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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10763, 7 September 1906, Page 2

Mr and Mrs- Frank Barker returned from their trip to Europe by the s.s. Mokoia on Wednesday. Our Parliamentary reporter telegraphs that this week's Gazette notifies the reservation of section five, block fourteen, Hikurangi, containing 1628 acres, as an endowment foi* primary education. Mr Hamiora Hei, "LL.B., was admitted this morning as a solicitor and barrister of the .Supreme Court by Justice Edwards. Mr Sainsbury moved for Mr Hei's ad. mission. At tlie Police Court this morning, before Mr Barton, S.M., a first offender, convicted of drunkenness yesterday, was fined 'ss, costs 2s, m default 48 hours. Stephen Walsh, for a similar offence, was fined 10s, costs 2s, m default 48 hours. . Our Waipiro Bay correspondent telegraphs: — "A middle-aged man named Onslow, a pit sawyer, died suddenly at the Waipiro hotel yesterday, being taken with a fit.' The doctor was summoned, and the man recovered.- Later on, while talking to the doctor, he was seized with another fit, from which he , expired. Constable McLeod was summoned from Tolaga Bay. It is not yet known whether an inquest will be considered necessary." Mr Barton, S.M., district coroner, has received a wire, confirming the above, and has directed that an inquest would not be necessary. The, annual representative football match between Poverty Bay and Hawke's Bay takes place at the Victoria, Domain tomorrow aftefnoon, and there is every prospect of the game being a close and exciting one. It is expected that there will be a record attendance at the match. The Hawke's Bay team is reported to be a real good one, and will take a lot of beating. The local representatives have been doing a lot of solid work this week, and will strip m fine condition. A meeting of the team will be held this evening at the I sample rooms adjoining the Gisborne hotel, for the purpose of electing a captain, and other matters. Eveiy member is specially requested to be present, as matters of importance are to be discussed. The Hawke's Bay team arrive by the s.s. Zealandia to-morrow morning, and during their- stay will stop at the Hotel Corona- _______________________________.-._, *■ _i,~.-:>; ■■■..■■-■.- ■ o/.'-i.-.n,-:,.-.! ■

Jurors summoned to appear at the Supreme Court on the 10th inst. are notified that their attendance will not be required. Mr Bethune, Government auditor, is makiiig his first official visit to Gisborne, and is now engaged auditing the Borough books. The annual general meeting of the Poverty Bay Polo Club will be held at ; the Masonic hotel at 2 p.m. to-morrow, instead of 2.30 p.m., as previously advertised, j The first Poverty Bay representative football team was formed m 1878, and) comprised Messrs 0. Major (novr M.H.R.), ' Humpliries, Te Kani Per., J. White, G. J. Winter, Regan, Haig, G. Parau, Meredith, G. R. Wyllie, P. Bourke, F. Arthur, Geo. Henderson (captain), D. Ferguson, and W. Mills. An interesting photograph of the team, as also the portraits of the representatives of 1879 and 1881, is on view m Mr C. W. Muir's window. A meeting of tlie residents of Mangapapa was held last evening m the school to meet the Rev. L. Dawson Thomas, vicar of Holy Trinity parish, for the purpose of discussing the possibility of holding a Sunday service m the suburb. The meeting, whilst not largely attended, was quite representative. Several apologies for inability to attend were received. Mr W. E. Akroyd occupied tlie chair, and briefly outlined the wishes of the residents. If tlie vicar could see his way to hold a regular service at Mangapapa, he (the chairman) would confid-htly predict success. There were many of all denominations who, for various reasons, were unable to attend any place of worship m town. . Several otlier residents also spoke m the same strain. The vicar, m his reply, stated that the matter had his complete sympathy. The residents appeared very much m earnest about the matter, and he would aocede to their request. A strong committee was thereupon elected to carry out all arrangements. It was decided, if the School Committee were favorable, that a regular Sunday service be held at 7 p.m. m the Mangapapa school, the first service to be held on Sunday week, the 16th inst. Of recent years pressmen have been admitted -in Chambers at the sittings of -the Supreme Court at Gisborne, and have generally contented themselves with brief reports of the proceedings. In most cases only the presiding Judge's decisions have been given. As a rule the work taken m Chambers is of a technical nature, and not very intelligible to the publio, but there are exceptions, and this morning when two motions under the Law Practitioners Act were being heard' the reporters attended. Their presence no doubt hampered a free discussion ou questions raised, and when asked for his views on one point his Honor referred to the presence of the newspaper men. He said he liad objected for a long time to reporters while m Chambers. In England they were not allowed m Chambers. It was very undesirable that an informal discussion should be reported, and m Wel. lington his Honor had held out against it for a long time, with the result that they were excluded for a time. Tine Chief Justice was m favor of their admission, and they were now being admitted' m every court m the colony. His Honor tliought that only the results should be reported. The Registrar, Mr Barton, informed hia Honor that the question having been raised some years ago as to whether reporters should be admitted, he had consulted! Judge Conolly, who had sanctioned their admission. Hig Honor said he did not blame the reporters, but rather the judges who agreed, to their admission. The Napier Telegraph m its leading article of Tuesday stated that it had m its possession the broken wrapper of a sealed/packet of ballot papers bears ig the following official label: — "This parcel contains the voting papers which have been used m voting for the local option poll at the booth at wliich I presided at Capleston polling place, m the , licensing district of Buller, on the 6th r day of December, 1906. James Greeve, . deputy returning officer ; Francis Rogers, » Charles McArthur, scrutineers." We do not know (says the Telegraph) why this wrapper, still intact, and containing the ; ballot papers referred to, should not be , m the possession of the Clerk of the ; House instead of lying before us as we -, write. What we do know is that the I ; circumstances indicate the need for an [ inquiry of some kind. How the wrapi per came into our possession is soon j told. A resident m Wanganui took a _ pair of boots to bu mended. When he i went for them again they were handed . to him tied up m the wrapper alluded 1 to. That wrapper was posted to us . with a short statement of how it came r into our correspondent's possession ad L an expresson of wonderment that what , ought to be m the safe custody of the s Clerk of the House, awaiting destruction f by fire m December next, could find its r way to Wanganui to be used as wrapping . paper by a working shoemaker. ( The beginnings of what may prove to r be an important Golonial industry have j been made by Messrs Evans, Nield, and Company, who, m conjunction with Mr j Jaggers, one of their staff, recently from r England, are manufacturing a patent self* J locking roofing tile, which lias so many' '_ recommendations that it is likely to come into very general . use. The tile is the " invention aiud patent' of Mr Jaggers, and \ is made of sand and cement. Tine tiles , are lighter and stronger" than the Mar- \ seilles article now imported so largely _ into this colony, are less pervious to rain, . and considerably cheaper. They can be j manufactured at a very slight increase [ above the cost of iron, their superiority over which exists m the fact that ■ the [ material of which they are composed is a , non-conductor of heat and spund, thusmak- [ ing the houses on which they are placed 5 much more comfortable than those with , iron roofs. Moreover, the tiles can be » painted and arranged! to any design, and . they will give a veiy artistic appearance ; to the dwellings on which they are used. ': Each tile contains one square foot of space, and they are so designed thai one | fits over the otheV m a lock, which gives . absolute security against their shifting s once they are placed m position. More- . over, they can be affixed to a roof very r rapidly, and with a minimum cost of' f preparation. Mr Jaggers informs us that r the tiles have been well tried m London, r and have amply stood the test of experif ence. Mr Natusch, under whose super--5 vision they are being, used on a house for . Mr F. J. Rowley, is so satisfied 'with i them iW. Via -is .wrong sampl. s-sent—-to- . • -"Wellington, and expects to use N them 3 largely on work m other districts.