Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 301, 8 December 1922, Page 4

Local and General.

Classification lists for assistant teachers in secondary schools are gazetted says a Wellington telegram. The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company received a wireless message yesterday from their liner lonic, en route from London and Southampton via Panama, stating that the vessel will arrive in the stream at Wellington at ‘noon on Sunday.

Quite a quantity of machinery and equipment for putting in the concrete at both the Mungahao and Arapeti dam is now on hand, and everything points to a start being made with this branch of the work early in the New Year (states the “Manawatu Standard”). The excavations arc proceeding satisfactorily.

“Men don’t find their way here to get what they like,” said Mr Justice Chapman, in addressing prisoners in the course of sentencing them at New Plymouth; “they usually get something they don’t like here, and whether you like the sentence of the court is of no concern just now.”

A driver of a motor car went on a reckless ckreer in Hcretaunga street this morning at about 7 o ’clock, during which he invaded the footpath and some pedestrians only saved themselves by hopping out of his course. Continuing his erratic progress, he narrowly missed a post near the Women’s Rest, which was near proving his Waterloo, and ithen he fell into the hands of the police, who will institute proceedings in due course.

The Maori prophet Rua, who several years ago created a- sensation in the Urcwera country, has come into more pleasing prominence recently by the gift of 60 acres of land l at Waimana, a settlement near Opotiki in tho Moewera country, to the Presbyterian Church for the purpose of erecting a technical college for Maoris. The offer was made to the missionaries, to whom Rua has been of considerable assistance, and was accepted by the Presbyterian Genorel Assembly at its recent session at. Auckland.

Yesterday whilst Mr Joseph Saunderson, an engineer employed at the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Ltd., Hastings, was stirring up the fire in one of the port holes of the gas producer which drives the engines, a back fire drove the flame into his face, with the result that his eyes were badly burnt. He was attended to by Dr. Johnston. The extent of his injuries may prove serious. The accident should serve as a warning to persons working in connection with gas producers to exercise every caution in their operations. A former well-known sport who was for long a resident of Gore bought land near Wanganui about four years ago, and writes to a friend as follows: “We have had a great fight for the past three years, but we see daylight ahead, and although perhaps we will not make much money for a year or two, we will be able to hang on. We did not sell any wool last year. We have sold fat lambs at lOd per lb, and expect close upon Is per lb for it, as ,it is very good. The farm is looking “tip-top,” and we hope to carry 2000 ewes next year. The lucerne is great, and we intend putting in more this season. Thanks to the rise in prices many men in a similar position will be able to sleep sounder, and have the satisfaction of knowing that their labour and worry have not been in vain. ’ ’