LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10189, 29 December 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

/),, anoearing before Mr. E. C- Leaver S AL, in the Police Cou.rt*or lu£ third offence of drunkenness, Hendnk Hansen was convicted and prohibited.

The Hobart “News” has ceased publication. The working loss on Uw mner for thirteen months amounted to £15,900. —U.PfA.

The British steamer Mesopotamia, which arrived at Wellington yesterday from Calcutta, via Newcastle bourd to Valparaiso, developed boiler trouble two days off the New Zealand coast, and put in lor repairs.-! .A.

Under the trill of the late Air O’Connell, states a P.A message Horn Christchurch, bequests have, been made to the Marist Mothers new school at Christchurch, £2OO, bt. Bede’s College for bursary, £4OO. fct. Alary’s, -Manchester .Street, £l,O, and the Catholic Cathedral, £lou.

..The Pope’s encyclical announcing the inauguration on Decernbei .11 o, a movement to consecrate mankind to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Dusts that Parliament, and international todies will rK «niso .“thß Kmßdom of Christ whereby they will be cr. a bled to remedy errors.’— sun.

The tour. try is badly m need of rain states the Wellington correspondent of the Times, and reports iiom Hawke’s Bav are that the position there is & serious. Just as the promised rain*was expected the wind turned to the south, and made matters worse. Lambs bare been sold as lon as 10/- apiece.—Special.

“Years ago on the Coast we would have had to go miles and miles to a dentist, so we always went to a doctor,” remarked His Honor Mr Justics. Ostler, in the Palmerston North Supreme Court when the question as to whether a doctor should learn something about dentistry was beifo, discussed.

Awakened by a sense of suffocation Colin G. Sanderson, of Mansfield discovered that be bad swallowed Jus false teeth. He was X-rayed at the Mansfield Hospital, ar.d after a difficult operation to remove the teeth from iiis gullet, where they hao become lodged, he is making good recovery.

Two large sunspot groups 90,000 miles m length are visible, states a P.A. message from "Wellington, one near the eastern edge and the other south-west from the centre of the sun, according to Air. G. V. Hudson, of Karori. Both are visible to the naked eye through smoked glass. Three smaller groups appear in the western hemisphere.

The Christchurch tramwaymen have taken a ballot during the last few days on a proposal to strike. It is said the motormen and conductors are strongly in favor of a strike owing to dissatisfaction with their treatment by the management. The ballot taken, however, embraces all the members of the union, and all the employees are not so dissatisfied as the traffic men. The result of the ballot is not declared yet. If the declaration is in favor of a strike, the proposal is that work shall cease cn New Year’s Day.—P.A.

Thus a London Fashion writer: “Shoes made of cretonne and worn over ‘nude’ stockings look delightful with our flowery frocks. So do straw cues with colored raffia embroidered over the tees. I notice that most of the best dressed women in Bond Street and Knightsbridge are wearing stockings that it is difficult to tell are there at all, so fine and flesh coloured are they, and dead white kid or buckskin shoes. The effect is very good. AM white shoes and stockings'” are not worn. "Wide clox made of shadow lace are Been on stockings of the real luxury* variety.”

Some extraordinary facts in respect to adulteration of food have been disclosed. For instance in the annual report of the British Alinistry of Health recently published it is stated that a sample* of “strawberry jam” was found to contain not one whole strawberry and more than 75 per cent of apple jelly, whilst pieces of ham bone and straw were found in another sample. Egg and custard powders, egg substitutes, etc., were found. —'according to the report of the President of the” National Analysis Association —to be composed mainly of dyed starch. They are harmless, in or.e case conscience and the letter of the law were satisfied by the introduction of six eggs into a* ton of other ingredients.

The Exhibition authorities were amazed when they counted the attendance on Boxing Day, to find that the total was 42,250, only about 3000 short of the phenomenal record on the opening day, which it was never expected would be approached again. The courts lird more visitors than ever before, yet the amusement park was black with thousands more. It was a sight that those who saw it will never forget. The spirit of the carnival was let loose in a wonderful playground. The “belter skelter,” which started running on Saturday, was rushed by crowds, and it is now hard to think of any device which is not in the Exhibition amusement park.—P. A.

Though the weather has been unsettled with a good deal of blustering wind, states the Wellington correspondent of the Gisborne Times, the rain which is much needed has held off during the holidays. Business was partially resumed yesterday morning, but the city seems almost- as deserted as a country village. There have been no attractions to keep the people in town, and the result is that a general exodus has taken place to the holiday resorts, both North and South, and into the country.. A great many people have gone south to the Lakes and the Alps, and large numbers are visiting the Exhibition in Dunedin.—Special..

The modern woman’s fondness for furs is enabling New Zealand to turn its rabbit pest into a source of considerable profit, states the Daily Mail. Last year 15,500 000 rabbit skins, valued at £740,000, were exported to Great Britain and the United States. During the same period the value of the gold exported was JSSSUSB. Li New Zealand trapping is now a well-established and remunerative occupation. In Central Otao-o, where the upland winters are coTd. the way in which the rabbit has adapted itself to climatic conditions is proving its imdoing. It has developed a protective winter coat of dense fur. When it was discovered that this coat, clipped, dressed and dyed, could he made to look like more expensive furs, the rabbit was doomed. Its destruction, formerly a- duty, became a profitable undertaking.

A disagreement concerning the nondelivery of a telegram, between the Postmaster at Wharerata and Frank Morrell, a resident in* that localitv. led to am assault on December 24, the facts of which were related to Mr. E. O. Levvey, S.M., at a sitting of the I dice Court yesterday.—The SeniorSergt. explained .that there had been seme argument between the Postmaster and the defendant in regard to the non-delivery of a telegram, which led to words being used over the telephone. On- December 24 Morrell -procecded to the Post Office" at Wharerata and without further ado struckthe Postmaster. The pugnacious one was- ejected from the building, but outside he again attacked the officer arid a rough and tumble ensued on tho-roadway.—The defendant was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon ..within, six months, aiid to pay-i -police expenses £2 14s.

= =S=s I A dramatic round-up of 29 men in a charabanc goinoRangers v. Celtic game at IwV“ e was made by Glasgow police Oft; on motor cycles followed tli e banc, the occupants of which U*" very rowdy and waving large « r * Information was sent to the Noun 6 *- Police Office and at Norfolk street u charabanc was stopped and a 1 he force of constables escorted the to the "police office. ° ' eh >4

At a recent meeting of the w.i,. ton Education Hoard. Ur Gunn" Ingested that the summer holiday* r' primary school pupils might well t lengthened provided the p U pil s ‘ O6 given certain outdoor nature studio etc., under supervision of teaewf’ Apparently tho doctor is. right J B ' despite the prolonged holiday UT in the year due to the epidemic thl pupils made up the leeway, as ’ denced by the excellent results fo «!' proficiency examinations.

Carved ivory bandies for T3rnl rf .]i still hold a very higl. position £ fashion’s favor, and urnnen j*s m vie one with the otter in strange and original subjects for tJj purpose, says an exeli: nge. So much lias the ivory handle tor umbrellas become a branch of industry that or.e artist in ivory takes orders m at £lO to £2O a time, to desiWsnd execute special umbrella handles for customers. Among the particular novelties in umbrella handle:, for {he English winter are some which almost as if they contained elertrirbulbs. Some very ✓expendfo ones really do contain such bulbs; but in the more ordinary brolly’- tne gfov,is given by thousands of tiny irij sv . cent beads, which are fused*into ajmes t, unbreakable glass handles.

A firm of solicitors notified the Whangarei Harbor Board that a client had ruined a 'dress, valued at £8 Bs, as the result op.slicing on a newly-painted seat on A ictoria Quay. No direct claim had be-n lodged. The engineer, Mr AY. AT. i raser. said the seat was on private property. TH painter had placed a warning ticket upon it, but somebody had.thrown it into the stream. The chairman, Air ]) \V. Jack, expressed too view that apart from the legal aspect the beard in equity was liable, -hr R. 0. Hashing considered that the lady had taken a wrong procedure m sending a solicitor's letter. Ihe board ceputed Mr Hosking and Air Jans; to assess the damage to the dress arm convey to the solicitors the opinion or the board that the matter should have been raised direct without recourse to a solicitor’s letter.

“Follow the example of sir Robert Stout.” Air J. It. Caughfoy. Director of Education, urged studc-rits at Wellington College. Despite Mr Roberts long and varied career, said Air Cau'dilev. thev would ad think or him "more than anything else as renresenting education m New Zealand. In earlv times he was a primary school teacher, and ever since these davs Sir Robert had always been closely associated with education in tfos country. Throughout ms career he had never ceased to be a student. He did not give up stuoy .»~en he left school. Throughout tns hie he had made it a point to take up a new studv every winter: sometimes. it was a new language, sometimes it .was science, or some new Mine or reamng. The result was that &11* Rooert atotuhad become one of the most cultured of men, and one of the nnest gentlemen.

There was loud, applause when Professor A. P AA . Thomas. d :i b air ' man of the Auckland Grammar Board, told the girls or the Auckland and Epsom schools tim, he would not inflict upon them a ion e speech. “Not that lam uua .e m talk for an hour or two. he aiiea amid laughter. He proceeded to tel of an occasion on which he uaa need asked by a school of boys to ma.ie nn speech long, it was a n.ce not * ePdav and all the speakers, the caairman included, had cut their remarks c-onvenieutlv short, reports tne - Zealand Herald. Whereupon were dissatisfied murmurs m i-be ranks of the scholars, and the. general wish was expressed that tne chairman should proceed £t gre: length. “I found out, Prohor Thomas added wryly. "That the would have got off their Lana pro* hour had I done so.”