Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 238, 12 October 1921, Page 4

Local and General.

The next sale of oddments of skins, hides, tallow and sundribs at Napier will be held on Tuesday next, October 18th. A meeting of delegates of the Hastings Junior Cricket Assn, will be held 111 the Y.M.C.A. rooms to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The Ajax fire escape for the Napier Fire Board has arrived in New Zealand and is expected to reach Napier in_a few days. The full value of this year’s A.J.C. Derby was £7382, and of this amount £5632 goes to the New Zealander, Mr. G, D. Greenwood, owner of Cupidon.

“There are over 2000 schools in New Zealand that have under two acres of land as playing grounds,” said tho Hon. O. J. Parr (Minister for Education), at Featherston.

The Hon. E. P. Leo in the House yesterday said he had it in his mind to invite a number of Samoan chiefs to visit New Zealand with a view to developing the friendly relations with tho natives of our mandate territory.

In connection with the Labour Day sports at Farndon J’ark on October 24th every child will be given a bag of lollies at the gate. Mr J. D. Rivers has kindly donated throe guineas towards the “lollic fund.” The Heretaunga School, Havelock North, notify that a limited number of day boys will be taken at the school, commencing with the first term of next year and parents of intending pupils are requested to make early application.

The trouble in tho Muhnoa pa near Levin has been diagnosed as typhoid. The fifth death occurred yesterday. Tho health authorities decided to remove tho patients to the Palmerston Hospital, and it was found necessary to call police aid. The temporary hospital is being continued for cases too serious to remove, also for new cases, A danco will be hold in the Skating Rink. Karamu road. Hastings, on Wednesday night, October 19th, under tho auspices of the Hastings Town Band. The proceeds are in aid of new uniforms and instruments funds. The R.G.S. Orchestra will be in attendance, and a good evening’s dancing is assured. A final meeting of the Celtic Football Club is advertised to be held in Mr J. T. Blake’s office, Station street, Hastings, at 7.30 to-morrow evening, when tho business to be transacted will he in connection with the wind-up of tho season.

Tho committee of the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Home wishes to thank the following donors for their much appreciated gifts: • — Mesdames Jennings, Mowbray, Bruce, Laing, Kibblewhite, Shrimpton, F. Rice, S. F. Waterhouse, Lucas and Taylor. Messrs Dawe and Alexander, Thorne Cros, Tramway Dance Committee, Congregational 8.8. C., Hastings Methodist jnr., C.E. “Whenever we bring this man to Court he seems to develop some mysterious complaints, and stows himself away in the hospital,” said counsel in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on -Monday, during the hearing of a maintenance case. “Well, I’m going to stow him away in the Terrace Gaol for six months,” was the quick response of the Magistrate (Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.). Rather a remarkable coincidence in the recurrence of the number 21 was noticed at the quarterly meeting of tho Hastings Methodist circuit last night. Three Bible classes and one Sunday school class each reported 21 members on the roll, and tho circuit balancesheet showed that the quarter had started with a credit of £2l, and finished with the addition of a further credit of £2l.

The following remit from the Napier Jlarbour Board will be discussed at the ‘arbour Associations’ Conference in Wellington to-morrow week: “That representations be made to the Minister of Finance to convene as early as possible a conference of all local bodies who are. applying for loans of, say, over £lO,OOO, with the idea of discussing the question of the financial requirements of such local bodies, say for the next twelve months, as an arrangement might bo come to, which would reduce the call upon the public moneys at the present time.” The public arc sure to keep in mind the Hustings “Plunket Day” shop, which will be in commission for Satur-' day next only in the promises next tho Grand Hotel, which have been lent to the' Plunket Society by Mrs Phillips, with the object of raising funds to assist in the promotion of their endeavours for the health of women and children. The shop will have for sale produce, cakes, moat, flowers, sweets, fancy goods and jumble articles. A street collection will also be hold, and those soliciting subscriptions will wear the Plunket badges. ’Hie Court of Appeal has delivered judgment in the case of Spargo v. Levesque, turning on tho interpreta-

tion of section 26 of the Fencing Act, 1908. Tho opinion of the court was that the proper construction of ’ the section was that the right to enter and cut down trees conferred by the section could be lawfully exercised only after a prosecution and conviction for unlawfully planting trees had taken place. If the power of entry were exercised before such conviction irreparable injury might be done, although the right did not really exist. The appeal was therefore dismissed. According to a statement made to a “Dominion” reporter by Mr. Niail, secretary of tho New Zealand Slaughter moil’s Federation, between thirty and forty slaughtermen left for Australia by this week’s Sydney boat. He said that some 300 New Zealand slaughtermen had left for Australia within tho past five weeks. The men were, ho said, dissatisfied with prospects in tho Dominion, and were being offered more remunerative employment in the Australian meat works. In Victoria, for instance, the rate for sheep was £2 2/- per 100, and in New South Wales £2 3/-. Beef rates were in the vicinity of 3/- per head. Speaking at the civic reception given iiim at Wellington on Monday last, Mr. Massey said that Britain could not afford to bo the third naval Power, and the Conference decided that it was Britain’s duty to lay down four ships and get on with the building of them. Ho thought that the keels had been laid, and that tho cost of the ships would be £30.000.000. The ships would be Empire ships, and the time would come when New Zealand would be called on to contribute to the building of ships. New Zealand had found money when it was wanted during the war, and we would find it again, hut it would be in a much smaller way.

On his way back, to New Zealand, when the steamer by which he travelled was about 35 miles out from Honolulu, Mr. Massey was called up by wireless telephone by a man in Honolulu. They conversed as easily as though one were in tho Wellington Town Hall and the other at Parliament Buildings. Then the man in Honolulu put on three gramophone tunes for Mr. Massey, and he heard them as clearly and distinctly as though tho machine had boon in the room ih which he was standing. Mr. Massey believes there is going to be extraordinary development in telephony, and he thinks that the time is not far distant when people in Wellington will be able to talk to people in London.

The Rev. R. L. Harvey, the lately arrived minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, speaking at the annual gathering of old colonists at Auckland on Saturday last, said that if the truth wore told it would probably be found that the women of the pioneer days had even more to put up with than the men. Before he left the Ohl Country, he added, there was a celebration of the bi-centenary of tho sailing of the Mayflower with the Pilgrim Fathers for America. At that gathering someone said it was all very well to speak of the Pilgrim Fathers, but what about the pilgrim mothers, who had not only to stand what the pilgrim fathers stood hut also had tn stand the Pil grim Fathers as well? Mr. Harvov dared sav that was true of the pilgrim mothers of New Zealand as well.

The Rev. W. A. Sinclair, missionary secretary of the New Zealand Methodist Church, announces a splendid response to the cause of missions. The income for this year amounts to £11,883, with more to follow, and he is hopeful that when all the returns are to hand last year’s total of £12,274 will be exceeded. Mr Sinclair is grateful to all missionary helpers and contributors for this fine result during a year of such financial stringency.

There is ample evidence that quinnat salmon is increasing in New Zealand waters. Fishermen report that they frequently find such fish in their nets off the coast of Banks Peninsula ,and also off Timaru. Offer when the Lyttelton dock is being pumped dty for the purpose of overhauling steamers, quinnat salmon are found among the fish thus imprisoned. Quite recently a six-pounder salmon was found in tho dock.

A decided advance in the lavatory accommodation on the Main Trunk railway carriages is now being effected, and one of the improved cars is now in commission. It is well known to all travellers on the “Trunk” that there 'has been no privacy at all, especially for women. Tn the renovated car the lavatory is divided into two separate compartments, with a narrow passage dividing them, each half being fitted up with all necessary appliances, and one half being for women and the other for men. In addition a number of coat hooks have been put up in various parts of the carriages, and this also will be greatly appreciated.

The euchre party and dance in aid of the Wednesday Cricket Chib funds, camo off in the Hastings Oddfellows’ Hall last evening, when some sixty couples were in attendance, all of whom enjoyed themselves thoroughly dancing to Misu J. Robertson’s music, under tho supervision of Messrs L. F. Pegler and 8. Long, who acted as M’s.C. The euchre party resulted in the following ladies and gentlemen being declared prize winners:—Ladies, Miss Dalton 1, and Mrs Nesbit 2; gentlemen, Mr Rose 1, Master H. Kenny 2. During the supper interval extras were played by Mrs Watkins, Messrs L. W. Cooper, G. Hinchley and Jack Hogan, and a merry party broke up at 1 a.m.

In a statement, Dr Liston, Roman Catholic Coadjutor-Bishop, says: “Now that Te Kahu has paid tho penalty for his crime against society, it seems time to say that he owed little, if anything, to society. He was brought up almost wholly outside tho refinements of society and the restraining and ennobling influences of religion. Indeed, until a fortnight ago ho barely knew there was a God to whom he was responsible. What prompted the condemned man to ask to see a priest just two weeks ago, 1 do not know. So To Kahu received instructions in his own tongue about his Maker, and heard for tho first time tho story of God’s tender love and boundless forgiveness for man. He was baptised a Catholic, asked and found pardon, and was followed to tho end by the consoling ministrations of tho Catholic Church.”