Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 234, 15 September 1922, Page 5

Local and General.

The Revd. D. C. Bates, Daminion Meteorologist, telegraphs a B follow! for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day:— The indications are lor south-easterly moderate to strong winds. The weather will probably prove ooid and showery near the the night will probably be very cold. Barometer little movement. Australian mails, per Kaiwarra, close at 8.30 to-morrow (Saturday) morning. Mrs. E. M. Marshall offered 100 nemesia plants for the Hastings Mothera’ Rest grounds, and her offer has been accepted with thanks by the Borough Council. Hugh H. Wallace, veterinary surgeon. aged 68 widower, of Gore, droppt d dead this morning in a Wellington hotel, presumably from heart failure.—(Press Association.) Dr. Allen Berry. Medical Superintendent at the Napier Hospital, ia still seriously indisposed, and is confined to bed as the result of a septic hand, sustained several days ago. At the meeting ox the Hastings Borough Council, held last night, aceouuif paid between August 10th and September 11th, amounting to £7395 11/2, were approved and accounts amounting to £1357 5/3 were passed tor payment. The Hastings Rugby Sub-union applied to the Borough Council for tne use of Nelson Park on Wednesday, September 20th, for a benefit loot bail match to Mr. A. C. Norris. —Permission granted, but sub-union must not take this as a precedent. The Mayor, at lust night’s meeting of the Hastings Borough Council, sM mat arrangements must be made with the Rugby Sub-union that their season concludes earlier, so that the ground can be prepared for cricket. Cr. Aladdison expressed the hope that Beatson s Park would be ready for use next year. A euchre tournament, between the Hastings firemen, with the ex-hremen, and the Havelock N. Fire Brigade, was held at the Hastings Fire totuuon last mgnt, when the Hastings team won by 137 games to Havelock’s 37. Ine visiters were subsequently entertained most hospitably by the Hastings h ire Brigade and ex-memhers. Attention is drawn to the sale advertised by McGlashan’s Ltd., Napier, to take place at the residence oi Mrs. Ewan Troutbeck. Chaucer road north, Hospital mil, on Wednesday next, at 2 o clock. The articles to be offered are of exceptional valite and will be sold without reserve, bull details will oe advertised in to-morrow/s paper, At last night's meeting of tne faradaie Town board Mr. J. Ellis (chatfman), in moving a vote ot appreciatsgj to the clerk (Mr. vv. G. Jarvis; paid a glowing eulogy to his services to the uoard during tne past six y**™* Commissioners C. H. Williams, W. Mowaru, A. B. Davis and O. Anderson also spoke in similar terms. Tne motion was carried unanimously. The clerk suitably replied. Thd chairman also accorded a vote of appreciation to the press lor their attendance and helpful services. . Referring to what is said elsewhere in this issue with regard to the opportunity which the Government is giving of converting 4f per cent, tax-free war loan stock into 5J per cent, tax-bearing stock, we note that one the Wellington dailies speaks of “must of the debentures” coming within the scope of the scheme as “lalimg due in 1928.” it will be as well, therefore, for any warloan debenture-holders who have thought of taking advantage of the option to ascertain definitely whether their securities come within its operation. A man named George Foster was admitted to the Napier Hospital on Wednesday night suffering from injuries to the tnigh and kidneys, boater and others were engaged in placing roofing iron on the Harbour Board engine shed on Breakwater road and had placed the ladder across the line. The Harbour Board engine, drawing a rake of trucks, came irom the breakwater and the engine dislodged the ladder, causing Foster to tall into one of the trucks and sustain the injuries mentioned. He was attended by Dr. Graham-Robertson, who ordered his removal to the hospital. . V' It is a long time since such a large crowd of people attended an auction sale of any description as were present at the Tourist Alotor Company's garage on Wednesday, the 13th met., when Messrs. Gill Bros., on behalf of the insurance conipany, put up to the highest bidder the salvage stock, comprising cars, motor cycles, and hum dreds of sundry lines. The sale was carried on until Thursday midday, when the auctioneers closed the sale, finding it impossible to get through all the lines, as they had to conduct another sale the same afternoon. The Tourist Motor Co., Ltd., have taken over the balance of the stock, and (versons were unable to attend the sala can inspect the stock at the <-ompanys garage up till Saturday next, the 23rd inst. There are a lot of good lines to be sold at auction prices, and all those interested would he well advised to look over the goods while the opportunity offers.