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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11109, 25 October 1907, Page 4

Mr Frank DeLautour, son of Mr C. A DeLaut'our, leaves for England by the Arawa on November 7th. to pursue his studies m electrical engineering. The amount put through the totalisator yesterday (J87342) was £1848 more than on the corresponding day of last year. The amouut put through on the second day last year was £5348. v

Mr P. T. Emerson, who received a nasty fall at the Show on Wednesday, recovered consciousness at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, and is progressing slowly but favorably under the circumstances!, Mr and Mrs B. S. Carver, of Hastings, suffered a double bereavement last week. Mr Carver's father died at Ohingaiti, and Mrs Carver's mother died at Christchurch, both deaths occurring on the same day. A great crowd was attracted m front of the Coronation hotel this morning, when Mr E. O'NeiH'e pretty little pony, Sandow, "was on the balcony giving a per-, fonnance m conjunction with a clever child. T The honor of sending "the golden fleece" this year belongs to a Maori. Messrs Williams and Kettle.-Ltd.,.receiv-ed on the 19th inst; a consignment of .bales of this season's . wool from Hami Wirihana's Te Aral station. . Captain Martin is proving a useful servant to the Harbor. Board during' the pre-i vailing epidemic of influenza. He was ■■ called upon to take charge of the dredge . during the temporary illness pf Captain Solvander, and is now acting as harbormaster,' Captain Cumming having been seized with influenza. . . ' The total passengers by the GisborneKaraka railway for the four- weekly .period ' ending September, 14 was 4313, against! 3908 last year. The. revere was £537, 2s Id and expenditure, £379 17s Sd^gainst £364 9s 5d and £420 12s 4d. ' For the. twelve monthly period the revenue was £347 16s lOd and expenditure £847 17s 9d per mile/ ' , Messrs Gaudin and Co. report the sale of Gisborne town section opposite the . new Borough Council offices m, Childers road from Mr Thps. Hollywood to Mr Harold Kane; tiles Motu store and dwelling from Mr Thosl ; McGregor to Mr Ralph, and section 8. Motii pillage, containing one acre, fron> ; Mr Robert Jolihston to Mr Wm. Brook. The firm; have a number of cheap city and! suburban pro* . perties for sale, which wcrol'd well repay \ the attention of station owners looking for a town investment.- :.'■ . _The extenuating circumstance of a "lack of knowledge of the finer points of town life, was the ground of counsel asking at the Police Court this morning that leniency should be extended to a man from the backblocks, who had committed/ a breach of the Police Offences Act The, accused. Peter McDermott, was charged • with having unduly exhibited a. stalfion ;' m the saddling paddock at the racecourse yesterday. Mr T. Alston Coleman, m. entering a plea of guilty, ; said his client was quite unaccustomed to town life, and had thought he could do at the racecourse 1 what he would m a bush camp. There had been a dispute m regard to. a particular horse, and defendant, ignorant of the law, paraded the horse m support of hiijr argument. The affair took .place within the sight of a. number of ladies. The Magistrate said defendant 'shbulU' have known better, and imposed a fine of £5 with costs, m default seven days' imprisonment. As one of the initial members of the East Coast Mounted: Rifles, Sergt; -Major Morrison .was last evening tendered : b smoke concert by the members of the corps and presented with a travelling companion upon the occasion of hiiri der . parture from the district. In making the presentation Capt. Tomblesori spoke . in .appreciative terms of Sergt.-Major Morrison ,s services, adding that they had both joined the volunteers . together on the same evening. The departing ; offi- ' cer's health was also .. toasted, and, amongst others, Captain Colebourne, former officer m charge of the corps, made a few remarks. Mr Mor. rison having suitably responded, a number of other toasts were duly honored. Quartermaster-Sergt. Zachariljh proposi ing that of Mrs 'Morrison and family, and Lieut. Evans that of the Army, Navy, and Volunteers. The proceedings were much enlivened by the contribution of numerous songs and recitations by members of the corps. /.. „ ' ■ . , A man named Henry Dennett, alias lopping, succeeded last evening m 6btaimng a little notoriety for himself, and this morning was called. upon to,aris--w<3? -*°W: .at the .Police Couit, Hot drunkenness he was fined £1 and 2s costs, or 48 hours' imprisonment ; dam* 5?"?S-* pane of glass the property of the W.Z. Government, 10s and 2s costs, tb' gether with the amount of the damage 10s or 48 hours' ; procuring liquor whilst under, prohibition (second offence), £5 and 2s costs, or 30 days' imprisonment; wilfully trespassing on the Poverty Bay Club premises and refusing to quit when ordered to do so, 10s arid 7s costs or 48 hours'. Sergeant Williams reported that accused, whilst drunk', had trespassed into the Club where he fairly took charge of things for a time. On being ordered, out he behaved most offensively and his conduct was a menace to the. members of the Club, present. Accused, who Is a married man, wasalt^l^i&zt whick lopayihe ****>■ ,v,? 6 -? orts P ubli sli<Kl m London ndwspapers sliow, that intense interested ounaid lin^er .Lusitania on her maiden voyage .from Liverpool to NewTork A lon*, and picturesque description of the deDarture appears m the Tribune,; from hi f! ?W *™«ondent; and plannV: fien t by « wireless." Entering the vessel, the cSnTV, " lb^^ the hall ) the Oarlton hotel-a lift shot up and down • there were .dainty decorations oh the high walls ; pictures flourished on the staircase ; lathe* sat at ease m lounge chairs • tjiere was a post office, and, letter bureau ■Ihe further one^ went. .the greater grew the surprises. State' rooms with Braes beds, wardrobes a telephone, and washing arrangements m a special compartment leading out of each room, nS rooms, smoking rooms, tea rooms writlofty_ that tables we* set on the surrounding so that the passengers dined m two tiers— it was all so splendid and on so generous a scale that one readily gave the Lusitania pride of place as aueen of £.lia Western Ocean." It is muclv ta be regretted that interest m the School Committees' Association movement haa been allowed to diminish to such an extent that the annuaLmefltuig, called for last, evening lapsed- for want of a quorum of five. Such an Asso^ .' ciation, if abl v directed, can be and has proved so m. % .South- kn important factor an educational matters. ' r Only^four town members of the Association' (put, in an appearance at the place of meeting last evening, and, it might be added, that from the upstair windows of the Hifrh School, tliey whiled away an hour or oq watching the buckjuthpers' "• performance whilst they waited for the other mem*bers, who did not appear. Buckjuanpimr was much more interesting for the itime being, and as the worthy Chairman! Mr John Somervell), who scrambled up \ the window sill to get a better view from the top, put it, "We. don't often get this sort of thing when we come to a meeting." Ihe performances of the spirited animals m the ring below were certainly very fascinating; and the comniitteemen wereonly joining the ranks of other .interested spectators, perched on surrounding fool tops. After waiting patiently till after 9 o clock, it was somewhat reluctantly decided to close "up the meeting and co ! home. . -;■■;;. Business continued, brisk at St. Mary's Church sale of work arid, bazaar last evening. The auditorium of His Majesty's Theatre was packed, and a casual vigitoi; straying .into the dress circle might have imagined from the Tjabel below that/he had dropped on a very' animated hive' of bees. The numerous young ladies attending each stall were most pressing m" thejr endeavors to dispose of .'.the beautiful artides that were on view, and 'many a young man wss prevailed upon- by sweet smiles and irresistible "blarney" to t^ke home for his mother's dressing table a decorated pin-cushion or a downy pillow for iier armchair. Good humor reignedi throughout, anc} the impression that reached the aforesaid casual spectator as th© ceaseless chatter and merry peals; of laughter reached the srallery was tb~at it was a very light-hearted assemblage, taking a great amount of fun out of the, prosaic business of . buying and selling 1 and the. winning of prizes. On the stage two gentlemen officiated m distributing tiie prizes; and to judge by the great number of pretty articles that passed through their hands.' the ' young lady canvassers must .have been very successful m .their blandishments. Great interest centredid the fancy marching and dancing, which)"' under the soft colors of the limelights/ gave some very prettf kaleidoscopic effects. The bazaar will be continued this evening. - '

__ There are said to be more automobiles Jn Hawke"s Bay than m any other province in s New Zealand. One Hastings firm alone has disposed of sixty cars m the course of three years. The lajge demand for farm laborers, ■with which the Labor Department was only just able to cope throughout September, is how slackening. There is a big demand for carpenters, and navvies are still m request. The testing of the last section of the main pipe line ©f the waterworks was m progress to-day. In town a number of minor matters -were being attended to, and the pressure guage at the municipal buildings was installed. __ The declared weights of the animals m the weight-guessing competition at the Show are as follows: Class 264, dead weight of bullock, 821f lbs; olass 265, dead weight of sheep (5), 781bs 72Wbs 58ilbs, 641bs, 731bs, total 3461b5. The guesses sent m have not yet been classified. ; ;The traffic on the railway during the past week has been exceptionally heavy, and the returns are expected to constitute an easy record. . Again, this morning a full train load of 500 people left for fche i-aces. The trains nave been with commendable promptitude, and fortunately without a single accident. Messrs ; Miller and Craig hold their usual sale'of produce and poultry to-mor-ribw morning at 11 -.o'clock for which a number 'of purebred poultry have been already received, including broods of purebred Wyandottes and white' Rocks, as will.be seen by advertisement m another column. _ After her present tour ' with the Willoughby-Ward Company, which will close m January next year, Miss Grace Palotta goes on a" holiday tour to Europe, i But Australasia possesses bo strong a hold on her affections that she states that no great interval of time will elapse before she once more returns M> us. i .-.-•■ :• ■ • How often is a sailor who falls overboard saved? The percentage of those rescued under such circumstances is probably vfcry small; How much smaller must itv be m cases where the man cannot swim. Yet the second mate of the barquentine Southern Cross has three times been the man overboard. He was knocked off his ship's deck the other night entering Sydney Heads, and was rescued after| great trouble. He cannot swim a stroke. Mr W. S, Short, chief clerk of the Roads Department, will hold the following commissions next month : — November 6th, at Wairoa, m respect of a dispute between the Clyde Town Board and Wairoa County Council, under the Town Districts Act, 1906; November 7th, at Wairoa, commission to allot proportions of the cost of maintenance of th'e Wairoa bridge at Clyde among the Clyde Town Board and the Hawke's Bay, Wairoa, v>ook, and Waiapu County Councils. ."I wish I were with you at the turning « n of the water supoly. If this should reach you before that event, you might find the opportunity to offer my congratulations to His Worship the Mayor and others." The above is a quotation from a letter received recently by a Gisborne resident from Mr John Mouat, at Kuatanu, , Federated Malay States. ... Mr Mouat, during his residence m Gisborne took a great interest m the matter of a water supply, and was a strong advocate of the scheme that was adopted. Mr J. C. McLean, a settler at Te Karaka near Gisborne, writing to a Christcfoii-ch resident, states that U good deal of "bird-collecting, for dealers outside, is taking place m New Zealand. He states that m a catalogue of bird skins sent to him. by a London dealer !u me A^T a . go he the names of tlie stitch bud, an exceedingly rare naS W .M &c North Island robin, the North Island crow, and the whitehead vr T? t' M mmc chat "ani Mand birds Mr McLean is a contributor to Australian ornithological journals, but he states that lie seldom, mentions the locality m which he sees a native bird, m order that lie may not supply collectors with information. It seems (says the Lyttelton Times) that, m spite of protective legislation, a good deal of destruction j is still beinc done amongst the Dominion's birds. BaTtonT^f Cy t f— api^ ared befor c Mr *Z* A •.' tlns awming for ridine on footpaths within the borough, pgffij Hamilton for a first offence? was 3 10s and, 7s costs for riding on tl? Aberdeen road footpath on. the 18th inst "I never saw .a constable, nor was I ' accosted by one, but it it is auite possible I may liave been on tlie footpath"" was William Sheppey Lima's answer to a charge of having ridden on the Grey street footway on the 18th inst. Defendant formally pleaded not puilty. Constable Pratt gave evidence that he saw tlie defendant ride from the gasworks to Palmerston road on the footpath. Crossexamined at some length, the fonstablo said he wag standing m the gateway of a boarding-house, m Grey street. He did not call out to defendant, as he had no occasion to do so. Defendant remarked it would have been better if the constable had called out to him, and then he would have remembered it. Sometimes he rode on the footpath, and sometimes he did not. In reply to further questions, the witness said Mr Lunn was the only person on the footpath at the (time, and there was only one house on that side of the street beside* the, gasworks premises The road was m good order at the time," and was so now. The defendant remarked it was next to impassable for a bicycle at the present time. It was m a disgraceful state. He wag about to quote a remark made by the Mayor at the last Council meeting, when the Magistrate said he could not take any notice of anything said at a public meeting, or even at the Council. Sergeant Williams stated that defendant had been convicted on two former occasions. The Magistrate, m recording a fine of £1 and 7s costs, remarked that if persons would insist upon breaking the law. he had no alternative but to inflict a penalty. The same defendant was further charged with having ridden a bicycle on the 17th inst. after sunset without a light. He replied that he was m just the same position as with the former case. He was not accosted by the policeman. Constable Pratt deposed that he saw defendant ride along Peel street and into Gladstone road at 7,45 p.m. It wag a moonlight night, and he did not call out. The Magistrate remarked it was not necessary for the constable to do so.