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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17056, 10 June 1926, Page 6

Yesterday, at the Hamilton Supreme Court, a well-known farmer at Kototuna, Herbert Gothorpe, was acquitted on a charge of incest. Tho Archbishop has announced that tho election of a bishop for the Maoris will lake place in Wellington on August 6.

The Union Co. advises that the Wninui will be tendered at 6 o'clock this evening, instead of 5 o'clock, as previously indicated.

Spofforth, the well-known Australian bowler, was buried at Rrookwood cemetery, states a London cable message. Wreaths were sent by the Australian team and by tho Marylehone, Surrey and Hampstead Clubs, At the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday, .Toll 11 Harold Morris, 22, was found guilty of rape and remanded for sentence. The girl concerned suffered considerable injury, necessitating a sojourn of a. fortnight in hospital. The New Zealand Drapers' and Clothiers''Federation is arranging an Empire Shopping Week throughout tho "Dominion in October for the purpose of tho further use of goods of British manufacture.

Donations for the Gisborne High School baths are still being received by the committee, and the contract for the construction work will be let in the near future. It will be possible now to construct the baths and also to provide suitable accommodation in the way of cubicles.

The strains of the "Last Post" being vigorously played in the Garrison Hall yesterday afternoon did not indicate that the last rites were being performed over some military figure who had passed away. A Territorial who had been posted to the reserves, had returned his uniform, and taking a bugle he played the "Last Post" as a benediction on "the completion of service.

An outbreak of lire occurred in an upstairs room at the back of Messrs. Grundy and Shennan's premises shortly before 11 o'clock this morning. The Fire Brigade turned out promptly, and a lead of hose was run out from Grev street, past the rear of various business premises. The fire was not of a serious nature, being confined to a number of bales of kapok which were smouldering. These were removed and hosed down. Practically no damage was done to tho building.

Inspector Hugo's report on the municipal water supply and fire brigade plant was considered by the Pahiatua Fire Board yesterday, and various important recommendations were made for the improvement of the existing'! services. The report was referred to} the Borough Council. The Board dealt with the epicstion of procuring motor equipment for the brigade. The installation of a complete new water supply would probably necessitate raising a loan by the Council.

Speaking in regard to unemployment yesterday, when Wellington members of Parliament waited on the Prime Minister, the Minister of Labor, Mr. 0. J. Anderson, said the figures for last year and this year could not bo compared, because this year there had been an agitation which had had the effect of causing men who were unemployed anywhere to register their names in Auckland. The position was bad. but over the rest of New Zealand there was nothing to be worried about, the position being only one-third worse than it was last year/

Religious seels have been added to by one, according (o the last New Zealand Gazette. People authorised to solemnise marriages have been gazetted. Apparently any sect can marry its folk according to its own ideas, and even the Ruaites have seen the names of their matrimonial- high priests duly recorded in the Gazette, in the latest Gazette there is an announcement that a certain man is authorised to solemnise marriages for the sects known as' "Latter Bain." Apparently the church is not a very numerous one, as there is only a single minister, and inquiries failed to elicit a.nv information about it.

The following resolution regarding the Agricultural College was adopted by the Canterbury A. and P. Association yesterday: "Thai in the opinion iil' this meeting neither the number of agricultural experts at present required, nor the finances of the Dominion, warrant the immediate establishment of two agricultural 1 colleges of University standing capable of turning mil first-class agricultural experts; thtil the Government be urged to consider the feasibility of both reconciling the conflicting claims of the North and South Islands, and of economically and efiiciently meeting the present remiirements by the establishment of a single agricultural college located partlv at Lincoln and partly in a central position in the North Island." It was decided to send a copy of the resolution to the Prime Minister and to each member of Cabinet.

A Wanganui motorist . who recently paid a visit to Taranaki collected five "blue papers" in the course of his trip. These souvenirs wore all the result of minor by-law infringements in various Taranaki towns. It was quite an expensive outing. The Moa Seed Farm near Roxburgh is to close down on June 30. Circumstances compel the committee of Duncdin residents which has been running the farm to hand it over to the Department of Agriculture, which, in turn, will place it at the disposal of tho Lands Department for soldier settlement purposes. Tho prompt and efficient manner 1:1 which the bovs at the Gisborne High School extinguished the fire in the school gymnasium yesterda.; has earned favorable comment from the Education Department. This mornin.j the secretary of tho High School Board received tho following telegram from the Department :—"The Department wishes to express its appreciation of the action of the scholars and their promptitude in extinguishing the fire in the gymnasium."

From the ashes of its almost forgotten past the small mining town of Bruniierton has risen again to a position of importance in the coal industry. The Dobson mine, which is situated in the immediate precincts of Brunnerton and on the railway line, is now turnr ing out coal in large quantities—coal which is declared by miners to be the best of its kind in New Zealand. It is an' excellent household coal, but extremely hard to mine—in fact the miners are paid an extra 2d per ton to work it. Delegates to the International Trade Parliamentary Commercial Conference were entertained at lunch by tho Association of British Chambers of .Commerce. Sir Arthur Balfour, ex-presi-

dent of tho Association, proposed the toast of the. German and French Republics and the British Dominions represented. In the" course of his speech he declared that a great step in the direction of international trade and international harmony could be taken by the removal of trade barriers. The toast was acknowledged by M. Theumas, ex-Premier of Belgium. M. Chauman, French ox-Minister, and Herr Meyer, member of the German Reichstag. The Canadian National Railways were the first, and still are, the only railwaysystem in the world, to adopt radio as a part of the regular service of transportation. All the ■ transcontinental trains of the Canadian National Railways are equipped with radio receiving sets —headphones and loud speakers. These sets are -operated for the purpose of keeping passengers in touch with the events of the day and of giving them entertainment, during the trip. World news and enjoyable concerts from many of the important cities in Canada and the United States are received daily through these instruments' while the trains are in motion.

Melbourne City Council has adopted the report and recommendations made by Mr. It. 11. Iferron, general manager of the Wellington Citv Milk Department, during his visit, some weeks ago, to Melbourne, in response to a request that he should advise thai City Council as to an improved milk .supply. The capital cost of the scheme, states The Ago, is estimated! at £160,000, and provides for the inauguration of a system very much on tho lines of the 'Wellington system, delivery, on the block system, of pasteurised! milk in bottles, licensing of dairies, compensation for the 120 distributors in the city at present, etc. The prices proposed are on a par with Weilington's prices, slimmer and winter.

Every morning, as tha ferrv steamer approaches the wharf at LvtteTton, two homing pigeons fly to it and flutter down for their morning meal on deck. These two birds have not forgotten the treatment they received from the men of the Wahine one morning a year ago. As she waR steaming up the harbour the two pigeons* exhausted by a long flight, alighted on the deck of the vessel and were given food. Since then they, have never left Lyttelton. Most of their time is spent on No. 2 wharf, .but'when either the W T ahine or the Maori is enterinrr the harbor they fly towards the vessel. Both birds "have become so tame that they will eat from the hands of the officers or the stewards. Needless to say thei pigeons have been given the freedom of both vessels.

" Kicking goals " at coconut trees is evidently the Niue Island version of the Rugby tootball code, according to a letter received by the management committee of the 'Auckland Rugby Union (states the New Zealand Herald"). The letter was from the teacher of the Tu» fukio School, and acknowledged \ witli many thanks the gift of two footballs; " You have no idea hcvr much your gift brings to these happy little i brown folk," the letter stated. -"I am surei the lads must have smelled the new leather. When I made, for tin? ground with a football in brown papet they almosl mobbed me. Both girls and beys competed to see who could pmit over a high coconut tree, j A boy won, so I am.training; him for Nepia No. 2. You can expect an ' All. Black';team over during the Wellington Exhibition in 1930."