LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 131, 19 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to the wet weather there i iwli not be a meet of the Hawke’s Bay Hunt on Saturday. A uniform profit of some £2900 a year has been earned by the Wanganui gasworks during the past four years. Alenibers of the committee of the i Napier Chamber of Commerce fail- ! ed to put in an appearance yesterday afternoon, and the meeting ; called was adjourned sine die. The Napier Borough Council meeting which was to have been held last night was adjourned until this evening on account of the min. The meeting of drivers’ employi ers was postponed from last night ‘ until next Tuesday evening at 8 ; o’clock. It is understood that Mr. Ferguson’s fee for consultation with the ! Napier Harbour Board in respect to advising them as to the best mode of procedure in the direction of ! solving the harbour problem is to I be eight guineas a day. ' Apiti farmers seem to be expect- : ing a very hard winter this year, I owing to the scarcity of feed. The I sheep in some parts are beginning to suffer already, so that it will go ‘ very hard with them later on. There ; does not seem to be much chance of the grass growing now. as frosts are very heavy. Just at the present time there’s a marvellous display ot ladies’ .hosiery in Napier. Wc i < f< i to : McGruer’s window, when a gohun ; opportunity for one week awaits ■the ladies. All-wool tan ho'-e foi i i - pair, plain and cashmtrc bl u k I hose for 1/- pair. These icitunh , are marvellous value.* A petition in bankruptcy has been : filed by Charles Henry Victor Baker, carter, of Hastings, the toi tai liabilities, all unsecured, being £93/17/5. The principal creditors are: G. F. Roach, Hastings, £8 15/6 ; Tombs and Grubb, Hastings. ! £)0; Dr. Barcroft, Hastings. £6 6/6; and O’Donoghue, Hastings, 1 £6/1/-. Dr. Barcroft had an unpleasant experience la-l night. He uas called out to Air. A. A. Small’s, Okhau, and emraged a trap at Graham and Gobbis’ stable. After crossing the hill there is a slight dip in the road, and the water was up to the horse’s necks. Negotiating ih : s safely, ho came to a small creek which the rain Lad swollen into an impassable torrent. He '-honied his advice across this river to Mr. Small, and then turned back on his homeward journey. Addressing the members of the Koval Unit ('d Seto ice Institution recently, after a lecture on “Sea Power in t lie Pacific.’’ by Air. ■ Archibald R. Colquhoun, Lord C. Beresford. ALP., declared that during the last few years our naval policy had been absolutely insane. The Empire's future depended upon tl'- Flee;-, and. at present, it was O',’’ oiganised for war. Our merchant service was inadequate, and we might Harve in time of an outbreak before our Navy could be got together. AVe ought to reinforce our Pacific station, looking to the enormous properties wo field and to the immense trade we had there.. If we had a war staff ; our Pacific station would nor, be in its present state. In conclusion, Lord Charles sr.’d : “If those prob- • loins are not faced, my opinion is that we shall wake up one morning to find that the old Empire is in jeopardy. notwithstanding the splendid pluck of our people.” The local Inspector of Factories (Mr. R. T. Bailey) is forwarding to I all the saddlers ana harness mak- ■ ers in Hawke’s Bay circulars con- | taining full particulars of the new i award affecting their trade which : came into operation last month. The ; principal conditions are as follows: ! —Hours, 48 per week. Overtime : I First four hours, time and a quarter ; next two hours, time and a I half; Sundays and holidays, time i and a half. AVages : Journeymen, ! 1/1 an hour to be paid weexly; i piecework is permissible ; apprenI tices to receive 7/6 a week for the ‘ first year, 10/- the second, 15/- the third, 22/6 the fourth, and 30/- the [ fifth. Improvers may be employed i at 35/- a week for the first six I months and 45/- a week for the .[ second six months. Female stitchi ers are to receive 7/6 a week for j the first year, 12'6 the second. 17/’6 ; the third, and 25.-- the foruth. For ■ the first six months of the fifth year: : they are to be paid 30/- a week, for j the second six months 35/- a week, j and thereafter at the rate of lid j an hour. Preference of employment I ’ is conceded to members of the 'union with the usual conditions. J

' A Gazette notice has been issued; further proroguing Parliament to June 15th.—Press Association. [ 1 A first offender for drunkenness j I was dealt with in the customary manner at the Napier Police Court; ■ this morning. ■ The usual monthly meeting of the: ; Napier Chamber of Commerce, ' which was postponed from yesterday afternoon, took place at the; ; A. and P. Society’s Office to-day., t I As no agreement could be reach- i ed in regard to the preference i clause in connection with the Car-; ; penters* Award at the Conciliation; | Council yesterday, the meeting was ; adjourned for three weeks. ! ’ Notwithstanding the great quan-i , tity of flood water, Thorpe and C 0.,: Hastings and Napier, guarantee to keep your feet dry if shod with ■ i their gum boots or goloshes, which. i they are selling at bottom prices.* In our. report yesterday of the ! • result of the election of three mem-1 ; bers to represent the Pukahu; : AVard on the Central Rivers Board; we inadvertently omitted the name! of Air. AV. AV. Smart, who was fourth on the list with 148 votes. A general meeting of sharehold- 1 ers of the Hastings Starr Bowkett Building Society will be held in the Old Library Building at eight; o’clock to-night for the purpose of, making appropriations of £5OO by! sale and £5OO by ballot, both in; No. 1 Issue. i : Air. J. J. McVicker has opened! ' an up-to-date hairdressing saloon! : in Hastings street, Napier, in pre-; 1 mises next door to Fredericksen’s,! i tailor. The saloon is elaborately fitted up, and the hairdressing and; shiving department will be in the b mds of experienced men only. > Messrs.- Miller and Rutter, of i i ■ Wellington, advertise in this issue I > that they are offering sections in; the Bronte Estate, Nelson, which; in admirably adapted for apple; oichards. The land is declared by; < xperts to be the finest for apple; growing in Australasia. Prices; [ range from £8 per acre. ■ Air. F. L. Bone has donated a very ; ; handsome cup. value £ 15/15/-, to 1 ; the Hastings Poultry Society. The > cup will fe awarded to the best; AVyandotte in the show, and is to ; i ; be won three times by the same ex- I hibitor before becoming his abso- ! lute property. The Palmerston North Borough , Council decided last night to request the manager of the Opera, House t<> run through the films for, • ihe municipal pictures before exhibition. The Rev. J. J. North' 5 recently stated that there was a - municipal censorship here. This is ( I the first appearance of it. A film i i.s hired occasionally, and only ar- ■ rives immediately before the per-' • fonnaoce, so that the provision; ; cannot always be carried out. j : Last night's meeting of the Hast- ; ■ ings Borough Council concluded just on the stroke of midnight.' . Crs. George and Holderness occupied considerable time in lengthy , orations relative to the working of the Public Library, which brought: Cr. McCormick to his feet with the; remark that if this was a sample of, what they were going to have to! put up with, he was sorry he had sought re-election. ; In connection with the case heard • at the Hastings Court this morning in which a native was charged ■ with disposing of a set of stags’ ant-i lers. Air. C. A. Fitzroy, secretary of: the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation! Society, wishes us to state that the , case was brought as a warning to ’ , ilr<- public that trading in this re-! spect is illegal, and these antlers j ; cannot be taken from one district; to another without the written con- i sent of the Afinister for Internal; Affairs. j