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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13150, 9 August 1913, Page 2

The committee of ladies .controlling the Children's Home acknowledges with thanks the receipt of £8 6s, through Mr. R. V. Gully, the amount being the proceeds of fhe sale of the old ewe at the Matawhero Sale Yards last Thursday, ariE the^ committee also desire to tihank Mr. Aislabie for his donation of £1. At the monthly meeting of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, held at Napier yesterday, the transfer of section 23> block 5, Hangaroa, / Margaret Wilson to James Saul Cooper, was approved. The Waikohu County Council's scheme for expenditure of thirds and fourths, amounting,to £686 16s sd, was approved. The Crown Lands . Ranger reported on ,tlie non-residence of E. W. Cooper on 5.G.11. 40, Nuhaka North, and it was decided to give the lessee notice to take up permanent residence forthwith. ; The first ladies' night m connection with the Gisborne Savage Club will be' held m the Scottish Hall on Thursday, August 14th. Savage E. H. Mann will preside, and a special programme will be submitted by Savages Foster, Andrew, and Fielding. The Wellington Savage Club's last Konero for tho ladies m the Town Hall was a most successful function, there being over 1800 present, including His Excellency the Governor and Suite, and it is anticipated that the Gisborne Club will have a good attendance. Ladies' tickets are now obtainable from the Secretary, Mr. II H.Fielding. . A notification is being given by the auctioneers selling at the Matawhero saleyards that during the spring months, a special day will be set aside for dairy stock only. Dairy stock will be sold on each Wednesday, the day before the ordinary Matawhero sale. Dairy stock can only be sold on the Thursday if sold m oi*b lot.- This means that one oo>v can be sold by itself, but a pen of say six cows can not be offered one at a time. This arrangement was made m justice to the dairy farmer as wilder the present conditions, it often means that with a big entry of cattle, the dairymen cannot wait until late m the afternoon to see this class of stock sold. To cope with the anticipated rush of passenger traffic to Auckland for the Exhibition during the Christmas and .New Year holidays, the Railway Department during that time intends running f6ur expresses daily on; the Main Trunk line. The ordinary Main Trunk; express from Wellington, at 11.50 a.m., will rah as usual ; the second express, recently discontinujed, will commence running on the Ist Novmber ; the third relief express, which ran during the Christmas and New Year rush last year one hour aftextile ordinary express^ will run Wtween 18th December and 10th January; the fourth express will run from Palmerston to Auckland. This latter train will leave Palmerston North about 2.30 p.m., and 'will probably take the Hawke's Bay and Wjairarapa. traffic. This train will run probably frpm 22nd 'December to 6t'h January. /"'■'. The Executive of" the - District Society for the Health of Women met yesterday afternoon to make arrangements tor Plunket Nurse Craig;, who is expected to arrive m Gisborne on August 16th. The commit tee have taken an office at oo Bright street, where the nurse will be m attendance from 2to 3.30, daily. Any mother who wishes to ask .'advice with regard to the feeding and general, welfare of her baby is at liberty to consult her. The nurse is hi no way to supersede the doctor. Her work is to take the place of a^mother or more, experienced sister regarding* matters' of healthy living. She will go to see any mother who invites 'her m her home, and there show her how to make humanised milk. "Nurse Craig was staff nurse at Masterton Hospital and resigned her position there t6 take up this work, She hasfinished her training at Karitq.no .Hospital and has been for a short time^on the district staff with another public nurse m Dunedin. The foTknvv.jj reference to the ill-fated tug Toanui appeared m a number of the Plymouth Evening Herald received by last mail : — "One evening last week a trunk containing lady's apparel, jewellery, other articles, and five shillings m money was picked up by a fisherman and landed at Penberth Cove, near End.' With the property was also a letter headed 'Fernlea.* Information of the discovery having reached Mr J3ewell, of F-ernlea, Roxburgh avenue, •Aiigburth, Liverpool, he has. claimed the trunk and its contents as having belonged to his brother, Captain W. B. Sewefl, of the steam tug Toanui. Having just? come from the builder's yard, the Toa'nui left Greenock on the sth inst., being m .charge o,f Captain Sewell, who hajlect from Gisborne, m that far-off country. FTom wreckage (including a boat and several life-buoys all marked (Toanui) recovered around the Cornish coast there appears to be little, if aaiy, doubt that ihe Toanui was lost off Land's End,, where a look-out is now being kept for any bodies that may be washed ashore. On Saturday a teak door, with the letters H and V on the brass knob, was picked "up^ at Porthnawell Beach, St. Just. The articles m the trunk were presents which Captain Sewell was taking to New Zealand for his wife."

The George Marlow Company open I their Gisborne season m the Opera House \ to-night with "The Night Side of London." Maud Courtney, for assaulting a. Ohinaman at Wairoa by means of a corkscrew, was fined £5, with costs, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment. A first offender for drunkenness appeared at the Police Copt this morning, and on the application of Sergeant Hutton was remanded for three -days for curative treatment. Exceptional interest is being* manifested m the appearance at His Majesty's Theatre to-night of the famo-is biograph drama "Cleopatra," which Pa,the Pictures are showing by special arrangement with Mr William Miller, manager of the Greater J. D. Williamson Coy., Ltd. The booking has been very heavy for to-night's performance, and a record house is assurad. There has been a large increase m the supply of milk during the past week, a further evidence of an early spring. Cows are coming m rapidly, and the production of butter has increased 100 per cent, dr more. The same condition is being experienced m other districts, as is shown by 'the fact that an Auckland factory which refused to export butter a week ago has now offered a local firm 7001bs of butter. Reports from Papua regarding the extent of th& oil fields m the territory and. the analysis of samples sent .to Melbourne recently, induced! the Federal Minister for External Affairs to embark upon a more extensive seheirie of^'de-; velopment, and with that- object the High Commissioner was instructed to obtain a leading oil expert ,. to conduct further experiments. Tliis, according, to ;the Australian . papers, has now been done. It -was announced last -week that an English authority named Dr. Wade had been engaged for a period of twelve months. He is expected* to arrive m the Commonwealth m September next. / A good story of retributive justice is told by an Invercargill doctor ati his own expense (says the News). Recently he was returning from a professional visit to North Invercargill, and was waylaid by some individual with a poor sense ,of discrimination. Two fists followed one another m quick succession, and the doctor jumped on his bicycle and rode off. At 2 o'clock next morning, when snugly tucked between the sheets, •. a. call came to him* from. North .Invercargill to attend someone who had ; been hurt m a row, and he had m till .decency i to pack his bag and hasten jforth _ih the chilly morning air to makV good the damage he had done. For years past it has been the custom ;. of a number of schools m Hawke's Bay ; to visit Napier, for a day 's outing, but * this year the Napier Thirty Thousand Club are organising a "Children's \ Week," during whicn time it is proposed to have all the little ones m Na--1 pier, when they will be entertained and amused generally. In this connection, I the Mayor (Mr J. P. Luke) read a- letter ■ at a meeting of the Wellington City Council from the Pahiatua Scnopl .Com- * mittee, proposing that a visit ta'jW^el-: i lington under similar . circumstances should be arranged for school children between the Forty Mile Bush and Wellington. On the. suggestion of the Mayor > it was decided to consider the proposal 1 at a future date. 5 The settlers of Tiniroto and the neight borhood turned out m large" numbers last night, when a farewell social was y tendered to Mr G. J. Small, who is leavp ing that district. The function was of a miscellaneous character, the time being pleasantly spent at games, singing, and J dancing. During the evefiing Mr J. " Berry, on behalf of the Tiniroto Sports > Club, presented the guest with a valu-, J able gold watdh, speaking m eulogistic * terms of the good work Mr Small had ' done while secretary for the sports clubs, ' and his energies 'and assistance m all * matters relating* to the welfare of the * district. Mr Small* suitably acknoßrI ledged the gift. The function, whrch I- was organised by the ladies, was a most } enthusiastic one, and was a token of the^ popularity of Mr Small. l. A roadman at Waihua named John i 1 McCabe apparently takes a keen interest , m the welfare of the farming coml munity, for he has for some time made I a practice of taking note of the live - stock that passes along the road from l the Wairoa district m the direction of i Napier. The figures which he has col I lected have been forwarded to the secre- , tary of the Hawke's Bay A.' and P. r Society, and should be df interest to t farmers. They show that during the I year ending June 30th, 1913, the total ' number of sheep was 136,690, compared . with 106,000 for the previous twelve months, and ,5395 cattle, compared with 5000 for the previous twelve months. ' Among the live stock whioh passed through during the period ending June > last were 47,474 sheep and 3781 cattle from fhe Gisborne district. . ...... ; . "°, h> yes > * B°t £450 as compensa- . tion, remarked a -judgment debtor at t the Auckland Magistrate's Court last , week, m answer to a cross-examining - lawyer, "but I had to pay J8275 expenses out of that." "What's that?" , interjected Mr O. O. Kettle, S.M; '"Who , got that amount?" The debtor explain- ; ed that ne had proceeded against the , Mount ' Eden Borough CoUncil for com- , pensation m respect" of certain injuries received. "The ; case was : settled," he said. "My solicitors advised me to take ■ £5450 m settlement, and pay all my own expenses, and like a fool I did it." Two, payments had been made direct to him,: j he added, while the balance of £275 had been handed over . to his solicitors to meet expenses. The Magistrate ex^ 1 pressed a determination to' find out ex--1 actly what the expenses were, and there* " fore adjourned the case m order that 1 the debtor might produce a statement to show where the money paid over for expenses had' gone to.

"When m London I was fortunate m being able to attend the Royal Horticultural Show. It was simply marvellous," says Mr , G. H. Edwards m a letter to a friend m Napier, dated from ( Edinburgh. The letter adds that the, tent where the flowers were 1 exhibited' covered an area of four and a half acres., The display of orchids alone was esti-' mated to be worth £100,000, and the writer saw one small white orchid change hands at £700. The new roses shown were beautiful, and the carnations were a great size, several varieties being six inches across the bloom. "The nurserymen of Great Britain certainly know how to grow flowers for exhibition," says Mr Edwards. Another novel sight to tlie writer was a fine grass growing on a sort of matting, which could be removed anywhere and could be made into a lawn anywhere m an • hour, provided theground was level. The grass was fljreen andi thickly sown, and when heing transferred to its destination '.the matting was rolled up m the ordinary way. When relaid it was rolled with a roller, and it then looked as if it had been m its new quarters for a year or more. On the day Mr Edwards visited the sliow there were 10.C00 people present, and the entrance fee was 10s 6d per head. Two well-known farmers of the Rongotea district have for years past engaged m a friendly, but nevertheless Keen, rivalry which has asserted itself m varying forms, and which has been fostered by the ability to draw on long purses. The first fetid came when on the farmers became possessed of a fast horse, the envy of the settlers of the .district, which drew the family to market each week m a spic and 'span conveyance. Then the rival purchased an exceedingly fast trotting horse, which easily outstripped; everything on the road. From the horses, rivalry next arose over their respeotiye herds, till the purchase of a cow, bred from a renowned strain and " costing a very large price, put up a district record for supply of milk and' test. In these latter days a new form of -competition has developed. The successful farmer m other contests purdha^ed a motor car,, which was soon, however, -made subordi-* nate when compared with that bought by farmer No. 2. Rivalry became still keener. The latest move- has been the purchase by the first car owner of a highly-priced . car , of still higher speed, and it lias run, on the district roads ait tba rate of 63 miles per ; hour, easily eclipsing the best efforts of the -rival. It is not known how this latest "knockout" will bb equalised but past experience certainly conveys the impression that another line of competition will evolved. Perhaps it will be per airship.