LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 290, 28 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. 11. lan Simson inserts an exphnatory notice in our advertising columns.

The Xapier wool sales to-morrow will lie held in the Garrison Hall. Coote road. commencing at 9 o'clock.

The next meeting of the Napier South Town Board will lie held on Friday. Ist December, in the new office in Morris street.

A good supply of water was struck in the artesian bore m Munroe street. Napier, at a depth of 155 ft. on Friday afternooon last.

The building now being constructed in Carlyle street. Napier, for the Women's Christian Temperance Union will probably be completed within a fortnight.

Tin* Ni>pier Swimming Club's Carnival will be held on Monday evening next, commencing at 8 o’clock. Entries close with the secretaries of the club on Thursday.

The Goveinment has completed the purchase of the Omabaki A and B blocks, containing an area of 15,710 acres. These blocks adjoin Messrs. Beamish and W. Stead’s properties at Whana Whana.

Professor AV. T. Mills, who recently visited this district and delivered addresses at various centres, will speak in the Empire Theatre. Napier. on Thursday evening. The subject of the address will be “Liquor and the liberty of the subject.’’

Before Mr. S. E. McCarthy, at the Napier Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, John Whitford, who was arrested at Port Ahuriri by Constable Le Fevre, charged with disobeying an order of the Court for the maintenance of bis four children at ChristcLuvcb, was remanded to appear at Christchurch on the Ist prox.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands wishes us to draw attention to the fact that, in the advertisement of secions in Mab.anga, Makaretu, and Woodville, the half-yearly rentals were inadvertently given as annual rentals. Intending applicants, to find the .annual rentals, will need to double the amounts stated in the advertisement.

A cyclist named Percy Clarkin. better known as "Scrap-iron.” collided with a motor car at the intersection of Hastings and Heretaunga st i nets, Hast ings, about 9.30 last evening, and received a severe shaking. The motorist conveyed him to Dr. Nairn, who ascertained that no bones were broken, and this morning. Clarkin was Utile the worse for his experience. The bicycle suffered considerable damage.

Cr. McCormick lias given notice to move at the next meeting of the Hastings Borough Council, that any applications for the removal of buildings in No. 2 building district received lief ween council meetings be dealt with by the Mayor and Building Inspector, and that applications lie recorded in the next following report from the Inspector, ami stating what action has been taken.

At the Hastings Police Court this morning, before Mr. Charles Hughes. J.P.. Alfred Ernest Hyne, alias Howard, aged 23, charged with the theft of a bicycle valued at £B, the property of Joint Carter, was remanded till Friday next on the application of Sergeant Hogan. Bail was allowed, accused in £25 and one surety of £25. Louis August Mathieson. who overstepped the border line of sobriety, was fined 18- and 2costs. the amount of his bail.

At the meeting of the Napier District School Committee last evening Mrs. Fossey drew attention to the present erratic manner of distributing prizes. She pointed out that a large number of prizes were given to children solely on account of their good attendance, and that thdse unfortunates who through sickness or other reasons were unable to attend regularly , although they might be good scholars, received no prizes. Tills was very unfair. Provision should be made by wuich conduct, progress, proficiency ana attendance should be i ewarded according to their values. Other members of the committee expressed similar opinions, and on the motion of the Rev. J. K. Archer, seconded by Dr. Caro, it was decided that a committee consisting of Mrs. 1" ossey. Rev. J. K. Archer ami Mr. J. H. Thompson, should confer with the headmaster in order to devise a better scheme for prize distribution next year.

The mortal remains ol tlm late Mrs. J. A. Pothan were laid to rest in the Hastings cemetery yesterday aftertiooa. At three o’clock Very Rev. Father Keogh held a. snort service at the Church of the Sacred Heart. vvLt re tlm coffin had been lying over night. Prior to tlm service Air. P. W. Tombs plaved Guilmant’s Prelude and Funebrac and Chopin s Funeral March on the organ, and as the body was being taken from__thc church the solemn tones of Hamiel’s Dead March pealed out. The cortege. comprising some’ sixty ven teles, was headed by the employees of Mr. Pothan. six of whom acted as pallbearers. ami a number of the Sacred Heart congregation marched on ciieer side of the hearse. The classmates at the Catholic schools of little Mi« Zita I’othan and Master Ceci! Pot han showed their sympathy oy also marching in the procession. Very Rev. Father Keogh conducted a vii’i’ impressive service at the graveside. around which between three am! four hundred friends ami sympathisers representing ail creetm <i.=s( niLled. In a tonehing addies", Father Keogh referred to the decca--ed lady’s many virtues as a devoted wife ami afi'ctinnate mother, and of tlie i diticstir n given by her ( nristian life. At trm elo-e of the burial service many Jieamifiil wreaths wwlaid on the mound. The deceased hrd been ailing for about five weeks ami lhe serious nature of her illness necessitated tier removal to Nurse Jefferd’s priv iie hospital, death cm s’ting two days later.

The Hastings Borough Council invites tenders for the erection of a power house in ferro-concrete.

The annual intertainment in aid of the funds of the Napier Main School Committee will be held in the Theatre Royal this evening.

The meeting of the Napier Bowling Club which was to have been held last evening for the purpose of revising rules and doing other business was adjourned for a fortnight.

The following are the hospital returns for the week ended last Saturday : —ln at last date 44 males 27 females, admitted during week in males 2 females, discharged S males 1 female, remaining at date 46 males 23 females.

Tlie Queensland Insurance Company has written to the Hastings Borough Council repudiating any liability for compensation for injuries alleged to have been sustained by a workman named Mouatt employed on the sewer works.

A flower show will be held in St. Andrew’s Hall, Hastings, to-morrow afternoon and evening in connection with St. Andrew’s Church. Preparations have been made on a very extensive scale, and the exhibition promises to be an unusually attractive one. Afternoon tea and sweet stalls will be open for business, and there will be a first-class programme. His Worship the Mayor will open the show at 3 p.m., and the Mayoress will present the prizes in the evening. A slight alteration will be made in the railway timetable in connection with the Napier-Thorndon express train from December Ist. The down train from that date wdl leave Te Auto at 9.51 a.m. instead of 9.57 a.m. as at present, but will stop at that station only when required to set down or pick up passengers. The up mail train, Thorndon to Napier, will, from December Ist. leave Takapau at 1.45 p.m., instead of 4.18 p.m. as at present.

A correspondent draws cur attention to Mr. Brown’s answer regarding tied houses last night. He points out that in his address at the Port Mr. Brown practically expressed himself in favour of tied houses. Last night he was understood to be opposed to them. As a matter of fact Nir. Brown slithered round the question and mixed up the tied house with the number of houses. Instead of saying whether he was cr was not in favour of a house being tied, lie talked of the number of licenses that should be granted, and proposed another 50 for this district.