Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 16 March 1923, Page 6

Local and General.

The Rev. D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, telegraphs as follows for 2-J hours from 9 alm. this day:—The indications are for westerly strong winds to -gale,,and backing by west to south. The-weather-will probably prove- squally and changeable. Barometer rising A general meeting of the Rovers (Hastings) Football Club will be held this evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall. . The annual meeting of the Hastings Ladies’ Hockey Club will be held in the \ .M.C.A. rooms this evening. Mr. L. Mcllvride, M.P. for Napier, will address a public meeting in the Oddfellows Hall. Hastings, to-morrow night at 8 o’clock, when he will expound the policy of the Labour Party. The loiter portion of the Vancouver mail by the Makura will arrive by the mail train this evening. The other portion will arrive by the afternoon train to-morrow. , ,

Messrs. E. J. and Don Carroll's comedy company. concluded their season at the Hastings Municipal Theatre last night, whei “The Sentimental Bloke" was again submitted to a fair house. The company open in Napier to-night. At a general meeting of the Hastings Starr-Bowkett Building Society held in the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club rooms last evening, Mr. W. Y. Dennett presiding. group No. -10 was successful in a ballot for £5OO in the No. 3 issue, and a similar appropriation in the No. 4 issue went to group No. 1. In furtherance" of the proposal that Napier should have another school, the Hawke’s Bav Education Board decided yesterday, to apply to the Department for the immediate erection of a new school of three rooms on tho site which is being acquired from the Harbour Board on the south side of Ellison street.

It is hardly necessary to remind the public of the Irish concert which comes off at the Hastings Municipal Theatre to-night, ' and still less necessary to advise them to be present at. a recital which will be of a very high standard. ]f. however .there should be a few who are unable to make up their minds they are referred to the programme of the concert advertised in this issue, a perusal of which* will secure their attendance. Amongst the singers will he Mrs. Campion (Wanganui), Miss Eileen Cotter, just arrived from the Irish Free State, and Miss N. Cough lan and Miss Richards (Hastings), besides several gentlemen artists of distinction. The bill will indudr humorous numbers. Irish jigs, and other dances, and a violin duet by Mr E. Parker and Father McDonald.

The cry of the orphan and neglected children is not a loud sounding one in this well-favoured land. Nevertheless they do exist an their numbers do not decrease with advancing years. The saying that “the poor ye have always with you" is as true to-day as when uttered 2000 years ago. The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand is endeavouring to care for the children of the land who are in need. Homes and institutes are now established in the main centres of the Dominion. The cost of the upkeep of these homes has steadily increased, necessitating an occasion appeal for support. To assist the cause Mr. J. A. Thomson, treasurer of the Presbyterian Orphanage at Berhampore, Wellington, is visiting Hastings for this purpose and will speak at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. We trust that he may meet with a ready welcome from all especially those who have it in their power to help.

Messrs Wilmer and Crawford, a deputation from the Port Ahuriri School Committee, waited upon the Hawke’s Bay Education Board yesterday, and asked that it should endeavour to prevent the falling off in the attendance of the school. It was pointed out that sixty children residing at the Port were attending the Central School. The Board decided to inform the parents of the Port that the attendance had decreased to such an extent that the staff would have to be reduced, that .in view of the increase at the Central School, the Board would be compelled at an early date to admit only children belonging to that district. that it would then be necessary for Port children to attend the Port School, and that, as the children would eventually have to attend the Port School, it was essential that they should be jsent at once, in order that the school should have a full staff when it was compulsory for them to attend.

'l,'he usual meeting of Karamu Lodge, No 47, 1.0.0. F., was held last evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Bro. A. Stephens, N.G., presiding over a good attendance of members. A motion of condolence with Bro. W. H. Coombe was carried in silence. Bros. C. C. Nelson, S. L. Fannin and R. H. Watson were reported as still on the sick list. A letter was read from the Grand Lodge congratulating Karamu on its successful year both from a financial point of view and the increase of its membership. The Grand Lodge re presentative. Bro. H. J. Newbigin, and several members of the Star of Napier Lodge No. 61 were admitted and accorded the honours of the Order. Six candidates were initiated into the Order, the ceremony being well carried out by the officers. The business being finished, the tables were set out with £od things, and a most enjoyable evening was spent, with songs .recitations, speeches and a most amusing dialogue by Bro. R. Sampson and his young lady Arabella. The evening terminated with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.’’

There was a large attendance at the Heretaunga Club, Hastings, last night, wlien the members and a number of friends assembled at a banquet to bid adieu to Mr. A. J. Ellingham, on the eve of his departure for Waikare, whither he leaves on March 21 to take over the proprietary of the Waikare Hotel. Mr. E. W. Watson, president of the club, occupied the chair at a gathering which was one of the pleasantest ever held in connection with the institution. The usual toasts were honoured and, in the course of the evening, Mr. M. Johnson proposed the health of “The Guest," and, in speaking to it, he paid a high tribute to Mr. Ellingham’s sterling qualities, as a true sportsman and a gentleman, characteristics which he had maintained during the thirty, years he (Mr. Johnson) had known him. Other speakers followed in a similar strain and Mr. Ellingham replied in a feeling speed), thanking the assemblage for their kindly sentiments and expressing his regret at parting with so many friends, whom, however, he hoped he would meet again, both at Waikare and in Hastings. The president (Mr. E. W. Watson) then presented Mr. Ellingham with a cabinet of cigars and a smoker’s outfit on behalf of the members, wishing their guest and Mrs. Ellingham every happiness and prosperity in their new venture. Mr. Ellingham. in a short speech, returned thanks. In the course of the proceedings, songs were sung by Messrs J. Johnstone, T. Johnstone, H. J. King, W. R. Jones. A. Wilson, C. H. Slater and T. Slater, whilst a string band, consisting of Messrs Bruce, Bryant, G. Tong and N. E. Watson, contributed selections. After a very enjoyable valedictory re-union, the evening wound up at 11 o’clock with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne."