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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13402, 9 June 1914, Page 2

Tlie temporary . low -level bridge at Matawhero is being replaced m position and ' strengthened, and should be completed in'.'abput ten days' time, when it will enable the prosecution of platelaying towards Ngatapa to be continued.

Amongst the bequests of the late Mrs Townend, published m the Christchurch papers, is £4000 to Mass Peggy Palmer, daughter of Edith Palmer, Whatatutu, Gisborne, but without interest, on her attaining the age of 21 yeai's, - absolutely. .Each of the trustees appointed to administer the estate receives a legacy of £5000. A

His Honor Justice Cooper, on June 2/ at Auckland, granted -probate m the estate of the late Mr Marcus Albah Neill to. Messrs Ernest Sharpies and Geo., Alban Neill, upon the mbtion of Mr E. H- Mann,, and also m the estate of the late Mrs Abbey Kenny to Miss Lena Kenny, upon the motion of Mr H. J. Finn.

The training dates m connection with the new syllabus of work for "C" Comr pany for the ensuing territorial year have been decided, and the first of this year's parades will £ake place next Wednesday and Friday evenings. It is the intention of , "0" Company to hold a social m a short time to celebrate tlie winning of the cup for clean lines at the recent Takapau camp. A ' ■ •

Mr LaiqgrMeason was engaged yesterday m obtaining a general survey "of the flood area and the ; polnts where the Waipaoa river overflows its banks. Accompanied by Mt @. E. Armstrong, District Engineer, and Mr G.. Witters, chairman of the River Board, -the visitor proceeded as far as Kaitaratahi, and subsequently inspected various localities thence to the uiou,th of the river, including the Patutahi^ and Lavenhan. districts. To-day Mr Lairig-Meason, accompanied by Mr H-. G. Tucker, a member of the Board, proceeded to examine the conditions apply: ing to various localities affected. He intends remaining at Gisborne until the end of the week.

The Poverty Bay Poultry Society met last evening. There was a good attendance, and an interesting lecture on Indian runner ducks, biiff Orpingtons, and goldfinches Avas delivered by Mr A. Townsend. Tliis will be tlie hist of .the series of lectures, on . account of the show, which is to /be held next month. Mr Toomath, on behalf of the <?lub members, thanked Mr Townsend foi* the valuable instruction he had given, and for the interest he had taken m the welfare of the society. A judging competition was held at the conclusion of last night's demonstration, and the winners proved to bo Miss Lawless aud Mr A. Warren.

The good feeling that exists locally between employers and employees was demonstrated at the Freezers' Union social last night, and the fact was referred, to by various speakers. As a further evidence of the desire of the employers to assist .their employees, Mr W. F. Cederwall, m responding, to the toast of the employers, suggested the inauguration of a library scheme for the men at the Kaiti works. Asa nucleus he personally generously offered to donate 100 books. The proposal was warmly received, and Mr H. B. Whyte subscribed a guinea towards the fund. Mr Cederwall; imme diately responded, with a donation of £5 5s m addition to his previous offer, and judging by the enthusiasm displayed, the success of the scheme is assured. Another suggestion made by Mr Cederwall was a* mutual benefit society for* the \vorks,^and he intimated that his company - would no doubt assist m a generous way any move that might be made towards the' formation of such a societv.

As the result of a meeting held lasfc night, it has been arranged to commence' 1 a class for elocution at the Technical School next Thursday evening, when all intending pupils are requested to attend.

General Sir lan Hamilton's last toessage to New Zealand came addressed to General Godley per wireless from, the Ruahine. It was: "Howling gale. All serene. Good-bye. Lan Hamilton."

The Minister and committee of St. Andrew's Church extend a hearty invitation to every Presbyterian m tho town to be present at the congregational Social to be held on Wednesday next (to-morrow).

At the Low£r Hutt a resident has given much attention to rose-growing for some years, and last year had made a large new bed and filled it with ex-

pensive plants. Recently every plant ■was uprooted and . carried away. ' . Mrs A. Mitchell, of Wellington, who is well known m musical ' circles, had a narrow esecape on Thursday.* i A. friend ' happening to call found her insensible, owing to ap escape of gas^ m _ter kitchen. She is slowly recovering. 'A A most enjoyable evening was spent at the Poverty Bay Rowingdub's invitation dance, held in' the club house last evening. Tlie floor was m excellent order and the musiq was supplied by Ma* H. Parsons.. The duties of Ms.O. were carried out by Messrs Magnus- \ son, J. Webb, and E. Corbett.

A meeting of the executive of Sir James Ca noil's central committee was held last evening, when officers were appointed, including president and vicepresident. Mr G.\E. Darton, who opposed Sir Jamei at the Parliamentary contests of 1306 arid 19Q9;"hm A intima,tedt .his intention of throwing m his support to secure the return of tiie sitting mem-, ber' at the. coming, election. -\ZZ The sale of work m. aid- "of the Te Hapara Anglican Church fund, to be held m the Te Hapara Methodist hall, on Thureday -premises to-be most successful. Enthusiastic workers have made many exquisite pieces of hand embroidery, _and also an abundance of j plain _,sewing*, while dainty sweets and: a delicious afternoon, tea, will be provided to sustain the heavily-laden pur- ; chasers on their homeward journey.

So successful was the county ball held last year to celebrate the opening of Peacocke's hall, now known as His Majesty's Theatre, at Te Karaka, -that it is intended to make tho function an

annual one.* Arrangements "are now being made for the anniversary to .be celebrated on July 16. Any accruing from the .ball will be devoted to j^ome. cause that the committee wfll,. decide oa later; Last year the small surplus was handed to the Te ' Karaka "Schooi Committee. •""■'■ - ■■-.'■■'"

'The revenue of the Gisborne railway: section for the year ending March 31i 1914, totalled £23,502 1757 as' agaiosr £18,522 18s for the. previous yea\\ The total passengers -carried for the vtwelve months was 92,898, ah increase of 1195. The sheep traffic amounted to l-l;77fc for .the year, an increase of-. 42255, whilst the wool carried -came to 10,905 bales, within .13 balei of - the, quantity cai'ried during 191243. Tie . tunber traffic represented 3,154,500 superficial. feet, an increase, of no less >ian l I^_6>\ 900" sup. feet. • Other 'classeai Of traffic v remained normal, except grain (which showed a decrease of 1100 tons)," ancF-' minerals (coal and shingle). The latter item showed a reduction of v 3972 tons, iii consequence of ">ihe Borough Council shutting down on the Kaitaratahi gravel supply. . _

The special work train which has been employed In reinstating the railA way line since the recent flood is expected to N finish up at Otoko. at the end of the week., The workmen have been employed for some time paat m removing slips 'from the line oh the . Otoko section, as thero waa only. :a' track' just sufficient for the train. 1 to - ' pass through when the service was resumed. With the completion of this - Svork a ballast train will be put on to": repair portions of the iirte where* the , ballast waa - washed away- There^KwilK be, a, fortnight or three WSeksV^o^ 'aiV ballasting.. On the Gisborne-Te KaA raka section there are now/ only two joints where the train h-svfii travel •at reduced speed,* across the Waikanste and at the washout near the Te Karaka' tunnel. It has been decided to add .a v couple of extra spans to the bridge across the Waikanae.: The trains liave been imi well up to schedule time since the service was resumed, t^e; only delay' being \ occasioned at times by tbjE> greasy state of the i-ails* oil accouiit o4** the clay and . mud on the' Otpko section.- . - '. '

"We want to know where we are," says the, Melbourne Argus,. in discussing Australia's naval defence scheme. "We want to find out if Jt is i absolutely necessary . that ,we should . spend £1,500,000 a' year on, the navy as wei are doing now, and, further, if we should rgo on tlieifleet which htfs already cost £4^200,000, until we reach the . total expenditurib propbsed by Admiral Henderson, namely, £40;< 000,000 for construction, works, etc.. with an annual vote of £4,794,000* The Argusj which represents m this matter a growing volume of Australian opinion, haa very many doubts about the value of the policy that the Reform Ministers want New Zealand^to copy. "As soon as one naval unit is installed," is says, "we shall be called upon to make .preparations for! its renewal, • at a cost which may soon .become V crushing burden on a'young and sparsecommunity. . „•■ .The awful waate' involved m replacing the latest type .of* fighting monster with a newer one, and*; the possibility of an absolute "i*evolu-'. tion of ideas owing to the progressive mastery being obtained over the am should constrain lis to proceed with great caution." . Tlie Auckland Star states: It is said, that, the operations of a Dunedin gentleman on what may be ■ termed the football betting bourse pre being* viewed by the officials of the Otago . Rugby Union with cold disfavor. Tlie gentleman referred Ho is credited with "hav--. ing lost £50 on a match, played von Saturday week, and with having won £100 on a match decided on -Saturday.,; Human . nature, being what it is, the union officials recognise that it is practically"impossible, for them to stop these betting transactions. . What the union will try to do, however, . it is understood, is to take steps to prevent tiho betting individual referred to from apr proaehing players taking . part m" ; >_*.. match m which, he is pecunia ri I v interested, and telling them, m 'porting parlance, --.that they are on "a. hat, |or pipe, etc. , to nothing" if * heir side \ wins. It is argued that, if players a;** approached with the above stimulation to do their best, they may similarly he approached and stimulated to do their worst— that is, when the money is x>\\ the other side. Some of the union officials have a full knowledge' of what is occurring, and are determined that the practice referred to shall be stopped, --that is, so far as they caii po-sibly"' stop it. - -. A'

Lloyd's List-, as a daily newspaper of the shipping world, is to be printed* and published by the Corporation of Lloyd's from the Ist of next months AMS is 218 years since a little Uyo-page mercantile newspaper was. "printed for Ed.ward Lloyd, coffeeman, m Lombard street, London." About 30 years * ago Lloyd's List was united to Mes^a Spottiswoode's Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, • and the return of the former to Lloyd'S marks the termination of "tJie

corporation's agreement with that firmThe new' paper (my* the. Standard) .will be issued from a special department of the., .great maritime coruoration at tT»o Royal Exchange. It will consist 0f .24 pages. For the purpose 'of their paper Lloyd's calculate upon the arrival daily of -some 4000 separate items of ishipV pin£ news from all over the world. ' Tlie scope will include matters connect -

Ed with all general commerce, freights and cargoes, insurance,' maritime- and. commercial law, and full space will'bogiven to Parliamentary news. Articlewill be given, on topics of current interest, for Lloyd's intend to cater* for commercial life as Understood m - its widest sense. The corporation's private signalling organisation, by semaphore, telegraph, and Wireless, augmented by arrangements with foreign Governments, ; will serve the newspaper..

The Wellington Golf Club wishes members/ of kindred clubs to know that the golf house at Heretannga is now residential, and the catering is m the] hands of a first-class man. . All that is necessary for visitors wishing to spend a, holiday there is to be introduced bya member of the Wellington Club. A 95-ton steam shovel is to be dismantled and shipped from the Panama Canal to the Brooklyn Navy yard, where it will be ire-erected and advertised for sale m the United States. Almost all the smaller' steam shovels retired from the canal work hsuye already been disposed of by the Commission on the Isthmus, but it is anticipated that the largersiped shovels can be sold to better advantage ip. the United States. The Hannevirke- News reports that a big find of mj^bones was made on Mr M. Oonwayljl^_ice at Oonoor, m a small cave cm land on which a bush bum recently took [place. One complete skeleton was loupd. the' two leg-bones being 2ft sin m length and 6in round m the smallest place. ' The thigh bones were I 14in long and Bin. round. In addition to this, eight skulls had been dug out j of the, cave, also backbones, leg-bones, J breasts, and wings; and there was every indication of there being more to follow. Private advices received m Christ-' church state that John Alexander McKinnon, who lias been wanted m connection with the recent Customs frauds, has been arrested at Home. It is understood that McKinnon was studying for his medical degree, and woidd m all probability have secured it m a. few months' time. To study for this, degree' McKinnon went to Dublin a few years back. His wife,: it is. understood, reiurned to Christchurch from Home about a month' ago. Rumor had- it some little time back that McKinnon had left Ireland and gone to Spain. The early days m Central Otago were wild days, remarked the Hon. Mr Eraser iat Eltham. Sunday -was the chief day for business, and one would find thousands of miners congregated m the main atreet on a Sunday morning, and numerous boxing, wrestling, and other matches would be m progress. But it was a very great credit to the district that there were, only three policemen stationed there, and yet there were no serious crimes beyond one or two hold-ups. The men could not stop busihrangimr. but they put down petty crimes with a, heavy hand. In an interestin/? article on grapegrowing m New Zealand, m last month's issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Mr S. F. Anderson says that the approximate cost per acre -to work an established vineyard is £38 per annum. This includes the making of Che wine as well a* the oellar work, and the maintaining of the vineyard m a high state of cultivation. Many Austrians, who are earning a livelihood by gum-diggin,? and grape-crowing m North Auckland ' are spending as much as £40 per acre on deep-trenching their ground. Thereare now 376 acres m the dominion devoted to wine making, producing about 90,000 gallons of wine per anhum, of the value, of over £11,000, calculating the' price at 2s 6d per gallon. A The Eiffel Tower, which*has just celebrated its 25th birthday, has of late years become, extremely useful to scientists. Its suitability for measuring variations of atmospheric pressure has enabled it to be utilised as a kind of I barometer, while alterations m its height according as the temperature rises or falls 'have made it the moststupendou's thermometer m the world. These variations m size have been carefully measured by M. Guillaume, and show surprising and _ remarkable responses to the interjK>sition of clouds, sudden bursts of sunshine, or the cooling effect of showers of rain. In addition, it iB nOw -connected with the Paris Observatory, and frohi its summit Greenwich mean time is wirelessly sent out twice every day, for the benefit mainly of mariners who are thus enabled to check the going of their chronometers, on the accuracy of .whioh depends the ascertainment of the vessel's position m the trackless oceans. '•■■A

An instance of the improvement that can be effected to a port by a progressive "harbopr authority is fymiished by Durban, which is rapidly assuming much importance as a port of call for steamers travelling between Great Britain and; Australia via South Africa. In the early days of the port great trouble was experienced with a sandy bar to the harbor entrance, with its low water depth of 10 to 12 feet, that formed a barrier to deep aea shipping. Steps that were adopted to remove this restriction proved successful, but costly, with the result that the harbor can now accommodate the largest liner, visiting South African waters, a uniform depth of from 34 feet to 35 feet, capable of, admitting vessels at any time or tide, being available. The 18,000-toriner Ceramic has visited the port without difficult^, while four liners aggregating 50,000 tons have been accommodated. at the one time. Statistics for 1913 also indicate increased' progress, ' the total gross tonnage of shipping visiti'Tr the port being 6,506,197, while the imports totalled . close on one million tons, exports '2Bo,ooo tons, and coal exported and bunkered 1;700,000 tons.

The Australian submarine-,-'! wriieh arrived m Sydney on Sunday, 24th May, had a paaiicularly rough time on the run down the coast. When off Mareton 'Bay they encountered a heavy blow, winch brought up a big sea. HvM. A.S.Sydney was towing AE2 at the time, and the. 'strain- caused by the seas* re-eulU-t.' ■■• the hawser palling. AE2 was ready iv* the emergency, and immediately proceeded with her own engines. The weather became so bad tlhat it was decided to put into Mareton Bay for shelter. Burt, after this, leading tlie bay, terrific seas were again encountered, and the submarines, each proceeding with its own engines, were put through a« severe a test of rough weather as they are likely to experience. "I quite expected them to -go for good &.\ one time," said a petty officer from H.M. A.S: Sydney. "The sea was as bad as I could wish it to be, and even the Sydney was feeling it a good hit." On the voyage out- the men on the submarines worked m two-hour shifts, and wero allowed out on top for fresh air at intervals. H.M. A.S. Sydney carried about 900 tons of machinery and: frear belonging to the submarines, including the torpedoes and diving blades, the latter being somewhat similar to the blades of a propeller. Relief crews wero also carried on the Sydney.

A commercial traveller named A. Mitchell, a married man, residing at New Brighton, near Christchuirch, died suddenly on Thursday ..morning on the footpath outside the railway station. He left his home with the intention of catching a train to Little River. He wa* delated at the post office, and while hurrying to the tram met liis brother-in-law outside the station, and while engaged m conversation, Mitchell suddenly threw up his hands and , fell on liis back on the pavement. ■At the inquest one of the witnesses, E. . C. Che'gwin, asked the coroner if anything could be done to investigate the position m regard to summoning medical assistance. He had rung up several doctors, but the only answer he got was that they were all out. In one instance, at least, he had reason to believe that such was not the case, as the answers to his Inquiries indicated, as much. Mitchell, he said, was lying at the station about three-quarters of an hour befoi'e medical assistance arrived. He considered the majority of the doctors displayed great carelessness m these instances. The coroner aaid that it was not a matter for him to deal with. If doctors were said to be out, it would be difficult to prove they were not. He was perfectly convinced, however, that Mitchell was beyond medical assistance, and his life could not* have been saved by any doctor. It was plainly the extra exertion of hurrying to catch a train that caused his death. He had dealt with do-en's of similar cases. It was 'the rush of blood to th© heart wliich was the danger, the heart being suffused with blood 'and being unable to cope with it-

News of .interest and advantage to all men folk. My new system of advertising is to give the public the. benefit. Seeing that my store is strictly cash, you get the full biinefit of my buying and selling for cash. See my -. special price windows this week. Suits and Ties. "Meet me face to face. "-—Clarkson, Ootonation Buildings, Gladstone Road, 1 *