LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 25, 12 January 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Clerk of the Hawke's Bay County Council is now busily engaged revising the county roll.

The New Zealand Dairy Association (Auckland) expects to pay ts suppliers £500,000 this season.

Plans of the new hermitage at Mount Cook have been approved by the Cabinet, and tenders for rhe work will be invited.

Spurious coin is still in circulation in Dunedin. The ‘ Star” >vere shown a half-crown which on appearance. would pass muster, but the metal is pewter, not silver.

A capital prog;amine f>! music was rendered by the Battalion Band in Clive Square. Napier, Ijfef evening. The evening was beautifully calm, and a large number of people assembled to enjoy the music.

Mr. T. Pickett has or view in his window in Heretaunga Street. Hastings. a fine specimen of brown trout, which he caught in the Tuki Tuki river near Te Mahanga yesterday afternoon. The fish turns the scale at Blb.

A meeting of Wellington citizens decided that Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon. Dr. Findlay should be entertained at a banquet pi lor to their departure for London, and that Lady Ward and Mrs. Findlay should be entertained at a social or an At Home in the Town Hall. Both functions are to be noh-political.

The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. T. Mackenzie, is advised that four members of the Scottish Agricultural Commission now visiting Australia have decided to include New Zealand in their sphere of investigation. The names of the four coming to the Dominion have not been stated yet.

Members of the Hawke’s Bay Harbour Ratepayers’ Association are notified by advertisement that a general meeting will be held at the Borough Council Chambers, Hastings, on Monday evening next, to arrange a plan of campaign tor the forthcoming election of members to sit on the newly-constituted board. A full attendance is urged in view of the importance of the subject.

The Government architect has prepared, at the Cabinet’s direction, the conditions under which the New Zealand architects will compete for the prizes offered for resigns of the new Parliament building, and a competent assessor, practising outside the Dominion, will judge the designs and make the awards. The designs are to be for a building to be erected on a site between the present temporary Parliament building (late Government House), and the 1 old Parliament building partly - destroyed by fire. ■ One portion of the new building must be,designed so that without preventing the continued use of the old Government House as a Parliamentary building, adequate accommodation will be provided.

The popularity of Waimarama as a seaside resort and camping ground continues to increase, and large Humbert from Hastings are camped along the beach. The fact that surf bathing is quite safe for a very considerable distance out from the shofe,, a strong inducement to those who enjoy a dip in the briny, and who have not yet mastered the natatorial art. As before stated Chief Judge Jackson Palmer and Judges Rawson and Wilson, of the Native Apoelate Court, visited thr Incalitv on Tuesdav to inspect r block of 50 acres fronting the seaside. which it is pronosed to convert into a watering place, and ever which a dispute between the execuof the late Mrs. Donnelly and Miss Meinertzhacren is being hear J bv the Court at Wellington. Messrs A. L. D. Feaser and T. W. Lewis 1 are appearing in the case for the executors of the late Mrs. Donnelly.

j Tn order to improve the t’-out fishing in Lake Rotorua, the Government yesterday decided to inaugurate a raid on shags, which are believed to be the cause of the destruction of fish. A reward of 2'6 per head will be paid for shags in I the thermal springs district. It I has also been decided to appoint a j fish expert to take charge of Ihe I thermal springs fisheries. Appiicai tions are to be invited for a specieI list in Canada and New Zealand. • Kaiira hatcheries are to be estabi lished at Rotorua and Taupo to i breed food supplies for trout. ! Shags are very numerous in I Hawke’s Bar. Elocks of hundreds ■of birds were seen in the middle i reaches of the Tnkituki river yes- | terday. while the Te Ante lakes pre ! fairly infested with them. If the I Government offered only a shilling i per head for the birds in this district it would open up a very I fitable industry.

Wirth’s Circus visits Hastings and Napier, on or about February 9th. The latest attraction is Lizzie, the enormous blood-sweating African hippopotamus.

Mr. Hollis, for some considerable period employed by Messrs. G?aham and Gebbie, at Hastings, hat purchased McCormick’s stables at Napier.

A brooch was lost in Hastings during*race week. The owner advertised in the Hawke’s Bay “Tribune.” and within a very short time after advertisement appearang. the brooch was returned. This shows how well it pays to advertise in the Hawke’s Bay “Tribune.”

Mr. S. E. McCarthy. S.M., .wiß give his reserved judgment it] the fest case. A. A. George v the Hastiitfcs Borough Council, at the sit ting of the Court at Hastings tomorrow'.

The valuation of the Owhaoko blocks, containing about 180,000 acres, and situated in the inland Patea district, will be commenced on Monday next. Mr.«H. L. Donnelly, of Hastings, will act on Behalf of the native owners, and Mr. G. H. Lloyd will act for the Crown.

A telegram from Dargaville states that there is an outbreak of typhoid fever at Scarrott’s native settlement, down the river, which has resulted m five deaths during the past fortnight. Five natives are sick at the present time. The Health authorities are taking all necessary steps.

The unusual spectacle of forty hogsheads of Speight’s XXXX ar rayed like a regiment of soldiers on the footpath adjacent to the Pacific Hotel, was witnessed in Hastings this morning. Thirty of the group arrived from Dunedin last evening, and constitute the largest consignment yet landed in Hastings.

Scenes of great enthusiasm marked Mr. J. Redmond’s return to Ireland from his American tour When the White Star liner on which he was travelling, passed Crookhaven, tar barrels and bonfires were lierhted on the tops of all the highest hills on the coast and fireworks discharged.

Mr. P. W. Tombs has received a communication from Mr. Hugo Gorlitz, who is at present arranging for the Dominion tour of the famous Sheffield Choir, ot the effect that he will be in Hastings shortly to form a general committee with a view to making arrangements for a special train to run to Palmerston North on the occasion of the performance there in June next. The concert in Palmerston will be an afternoon one, so that in the event of arrangements for the special train being completed, residents ofi Hawke’s Bay desirous of. hearing this renowned combination will be able to make the return journev in one day.

It is evident that the No-license Party intend straining every nerve to secure a big vote on Dominion prohibition at the general election this year. Mr. T. E. Taylor, M.P.. informed a. newspaper representative that the New Zealand Alliance intended opening the national prohibition campaign on Februarv 12th, when he (Mr. Taylor) would address a public meeting in the Opera Hoiisje; Wanganui, and would giye. further .addresses at the same place the two following evenings. Afterwards, he was to address meetings at Palmerston North, at New Plymouth, and in other centres • n Taranaki. The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, of Sydney, and other speakers from other parts of t’ne , world, would also address meetings in different parts of the Dominion.

< To begin with, the Taieri is not ‘wiped out’ yet,” replied the Hon. T. Mackenzie when asked yesterday evening by a representative of "The Press” what seat he intended standing for at the general election. Mr. Mackenzie added that he did not know why it was popularly supposed that, as the result of the Representation Commission, Taieri would no longer be an electorate. The only suggested solution he could offer was that every electorate he had represented had been in turn “wined out.” If Taieri became one of them it would make the fourth he had stood for. won, and had then seen obliterated. He had pretty' well represented the whole of Otago, with the exception of Dunedin, at one time or other. He was not at al] certain that Taieri would go. and .added that it was a great pity that the South Island electorates should not be allowed to remain as they are. The people were sick of changes, for no sooner did a member and his constituents get to know one another than the boundaries we~e altered. Mr. Mae, keuzie hinted that in the event of Taieri disannearing as an electorate, he would not, probablv, go ont of the South Island to find another constituency to represent.

Mr. T. E. Lindsay, Government Valuer, is at present engaged making a valuation of the Borough oi Hastings. Workmen are busily engaged forming and metalling Outram road, connecting Battery road and Waghprne street. Napier. A splendid foundation is being put down with concrete kerbing and channelling, but unfortunately, owing to the refusal of the Gas Company to sell a small strin of land, the junction with Waghorne street will be very cramped.

At. a meeting of the Wellington branch of the Labour Party held on Tuesday evening the affiliated organisations submitted the names cf thirteen candidates for selection as Labour nominees in the forthcuhiing municipal elections. A motion to contest the whole of the fifteen council seats was defeated. After a lengthy discussion it was decided to limit the Labour ticket, As at the last two municipal elections, to eight candidates.

Following are some of the judges who will act at the Masterton show : —Light horses, Mr. R. H. Bissett, Timaru ; draught horses, Mr. J. Gow, Mosgiel ; shorthorns, Mr. D. Potts, Hamilton ; fat cattle, Mr. J. Ferguson, Halswell, Canterbury ; Lincolns, Mr. J. Elliott, Hastings; Leicester®, Mr. P. J. Andrews, Spfringston, Canterbury; Southdowns, Mr. H. Pannett, Springston, Canterbury; Shropshire Downs, Mr. E. Barribal, Waihuku, Auckland ; fat sheep, Mr. T. E. Bamber, Wanganui; pigs, Mr. J. R. Walters, Auckland ; dogs, Mr. P. Hunter, Porangahau, Hawke’s Bay ; agricultural produce, Mr. J. E. Macassey, Napier ; bread, cakes and scones, Miss Talbot, Wellington, and Mrs. E. Harper, Masterton.

It is difficult to imagine anybody perusing this book (“State Socialism in New Zealand”) without feeling a growing conviction that the drift of our legislation and administration is towards peril. The country is rich and productive, to be sure, and fit for great results under good management, but it has been sailings ever closer to the wind, and it is only the fact that under the Liberal regime the country has obtained on credit forty millions sterling worth of its consumable goods that hides the true position. Our authors have said practically of the gradual crushing out of.. true individual freedom under the pressure of State Socialism, and that is really the most terrible evil of all.— “Dominion.”

In quiries were made in Christchurch concerning the allegations that Christchurch brewers refused to supply beer to residents in the Ashburton county during the holidays. The answ’er returned was in each case that holiday orders were in many cases left so late that they could not be filled, and that the demand, especially for two-gallon kegs of beer, was altogether in excess of the supply. , Mr. E. Nordon, secretary of the Licensed Vic tuallers’ Association, asked if he had any comment to make on the complaint, said he supposed the Christchurch brewers bad consciences. They had not enough small kegs to meet the demand, especially from the Ashburton district, and in the circumstances they could scarcely have kept the money forwarded.

At the Napier Police Court this morning, before Mr. S- McLernon, f J.P., a first offender was charged ; with drunkenness. This man was • found wandering on the Glengarry ! ; oad, near Rissington, on January j !th, in a state of helpless drunken-' ness, and brought into town. On January sth he was remanded for a week for medical treatment. He was abte to appear this morning, and was convicted and fined £l and costs £2/13/-, or in default twenty ; four hours. Edward Alexgndei Pipin was charged with obtaining 13/- from Ah Foo by means of false pretences, but Sergt. Cruickshank asked for a remand until Monday. | as there w r ere other circumstances - connected with the case which the i police had yet to investigate. The remand was granted. I The picturesque grounds sur- ■ rounding the Hastings Catholic I Presbytery proved an ideal spot for I the garden partv at which the! members of the Hastings Catholic Choir and their friends were enter-' tained by Very Rev. Father Keogh yesterday afternoon. The gathering comprised some forty ladies and gentlemen, and a delightful after noon was spent. Father Keogh made an admirable host, and treated his guests with his usual unstinted hospitality. Songs and other musical items were contributed by the individual members of the choir to an al fresco concert, and some high-class selections from a grama-phone-were also very acceptable. Afternoon tea was partaken of or, the lawn. The function was a very’ successful one socially, and ter minated shortly after 6 n.m.