Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 242, 26 September 1922, Page 6

Local and General.

Th© Rev. I). C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, issues the following weather forecast for the ~4 hours from 9 a.m. to-day:—The indications are for northerly moderate to strong winds prevailing. Weather cloudy and overcast at times. Misty rain is to be expected. Barometer falling. The work of grading Karamu Road, Hastings, from St. Aubyn street to Victoria street, will be commenced this week. The Hastings Band will march down the main street to-night and play in front of the Municipal Theatre before the Maori entertainment begins. The Hastings Borough Engineer intends to have the Station street extension, from Heretaunga street to Lyndon road, open for traffic for the Hastings show carnival week. Th© members of the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board have been inspecting the different river banks and general works of the board near Cliesterhope and other places to-day. Th© annual general meeting of the Havelock North Swimming Club will be held in the Town Board office tomorrow’ night at 7.30 o’clock. All members and intending jiinib.*rs me requested to attend. Mr Sydney Peck, secretary of the Hastings Show carnival week, reports that he has received over 300 slogans in the Hastings slogan competition. The award will be mude this afternoon. While playing in a football match yesterday afternoon, on McLean Park, Napier, Hillson, of the Napier team had the misfortune to break his right ankle. He is now in hospital and is progressing well. A patient who was under observation at the Napier Hospital escaped from that institution on Sunday morning, but was found again yesterday afternoon by the police and taken back to the hospital. The uncertainty of the situation in Eastern Europe has caused a lull i,i the registration of volunteers in Hastings. Up to noon to-day the number of names registered with Sergt.-Major O’Leary for active service was 138. Mr. Roy O’Donoghue, who dislocated his shoulder whilst playing in the match Napier-Hastings v, Wairoa at Napier last Saturday, is able to be about and transact his business, and he hopes to be all right again in the course of a couple of weeks or so. The scholars of St. Luke’s Sunday school. Havelock North, are working very hard in preparing for their annual entertainment to be held on October 11th. It promises to be the best concert given yet by the Sunday school children. The annual conference of the New Zealand Veterans’ Association will be held in Hastings, this year, on Thursday, October 26th., at the National Service Club. Delegates will be present from various centres in the North Island. The conference was held at Palmerston North last year. The Heretaunga Dairy Company’s balance-sheet, adopted at the annual meeting, showed a net surplus for the year of £17,668 13s lid, out of which a bonus and dividend for the year will be paid, making the average payments to suppliers for butter fat for the season Is 4Jd per pound. A Press Association message from Perth, W.A., states that owing to a strong' wind the whale boat conveying parts of the Lick observatory expedition’s sft and 15ft Einstein cameras from Wallal to the schooner Gwendoline swamped in shallow water. No serious damage is reported. All th© parts were recovered. A social committee, consisting of members of St. Matthew’s Cricket Cluh Hastings, are at present engaged in making arrangements for a social and dance to be held on Friday, 29th. inst.. in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Hastings. The proceeds are to be devoted to the club’s equipment fund, and no effort is being spared to make the evening both a social and financial success. At the Hastings sitting of the Court to-morrow the Magistrate (Mr. R. W. Dyer, S.M.) will be occupied with half a dozen police cases, including two charges of exceeding the speed limit, two of failing to register change of ownership of motor cars, one of break ing an electric light meter seal, and th© sentencing of the young Maori woman convicted of theft of drapery. The civil list will consist of 41 civil cases, including eight judgment summonses and tw’o defended case*. Following on the decision at the previous meeting of the Napier Borough Council that a committee be appointed to secure the co-operation of the Napier Harbour Board and other bodies in forming a deputation to wait upon the Minister of Railways (Hon D. H. Guthrie) in regard to the Hastings street trams crossing the railway so as to be able to proceed to Kinross White street, the council last evening appointed Crs. I*. Ashcroft. A. E. Renouf, B. B. Creagh and J. C. Bryant to solicit the sympathy of the bodies concerned. Mr. John Mason presided over a large gathering at Scinde Hall, Napier, last evening when an enjoyable smoke concert was held by members of th© Public Service and banks and law football teams and their irtends. Musical items contributed during the evening by Messrs. C. Tidy, F. Nockels, J. Young, J. Hutchinson and G. Oakley added considerably to the enjoyment of the evening. The toasts of “The King,” “Banks and Law,” “Public Service,” “Kindred Sports.’’ “Our Guests.” and “The Ladies” were all honoured. Community singing was most spiritedly indulged in, and the gathering was brought to a close with the singing of “Auld Rang Syne?’ ® The last written words of Henry Lawson, the poet, appear in the Sept, issue ot “Aussie.” A passage from an article of reminiscences from his pen breates a spirit of intense melancholy, and shows that the poet knew that his days were numbered. He wrote: “I’ve got such a lot of unwritten memories and so little time in front, that I often get. side-tracked at the station of old things. . . I’m always driving al something in spite of cronies, beer and declining years—driving back to the worse truer and happier days. The worse days were the best I think.” In the same issue of “Aussie’’ appears one of the last pieces of Lawson’s verse. It carries a brighter spirit and is reminiscent of his happier days.