LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10141, 29 October 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Svdncv cab’e received this mon> iiirr states that late Queensland strike nows is delayed. Mr. W. D. Lysnar will address the electors at Kaiti schoolroom at e'ght o’clock this evening. Knocked down by a motor-car af. Makaraka yesterday; ?. school boy, Tvaii Callaghan, sustained a fractured fe • ’ ■ Nine find a-half degrees of frost nt Christchurch yesterday morning played havoc with the early potato, bean, tomato and cucumber 'crops.—P.A. . 1 A man was arrested about 6 o’clock last evening charged with using jsb'scere language and with threatening behavior. He will appear at the Pol'ce Court this morning.

On Friday, at No. 2 Hinakl Street, commencing at 2 p.m.. Mr. Henry Gardner will sell on behalf of R. B. Hill, Esq., his high-class furniture and property. The catalogue is of exceptionally high-class furniture. *** Further donations received by the A lies Cycle and Athletic Club in connection with running the 50 mile North Island road championship is as follows: O. H. Seymour (Whangara), £5 ss; AV,. 1). Lysnar, M.P., £1 Is: G. Smith (builder) £1 Is; G. Breingan (Patutahi), £1 Is.

Rome one at Mr. Coates’ Wanganui meeting remarked that the railways were going back. Mr. Coates: “I am going to make the Railway Department the best department in the whole country lie fore I halve finished with it. People who criticise the Railway Department know nothing about :t.”—-Special. An amusing story is related about judges and their robes: When Lord Mersey succeeded Lord Gorell as President of the Probate and Divorce Division , lie bought his predecessor's robes for £2-5, and at his retirement-' wrote to Lord Gorell to say he bird' sold them to Sir S. Evans for £4O: not extravagant for one brought up in the atmosphere of commerce. Lord Gorell wrote back: “I had them from Jeune for nothing I”

•■I «. <*?» decorated the C)l S eu at the V e ““ such names union last evening, - etcr Some and that is j ariß t- ""tbe steamer The irregularity t an d Auekservices between this afc least o ne lc r.d was respons i stag© an local firm being unah W . Sfccwexhibit at the 0> d arranged for art muse dea er, h -class* fines to a consignment ot ",$ born(i for that u a forwarded to v* Wainm bepurpHse buf' tbe E MI ' 8 ■ ■ Frederick After nineteen,, rem. Renter, 33 is County Col ;; nan offered for cash Smm ns, a forema meU . un det cheques belong? and , decamphim, and ta,s |'^ p me n penniless. Aced, leaving the men t „ nd va9 cased pleaded not ga j committed for trial.

The Labour cam! e self w.th In- 3 - rr C ould not com(Mr T. K. Sidoy). He n 2 d n certa in pete against h )S ©PR 0 For instance, respects, he remark - , donaho couW-not.W IM> 1 M> Motions to institutions, mor( , ] ium - Monus’s) do I 'otE' llßß . :j (y . J, idea to ble. Ho ">“3 u» the “owl to get ,‘“ k LlSSrlie d rtocaW Itl,o,vorm. 1 tl,o,vorm. The Government has referrol^, to Sir Ernest S the relation of SenT tf S t theTp«ial C «»3 t « «t it VP g dnstrial *sts m * r n <r on SsS rl “S^4ta^«i,icb modern science can g-ve. t- •

ing Eoyal f -g.SJSf A S eot m Shorthorns head &».'«* a fir- ms S"?6’Sd t%ep‘ S S are 445 more than to, lost year’s Royal Show—l -A.

During building operations m GeorU Street, Dunedin, a workman on a o ne : ghbouricg verandah was usmtr a large hammer when the head flew off and smashed a large plate glass window front on the P rc ™ of Messrs Schneidem; n and Ltd. The accident might have ueen more serious, as a number of peop-e were look'ng m the window at the time. Fortunately, however, no one was hurt. Messrs Schneideman and Sons have been uniortunate in matter of windows, says a Dunedin paper, having had four broken during their six weeks’ occupat ou of these premises.

Queen Alexandra, who won a prize with a litter of basset hounds at the Banbury show, where all the principal breeders of Great Britain were represented keeps a number of bassets m the kennels at Sandringham, and is a frequent exhibitor. Bassets are not so popular in Britain as m fiance, where the name is used with some latitude to describe various breeds of short-legged sporting dogs. The dachshung. however, . is known as the “basset allemand,” to distinguish it from the numerous “bassets-francais. Bassets, which are like foxhounds, but with snort legs, are used frequently by Continental sportsmen tor tracking deer and wild boar, and driving them out of coverts.

A remarkable eo'ncideneo was related to an Oarnaru reporter by Mr W. D. Burns, who was knocked on lu's bicycle by a motor on Saturday -nd rendered unc-onscious. Some years ago a son of Mr Burns -.m wifh a serious accident. The first person on the scene was a Mr Ci online, who conveyed the young man to tbe hospital, where he died some months later.. Another son met w tn an accident on his bieye’e. Mr Crornbie was again the first man on the sceno and conveyed li-m to t-l»e liospital. He recovered. On Saturday, when Mr Burns himself was knocked down, the person who picked li m up and convoyed him to the hosp-tal was Mr Crombie.

It is long since Great Britain has had a Prime Minister for whom shooting on moor or hill meant much. Mr Bunar Law preferred chess to field sports. Mr Lloyd George’s sport is fishing. Lord "Balfour did some stalking as a young man, but that is long ago. Lord Salisbury did not care for sport, nor does Lord Oxford. Disraeli, had a fleeting passion for hunting as a young man. Gladstone loved long walks on the mountains better than any other Scottish amusement. Perhaps the last man among Pyimfi..MLigisters was Lord Derby, and his tastes 7” that direction were fully shared by Lord Palmerston.

The foundation-stone of Marion’s hew post office was laid yesterday by the Hon. J. G. Coates, who was accorded a. great hearing by a large gathering. He said the laying of the foundation-stone drew - attention to the development of a young country. If they were going to get anything done they must have loyalty, and they had that in the public 'service. New Zealand was a young country, but the men who think ahead benefit tile present pbpulaton, and attract the people from other parts of the Empire. He stressed the' development of hydro electricity and the good work of the various departments. The Premier, quoted figures showing the remarkable local progress, and struck a cheering note, when lie su'd he anticipated that this year the penny postage revenue would exceed the last year of the lsd postage. He also referred to the phenomenal increase m the P.O. Savings Bank deposits.—l*. A.

i story was told at the dinner to the Southland Ladies’ Hockey Champions, by Sir Joseph Ward, w hdt illustrates how not so very !ono* ago even prominent journalists in America, had very litt’o conception of avi'm other than the name. M hdc >m Chicago, S r Joseoh was • shed for an interview and fiis surpr so cam be imagined when he arrivsexme and found himself ;11 the m dst of seventy pressmen. On ■ ' mich ns this an interview is usually granted to the whole gntli-enug-at the same t me, the questions sont g r y th , e oldest reporter preM Joseph was confronted with .in elderly gentleman of about eighty, first question was. “Where is S' i and? c Is a U one of the Southt • °l America?” Tlie barouets rejonder was to the point. sob? J °w T f V s ? m ; g co graphyf” fie \°v ool v at -Jepaa and * tls 1 Jfl 0 * then iho only r R n oe wfnelias s’milar to either vou w 11 find New. Zealand.” “I never bean of it,” saiftlie pressmen. “Jre .that. S

Dur'ng excavations on the n stone Park estate, Mount Roskil! a ' kauri log was found in qu te sonJ ) condition at u depth of 1/ft. (stated the New"-Zealand Herald), a qu an . titv of kauri gum was also f The excavations had first to bo Lalion through vo.cauic soil, and thoa t o ’id blucstoiie lava, lhe kauri 1 Wns perfectly hard and sound, and it s ,i# presence at such a depth suggests that a kauri forest was growuu. ~, . this locality pr.or to the. erupfon 0 f Mount Roskil, from which tho l ava rock would most probably have i Jttn ejected.

There was a very largo gathering a fc Victoria (College on Tuesday evening to welcome, Bn Ernest and Lady Rutherford. Among those Sir Ernest met were several who were at college with him at Christchurch and others who knew him well in years gone by ‘ After the formal reception, His Excellency the Governor-General,' in a very happy speech, referred to Sir Ernest’s work in the scientific world, and Sir Ernest replied with a humorous reference to what he was supposed to do and what lie didn’t do at Cambridge. Though here only to see his relations and to have a holiday, he is having a busy time. '1 e-morrow' as he put it, he has to go under the 1 harrow of the Mayor, and this week he will lecture on his special subject in the Town Hall. He is a big robust man, who seems in rude health, and in addition, he has the saving grace of humor. Ho wore the rare Order of Merit, so seldom seen in this part of the world.— Special.

Here and there are episodes in a lighter vein tucked away in these austere and bitter pages of Sir A. Fitzrov’s memoirs. So we arc- told of a Scottish minister, who once officiated at Crathie Church,, and in the royal presence (of Queen Victoria) petitioned the Almighty that “as the Queen became an auld woman she might put on the new rnan. and in all righteous causes stand before her people like a hi.-goat upon the mountains:” After her demise: In issuing the invitation “to assist at the interment” of the late Queen some curious oversights were permitted Thus, Jjord Cadogan showed me his invitation. wherein it was Lady Cadogan and not- he. who was asked to come “in trousers,” a circumstance to which I called the Earl Marshal’s attention when he was chaffing me a dav or two later about some alleged misadventure on the part of the Privy Council

\t low water at Stan ey Bay rerecertly (relates Hie Auckland Star), hundreds of seagulls were seen buffiv engaged near the water's edge. ;nd those who stopped to watch taeia saw that nearly every biro, he a a ma m it's 1> H. dragging it up on to-lEe i drr land Some of the fisa verc seven or eight inches long, am; the b.ras were making desperate c-uorts to aiu them bv biting them just at the back of the head. The fish were ey.deaur much b’gger than the food tae were accustomed to eaten b-rt .her a. time they nearly subdued tb«r prey, and then, start first, thev proceeded to bivivo* - ne ? s whole. After a severe efmn tney managed to do so, ana nev ou to the water edge airam to look for other fish.. The, toil made or the shoal must have been very greru, and the gulVs should not need any more too-1 for a week. It w-rs an eyeopeuer how the birds gorged themselves, and it is no wonder to last of them look piump and :r...

A AYar-ganui lady had an embarrassing if "not unenviable whilst on a v-Sit to V clang-on ,«.eat*v (states the Herald). Tne n gaiw Clark nd stormy—the sort c* mghfe that murderers and tn eves caoorf »or their evil deeds, and poi.cemen pee their beats with finr-er tread ana ® and eves alert. One -guard an o, the law who was patrol,mg an import business -thoroughfare saw | « ladv drinking from a bottle tvL.ca vbeing held for her by her ma-ecoffi-panlon. The policeman ia?p ; fl fte young fellow on the shoulde formed him “that sort cf not done here.” He grasped d* U te; sniffed, but was doomed ,ojappointment. The bottle connmed a popular brand of couga mix-u--- ' bottle was handed baex wubont word and the young man his administration of the niedic-nejo his‘fair companion, ibe .'.9p? states that never again v.M sn« 1 eve her cough n the su?-y ingtoh, ■ espee ally m the ear.-..