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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17154, 2 October 1926, Page 4

A memorial font presented to the Holv Trinity Church by the Misses Searle is to he dedicated at the morning service to-morrow. The font, which is in marble, designed in the figure of an angel, holding a basin, is a beautiful piece of sculpture.

The Christchurch City Council has decided to raise a loan ol BSQOO for street works for the relief of unemployment. For his second charge of drunkenness within six months, Arthur Saville Robinson, 52, was fined 20s in default seven days imprisonment by Mr. E. C. l.evvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning.

The maize market is very weak, as arrivals from Gisborne and the Bay oi Plenty have been in excess of requirements, reports the Auckland .Star. Prices have consequently eased. The first South African shipment is due to arrive about the third week in October. Intimation that the cabled report of the destruction of She-Ki-Chen is incorrect has been received in Auckland from Dr. J. J. Kitchen, home director of the China Inland Mission. A Melbourne message states all the missionaries are safe and the situations is improving. Bitumen work on the East Coast road will not be resumed for another month, by which time it is expected that the weather will he dependable. Tho permanence of this class of work depends largely upon the weather conditions under which it is carried out. “ New Zealand and South Australia are leading the way,” said Sir John Sulman, the well-known architect and town-planner of Sydney, who arrived by the Aovangi this morning to take part in the commission of inquiry which has been set up to discuss proposals for an Auckland civic centre.

When Leo Joseph Lafferty, alias Francis Leonard Lafferty, 24, was charged before Mr. E. C. Lnvvcy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, this morning with having insufficient lawful means of support ho asked leave to secure legal advice. Tho Magistrate agreed to remand him in custody until Monday morning. On Thursday evening next a town concert party will pay a visit to Fuha in connection with the town queen committee’s campaign. A popular concert and dance is being provided, the musical arrangements being in the capable hands of Mr. W. MacClurp, whilst Mrs. Keeney’s orchestra will supply the dance music. An excellent supper will he provided. A proposal that the 1926-27 rowing season be officially opened on October 16 lias been made by the Poverty Bay Rowing Club, which* has suggested to its sister-club that a river gala could be held on the Tamheru, but the extensive nature of the plant overhaul undertaken by the Gisborne Club will delay the official opening of the season beyond the date mentioned. Sir Thomas Lipton. writing to a friend in Fketa,lnina from Soutligate under date August 18, refers to his yacht Shamrock. “By this time, you will doubtless have heard she met with a serious accident whilst racing at Cowes, which put an end to her racing this season. The mast broke in two places and everything went overboard, but, luckily, no one was hurt. The accident was all the more unfortunate as up to then she had .won a greater number of prizes than any other yacht of her class.” It is almost certain that the Norwegian whaling'' vessel, Sir James Clark Ross, will call at Port Chalmers, and not visit Lyttelton, to take in from 2000 to 30CO tons of fresh water, and about 1500 tons of coal before proceeding to the whaling base at Stewart Island to meet the chasers that will accompany her on this year’s expedition. A few days ago the Sir James Clark Ross arrived in Norfolk (Virginia) from Norway, to replenish her bunkers, and site has continued her voyage to NewZealand waters. A Kaiti resident vouches for the following story. A 51b. tea-camiister, reposing on a stable shelf well out of tl.o reach of children, was used as a repository for nails, and on a recent insneetion was found to be more than half full. A neighbor having ment ion oil that he was picking up a surprising number of new nails in his garden, the owner of the tin chanced to again inspoet his nail supply the other day. He found that a couple of starlings had practically ■ cleared the tin, and had already laid the foundations of their nest.

One of the competitors in the ‘'tortoise" cycle rirce for girls, held at the High School sports yesterday, bad evidentlv taken her preparation seriously. When Hie field was sent away this competitor pushed on a few inches, then turned her front wheel, and balanced in that position until the case of the other entrants was hopeless. One other girl tried to duplicate the performance, and achieved some success, but after a couple of minutes’ balancing the strain became too great, and she wobbled fatally. It is foi'seen that next year the organisers will have to find some new test, for by that time a slow race will become merely a matter of endurance.

At one time the Otoko hill constituted the one big obstruction to all-year-round traffic for motorists between Gisborne and Rotorua. The past couple of years’ work on the hill road has produced a model surface, and now cars can traverse this part of the route without the slightest difficulty. As a result of the consequent increase in traffic, however, it has been found that the Rakauroa to Matawai section has been unable to stand the burden, and for a while during last month no cars were, able to get through. This year the Waikohu County Council has undertaken the re-grading and metalling of this section, and the engineer has tho work already in hand. A meeting of Hawke’s Ray fruitgrowers at Hastings last night resolved: That this meeting views with consternation the imminent arrival of considerable quantities of Canadian apples, since there still remain more than ample stocks of New Zealand apples in cool store to meet all requirements till well into December, apples on which two shillings to half-crown per bushel cool storage charges have been levied. We respectfully desire to point out to the Government the necessity for putting a' stop to this practice, if the New Zealand fruitgrower is to be saved from ruin, and if the Government’s investments in the fruit industry are to be safeguarded. Subscriptions are being sought in Australia for shares in Coal CSI (X.Z.) Ltd., a company with a nominal capital of £750,000 in ill shares, of which it i» proposed to issue now oJO.OOO for public subscription. The company is being formed to take over certain properties at. Calliope, Westport, in the South Island of New Zealand, certified to he coal-hearing, and certain other property at Waipatiki, in the Hawke’s Bay land district, expected to he oil-bearing, 'lire full prospectus contains reports respecting Iho coal under the land to he secured in the South Island, and as to the prospects of oil in the North Island. No reason has been given for combining the two ventures.

“Him a good country. We come.” This was an observation made hv one of a party of 27 Yugoslavs which landed in Auckland from the Aorangi this week. The speaker’s command of tho English was decidedly limited, conversation on the part of other members of the party being strictly limited to the language of their country. As to the intentions of this Batch of New Zealand’s new immigrants nothing could be gleaned. They formed quite a distinctive little party on thei Aorangi, although another group with the communal spirit in evidence consisted of seven Chinese, who had decided to sample the attractions of the Dominion.