LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The District Engineer is at present busy in the Tongoio settlement surveying the Rotomako road.

The Union Bowling Club has taken a 33 years’ lease of an acre of ground on the South side of the new river cut at Kennedy Road, Napier. The Club intends to erect sheds on the ground leased.

The Napier City Band are giving an open-air sacred concert at the Marine Parade. Rotunda to-mor-row evening, at 8.30 p.m. The proceeds will be in aid of the widow of the late Mr. W. C. Kaye. Dr. Mawson, of Adelaide, is communicating with the* Federal authorities regarding the supply of a daily weather report from Antarctica by means, of wireless telegraphy. He states it wjll be invaluable.

Heavy rain fell in Napier ar.i' Hastings yesterday evening about 6 p.m.. just as the townspeople were returning home from work. For a short while the rain fell ir torrents, and many who were un able to secure the shelter of a cat or ’bus suffered a good drenching The downpour has done a lot of good in the way of freshening up gardens and laying dust.

The Napier Borough Council re cently obtained from the Marine Department control of the seabeach fronting the town, and Cr. McGrath has therefore given notice to move at the next meeting: “Now that the Borough has control of the beach fronting the town the Town Clerk be instructed to draw up a by-law re granting permission to remove from the shore shingle, sand, etc.

Tenders are invited up till noon on Saturday, 21st inst., for converting Thorley’s Buildings, on Karamu road into five shops- Mr. J. J. Morley has plans and specifications on view at his office in St. Aubyn street, Hastings.

The Harbour Board will meet Oil Tuesday afternoon next. Business will include confirmation of bylaws and consideration of a motion by Mr. A. E. Jull:—“That in the absence of any report from the Haulage Committee the Board proceed to the consideration of the resolutions already arrived at by the Committee.’’

The proprietors of the King’s Theatre have received advice that their 4 foot fan and motor, which they have imported from England, has arrived in Wellington. It will be installed in the King’s Theatre in a few days. This fan is the first of its kind to be erected here. It is guaranteed to take all hot and impure air out of,the theatre in five minutes.

The universal Saturday halfholiday was brought into force in Sydney in October, and although the innovation was at the time regarded with considerable misgivings in certain quarters, still, after ten or eleven weeks’ trial, the great balk of the business people seem to be eminently satisfied with the change (says the Sydney " Morning Herald ”).

“There is an awful glut of rhubarb in the market.” so said a Wellington fruit auctioneer to a “Post” reporter recently. Farmers bring into the marts great quantities of thia popular vegetable food, but the supplies are apparently quite beyond the demand. Choice bundles, the auctioneers report, go a-begging at the mart. Pricei which are but nominal. l-uayl were Is to 2s per d > <*n bnnd.es. A few more days still remain during which the public of Hawke's Bay will be able to take! advantage of the exceptional of- f fers in drapery and clothing which ; are being made by Messrs. Me-1 Gruer and Co., Napier’s popular drapers. Ladies’ print underskirts j assorted stripes, on white ground, for 2/6. is one of these remarkable offers. This, however is only a sample, and the careful housewife would do well to peruse the adver-; tisement appearing on page 7. I The North Island is frequeently ] drawn upon to supply fat cattle, the Addington market, blit this < (says’ a Christchurch correspondent) the reverse was the case. Several buyers from the North Leland were among the competitors for beef at the Addington yards yesterday. A number of Christchurch butchers have for some time been receiving fat cattle from the North Island which were purchased some months ago. At a conference yesterday between the Gisborne Harbour Boa <1 and the lessees of the Tauwhareparae block, an amicable settlement was arrived at regarding the lease of the Board's endowment land, obviating the appeal to the Privy Council which was to have been heard in March next, and on which case the Board’s solicitor is now proceeding to London. Messrs. Barker Bros, have surrendered their lease of 25.<X0 n< r .. and this land is to be immediately cut up and offered in small arras.

A Jack Tar. travelling to Auckland by the express recent y. reached that condition when his acquaintances were justified in asking him to ' have a sleep.’ The only place likelv to afford a resting sjH»t was the hat rack, aid the sailor was requested to try that. He took the bint, and was tly in the rack and peacefully asleep. All went well for about an hour and a half, and other passengers had about forgotten the tar, when, as the train jerked round a bend they were suddenly retninded of his presence by a p eespitate and violent descent to the floor. Luckily, the passengers directly below the somnolent sai.or escaped injury.

The Union Rowing Club will row the Wynyard Fours this afternoon.

The Technical Committee of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board will I meet on Monday afternoon.

[ Mr. H. lan Simson will be a can- ' didate for a .it on the Napier S Harbour Bon rd at the approaching ; elections, and proposes addressing ! the rate payers at some future date.

Capital entries are being received for the Swimming Sports to be held in the Napier Baths on Monday evening. There will be eight starters for the championship, and the handicap events are well filled up.

The Secretary of the A. and P. Association wishes us to remind farmers that entries for the Ram Fair close with the various brokers on . Monday evening, and no late entries will be received.

An exceptionally m.rtow escape from a serious accident in Napier is reported this morning. A gentleman coasting down Milton Road on his bicycle met a motor >sr at the Clive Square corner. The cyclist missed collision by the proverbial hair's-breadth.

The heavy sea that has been running for the last couple of days has caused the bar to silt up at the mouth of the Wairoa river. The Wairoa Harbour Board hopes to be able to open a new channel by to-morrow or Monday to enable the Tangaroa to land passengers at the wharf for the Wairoa races.

At the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday Chas. Henry O’Loughlin, a flaxmill employee, of Linton, was charged with having in his possession seven counterfeit half-crowns and moulds intended to make counterfeit representations. He was remanded to the 16th inst.. Bail was refused. It is understooti two other men are also implicated.

A sensational trap collision took place in Napier this morning. Mr. Churches, of Clive, had driven into town in a gig with two other gentlemen, and when proceeding along Carlyle Street, near the Reel Station. they met a butcher’s cart and a coal waggon. Misjudging the distance separating these two vehicles Mr. Churches attempted to drive between, with the result that a collision resulted. Both shafts of the gig were broken off. and the occupants tipped backwards on to the road, but luckily all escaped without injury. The horse, which was a particularly quiet animal, made absolutely no fuss, thus preventing serious trouble. Neither of the other vehicles were injured.