LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 288, 9 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

J At the People's Day at the Christ- , church Show yesterday the attend- . mee was 39.000, and the gate takings £1077 1 ’ Entries in connection with the 11 Napier Amateur Horticultuial •j Society’s summer shew close <n ■/Monday evening next. Schedules ran be had on application to the secretary. P.O. Box 35. Napier. A further sum of £5OO appears . n ihe Supplementary Estimates for 1 he deviation work on the northern I face of Titiokura saddle. When th ; s ,v< k is i-mnpleted the diffieultii s o' ihe road will have been overcome. Two further donations have beer, received towards the total of pur•hasc money of the new show ground of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society. They are from Mr. 11. Pulford. Clive,, £l I - and from ”a member” £3’3 -. The total to dat; 1 is £2,983. j The poster competition in connection with the Havelock Shak-’s-porean pageant attracted seven en tries. The prizes were awarded as follows : Mr. Guy Harding, Napier. (Falstaff) 1, Miss Gwen Nelson (Tilting Tournament) 2. Mr. IV. J. Hush (Elizabeth Town Cryer) 3. Mrs Handyside, of Napier, acted as judge. The New Zealand Greenstone Company, which obtained titles last week, is proceeding with the con struction of a traction road from IVainihinihi to tlie .base of the property at the foot of the Griffen Range. The machinery has been ordered from England, and early next yea.' valuable deposits of gre-.-n stone, talc, and platinum will Lt r< aily for exportation. Mr. J. G. Price, who returned to Bluff by the Maunganui, after a four months’ visit to Sydney, in conversation with a Southland “Times" reporter, said that advantage: were offered at present to the Xe’< Zealand producer who frit disposed to export to the Sydney market. M: Price was very emphatic on tlii; point, and his long stay in Sydney had given him every opportunity to learn just how things really stood He was very optimistic as to thi outlook ahead for the New Zealand producer who trafficked Sydney wards. “We have received a copy of thi petition sent, from Hastings to the , Hc.ise of Representatives regarditiL the East Coast -railway,” says th< j IVairia “Guardian.” Apparently signatures are not asked for from 1 IVairea. and if they vvete we coul.i \ not advise any of our settlers t<. sign it. 'The petitioners have ! cbfnniitted a grave error in dictating to the Minister and the engineer, ‘ the route the railway should take ; and the Government if lukewarm ! would be partly justified in hanging ' up the line indefinitely until the people learn that railway routes ;• r< the special province of qualifier’ ' engineers” £

lu the leading article in its South ■ American supplement las.f week th< London “Times” mentions that between 187'0 and 1910 10,000,000 I Chinese found new homes overseas. : “The Anglo-Saxon race.” procee 1: j the article, “impelled by sure inistincts of self-preservation and lyrecognition '! the economic yellow peril, have closed their doers to tliis i class of immigrat ion, which was con j i sequcntly being diverted on a rapidly increasing scale to the Latin Republics and the undeveloped territories cf South America. The experience of Guiana has demonstrat cd the superiority of Chinese ■tropical colonisation in places where whites become derelicts and negroes j a burden.” At a sitting of the Juvenile Coui'i I at Hastings yesterday afternorn. before Mr. S. E. -McCarthy, S.M.. > a lad who had absconded from ; Christchurch was charged wit* stealing a purse valued at 16 6. oik razor valued at. 2 6. and 3 - in money at Christ church on September 22nd. Accused was one of six boys wh< found a Lady’s peggy bag on a. seat in Victoria Square,. Christchurch. The contents of the bag. £4 19'6were divided, accused’s share con sisting of the items mentioned | above. lie pleaded guilty, and wa- j convicted and ordered to ccme up| for sentence when called upon. am:j to make restitution cf tlie s]>oil, | i which had come into his porefreion. | I Detective Butler prosecuted. Th, > I other lads concerned in the theft > j were dealt with at Christchurch. I . . ! j Speaking to a “Press’ reporter, i j j gentleman prominent in shippiny circks said the• statement regarding the suggested extension of the service of. the Norddeutscher Lloyd • and the German-Australian Ship ping Ccinpany causrd him no .sir. prise. Last, week Her.- Borger. I i director of the latter company.-paid j ji visit to Lyttelton a»id inspected! pho wharves and the facilities of the 1 | port. If either company decided on' I bringing its vessels to New Zealand, j ports it would mean that thom-an Is I lof tons cf cargo from Continental I I ports, which at present is tranship-I j ped at Melbourne or Sydlif-y to tlx j ! intercolonial steamers of the I’ni inj. j Steam Ship Company the Hud- 1 | dart-Parker Company, would be I 1 ! landed direct at New Zealand port? ! The N< rddentseber Lloyd is. op, 'curse, one of the two greatest «hip- i ' ning companies, the other being tin | Hamburg-America Line. The Ger man-Australian Steamship Company has a very large fleet of big. fas: i and up-to-date cargo steamers en 1 gaged in the trade between Gorman. . Scandinavian. and Mediterranear t ports and Australia.

The Rev. T. J. IV.-dli- will be the > speaker at the Hastings Y.M.C.A. [ men’s meeting to-morrow evening at ; 3.30. ’ The Custome returns at. Napier foi ' the week ended this morning are ar follows: Customs duties £3.416 167. beer duty £27 I -. other rceeipis £l7 29; total £3,159 t) 4. The morning service at Wesley . Church, Hastings, to-morrow will be . conducted by Mr. H. T. H. Grave. .j of Wellington, the District Secrediary of Church Properties, who l has been attending the recent Synod at Dannevirke. Albert John I dy was arrested at 1 Carterton this morning on a charge !of destroying a 6-roorned house at : IVaihakeke on November sth by an j explosiaon of gelat ine. He was remanded till Friday next. Bai! was i allowed, himself in £lOO and one ! surety of £2oo.—Press- Association. The committee of the Napiei I Operatic Society have been asked L i again leave the box plan for tin 1 performance of “A Greek Slave” -a Hall’s, Hastings, as there has be a insufficient time for patrons to book. The plan will be open 011 Monday at 10 a.m. and remain open until I p.m. on Wednesday. Mr. D. N. McMillan, distri.-t : ngincer, returned to town - r Thursday after an inspection visit lathe works in and around Pohui. Hr also inspected the work in progre •: on the IVaitara-Pohokura road, which extends some 25 miles (low, the Mohaka jValley from the NapierTaupo road. About four miles o* ! the road are now in hand and In I contractor, Mr. H. Badley, is mak ing very satisfactory progress. Speaking on the proposal before the Hastings Borough Council on Thursday evening to set up a committee to consider suitable sites for a rubbish tip outside the borough boundary, Cr. Hart advocated that Henry and Joll streets should be immediately reduced to their permanent level and the surplus earth be deposited in the present pit. This he maintained would completely cover up the remaining portion of the rubbish which was said to be causing a nuisance. For a long time past it has beer realised that the rating < f tin Pakowhai settlers for the cost m the bridge ore.' the Ngaruroro rive l on the Taradale-Ha.st ings road was quite unfair insomuch ■ that flic bridge was used largely by the.general public. There was, however, no legal way out of the difficulty until a clause was inserted in (he “Reserves and Other Lands Dispo-o and Public Bodies Empowering Bill’ providing for the payment oi interest upon the loan from the ■ general fund. The settlers will b< glad to hear of this relief.