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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14535, 21 February 1918, Page 2

On Monday last at Tokomaru Bay a native mimed' H*rl "* Hanta'pu- -. ajsjedj 7Qyears, went into his nad'dock to catch a horse, und after running about fp-.* a, time he fainted. He returned io his home, and told his friends that he' had' pain's ln tho rogion of the heart. He went to bed, and expired tho following morning. Dr Weeks intimated to the Corpnei* (Mr W. A, Barton. S.M.), that he was prepared to certify that deceased died from natural causes, and his Worship dispensed with the' necessity of am inquest.

Mr. W. F. Marsh, Commissioner of Crown Lands, arrived from Napier by tlie Arahura this morning. A land agents' license has been granted to Edward Lowder Lees on behalf of the Gisborne Farmers' Co-operative Company. The work of redecking the pedestrian walk of the Kaiti bridge has been completed by the Borough Council's outside staff. A decision has now been arrived at by the Public Works Department respecting the location of the bridge site across the Pakarae river on the new Gis-borne-Tolaga Bay road. The upper of the two sites under inspection has been selected. A fishing boat hauled alongside the Arahura at anchor m the bay shortly alter 8 o'clock, aiid the owner intimated that as he was going, m he could take a number of passengers ashore. Tlie opportunity was readily availed of, especially by a -number of cbmmercial travellers, and a lady who braved the situation and scaled down ,the ladder' was accorded hearty cheers by the ship's company. The attention of the Magistrate's Court was occupied for some time today m the hearing of the case m which Henry L. Robih&On (MrT Hei) proceeded against F. Williams (Mr. Burnard) for iill 6s 6d, being amounts owing to him consequent on work done by plaintiff m droving and managing defendant's dairy for 12 days.' After hearing the evidence His Worship gave judgment for the* defendant, with costs amounting to £2 9s.

A little boy, Master J. Curtis, son of Mr. J. Curtis, of Te Karaka, has received a pleasing acknowledgement for a tin of fruit sent With other goods to the troops. Writing' at sea on Christmas Day, Private Syder, states: "Just a few lines jtp thank you for tho tin of apricots* which I- : - received m the Lady Liverpool gift parcel, with your name on same* 1 thank you very much. lam having pretty good Christmas circumstances; I wish, you a happy New Year."

At the Baptist Church last night, a* presentation of 'a very handsome paii* of electroplated vases was 'made- •" to Mr: and Mrs. H. Hardy, the occasion being j their leaving for Lake Coleredge, where Mr. Hardy takes up Tar _wstttotf;ih the new _ hydro-electric; works.- The Rev. Mr Carlisle made the presentation m a few well-choseh -words of eulogy of the 1 mariny*) services he had rendered to the church, to which Mr. Hardy very feelingly re- j plied. They were also tendered a fare-' well Tat the Endeavour Society on the previous evening.

For some time past the lack of public telephones has been felt keenly, and the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce decided' to take action m the matter. The result is that four boxes, similar tb those installed m Wellington and other main centres, are now being erected m various parts of the town, and will be completed within a week's tune. The boxes are situated on the intersection of Wainui road and De Lautoui* road, ohe outside the post office, anothWat 'Roebuck road, and one at Ripley's store, on the corner of Ballaiice street and Ormond road.

The Harbor Board received advice this morning to the -effect -that .one'/bf the anchorage beacons at Miiriwai had* been encroached by the sea, and was m danger of toppling over. The engineer (Mr. L, Reynolds) aiid the'- harbormaster (Captain Carson) journeyed' to* tho^'Scenc by car to ! mako arrangements m connection with the matter.. It is interesting to note that two years ago the beacon m question was fully two. chains back at high -water ? which shows the rate at Iwhich the sea has encroached on the foreshore m that locality. It has "been found 'necessary to shift the beacon further back oh to private property. 0 . An extract from a Gisborn© boy's letter from Palestine contains' the interesting paragraph: "I suppose you will have heard that Captain Twisleton died °* worlds, the Legion of Frontiersman officer. He left Messines' m France on tho 3rd of October, and joined: the Auckland regiment about the 26th of October, just after we hadl started on the stunt. He said before th<*rfigbt on the 14th of November, that this stunt had been the hardest on horse and man for water and rations that he had ever been on, audi he was through the South African wait; and after the fight and after he was wounded he said that the rifle fire we had to go through, and machine gun hie. were the hottest he had ever been ni anywhere, France included."

Sitting m civil jurisdiction m Magistrate s Court this mOrning Mr. \£. , - B ??i_? n ». S;^ gave judgment ' for plaintiffs m the following undefended Civil actions: —Cook County Council v. John Parsons, claim £21 13s Bd, costs £1 7s 6d ; Adair Bros., (Mr. Wauchop) v.H. Bruce. £5 7s 3d, costs 23s 6d.« Adam Stem (Mr. Wauchop) v. Marjorie Roberts £4 17s Id, costs 10s; Annie i^aton (Mr. Burnard) v. Charles Francks, *1 7s 4d, costs ss; H. Lockie (Mr Wauchop) v. Morthu Morere, £5, costs! 3 '6s ; John Sollomon Harrison (Mr. 1 Wauchop) v. Hugh Bradley, £6' 5s lid, costs 28s 6d : Charles Collins was ordered to pay Ellen Rutter (Mr. Blair) £4 19s 6d forthwith . iri default 5 days' imorisonment. » '• *

Ihe death occurred at Lower Hutt on February sth, af ted a long and' painful illness, of Mr. D. -Spilman, M.R.(JIV:S., at the age of 69. He came to New Zea>land with* his family m 1902, and settled m the Hutt Valley. He was subsequently appointed Government Veterinarian at the Gear Co.'s works *at Petone, a position he held for many years. Prior ,to coming to New Zealand he was a yprominent cross-country point-torpoint rider m Yorkshire, and up to his leaving for New Zealand was a. keen fox-hunter, following the- York* and Ainsty and Bedale hounds Yon £ m„ny Tat good run. He was a great lover of -horses. Mr. Slpilman^was the seventh and youngest son of the lato*Mr.* Js&nes * Spilman, - of Rowland Hall, Yorkshire, 'and came of a" big line of farmersj one of 'his* ancestors receiving a grant of land during the Ware of the Roses for his services to the King. During 1 ' his residence at tho Hutt the. deceased took a keen interest m local* affairs, and was an enthusiastic •church worker. He leaves a widow, two sons, and four* daughters. His sons aro Mr' A. Spilman, manager of the Palmerston abattoris, a^d-' Private.' F. :S* Spil--mafi, who is on service m France; the daughters 'being Miss L. Spilman and r Mrs. F. Strand (Hutt*) Miss Spilman, hospital mati'On » (Dunedin) ,v and Mrs. G. * McChesney (Feilding).

' Tho total amount iiivolvod ! in the baiikruptciy of Frank Rhodes, hotelkeeper, Napier, is '£15,029 _2sßd, made up by unsecured creditors £5107 12s Id, ; and secured creditors £9922 0s 7d. In : his statement the debtor says : I came to Napier m March, 1914, and took pver the Caledonian Hotel, for whicli I paid £4000. 1 estimated furniture £2000 and £2000 for goodwill' for 4£ years. War started six months after I took over the hotel and the takings from tho hotel showed a decrease, which grew towards tho end of 1915. I had done a considerable amount of successful stock dealing, before ' entering the hotel business, and decided early m 1916 to again deal m sheep and cattle. In the meantime my son, Arnold Edward Rhodes, drew a section m Otaiamauri settleErient, and I had his permission to use his section during, his absence at the front. This farming was showing a satisfactory profit and I entered into various agreements to purchase and to lease fattening paddocks at Pakowhai and ■ Korokipo." At Pakowhai I had, inter alia, a leasehold where I was running a considerable number of sheep m the winter of last year when the phenomenal flood occurred about the 7th June, which absolutely cleared the place of all stock and resulted m a loss to me i of approximately £3500. This * was the' commencement of my financial troubles. 1 The stock I had before the flood was "Covered by a security' to the bank aiid would have been ample to support •cheques .(/ pay current expenses and supplement -the takings of the hotel, which by this time was' barely covering thO'-outlay. On the Ist- of December my income was further reduced by the coming into force of six o'clock closing. As a result of the losses by the flood my bankers' security was insufficient to secure the overdraft, and I obtained a guarantor whom I secured by a coun-ter-security over the hotel furniture,

Many of the sheep froni tho East Coast slaughtered recently at the" East Coast freezing works turned scale at from 851 bto over 1001 b. More than 150 toy factories are now operating m the United States, turning out great quantities of such toys as were formerly made m various parts of Europe. The balance-sheets of the Gisboriie Defence Committee have been audited for the past two years by Mr. C.KG. Piesse, who is the duly -appointed auditor for the district under the War Fiibds-*' Act, which embraces all patriotic funds. A start has been made to< effect repairs' to the Waiapu bridge damaifed by "last winter's flood. The' wbi-k^ whi,*ih is'prbceeding on day^labor under .fie sujSei*'yision of Mr. ' McCracken, entails T the widening of the nunief ous piers ; and ,t\te lifting 'of the decking for" a second'timQ. The manufacture of concrete pilesTjhas been started; the services of an expert from the l Publio Works Department, recently "employed at Westehore, having been obtained. - . ;

Charges of riding motor-cycles Tat at furious rate were preferred against Tfivo pupils of the New Zealand Flying School at Kohimarama, before Mr. F. YV. Frazer, S:M., at the Police Court at Auckland. It was stated m the. 5 police evidence that these young men were: ln the habit of running their flying machines at from 80 to 100 miles an hour, and did not seem to itnow when they iwere exceeding the speed limit" oh tho I roads. On the occasion corfiplained- of the riders were trying to break the speed record on the Kohlmarama roads. Defendants, who all pleaded guilty, wero convicted . and ordered to pay 9s Costs* In a report; on tho formation of tho East^Coavst main road, the Opotiki County engineer (Mr W. Upton) states tliat fi-dnx Opape to the end of the eouiity bouudaryis a distance, of about 60 miles, and.'- to form the road over this d*is*fcance, 14 f eefc wide with niqdern grades^Jh eluding the provision of all culverts *ahd bridges' nob exceeding 20 feet m length, would,/ cost somewhere about £_4,0_0, Oi*, roughly, £900 per mile. Mr Upton adds that to* estimate the cost of tho cohsirqetibri of traffic bridges over the Torere, Hawdf, Motu, Haparapara, Eereu, Raukokore, and Oruaiti' r i*iversj Without making detailed estimate® of each bridge, would be a, very hard; matter, but m his opinion the construction of these bridges itt iiorinal times would cost another £40,000*.

A message was received by the Brisbane Marine . Department on February 4,V stating that*jthe schooner OretS Ywas missing. • A previous message stated that tlie vessel had arrived at Flat Top Island, but this proved to be incorrect. The vessel's whereabouts Were unknown uf) to February 4. The latest information received by the Brisbane* Marine Department was that' the Orete was sheltering at the Pine Islet lighthouse oh the night before the recent cyclone, but was not seen anywhere on the following morning. Tlie Orete was a timber auxiliary schooner, which' left Maryborough On January 16 with a cargo of sawn timber. She i& built of wopd, ahd fitted with a. 60 h.p. ' 'oji ejigine. The vessel is 118 tons gross,' and ■92 tons net, and is 93ft -long,. 24ft. m the beam, and 7ft. m depth. She was built* m Auckland m 1898„ a-nd bef bro going to Australia some years ago was engaged m the cargo trad6' between 1 Auckland', Eiast Coast bays, and Gisborne, m conjunction*, with the schooners Kaeo and Awanui.