Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 272, 2 November 1916, Page 4

Local and General.

It is understood that the Martell cise, fixed to be heard in IVdlington on the 13th inst., will not now be heard until the 27th. The number of recruits at the Naprr Soldiers’ Club is gradually increasing, the total now having reached 980. No few’er than one hundred and nine passengers arrived in Napier by boat to-day, from Northern ports. The sixty liberty men from H.M.S. Pyramus who are now in theDoniinion reported themselves at M’ellington on Wednesday, when they were granted an extended leave. During the month of October, eight building permits were granted in Napier, authorising the erection of buildings to the value of £4408 10;-. In the Magistrate’s Court at Hawcra to-day, five youths, railway engine cleaners, pleaded guilty to the charge of breaking and entering the "Hawera Railway refreshment rooms. They were committed for sentence.— Press Association. The Government has agreed to raise the limit in the' number of men who may be recruited in New Zealand for the Motor Boat Patrol to linety officers and one hundred nechanies. The previous limits were 3eventy-five in each case.— Press Association.

The lion. J. Allen states that arrangements have been made with Government to form a \ T ew Zealand Siege Batterv. formed n the first instance from New Zeaand artillerymen at the front. Reinforcements will be sent from the Jominion. requiring about fiftx men mnually. Janirs Allan Webster. Town Clerk >t Upper ’Litt, was arrested yestcrlay on a charge of having stolen iver £lOO, the property of the upper Hutt Town Board. He Mas ■emanded for a wrek. Rail v.is alowed. The dclectixc informed the •onrt that other charges would probably nude against the accused.

There was a good attendance at he quarterly meeting of the Hereaunga Chib. Hastings, last night. V number of new members were fleeted, and after business of n 'online nature had hren transacted, i musical and social evening was leld. a xerv pleasant time being •pent. It is the intention of the •iu'o to continue these evenings ifter ci cry quartern, mectiri.. At. Dannevirke to-dav. Charles Laurence Neilsen, an employer, who under stress of work, prevented an employee from attending the annual or casual camp was lined £lO and 12/- costs by Mr. W. G. K. Kenriek. S.M. The defendant said, "J bad applied for exemption which was refused. but word only came to hand two days after the casual camp had started, and I then considered L was too late for my employee to attend.”—Press Association.

The following letter has been received by the authorities in Sydney from Mr. Jensen, Minister for the Federal Navy:—"l have been informed that rumours are being eireulatcd in Sidney that then 7 has been a, mutiny on the transport Ceramic. There are other rumours (hat a transport has been sunk'. I wish to give an emphatic denial to these rumours. All Australian transports are safe. 1 would like to say that :>n\ person who can Improved to have been instrumental in spreading alarming reports of this nature will be severely dealt with under the War Precautions Act.” Car Owners! For how much longer are you going to let coin of the realm slip through your fingers? In other words, when are you going to join tlie growing band of satisfied users of the Compensating Vapour Plug, and let this little device save money for you? IVe don’t ask you to purchase until you get results. You pay a deposit, and should you not be satisfied that you are getting better results, your deposit will be refunded. Could a fairer offer be made? Call to-day and seeurp yours at the Motor Accessory Co., Ltd., Heietaunga street, Hastings.*

The N.Z. Express Co. pack, store o> remove furniture. They ship goods live stock, etc., to any part of th« Dominion or abroad. Their long ex : peneuce enables them to handle ship mints quickly, and by the cheapest anr safest routes. Napier office: Byroi utreat Hasting* oflic*- Av«nn» rn*o' * Oculists’ prescriptions accurately ex ecuted in any style of spectacles or eye glas es at moderate prices. H. M Bennett, F. 1.0., F.S.M.C., Ophthalmi< Optician. Napier • Any man who is wearing wrous glasses, or needs glasses and fails tc use them, is handicapped in getting hit living. We prescribe and prepare those glasses which are correct for yoiu individual sight. H. M. Bennett, Con suiting Optician, Napier and Hastings,

Till noon to-day three further csaes of diptheria trom Napier havn been reported tn the Hospital Boar J. Mr. Abbott, representing the New Zealand Fertilizer Co., will deliver an address at the meeting of the H.B. Fruitgriiwen,’ Association on Saturday next in the Oddfellow's Hall. Hastings, at 2 p.m.. when ho will explain the effect'; of the Co . anil benefifs received by shareholders. Owing to a motor < ar full of passengers inking the wrong side of the road whin uoing to the Napier Railway station this morning, the Rev. Canon Mayne, who was apprinu'liing from the opposite direction in a two-.enter, mnrowly escaped a very serious collision. Can-| on Mayne was driving on the correct side of the road, positively hugging the kerb, and travelling at; a very" slow speed. He was only 7 saved from a bad smash by applying his brakes with all possible force. Complaints have previously been made, about motors taking the wrong side of the street when turning the corner, and though they are all the time- just before tlie mail train leaves passing other vehicles no attempt is inn«l<* to “pull them up.”