Local and General

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 4

Local and General

At international Rugby, France defeated Ireland 3—-0.-r —A.P.A. ; The Parent arrived from Nhpier at 3 tins morning.

During the past three weeks the shops ofvMr. R. Wkye; music dealer, and Osborne and Sons, butchers, have each, been' entered on two. occasions, stamps and a. smaH sum ot money being stolen. As the result of inquiries, two juvenile's will appear before the Magistrate shortly.

Rainfall registered ; -at ' ; Gisborne during' 1930 reached the' lowest-total since 19*21 and the seventh lowest since records have, been taken:• Since 1878 the annual average has ' been' 45 82ins, whereas last year the total was only 30.8-lirt's as’‘compared with .43.38 in'l929' and .50.65 in 1928. During December, rain fell bn six days only and tlie total"was .-47 ins as-com-pared with' I.67'and 6.44 in 1929 and 1928 respectively. ' V..

That In's Maori'clergy , had-inform-ed him that there were 400 Maoris in the Waikato dioc-ese who practically looked upon their “King” as God, was stated by Bishop Cherrmgton at Hamilton this week. It was dreadful, said the bishop, that m their ignorande these people were living in sucli awful blasphemy.

Nearly 5000 ivom-m were measured recently by a scientific system onginated by Dr. Lilian !M. Gilbroth, a prominent American woman industrial engineer, to secure first-hand information on how high th ell ' hitehen stoves and sinks should be lor each to work comfortably, states an exchange. The information obtained, caused wholesale rearrangement of many kitchens in America, in winch housewives bad been working a sinks and stoves'- either too high or 100 low for them.

Before Mr. J. 11. Ormond, J.P., at the Police Court a Maori, named George Kaire, appeared on a charge of'alleged* theft of a saddle valued £B, the property ot William Henrv Green, and was remanded till January 9. A man, whose name was ordered to be suppressed was charged with obtaining credit allegedly by fraud to the amount- of £3 2s 6d from .Stella Barker. in connection with, hoard. A remand was granted until Monday next.

<<We must fight against the spirit of depression and endeavor to face our difficulties with a brave if not always a smiling face.” says Archbishop Avorill in a New A ear message in "the Church Gazette. In times such as we are experiencing at the present we are sometimes apt to forget the many blessings which we have experienced in the past, and allow present ' difficulties to get* us down ” adds the archbishop. Truly in many ways we are sated by hope, and tiie world’s confidence in our rountrv should inspire us with hope and the desire to show ourselves worthv of that confidence.”

There is no possibility at present of New Zealand securing shipments of high-grade oranges now being grown in the Jaffa districts of -Palestine, owing to transport .difficulties, according to Mr. A. A. Creamer. of Onehuhsra, who returned front a twelve months’ tour abroad. Air. Creamer, who is well known in the Auckland fruit trade.'made a special trip to Egypt and Palestine, and was amazed at the progress.■ made in the development of orangq-growmg land. Tie expressed the opinion that the Jaffa oranges were easily the bestin the world, hut'the only means of getting t)iem ,to New Zealand would he by "the Orient steamers running to «V(lnev. To bring shipments, to New Zealand it would be necessary to engage the'whole-of one refrigerated hold in these ships, and there was not at present enough demand to warrant regular ■ shipments of that size.

A large sea elephant appeared on the rocks near St. Clair recently (states the Dunedin “Star”). There was a very large crowd on the beach all day. and .many peoplo i had a close view of the unusual visitor. The sea elephant first - made its . appearance at about 10.30 . n.m. on the rocks at the seaward side of the baths. After floundering about for some time it made off in a direct line out to sea. Later, however, it returned find-pnm<?i-ashore- on-the rocks at the point between the t baths and the- second beach, where it- attracted much attention . for _ some time about poon, before it decided, to* reiturn to top again. -;Tt ayas ' about 15ft in length. - The sea, elephant is the largest, of the seal family, the .male sopietimes measuring 20ft in length. Tlie color is. .greyish and the teeth relatively very small,' -The j males*are much larger than the females. They live in families . and 'societies, and feed on -fisli and molluscs, especially cuttlefish. The skin furnishes leather and the oil'is valuable for hummg. The tongue alone is palatable.

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