PERSONALS

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

PERSONALS

The London ••Dispatch” say? cue Duchess of York has been forbidden to take part m games and dancing. She intends to live quietly for tue next few months in expectation 01 a happy event.—Sun Cable.

The following Gisborre eamuuates were successful at the Aoveirc-or law professional examinations in the subjects indicated: R. B. Pearson, torts and criminal law; J. McL. Robertson, torts and criminal law. The Cook Ccunty Women's Guild desire to thank the public for the liberal response to the street eollertion for the children's creche on Christmas Eve, when £3O 10s was collected. A pleasant ceremony took place at A the New Zealand Clothing factory yesterday, when the manager. Mr. It. Barnett, presented Miss M. Bartlett, of the office staff, with a hattusonie silver mounted salad bowl, on the occasion of her approaching marriageIn handing over the gift. Air. b ;H " nett referred in eulogistic terras to the popularity of Miss Bartlett, and on behalf of the staff extended to her -best wishes for a happy and prosperous future. Miss Bartlett suitably responded.

The retiring Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. V. I. Blake) was met by a number of friends and tonna!l> fa rewelled at the Masonic Hotel iecently. Mr. Ered. Hall paid a tribute to the popularity end esteem in which Air. Blake was held in the community and to the zealous manner in we.no --he had carried out his Departmental duties. He expressed regret that- toe district was lesi -g the services o' such a valuable officer and an old inetui. and on behalf of the gatherum oe asked Mr. Blake to accept a han isomo silver cun as a mark of their esteem. Mr. Blake suitably replied, and the gathering dispersed with cheers for the guest.

The death occurred at the \\ oiling" ton Hospital yesterdov of AH’- - . 1 McCabe, aged 100 years and time months. Mr. McCnba was a native ot Ireland. As a young man he enlisted and fought with his regiment m Crimean campaign, also in the Inman mutiny and finally he came to - Zealand with the Imperial Forces, and fought through the Maori war. On leaving the armv he settled ” l the Rangitikei district,, where worked as a farm laborer for ninny years. He came to Wellington about six years ago, and siuee then lived at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. K. McGrath, Sage’s Lane. A so® was killed in the Great War. Lp. , quite recently Mr. McCabe retained all his faculties unimpaired aU “ Tainted incidents of his long career witn remarkable clearness.—Special.

A peculiarity of the legislation affecting landlord and tenant was men+inned at the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland. Mr J. J. Sullivan, who appeared for a tenant, remarked that while a landlord could not appeal- against a decision, the tenant could. In a Pahiatua bankruptcy ease the Commissioner of Taxes made a claim for income tax. The D.O.A. said that it, seemed a peculiar position for a bankrupt to'bo in to be called upon to pay income-tax. Mr. McSherry: It would be interesting to know how they arrive at it. “Girls are more precocious than boys,” stated Mr D. L. Poppehvell, Mavor of Gore, at the annual breakup ' function of tho High School in that town. The girls present suddenly became verv quiet and looked daggers at the speaker. Then whispered one to her neighbour, “Hear that?” He says we’re worse at telling lies than the boys!” After twenty years of blindness, a Toronto man of 37 recentlv recovered liis sight as the result of an operation the cost of which, was defrayed by sympathetic friends and relatives. When the bandages were removed the patient exclaimed ecstatically, “I can see.” but within four hours he had died from shock.

“Speed maniacs: Before taking this hill, order your coffins.” These words printed in' red and black letters on a white notice and surrounded with a fearsome skull and crossboues, constitute the most recent attempt by tho Clutha County Council to warn motorists .-gainst clanger, reports the Southland Times. Two such notice boards are to be erected at two most dangerous places on the Catlins district road. Similar notice hoards have been found very effective as danger signals in America. A pupil of the Avondale District School, Cecil "Wilson, son of Mr T. Wilson, Manukau road, has established a great record for unbroken attendance at the school. For seven years he lias not missed a single attendance. About two years ago he seriously injured his foot through cutting it with an axe, hut even this did not keep him away, a brother wheeling him along daily on a bicycle. The Minister for Education on being acquainted with the meritorious record, sent the lad a congratulatory letter and the School Committee made him a presentation. “"When I left England two of the greatest men of the kingdom were serving long terms of imprisonment.” remarked the Rev. Dalby at the Pitt Street Methodist Church, Auckland. “Both men occupied great positions in the Old Country during the war. One of them was a financier, and the other a journalist, who might have been, in the first rank in the world. The other day a party from the Home •Office visited the gaol and saw one of them. Horatio Bottomlev. He was making hoots, doing hard labor. One of the party remarked, “What, sewing, Mr Bottomlev?” “No, reaping,” was the reply he received. The State Advances Department raised the rates for loans from Dec. 1, hut judging by the reply received by an applicant, who has been waiting for several months, there is no hope of securing loans to pay off first mortgages. The reply states that “owing to the demands made on the Department for loans, for the purpose of erecting new homes, it is not possible at present for the Board of the Office to entertain any applications for advances where the money is required to purchase dwelling houses already in existence. Under the circumstances, I regret that your application cannot be proceeded with.”

A further proof, that the great majority of new arrivals in New Zealand from the Homo Country prefer to take up their residence in the North Island in preference to the South is afforded in a recent return issued by the Government Statistician. Of 330 immigrants of military awe who arrived in the Dominion ■within twelve months 282 preferred -to stay in Wellington and Auckland, the figures for these two cities being 176 and 106 respectively. During the same Iperiod the South received only 48 new arrivals, 35 oi -whom settled in Canterbury, and the remaining 13 in Otago and Southland, the latter . place taking seven of them.

One of the highest records for fUic tion pools on board Atlantic liners has been established by Mr W. A. Gardner, who arrived at Southampton last month from the United States in the Mauretania. During the voyage he won two pools, of £l<o and £l7B respectively, as well as the first and third prizes in the sweepstakes. The approximate total of his winnings is £SOO. On the voyage from England to the United States in the Adriatic Mr Gardner won the ship’s pool no fewer than four times, winning about £looo,i making the •total of his gains for the two voyages £ISOO. Mr Gardner is a leather tanner from Australia. The New Zealand Official YearBook for 1926, tho thirty-fourth year of issue, is to hand from the Census and Statistics office Wellington. There is a considerable amount of new matter in this year’s number, though generally it 'follows the same hues as its immediate predecessor, three ■entirely new sections that have been ~ added 'deal with trade unions, employ- \ ment and unemployment, and lndust- ' rial accidents—the last two mentioned represent the initiation of Ires branches of statistical enquiry so far as New Zealand is concerned. lhe sections on native lands, forestry and prices, and an article on main highways, have been entirely rewritten while the statistical summary has’ been remodelled and extended. Several other sections have been rewritten in part, or contain new matter. A special instructive article is included on the subject of cancer m New Zealand, written by Mr J. »• Butcher (chief compiler, Census and Statistics office, Wellington). The savagery of eels has on many occasions been a subject of discussion a mono- anglers, but the experience of Mr F. Cousins, when fishing in the stream at Kare re recently, is of particular interest. He had hooked a tlncc-pound trout, and, after playing it for eight or ten minutes, manoeuvred the fish to within a yard,ol the bank and called to a companion to fetch the landing net. 01 a sudden. from out of the deep water, a huge eel, which the fisherman estimates to have weighed close on 201bs made a rush at the struggling, and endeavoured to take it away by the tail. The pair on the bank then decided to try and land the eel vutb •the net but, as soon as it was .place in the water the unwanted denizen of the creek made a snap at the apparatus anti made off. It is • rare an occurrence for an eel to ac this fashion, . but the paHmulm point of interest m tins case * ‘ it should have attacked so l.P D 6

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