Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9802, 12 May 1924, Page 4

Local and General

On Saturday evening, a distinguished visitor, in the person of Mr. Sydney • Francis Hoben, arrived in Gisborne from the South. Mr. Hoben is staying at the Masonic Hotel, where letters can be forwarded and personal interviews take place to-day.

The Convocation of the Manitoba College has conferred the degree of Bachelor of Divinity upon the Rev. W. MacDonald of the Epsom Presbyterian Church. At Auckland on Saturday Christopher Howe Nicholson was fined £SO at the Police Court for using a spinning jenniu and roulette wheel on the steamer Mania on a voyage from 'Whangarei to Auckland. —P.A.

I The jury disagreed in the charges of malpractice against George Arthur Kelly and liichard Pabaro Edmonds, heard at the Dunedin Supreme Court on Saturday. A new trial wtas order- ; ed for Tuesday.—P.A.

| Pigs are said to bo fairly numerous on the Tararuas. while bell-birds appear to be rapidly increasing (states tho Manawatu “Standard.”) Pigeons and tuis, however, are scarce, although one of the latter was recently seen at the Otaki racecourse.

“The brotherly unity of the ministers of religion of Palmerston North, as evidenced by the recent mission and the Ansiac Day service, is a great factor towards the betterment of the town,” said Mr L. F. do Berry, at All Saints’ annual meeting of parishioners (reports the local “Times”). The Borough Council’s offer of employment on relief works met with a ready response on Saturday. The Mayor (Mr. G. Wildish) stated that 15 men had been selected to commence work to-day on cleaning up footpaths, etc. Those employed are all married men living in the Borough. 'The following story, said to be a “true bill,” was related at an annual meeting of householders recently. The teacher was taking the geography lesson during the course of which she mentioned a certain place as being the finest spot in the world. At hand. “Well, Johnny,” said the teacher. “Please, ma’am, a spot of whisky!” Tho best offer obtainable for the return of four Manawatu trotting horses by motor-lorry from the Hawera meeting was £4O (states the Palmerston North “Times”). The owners or jockeys decided that, while the prize- money was small for the distance, they could afford to enter their mounts for the hundred mile walk, which was easily covered in four davs.

A farmer near Linton says his stacks are being attacked by hundreds of Pokeko, which have torn the thatch, and are pulling the straw out in sheaves. His only remedy (states the Manawatu “Daily Times”) appears to he to net the stacks completely over. Many small chicks are accompanying the old birds, which only a few years hack looked like extinction.

“You don’t get courting ladies and gentlemen standing about in bathing suits?” queried Mr Justice Her dm an in the Auckland Supreme Court to a witness who was describing his borne near Milford Beach. The witness, who said privacy was a reason for the purchase of his seaside. property, remarked that his home had ali the advantages of Milford Beach, but not the disadvantage of the summer crowds.

Tho figures for the Gisborne section of the railways for the year ending March 31 disclose that there an increase in the revenue amounting to £867, and a decrease in the expenditure amounting to £912. The figures for the year were as follows, last year’s figures being given within parentheses : Revenue, £39,168 (£3S,301); expenditure, £33,034 (£33,946). The North Island percentage of revenue to expenditure was 71.06 while that for the South Island was S6.BS. The Daily Express gives prominence to a. reported new treatment for paralysis by malaria inoculation. The paper says the Ministry for Health is watching the experiments, which at present are concentrated on the breeding of a parasite which will not cause a complete attack, yet will benefit the paralysed parts. .It quotes a specialist as saying the new treatment is one of the greatest discoveries in modern medicine, and likely to he adopted in every mental hospital.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

Quito often one hears that applegrowing does not give the grower a fair return for his expenditure in time and money. A Central Otago orchardist who was in Dunedin says that, according to his experience, the grower must receive 3d pci' lb. — that is, 10s per 401 b lie has no profit. It costs him 9d per case to transport his fruit to the nearest railway station at Beaumont; and good cases cannot be made nowadays for much under Is 3d each, w-hc'reas before the war they ran to only 7d. ‘•Mercutio,” in the Auckland “Herald,” says*—When the Magistrate- .at New Plymouth heard the other day of whole glasses of beer being left- untouched on hotel bar counters at the stroke of six—in the eagerness of customers to keep the law as toelosing time- —he was moved to say: “It would he hard to believe that such a thing is common.” Now, what did Mr Mowlem really mean? Was he merely expressing incredulity or emphasising the awful sorrow he felt at the occurrence? 41

When Charles Matthew O’Malley appeared for sentence at the Auckland Supreme Court on Friday, oil a charge of receiving, counsel rcminTt'd his Honor that O’Malley had not been found guilty on the major charge of breaking, entering and theft from a warehouse in Auckland, hut simply on a charge of receiving. His Honor said: “I shall accept the finding of the jury, but, personally, I have no doubt lie was guilty -of the major charge. However, '! must stand loyally by the jury—they arc responsible.” O’Malley was admitted to two years’ probation.—P.A. For some time past the staff of the local Public Works workshops have been engaged in constructing meat boxes for use on the Waikokopu section of the railways, these being the nucleons of the 'rolling-stock to be used in" conjunction with the Wairoa freezing works and the now port. Altogether twenty-four boxes have been constructed, in sections ar.d they are now ready for shipment to their destination, as soon as the railway officials at the other end have the bogies ready for them. The method of construction which has been ad opted is such as to permit of their easy shipment and ready assemblage at the other end.

Hough play made its unwelcome appearance in the High School-Y.M.P. junior match on Saturday. The Maoris, to put it vulgarity, were laying in the “stoush and the boot” im to the schoolboys, who came off the field badly damaged. One member of the Y.JI-P. team started into one c-f the school lads, who was obliged to defend himself. Consequently both wore sent off the- field. Another schoolboy was struck deliberately in the mouth and was unconscious for some time. If -players can’t play the ball and. not the man they should ba kept off the field altogether. _ The Rugby Union- should take drastic action- against the offenders:

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Latest shipping movements are: Arrival at San Francisco, lonic. Departures : from Seattle, Westnilus; from Panama, Trecarrel.

Whitebait lias made its appearance in the Manawatu river, and there have been one or t.wo fair catches despite the earliness of the season.

“Do you know anything?” remarked a magistrate recently, “appears to be. a password in Oamaru for tire prouring of liquor” (says the Oamaru “Mail.”

Despite tho unfavorable weather the Fleet trotting meeting at Addington will show a profit of £2.50 for the citizens’ entertainment committee.--P.A.

Ihe New Zealand Meat Board has instructed, its London manager to institute proceedings in all cases where h-o. has t sufficient evidence against retailers who sell inferior lamb from other countries as “New Zealand lamb.”

Definite arrangements and dates have been made by the Poverty Bay Rugby Union foi the representative team which goes on tour south next month: Bush Unions, at Pahiatua, .June 11th; Matawatu, at Palmerston North, June 14th; Dannevirke, June 38th; Hawke’s Bay (Ranfurly Shield match), June 21st, at Napier.