LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 229, 14 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Napier South Town Hoard meet on Friday next.

The mail via Suez, which left Napier on August Ist, arrived in London on 1 lie lot h iust.

A London cable state'-, tli.iu Lord Suflield has married Mrs Rich, widow of an army 'officer.

The* whole* of the ferro-concrete piles for the Esk River Bridge will be* completed this week.

The bridge over the Southland drain in St. George road, Hastings, will be dosed for repairs from tomorrow until further notice.

A cable from Brisbane a.mounces the death of Mr. Janies Rutherford, an -Australian jrioncer and the prinof IhHp'nrni of Messrs Cobb (uid Company.

Prde. .■.)))■ AV. T. Mills, M.A., will lecture in the Napier AVorking Men’s Club tliis evening on ’How to Or ganise.” Admission to the lecture will be bv ticket.

Owing to the small attendance at St. Matthew’s Hall, Hasting!'.. Mr. Barker’s address on “How and why native land settlement is retarded and other injustices by the War.l Administi'.'it ion” was postponed.

The timber merahant s’ traciion engines which are hauling metal on (he Pukelit iri road by way :>f squaring accounts with the County Council for damage timber hauling has done to the roads, are doing very sal isfactory work.

It lias not rained for nearly two months in the Taihape district and a drought is threatening. The people are suffering from want of water. The new works under construction will not be open until the end of the rear.

After the condemned shops in Hastings street, Napier, had been removed yesterday afternoon, the skeleton of a cat was found standing against one of the blocks. It had evidently been caught in some waylong ago, and had died of starvation.

In view of Sir Joseph AVard’s proposal to introduce the State note issue on the Canadian system, it is interesting to learn that the Finance Department of Canada holds in its vaults no less than 77,642.000 dollars in United States gold coin as securitv for its note reserves.

For the first time since they started housekeeping and built a ludicrous nest of sticks between two elm trees on the mound near No. I Museum, the .storks in Kew Gardens. Sydney, have refused this summer to rear a family. It is supposed that tliev were disturbed.

The seven Indian mules which arrived at Lyttelton on Sunday by the Aparima from Calcutta, were taken across to Quail Island, where they were set free in one of the paddocks. The little animals will remain on the island until the Terra Nova is ready to receive them on board for the vovage to the Antarctic.

Lord Islington. Governor of NevZealand, who consented to lay the* foundation stone of the Hukarere Native Girls’ School will arrive in Napier on the 29th inst.. and perform the ceremony. Being the honorary colonel of the forces he will be provided with the regulation escort en route to the school site, and the Te Ante College Cadets will form a guard of honour at the grounds.

The new artesian bore now being sunk in Nelson Park, Napier, is down about ton feet. Water lite: not vet been struck.

The Inspector of Factories informs us that in any award, industrial agreement or any Act of Parliament in which Labour Day is gazetted a holiday. Labour Day will be celebrated this year on the fourth Monday in October and not the second Wednesday as previously. Mr. Atlce Hunt, Under-Secretary for External Affairs, and Mr. Allen, of the Federal Treasury 1 , who returned last Friday to Sydney by the Zealandia, both bore testimony to the fertile imagination of the American interviewers. Neither of them saw any newspaper men in Vancouver, but the day after their arrival there appeared in some Canadian papers glowing accounts of their impressions of British Columbia.

The polling took place in Gisborne yesterday in connection with the vacancies caused by the retirement of Mr. W. D. Lysnar (Mayor) and Councillor Frank Harris, and the consequent elevation of Cr. AV. Pettie to the Mayoralty. The result of the election was as follows :—Mr. John W. Bright. 945 votes, Mr. Geo. Wildish 727 ;'Mr. J. S. Sheridan 673, Air. D. AV. Coleman 584, Mr. A. H. Anderson 548. Mr. lan 1. Simson 175, Mr Wong King 134.

A shocking accident occurred at Bentleigh, Victoria, last week. While Mrs. Lowe was attending to the level crossing gates near the local railway station, her infant, aged 14 months, crawled out of the house and on to the line. Both arms were taken off at the elbows by* a train bound from Melbourne to Mordialloc. After attending to the little suffered the mother brought the baby by train to the children’s hospital in Melbourne, where he was admitted for treatment.

Little reference was made officially to the “Hair-cut Incident” at the parade of No. 3 Company Engineers at Auckland on Tuesday night. After the general orders had been read, Captain Shera stated briefly that on the previous Monday night he had given an order that anything he might say was not to be made public. That order had been disobeyed. This he regarded as a very serious matter, and as such he would refer it to higher authority. The company was then dismissed.

The contractor, Mr. McGaffin, has now completed about five chains of the embankment over the Tongma Lake, which is part of the deviation scheme. There is also a good deal of timber now on the ground for constrnction of the bridge. lhe twelve miles c.f road in the Tmtgoia .Settlement, are now completed. On Tuesday the District Engineer (Mr. McMillan) .am! the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. C. R. Pollen) visited the settlement to make a fin a? inspection of the read before handif c,v< i to the llawke s Bay County Council. Everything was found to be satisfactory.

Here is a curious reminiscence of R. L. Stevenson from a man who met. him on his arrival in the South Seat. “The German monthly steamer triim Sydney for Samoa via Tonga has just arrived, and the captain. whom I know, presents me to a small dark man, very plainly dressed and with a Scotch accent. Somehow, we exchange a few French words, and so get chummy. He tells me that his trade is ill remunerated, 1 all the' time taking him for a Gias gow guarantee engineer, or even worse. Bed-time comes, and he*, having cojtoned to me. asked me for tin* loan of a book to seigl him to sleep. [ lived half a mile off, and had no books about me, but referred him to the landlord, a most illiterate person. The only book he could find was an ancient hook on cookery, which my Scotch engineer grasped with affection and went to bed. And not for suin’ time afterwards did I discover that 1 had entertained an angel unawares.

The sheep-shearing class by machinery which is to commence at Twyford. near Hastings, on Monday. October 2nd, under the auspices of the Napier Technical College is the first attempt ever made at teaching the practical handling of wool. The* class is under the supervision of Mr. G. McArley, of Masterton, who has had considerable experience. Mr. Russell's shed is fully equipped with oil engine, machines, etc., and learners will be instructed in the use and yare of th*e machines grinding of cutters, etc. The work will be divided into actual shearing by machines, handling of fleeces, rolling, skirting, sorting and classing, each student giving some time to each of these branches, the whole scheme being designed so that a learner will have the opportunity of becoming a qualified shearer in from three to six weeks, and also have a good and useful knowledge of general shed work. Students will also be instructed in the use and care of the machinery, all parts of same being explained.