LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 47, 6 February 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The re-opening of the Hastings Catholic Schools has been postponed till Monday next, owing to the sanitary improvements not having yet been completed. The Hastings Brass Band has forwarded to the secretary of the A. and P. Society a splendid programme of the selections which will be played on the date of the Autumn Show. A special meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council will be held on the 13th February, to deal with the election of Messrs. W. G. Stead and J. Jolly to the Ngatarawa 7 "Water Race Board of Management. The result of the weight-guessing competitions, held in connection with the Waipukurau Central Ag ricultura! and Pastoral Association's show, are as follow? :—Four fat sheep weighing 264 lbs. correct weight guessed »y Mr. G. Hildreth (Mangatera). and Mr. G. Po.v< ’l (Karioi). The fat bullock weigh’d 7341 b, and the first prize was won by Mr. F. Drawer, who guessed 733)1b, j Last evening, in the Wesleyan; Church, Napier, the Rev. A. C.; Lawry delivered an impressive ad-' dress on the “Shadows of the Evening.” He went through, scriptural history. and showed that in many cases the evening shadows had been the time of temptation and sin. but although this was so, yet. in the words of one of the prophets, “at evening, there was light.” Mr. W. G. Callendar, the newly appointed Assistant Town Clerk, arrived in Hastings on Saturday night and started hi* new duties t•»day. Mr. Callendar, who has for some time past resided in Ormondville is secretary of the Hawke's, Bay Centre of the N.Z. Athletic Union, he is also the handirappt r the Centre. While in Ormomlville he was secretary ,>r *.'e Or mondville Athletic Club. Din nu the time he has bee-.t connected wit !> the Centre in Hawke’s Bay. he bn* showed himself a very capable nud energetic secretary and handicapper. and has gained the rrspec ;t all with whom he has come m *...>> tact. 1

The New Zealand Railways Department advertise in this issue the train arrangements for the visitors to the Dannevirke A. and P. Show, which opens on Wednesday next.

Squally and wintry weather or.vailed yesterday afternoon, and the Hastings Town Band decided to postpone the Racecourse sacred concert. The concert will probably be given on Sunday next.

Rev. Bates’ forecast for the 2. hours from 9 a.m. this day is as follows: —Moderate to strong southeasterly winds, veering; expect showery and changeable weather :

glass little movement, but tali aftei twenty hours.

A first offending drunk, who on Saturclay night tumbled into the sew* i trench at the corner of Heretaunga and Nelson streets, H.urings. where he was found by the nightwatchman (Mr. T. L. JulD. was convicted and discharged • y his Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. . Miller). New Dunedin premises for the National Bank of New Zealand will shortly be erected on the old site in Princes street plus the piece of ground on which the adjoining' chambers stand. The budding will be four storeys, of ferro-concrete. Plans will shortly be prepared. Sir Joseph Ward says that owing to splendid revenue receipts they will have a million to the good in the Treastp-y at the end of th< year. In spite of this revenue buoyancy, however, we notice that a “hard-up” Government collects no less than £49/9/6 in surtax during the past week in Napier alone. The Dannevirke-Herbertville Coaching Co.’s big coach, carrying 14 passengers, turned over between Weber and Dannevirke on Saturday on the home journey. Fortunately none on board were seriously injured, and all agree that absolutely no blame is attachable to the popular whip, Mr. Neil McLeod. The polling at Gisborne, last Thursday, on fhe proposal to adopt the system of rating on unimproved values, resulted in the proposal being carried by 171 to 279. Opponents to the new system are discussing the question of severing from the Borough as at present const it ut ed, and have suggested the creation of a suburban Gisborne, comprising Kaiti, Whatau-poko, and the western end of the town from Roebuck road and the M aikanae stream. The alternative was to merge this area into Cook County. The squally weather yesterday proved unpleasant for boating parties on the harbour. Several boats a “ rough time of it.” and one small craft, the “ Vesta,” with a young man named Grant on board, was upset. The accident was noticed from the Club pier, and the “Doreen” made speedily to the rescue, but on arrival it was found Grant was safely on board a rowing boat which luckily for him wai ; anchored and occupied by a fishing party close by. Later on in the afternoon the “Vesta” drifted inshore, and the “ Doreen ” again set out with a willing salvage crew, with the result that the little boat was towed in little the worse for the accident. Some strain was recently imposed on the credulity of city readers o! the Auckland “Star” by a country correspondent’s “ story ” of a calf born with its mother’s car marks. A Linton farmer is determined to ■ see that and go one better.” to judge from the following. “Linton Farmer” write Sir.- Re calves with birthmarks 1 noticed in the ‘Press' last week a oar about a cow having three calves all born with their mother ear mark, and of another farmer who had a bull calf born with a ring in his nose. I had a keifir calf born on New Year’s Day with a leg rope on. The calf s< tms strong, anti if she does not kick the leg rope off I will have it exhibiteel at the Linton sports this month. Next! “ You have got a magnificent country in New Zealand.” remarked an English gentleman who is touring New Zealand, and gathered much information about our industrial system, to a Christchurch “Evening News” reporter, ‘ but you are killing it stone dead w’ith your labour laws. This incessant legislation restricting labour is bound to prove fatal -it would kill rhe most favoured country in existence. Take the tunnel trouble, for instance. It would appear that rhe men were quite satisfied with their conditions until an outsider came along and worked them up i”to a state of discontent. It is a 'i andalous state «»f affairs, and is almost incredible to an English, .nan. It i-n't English justice at all for the employer. I know of one gentleman in business who has arge interests, and is so utterly '•sgusted with the manner in ihieh he is hedged in by labour laws, that as mwhi as he can possibly manage it he is going to leave New Zealand for good.”