LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 160, 23 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-day was observed as a Court holiday both in Hastings and Napier. Earthquake shocks were felt at Wellington city and other places south of Woodville yesterday afternoon and again at 2 o’clock this morning.

, One of the Napier Borough Council, employees, named Marshall. the other day drove a pick right through the palm of his hand. The pick entered the soft part of the palm, and came out between the third and fourth fingers. The doctor had to put five stitches into the wound. Ladies are specially notified of the extraordinary half-price reductions in this season’s most fashionable millinery now on at the . Sydney Cash showroom, including a. few handsome imported models. Also a special shipment of new flannelette blouses offering at 2/6 each, being about half-price, on sale tomorrow and during next week.

A meeting of supporters of the Opposition in the Hawke’s Bay electorate will be held in Hastings to-night. Grants have been received by the Secretary of the Education Department, for addition to schools at Havelock, Waipukurau, Mangateretere and Mangapapa.

Mr. George H. Golding, of the Napier Royal Hotel, presented the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Home with a cheque of £2/2/- and a large ham for the Coronation festivities.

The employees of the Hastings Borough Council forwarded a beautiful artificial wreath to the relatives of the late Mr. Enoch Hallett, late engineer to the Council.

The Dannevirke Town Hall contract was signed and sealed on Tuesday, and the work will be gone on with immediately. The contractor is Mr. J. Hi Fairhurst. x

In the lodgeroom this evening the half-yearly summoned meeting of the Loyal Napier Lodge of Oddfellows will be held.,when the election of officers will take place. A full attendance of members is requested. The staff in charge of the totalisator before commencing- work on the second day of the winter meeting trooped outside the building, and showed their loyalty by uncovering their heads and singing the first verse of “God Save the'King ” There were six men of the Napier branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade on duty during the progress of the Coronation festivities on the Marine Parade yesterday. They were under the command of Chief Officer Foden.

The weather was anything but pleasant in Napier this morning and people are congratulating themselves that the celebrations were got over yesterday. Flags are still flying and decorations remain in many quarters, but the work of dismantling has commenced;

By advertisement in another column, Mr. J. B. Westlake, dairyfarmer, of Tauranga, apologises to Mr. C. R. Wilson, auctioneer, of Hastings, for slanderous statements pub lished by him iij the Bay of Plenty “Times” on March Ist, 1911.

The Port School juvenile. ? . Rail, held in Dalgety and; Co,wool store last evening,. was a eplendid success, large numbers of juv^nil^ H and adults were present. band again supplied the masic, extra dapces being played: by Misses Fisk and Doris Petersen, and- Master Annan. . The ladies’ committee again worked .untiringly, in the sup-per-room, in attending, to the -wants of the visitors. Mr. W, G. Martin, on behalf of the school committee* thanked all who had assisted-in any Way to make the two dances so successful.

,-The advent in Australian, waters of the three new Blue Funnel liners Aeneas, Ascanius, and Anchises, each over 10,000 tons, has evidently been attended with -a full measure of succbss. Messrs.' Gilchrist, Watt, and Sanderson, the agents in Sydney of this line, have been advised by mail that the owners, * Messrs. Alfred H*olt and Co., have placed orders with British shipbuilders for*, two new 15,000-tonners. These vessels will be the largest yet engaged in the Australian trade, and will be constructed on lines similar to the other three. They will be 580 feet in length, and be specially fitted for the passenger and cargo trade.

Many will recollect the little sloop Spray, in which Captain Slocum was making long sea voyages some years ago. Nothing has been heard of the Spray for a considerable time, and it is feared she has been run down by a steamer. The little craft and her intrepid skipper have not been heard of since the day, over two years ago, that he set sail from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, for a trip to the West Indies. The captain started on his world-encircling voyage in 1895, and his absence was intended to extend over a period of three years. No word was heard from him for several months during 1908, and he was then given up as lost. But the gallant little Spray turned up all right at Newport, Rhode Island. It is just possible that the lone skipper may be still voyaging among the islands of the southern ocean, but Mrs. Slocum, is: reconciled to the fact that the lone marriner has met his fate, being firmly convinced that the Spray has been run down by a steamer at nignt.