LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 108, 21 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

; Mr. T. J. Thompson will address I the electors on Monday, April 24th, ; at 8 p.m., in St. Matthew’s Hall, ■ Hastings.

The tender of Mr. McGaffin, of Hastings, has been accepted for the contract of deviating the road at the Tangoio lagoon.

Monday, April 24th, St. George’s Day, will be observed as a holiday by the banks and Government offices.

An early’ start with the construction of the Esk bridge is anticipated and already the plans necessary for shelters, etc., have been prepared by the contractor.

A strong easterly wind is blowing, and the sea, which is hourly becoming rougher, gives promise that by this evening the Breakwater ought to present a fine spectacle with the waves breaking over it.

Bore : “Ah, I see you’re rather busy now. I’ll look in again m when you have a couple of hours to spare. Assistant Editor (wearily) : Ah, thanks ! Then you’ll be present at my funeral.”

The annual smoke concert of the Napier Volunteers will be held next Monday evening in the Garrison Hall, when the prizes won ui the recent shooting competition will be distributed.

The Municipal Baths, Napier, are not being very well patronised chiefly on account of the cold Weather we have lately been having The hot salt baths, however, are every day increasing in popularity. Their fame has travelled far and wide, as a “Yankee” tourist declared he had heard of the excellence of the Napier hot salt water baths before he left America. He a*so states that although he had risited the Te Aro and Rotorua baths they had not done him half tne good which a few hot salt water baths had done.

A serious accident occurred at Havelock yesterday, when two plasterers, Messrs. Albert Hillman and H. Avery, engaged on Mr. Foster Brook s new building, were very badly hurt. The men were engaged on a scaffold about 12ft. from the ground, putting the finishing touches to the building, and had just started work w’hen the scaffolding carried away, and both were precipitated to the ground, Hillman falhng on his back and escaping with a very severe shaking. Avery was not so lucky, he fell straight down on his feet and strained the ligiments of both legs. The sufferers were conveyed to Hastings and attended by Dr. Macdonell. Averv was suffering acute pain. It will be six or eight weeks before he is able to be about again. Avery once before met with a similar accident. He fell from the scaffolding at the Town Hall in Wellington, and was laid up for 18 months.

J Eiehte-'n plans of workers' dwell- 1 ings can now be in»pertrrl at a vacant sl op in the Napier Arcade.

Mr. James Garnett. a candidate for the Hastings Mayoralty, will address the electors at the Princess Theatre this evening.

Reports of the bad condition <■* the Puketitiri road are confirmed by the County officials. No special action is being taken, but the road will be closed to all heavy traffic from Mav Ist.

Mr. G. S. Clapham announces that he will address the electors in connection with the forthcoming Harbour election at the Railway Crossing. Hastings. to-morrow evening.

The warrant for the Esk bridge appears in the “Gazette” of 13th April. It is practically upon the lines of the agreement arrived at between Wairoa and Hawke’s Bay Counties. During his remarks at the func-: tion held after last night’s council meeting, Ur. Hart said that when census returns came to hand rroey would probably show that the population of Hastings Borough would be close on 7000, as against 4592 in 1906—0 f which number fully 500 were merged into the country in January of last year. In the year 1891 the population of the borough was 2303. On Wednesday night, in the Nurses’ Home, the nurses of the Napier Hospital gave a progressive’ euchre party. There was a large attendance, and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Three cheers were given for the departing sisters, the matron, and doctor. After an excellent supper provided by the nurses, the entertainment concluded with the singing of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne.” The Singer Sewing Machine Co. ► offer exceptional terms to anyone requiring the latest make of their famous sewing machines. Old machines are taken as part payment for new ones. Ladies are welcome to learn fancy art, drawn, thread, and point lace work, t which is taught every day free at ? their depot in Emerson street,: Napier. Arrangements have been completed for ministers at Timaru to jMeive Bible lessons for half an hour a week in each of the three schools from 9 to 9.30 a.m., the explanation by the visiting teachers to be that which may be necessary to make the passage clear to the children, and no sectarian teaching of any kind to be given. For the present war the lessons will L<* from the Gospel oi St Mark. Parents are to notify the headmasters if they object, and secular lessons will be provided instead. The Bev. Mr. C happle. Lnitarian minister, is issuing a reprint of his Sunday address against th* giving of Bible lessons. At the Hastings Harbour meeting

on Wednesday night. Mr. Eustace Lane laid claim to the honour of being in first to suggest the reclamation of the shallow portions of the Ahuriri lagoon and the construe-; tion of a deep sea inner harbour.. Yesterday, Mr. Laue supplied us with a copy of his letter published in the "Herald,” on 27th October, 1900. It is as follows:—"A master mind has read the book of our mud > river—has taught us how to turn the Napier swamp into green meadows. Can we not by the use of the dredge in its estuary, and the mud' it deposits at one and the same: turn the shallow of the Inner into smiling fields, and, construct such a harbour, not only for Napier, but for Hawke’s Bay, as will make it the first New Zealand port of call from Europe via the Panama Canal? What matter if we borrow half-a-million instead of £300,000, so that we hand down to posterity something to be proud of as well as something to pay for.’’ The letter is signed "The Man in the Country Roaa.” and dated Pnkehou, Oct. 24th. The salutary fine inflicted on an individual by the Magistrate at Hastings this morning for boarding a moving train, should act as a deterrent to reckless people who frequentlyjdat v their lives in jeopardv by the offence indicated. The custom of waiting till a train has got under way and . then jumped aboard is the cause of constant worry to the officials at Hastings. It is quite a frequent occurence to see a railway official seizing hold of a would-be passenger who has spent too much time in farewelling friends on the platform. The action of the Magistrate t<» put a check on the custom by inflicting exemplary penalties when the offenders are brought to book is entirely in the interests of the public themselves, for this reason will be welcomed. However, the railway authoring* are determined to put a stop to■ the dangerous practice and they in- > tend to prosecute all passengers who are foolish enough to indulge* in it. i

The pupils of M oodforde House School disperse on May 2nd for a three weeks’ vacation, assembling again on May 24th.

A notice appears elsewhere stating that the Te Pohue sports have been postponed owing to the inclemency of the weather. The officers of solicitors, members of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society, will be closed on Monday next. April 24th (St. George's and St. David’s Day). The Harbour League has arranged to hold (weather permitting) an open air meeting in Hastings street. Napier, to-morrow evening, at H p.m. The addresses will be illustrated by a series of lantern pictures.

Yesterday afternoon a man named John Keogh entered St. Mary's Presbytery, Gisborne, and stole Father Lane’s umbrella. He pleaded guilty to-day and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Mr. J. E. Parker’s well known collie dog “Mosgiel Wallace” has succumbed to poisoning. So far no clue has been obtained as to how the dog came by the poison. “Mosgiel Wallace” had won trophies to the value of over £l2O during the 1 past two years, and consequently Mr. Parker’s loss is a severe one.