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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 2

■' At 3.ls : 'this aftei'nobn the Wimmera wks about 18 miles %bm 'We anchorage. The following ■ ' {^iisbjorn'e- . . jc^didg&s* have passed ■$$$ Public Service; senior examination :— ln *ifrVe br>more subjeeW, Bell, Maurice ' 'Vincent'; i Irishes, Alfiett; Murray, Andrew; m four subjects, Blackburn, .Charles .Archie r.D'Arcy. '7 - The Mayor (Mr W. ,G. Slierratt) leaves to-night fbr-*jN apier, «^pheren-he r will . oo m r fer with the Mayor of Napier with a view to having, a .Railway League formed there to i .co-operate with Gisborrie;in the matter of getting, tihe Gisbofne-Napier railway pushed on. Mr Sherratt will return to Gisborne via Wairoa, where he purposes meeting the authorities on railway and patriotic matters. . _. , v . ; At the Magistrate^ "Court to-day, Mr ! W. A. Barton, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff m the 'following undefended civil cases: Walter Edmund Geo. Edward Burrows, and Xeil Burr.rows (Mr Burnard) v. Tiemi' «M;6te;:.£6o and costs £7 13s; Johnstone"'aTid omitll (Mr.Willock) v. Alfred Wallace, £2 and costs £1 Os 6d ; / Albert- Michael Lewis I (Mr Burnard) v. Kroa -Sdai&huka, £5 14s 3d and costs £1 8s 6d ; Geo. Alban 2?eill (Mr Ooleman, for Mr Mann) v. J. Ward Mead, £4 4s and costs £1 19s; GVAickin and Co. (Mr WWlock) v. Thos. i.Wm. Hackett, £3 16s 3d^and :eosts site ; < Henry Martin (Mr WKloek) y. J Thomas | Wan. Porter, £1 13s 3d -nadto. 6osts M&^'\ Councillor J;. W. T*: i >M6D6ugaH;;of' Lower Hutt, son of Mr J. W. Me-, Ikmgall, of Napier, was severely, injured. 1 by being knocked down : by a. motor 'car on- the Lower Hutt Bridge at about 7.30 o'clock on Monday evening. Cr*; M<JDongall was walking along., the main, 'bridge to a meeting of the Council/ when.; his hat "-blew- away: : He »wtts about' to reoover it, when he was knocked oter by a motor fear, hrhich' was driven' by^j, man named Ernest Jcssop, of Lower Hittt. Jessop tried to bring his car to an immediate standstill, but he was unable to do so uptime to prevent Cr McDougall from receiving a' compound fr#ctur& of. the right thigh, an injury to his right -arm,; and other bruisesr The injiu'ed man- was admitted J t<v the V" Wellington Hospital. < ' In his charge to the, 'newly-ordairie^ 1 ministers at the.. Tarana.ki street Wesleyan Cliurch^WelKn-gton, ' the.-' Rev.. A. C. . Lawry advised them as .follows, m regard to church sei}mons:" i T\vo Sermons of 23 minutes e'aph .will do more good than one of ■50-mihufces. l ' : In these wonderful days' you. need never be # uninteresting, and theije i is no excuse : Vfor' dullness. Remember that the generation that we serve is one thftit is lured and enticed and. captivated rby all that "Jnoney and art can give. Even:, the advertise-^ ments and shop v windows 'and'^book- cor«rg and posters and picture theatres and counter ornaments are ! designed and' arrayed to please eye and eaT'and capture •iho: imagjna.tion. ' Ther people are 'not Hkely> then to be held by prosy ufter.ap,ces or shallow • > '•.■'' ] . Two shipping njishaps occurWd " atftthe Wanganui town .wharf. shqHly beftre. midnight, on Suhdiay Jiight, „-tkfe Horbor B(jard^ small puht, ,v|wlen irvnth -being swamped, -, and.^e; tu^Togd^g^t-;, tißfjjr adrift Hiecomi^g; jam^ned ui^ei^ thY town** bridge.. It ; -ajjpeais" tliat *6bthi occuirences were 'disoAyfered; simulfcanerously. .'. The Togou was wc&ugfefc bj^itheli funnelm'the bridje srfperstructure, and) the flood tide caused the vessel to take a big list. jJThe I&g%"ti«histlev:Was sotnffded 'for assistance^:T)ut m theji meantime a few of the< Wharf staff maV»agfed, by pulling on the ,tjc*F-liney to get the tug into a safer position and but of danger. A> Maori lanuch "was moored beside %c Togo -earlier m the 'evening, and./itfis surmised that when the iaunch left -toAvards midnight the natives'inadvertently let 50 the tug's .stern line, causing the Togo to swing round. • . .. "We havet; had som© -very interesting men here to lecture to us," says a' New Zealand officer m a letter from France to a friend in'Gbxistchurch. man, whos,e particular "'stunt' is intelligence, had given a series of lectjuresr on the strategy of war. He has ; a^; tremendous •lot ;of tickets on Joffre^ -and he affected us all with his owrt' optimism with re<gard to the general position. His chief point is that .1 temtoiial conquests have"; little value unless they are accompanied : by the destruction of the defending, annies — i.e., that, notlrsyithstainding -the" German successes m the East, and especially m Rumania, it- will all boil down to a question of men, and that w«' are m an undoubtedly better position than the' Boche. He showed >how Jpff re's strategy has been to accourt f ot ' the Huhs with as. little loss of men oh pur side as possible. la these daya^it is quite chesrful to find one so absolutely optimistic aMßvit .the general positioig." An adventur^ besfell the. crew of New South Wales State trawler Gunundaal recently. Mr.. A, J, .Cross, ana#er of .the vessel, lias reported .'tliat«.ia& 8 o'clock m the evening «a? they were, about to heaye up the tFawlj the ship slowed down, owing to- the net. striking some obsfcruction. , r 'We. hove* up tat once., and, on getting the net. xtp^ .^ve fbimd the jawbone and about 15 feet of the backbone of a whale m it. We' lifted this to the waters edge, but cou'd sgefe it no higiheri' as the jawbone alone measured fully 15ft by 10ft. We nianaged to get a strap round it, lifted^ it olea^i- 01 the net. The jawbone weighed fully two" tons. The net -was badly;i"torn, but notjbeyond replair. ' If the ifet had not been a newVone it wouldinever have lifted it." Mr. Stead considers it probable'that the. wl>ale was victim to the great "killers" or killer whales, which frequently opeftited on the 'coast, and that the" •'•'jawbone" ; referred to would be :the upper jawbone with; .attached skull. Probably the remains were those- of a humpbacked' whale. The sum of £16, the price of a cow sold by plaintiff to the defendant m November, 1916, was the subject of a civil action'- at the Magistrates • Qbtn?t> before ' Mr W. A. Barton, &.M., to-day, between • Cornelius Neenan (Mr Stock) and Michael Griffen (Mr Hei). Plaintiff tave evidencea»\to the sale taking place,, efendant- having- pressed [him to sell the odw. It was then thoroughly sound; and m calf. Witness gave defendant , a month or six weeks to pay. Subsequently defendant returned the cow and oalf and' «aid it would not milk. Witness had told him it was a heavy milker and required a lot of attention. 'He intended to keep the cow, but on examining it lie found it had been ' ruined for ••want j of milking. The eviderice for the defence was that the cow proved to be unsound when defendant first got it.— -His Wor- ! ship said the evidence of the plahitiff was that at the time of the sale thecow was sound and the udder was ingoodi order* Mr Broom -and Mr Matthewa had' been called 1 , but there was no evidence •to contradict what plaintiff said. Asslim. ing' there had been a guarantee, which his ' Worship doubted, there'iwas nothing [to show that the-eowVwas-nfefc aouhd ; at the time bf the sale. Judgment.' would be entei'ed for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with oosts £368. . .

ll' sulHuicul fiuluceineiit offers the Kaeo will make a daylight trip to Tolaga Uay on Friday and return on Sunday. .-■ During February the Hawke's Bay Education Board was notified that fivo teachers had either volunteered or been called up, by ballot' for active service. This brings the -number of the Board's staff who. hay e;..j §01^.^11. ..ge^i^feiffia* 0 thirty-five. '-' >' ■ v '--'.--. The week-endi sale of home-made foodsupplies, etc., will take place at the Red Cross shop on Saturday morning. ' The ladies representing Wharekopae and-jlSa-bora districts will be m charge, and'wM have on offer ... cakes, pies, and other culinary delicacies* also Jamb, poultrx, produce, fuuit and vegetables: "" * On Thursday evening, March Bth, 'i a. social evening, under the auspices of the Ladies' Guild, vriY\ be held 1 m the Bright; street Methodist schoolroom. A needlework stall will -be : m- evidence also-; a, lolli© stall for the boys ,and girls. Musical items are being provided, to be fol- , lowed by a coffee supper! The ...social ' will open at hajf-past seven, "and * the ' ," will b£ devoted to' the circuit funds. • During thY hearing of Sun'&y trading .cases at Napier the Bench HmarketjKtliat they were very' dissatisfied with the^p*esent states; of, the law ' regarding ' the"se .gases. As the law stood a£ ipresentj, 'person could go on and bring tli'e v law , .into contempt, as the maximum fine which could- be jimie&ed *wds ''onl^rdßl and costs '7s. Ths^Bencft, mentioii&aVtl&t .j.t:wasa.very anomaldlis state 5 of things, - and. there were iio meare-of- cfcsdkirio- * Ik- !■■■"' '■■'' ■•:-•■'.'•'■ "^ y y^.^M i° • Ift a letter ..to a; ; friend iri\ v Jf ipier^V a "NapW > soldier at present: "in Erahce, •says, "To-day I #aklt^lWng^o,%^ft*h , gci-1, who -could stoeak \Bnghjsh; <*&$-:ir0 9 '< rand she was' telungr-ine-^Qiftr^a f&eßft of hers who Wd- j.)»t, a«?iyed ihe^fnom i L»ill°, ' M'here' she ; beeh4ntepned; "since ' 11914. They hayj&vJiadl'a >o^i i .time: A pf ' iif there, and , this friend liyed; on ' riqe for a whole y ear, v everything? being^tgi - ribly expansive. For eat^mple 1 egg oost Is- 3d;, a piece ', of r ; niie»fc: (l£yriches. ':> square) 2s Id: Butler; «^liga,r^'€ jc.'> v <Wj*s ... !! not\ procui'able. : Fo.rv^.ig^jat luxury stie had one potato feHdei&tfaiAyfify SuirijJaT, ■■:■ Goal is -the orily thingv tfiat " : 4& y i ioKi^fg, and that is^.^r^biS?au^'■•"ihiß^e?.'3^^e■■:v■•W' many mines roiind:ab / piafc ; Lille^' ;j, ; '.: *i :, ,-':. ■A Rlaori lad, Wairoa, Hawke's B^y,: was-^jco^ght;^. f?^- M^ J^^VGW^^^^ithfeTV^l- . hngton :tSupr!e^ie Court' io^-BatSmjdayHQr sentence on a cliarge -of ,:^vin|,;-set,-^&^ to -the Hikurangi vCc>llege ;^at.-'.G.i;areyi%, [ neair < oarfcertoh. -'Ur. l \y^m(^ peaked Jpr. .the.^^ def«ndaivt, ; state4 >-th^t : an,vinflueritiar Maon • Jiad-'TO ! look" after the b^.;if^h cve v w^ :admi]Eted ' •to^probation'. His Hpobr :'decided ; to)a^d- ; [mit the lad^te^rbba'tidnJbr^^yePs, 6m condition that -i-.-.lieiis;' : * goftiC'^e'haS'idur; vreturjns^ tpVibW ooljege t'liniil^e is : iregul^rly discharged^ afi^^afterwaS^s | regain yifli ' Iraia *^W^ . raipa,. : iarjn^r^ ,^vnpji ;; a^seritinfi t \yithpufc / the ; %yritte"n' i p;et ; Si£ss»iv u Af o^he iprobatioh* ■, officer.,, > -/ '■'"'■':•'. ?■■'s;'.. ?■'..»" tv v r ' '.-. '■ to; ; th!i:^cGst.;<>f . his meeting at ff astiiigs, Sir J<>Un>:;Fin)Jlay that. he.Tconld' read a telegrdihi he;h|(d that day received fiom the'floh. ' W;i'\ p. . S. McDonald;!; whtoh' said that the; Board of Tirade had now . been dealing jfrith vthia^fntestionv hi t\\k living fbr^abottt ten months, and^ their [ w§rk;,had Jiad . the effect of steadying pi|ceii.._ Excluding: a.jeduction m .meat fprioeß,~a total saving €o the" consumer ; of isbmejthing like £76a,(XX) had been effected: -A. voiced ;Sir • JdhntFindlaytheftTfefefi^ed his audience to statistic^ publkhed)sHy the Goyernmenfc^tatistieidiijtaboWij^that^S'wonld . hayeMjouglit itt Jfapier ; as much, of "the necessaries* of coi|i- , menced as 4d would.bTuy now, which, hej remarked, fully justified the interjection Mjustv made. Continuing |tq resS from **He teleffrairt, /Sir^ John!^ r #mdliily . said that the BoaVd of Trade had dohe very Anid^aa:*t<at^ w^cl- • ■ aiofxve m Gisborne on Tuesday and investigate meat prices there^ | later ""coming . to- -Napier to investigate: simjlarvsinattiers here and m Hasting^, v S*S fai; jhe : wbrkinjf of the Board Jiaifc «3ibwn^*ha)t the Gavernment would have to legislate to give greater powers i to -the. Board. ~ ;S6me interesting facts were di?ciosed ; on affidavit in' the receht'llawfjcbaseV^fe- ■ tweeri: H; Ford and Messrs' ; Doageßi?olk, two of the . biggest Autoinbbilfe makers m America. It^appears. tjhat wtien^Henyy • Ford started making cars on his QWh.-'” account m ISo3— just bve>l3 yea*rs^<go ■\t will be nbted-^-he entered' into an ;irrangement with the btfjtl&rs l D^dge, ' ;who were engineers and machinists -fn 'Detroit, to manufacture parts for. hirn^ : on the basis, of acbeptitig- a, »er-j/ tain portion of the payments up to £400, beiog a portion of > their *profitsi'ih s *hafes m his company' m lieu of cash. The arrangement prpvecl satisfactory to >fcbth parties, and the Podge Bros. ", thus" became^ inteiiasted f.rdir.eoiay'^in :'. : ltl*'. ! F^rd> business to tfie ah;oye an^u^t. 7 Tiie business, then;'shiall," pros^e'r^d, amjpijn 19Q8 the Ford Cs>ntpariy*wa«-^cbrp^i^t- " ed, to extend^he,;busihe^:^^ifta a cSpitalisatjon of J34Q5,Q00, the.D©dge interest, m the capitalisation being '10? per <jdnt ' oi-£40,0C0, a IQ.OCO per cent. -increas^Tft five: years, it will beyriote^d. r-Then- eiiJiie futui'e prosp^itS, tlife Do^ge^ B.vb^..;;wntinuing to niakfe pai^'forJtli^Siprd'Cbhcern,. qn wliicji.th.ey. made theii' manufacturing profit, as.welL as to the extent ofclO perlaenCiKiftbe Ford s • profits, and v i]b is stated m an affidavit made by the. Ford Co. m the case referred /^'vtha^-|ro^,jfifcsfc^toTtlas^;^6 Dodge Bros, hayfe received dividends aggregating no leWs th'ari? ( Vifilvll4.3oo ,on 'their original investmejitj.out of profits of £2000, whilst thfe" value /oi their preTOnt 10? per cent/ hftlding hi. the • Eerd Company is stated -to be equalSto £10,-OCO,OOO^-a f urthet«yca|>it^ incase inline eight years of ,the,; preseut . compaiiy .. of 25,000 per cerit.;vor, on their 6HginaJ|.Jxi: • vestment 2,SQp,(}QO, per cent. x than this, it ,is istatfrd that the; value; of the contract » 'executed; ' by Dodlge . Bjros. for the Ford firm during the period they were, -working. i foi'- it^ftre^tedanoleM ihah £5,400,000,v10ri' wMch^tr is estimated " ■they made a profit of at leas^^&2vQCo;ooo. 'I'hug. it , will be ' se^.-h^v^Sijfii^^^ i-'. short apaoe of 13 yeara/'£«Jdv|!Tae^;toe 6vW £13:000.000. Surely^ihejAwildest dreams- -.-■ bf JEU Dorado^; c mythical V wealth; 'are flc)i^e % dff-ibv/js9meiv.'S|;s>%Jiiß,' figiires " connebteit :< \v"ttl?: '.the /rAroferican. motor- industry.* , : ' ; •'• - "- 1 ':'M"-'<'-'\-'- > -'^'''\ A. M; '. Le\yis: andi; 3on* bray©.' ' been appointed agerits";; for -tne/ well- . known Overlarid ;<3a<r%. *i]ld- are ;)ahdiE(g. . three this week,, including tiie •. latest Willys-Knight. This car being -the. rlatest 19i7 model andxixist landed m, i^ewyi^ftland, wiJl be weft wbrtlr'inspeft'ttng.^^Dhe same firm are also, landing,, tfyis, week, . prayidiiijr shippW space is :avaiJable. a fine 8-cylinder : ear. a D4O /Mit-chell-Lewis car. and a fine ' mode!, :^ cylinder 60 h.pl Hayftes- 'car.'* ° :; ' : :•- For nice variety of Gents', Ladies' and, Children's Footwear, at the.l^est pw^«ible prices, you should mat an 3. ! A»» drew's, Mangapapa Boot Shdpu* lEavinsr closed my Te Earaka btismesai I have transferred the boot stock to my ' Mangapapa shop. !' Many odcr* lots ara now being; 'offered l at uidiculoUslyilbW pnioes; as the F .must be, cleared^, .Meja'ej women's, and children's . footwear. Special' discount, on regular goods.— BL J. Andrew, Mangapapa Boot-ipin^/)**^^ Unreliable waitqhes.are^ iji^t-as^ nnsatisfactory to *heVyatchiftaMiSr ;^tts tojthe customer. Grieve, jeweller^h sells only relikble wat«hes\ Bead, genuine testi^ n&qi^al.onrfpa'Rßia.* ", To get r Glai9igs' that really suit' an^'fiti, cpnault Gordon, Spectacle Spfiji^iit, opposite Bank of "N&l*::^ .■ '■ - <&?': -^ '■■■ ,'-.. Seeing is believing. '"■>}&s'.■ good . and modera.te charges appeal to ;-*eyecy> . body.- • Gordon,' expert Optic^ft/oppx^e ' t ßank' of ••N.Z.*^. , .. ;;//.,; :^-, } ,c/r }.&!'■ ■-. Engagement Singss arid Ladfes' \^^E Watches tnakfe presents that are' i valued. Try Gordon, Jeweller dnd*\VatchiMik*eiy opposite Bank 6f ''Jf.^. 1 -- 4 • '•;<•": <--'' '. There is no article m the world tfc&& is depended on^so largely; as yout;wa4^h. .See' that it is dependable. ' Qrfe^e/ . jeweller, only T^HafeT© 'nratcl^e*;. Head genuine testimonial on pajfo 2.* '' " Wrong. thinking caused the war, and only right thinking can bjring: it ti>: an earfy finish, consequentLy^CUsbttrne gro- > iers are .to be conwnended Jor giving tn« ~-'?\ '.'Thittker" note-book free with* eyeiJy :1s : package of "N^oßuSbing" i»«n*rv Help.* 0 * : ; v-

* Constable C. King, of the Napier police force ).«. still an inmate of the Napier Hospital. It is nearly four months since he broke bis thigh as a result of the wheels of his bicycle being caught m the tram rails and throwing him heavily to the ground.

"Have you ever had a lit ?" «"»s the final question put to a ballot man by one of the Medical Hoard recently. "Yes, once." was the reply. "When. —"When I got this blooming- notice. said the recruit, holding, up his telegram announcing that he had been drawn, i Mr John Tait, farmer of Waitoha. is a man of considerable enterprise (states the Hawke's Bay Tribune). About a months ago he built a launch, some 55ft m length, m which he installed two oil engines. On Monday morning Mr Tait arrived at Port Ahuriri with sixteen bales of wool, having accomplished the voyage across without incident. As the result of this successful enterprise other farmers along the coast are likely to follow suit. I

The Serbian boys m England are mak_ ing rapid progress m English. The extent of their attainments may be judged from the following story, which is vouched for as authentic. One of the boy s was asked to translate from Serbian into English the following sentence: "He gave up his life on the battlefield." With the help of a dictionary he produced the version: "He relinquished his vitality on the bellicose meadow."

"The desire of some people that the clergy should be called up for military service seems to me to be a sign «t spiritual flabbiness." said l)v Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, m the. course of a sermon at St. Alary s Cathedral on Sunday night. "No men are more ready to light for their country than the clergy," he continued. "1 do not suppose that there is a clergyman m this diocese who has not a-sked me for leave to go and fight, though it is contrary to the law of the Church. Do you know that there ia a prospect that wo shall have to close some of our churches, and that religious ministrations will be reduced, and this m face of the testimony of Lord Roberts that there is no more vital need than religion m times like these? If I am drawn m the ballot I shall go gladly, but I believe that the maintenance of religion is vital."

The recent discussion m the House of Commons on the alleged operation of an American Meat Trust m New Zealand once more focusses attention on the subject. "Inquiries made m Dunedin by oue of our reporters show unquestionably that American meat firms are now operating m the Dominion," says the Otago Daily Times. "Whether or not they are actually branches of Armour's and Swift's, of Chicago, cannot be definitely determined so easily. The presumption is that they are. * The only way this could be ascertained, our reporter was informed — as he was informed some months ago, when he prosecuted similar inquiries — would be to find out who retails the meat Avhen it has reached the London market. Still, it is suggested that the firms with American capital now operating here are unlikely to be able to do any harm while the war conditions last."

On Sunday, March 4, an occultation of the planet Saturn by the moon will take place, and it the weather is suitable it should be observed all over the Dominion. The particulars for Wellington, supplied by Dr C. E. Adams, Government astronomer, are : Disappearance takes place at Bhr 51inin p.m. 2C.Z.M.T., at an angle of 287deg. from the vertex o! Teh moon. Kfe-appearanoe takes place at lOhi- I7min p.m., N.T. M.T., && an angle of 141deg. from the the vertex of the moon. Re-appearance will take place on the eastern limb ol the moon, and as the moon will then be about ten days old, this limb will be dark, and observers will have to be on the alert, otherwise the planet will disappear before they are prepared for the occurrence. The re-appearance will take place on the western limb of the mdon, between the west point and the lowest point of the moon's limb, but somewhat nearer the lowest point; and careful watch should be kept for the reappear, j ance for some minutes before the predicted .time. These notes refer to the direct image as seen through field or other orchestral glasses. Observers | should correct their watches as carefully as possible l>efore the observation, and check them as soon as possible after the observation, and should note the time the edges of the rings disappear and reappear,* with similar information for the limbs of the planet. Time signals will be supplied to observers from, the observatory, where it is possible to do •so, for the purpose of checking tratchee.