LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 279, 14 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tim dress circle will be reserved for ladies ami their escorts at Mr. Massey’s speech m the Theatre Royal, Napier, this evening.

Fourteen motor ears had been registered with the Hastings Borough Council up to noon to-day. The time for registration expired on Saturday last and those who have not yet complied with the Act are liable to a fine.

The public are reminded that the sale cf the leases of the Napier Harbour Board reserves will be conducted. at 2 o’clock to-morrow by Mr. YY . J. Tabuteau. The sale will be held in Messrs. C. B. Hoadley and Sen’s rooms. Browning street, Napier.

'i.'ie following are the hospital returns for week ended last Saturday night. In at last date 42 males 30 females, admitted during weiek 4 males 5 females, discharged 5 males ti females, remaining at date -11 males 29 females.

The third and last artesian well sunk in Nelson Park. Napier, was tefte ! by the Borough Engineer, Mr. Stui rock, who states that it is giving the phenomenally good flow cf 12,000 gallons per hour. This is said to be the best flew of artesian water In the district.

Shoals of young fish came into shallow water on Hie Napier beach

n Sunday afternoon in the vi.inity of the baths and fishermen with rods secured some fine kawhai. Fish have been very plentiful in the bay rci-er.t'ly and the trawlers have made good hauls.

Tl.e la-t '•eet'oii of the Napier Fire Brigade station was removed ;'i. in Herschcll street to V’autier strict this morning. The work ■? rem< val lias been dc.iic 'early in Hm morning and lit lie inconvenience h:.s hr i'll caused to traffic. The re erectica c-f the fire station is proceeding rapidly.

Fines ranging from £1 to ,£'?> with costs, or the alternative seven days’ imprisonment, were imposed on sei <■: al persons in the YY’ellington Magistrate’s Court for starving horses in the Upper Hutt district. It was stated in one ease that no fewer than nine horses had died of starvation.

The quarterly Hireling of the Hastings Chamber cf Cr.minerw call, i! for -last evening lapsed for want of a quorum, only ten memi>frs putting in an appearance. Mr. ,L Fr iser gave notice to mow at the next council meeting that the rules be amended to provide imtt leu member l ; foiiu a qm.ruim h:su ad cf fifteen as at present. Las; night's meeting was adjourned fr r one wee k.

The evidence given at the inquest at Christchurch concerning thcde.iih of Maggie Gallaher, a single woman, 37, showed that she fell off la moving tram to Richmond on I Thursday night. but no adequate I explanation was forthcoming of her I fall. YY’hen half-way between two I stopping places, she stood up suddenly without saying anything and fell backwards on the road. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

There will be a large gatlp ’ ing of j natives form tlie various parts or ] Hawke's Bay at Porangahau on acj c'::::it of the death. <;f Mrs Te Tail. ] known as one of the chieftainesses j ; f that part icular part of Hawke’s i Bay, and also tlie natives assentI Llii’.g there to witness the opening i i:f the new Maori meeting house situated there, called the Te Poho <> Kahulmnu. at which Archdeacon ' Rmtdock and Revs Y\ . fraser and : H. Munro were ask'd to participate ■ :u the opening.

A movement is on foot to cstab ; hsb mills in tlie Palmerston North iii-’.Hci to make brown paper from i-ehise. At a large meeting of flax millers lie - proposal was ap-pio-.ei! of. and Messrs. M. Cohen. Broad. C. A. Loimlman .-imi L. Sf iifei! were appointed a commitlee to ascertain the cost of machinery , etc., 'ami to report at it further meeting. it is considered that the refuse of flax manufactures, which is now I wastage, and the waste vegetation jin flax swamp.-, can he profitably ■ utilised in this way.

The Rev. Canon Mayne wishes to notify tb.at the Rev. W. T. Fiasrr has been elected to a Ke a Maori acting clergyman io the Napier (’at hed,--il.

Al the mque: t held at Chi'c l-i-hure-li yesterday <m Hie body of Charles Cress, jockey, < f llasHny--, a virdiil was ri-turiied licit deaib was due to gastroenteritis. The remain' will be interred at < hristchurcii to-morrow.

The booking iv very satisfactory for the Pliilharrnonic Society’s Concert to-morrow night, but all patrons are assured of being provided with plenty of room and a comfortable 'icat. An erorneons statement has got round that all seats are taken, lint this is quite a mistake, and anyone who attends the ruiicert can be certain of spending an exceedingly pleasant evening.

In a vigorous article, dealing with the necessity for extended agrii-ult ural education m the Damnion, the Taranaki "News” says: -

The school containing one hundred hoys who are potentially seientific agrii-ult uralist sis doing'bet ter work than the school containing two hundrod boys who are going to beccrm professional men. Imi the people don’t appear to recognise this fact. The man who can enthuse 11m yi.ungsti rs of New Zealand into a love for the land will do a great work for New Zealand.

Licensing authorities are in a quandary in regard to tlie new ele---toral districts. Several hotels have been put into new districts with the result that the police, as inspectors, do not know to which licensing committee they should forward their reports. A wise in point is the Wallingford hotel, which used to be in the YY'aipawa district, but is nowin Pahialua. No one seems to know, says the Dannevirke "News,” whether the boundaries, as far as licensing matters are concerned, take effect at once or at the end cf the year. The matter has been referred to headquarters at YY ellington.