TOWN EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10960, 1 May 1907, Page 3

TOWN EDITION

Tin"; Wellington Rowing Club have plac. !ed an order with Mr Norton for nearly ' £200 worth of new plant, which will in- | elude five new boa's— two for racing and I tluee for club work— and about £40 worth oi oars. , Tlie British Women's Emigration Society sent out 603 women to the colonies lin 1905 and 744 m 1906. Of the latter 575 went to Canada and only seven to New Zealand. The feature . of the past year was. the increase m the number of educated wofnen who have* been i placed, and the great efforts made to find openings for them. Bookings for southern ports per s.s. Mokoia: Misses' Bibby, Davis, Holden, Mesdames Leßoy, Eichelbaum, Knight, Knowles' and 'o children, McLaclilan, Messrs E. Cunningham, O. Monckton, House, Smart, T. S. Williams, Walker, H. B. and A. B. Williams, W. Steel, J. A. Smith. Eichelbaum and attendant, Clift, H.- Armstrong. G. McGregor, Grunge, E. Cosgrove, Bito6si (2) Noonan, Knowles, Medion, Monckton, Murray. The: police m Christchurch employ a Chinese cock, a fact which hns caused ;the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council to pass a motion "expressing regret." So do the Dunedin police, aiid a clean, tidy specimen of his race, and a>bove all, an expert - cook lie is, 'too. "Jimmie" is known to every man m blue who lias lived at the P6lice < Qimp since tlie barracks were* erected here many years ago,: and "the boys" of the past, as well as those of to-day, stand by "jimmie" as the boss cook m the service. ' A gentleman named Mr Kruger is at present on a visit to Dunedin. and from a conversation with mm. it would seem that local interest m '"Oo n Paul" has not died yet; Mr Kruger mentioned to a Star representative that, wherever he travels, he is met with tlie same question, repeated a hundred times : "Are you a relation of President Kruger's." Sometimes the gentleman m question grows pardonably weary, and owns up to some distant relationship wliich he doesn't possess. Then" the reporters come and want to interview him.

In connection "with the visit of Mr C. J. Fulton, New. Zealand fibre fexpert, to St. Helena, -'Mr A. G. Wise, secretary of the St. Helena Committee, states that the proposed new industry will not afford employment for the large number of laborers who, have been thrown out of work by the withdrawal : of the garrison, ©yen.if it is successful. The question remains ""how the colonists can exist Vtill. the/first crop of flax is ready to. harvest," whibh 'Will' be at least four years after planting. /-The inhabitants *ar c anxiously pressing, therefore,, for the establishment of an Admiralty depot, and for frequent visits from British warships. • It is more than 44 years since H-M-S. v Orpheus was wrecked on the Manukau bar, and it seems impossible^ that any relics of that awful tragedy should still be lyinp. along tlie coast. Such is the fact, however. At Easter a party^of campers, while walking a)ong the. beach some two miles aud a half from the Heads, sawthe end of an old spar sticking out of the sririd, about 300 yards from the edge of the tide. It excited their curiosity, so they dug it up, and' found it wiis the miz. Zen-topmast of : ' the ill-fated vessel, the spar to .which the unfortunate / officers cliing during .an awful afternoon and night, '" till they 1 were washed off. and drowned. •