LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 73, 10 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Hast ings Town Band will be held this evening. Owing to the Napier Park races the Stortford Lodge stock sale on Wednesday next will commence at 9.30 a.m.

Schnapper were unusually plentiful at the Clive Grange and Te Awhanga yesterday, and several large catches were recorded.

At the Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning, a first offending inebriate was fined 20/- and 2/ccsts.

A silver cup presented by Mr. J. Flynn for competition among members of the Park Tennis Club, Hastings, is on view in Mr. Mortenson’s shop window. The Napier Fire Brigade was called out shortly after eleven o’clock yesterday morning to suppress a grass fire which had started on Mr. T. Tanner’s property in Napier Terrace. Very little damage resulted.

At the Te Ari Hui to-day, formal offerings from the tribes will be made. It is expected the donations will easily exceed the cost of the erection of a new church, approximately £2,300. —Press Association.

The total amount received to date towards the St. Matthew’s Church building fund, Hastings, is £2,325. The amount required is £4OOO, but a donation of £l5OO from two members of the congregation has been promised on condition that £2500 is subscribed among the parishoners.

A-special meeting cf the Hastings Be rough Council was held this morning to sign the electoral roll which, is to be used at the ipoll to he taken on Friday next in. connection' with the proposal to levy the rates for electric light, sewer, water and charitable aid board levies on the system of unimproved values.

At the inquest on David Pirani, who was found dead in his bedroom at Palmerston North last week, t* evidence showed that deceased had been subject to-’ , hopqjess depression following an attack of diabetes. He went into the bathroom and drank Jeyes’ fluid. Mr. Fred. Pirani asked Dr. Whittaker: “Don’t you think Jeyes’ fluid ought to be labelled ‘Poison,” instead of ‘non-poisp-nons’ I If that had been done my brother would not hate been dead, because his relatives locked away’all dangerous materials.” Mr. Whittaker: Yes. very poisonous, although, if used diluted as directed, it is not poisonous. I also, strongly think such materials should have an aitidete printed on the labels. The jury added a rider accordingly.

A display of fruit, plants and general produce, a proof of thte remarkable fertility of Hawke’s Bay and a credit to the decorators, is at present on view in the Hastings Church. Yesterday harvest festival services were hold, and appropriate address given by the Rev. H. Boriford Hughes. M.A. In the morning Lc t-poke cf the propriety and ancient tradition of harvest services,' and at night delivered a practical sermon on the great law of retribution. The church is tastefully decorated, and the great array of fruit is a sight well worth seeing. 'Ih::. evening from six o’clock the churcl. will be open to afford an opp tunity of, seeing the splendid iisplay. The goods, which afe ah of the choicest quality, will be disposed of by auction sale commencing at 7.30 o’clock. A branch of the New Zealand Catholic Federation, a defensive organisation which has for its objects : (a) the expression of a consolidated Catholic opinion on social and public questions affecting Catholic interests; (b) the promotion and extension cf Catholic education ; (c) the dissemination of Catholic literature; and (d) the, mutual support and advancement of Catholic Societies, was formed at a meeting held yesterday in St. Patrick’s schoolroom. Very Rev. Father Keogh, S.M., 8.A., is president (ox-officio) of the branch, and Mr. E. R. B. Daniels was appointed secretary. About two hundred members were enrolled yesterday, and it is estimated that the total membership when the work or organisation has been completed, will be about 2060.

Over 703 farmers and dealers attended a sale at the Theatre Royal. Ashburton, os Saturday afternoon tl < balance of the well-known Lagmhor Estate, owned by Mr. G. A. id. .Buckley. The estate originally comprised 30.600 acres, but has beeh reduced by subdivision sales at intervals of about three years since 1900 to 6061 in 1910, and to-day this residue disposed of in ‘23 lots. The sale was a most enthus’ti--tic one, the bidding being x> y spirited, and in an hour and a half’s time the 23 lot's had been disposed of to 15 purchasers at an aggregate price of £75.000 odd. The property is well roaded, and is from six to ten miles bom Ashburton. It eontains all varieties of land, and the prices ranged from £4.5- to £a7 / 10'pcr acre for different sections, the rage being over £l2 per acre. A monkey belonging to a side how xvhich has been quartered on e Ha t’uas racecourse since the >t a umn shoxv, made a savage iik < i t two and a half year old ox iPincJ Jehu Large yesterday 'bon , , The lad was walking r r .h 11’" racecourse xvith ••.cme < mldren. when the monkey. . a n was chained up with others enclosure near the market entrance, pounced wi him erely hit him about the face and ears. Fortunately a man happened to be passing at the tia,<. *nJ >i<- succeeded in hearing the Hnni*' off. The Lev’s injuiics xve.e num in Bv !)■_ Boxer, who hmnd it necessary co put in several -t t<_hx~. i. arptars that the bc.v cut <‘ r.-p'-h of the monkey, but one of his ■ ates pushed into ire danger zone, and tiie animal having been tantalis- I cd with sticks ami stones, became | infuidated, and sought revenge. | The boy's condition xvas. reported to be serious this morning. I

j Several letters to the editor arc unavoidably held over until to-mor

row. A meeting of members of the Port Ahuriri Bowling Club will be held in the Port Schoolroom this evening al S o’clock. The final meeting of the Dog Trial Committee will take place this (Monday) evening at the Petane Hotel to complete arrangements. The programme of sport will appear in tomorrow’s issue of this paper. The Napier Hospital returns for the past week were as follows :—ln allast date, 59 males 34 females ; admitted during week, 9 males 5 females; discharged, 5 males 5 females; died, 3 males; remaining. 60 males 34 females. The Catholic social in honour of St. Patrick’s Day, to be held in the Garrison Hall, Napier, on Wednesday evening is being looked forward to, especially by those who have enjoyed the gatherings of previous years. An excellent orchestra of seven instruments has been engaged for the occasion and the scoial promises to, be a most successful opening of the dancing season. Large congregations assembled yesterday at the Wesley Church, Hastings, on the occasion of the harvest, thanksgiving celebrations. The church had been prettily decorated with fruit and flowers. > Hearty singing by a large choir and suitable addresses by the minister c-f the church were features of the services. An auction sale cf the produce will be held in Wesley Hall this evening at 8 o’clock, when Mr. J. A. Miller will act as auctioneer. At the fortnightly meeting of the Eureka Lodge of Druids, to be held in the Oddfellows’ Hail, Hastings, to-morrow evening an important ceremony will take place when Bro. G. Brown, of the local branch, will be installed into the office of District President for the current term by Bro. W. Brown, P.D.P., cf Napier. Visitors are expected to be present from Napier and Waipawa, and they will be entertained by the local brethren. Members are reminded that proceedings commence at 7.30. In replying to the Mayor of Auckland’s strictures on his proposed change in local government system, the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher stated to a “Herald” representative that he , had no intention of suggesting that the experts (to whom he considers the control of important municipal enterprises should be entrusted) should be appointed by the Government. He said that Mr. Parr i evidently’ misunderstood his remarks, perhaps because, he had not made his meaning clear. He did not propose that the Government should take control of cities, but that some change in the present system was necessary.