LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 63, 24 February 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The new life-saving reel arrivec ’ yesterday afternoon, and it is in tended to give an exhibition at the - earliest opportunity, ! The Taradale Town Board ini tends borrowing £3OOO for the pur- : pose of building a Town Hall board offices, ’ and public library. i » Rev. Bates* forecast for 24 boon , from 9 a.m. this day is as follows■ Light and variable, but moderate to strong northerly winds'virsfrafland haziness increasing; P®ct unsettled and cloudy weather following; glass fall. We draw the attention of the Hastings Borough Council to the filthy condition of the water chan nd in Eastbourne street. It has | remained stagnant for weeks past. I and is now covered with . green f slime, which emits a most unpleas ' ant odour, and if not cleared awav may bring disease into the locality. Mr. Gibson, who has been studying sheep-farming with Mr. W. McKinnon, of GlenfaUoch, Maraekakaho, leaves to-night for Auckland, where he will join the P. and O. Moldavia for Scotland. During his stay in Napier, Mr. Gibson has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gillies, of Westshore. During the hearing of the sheepstealing case at the Supreme Court yesterday Mr. Cornford stated that there were 17 sheep down at the station, and he had no way of

! bringing them up to the Court. H" Honor said that they must be brought up somehow. Mr. Cornford said he was new to the business of sheep driving, and Mr. Lusk suggested that they should bring them up themselves. His Honor said . >at in New Zealand he had seen sheep following their shepherd; in the present case it was likely that the sheep would have to be driven. After soriffc dis- • cussion it was decided that they ' should be brought up in low spring drays. 1

The entries for the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society’s autumn show closed last night. They total 1460. as against 1316 for the last autumn show.

The underground telephonic system is now being laid down in Emerson street, Napier, and in a few days the excavation work will be completed.

Prior to removing to new premises, the well-known firm of Bal linger Bros, are offering groceries at a greatly reduced price, a list of which appears in to-day 3 issue.

The Associated Hawke’s Bay Stock Auctioneers have decided to hold their Napier skin sales on Tuesday, February 28th, instead of on the 27th instant as previously notified.

A boy named Oliver, while passing through Clive square. Napier, on his bicycle at mid-day to-day, was struck a violent blow on the left side of his face witn a cricket ball, flagged by one of the school boys at play. The lad was taken to Dr. W. W. Moore for piedical treatment.

We learn on enquiry at the Napier Hospital this morning, that Thomas Cleary, who fractured the base of his skull and broke several ribs at Murray, Roberts’ woolstore yesterday, is now m a semi-consci-ous state, and can answer questions when they are put to him. The doctor holds out hope of his ultimate recovery.

At «a meeting held at Masterton last night preliminary steps were taken in the direction of forming an East Coast Railway League, to urge upon Parliament the necessity of pushing forward the railway between Gisborne and Napier and Hawke’s Bay and Masterton, together with a deviation of the Rimutaka Railway with a view to opening up country at present undeveloped, and of securing trans-, of forces for defence purposes.