THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16836, 27 December 1928, Page 13

THIRD EDITION.

Major Wyatt, of tin.' Salvation Army, Now Plymouth, recently of Gisbonio, is ill in hospital, suffering from rheumatic fever, pleurisy and other complications. Inquiry at the hospital showed that his condition was serious. Through the thoughtfulness of the new Government the Leader of t!ie Opposition and late Prime Minister, Mr. Coates, had a Ministerial carriage plaoed at tlie disposal of himself and his family on their journey from Wellington to North Auckland at the week-end. An accident, that at present is something of a mystery occurred at Clareville on Tuesday night, when a motor ear and a motor cycle evidently collided. Ihe Carterton police received a. call to the spot and proceeded there in company with a doctor, hut when they arrived a battered motor cycle was the only evidence that an accident had occurred. What is believed to be a 'Dominion record in swimming' club membership was established at the Kawaroa baths when the New Plymouth Club admitted .-is hundredth member (slates the Taranaki News). The «dub's present steady growth is due mainly to Ihe method-'- adopted mere its reorganisation. With n view to proven ling such incidents as occurred at North island racecourses recently, the (trey .lockey t'luh lids secured a device consisting of a huge motor-born, electrically fitted, which will be placed at a suitable distance from tin' starting post and used to recall a race in flic event of a false start. The t 'oiiiinonwcall li and Dominion .me steamer Port. Denison arrived at Auckland from Australia, yesterday to load 10.000 boxes of butter and a quantity of general cargo. On completion she is expeel to sail for Gisborne. W'aikokopu, Wellington, Bluff, and l.yflelton to complete loading. The vessel should sail finally from Lyttelton on January 22 for London, via Panama.

Sporting enthusiasts will he well catered for during the New Year holidays, when several first-class spurts meet ings will take place in the Poverty Hay and surrounding districts. Oil New Year's Day the Tt* Kanaka. Waiapu. Xgatapa, and Rakauroa sports clubs will be holding their annual sports meetings, while the Nuhaka Agricultural and Pastoral Society's annual show will take place. It. is understood that. British capitalists are interested in the experimental planting of some 8000 acres in Auckland Province with wood-oil trees. The experiment is being conducted by an expert who was engaged in the Chinese wood-oil business some years ago. During the revolutionary troubles he left China and proceeded to England, where he succeeded in interestin'.: a number of people in the industry. They invited him to make a tour of the Empire with a view to establishing the industry, and after thorough investigation he considers that Auckland Province offers the most promising field.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Priestley, of Auckland, celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding on December 13, wdien there was a happy gathering of relatives and friends. The marriage took place in Auckland in 1878. Mrs. Priestley was a daughter of Captain Short, a well-known master of vessels in the Island trade. One of his first commands was the Fiery Cross, Mrs. Short was born at Olnehiinga, and was married at the age of 18 years. Mr. Priestley was for many years connected with (he timber trade afc Aratapn, Northern Vairoa, where he and Ids wife lived for some 35 years. A rather interesting fact in connection with this golden anniversary is that amongst those present were Mrs. White, of Cisborue, and Mr. John Griffiths, oP Auckland, who acted as bridesmaid and groomsman 50 years ago.

The man who jumped into a boiling pool at Whakarewarewa on Friday bus been identified as A. H. Hali_, of Rotorua, a, married man. He had been missing for two days. Ernest It. Hausen, of Mainaku, said at the inquest that he went to Whakarewarewa, to have a spout bath. He saw a man standing on the brink of the hot pool. ‘T wont over to him,” said Mr. Hansen. ”He was standing with his loot on some boards at the edge of the pool. .1 did not know him. I said: ‘This is not too safe about here. lie said, ‘No, but this is the place for me.’ He immediately jumped into the boiling wafer as he was speaking. T went to Ihe store and rang up the, police, and wont away after they arrived. When 1 spoke to him he seemed - quite sober and rational.” The inquest was adjourned.

According to Dr. P. S. Foster, ul Christchurch, who has just returned to New Zealand. America is base-ball mail. The papers have nothing' else in the way of sport. During two months of liis stay there, while the All Blacks were playing in South Africa, lie could not obtain one bit of news of tlmir matches. It was not until he got to New Fork, apcl got, a copy oil the Times, that he found any mention of them. Big baseball games arc played every day, even Sunday. They are almost, entirely professional. and through constant practice players have reached such a standard of efficiency that a- catch is never missed. The accuracy of the fielding is remark - aide. “It 'would fill a cricketer willi envy,” said Dr. Foster. ‘‘lf 1. could get the fellows round at my club to-throw into the wickets the way these baseballers do, there would be some trouble in the other camps.” New is almost unknown overseas, says Dr Foster, hut people who have been here never forget it. 1 bey are full of enthusiasm for New Zealand, and admiration for New Zealanders as a race. The variety of scenery and sport are more than enough to draw the tourists from any part of the world when they know them. Experienced deer-stalkers say that, there is no such sport elsewhere.

The clianee rending of a paragraph in a South African newspaper has resulted in a trophy of the South African War being returned to its original owner, a Hoar, who- was captured hy the New Zealand troops (says a Nelson paper). When Lieutenant Colonel \V 11. Pearless, of Wakefield, Nelson, returned from the South African War 28 years ago he brought with him a Mauser car hine with a brass plate on the butt, inscribed “P.J.IV After Colonel Pear lass' death the rifle was given to Mr \V. I). Bryant. Last March a South African newspaper passed into the latter’s Imuds. and he noticed in it an ac count of o public meeting at Capetown, at which one of the speakers was Mr 1> .1 Pienaar. The similarity of the initials at once caught Mr Bryant's eye As a result n (Inscription of the rule and a sketch of the engraved plate was sent, to the editor of the newspaper, with a request that he would forward the letter to Mr Pienaar. When the Nelson All Black, Mr Brio Snow, was in South Africa Mr Pienaar called oil him, told him the facts, and said the rifle was his. He expressed the keenest, desire to get his old rifle hack, lie added that the maker of the plate was also alive and well, and was equally interested. Mr Pienaar said he was captured hy New Zealand troops during the Boer War. 'Plie rifle has now been posted to its former owner as a Christmas present, l, with kindest wishes. -Ml Pienaar is a well-to-do man who did all he could to make it pleasant for the New Zealand footballers on their recent tour.