LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 428, 6 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sei era! Hast mgs "sports” left this morning for Uliristclnireh, for lhe Grand National meeting. Seventeen applications were received for the position of engineer to t he Gisborne Borough Council. According to Hie inspector of factories the trade conditions in Napier during the past mouth have been faii ly satisfactory.

Special intercession services will be hel<l at the various churches in Napier on Sunday, anil the Napier Ministers’ Association request the citizens lo attend.

I Messrs, tl. Hill and Strachan, inspectors for the Hawke s Bay Education Board, are at present engaged in examining the. country schools of the Poverty Bay district.

I The population of Xew Zealand at June 3oth is estimated at LOfifl.ti'dJ, adding 19,5!-1 Maoris and iu the Cook and other islands the aggregate for the Dominion is 1,162.13-1.

| Cr. Fowler Las given notice to moie at the ntxl. meeting of the Hast ings Borough Council : “That the council lake the necessary steps to change the i]>poiiitmeiit of ilie borough solicitor.

j Only three lenders were ri ii iveil for the supply of -cats for the Hastings Municipal Theatre, one from Australia and two from New Zealand. The lenders w ill lie dealt with al a special mee ting of the T lu' lt re Committee this evening.

Al the meeting of the Fruitgrowers’ Association to lie held tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon, arrangements have been made for Mr. Baylis. Government Fields Instructor, to deliver a lecture on ‘‘Maintaining the fertility of the soil By manuring and cultivation.” As the subject is of special interest, a large at tendance is requested. A mercury deposit near lliames is being prospected. A high grade ore lias been secured and forwarded to Sydney and America. Experts from Australia ami Mexico examined the deposit, and were greatly impressed by the value of its possibilities. Since the war the price of mercury has increased from -C7 lli'-d'or a 751 b bottle to JtJS for a similar capacity bottle. - -Press Association.

j One of the features of Hie sixt.i shilling monthly popular < mert.ainmentx which lakes place on 1-riday. August 2t>ih. at. the Princess Theatre will be the singing by Airs. Dud; iley Hili of ’T'le kittle Corporal, the song written for and sung m the “Royal Divorce. I'ableaux illusj I rating episodes of Xapoleon’s call er are being arranged and v ill be , shown during the choruses. I Mr. Clement AVragge telegraphs from 'l’e. Awamutii ; There is a tie memloiis upheaval ami storm in tho sun. over 200.000 miles long, favourable for earthquakes and vulcanic action, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, ami more rain and good seasons in the Southern Hemisphere. This solar disturbance has a momentous importance. There are other ones, also of great magnetic and clecric tension expected from solar wireless waves.”

When butler goes up in price in Dunedin, it immediately reaches the same level in Hawke’s Bay, but. when the price falls in Auckland it fails to follow suit locally with similar alacrity. For several days butter has been selling at I'7 in the Northern t'ity, but, in Hastings dealers tinbli!shitigly compel I heir customers In pay Li). Is I here any reason why (hose who so promptly follow a rising market slutld not as promptly follow a falling one

‘The Hastings .Methodist Ladies’ Guilt!, which met yesterday aiteruooii at the residence of Airs. W. 11. Herd, Gray 's road,' took up a collection for the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. The amount contributed was .kit. During tin 1 past few months t he various organisations of the local Methodist Church have raised XIOV lor various patriotic, fluids, besides which the church people have generously supported all public, appeals for war purposes. A mnnber of youtlilul larrikins aye making their presence known ill Nilpier. ‘ Reporting to H>e Napivr Borough ('oitm.il the borough, engineer say- : ‘’The at tention, of tee council is called to the growing eleiiicni. cf larrikinjsm in the gardens mi Sunday s. These gangs of youths split up into sections ami cause very much annoy aauce Io visitors in the grounds.- The- head gardener states fluil when he docs ( iiution them lie go( ; . .uol.hu.ig I’ 1 ’! abuse, hurled at him. riu language used I.»>' these bov ;■ is in softie eases extremely low.”

•■Several complaints re nuisances iu the tiev.lv acquired part, of the borough in Xapier South have been th alt with, but this part of the borough will never be- iu a sanitary condition until it is sewered. In several parts stagnant washing water can bo seen lying in the water tables, causing a bad smell which can easily detected by persons passing along the footpaths.”-—Ex-tract from report to be presented l>v tlie engineer tit tn-night’e Xapier Ijjc.rmigh council meeting.