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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 303, 11 December 1922, Page 6

All-, and Airs Skerrett, of Al'eHing:on intend visiting Taupo shortly. An English mail per R. Al. S. lonic, at Wellington, will arrive by express this evening. Ibe 1923 sittings of the Supreme Court at Aapier have been fixed for February 27, June 5, August 21 and •November 13. Herbert George Boyce, builder, of Waipukurau, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. There were It industrial disturbances m New Zealand for the nine months ended September 30, according to the Government Statistician I hose involved 50()2 workers, and an approxnnate loss in wages of £3B. 352. and 460 days of idleness. A Wellington Press Association message announces the death of Mr Frank J. Andrews. 1.5.0., aged 74. Ho was private secretary to six Premiers and later on clerk to the Executive Council.

Ihe Jlon. Prudence Jellicoe, one of Her Excellency’s schoolgirl daughters won third place in the riding competition at the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Show at Epsom, Auckland. Mr. W. E. (“Pussyfyoot”) Johnson is visiting Rotorua. He intends re. return to Wellington this week, and will leave for America at an early date

The Hawke’s Bay County Council has decided to write to the Minister of Public Works and place the facts before him with reference to the Waipunga road Mr. Edward Newman, ox M.P. for Manawatu. who has been in a nrivate hospital recently, owing to an accident on the wharf at Rotorua, has now recovered, and has left for his home at Marton.

By an Order-in-Council appearing in last week’s “Gazette” the term for which the Manawatu-Oroua ElectricPower Board may borrow £lOO,OOO, part of the half-million loan authorised, is fixed at twenty years, instead of ten years as originally proposed and as authorised by the ratepayers. Last week’s “Gazette” contains lengthy amendments of the regulations under the Education Act. They have reference mainly t.> the examination and classification of teachers and to the award of National Scholarships.

Sir Francis Bell, Attorney-General, who recently returned from a trip to tiio Old Country, where he represented the country on several important conferences, is to be entertained by his friends at a dinner to he given in the Empire Hotel on Thursday evening next.

A quiet wedding was solemnised at St. Joseph’s Church, Wellington, recently by the Rev. B’ather O Donuell, when Mr. F. N. Ryan, of the Telegraph Department, Wellington, third son of the late Mr. James Ryan, of Westport, and Mrs. Ryan, of Napier, was married to Miss Frances Duggan, fourth daughter of tho late Mr. Daniel Duggan, of Marlborough. The Government Statistician, in his November Monthly Abstract, reports

» a rise of 11 points in the cost ol arti- > cles in the grocery group, and a fall i of 22 points in the dairy products group. The cost of living, as shown in the combined groups of groceries, dairy products, and meat, is still 39.- • 35 per cent, above tile ruling averages for July, 1914. 1 Another adjournment, this time till January 22 was granted at the Napier ' Magistrate’s Court this morning, by Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M., in the case in which Edward Darning Holt (Mr H. B. i Lusk) sheepfarmer, of Korikipo, is charged with entering on September 6, in a manner likely to cause a reasonable apprehension of a l»v n<, h °l Iho peace, oa land in the actual ami peaceable possession of Agnes Clementina Bowen, . for the purpose of, taking possession of it. It is notified in the ‘Gazette” for public information that pianofortes are deemed by the Minister of Customs to be goods ol a class or kind ' which, if imported into New Zealand from countries having a depreciated currency, would prejudically or injuriously affect an industry establish ?d in New Zealand or in some ether ' part of the British Dominions. The special duty imposed on goods imported from countries having a depre Elated currency is therefore on and from the Ist day January. 1923. pay able on pianofortes. At the Supreme Court. New Ply Mouth, on Friday, before His Honour ; Mr. Justice Chapman and a jury ol twelve, Hannah Gavin, of Takapau, recovered £275 damages together with costs, -against Edward Elliott Snowball for breach of promise of marriage. The case was founde.d on a verbal promise, the defence being a denial and in the alternative, that plaintiff had exonerated the defendant bv an agreement entered into Linen breach. Mr. B. J. Dolan of Napier represented the plaintiff and I Mr. A. A Bennett, of New Plymouth, was for defendant.