Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9577, 31 July 1923, Page 4

Local and General

Mails which left Gisborne- on June 23 for the United Kingdom, via Sun Francisco, arrived at London on July 28. The cable steamer Stephen left Suva on Saturday. laying a duplicate table to Auckland. She is expected at Auckland next Saturday.—P.A. A large attendance is expected at vhe Alak a ra'ka -Ala ta wh ero liall to-night, •when a dance will be held in aid of the Catholic Church Improvement Fund. An excellent floor has been prepared and Standring’s orchestra will supply the music. At a meeting of the Dunedin 'exhibition directors last night. Mr. J. Sutherland Moss was appointed chairman. It was .reported that the actual and promised applications for shares totalled £36.535. It is expected that 50.000 will be in sight within a few days, when the company ‘will proceed to allotment. —P.A. In a special advertisement to-day the committee of the Gisborne Boxing Association are requesting members to call or ring C. IV. Muir’s. Booksellers, for their current tickets. The applications for new membership are so numerous that it lias made it obligatory, even imperative, for members to claim their seats at once.

The annual presentation of prizes and trophies take.-> place at the P.B. Rowing Club's ball to be held to-night at the City Hall. This is a much anticipated event in rowing circles and the Social Committee have spared no efforts to ensure a good evening’s en joyment. The catering and music are in capable hands and a large number of supporters and. enthusiasts are expected to be present. A feature of the evening will lie a radio concert during the supper interval.*** Among the nine passengers who it a veiled by the Aard Motor Service’s one-day trip to Napier on Sunday were five jockeys who took part in the racing programme of the Gisborne Racing Club’s meeting, all reaching Napier in time for G. 30 dinner.***

Acceptances for all events at ike Poverty Bay Hunt Clul/s animal meet, nig, to be held at the Park racecourse on Saturday next, will close at five oVI oek t:.i> ovc-mny. Answering a quasi ion on Slivloc*!?* the ioy ;; role: “Shviurk is a iannul* lierc? tive, .-ai iiair.otl iiulmos, who appoaic-a in * J'ne Ait reiiant oi Venus.' " Members oi‘ the Loyal Gisborne Lodges G 057, -Manchester Unity, are ‘reminded oi the funeral oi the late Bro. V,'. Si.arratr, I\U., which will leave the Masonic- Hall at 10.30 a.m. io-day lor ilairmanV private mortuary, vlience to the Taruheru cemetery. In laying on the table of the Mouse yesterday the report on the Cook Inlands. Sir Maui Pomare said that, as

the result oi arrangements now being made for a better Island, steamer, Jithoped New Zealand would get better and cheaper Island fruit. —I'.A. Kough weather on the New Zealand Coasts is delaying shipping. Besides the Ling Nim, which did not arrive from Callao till yesterday, JCosmo will roue h Auckland several days late. The Marsellaise, reported by wireless as damaged, is on lev way to "Wellington and is expected to-day.— 'The mayor of Northampton (Eng.), having offered ;i prize for arithmetic at :i local girls’ school, the mayoress promptly offered one lor the girl who black a grate without blacking imr face and apron. ‘‘Husbands, she said, "wuuid rather have wives who could mend socks than do arithmetic.” Three brothers in tho villagu oi Xioluil, near Marseilles, have attained. the ages of 101, OS, and Dli respectively. Nearly every day tho men may bo soon playing cards under an old chestnut tree in their garden. They were all shepherds, and their only regret is that their sister died last year, at the age of 34—comparatively early in ’life, they think. Before another large audience at the Opera House last night, Mr. H. Cohen’s “Scandal” company, with Doris Duane and Eric Harrison in the leading parts, gave the third performance of Cosmo Hamilton’s comedy. 'The humor was brought out fo flic fullest <xtent b.v the various characters and the interest was maintained until the final o-op. The play will be repeated for the last time to-night.

A native boy. in tho home of, a Gold Coast missionary, is responsible for, the following quaint translation of the parable of the prodigal son: — "After finish they all spoilt, a great starve came to- tile land. When the father say his hoy come lie say. Bring out the cow that lias fat in it, amt when they come near the house they hear the ’concertina and dancing. But tlie father say. This is mv son who died and wake up again, who was lost but lias been seen.” Those who have had occasion to travel on the Waikaromouna, Runkituri and Xuliuka roads report that they are in remarkable good order for this Lime of the year, due undoubtedly to the heavy tialiie by-laws being rigidly enforced by the \VairoaCounty Council. The -great amount of traffic on tho Wairoa-Napie: load has, however, found out many weak spots and in places the road is full of pot-holes'.—Star. How an ’‘incident which nearly ended liis career” occurred when, a-s Governor and representative oi' the King, lie' opened the -Parliament ol South Australia was described by Sir Archibald AVeigall to the LondonI.iia olusbli'e Society at their annual dinner. ‘‘Both Houses were assembled,” said Sir Archibald, “and the Ministers had given me a very long' speech to deliver. My wile and daughter—aged six—were close to me. When I gol half-way through the address a shrill voice rang through the Chamber, and 1 beard lii.v little girl say, 1 .Mummy, when is* daddy going to stop his long story?’ ”

Tho vexed question of tlie boiling down works, which was the subject of considerable discussion at a recent meeting of the Cook County Council, was discussed yesterday morning at a conference of representatives of the Borough and Cook Councils anil the master butchers. The Gisborne Borough delegates staled that Hie Council did not view with favor tlie proposed establishment of a boiling down works at the municipal abattoirs, and it was filially Icl t to The butchers’ represent a lives to formulate a scheme for the abatement of the nuisance caused by numerous works, the scheme to be forwarded to the County Council for consideration. 'The Cook County representatives favored a single establishment. There are thirteen young ladies from the Woodford House College, Hastings, who will probably in future have no fear regarding the legend of the uuluckiness of No. 13, for yesterday morning they left this deservedly famous college in two Aard cars and. arrived safely in Gisborne at 8 p.m. without incurring the displeasures of the Gods of Good or Bad Buck through their flouting the decrees attaching to this number. The Aard Motor Service lakes no extra ciedit for successfully surmounting the difficulties of the winter roads, as the one-day service to and from Napier is a feature of their regular service. I'p to the present v: is has not failed, and continues to lx iho.nly service to give regular one-day* tripe; once moie proving that the Aard's Alive.***

One .hesitates to question the conclusions- of so eminent a physiologist # as Dr. Franz Deuticke, of Vienna, regarding left-handedness and what it means. But the opinion of other psysiologists is that babies arc born ambidextrous and have that* useful accomplishment bred out of them by nurses and parents. Anybody who Inis a young baby in the house* may find tliis out in the course of five minutes’ play with a rattle. Whether a person uses the right hand or the left for a certain operation is purely a matter of use and training. Some cricketers bowl left-handed and hat right-handed, os vice versa. But perhaps the more delicate test of writing is the surest proof that lefc-handod-ncss may be l(‘gained. There arc thousands of men who lost the right arm in the war .who now write equally well with the left.

In stripping the walls of the 350-years-old inn, The Star Hotel, which overlooks the quayside at Yarmouth, diseoveiies have been made recalling a centuries-old feud which involvedbloodshed between the townspeople of Yarmouth ami the visiting bailiffs of the Cinque Forts. One room, after live layers of paper had been removed, was found to have a secret deer and a wall covered with symbols and signs which have hr. filed antiquarians. Here, say soma theorists, a secret society of townspeople plotted against the bailiffs who came, front the barons of the Cinque Ports. The townspeople resented the barons' claim to regulate the fishery fairs. Ti le symbols, of which there are about 100, are from 2in to 2ft high, and arc in a gtecny-black plaint, resembling tatoouig ink. A complaint about the charges made by the Harbor Board was made by Mr. IV. G. Sherratt at the meeting the Harbor Board was made by Mr. IV. G. Sherratt at the meeting of the Board yesterday. He had wanted to ship two kegs of .staples by the Make for the Coast and l:e had been told by the Board’s officials that it would, cost hi to have got them sent out to the boat in the stream, apart altogether from ti:e freight. He had not sent the Maples, but he wanted to say that lie did not think the Board was catering for business by such a practice.—The secretary stated that tl-.e Mr.ko had ~uly come in under stress of weather, and as sucli was free from port dues as long as she did not lift cargo. As r-:oon as she started to'take on cargo, however, the ordinary dues had to-be paid, and it was those charges that Mr. Sherratt was complaining about; they were not really on the staples at all.—Air. SL’erratt: "They were on my statement, anyway.”

Discussing cures ol deafness mado by broadcasting, Dr. G. A. Pfister. in the "Sackbui,’’ says that it is not universally known that for some time past neatness has been either cured or lessened by the seientific application el sounds to the ear. The tiiseove.ry is due to yf. i Abiie itousselot, director oi tie' i'iionetie Institute m l’ar.s. Musi ct tlie cases are people who hav e Ik en deaf and dumb since birth, not shell shuck or similar eases of temporary (lealness. Dr. Blister explains that. Dr. Kousselot uses a set of large tuning forks set in front ot a metal sound-box and attaeiied by rubber tubes to ear-pieces. One note, after another is transmitted to the patient until his expression shows that the sound has been heard. The same sound is produced for a short time every day and then gradually higher or lower sounds until the patient can hear them clearly.