Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4182, 7 March 1916, Page 4

Local and General.

A sitting of the Supremo Court will commence in Gisborne on March 27. The Ambulance Section of the National !?es«rvi) will meet, this evening at 7.A0 slm-ru. Subject: Questions. A fall muster is requested. Some splendid samples of American mechanical ingenuity are shown m "The Huiklef of Bridges," which is now being screened at the World's Pictures. Probate has been granted in Auckland by .Mr.' Justice Cooper in the estate nf Elizabeth AYaelismann to Air. A. S. Waehsnnvnn, on the application of Air. Blair. “Rupert of Ilontzau,” the popular attraction at Mis Majesty's Tneatre. <lrow another large audience last evening. ft wilMhe screened for the last time this evening. The splendid programme screened at the Opera House last evening aitrv.ctod another large audience. The fourteenfb episode of "The .Mißuri Dollar Alystery'' is the outstanding I nature and is a very entertaining number. This programme will Be iiua.ll%* screened th-s e\ cuing.

Instead of using water a number of Napier shopkeepers are now sprinkling »the footpath in front of tlie'.r shops with disinfectant (says the ‘‘Tribune”). A number of shops are also lining scrubbed with water containing disinfectant.

One of the largest deals in land in the Kumara district has just been completed. Mr W. Maloney, of Tarnmakau Settlement-, who has enlisted, has disposed of his farm to Mr Afore!, of Murchison, the sum being over £3OOO, an average of over £3 per acre.

A start has been made with the erection of the freezing works premises at A V-niroa, and nearly 50 hands are new employed (says the correspondent of the “Napier Telegraph”). When finished, it is stated that the works will he the most np-to-date freezing works in the Dominion.

Mrs. Patrick Marshall gave some of the younger members of her sex in AVellington some good advice, when she said: “We want to spread such a spirit among our girls that they would scorn to do as wo hear has been done in AVellington. Some girls have actually been taking the pay of men, and sometimes of more than one man, and living on it rather them do honest work to keep themselves.”

Despite the number* Bold, Grirve. Jeweller has stilt a. ‘big stock of AVristlet Watches in. all grades from 255.*

No civilised man thinks of, utilising his feet ns Nature gave them to him. Ho calls to his aid the bootmaker to onablo his feet to do the best possible work. AViso men are now giving the same careful consideration to their eyes by consulting Haig Graham, Gisborne's only eye specialist (over World’s Pictures).*

- The Waverley Co-operative> Damy Company lias again put up * fpn cord (says the Wanganui -HcniJd R suppliers having received wo la_L amount of 19d par lb butter-fat, and in addition live-eight s M - P« n ny is now being paid out as a bonus.

A marked stench ha* been noticcablo near the corner o hnjit. hi - - seem! revealed the fact that a age connection was found J ■ order. It is understood the autiio tics have the matter m hand.

A good many returned soldiers have passed through the Gisborne i - I-, talfaml: they are now WS * cular letter,, to be "jj chairman of the Hospital Boa <1 t tii'ying to the great , atten i 11 • care paid to their cases bv Di. K„lenberg.

A parade of returned soldiers will !r\ licld -it lloiv Trinity Church on Sunday next. The. National Reserve and some of the senior eauets *■ ‘{ lal ' take part. As there are a bom, .i rturned soldiers m the disuut, th - • should he much interest in the p-“* ade.

it is anticipated that the first eonsbnrmerit of frozen meat iron tno IMI Farmers’ .Meat Go.’s works wm he tliijipeel by the s.s. .Makarmi, winch is due to load at Gisborne m a.suit- a fortnight, The company has already about 19,000 carcases in store. cui<! it is hoped to kill 2000 a day tins week.

It was understood that the steamer Afutatua, leaving this month would he the last cargo vessel to nia.-rr tiw run from .Montreal to New Zealand direct under the present contract, but private advices received state t„a the Canadian Government has arranged for more cargo steamers to follow the Alatatua .in the Montreal-New Zealand trade.

Aliss Eve Balfour, the Christchurch actress, has organised a film. company, and has just completed the first or the Eve-Balfour films (writes a London correspondent by last mail). It is entitled “Love,” and is based upon Rathmal Wilson’s novel, '-When Woman Loves.”' She is now preparing the cast for a film of the life ot Lady Hamilton.

The "Matron of the Children’s Creche acknowledged with thanks the following gifts: Fruit and vegetables from St. .John’s Chureli, Alangapapu : sugar from Alesdames W. G. fcberratt, C. B. Browne. T. A. Crawford. Geo. Smith and .J. Maynard: a cot from Airs. De Lautour: set of scales from Air. A. W. .J. Ala nil: toy stockings from Mr. Rosemergy; fish from Air. Atkins, FaUitahi.

The following donations are acknowledged by Air. E. P- Afonin tort, lion, treasurer Y.Ai.C.A. Natu-ita.! War Fund':—Air. J. R. Muvpdy £IOO, Air. ,T. B. Kells CIO, Messrs. Kells and Turnbull £lO, Airs. It. Sherr-att £lO, Air. AY. 11. ' Tuck', t* £SO. Air. Thos. Todd £lO. A subscriber accompanies her subscription with' the following remarks: ‘‘l hear from my son in Egypt that the Y.Ai.C.A. tints and shelters are a /great comfort and convenience to the troops there.” Tile annual registrut:on of inetcries. 'under the Factories Act. “as to he effected in Gisl/orne by April 1. and til*.* registration form:.; w;f] he ci the hands of all Pniploym-s Ik- fore the end of the present month. ’lbis year also the industrial 'census, which is taken once in every five years, wdl also be made up. For this puipo-e employ - ei'.s will he required to funiisE at the end of the month the .alternate-. I. ar in unir wages hook to the Inspector of Factories. These will he forwarded to the Government Statistician (Mr. Alaleolm Fraser). Apparently the aulhoriibs c >y ha listing every (iiort to bring R-.m quietly in. Tin* prophet remains buried in the depths of the Fro worn forests, and has very little communication witli the outside world. Ail the natives are very reticent, sc that it is extremely difih-idt to nick un iworiv;;.tion. However, it anp- ::i s not- unlikely that another visit wul i« t>a:• i to Alaungapohaiu. Ruts stronghold, by a man who earres considerable weight- both with Rua and ids followers. to persuade him not to be. foolish. Even it true, tin’s attempt is not- likely to succeed.

Everything is now in readiness atAVcstshore for the commencement of the work of erecting the big ferroconcrete bridge which is to connectthe two ends of the East Coast, railway embankment. A start- has already been made with the driving of the sheathing piles, and some <A the permanent concrete piles have been loaded on a punt so that- they may he conveyed to the site ns soon as tin? Department for Public Works gives the necessary notification. The driving gear lias been all fit■*■»<! on to the large moat, and the i>o ; !er and winch (which was obtained from America). both being practically completed are only awaiting for the final test. In the gazett'd list of clergymen licensed to officiate at- marriages appear the names of 10 Alaori members of the Eingatu Church. The RingaLi form of religion is practically tiie Hauliau form of worship, of which the high priest- at one time was To Kooti. and later the wily l' row era recalcitrant, Kua. The scheme of worship is a continuous uplifting of the hands, and the rapid chanting #n a mixture of Old and New Testament phrases interlarded with Native ideas regarding the Deity. TTio 10 men who represent the Church have now rlie right to claim the prefix of rev- i erend to their names, and their right to that honor lias already been accepted by the Government- Printer.

A young 1 : miennnt in all the glory of bis first uniform, stepped into a ear on the London underground the other day. A few scats away was an old soldier, who from the state of his cape and other clothes, had evidently iust come from the trenches. Furious at not receiving a salute, the young officer shouted out-, "I say. soldier, don’t- they tench you in vour regiment- to salute a superior officer!-'” AA’ithout a word the old warrior opened his cape, and it was seen that he was a colonel. Stuttering out an apology the stickler tor et.iquete subsided into Ids seat. The colonel quietly asked. ’‘Young man, have you been to the front yet.?' ’ "No!” was the answer. "Then I advise you to go at once. It will do you good—much good.”

Amid the numerous stories of heroic deeds by soldiers at the front comes the tale of an Australian who in a splendid sense of duty a.s a worker sacrificed his life for the sake of fellow beings. In the first accounts of the disaster, through derailment, which occurred to the LauncestonHobart express train last month,, and has been responsible for seven deaths so far, it was set out that the driver of the ‘train was imprisoned in the cab of his overturned engine and there scalded to death by steam. It appears that the driver, Phillip Goodehikl, managed to get clear of the engine, hut being anxious lest the boiler of the engine should burst and increase the disaster amongst those in the surrounding wreckage, he crawled back through escaping steam to make the boiler safe. He was frightfully scalded from head to foot, and it was these injuries, deliberately submitted to, which ended his life. It- is pleasing to record that a movement- has been started for a permanent- mtnnoriial of his heroism.

Mann’s Application for the Prevention of Infantile Paralysis is proving very effectual. A little of this pleasant simple- remedy applied to t-ho tongue night and morning prevents genus entering the system by way of the mouth. Price Is 6d and 2s 6d, only from A. AAA Mann, Chemist * -

The price of butter was raised last woek at Oamaru. tlie retail rate being now Is 7d per lb. A conference of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club will be held in Wellington during Easter week. The contribution of the Auckland province to the French Red Cross Fund is expected to amount to £:J000. Twenty-seven recruits were accepted for service in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces at Auckland on Wednesday fast. There is likely soon to he keen competition among bakers in Hostings (says the “Tribune’.). Two more bakeries are to be started. Wool to the vpltie of £12,805 (says the, “Mail”) was exported from Oamaru during the week ended February 22. Lands set apart for selection by dK-oharm-d soldiers in Hawkes Bay, Wellington and Auckland land districts, amounting to some thousands ol acre* in anch district, arc The Union Co.’s s.s. Tarawvra, whieti broke down on the East Coast run on Sunday, arrived, at- Auckland at 1.45 p.m. yesterday. It i~ estimated that the repairs should not. take long, and the vessel wiil not suiter much delay on her southward trip. One application for work from a returned sol'iier lias been maoe fq the local Labor Department, an<j private cinplnvmuut Ijs*.:s Ik-CJI .scr-iji man. ” Several recruits have al-o been found; temporary employment tur-mgc the Labor Department. if . -,l "Members of the Board of lrad<have begun work (says a Press Association telegram from "Wellington). They are arranging to appoint a secretary, whose name will be announced shortly. The Prime Alinister states, that the'Board’s first line of investigation will probably be a comparison of the prices of the necessaries or hie before the war and at the present time, and an examination of the pauses which have produced increases in the prices of some articles.

For leaving four loads of bricks and two loads oi saiid m Lowe Street on the night of February 23 without a light attached, Archie Kirk was nnect 10s and costs 7s at the Magistrate* s Court yesterday, before Mr. L. *. Florance. S.AI. Alf. L. T- Burnaro appeared for the defendant, and put in a plea of guilty. Apparently *-he lamp was lit by the boy whose o*uty it was to look after the matter, but he had neglected' te put sufficient oil in and the lamp went out. _ EciiiorSergoant Hutton said that his experience, over the last seven or eigii*years, showed that doxendanfc was a very careful man. A painful accident befei Airs. .J. Howie, of Ormond, on Sunday night, when she was starting 1 for home imm the Empire stables with other members of her family. An umbrella began to slide out of tue_ buggy, cud Airs. Howie, who was sitting m *m.baek seat, leaned over to catch it. At tills moment the horses h*ikid the buggy, causing Airs. Howi*-. to tail heavily between the _ot the buggy, the back wheel actually pasmg over her body. Dr. li--:d was called to attend the lady, ur<, was sulferirig from and shovK, and possibly also internal injuries, and he ordered Lier removal to the punhe hospital. Inquiries made last night elicited the information that- the lady was getting on fairly well, and iha* there would probably be no serums effects oi her nasty fall. A sitting of the Tairawiuti Almm Land Board will be held in Gisb. ru*--t-o-day. The vicissitudes ci motor travelling in this district was exemplified by the endeavor > f tin.* Juesge of the Native Laud Court- and President of the Board to get to Gthorn*, to attend the sitting. A!! arrangements* were made for leaving Tologa Bay, win.re the Court had r..e.n strain came oil in tin* i.:c:ui;:g and made the roads impassable. An •f----ferx was then made in Air. Austi::’> which is usually <;: nsuieied tin 1 u.tabic for cars. The party arrivtd at l\ikarae on Sundav night, and remained the night there, to get a more suitable tide. Slight assistance w:u> needed to get over the sand at Bakarae, and from then on the run through was made wit-bout any difficulty.

At the recent sitting of the Native Land Court- at Tologa Bay investigation was made into the Ana urn block. Tlu* case gives a good example of the uncertainty of Native titles. The title was originally investigated in Ik*73, hut from time t-o time the Natives complained that certain names had been left out. so in 1907 the Legislature granted an opportunity for admission to those left out. Several names were added, but the Natives were .still unsatisfied, because certain ancestors had not been considered, in 1013 a further Act was passed, permitting the Court to consider these ancestors, notwithstanding the first judgment. The Court now. niter 43 years, has been practically re-hearing the c-asc. Evidence was taken, hut judgment lias been reserved. The block of land is of 8000 acres, is vested in the Tairawhiti Board, and is under lease to various Native owners. About a couple of years ago a special section was passed enabling a European to become interested in. some of the sections.

Consequent upon the shortage of shipping, and the smalt amount of space allocated to Auckland, the three freezing works in the district expectto close down before the end of the present- month (reports the “Star"). March usually marks the height ot the trozen meat season in Auckland province, yet the allocations made by the committee in AVellington provide for smaller shipments from Auckland during March than in any previous month this season. Already the accumulations of stock in the freezing stores _ at Southdown and Horotiu make it evident that-oven with a restriction of operations it is doubtful if the works will be able to carry on tor more than three of four weeks. At A) hangaroi the same position applies, and it is expected that the works will close down in a fortnight. Ihe Auckland .Freezing Company has been informed that its space allotments for March must- not exceed 09,000 carcases. This represents only tt; days killing. The company is able to nut through 5000 carcases per day and in order not to suspend operations entirely, killings will be restricted. Even so, it is feared that the accumulation of stock will be so great by the end of the month that operations will have to be suspended altogether Space has been allotted the AA’hangarei Freezing Company in only one steamer this month, and operations will it- is expected, be entirely suspended) at- the end of a fortnight.

Gisborne, has rapidly emerged from its primitive state, and is now making use of the best resources cf art and science. This is shown by the number of'visitors to the rooms of Haig Graham. Gisborne’s eye specialist (over AYorld’s Pictures). There the best tb<> world con produce is devoted to the treatment of the eyesight.*

Paderewski, the famous pian’st. after one of his recitals, telegraphed to “Erards” as follows: “Cannot deny myself the pleasure of telling you the new model is a marvel t.f beauty, fullness, grandeur, and sonority incomparable.” Gall and hear these beautiful pianos at the sole Sts’, Farr and Hall, the leading o Specialists, Gladstone Road. ’Phono 857. AY rite Dept. G for Catalogues, free.*