, of the Borough by-laws in leaving a milk cart unattended, and without having the wheel chained, in Customhouse Street on February 26. Defendant pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant- Hutton stated that the horse had started off. and a constable caught it before any damage was done. The presiding Magistrate (Mr. W. A. Barton, S.M.), imposed a fine of £l. and 7s costs. •

A small boy, who appeared before the Napier Juvenile Court, presided over by Air S. E. AlcCartky, S.M., admitted kicking another boy in the stomach and knocking . him unconscious. and said that he committed the act- because tlie other gave him “cheek,” alleging that accused went up the river with some girls. His AYorsliip): “There’s no harm in that, is there?” The boy : “No. but-1 did not. like him calling it out- in the street.” 'Both boys are newspaper messengers. His AA’orsbip characterised the assault as cowardly, and fined the lad 10s.

An old man at- the Napier Alagistrate’s Court created an amusing, though pathetic scene (says the “Telegraph”).. Charged with vagrancy, he said most emphatically that- he would not.go to the hospital for treatment: neither did he have any desire to go to the Old People's Home. “Well,” said Mr McCarthy, “I can’t let- you dio in the street; I’ll sentence you to three months’ imprisonment.”’ , “ That’s right,” remarked the old chap, “that’s the best place for me,” and off he went to serve his sentence.

The Gisborne City Band will give a bright and varied programme of music from Twigley and Alarsliall’s balcony to-night, at 7.30. The Band -will also give a sacred and classical programme in the Botanical Gardens to-morrow night (Sunday),_ at 8.30, after church, when the following programme will be presented :—March, “The Challenge” : valse, “Silver Showers”; grand contest- selection. “II Trovatore” : cornet solo, “Babylon”; grand selection, “Mercandants”; march, “Tlie Baud Parade;” “God Save the King.” A collection will be taken up in. aid of the Band funds.

The “Wellington Post” of Tuesday has the following item : —lt is understood that the custom which lias been in vogue in Auckland for a number of years of doctors having their consulting rooms in chemists’ shops is to cease at- once. The custom has never been followed in any other cities in Australasia, and in the Aledieal Practitioners Act passed last session s-y tlie New Zealand Parliament one of tlieli clauses was drafted with a view of doing away with it. “I do not know whether this court is competent to deal with a German piano,” suggested counsel in a case iu the- Magistrate’s Court, Invercargill, on Friday (says the “Southland Times”). “Oh, I don’t know about that,” said is Worship. “I might order it to be broken up.” It transpired from the statements of counsel that the mono in question had been purchased by a half-caste Maori from an Invercargill firm, and, while it had been known to exist, neither counsel professed to know where it was at present. “Perhaps Air Armstead decided to break it up when war broke out,” suggested the magistrate.”

A. deputation was recently sent from i'aumarunui to Wellington’ by a committee appointed to try to arrange for the Government purchase of the Native township of Taumarunui. The project was favorably received, and it Ts stated that if the Maoris of Taumarunui send in a petition expressing their desire to sell, the Government will send valuers to discuss the terms. At a conference of Maoris of the township, held a few (lays ago, hostility was shown to the-scheme by all- who spoke, a sore point being the possible desecration of their cemeteries. They < ecicNd tliat. if the land courts would delimit-., and protect the sacred-places and separate the pakeha part of the township from-the Native portion, the project of sale might be considered.

The price of the 41b loaf in Dunedin has been raised to lOd, as from Monday next. .

In accordance with a requisition from seven members of the Harbor Board the Chairman (Mr John Townlev) has convened a special meeting of the Harbor Board for Tuesday next to go into certain matters in connection with the dredge Mains recent trip to Auckland.

jy p ,y. message from Dunedin states .that the case of Donovan v. the King,- which was to have been lie-1 rd at the Supreme Court this month, has been settled for £lO-50. ft was a claim for £ISOO damages ansj nr, out of a collision between two _ railway engines at Dunedin, as tha result of which plaintiff’s husband, * fireman, was killed. \ Captain Henderson, formerly adju-Vy, tant to the Southland Regiment, is returning to New Zealand m com.ee- . tion with charges to be formulated against him and Lieut.-Oo onel MeCTvmont, who recently came hack f rom the front. It is understood the charges affect a matter or the administration of regimental lunos. 1 .A.

“The Adventures of Miss Tomboy.” a glittering Vitagraph comedy, m which Lillian Walker. \\ allie Van and Bunny fairly scenttllat® humor, will bo the outstanding ieature in the new programme Rathe Pictures will play, before the public at His Majesty s 'Theatre this afternoon and again tonight.

Referring to a paragraph which appeared in yesterday mornings “Times” in which a leading Wellington* draper is reported to have said that the prices of tweens and certain other lines of drapery would be much higher this winter, Mr Rosie informs us that as far as their firm is concerned this does not hold good. Already most of the new tweeds, ladies' heavy cloth coats, furs, neckwear and millinery have arrived and although the extra freights and war risk adds a trifle to the cost of the goods, there is absoffitelv no advance m the se.ung price of a single article so far.

Charles Henry Ferris. Borough Inspector of Nuisances (Mr Coleman), s.gsiins't Stewart- .A. 31 ci hint (Mr Stock) at the Magistrate’s Court vesterdav morning with railing to Keep his premises at Whataupoko clean between January 1 and February 18. 3lr Coleman said that the deremiant was the proprietor or the W airnata. coach and kept his horses in paddock on the Whataupoko. The premises were allowed to become so dirty that the tenants of a house m the vicinity gave notice and left the house. Mr Stock said that defendant was the owner of the premises, hut had ner ' been informed of the condition or the premises, and knew nothing about the matter until he received the summons. As soon as defendant was made aware of the state of affairs lie took steps to have the nuisance abated. The pre si din or Magistrate (Mr W. A. Barton. S.M.) said that it was defendant's dutv as owner of the stables and yard, to see that they were kept m a saitary state. Defendant would be convicted and fined £f and costs 7s.