Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9800, 9 May 1924, Page 4

Local and General

The Niagara left Sydney at noon yesterday.—U. P. A.

Two Chinamen were fined £4O and costs for being in possession of opium at Wellington yesterday.—P.A.

To-day, commencing at 1.30 p.m., Mr. Fred. Gray will liold an auction sale of household furniture at 36A Salisbury Hoad on account of Mr. Harry Pope, who is leaving for Auckland.***

The rainfall for April at Tokomaru Bay was 5.19 inches, against 13.07 for tin.’ corresponding period of lastyear. January. February, March, April, 1923., 24.22 inches; 1924, 23.21 inches. So far, for the month of May this year, 5 inches have fallen. —Spcl.

The four Canterbury Labor members of Parliament emphatically deny a report that there is a rift in the Labor Party and that there has been dissatisfaction among the Canterbury Labor members since Mr. Holland mas elected leader.—P.A.

The two propellors salvaged from tho wrecked steamer Port Elliott, which ran ashore on the East. Cape at midnight on January 12, were taken to Auckland. The propellors, which measure 1G feet across, are of solid phosphor bronze, and each weighs five and a-lialf tons. It is stated that they are valued at about £SOO.

A further remand to appear at Napier on May 15 was granted at the Police Court, yesterday in the case of Alexander Ross, who is charged with the theft of clothes and jc-wellery valued at £l2 12s, belonging to Virginia McPherson. Bail was granted as formerly. Mr. A. G. Beere, J.P., was on the Bench.

In response to numerous inquiries it has been decided to hold the opening night of Le Grand Cabaret scarson on Friday, May 16. Special arrangements have been made for large stocks of balloons, paper twirlers, confetti, squeakers, etc., with numerous spotlights. The music will be supplied by McMullen’s orchestra. As there is’ already a demand for tables, patrons are urged by the management to book early.

Yesterday morning Walter Braybrook, tho six-year-old son of Mr. W. Braybrook, Patiitalii, was admitted unconscious to the Cook Hospital. His injuries consisted of bruises about the head and serious concussion of tho brain. Up to <a. late hour last night the child had not recovered consciousness. No one saw the _ accident happen. The boy was playing in a field ,near his home, and it is surmised that lie was kicked by a horse.

The battle-cruiser Repulse Visiting Gisborne to-day, states a correspondent, carries upon her escutcheon the name which recalls the traditions of her predecessors. Slightly smaller than the mighty Hood, the Repulse is one of the most powerful monsters of the British licet in respect of gun power and speed. It would have been an education for the .children and the public generally to have inspected the wonders of the Hood, but it will bo with gratitude that they visit the Repulse to-day. The battlecruiser, though smaller than the leviathian of the British fleet, should be an. example to the children of what the Navy means to the British Empire and, doubtless, as they examine her. they will be impressed with her mighty power. Some, indication of her power might be gleaned from the fact that her engines are capable of developing 112,000 h.p., which in man power is equal to 2,240,000 men of full strength. The vessel is 710 feet in length and would reach from the entrance of the Ivaiti hridgo to halfway between tlic Lowe Street and Peel Street corners, while her speed which is 32 knots is equal to about--37 miles per hour. That is to say she could steam from Gisborne to Napier in about 2| hours. The length of each 15-inch gun is about 66 feet, the width of a. street.

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| A mother. 71 years of age. was ; fined 10s. at Tottenham for assaulti ing her daughter, aged 51. . 5 “I didn’t hit her,” said a woman , i at Tottenham, answering a charge or ' j assault. “She oaught her face against 1 j my fist.” j “The innocent pawnbroker was de--1 i frauded by the prisoner,” .said a ■ j solicitor at Willesdeu. Magistrate: > ; 'Did I rightly understand you to say . I “innocent pawnbroker”? I should ; like to be introduced to him. ’ | The lieiws that a horse had gout J ’ astonished the magistrate at wood Green. He asked if it arose from - j high living. Veterinary Surgeon: l \ “It often develops in a poor hofso ! suddenly put on better food.” Ihe : Olerk: “1 never knew teetotallers >'! had gout.”

A woman "in mate of a Jewish institution in East Condon complained to the magistrate at Thames Police Court that somebody had said that she was not married. .Magistrate: You are extremely lucky if that is all you have to complain of. Count your blessings if that is your only worry. Short stories of high quality and intensely interesting are the outstanding features of the latest Cassells’ Magazine and the Storyteller Magazine, both of which have been received from Gordon and Gotch per B. Eastwood. The same firm also send the popular household magazines, Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal and Weldon’s Children’s Dress.

Influenza lias been a fruitful source of suffering and discussion for many a long day. In 1782, • Charles P. Moritz, a German, visited England and wrot an account of his “Travels, Chiefly on Foot,” which were duly published both in England and in Germany. The narrative contains the following observation: “That same influenza which I left in Berlin, I have had the hard fortune again to find here; and many people die of it.” Walpole’s correspondence has references to the same visitation. He describes the attack as of short duration, hut it “left a weakness or lassitude of which people find it very difficult to recover.” Surely it is high time that medical research should make the discovery that will put an end to the scourge. How much musical history may come within the life of a single person may he gathered by what we know of dementi, the pianist and composer whose studies have given woary hours to many who are now good players. He was horn while Handel, SeaUetti, Arne, Gluck, Haydn and Boccherini were still alive and was six years older than Mozart and twenty years older than" Beethoven ; and during his lifetime 4\ eber and Schubert were horn and all of these died. Cherubini, who was ten years younger, outlived him by ten years, and others born before lie died at 80 years old included Bishop (the composer of “Home Sweet Home”) Rossini, Berlioz. Balfe, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt. Schumann. Sterndale, Bennett, Gounod, Gesar, Tranch, Smetana. Samuel Wesley, and Pag; anini. If we consider the number of pupils of Liszt who are still among the most active musicians of to-day, we shall easily see how close is the link between now and the days when “Messiah” and the “St Matthew Passion” were new works.