Local and General

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 89, 31 March 1926, Page 4

Local and General

The Hawke’s Bay County Council is at present engaged in crushing a fine lot of beach metal, a large quantity of : which will be utilised on the Te Ante Sroad. The mail train from Hastings this ’ morning, outward bound for the Easter holidays was crowded with traveller* on their wav to the four quarters of New Zealand on pleasure bent and the bustle was so brisk that the engine steamed south some 12 or 13 minutes late. The Hastings Hibernian Society’s ball will take place in the Assembly Hall this evening. Robertson’s Jazz Band will supply the music and everything has been done to secure the comfort and enjoyment of the dancers. The supper arrangements are complete and a waltzing competition will be a feature of the programme. The Canadian Government has offered the New Zealand authorities 12,000 feet of floor space ai> the Canadian National Exhibition, Tor<Mito, in August, and it is anticipated that this will all be utilised. Preparations are being made by the Department of Industries and Commerce for the collection of goods for the display. The Government Publicity Department will take part, while other State Departments will cooperate. The quarterly meeting of the Napier Fire Board was held yesterday. Present —Messrs J. W. Norrie, T. Heath, W. Hay, G. Mitford-Taylor, R. W. Goodgor and J. P. Williamson. The superintendent, Mr J. H. Riddell, reported that the brigade had had 15 calls during the quarter. The plant generally was all in good order, only a few repairs having to be effected to the engines. Firemen Johnson and C. Riddell, of the Napier Fire Brigade, were awarded twoyear service bars. Accounts totalling £223 12s Id were passed for payment.

In view of the late night to-morrow, the Hastings branch of the W.E.A. will not meet for the usual weekly lecture. The next meeting will be on Thursday, April 8. The usual success attended Mrs. Hearnes euchre party last night. The prizes went to Mrs. Laredo Ist. and Mrs. Walden 2nd.; gentlemen Mr. W. Taylor Ist. Mr Phil Walden 2nd. Yesterday afternoon the boys of the Hastings High School held their annual steeplechase over a course of about 2J miles. The winner was M. Cameron, A. Gloyn being second and E. Potts third. The greater number of points was gained by Purple House. Approached last night in Napier, A. E. Cooke, the All Black centre threequarter, emphatically denied the statement recently published in England to the effect that he had been offered and accepted an invitation to join the New Zealand League team to tour England in the coining season. Cooke made it perfectly ciear that he had not the slightest intention of playin-g the League code. He will continue to play Rugby .and for the ensuing season will play in Hawke’s Bay. Canadian papers report a big gold rush to the Red Lake area of the Province of Ontario, and optimistically report that it bids fair to outdo that which took place to the Yukon in 1898. Prospectors state that the Hudson Bay Company’s men and the natives of the Red Lake district are amazed at the trek of men into a country they had long regarded as only good for hunting. According to old-timers who have returned, the friendliness of prospecting days of the past is absent in the present rush. Outfits pass each other on the trail with sometimes only a grunt of salutation, as compared ’ with the friendly trail-side chats of the past. At the Hastings Court this morning, before Mr. R. W. Dyer, S.M., Alice L. Clemencpt applied for orders of separation, maintenance and the guardianship of the two children against her husband Arthur Clemencot. Seannell appeared for complainant and Mir. Hallett for defendant. Mrs. Ingram acted as interpreter. Mr. Scannell said the parties were French, were married in France in. 1910, and they arrived in New Zealand two years ago last October. There were two children, a girl and a boy, aged 15 and purely domestic nature was given in 4 years respectively. Evidence of a support of complainant’s claim. The many New Zealanders of Scottish origin (writes a London correspondent) will take an interest in the news that two Scottish estates .with Burns associa. tions have just coine into the market at the same time, and both, bv another Coincidence, are close to each other One is Cambusdoon, Ayr. a beautiful place with nice surroundings, which was a home, some years ago, of one of the famous brothers, the Bairds, millionaire ironmasters. Near Cambusdoon is the old kirk of Alloway (which figures in the poem about Tam O’Shanter and the witches), where Burns’ father and mother are buried and quite near to the propertv of Belleisle also to be sold. On this latter estate Burns was born. Cambusdoon was the residence of the Baird whn gave £250.000 to the Church of Scot land, a gift which the witty Scottish judge, Lord Young, who remembered mahv things about the Baird brothers described as “the heaviest fire in surance on record.”