LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10742, 13 November 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

At Mr. W. D. Lysnar s meeting hi (lie Opera House to-night at S o’clock the dress circle will he reserved for Indies, and ladies with their escorts.

- The Minister of Agriculture lias adriaed the New Zealand Poultry Association that the Government guarantee for the export of eggs will he extended to cover the shipment per the Mataroa.—Press Assn,

Two prisoners at Mount Eden gaol. John Charles Concord and Charles Frederick Murphy, escaped from a quarry gang about four hundred yards from t-lre prison walls 'shortly before five o’clock last night. A search ' was quickly organised anu, within half an hour, both men were discovered hiding in a. nearby"section. Their surrender was without- incident. Press Assn.

“1 notice that Air. Lysnar keeps off the subject of Sir Joseph Ward’s loan policy.” remarked Air. AY. Lissant Clacton, the United candidate, at- Alatawhe.ro last- evening, “and very wisely too, for he knows nothing at all about finance.”—A voice: “Rats.”—Air. Clayton: “I hear some gentleman say Tatis’. I don’t know where they are, but I presume they must be ip .the vicinity of ...that, voice.” (Laughter.T

“Just as Air. AY. D. Lysnar has never been any use to the workers of New Zealand,'he never had been and never would It any good to the,district,” remarked Air D. AY. Coleman at the Opera House last'night. He knew the people liked to know when Mr. Lysnar was going to give an address, for they knew they"would get more fun than at a vaudeville shew. Mr. Lysnar claimed he was out for the farmer, hut that farmer was Air. Lysnar, he added amidst laughter.

“I know Air. Lysnar asks for interjections and without them his meetings are' flat,” remarked Air. D. \Y. Coleman to a gathering of electors in the Opera Houso last night. He mentioned that the audience at Air. Lysnar’s meeting at AA’airoa had declined *to interject and, as a result, it was as dead as a- doornail; in fact, one prominent -supporter of the United Party there had told him that Air. Lysnar had given him a list of interjections, but the latter declined to bite. He advised tho electors not to interrupt, contradict or question Air. Lysnar the following night and the people would see how silly and foolish Air. Lysnar’s statements were. (Laughter and applause.)

An admission of using obscene language in Gladstone road on Satur day was made by a young man to Mr. Ei. C. ‘Levyey, S.M., in the. Police Court yesterday. Senr.-Sergt. Me* Lean explained that defendant was not really a bad young fellow and was very sorry for it now. Hei was not in the habit of drinking, hut that day had consumed more than was good for him. He entered a fruit shop under the impression it was a. fish shop and asked for some fish. When, advised by the shopkeeper where to go he became abusive and used the word several times. In ordering defendant to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, the magistrate advised defendant to leave liquor alouo. Defendant applied for suppression of bis name and the magistrate conceded tiro request. * “You will be told that I represent an extreme section, the Bolshies and the ■Communists,” declared Mr. D W. Coleman, Labor candidate for the Gisborne seat, in his final address to electors in this centre at the Opera House last night. “Those people who believe that, however, after the years l have been in Gisborne, I can’t isay much for their mentality,”- .added the candidate. “My work here should indicate what I stand for and what I am. .1 am selected by the- Labor Party and I deem it an honor to be chasten to contest the election for this' Bent, after having been actively associated'with the party for so many years.” Mr. •Coleman went on to remind the gathering that the Labor Party stood for all sections of the comnnfnlty who performed useful services as workers. • There wite a misapprehension that when Labor stated it represented the workers, it meant the man with the bowyangs and with corns on his hands. But lie contended that Labor represented all who served usefully by hand, pen or bj-'ain. (Applause.)

A systematic search for the bodies of the yachtsmen drowned m Otag harbor was’ without result yesterdayThe inquest on the body of James Jeffrey q was opened for the Purposes of identification, the a-ge of the dj ! ceased being given as 58.—Pres Assn.

“Had the statesmen of the country read the history of previous wars—it is not found m race books— they would have known that New Zealand was Pound to. have a period °£ ,y c pression following the last war. Mr: Tiissanfc Clayton, at" Matawhero last evening. r

A Wellington Press. Assn, message states that Mr. T. Forsyth, M.P., candidate for Wellington East, in the course of an address quoted from the files of the Evening. Post to show that although Mr. Semple was not m New Zealand when the Waihi strike began, he arrived within 14 days and addressed meetings m New Zealand urging the strikers to stand firm.

To-day when the criminal sessions at the ‘Supreme Court at Christchurch opens, Mr. Justice Adams will lie presented with a pair of white gloves. There are no criminal cases For trial Nobody seams to_ remember such an event in. Christchurch previously. Barristers who have been in practice there 35 years declare that never in their experience has a judge received white gloves.—Press Assn.

One hundred and eighty-three senior pupils of one of the principal schools of the district voted at a mock poll, on the basis of the cu - rent contest, electoral and licensing issues being submitted, yesterday. Independent Reform scored 73 votes, Labor 69, and United 41. Prohibition gained a small majority °'° continuance, but the margin was no sufficient to carry the proposal under existing legislation. State purchase and control appealed to only one voter in 183. •

The setting off of firewoi'Ks in Gladstone road on November 5 led 1.0 three lads coming before'Air. L. U. Levvey, S'.AL. in the Child Welfare Court yesterday. Senr.-feergt. McLean said that there had been less trouble this year than formerly, due to the fines imposed for similar ori'enoes last year. No harm was done by these hoys, but trouble might have arisen had there been people in the streets. The lads were admonished and discharged.

In inviting questions from the audience at Mr. Lissant Clayton’s meeting at Alatawhero last evening, the chairman (Air. Frank Alurphy) warmly complimented the candidate on his address, recalling that Lord Bryce, after visiting New Zealand and hearing Dominion politicians sjioak, expressed the view that none of them could speak in the real sense. Had he heard Mr. Clayton that evening, added the chairman, Lord Bryce would have altered his opinion and said that at least one man could. (Applause.)

An appreciation of his treatment by the Press in hi? campaign was voiced by Air. D. W. Coleman, Labor candidate tot the Gisborne seat, atthe Opera House last night. The candidate expressed his sincere thanks to the Press for the manner in which Ins meetings had been 'reported. In fact, in the whole or his public life, he had never been treated so well in the reporting, editorial and correspondence columns. He had commenced to believe that the Scriptural quotation: “Woe is ye when all men speak good of ye” had come true. In fact-, he wondered if he was becoming too respectable.

“Tlie Gisborne candidate for the United Party. Mr. W. Lissant Clayton. has been accused by Air. Lysnar and the Gisborne Times of being A political ‘twister’,” remarked Mr % D. W. Coleman at the Opera House last night-. “1 don’t view him as a ‘twister’. Air. Clayton never was a Liberal and never had claimed to Ite and had been opposed to the Seddon Government. In accepting the candidature for the United Party,. Air. Clayton could do so without a qualm, as lie- was not sinking any principles for the principles of the _ United Party, according to what little is known of the Uniteds’ platform, are diametrically opposed to those of the Beddon Government.”

Refuting the charge of disloyalty levelled by Air. AY. D. Lysnar against thg Leader of. the . Labor D. AY. Coleman told an. audience at the Opera House last night that the sitting member for Gisborne had gone round during the war period, or immediately after, urging farmers to held their wool for higher prices at a time when the Government required it. Had anyone gone round urging the men not to volunteer for active service until trades union rates of pay were offered, lie would have been gaoled, said the candidate. He also challenged anyone to deny that, during the wool commandeer period, Air. Lysnar had locked up his wool in the ramshackle cottages in Peel street

There was once an Irish election meeting. At its close, questions were invited. One of the audience stood up and asked a question. Before the candidate had answered, a blackthorn came down on the questioner’s head and he was carried out. The chairman asked whether any more questions were forthcoming. None were. This little tale, told by the chairman (Mr. F. Alurphy) at Air. Lissant Clayton’s meeting at Alatawhero last evening, when inviting questions at the end of the candidate’s address, aroused great laughter and apparently had an effect, for no questions were put to the United candidate.

At the Ohakuno Court yesterday before Justices Sergeant and Larkin, W. C. Wahle with several aliases, who escaped from Haetihi lock-up last month, pleaded guilty to eight charges of breaking, entering and theft whilst at liberty, false pretences, valueless cheques, and breaking gaol. He was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence ; for the theft of explosives from a person unknown he was dealt with summarily and sentenced to three months ; and for breaking gaol was sentenced to eighteen months. He made a sworn statement exonerating tlio police from any negligence, and declaring that the lock-up was unable to hold him. Ho said he had no outside assistance, and continues to refuse to divulge the mystery of his method of escape.—Press Assn.

High praise for the Labor candidate for the Gisborne seat, Mr. D. W. Coleman, was Ifcstowed by his chairman (Mr. G. H. Lockett) at the final meeting of the campaign .in the Opera House last night. • The chairman said that the candidate’s energetic and civic spirit would appeal to the electors. People who were not biassed would recognise in him an efficient politician, who had a thorough grasp of the problems of . the country. He considered that sane Labor all over the western world was going to help and uplift humanity better than any party in any Parlia-* ment. He had, it was true, heard it whispered that Mr. Coleman represented another section of Labor that Was not quite sane, but the candidate could speak for himself. He believed that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the British Labor Party, would He the next Prime Minister at Home, and lie hoped to see Labor in power in New Zealand with its present platform. He was supporting the Mayor because lie represented all the ideals of uplifting of humanity that he hold.