LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 226, 27 August 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. I). Tobin, who drank egg preservative in mistake at Hastings last week, was reported to be in a critical condition to-day.

“Never the Lotus opens. Never the wild fowl wake, But a soul goes out on the east wind, That died for England’s sake.” Three centuries of British valour- in India will be revived by the Rev. J. J. North, in his lecture in the Baptist Church this evening. A fine set of one hundred slides will illustrate the lecture.

A number of generous heart?il ladies are arranging for a social and dance, in aid of the widow and children of the late John Conway, whose family are left totally unprovided for. The social will be held in the Oddfellow’s Hall on Thursday week, September sth. Liberal support has been promised by leading residents.

A public meeting has been convened by the Mayor to be held in the Hastings Borough Council Chambers on Thursday evening for the purpose of arranging a deputation and discussing matters in connection with the proposed visit to Hastings of the Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister for Railways.

Report of yesterday’s proceedings at the Napier Magistrate’s Court will be found on page three of this issue. Stray notes for farmers and orchardists appear on the same page, where will also be found a criticism of Mr. Lloyd George’s latest indictment of the "Idle Rich.” commercial news, reports of last night’s entertainments and some letters to the editor. On page two will be found New Zealand telegrams and yesterday's sporting news.

The fortnightly meeting of St., Andrew s (Hastings) Literary and Debating Society last evening took the form of "An Evening with Dickens.” arranged by Mr. W. T. Chaplin. The Rev. P. Ramsay presided. J A short address on the life of the: great novelist was given by Mr. Chaplin. ami readings by Miss Powell. Rev. Ramsay, Messrs. D. G. Ford, E. T. James. D. Haining, and J. E. Jones constituted a very interesting and instructive progremme.

Mr. W. Perry, of Masterton. h:v received ?n order fur Romney sheep from the Argentine. The New Plymouth and Palmer stun North teams left for home by the mail train this morning. ! The half-yearly meeting of the : Hawke s Bay Builders' Union will .be held at the Carlton Hotel. Hustings, to-morrow at 2.13 p.m. “Are we free men or are we slaves/’ thundered the orator, “i I pause for reply.” “Well, most of us are married,” came the answer from } the very last row of seats. { At the next meeting of the I Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers Assoeia- > tion, Mr. J. A. Campbell, orchard ! instructor, will deliver an address ! on the marketing of fruit, including cool storage, packing and grading. According to the annual report of the Registrar-General the population of Ireland during the 10 years' from 1901 to 1911 deceased by 1.3 per! I cent., compared with the decrease ! of 5.2 per cent, during the previous I decade. I The returns for Napier Hospital | during last week are as follows : —la | wards on last date, males 75. females I 30 ; admitted during week, males 14, females 5 : discharged, males 12. females 7 ; died, bales 1 ; remaining on Saturday last, males 76, females 23. >

The Fire Brigade annual ball which takes place in the Drill Hall to-mor-row evening, promises to be a great success. The committee report that _ ■ all arrangements are now complete I and given a fine night a large attenl dance is anticipated. Tombs’ string band will supply the music and patrons may rely on a most enjoyable, time. A dance was held in the Napier High School last evening at which the visiting high school teams were present. The evening w*as spent in the usual enjoyable fashion. Miss Newbold and Mr. Jamieson provided , the music and Mr. L. D. Bestall. 1 secretary, together with Mr. A. S. ! M. Polson, M.C., carried out their various duties in a most effective manner. ; ! At the Magistrate’s Court at Reel- ■ ton, C. R .Thornton, editor of the!' “Times.” was charged, on the infer-1 mation of R. Semple, with having' 1 used abusive language towards him* in Broadway, Reelton, on July 9t’n., within the hearing of passers-by, ! i with intent to provoke a breach of 1 the peace, such words being, inter 1 alia, “Semple, they tell me you are t going to Australia: may you rot i there, you rotten Mr. Phillips < applied for an adjournment, as the; 1 principal of four witnesses had to i obey a subpoena to the Supreme! i Court at Christchurch, which pre- i 1 vented his attendance at the Magis- ] trate’s Court that day. His Worship ] adjourned the case. J There lias been a rather serious! mortality among the ewes in thep Feilding district, says the “N<w < Zealand Times,” the symptoms be mg [ 1 akin to sleeping sickness, eventual-H ing in death. A good many flocks i have been affected. Inquiries made 1 reveal that the trouble is pretty 1 widespread in the district, and quite t a number of studs have died. An 1 officer of the Agricultural Dept: - '- < ment states that every year vben i there is abundant food the sanu < trouble presents itself. The ew<s I get very fat and lazy before lambing. < they do not get sufficient exercise. < and the liver becomes afflicted. Tin y j simply lie down as if in a natural I sleep and die. The losses promise to c he considerable. v

“The Man on the Job,” was the subject of an address delivered at Melbourne, by*Mr. John Curtain, secretary of the Woodworkers’ Union. Mr. Curtain said the world was suffering from too much work. (Hear, hear.) Workmen were mad to get work, and when they got it they were mad to finish it. The speeding up process was wrong. The workers worked too hard and too long. They produced too much, and got too little for it. Loafing was a good thing. Jesus Christ said it was. He said. “Consider the lilies of the valley, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.” If that was all right, the people had a right to loaf, because it was a doctrine of Christianity. Throughout the world' loafing was the ambition of every man who wished to get on.

* In the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday. Messrs. N. E. Partridge and Cc. claimed £l3O from A. H. , Nathan, Limited, as agents for the American and Australian Steamship Line. The plaintiffs were the consignees of a ca<e of Havana cigars . shipped by one of the steamers of the A. and A. Line. The case was landed on the wharf at Auckland, placed in the* wharf shed, and in some way went astray. The facts were admitted, and counsel argued whether the ship was liable for the 5 value of the goods. Mr. Cotter, K.C. for the defence, contended that a ship was different from a land carrier. and responsibility ceased, as far as a shipping company was concerned, when the goods were landed at the usual landing place of the pert. Legal argument in the matter was very lengthy, and at its concki- ■ sicn His Honour said he would ecn- ; sidcr his decision.

The new steamer St. Andre, which arrived at Sydney last Tuesday from Antwerp, inaugurates the service of the Compagnia Navale do I’Oceanie. in a route which circumnavigates the globe. This vessel, the first built for the company, will be followed later by three other steamers, at present in the builder’s hands. They will be named the St. Joseph. St. Martin, and St. Marc. Al! are of about 8000 tons gross, and are fitted with the very latest appliances for the cargo trade, in which they will be engaged. Other vessels are to be constructed. It is hoped to have eight running by this time next year. The St. Andre called at Bordeaux and Durban on her way out. and after leaving Sydney will go to Noumea and Tahiti, returning to the Continent via Monte Video. The South Sea Island trade is to receive special attention, however, and the later vessels of the company will most probably call at many more island ports. ;

Hie Native Land Court will sit ri Hastings tomorrow before Judg< Gilfedder. j At the Auckland Supreme Court i to-day. Annie Monagn. charged with i stabbing John Inkster, was found not | guilty and discharged. Before Mr. W. Heslop, J.P.. at th. ! Hastings Court this morning, a first offending inebriate was convicted and fined IS - and 2,- costs. The Ikaroa Maori Land Board tat at the Hastings courthouse to-day. Judge Jones presiding, with Messrs. Nicholson and Ihaia Hutana as assessors. Arthur Patrick McKay, convicted of drunkenness, was fined 4 - in the 1 Dunedin Police Court this morning. His case has occupied three days, the defendant accusing Constable , Havelock of having Kicked him heavily several times, also denying i that h e was drunk. The Magistrate i held there was no foundation for tlie defendant’s allegation. A grand entertainment . be given by The Vincentians in ’i..Coronation Hall. Port ALurir ; . tills evening. Misses Cropp. iliggin.-. Strangman and Mullany. and Messrs T. Liddle, Colbcck, McMurray. Coe, Odium, Park and Batchelor will give their services and the Vincentians 1 ■orchestra of 15 srnesmsbsersss swisff! ■orchestra of 15 members will play several items. ! '' I see by my report of the 1 Tennis Club’s Social.” says a coun-j try correspondent to an exchange, “that I appear to have cast a grave reflection on the cookipg of our ladies.” And he adds “their jellies were excellent.” Putting it this way creates the impression that cannibalism still prevails in the back coun-i try in Hawke's Bay, hut that the culinary process of “cooking the ladies" is becoming a lost art. It may be news to many to know (says the “Waipawa Mail”) that the original stock of the willows on the Hcretaunga Plains came from Napoleon’s tomb at St. Helena. French immigrants who came to Akaroa called at St. Helena on their way and brought the willows with them j from that spot. These were planted j on their arrival and from Akaroa! they wore taken to Christchurch and afterwards cuttings were brought to Hawke’s Bay. j During his lecture on elocution to the children of the Hastings District School yesterday, Mr. Baeyertz put the children through a number -iL tests, including speaking in unison, and at the conclusion cf his remarks | expressed himself as well satisfied at the excellent pronunciation, which reflected great credit on the head- . master, Mr. L. F. Pegler, and the ! teaching staff. Before leaving the Echool, Mr. Pegler and Mr. E. V. ! Hudson, second master, thanked Mr. 1 Baeyertz for his address. As the result of an informal meet- ' in g yesterday afternoon between : delegates from the Harbour Board. ' the County Council and the Napier Borough Council, it was decided that a deputation should proceed to Wei- ; lington to place the views of the in- j terested local bodies with regard to the railway bridge across the Inner Harbour, before the Government ] engineers. It is understood that the meeting was dgsirous that the unofficial arrangement reported to hare ’ been arrived at by Mr. Holmes. 1 chief engineer ■ .and Messrs. Cullen J and Kiele, Australian harbour ex- ’ perts, should be proceeded with in j preference to causing any possible 1 delay in the construction of the railsvav. t

i City parents cannot conceive the | anxieties which every winter brings to the woman away in the centre of Otago who desires the boon of education for her children, says the “Dunedin Star.” And they would ridicule the tale told to the Otago Education Board on Wednesday by a deputation from up Tapanui way of little children waked from sleep at six o’clock on a dark, winter morning to prepare for the two-mile walk in the rain along a clay road to the spot where a cart waits to drive them to the nearest school, six miles away ; of shivering, wet, little souls huddled in the cart for forty minutes and shivering through the interminable school day in their damp clothes ; of the long drive and the weary walk home ; of the moans of over-tired children through the night, and the screams of pain ip the morning w7ien boots are dragged over chilblains and open sores. Strictly correct, or exaggerated by parental anxiety, that is the tale which one member of the deputation (whose prayer was For a new school) told. And he added : “If I were to work a horse with sores like that, I’d be fined a tenner.”

In connection with the Hastings municipal electric light and power scheme, Messrs Le Quesne and Cowan notify in our advertising columns that they are undertaking the work of house-wiring and installing electrical fittings on the shortest notice, and have secured the services of an expert who has had a long experience at this branch of the trade, and will give all installations his personal attention and supervision. This will enable those who intend to connect with the scheme to have their premises fitted up in the most up-to-date method by workmanship which can be thoroughly relied upon, and at reasonable rates. It is anticipated that the power will be available by the Ist »f October, and as the firm have now] a large number of installations in: hand, early application is necessary. I A wide range of fitting-, globe’, j brackets, etc., have been specially; imported and may be inspected at the firm’s premises. Queen street.; Hastings. The firm has been appointed agents for the Lister Brustoit; patent automatic lighting plant, and ; a complete working plant is to be installed on the premises in the’ course of a few weeks. ;