Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 350, 8 February 1917, Page 4

Local and General.

The Hastings Borough Council meets this evening.

A general meeting of the Hastings branch of the Women’s National Reserve will be held this evening.

The Board of Trade is going to Gisborne and Auckland to inquire into the meat position.—Press Association.

Ken Brooks, aged 17, w».s pulling a gun through a fence at Yaidhurst, Christchurch, when it went off, killing him. —Press Association.

The Hon. J. Allen has received information that the 20th and 21 st Reiuforcemeuts have arrived safely at certain ports. —Press Association. The Napier Working Men’s Club has elected the following officers 4 : — President, Air. J. AV. Hill; vice-pre-sident, Air. J. N. Anderson ; treasurer, Air. P. J. Bear; committeeman, Mr. A. J. Faulknor

We are credibly informed that as Sir John Findlay will in all probability leave for England at an early date it is not thought likely that he will be a candidate for the Hawke’s Bay seat.

At the Wairoa Magistrate’s Court yesterday W. .1. Mossman was fined .£*2o for having earless sheepskins in his possession. Geo. Smith was fined .£3O for supplying a native with liquor, on a second conviction.— Press Association. The Women’s National Reserve will open in the shop in Marketstreet, Hastings, on Saturday next, Miss Neill will be in charge, assisted by several other ladies, and donations of fruit, produce, meat etc., will be gratefully received.

The latest instance of inflated prices caused by' the war is likely to press severely' on motorists for most of the best known makes have reientlv advanced their prices from in to 15 per cent. Under the cir- < iimMancei it is as well to know that Alcs-i? T Clarkson Ltd., arc selling the famous Goodrich tyre at the old ’i«t prices The Goodrich therefore is by comparison better value than ever. *

Word was received in Hastings this afternoon that a native named Whare Ngabiti. between 17 and 18 years of age, fell off the mail train North this morning and was killed. His parents reside at Porangahau. Yesterday, at the Napier sitting of the Military Service Board, the appeal of James Marshall, dairy farmer, of Meance. was dismissed, appellant being allowed leave till April 3rd. The Napier Gas Coy. notifv in this issue that in consequence of the steamer “Kurow” leaving this port without discharging her 1000 tons of coal for the company, it is necessary in order to protect the town’s gas supply, to close the Gas. (toy’s yards until further supplies arrive. A short sitting of the Military Service Appeal Court, was held at Napier this morning, to deal with the appeal of Ernest Grant, storekeeper. of To Politic, on the grounds of undue hardship. . The appeal, however, was dismissed, leave being granted till May 1 st. Thomas Milne, who appeared at the Napier Police Court this morning. before Mr. A. 1,. Beattie, J.P., charged with breaking and entering the house of John Thomson at Pahiatua, on the 16th January, and stealing therefrom half a, bottle of whisky, was remanded to appear at Pah< atua on the 15th inst. A mistake occurred in the advertisement last night of the Hawke’s Bay Employers Association’s invitation to citizens of Hawke’s Bay to help to work the cargoes of the vessels in the port of Napier, the word “court” having been substituted for “port.” The mistake is corrected, and the advertisement appears again in to-night’s issue.

A man named Harold Williams, with several alias, was charged at, the Hastings Police Court, this morning with the theft of a bicycle, value .£X the property of Andrew Hay. The alleged theft was committed yesterday ami as accused was arrested last evening. Sergeant, Hogan asked for a remand. Mr. G. Land was on the bench. The dates on which the annual Territorial camps are to be held, have not yet been settled, but the Defence Department is endeavouring to select the periods most convenient for the employers to grant leave to the staff members required io go. If is understood that one will be held about Easter time, but no definite information will be available until early n«xt week.