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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 2

The jury list lia s b§en revised' by Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., and now comprises 1102 ! Europeans and 63 Maoris. His Honor Mr. Justice Hosking and Associate (Mr. Treadwell) leave for Auckland by the Monowai to-morrow morning. The Bishop of Waiapu will preach at matins at Holy Trinity Church to-mor-row, and will conduct a confirmation service in the evening. The official recount in connection with the recent Borough Council elec^ tion was held yesterday by Mr. H. M. Porter, returning officer, * assisted by Messrs. H. McKay and G. Miller, deputy returning officers, and Messrs. F. H. Lawton (scrutineer for Mr: Sinclair) and J. R. Little (scrutineer for Cr. Wildish). The official count of the voting is ns follows : G. Wildish 558, H. H. de Costa 511, J. Gilchrist 186, and W. J. Sinclair 137, informal 20, .

Recent Army Orders announce the transfer of Captain R. F. Gambrill from adjutant, 4th (Reserve) Battalion, to be officer in charge War Records' Section. • Probate in the will of Sarah Ann Hyde wa s granted to-day by Mr. Justice Hosking., Mr. T.' Ai Coleman appeared in support. Bishop Sedgewick arrived in Gisborne from Opotiki 'an Wednesday last/ and has been visiting country districts. He returns by steamer to Xapier after the "service at Holy to-morrow night. A survey party of eight, under Mr. F. Hay, of the Public Works Department, has arrived at Wairoa and will start a survey of the Waikaremoana hydro-electric line next week. A sale of plant in the bankrupt estate of Hyde Bros, took place to-day. A portion of the plant, was disposed of, fend the. remainder -is for private sale. v Tlie usual Public Service entrance examinations for shorthand -writers and 'typist® will ! be held on the 25th May. Applications close llth May. Full particulars! may be obtained on application to Mr P. Verschaffelt, secretary. Mi> D. Lougher'® lease of his property at Patutahi was offered for sale by public auction this morning, there being a fair number present. The property was passed in at £700, that being the highest bid. Whilst engaged in lightering a vessel , m the bay about 11.30. a.m. to-day, a | waterside worker named Hueston was

struck on the right arm by a derrick, and received. a flesh wound which necessitated medical attention, after which he was removed to his home.

The local. Defence Office received today the following telegram from Headquarters, Wellington: "In view present national emergency Cabinet has to-day decided that the 41st draft must now arrive in camp during the week April 30-May 4, andi the 42nd draft during the week May. 21st-25th."

A feeling tliat is growing in connection with" the War Loan is expressed by the resolution heard on/ all sides. It is the simple sentence, _ "I've got to do something." The airrangements made by the Treasury -with the banks made it possible to everyone to do something. Each' aooording. to his capacity is the popular summing-up of the situation.

Mr. and! Mrs. E. Burbery Martin, who have been, resident in the Waimata Valley for many years past, have disposed of their property, and are taking up land in the Whakatane district. They have been made' the recipients, by the settlers in the Valley, of a handsome silver entree dish Tand a' set' of stainless knives asa tok,en of the esteem in which they are held 1 . ■'„-' V A

Before the Supreme Court- session closed to-day the appeal case of Henrv Monika (Mr. T. Alston Coleman) v. the Police (Mr. J. W. Nolan), "was again mentioned. Tliis was an appeal against two decisions of Mr. R. fc>. Florance, S.M..* respecting the sale of liquor to a native. The conviction having been filed his Honor Mr. Jiistice Hosking dismissed the appeal with £s 'ss costs, "and disbursements to be paid by the appellant to respondent.

At a meeting last evening of. the committee of the, local Chess Club,- appointed to make arrangements for the annual "smoko" and social in connection with the Chess and Draughts Club, it was resolved, in order, to avoid clashing with the Red, Triangle campaign, to postpone the gathering '.-from Wednesday, . the 10th, t 0 Wednesday, -the 17th. The social will be held in the pavilion of the Gisborne Bowling Club, kindly lent for tjhe' occasion.

At a committee meeting of the Borough Council yesterday ?.f ternoon, furthei? consideration was given to the matter of the Mayor's resignation. "His Worship informed a Herald representative -to-day that the Council having agreed to relieve him of some of the responsibilities and duties of the office, he hadl decided to hold the matter over in the meantime. Members of the Council paid a visit' to Stanley road-to-day to look into a request from the High School Board' respecting- the footpath and the drainage of the hostel grounds.

The Returned Soldiers' Association were tho guests of the Cosmopolitan Club at a "snooker" tournament last evening. There was a good attendance of members of both clubs, and a very enjoyable evening was; spent. The interest in the game was fully maintained, and throughout the score was very close. The tbtal points scored were : Cosmopolitan Club 546, Soldiers' dub 491. During an interval light refreshments were partaken of. It is understood that a return match -will eventuate immediately after the Red Triangle campaign. ,

The business of the Supreme Court was concluded this morning. The divorce case, Paraki Akurangi, laborer, of Gisborne, petitioner, (Mr. Dunlop), v. Harate Tokira Akurangi, of Waipiro Bay, respondent, and Taara Kupa, of Waipiro Bay, shepherd, half-caste, .corespondent, on the grounds of adultery, J was. again brought np, having been adjourned On two occasions to allow the amending of the marriage certificate. This was. produced, and" his Honor granted l .- *a decree nisi, to be made absolute alter J hree months, costs being fixed as tyor scale. Representatives of the Manutuke, Muriwai, Waingake and Wharerata dis-

trict were in charge of the Red Cross shop to-day. Mrs. Pyke acted as supervisor, while the following were stallholders: Cakes, Mrs. ..Hepburn, Misses Daulton nnd H. Halbert; small goods, Mrs. Preston, Misses Butler and E. Hepburn'•; preserves and sweets, Miss Godfrey; jumble, Mrs. Calcott and Miks N. Oark; flowers, Miss D. Hepburn; produce, Mrs. Saunders and Misses Saunders and Ginger; meat, Mrs. McDonald and Messrs! McDonald, Walker and Cobbett; work, Mrs. Carl Williams ahd Miss Boyoe. The committee desire to thank ■. the ' natives of the district for the . generous donations of poultry.

/ A death . by drowning occurred near Whatatutu about 4 p.m. yesterday, the victim being Frederick' Charles Dette, aged about 45 years'. He was attempting to ford the river a mile or so below Whatatutu, on ...horseback. The - body was recovered about a quarter of an hour later, and although : every thing possible in the Avay of .artificial respiration was done, it proved . unsuccessful. The deceased was a married - , man with ho

[family, and' was a T sawmiller and carpenter, residing .at Whatatutu. Attention was first 'drawn to, the: accident by Maori boy, who noticed- tha riderless horse emerge ; from the riven < The District Coroner r (Mr A W. A. ABarton) issued 1 instructions • for •an inqufest ..to-. be held at Te Karaka to-day Jinto-, tlie circumstances surrounding the death. ;

The .scow R&ngi returned to'Gi^bdrne yesterday afternoon in aJeaky .condition, and- wasvput on. the slip ' this morning. Her condition . was "not/ discovered until Tokoniaru Ray was .reached on the way toA Auckland. y Owing v to the head wind Captain Fraifcis d&sided to return to Gisborne. Pumps were ..applied yesterday t * morning, and a., quantity of water pumped-out.ANo. 'damage was done to the, cargo. An , inspection of the hull was .. made this mOrhing, and it was ascertained- that* the'Jeakage, was due to the- centre -board casing working loose. Some ofAthe 'sheathi*hg has come away from thoundeivportion of thei vessel. It is expected that. - repairs will be completed, and the vessel removed from, the slip on Wednesday next.

Speaking to a Herald representative to-day Mr. W. 0- Sherratt, chairman of the Hospital Board, stated that owing to a steady increase in the number o? soldier patients, it had been found nedessary to movie them from fiheiV recent ward (formerly the children's ward) into ward No. 2. ' There were now 25 soldier paiients in the institution, but) including out-patients who attended for treatment at frequent intervals the medical superintendent had 51 soldier cases under his care. Doubtless as the war progressed they would have to accommodate an even larger r umber of returned soldiers, only too clearly emphasising the need for tho proposed Soldiers',, MemoriaJ Ward. Mr Sherratt ajddedi that . he thought tho proposed soldier's^liostel was a good idea and^ he hoped! the Defence Department would agree to: its establishment

Redstone and Son's Tiniroto- Wairoa', Morere-Wairoa and 1 Coast coaches leave town at 7 a.m. on Mondav.

The Royal Mail coach leaves Franohi and Lougher's stables for Tiniroto and Wairoa at 7 a.m. on Monday.

The Y.M.C.A. at Detroit, Michigan, is the largest Y.M.C.A. in the world, the membership being 8919. „„,,.,.... "■ v The management of FuliersALibd. contemplates arranging for. its . vaudeville companies to play at the . -Mu/nibipal Theatre, Hastings, two nights monthly. A bright musical and devotional service will be held in Lysnarls Vbuildings at 3 pm. to-morrow, when a short address^ will also be given on "The Approaching Dawn." ...

Hotelkeepers m Wellington estimate that 6 o'clock closing has reduced their bar takings by over 25 per cent.; „ A little extra business being done iii the bottle department, but nothing to appreciably" compensate for the loss of bar trade. ' ' ■•.-■■•

The Dunedin Star states : Captain Mlntyre, of Dyttelton, received the following telegram on Saturday from the Secretary of Marine : "Advise ship masters that on March 21 , a* vessel, lower masts with rigging attached, T^as sighted three miles north-west of Pepin Island, near Nelson." ■ „_ ■'•*'.■■ ... '7 ■. -'■***' The Eev. Wm. Wills, who>ior the past * wo years has hsem in charge of the Methodist charge in Gisborne, leayes by the steamer on Tuesday Anext for Richmond,. Nelson, on transfer. -His successor (the Rey. W. E. Abbey) arrivea in Gisborne from Levin on Tuesday next, but does not take over duties until, the 21st inst.

The first annual conference of the recently revived National Council of Women wa<» held in Wellington at. the begpnniaig of this week. iDeiegtit*» from both the North .-ind Soutft. Islands were present. This Society lias" done valuable work in furthering - 1 women's interests in most European countries for years- past. The present movement m the Dominion aims at reorganising a. branch whioh some 20 years ago did good work here. The New Zealand Constitution was- drawn up and passed. Mrs. K. W. Sheppard, of Chrißtchurch, who is an authority on all questional concerning the welfare of women, and wa-s one of those who Were instrumental in obtaining the franchise for; > the women of New Zealand, was unani* mously elected Dominion president. Miss Henderson, M.A. i,- ' was elected! secretary, and) Miss Jackson, of Auckland, treasurer; the vice-prosidtents to be elected from each local Ib'rancih.

Sir Joseph Ward, speaking . at tha Commercial Travellers' Club at Wellington-/* had! some thing to say about financial shirkers. He said that there were some people of large' means and moder-, Ete- means who had done nothing ta support the' War Loan, • and they, were not going to be overlooked. It* would serve Jftem 'right if tHeir liain'e/j" were placed on record by the Legislature of New Zealand, so that 'the whole country would know that they had' hot been doing their .duty. , If X a man who was physically fit shirked^ the _ duty ■ imposed Upon him in connection with the war, everybody knew him for what he Was^ The financial shirker % was ■•nbt entitled to any , more consideration than the other sort of shirker. The- Minister, added that to hisi own knowledge there were people in New Zealand who had failed to do their duty in connection with the War IJoans, and who, if necessary, would be compelled to do their dtuty. He emphasised that the present War Loan was not the last one. The Government would want more' money for war purposes, even if the. vtfar ended six months hence, and the; .money must be found within New Zealand.

Giving evidence. at th? inquiry into the fire at Foster's Hotel, Wanganui, Mi*. Spriggens, superintendent of the brigade/ 'said that the brigade received the call- on the -night of the 'great fee, near 7.30, and on arriving found 'the place a mass of flames. The first lead was taken from Paul's ccirner, .also the second. lead'. Th supply vas inadequate. A : child) could!, have .lieldj the branch, so : small was the pressure. &«>' brigade could have stopped the fire witli *tai pressure. He had hevejj seen the pressure so weak.' Later the pressure- increased— about ,8.. 30 p.m.— and he was informed that the pressure had been turned off .at Gonville and^WanganuL East. Under the circumstances th&.brigade.liad) no chance to savs the*; -hirStel, as the water they wanted they could not get. Deputy Perrett gave evidence in. regard to the poor pressure Or^^ater., It was the first time ih. hist experienoe of 23 years that the Taupo/Quay main* had failed them. The,, fire pl-ugs were not satisfactory.' , They were OJt ttie" r old style: of y key plugs, andr. not ball plugs. Some turned! to the Jef t, 'ahd some to the right. Soine were covered with overgrowth, and! others . were , fin the wrong place. Some of the present hose . was only in , f(iir condition/ and they^ could not rely on it. Some of it had*-* been in use for ten years. The 'ordin-.f ary life" of 'good hose was f oor or five %. years. Some of the plant wm not in v good 1 condition. The borough aiibsdy* of £360 was inadequate. It'-^at.-'&apis--take not to-have .everything up-to-date, .

(An important agreement hps , heeix arrived at by, the Borough Council*;respecting the Mangapoike water siipply augmentation contract. The : S&aJ'or, Mi*. Sherratt, informed a 'Herald representative t hat an amicable * .agreement has been reached with , Messrs. .^ppdmah and Jones, contractors, for tthe. tion of the original contract anclJ^he laying of the pipe line along the newroute pegged out by. the Borough engineer* By this, line, his Worship added, the water pumped , over from Mangapoike will be delivered ' into,, a' creek in the 'bush in the waterworks reserve. " Interviewed oiv the /subject , the Borough engineer, Mi*.. Slinge*, said that under the agreement arrivedat, al deviation would be made from the^original pipe line across tfie watershed thati divides the waterworks valley from the - Mangapoike. After crossing the summit the' pipes will '.-'be. carried along a hew and the saf e>st possible route, : effecting •' a shortening of the distance. Besides tliis the second saddle tfill be 64ft. lower" than on the former jline, and the cpn- , struction.of the concrete reservoir ,0n the*. top of the big watershed has been cut" Out. The new route, he said, .runs partly through scrub country, and) 'there is not a single slip on the -whole the new line. The feature.*' of the scheine, he, said, was that > the Council was getting the deviation on a better and safer route, getting' right,away froni the bad ground and Mips in . the neighbor- . hood of .^Smith's creek, where the dis- ', trict engineer stated! it would be am-j possible to construct a : saleApipe line. The work would entail the taking up and relaying of a 's^tionAof r the newpipe line, and the /whole of the work would be carried out by the contractors under, the new agreement 'at a price approximately the figure of the <jriginaL contract. Apart from this' the Council would have about^ 8900ft. ol 6inch* cast iron mains to the good, incidentally the engineer indicated that had the Council faced! the situation at ah earlier dateit was more than probable that a further saving of possibly £1000 might hava been effected as ;a result: <tf htlk&t investigations. ' A'

A social and dance in aid of Ihe Catholic parish, fund will. be held in the Ormond) hall next Thursday high£

holds a.sale of choice dairy cows, boa.es, tL ♦i • Bla f; k ' Te Arai* VaJfey.nf mSP ™ S m S deposed of on ffica&i 17* Black's. chief man leaviijgy&r the front, and the difficulty of securirig labor to carry on. , YXy.yiy.y i»f^ ar %u laa: 7 abouti y our Writing- lib**i th e "Golden :ferf brands. They appealFte \hl Cultured. All stationere.** : * ™. ?T . For those people -who have, to *iie*»i '# hours, jrou will f^™Gri?ves reliable Alarm Clocks just- the ?SS5! prices. 6/6, 8/6, 12/6, and^ls/TSaL: teed twelve months.*^ . ' * '„£ ' - U A Di «»«- r Qom Clock, &h&h hai? hofr t*? B ,^ « fcri^ thevh^ursS3 halt-hour at 3Ss, 1S a ., useful K/ nM *' w* l ". .** mm '.-I .7 • ■ A-' '*" ■ ■