LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 20, Issue 67, 24 August 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Shipping.— I The Manaroa arrived at 10 a.m. on Friday, with a cargo of 33 tons, and after discharging she left on her return to Wellington, which she reached at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Notice to Builders.— Messrs Brownlee and Co., for urgent private reasons, have withdrawn from public tender the construction of three pontoons required in their business.

A Big Bee-farm:.— Mr Levy, the big Wairarapa apiarist, will have no less than between twelve and thirteen hundred hives going this season. Out of one group of three hives last season he took about 8001 b of honey, one of the hives containing 3001 b. Several -easons ago he took from a yard of 100 hives an average of from each hive, or a total q| 1% tons, but it is not, he concluded, all" profit by any manner of means.

Tennis Gluu.—The annual meeting of the Havelock Tennis Club will be held in the Library to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at 7.30. If the Club are to open the season on a firm footing it is necessary that renewed interest be taken in the game. Only in this way will it be possible for the Glib to arrange for the laying-down of a proper court. By attending the annual meeting members and intending members will give encouragement to the officials who have stuck to the Club through thick and thin.

Rough on the Boy.—There is an unfortunate little boy in England whose parents or guardians recently inserted the following advertisement in a morning paper-.—“Nurse.—Wanted, a robust Godfearing nurse, who can teach the Shorter Catechism and has a working knowledge of the business side of a slipper, to take charge of a four-year-old boy who has a double dose of original sin. Apply, stating wages required, to X.Y.Z., care of Clarke and Son, stationers, Guildford.”

Extravagance. —When referring in a sermon at the Sydenham Methodist Church on '‘The Bible and the Unemployed” to the love of amusement as one of the causes of unemployment, the Rev. L. Hudson said he had known a woman who obtained her living by means of washing (a very honourable occupation—all labour was honourable) who paid fjo for a costume and £5 5s for a hat in which to go to the races. On that particular occasion it had rained, and as the woman had not provided for that contingency her hat was spoiled; yet when that woman was out of work she went round and solicited help and wanted charity wherewith to keep her family. He did not insinuate that all were like the woman he referred to, but he was afraid her case was not an isolated one.

McMahon’s Circus— The circus teut was comfortably filled on Friday evening, 'when McMahon’s troupe of performers gave an interesting exhibition. Some of the turns were good—notably those of Ethel, a very clever contortionist, and Madame Lyndhurst, wirewalker, juggler, and club-swinger. The greyhound “Tim” proved to be a very clever jumper. The bareback riding by both ladies and gentlemen members of the company was spoilt by the slippery nature of the ring, and the buck-jump-ing exhibition was only second-class; a local amateur failed to stay ou “ Coo-ee” the regulation 30 seconds, though he made three plucky attempts. The other alleged buckjumper could not raise a buck. The clowning was only medium.

New Books.— Following are the names of the hooka recently purchased for the Havelock Library, with the names of the [authorsPro Patria, Pemberton; Daphne, Mrs Humphrey Ward; The Polyphemes, F. Herman Johnson; The Roof, Orme Angus; Marjory Manesty, Oswald Wildridge; Katrine, Eleuor Macartney Lane; Danger Line, Lawrence [Lynch; The Quakeress, Max Adler; Princess Romanova, George Horton; Captain Bluit, Max Adeler; The Weird Picture, John R. Garling; Hemming the Adventurer, Ttieodore Roberts; In Happy Hollow, Max Adeler; The Seven Houses, Hamilton Drummond; The Hidden Victim, Headou Hill; The Aerial Burglars, James Biyth; The Mystery of the Unicorn, Sir W. Maguay; £19,000, Burford Delanoy; The Monk’s Treasure, George Horton; The Wrestlers, Marian Bower; The Toad and the Amazon, George Frederick Turner; Unmasked at Last, Headon Hill; Father Pink, Wilson Barrett; A Fair Insurgent, G. Horton; Caged, Headon Hill; An Old Score, Ashton Hillier; An Englishman’s Home. A fine Stock of Cameras and suppliers on view in Zak’s Photo. Window Willis Street, Wellington,—Advt

To a Correspondent.— “ Resident,” Bulwer: Thanks for your communication, but as you have omitted to attach your name the item cannot be published. A Splendid Presentation,— At Auckland on Friday night Mr W. F, Massey, Leader of the Opposition, was presented with a cheque for one thousand guineas, a grandfather’s clock and timepiece, a complete set of solid table silver, aud a gold.'and diamond bracelet for Mrs Massey. Hockey Club Ball.— There has been no lack of dances and balls this winter, and many will regret the close of the dancing season. Following hard on the bachelors’ ball in Havelock on Friday next will come the annual ball arranged by the Kia Ora Hockey Club, Canvastown, which is fixed for Friday, 3rd September. The Picton Orchestra have been engaged, and a splendid supper will be supplied. The prices of admission are—Gentlemen -3s, ladies Is. Life Insurance Methods.— We have been supplied with particulars of what seems to be shameful conduct on the part of a leading Life Insurance Company. It appears that an unmarried man aged about 60 bought an annuity of £2 per week for the sum of £l3oo—a rather foolish deal, it must be admitted, for he would have to live to be about 90 before the Company would have to trench on their own funds to pay him. After drawing £3OO the man died, his only living relative being a sister, aged about 71, who is in such poor circumstances that she receives the old-age pension. This lady applied to the Insurance Company for some consideration in the way of a special grant, but received a reply that to do so would be a breach of the Company’s regulations. One thousand pounds clear profit, and yet they could not spare even a tenpound note to the only person in the world who has a moral claim on the money, and who is sorely in need of it. Picton Pars.— A correspondent writes: —Picton is suffering from another invasion of dead herrings, though the visitation is not so severe as the last. The foreshore is thickly strewn with a silvery harvest of the sea, driven up, t is thought, by a shoal of porpoises which visited the harbour last Friday. The residents of Waikawa Road are already becoming painfully aware of the proximity of the putrefying fish.—The s.s. Pukaki brought a cargo of calves and bullocks to Picton yesterday (Sunday), and an interested crowd assembled to watch the process of lauding the animals. The calves were put on to the wharf with slings, but the bullocks were lowered into the sea alongside and allowed to swim ashore. Great was the merriment of the crowd when one of the animals objected in a more than usually vigorous manner or headed out to sea.

Wireless in Japan. News was brought to Sydney by the German mail steamer Prinz Sigismund that before many months have passed wireless telegraphic communication will be estabfised between Japan and Hawaii. It was not until 15th May of last year that a wireless telegraphic station was established at Choshi, in Japan, and since that time four stations have been equipped, making a total of five. As for vessels, ten steamers belonging to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Toyo Risen Kaisha have been fitted for the purpose, together with three steamers of the Canadian-Pacific line. Nothing is more remarkable than the development of the system’s efficiency. A short time ago communication was not possible over a greater distance than 120 nautical miles, but owing to numerous improvements effected within the last twelve months the distance has now increased to 1500 miles, and it would be quite possible to have communication with Hawaii. As yet, however, the business between Japan and the Sandwich Islands is not sufficient to warrant the establishment of a costly system of telegraphy, but that the thing will be accomplished before long is not doubted by Japanese journals.

There was a poor man up (o Cairns, Who possessed but a wife and twelve bairns, Whose wheezing and sneezing was so far from pleasing, That it gave him some awful bad turns. In the midst of his terrible plight, ’Midst the cougning and barking at night, He found a friend sure in Woods’ Peppermint Cure, That soon put his family all right.