THIRD EDITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 13

THIRD EDITION

The Fuller Hayward Proprieiary Ims acquiicd Everybody's Theatre, Napier, the purchase price being within £15,000, or at the rate of £2OO per foot. The theatre was opened! in 1916. Sunday, January 31, sees the termination of Sir Robert •Stout’s appointment as Chief Justice of New Zealand, and his retirement will be recognised by the Isar of New Zealand, who will tender him a, formal farewell on Monday at Wellington. The event of the year for long-stand-ing residents of Thames occurred on Saturday, when over 2CO ex-residents, including members of the (Mil Thames Roys' Association, travelled from Auckland on. their annual visitation to the town of their birth. “New Zealanders have fa ken over a big responsibility in fbe governance of Samoa." remarked General I’iebnrdson at a gathering in Wellington. “In common with the oilier -.-wiliscd countries of the world, they have assumed the burden of their more backward brethren. Now Zealand has lo accept that burden, and do it : ; purl for the development of the territory committed to her care. Keen if, for Iho present, it. costs the country a little money, they must remember that they are carrying a burden imposed on them by civilisation. Personally. I have no doubt that they will prove worthy of the trust.”

A mechanically-operated pick-up street sweeper was put into operation this week by the Auckland City Council, replacing the horse-drawn sweepers which for many years used to keep Auckland’s Unflic streets clean. The new machine will make for added efficiency in the cleaning of the streets, and as it picks up up its own sweepings and is so eonconstructed that it can tip its load without any additional labor, ils working should prove economical. 'Die old type horse-sweepers merely swept the street refuse lo one side of the road, where it was lifted by hand shovels into a following dray. That, nurserymen have a hard battle to light against imported pests was demonstrated" at the Nurserymen’s Conference at Dunedin. There were exhibited several parcels of bulb which had recently been landed from well-known English and Scottish seed houses and, without exception, every bull) was the home of either upJii ur of bulb miles. Rut these parasites extract their nourishment, which consists (.1 the juices contained in the leaves of the bulb, by suction, and so voracious and destructive are they that in the ease of many of the bulbs shown, nothing remained but a crumbling centre surround ed by dried husk.

“When you think of Samoa,” said General Richardson, in an address at Wellington, “think, of a people having domestic Home. Rule. No legislation affecting the people is ever passed without, this council being called together and the matter first referred to them. In this way, General Richardson proceeded, they hoped* to keep the natives contented. ' Had! they tried to tell them just what they should do, and put the legislation into effect without their consent, much of the good which was now being effected would have boon lost. The endeavor of the administration was to guide the natives along the right path and teach them to develop along rational lines.

A belated Napier -wayfarer seeking his home one night had completed about half Ihe journey when his atienlion was aflratted by a gentle tapping noise Dial proceeded from behind a hedge surrounding a private dwelling (says the Napier Telegraph). Suspecting a fresh outbreak on the part, of Napier’s still undiscovered burglar, I.lie. citizen looked over the hedge and observed a man hammering at the window of a house with a key. Ail explanation was forthcoming when a female voice from inside the dwelling exclaimed: “So you’re home at last, are you? Jt would serve you right if I lot yon stay out- all night. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.” The wayfarer passed on philosophising on the many cnur.es Dial- make for domestic friction.

A curious and neglected relie, of the past at Putiki. Wanganui, is an artificial cave- cut out in the sandstone of a hillside overlooking the river. It is shaped like the interior of a Gothic cathedral, with nave, aisles, transepts and choir. The roof is arched, and the clerestory or upper part of each side wall is ornamented with quatrcfoils and crosses. It, was made by a pioneer missionary named Richard Taylor, who died many years ago, and whose grave crowns a knoll in the old Wanganui cemetery. The cave entrance commands a wide view, and Mr Taylor used to spend much of his time there. Beyond that, little is known about his reasons for undertaking so laborious a work. The cave is fairly well preserved, despite damage by weather and wandering cattle.