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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13102, 16 June 1913, Page 2

Two thefts of .clothing are i*epprted to fiave occurred, at the Childers' road re- ] serve on Saturday afternoon. . The, articles missed are two overcoats t'Upt had beeji left by player;, oh one of the, seats .yhile a. game was m progress. . ; ■ The Operatic Society will comfeeiice ••active" rehearsal of "Les Cloches deCorneville" at sSamson's. auction mart this evening, at 7.30 o'clock. All members a*« requested to attend, and those desirous of joining are 'notified tbgt the musical: conductor will be m attendance at 7 o'clock to pass any new .lueUibers. "I suppose some inquiny is made by tho police or the Salvation Army as to work: for these men when they come out of gaol," remarked Mr R. S.'Flor-. ance, .S.M., at the Police Court this morning, m sentencing a prisoner to a month's detention m the Gisborne gaol. Detective McLeod added that there was plenty of work m Gisborne, but half of j such individuals did not want work. The institution of the tramway Service m Gisborne has necessitated an attempt ■ being made to regulate tlie traffic m Gladstone road, and for several weeks past tho Borough inspector, Mr . Ferns, has been endeavoring to impress ( upon vehicular drivers the necessity for 1 observing the rules of the road. A serious accident was only narrowly j averted on Saturday afternoon. Two ladies were boarding a. tvamcav at tha ' Grey street corner,' when a cab came along on its wrong side of the road, ! and vwas' driven between t'he car and the two ladies. One of the latter, intent 01 boardih& the car, had not noticed the approach ' of the cab, and but for a scream from her campaiiion would certainly have been knocked down. Tho incident was. witnessed by the occupants' of the car, who agreed that it was a very narrow escape.

I The Fire Brigade will meet this evening as usual. The Mayor desires to acknowledge the gift of £1 from Mr H. Fielder towards the Owen fund. A meeting of the Children's Creche Carnival Committee will be held on Wednesday, at 3 p.m. , .... The tramway figures for tlie past week are as follows : Passengers carried 5896, as against 5909 the previous week, and 5789 the week before. The car mileage travelled was 826, as against 810 the previous week. The revenue totalled £35 16s lid, compared with £37 for tlie previous week, and . £35 18s 9d for the week before. On Saturday an election was held to appoint two delegates to represent the Takitimu Maori Council district on the political advisory board which was set up by the Maoris at the Manutuke hui, The result of the election was as follows : Moana Parateue 74, Henaro Ruru 50, Wetene Rikurangi 34, Pita Te Hau 31, Rangi Tamehana 5. Moana Paratene and Henare Ruru were elected as the two delegates to the board, which will advise the native members .attending Parliament of things that affect the Maoris. Tho building which has been occu. pied by the Children's Creche m Grey street, and which will be shortly vacated for a more pretentious institution, : has been purchased from the Women's Guild by the Hon. Captain Tucker for £200. The site of the creche has been occupied rent free for the pdst four years, and the creche will remain there until the new institution is ready for occupation on the_ Ist prox. The Cook County Women's Guild desire to thank the Hon. Captain Tticker for his generous treatment. A batch of inebriates appeared before Mr R. S. Florance, S.M., at the Police Court this morning, including four first offenders, three of whom were fined 5s and costs, m default 24 hours' imprisonment, whilst the fourth, who did not appear, was ordered to forfeit the amount of his bail, 10s. Ada Miller, who failed to appear, being also on bail, was fined 18s and 2s costs, m default 38 hours' imprisonment. Neil McDonald, an elderly man, pleaded guilty to a second conviction within six months, and was fined 18s and 2s costs, or .48 hours' imprisonment. With reference to the Mayor's banking scheme, as outlined last Council meeting, Mr Kirk v is making enquiries from Wanganui as to the working of the scheme there, especially as the safeguards to depositors, and the result of these enquiries will be placed before the finance committee, to whom the matter was delegated. It will be remembered that a Wanganui telegram stated that the scheme viad been successfully inaugurated for the past three years, and that deposits ..during that period bad totalled £124.000, the present credit to depositors being over £20,000. The following passengers left by Messrs J. R. Redstone and Sons' coaches this morning : For Tiniroto, Mrs Thompson; for Waerenga-o-kuri, Mr and Mrs H. Field; for Wairoa^ Mrs Carr, Mr J. Brennan; for Tarewa., Mr and Mrs O'Connor ; for Morere, .Miss Davidson ; for Wharerata,' Mr Scholium ; for Puninga, Mr Thompson ; for Tolaga Bay, Mesdames Morgan and Scott, Messrs Clough, Watson, Deart, Goldsmith, Whyte, and Lawrence (2) ; for Tokomaru. Bay, Messrs Tallerton (2), Pemberton, Savage, and Bull (2), Mesdame;? Savage and Fallerton ; for Waipiro Bay. Mrs Durant, Messrs J. Loyd, Rees Jones, Keogh ; for Turehau, Mr Trand. A slight accident • occurred to the machinery of the coastal steamer Gael one nignt last week (says the New Zealand Herald), while the steamer was on the passage from Waipu ,to Auckland. A piston-rod broke, and the vessel was rolling about m a heavy sea for some time. Captain McKenzie, avlio v/as m command of the Gael, fired several • rockets for assistance. These were noticed by the captain of the Clansman, bound for Russell, and an hour or so later the Kanieri, bound from Whangarei, hove m sight, and took the disabled steamer m tow. Repairs were effected to the Gael's engines, and she resumed her running within a few days. . The death of an* old resident of the district, - Mr Rowland Hill, • has to be recorded with deep regret,. ; ; and. mnqh sympathy will be felt for the, widow and family. The late Mr Hill, who was 65 years of age, was a man of unobtrusive disposition, but he took a keen interest m everything pertaining to the welfare of the district. He. was m business m Gisborne for many years, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. In recent years he had been engaged m sheep, farming m Waimata' Valley, and a couple of months ago took up a residence on Kaiti. The family had hardly got settled m the new house when Mr Hill became ill, and had to be removed to a private hospital. His condition steadily grew worse, and after a painful , illness, borne with great fortitude,- he died about midday yesterday. He leaves a widow and grown-up family to mourn their loss. ■ It was reported, the other day that the Mayor of Gisborne had discovered a new method of "raising the wind" by inciting the public to deposit their saviqgs with the Council. Mr C. M. Gray, ex-. Mayor of Christchurch, who is at present m Auckland, .states that ia 1900 he got a clause giving this power to boroughs embodied m tlie MunicipalCorporations Act,' and that acting on tliat authority th* ' Ghristchurch City Council has practically wiped out its overdraft. The -Council' accepts money jon deposit, and considerable sums are deposited with the Council at low interest while the money is awaiting permanent investment. By this means tho Council secures money at about half the rate of interest charged by banks on overdrafts, ahd as ''''the* money i' 3 available ior' the depositors practically at call, the system has worked excellently, to the mutual advantage of the- Council and the depositors.— Auckland Herald. When the Tuatea returned from ten- . denng the Monowai yesterday a stowI away was handed over to the police. i The offender appeared before Mr R; S. j Florance, "8.M.,. at- tho Polioc Court toI day, and pleaded guilty to a charge of having travelled on the steamer between Aucldand and Gisborne without paying his fare, and .with intent to evade payment thereof. His Worship pointed out the maximum fine was £5 m addition to the fare. He imposed a jienalty of £1, with costs 2s, and ordered the man to pay the fare, , £1 Is, m default one ' month's imprisonment. Accused remark- . cd. that he did not intend to travel as a stowaway',- he was on, board; saying ' good-bye to a friend, when the steamer . ' drew away • from ,■; the wharf. He had offered, his services to the purser for the voyage down. Detective McLeod relnarkted that he had looked iiito the' kiatter,' and considered it a most unlikely 'Teh- thousand . '^wbhien 7 paraded ' through Fifth Avemre^'New York City, 1 a few days ago to emphasise their de- • mand for woman suffrage, and although the crowd of spectators M-as not particu-- ' larly enthusiastic, tlYey were *t lea£fc M respectful m stheir attitude.' Woman > suffrage, however, •has a lojlg, hard fight 1 on its hands before/ii ,' gain's a foothold i m the Eastern States. "' The nine States ". where it has already 'triumphed 1 are all 1 m the Far West. Recently it looked as 1 if .Michigan, a middle Western State, J might be included m the list. The ' first election there early last winter over < the issue was so close that.for two or ; I three days the result was. m doubt. ! -' Then it became evident that woman suf- ; frago had lost by abouit 4CGO votes. The *i adherents of the cause set up the cry of- 1 fraud. They declared that the liquor 1 interests of tho State had brought about < the result through corrupt methods. An- 5 other election was ordered,- -and it re- 1 suited two weeks ago m a disastrous 1 defeat for the woman /suffragists. The 7 State went against them by a plurality I of more' than 100,000 votes. NeM- York' .« State is to vote upon the question iii the c fall, and wise political forecasters de- 1 cla-ro it will go heavily against the suf- ( fragists. Tlie anti-suffrage organisations t are very strong throughout the East, and 1 aro led by some ,of the wealthiest and j most prominent women m 'the country, f During the last few weeks these organ- \ isations have been much more active 7 and aggressive' than . formerly m waging ] war against the women who would c vote. ."■■"' '7 v '.:..* _

The "Violet of the Wood" programme of Pathe Pictures will be repeated tonight. A fancy dress social* will be held m St. John's Hall, Mangapapa, on July 6 (Steeplechase night). The arrangements aro m good hands, and a big success is .anticipated. ..'-..„' On the motion of the Mayor (Air M. G. Power), it was decided at Friday night' s meeting <of the Wai'hi Borough Council to urge upon the Minister for Public Works the necessity of placing an amount upon the Estimates for., the continuation of the Gisborne-East Coast railway from the Wai hi end. .^^ The visit of a. lady teacher from Dun- v§ edin to Christchurch on the occasion of ■ " the school children's trip to the battle cruiser New Zealand haa,.had. a.^her romantic sequel. The lady was one of a party of three who went m charge of some pupils from one of the largest schools m the, city. It is., stated,,, that . she has not yet returned to Dunedin, and also that she has become- a , happy bride since her arrival m Christchtrrch. The proverbial storm m a ..teacup* has been raging round about municipal affairs at Tauranga. The Mayor at > tho last meeting of tlie Borough Council delivered himself thus: "1 will no longer submit to the dirt and mud thrown, at me m this town." All the trouble sefcins to have been caused by some remarks regarding blackberries . and a wharf transaction. The local paper takes the Mayor to task fdr 'acting m an * 'undignified manner, and listening to street corner gossip." '; > ' On her outward voyage from Auckland to way ports and Vancouver .last month, the Union Company's, R.M.S. Niagara met with some rough weather between Auckland and Fiji. Captain J. Gibb, m attempting to prevent a,, teapot from being hurled across his Cabin, fell heavily, and sustained -ah' injured leg and cuts on the face, being unconscious when picked up. The'- rolling 'of the big liner' was accounted for by the fact that the oil tanks, which are at 'the bottom of the ship, were empty. This, of course, will not again be the case,' as the tanks were to have been filled while the vessel was at Vancouver, which v %brt she left on Wednesday last for Auckland and Sydney. The adoption of the Friday shopping"^ night m Sydney seems likely to ;be \* troublesome to the . Central Technical ' College and the trade schools. Tl '* I'Friday night," the authorities say, "is taking more and mpre the place that Saturday night did when, all the shops were open ; it is becoming an evening for shopping and fun. It naturally holds, out a strong temptation to;..the boys and Vgirls who might • otherwise- be spending It m technical class work." So far the young people of Sydney* seem to have withstood the Call of the crbfwd, but there is a disposition to arrange classes for. other nights m the week, and the teachers are fearful that ''i__e_r Saturday nights may be, given to work. ■ The number of men out of work-^who call on the Mayor of. Wellington from dajr^to day m geardh of .employment shows no signs of diminishing. "I regret . exceedingly," Mr Luke said -to a ' Dominion reporter, "that .the CoMcil is not m a postiioh •to do .soinetfjing towards assisting some of 'the very needy cases,, but .the ..money available for expenditure is. limited to the income from rents and rates,., and the number * of men we can employ is therefore limited.- I sincerely; hope the Government may do something to meet /,; tha present distress. There are works up country, I. believe, at which some of the able-bodied, men could be empUiVed with good results, but. there are a number of men out ' of 'employment wtio s are not physically fit to take bushfellinff or even heavy ''road work." Of an old Scottish -reporter m attendance at one of Lord Rosebery's meetings, this ; incident, is . told.:— Lord Rosebery was yery solemn as he Approached vns peroration, .and the meeting, uncl&r the glamor of his, eloquence, sat hiwhed m concentrated attention. All at soiree a drop of moisture detached itself from the glass roof and fell with a splash °" * h ? bald head of the qld reporter 'Whas that sputtin'?'' fif demanded Vh» "i- and l ndl Snant Scbttish accent. The audience burst WsWVa ri>a? of rt?SnhW? fMi W*** 6 before tne noble lord could proceed. - .Thia ' storjr (observes ; the . affords an illustration of the indiffir- J Snn°i the + most I™*** flights of our political orators which .familiarity often pSter. ™ ° ld and Masoned ri e/fh/W 11^ * ' thi <.™<? bas 'induced the .Victorian "Cabinet to decide 4n favor of representative legislation directed against receiver*. Police reports show W*. t i ,er i e GXIS t m MelbbwS secondhand dealers Avho live on the proceeds of larceny, and are virtually the 'IxiS' f o Lf e^ loyei^°r thieVes * Xt is stkted . that these people train lads m the art x of thieving, yand have their premises overstocked with, the proceeds of robberies. When Parliament meets a Bill which is calculated to drive the "makers of thieves *out of business will be introduced, ■ The : Actirig'Pitemierj 'who hplda very decided views regardi^-the work of^the receivers, is m hopes, of .getting Parliament to pass such legislation a* will enable the police to cope more effectively with the men wKo'in then* every-day business: deal far too extensively m stolen 'goods. ' - ■ . i- -■_ Discussing his: financial operationa^m London, the Hon. Jas. Allen remarked to an Auckland interviewer that the three millipn loan was raised . at a, very bad time, and he had no hesitiitioii m saying that nobody and no country could have done any better at that mom<#t. Tlie Auckland Star questions, this Statement, and says.; Victoria hag. just floated a £3,000,000 4 per cent. Joan at 98, , on precisely the same terms 'as our own. Moreover, Mr Watt's loan is short-dated, with a currency of only nine years, and the option of redemption at the' end "of five }\ears. So that by comparison Mr AUep has done, nothing to make a fuss about. At the sarcie time we may point out that Victoria h&s. -arranged, for only a short-period loan m the expectation of being able to convert:: dh- easier"^ terhis a little later 1 dn. : This -imprecisely Vttat pur Mackenzie Government -was so vehe- / mently denouhced ;FAr W^itig h&t .j.^- c. And Mr Watt'§ action certainly suggests •' that Mr Allen, if he hatl~__ot been hopelessly h altered by .R eform* denuh'(j\a- ' tions of , short-dated loans, might have done a good deal better for us by floating his loan for a comparatively ..short' term instead' of tying usurp id' ffiefcg re- ' latively stringent conditions for the next SO years. ' ■■'■,'• r , / There was one' ;pa,rticularly trbgie incident oh the •-.rt.T&l ' of.'thfe Corinthic .' from London (says*^'Pi*tfe ,f -A_i|6afrf^ii6ii •* telegram from WMhgtoi^'; 'A ydtirig ■' faiiii' r lkborer : from tlie MaStiaYtori. district ; ciyne'to New Zeata&d : 'l&''.'morieh* a#>, leaving his fiance© iiv\PlymoUthj > \v*_th 't*e promise that he would Mii& '.fdr* her as soon as he \va« UlsMisMiffitfently good position. His brother, who is also a recent arrival frpm.-^ohie, told tp a 4 re- ■ porter a story of shattered : hope and " love. For 18 months vth&Vyoung farm laborer . had. beep", _workilig| hard,/ and three months agp., ? ls> /ttrW able to send Home to his prospective 'hrid'e' to say that she could coihe out. . He booked her' passage by the.; Corinthie,", and the future seemed air "' merry, and bright. The, love letters that passed betweer^the couple during their 18 months of sepa,r&tion wero all that love letters should be, and there was nothing to Suggest m the young lady's correspondent that there." was anything wrong. Three days before the Coriptliie left Plymouth the young nun received a cablegram to , the effect that everything was rimfiilVg smoothly, and .that the hopeful' future wife was sailing by tIW vessel with some mutual friends. .The sequel to the affair occurred '\yh4n' -the doctor's, bcia^, cffl™ back fi'dhi''t__e'vesßel, which lay ih^ntr * stream for over- two hours. A., note came to.-tihe youn* man from fr,.eY{d& on board, stating that his fiancee.; had decided A f6w hours' before tlie ve^el left that she would, not . qpme,; and. she had married another man,' ; u lTie blow was a sevei-e one, and the 'hard-working young , farmer, who J had a hoinfe' all ready for the faithless lady. cHose^a secluded cor- ■' ncr of the Queen's wharf , and fainted. However, he soon .re.coverecl, a j^ p wttifc on his disappointed;. lonely retorK; Jo Masterton next morning. .. .. . <t..

It is reported that 13,227 electors will be struck off the Auckland roll by reason of their failure to vote at the recent elections. The Paimerston North Borough Council is obtaining information with a view to the possible starting of a municipal fish market. The Government Engineer-in-Chief has approved of the Greymouth Harbor Board's proposal to widen the entrance of the lagoon dock between- the river and the turning basin to 200 ft. Last year the Dannevirke Racing Club made a profit of approximately £ICCO. Members confidentially - anticipate (says the Hawke's Bay Tribune) that after proposed improvements to the course are completed the revenue will be considerably increased. The wireless telegraph station at Chatham Islands is almost complete (says the Lyttelton Times). The builders have finished their part of the work, and are returning to New Zealand. The engineers and operators are now busily engaged with the equipment, which will be completed m about three months' time. The Wanganui Herald states that petty thieving has been very rife at Gonville recently. One resident who had a quarter of a ton of coals carted to his place one day last week found next morning that all had vanished during the night except a few lumps. The pledge to render assistance on the wharves m case of trouble with the waterside workers has been signed altogether by 362 persons (says the Timaru Post). The figures are : Timaru 152, Pleasant Point 80, Albury 50, Waimate 50, and St. Andrews 30. The Temuka list is yet to come m. A Cambridge farmer is of opinion that he is dogged by an evil star just now. Owning a farm m the out-district, he gave instructions to his manager to lay poison for the rabbits that swarmed on his property. This was so well done that the rabbits died on a , wholesale scale, many of theih selecting the pigstiea for their expiring moments. The pigs thereupon eagerly devoured the carcases, with the result that some 70 or 80 pigs, to the value of £150, died from poisoning. In the butchers' dispute hefore the Conciliation Court at Dunedin an employer said : — "The trade is not m a payable cpndition; I would exchange my wages for the past three years with those of any man m my employ. The man who employs is at a disadvantage; he is undercut by the man who doesn't. To grant what is asked would mean commercial bankruptcy for some of us. We ask that some of the concessions be done. away with. Our trade here is m a rotten state, and the men know it, and it shows little sympathy on their part to make these demands."