LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 279, 30 October 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The killing season commenced at the Tomoana freezing works yesterday and at the Paki Paki works this morning.

The “Evening Post,” Wellington, refers to the Legislative Council as “an irresponsible, unrepresentative, and singularly unintelligent body.”

A petition protesting against senders of telegrams being obliged to affix stamps on the forms themselves, is at present in circulation in Palmerston.

The tender accepted by the Hastings Borough Council for slaughtering at the municipal abattoirs was as follows: —Cattle 2/6 per head, sheep and lambs 3id, pigs and calves 1/--

The Hospital returns for the week ending Monday last, are as follows: —ln at last date, 64 males, 31. females ; admitted during week. 15 males, 6 females; discharged, 16 males, 4 females; remaining in. 63 males, 33 females. For some time two New Plymouth inventors, named Davy and Williams, have been trying to place a patent nonrefillable. bottle on the Sydney market. Word has now been received that they have made a brilliant success.

, The H.B. Tennis Club has decided to open its grounds on Saturdaynext. The committee last night elected the following new' members Mrs. Rathbone, Miss Condon, Mr. O. R. Younghusband. Air. E. G. Shearer and Dr. R. I. Sutton.

Thus the Rev. P. T. Williams as a mass meeting of girls at Auckland recently:—“The homes of the world are what the women of the w'Orld make them.” He was shocked when he saw women in the streets of Auckland wearing heels 3in. high, with their skirts gathered round them like the draping of a case, and hats on their heads which were ridi.ulous. if these women only knew the contempt which all true men had for them they would never wear such things again.

A prize ram died in its pen at the Hastings show, and a little story is told in connection therewith. A wellknown Government veterinary surgeon was asked his opinion as to the cause of death, and replied that it was due to fatty degeneration of the liver. God, he said, made sheep so that they could forage for themselves. and thus get what- exercise they desired, whereas man penned them in and pampered them un : so what else could they expect them to get but degeneration of some kind ?

Thus the “Post” on the HineWard incident If the chair is to be

invested with the respect necessarily due to it. the chair must not be crudely rude in the handling of a witness. Air. Hine, though chairman. should have remembered that be was a comparatively junior member (far from perfect as an arbiter), and the witness was an ex-Prime Minister whose administration had been arraigned. There was fault on both sides, but we believe that the absurd debate which Air. Herries properly described as a storm in a tea-cup would not have wasted public time and money if the chairman had been less impetuous and less aggressive.

Mr. Crawshaw, secretary of th* Education Board, has to-day written to Messrs. Brown, Campbell and Hunter, M’s.P., with regard to the removal of the Te Aute school.

The secretary of the Education Board, Mr. G. Crawshaw, intends to call a meeting of the Twyford settlers to elect a temporary committee and suggest boundaries for the new school district.

Our Taupo correspondent advise? that there is every indication of ; record fishing season, which com mences on Ist November. The* river: are swarming with trout and a: there is plenty of water in the rivers, the local anglers predict gooc catches. Oil launches and boats arc all in readiness, already a large num tier of people have booked ac commodation at the various hotels.

Owing to the fact that wool ha? come forward in very reduced quan titles from the country, as a consequence of the bad weather, it i? probable that the wool sale fixed for November 7th will be postponed. The brokers are holding a meeting this afternoon to discuss the matter.

Professor Carlton Wells, of Los AngSles, declares that within 500 years there will be scarcely a woman left on earth with hair on her head, while 200 .years hence a man with enough hair to make a "part” will oe earning a large salarry by exhibiting himself in museums. An eminent brain specialist has also declared, according to a cable message in the “Sydney Sun,” that baldness will one day be the fashion for both men and women. The time will come when to have curly locks will be looked on as a sign of mental weakness.

A story was told at the Sunday School meeting of the Congregational Union at Sydney. It should appeal to those who are at present engaged endeavouring to stir up public opinion to the necessity of honouring Shakespeare by a fitting pageant at Havelock. While in an English village recently the Rev. J. Dempsey said an examiner visited a village school, and asked in a stern voice who wrote Hamlet. A youngster replied in a tremulous voice, "Please, sir, I didn’t.” The incident was related to the squire of the village shortly after, which led the dignitary to remark, “Poor little beggar, I suppose he <Jid it after all!”

The Dunedin Presbytery yesterday administered a sharp rebuke to the Otago Yacht and Motor Association for entertaining the Canadian cadets on a Sunday trip down harbour. It was urged that when the association had done one-thoas-the association had done one-thou-sandth part for the Dominion of what the Presbyterian Church had done, perhaps it would show more reverence for the Church of Christ, it was resolved to send a letter to the Canadian Presbyttuy most concern ed, congratulating” them on the conduct of their boys and regretting that a private body should have placed before them the temptation to break the Divine institution. It was also decided to semi an overture to the General Assembly invit ing them to establish Imperial action on such matters.

While a red-tied anti-militarist orator was addressing a boisterous crowd {it the Clock Tower t Christchurch on Saturday evening, someone unceremoniously pushed him off his platform.. In less than a minute ho was back again, flinging his arms about and crying lustily; h»; a constable. Only a short time' be fore he had been denouncing the whole force with a libera J use if fiery' adjectives.. Apart from this incident there was very little tc divert the casual observer.. One speaker, after some stormy- heckling, boldly- announced that he w ur.i de fend his country if t were ev°i necessary, but “Tell me who I wih have to defed it against?” he asked. Somebody grimly answered, “The passive resisters.” and before :: c shattering retort came back, the crowd had swallowed him up.

On Friday afternoon next, Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner. will deliver a lecture in Napier, under the auspices of the Napier Chamber of Commerce. He has chosen for his subject “What preferential tariff has done for- Canadian and New Zealand Trade.” Mr. Beddoe recently' delivered an address to the Auckland Chamber o! Commerce on a similar subject and opened the eyes of his audience to the large trade which has sprung up between the two Dominions within recent years. The lecture created so much interest in commercial circles in Auckland that the Committee of the Napier Chamber invited Mr. Beddoe to visit Napier and give the public the benefit of his thorough knowledge of his subject. The address will be delivered in the Council Chambers on Friday aftc - - noon at ,3 o’clock, and will not be I confined to members of the Chamber of Commerce, but will be open to the public.

■ A varied programme was suhI mitted at the Cathedral Club eoniceit at the Theatre Royal. Napier i last night. The Savage Club orehesi tra opened the proceedings by a spirited rendition of the ’Doge’s ! March” from “The Merchant o’ [Venice.” and vocal items wore rend I cred by Mosdames H. M. Didsbury land J. A. Roscwnnie. Misses Beat and D. Cropp. Messrs. A. Johnston. E. F. Luks, C. Prime. Air. E. Blanchette gave a clarionet solo, and Air. IH. O. McFarlane was heard to great advantage on the ’cello. Flute solos by Mr. Louis Hay. violin solos by Air. C. R. Sparkman, and a strong trio. in which Dr. Sutton and Messrs. Sparkman and McFarlane took part, were also contributed. | while H. Webei ’s pianoforte sole iwas much enjoyed. Two rather oriIginal but none the less welcome items were also included in the programme—a clever musical mono logue by Mrs. H. O. McFarlane, and an entertaining sketch entitled “The Matinee Hat,” in which Messrs. E. F. Luks and G. Remington toolpart. Some of the contributions wen decidedly worthy of appreciation.

A petition requesting the Minister for Public Works to place a gr.-inl on the Supplementary Estimates for the prosecution of the East Coast Railway is being largely signed thoughout this district..

"Though many are now going in for the manufacture of cheese. 1 think those who are keeping to butter will come out on top in the long run,” declared a speaker al the an nual meeting of the Canterbury Central Co-operative Dairy Com pany on Saturday.

The “Sydney Sun" says: Mr. Tohn Norton, who came in by the Orvieto. after a long holiday abroad, consolidated his remarks to inter viewers into a couple of sentences. He said - "1 was fifteen months away. 1 spent a third of my time in a lunatic asylum, a third in gaol, and the remainder 1 was unconscious. That’s the sort of holiday I had !"

Before Mr. J. H. Sheath. .J.P.. this morning, at Napier, Mary Ann Petersen, arrested at Hastings, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person without lawful visible means of support. On the application of the police and on the recommendation of the gaol doctor (Dr. T. C. Moore), site was' remanded for one week for further medical obser vation as to her mental condition.

A special meeting of the ilastinss Borough Council was held yesterday afternoon, when the tender ol Messrs Taylor and Flanagan was accepted for slaughtering at th. abattoirs The tenders for the removal of the corporation stables from their present site near the electric power house to the council property in Southampton street were referred to a committee consisting of the Mayor. Crs. Styl-s, McCormick and Donovan, to report to the next council meeting.

There was on view at- the N.S.W. Parliament House last week a mechanical device, invented bv Mr. W. Dall, of St. Clair, New Zealand, for the purpose of automatically recording ballots. The claim for it is that it would simplify the work of the voter, make informal voting at elections impossible, and tend to prevent corrupt practices. All the voter has to do is to enter the room where the machine is placed out cf sight, and push a knob. The attendant, who is outside the compartment. and hears a bell ring, then presses a les er. and the machine is set again for the next authorised elector. As the votbr presses the knob the machine records the total number of votes for the candidate, and makes the neees sary addition to the grand total, it is estimated that these machines would cost about £G each. Mr. Wade and other members of Parliament inspected the machine yesterday, and they evinced the greatest interest in it.