LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 77, 14 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Al tl>e Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr. S. McLernon. J.P.. a first' offending inebriate wa< convicted and discharged.

A lii st offending drunk was convicted and fined 18 - and 2'- costs at riie Hastings Police Court this morning. Mr. C. Hughes, J.P.. was on the bench.

Sarah Bornhardt was automobiling at Los Angeles when her car collided with a motor truck. . Her ankles were wrenched and her hip lacerated, but she insisted on appearing in a vaudeville programme. The automobile was wrecked.

On a charge of pick-pocketing at the Napier Park racecourse yesterday afternoon, James Northe was brought before Mr. G. McLernon, J.P., at the Napier Police Court this morning and remanded until the 18th inst.

St. Andrew’s garden party which was postponed fiom Wednesday last on account o' the unpropitious weather. will be held to-morrow afternoon and evening m Mrs. Newrick's grounds at the coiner of Heretaunga anil Riveislea leads. Mr. 11. M. Campbell. \1 P , will open the fete at 3 p.m.

A motor cvilist who was travelling in the direction of Hastings, collided with a horse and trap driven by Mr. A Mooie. orchardist, on the Gmahu imd about 8 o'clock last evening. The motorist fortunately escaped vvith nothing more serious than some slight cuts about the face and bruses.

Several hundred members of the police force of Philadelphia (U.S.) are to be equipped vvith electric batteries which will enable them to shock law-breakers into submission, thereby making it unnecessary for them to use their clubs. The apparatus will be concealed in the policeman’s belt, wires running across his back and down each sleeve.

His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) was occupied in the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday afternoon in hearing legal argument in the claim Harry McLeod v. Angola. E. Simson for the sum of being the amount, due on a promissory note in respect of certain lands which the plaintiff disposed of to defendant. Mr. Seannell appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Murdoch for defendant. His Honour at the conclusion of counsels’ addresses intimated that he would take time to consider his decision and would probabl.v deliver judgment on Monday or Tuesday next.

An elopement was frustrated in dramatic fashion at Plymouth on Saturday (writes a London correspondent, under date Feburuary 5). Just before the Shaw, Savi’l liner Tainui sailed for New Zealand, a man belonging to Oulton, Norfolk, boarded the vessel, and, after a search among the passengers, found his wife, his daughter, aged 17, and a baby of 19 months, who had been missing since January 28. They were accompanied by. and travelling in the name of, a man who is said to be a Lowestoft smack owner. The woman at first refused to return home, but when she was told that site would probably be deported if she went to the Dominion, she decided to abandon the voyage and return home with her husband and children. The Terra Nova left Lyttelton at daybreak yesterday morning on her return journey to England. She was accompanied down the harbour by the Harbour Board’s tug, containing a party who had stayed at Lyttelton overnight to see the vessel off. When the Terra Nova left the wharf the officers and crew gave three rousing cheers for Mr. Dimitri, who is remaining in New Zealand, having entered the service of Mr. J. J. Kinsey. The ship, once outside the heads, went round to Sumner, where, as a fitting finale to the visit of the expedition to Kew Zealand, the ship’s flag was dipped in farewell to Mr. Kinsey, who replied by dipping the flag at his residence. "Clifton. From the ship there came a salute of guns, and a few minutes after seven o’clock the ’Jerra Nova headed for sea on her return passage to England.

Applications for lease on the optional system of section 1. block 2. 140 acres Taramarama, and sections 27 and 28, block 9. 352 acres, Woodville, close at the District Lands Office. Napier, on the 9th of April.

It is proposed to hold this year s Hospital Saturday collection at the end of the present month. A preliminary meeting of the old committee and others interested will be held ; n the Napier Borough Council Chambers on Tuesday next, when it is hoped there will be a large attendance.

Little or no interest was evinced in the poll taken at Hastings to-day on the proposal to extend the principle of rating on unimproved values to rates for water, sewage, electric light and charitable aid. At noon about twentj* votes had been recorded at the Council Chambers and six at the Old Public Library. Mr. T. Morgan is the Returning Officer and the result should be known about 6.30 p.m.

A two-man fire brigade event has been added to the programme for the Friendly Societies’ Sports at Hastings on Easter Monday, the prize for which will be two gold medals presented by the Hastings Fire Brigade. Arrangements for the Sports are now well forward, and a very successful gathering is anticipated. Competitors are reminded that nominations for the running events close on Monday next. Three polls were taken in the Tirnaru borough yesterday (ratepayers only). A proposal to rate on unimproved values was lost by 673 to 742. The proposal for the adoption of a fire board was carried by 1030 to 352. A loan of £7OOO to provide five motor ’buses and a garage was approved by 907 to 517. The proposals for rating and ’buses have been the subjects of voluminous press correspondence.

The Wellington City Council last night affirmed the principle of the establishment of tepid baths, but threw out a proposal to provide unitary family laundries. Both proposals were brought forward by Councillor Tregear, who also moved that the council consider the question of establishing a municipal farm adjacent to the city for the purposes of a market garden. This was rejected by six votes to five. A London cable message which appeared in the papers on January 18th last, reporting an interview with Mr. Joosten, of the firm of Joosten and Murie, Wellington, represented him as saying that New Zealand was more in sympathy with the United States than with Canada. In the interview, which really took place at Ottawa, what Mr. Joosten actually said was: “We are somewhat more in sympathy with the United States in New Zealand than you are.”

The subject chosen for thjs New Zealand University tournament debate, to be he!d in Wellington at Easter, is “That it is desirable that New Zealand should federate with Australia for purposes of defence by land and sea.’ Canteibury College is to take the affirmative, being opposed by Victoria College, Otago Unhcis:tv and Auckland College being likewise paired. The Canterbuiv College speakers are to be picked from Messrs. R. N. Gray, F. C. Spratt. P. Carrington, and S. Parr.

A Maori woman who. in unconventional gaib. was seen careering around the roads in the vicinity of Lvcll street, Hastings, at an earlv hour this morning, caused some alarm to residents in that neighbourhood, and the protection of the police was invoked. Constable Brenchley subsequently arrested the woman in a greenhouse at the rear of a residence in Copeland road, where she had been temporarily held captive pending his arrival. She was then taken into custody and examined by two doctors who certified to her insanity. Accused was this forenoon brought before Messrs. Michael Gilfedder and C. Hughes, J.P., and committed to the Porirua Asylum. The unfortunate woman was medically examined at Napier yesterday, but the doctors refused to give a certificate, and she was accordingly discharged.