LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 253, 12 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hawke's Bay Land Board will meet to-morrow at 10 a.m.

A petition bearing over 500 signatures has been forwarded to the Premier asking the Government to acquire the Maraekakaho estate for closer settlement. The Banks of Hastings will observe a special holiday on Thursday, 19th October, the occasion of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Show. A poll for the raising of a loan for £7OO to carry out a system of connecting private premises with the Hastings sewage scheme was taken to-day. The main booth was at the Council Chandlers and the Old Library was also a polling place. Little or no interest appeared to be taken in the proceeding and vein few- ratepayers had recorded their votes up to mid-day. Mr. T. Morgan is the returning officer, and the result of the voting should be known about 8 o'clock this evening.

The work of building the new Hukarere School is progressing apace, and will no doubt be completed within the contracted time.

The county engineer conferred with the overseer at Meaner to-day with regard to drainage questions upon which he will report at the next meeting of the council.

At the request of a number of ratepayers, Mr. Phil. Parsons has consented to be nominated to represent the Meaner Rilling on the Hawke’s Bay County Council.

From the radio telegraph office in Wellington advice has been received that the San Francisco mail steamer Matai is expected to reach Wellington at 6 p.m. to-day. The Ne\« Zealand Baptist Union closes its gatherings at Napier this evening with a celebration of the ordinance of the Lord’s Slipper, to which members of all unions are heartily invited. The nunilier of bathers now patronising Napier Municipal Baths is considerably lower than those at the corresponding time last, year. This is probably due to the cold weather we have had lately. The Hoads Comittee of the Napier Borough Council met this morning and inspected several works proposed to be undertaken. The coniiiiittee will report at the next meeting of the council.

Temporary improvements are being made in the Napier Court House. It is int('ink'd at a later date to substitute the wooden flooring of the verandah with concrete. The ahnaal sports of the Napier Boys’ High School take place in the Recreation Ground to-morrow. The lads are looking forward to the meeting with keen interest and it is hoped they will have a fine day. A young man named Gerard Ellison ,an employee at Holt’s Mill, Napier. on Tuesday had the end of his second finger sawn off. He was engaged cutting wedges at. a circular saw when the accident occurred. Fortunately the injuries arc not serious. Grace Annie McTaggart pleaded guilty at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge of bigamy. She was first married in 1886, but her husband left her and she did not hear from him for thirteen years, and considered she had a perfect right to marry Charles Ashlyy in 1806. She was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed.

Sir John Findlay visited the Jubilee Institute for the Blind at, Parnell yesterday afternoon, says a Press Association message. He briefly addressed the adult inmates, and in the course of his remarks promised to endeavour to secure for them and the attendants a substantial reduction in railway fares when travelling a concession already enjoyed by persons similarly situated in England. Sir John has leased a. house in the electorate, and will return to Auckland at the end of the session. Ho left for Wellington last evening. Apart altogether from the possibility of a man losing his money while attending the races, there is the danger of being “snapped” by the übiquitous photographer. Photos are afterwards put on exhibition and a man mav see a picture of himself taken whilst in conversation with someone to whom his wife may object. A man may also have other reasons for not desiring to be advertised. It is stated that to have the offending photo removed a. person must pay the sum of 10/-, and judging by the number of covered pictures the photographers must do a good trade.

At the Auckland Police Court yestrrday a prisoner at Mount Eden gaol named Frederick Logan was charged, before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., with having, on September 27, assaulted Warder R. W. Thompson, and with having incited other prisoners to mutiny by calling on them to come and assist him. He was convicted and sentenced to an additional six months’ imprisonment, anil also ordered to bo placed on bread and water for seven days. The same prisoner received an additional six months in February last for an assault on another warder. His original sentence is one of four years for theft.

The October issue of “Progress” is a, photographic number, and contains several articles of more than passing interest to photographers, both amateur and professional. A very instructive and tasteful article, entitled, “A Plea for the Pictorial in Photo.graphy.” appears, from the pen of J. A. Heginbotham, and is illustrated by some particularly fine prints. The astronomical notes are jarticnlarly good this month. The engineering section contains an illustrated account of the new Krupp cannon, mounted on motor-ears, for service against airships .and also an account of the recent Aviation Championship meeting, with portraits of Beaumont and Vedrines. There is a good deal of architectural and building news, including a picture and plan of a country house.

The committee of the New Zealand Viticultural Association lias represented to Parliament l>y a petition that the grape-growing and winemaking industry of the Dominion is grately discouraged by the provisions of the Wine Licensing Act. It asks that the Act be amended so as to exempt absolutely New Zealand wines from the general Licensing Act, and also with a view to encouraging and protecting the industry generally. It i< also asked that provision should be inserted making it an indictable offence to add alcohol or other deleterious compounds to wme offered for public consumption. The petitioners urge that licenses should be obtainable Lv all peisons engaged in the manufacture or sale ot wme, and that the holders oi hcen.ivs should be permuted to sell wme bv retail in anv quantities to be dtunk on the premises or elsewhetv. The famous Roslyn Writing Pads, Gd pleasure to write 0n...