Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 285, 17 November 1923, Page 4

Local and General.

Walter Scott Halliday, labourer, of Takapau, and Lancelot Herbert Lindsay Margoliouth. farmer ,of Hastings, have filed petitions' in bankruptcy. "The present indebtedness of the borough of Palmerston North is beI tween £650,000 and £OO,OOO on a capital value of over £5.000.000,” stalled the Mayor, Mr. F. J. Nathan.

In reference to the Auckland fish business, the City Council will contiuc to take the output of one private trawler and buy from a line of fishermen selling wholesale to dealers. At the Supreme Court, at Auckland, in the case in which Luka Antoniwich, , a sued Alfred Ernest Harding, of Dargaville, owner of a motorcar, claiming £261 damages for in- a juries alleged to have been sustained as a result of a collision with a bicycle gl ridden by plaintiff, the jury found for the defendants. Something in the nature of a record P has been established by a three-year-old Jersey cow belonging to Mr. P. t] Healey, of “Heatherlea," Levin, which f( has, during the course of its short life, produced four healthy calves. Calving • first at 15 months, she had her second ’ calf shortly after turning her second “ year, and this year produced a healthy pair of twins whilst still not quite three years of age. j | With a view to enlarging the scope tl of operations of the Hastings Y-M.C.A. s> la concert party Jias been formed. This £ I party, twenty in number, gave the 1 | second of its country concerts last n evening to a very appreciative audience d at Maraekakaho. The various items 11 were well received, the duets by the lady members of the party calling forth £ many encores. The orchestra enlivened the proceedings by giving a num- j her of well-known choruses, and the Q general opinion was that the party I which was under the management of y Mr, C. Pope, was a credit to the As- p sociation. . a The Orient R.M.S. Ormonde, due at Fremantle on Monday, is the first of the company’s steamers to carry f only one class saloon passengers. Un- } der the ol dsystem first and second 3 saloon passengers were carried at dif- t ferent fares, but on the Ormonde all saloon passengers are carried at rates j very little in excess of the old second t saloon fare, and a considerable increase j in deck space and recreation rooms re- r suits. So far the steamers Ormonde and Ormuz are the only vessels offering this advantage, but next year the < new 20,000-tonners will also lx? run on 1 these lines. * ft is understood that the Hastings carriers have been informed that they . can remain on their present stand until additional accommodation is provided • ' for them, At the meeting of the . . Borough Council next Thursday, the Mayor (Mr. G. Maddison) has given notice to move "That a carriers’ stand ' be established between half a chain L from the entrance to the railway plat- , form at Queen street, extending in a > northerly direction to the telegraph' pole.” If this motion is carried. Jhis will become the principal stand for the ! carriers, but the new stand laid down > ■ in Avenue road will still remain to [ provide extra accommodation. , Dr. Wilson, superintendent of the : Wellington Hospital, who recently re- ■ turned from America, in a report to - the Board, stated that if radium is in- ' t troduced in New Zealand and used indiscriminately much harm may result. He suggests that it should be used in 5 conjunction with X-rays and by some C specialist. His advice is that the salt r should be obtained, a,nd put in needles. plaques and containers in suitable doses. The aim should be to obtain .5 3 of a gramme, although much good work could be done with .25 of a gramme, y His opinion is that this main centre i of the Dominion should have its own supply of radium and in addition there ° should be a depot which could augment the supply if required. At the Supreme Court in Dunedin yesterday before Mr Justice Sim, John 3 Stewart Wilson sued the Express Com--3 pany for £1315 12s for the loss of furL- niture and effects. The facts were that the defendant company contracte cd with the plaintiff to forward the plaintiff’s furniture from Oamaru to | Whakatane. The furniture was sent ■ B ; from Oamaru to Auckland and stored e ' there for some months at the request lof the plaintiff. It was then fory I warded at plaintiff’s request to Whun katane by the steamer Tasman, which . was wrecked and the furniture lost. I” The question for the court to decide Is was whether, on the assumption that y the wreck was due to carelessness on h the part of the captain and officers of [1 the vessel, the Express Company would be liable. His Honour said he would take time to consider his decision. i5- On Tuesday night next at the Hasd tings Methodist Church, Mrs. A. Christie is to give an organ recital. u Mrs. Christie is a very accomplished musician, and her previous recital was e greatly enjoyed. Assisting her on this y occasion is a soprano soloist of distinction, in the person of Mrs Barton Hobbs, who has consented to sing “O, Divine Redeemer,” The church choir, augmented for the occasion by the kindly assistance of a number of the best local vocalists, will sing some stirring choruses, and the descriptive anthem. “By Babylon’s Wave” (Gou > nod), under Mr. A. R. Don’s direction. . The recital promises to have much interest to music lovers, and it is some,n thing in the nature of a farewell to :h. choral efforts in Hastings where Mr. >n Don is concerned.