Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3278, 25 July 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

A severe snowstorm m the South laland has interrupted telegraphic communication, which was cut ott irom shortly after midday yesterday. Information was received by the local police yesterday that a young man named Douglas, a comparative stranger ia tbo district, tv as missing from I akapau. The missing man left \\ aipiro Bay last Saturday night and is believed to have been drowned. A eearcu party headed by Constable Tomasson. set out yesterday morning.

Tlie programme of Paihe Pictuies at present being screened in the Theatre, and of which an exquisitely colored nature study is the star item, will be repeated to-night. A lantern lecture is to he given this evening at 7.30 o’clock in -Holy Trinity Parish Hall. Tlie speaker is Miss M ilson, who has returned from Missionary work in West Africa. A number of slides, illustrating life and customs -n this little-known part of the world, will be shown with the aid of a powerful oxy-hydrogen limelight lantern. Miss Wilson, who has spent many years in West Africa, is an able and interesting speaker. All interested in _ Africa and its peculiar people are cordially invited to attend. There will be no_ charge for admission, but a collection will be taken up in aid of the funds of the Mission. A somewhat gruesome discovery was made by Mr W. J. Scholium, licensee of the Muriwai Hotel on Sunday last. While working in the yard of the hotel Mr Scholium came upon a human jawbone containing six teeth. The relic had no doubt been unearthed by the recent heavy rains, and had been washed down from an ancient Maori burial ground l . The weekly meeting of the Girls’ Friendly Society was held in Holy Trinity Schoolroom last night, when Miss Wilson spoke to the girls on her mission work in "Western Africa. There was a very good attendance, and the lecture was thoroughly enjoyed.

A commencement was made yesterday with the removal of the railway material that was unloaded on to the wharf from the s.s. Hippie on her last trip. The funeral of the late Mr. W. Dean Lysnar, whose body was brought from Auckland on Sunday took place at the Makaraka cemetery yesterday afternoon. The cortege left the residence of the Mayor shortly after 2 p.m., and was followed by a large number of vehicles containing members of the Borough Council and leading citizens. The Rev. H. H. Hamilton conducted the service at tlie graveside. A large number of messages of sympathy have been received by the Mayor from friends throughout the Dominion, as well as from residents of Gisborne.

The trophy presented by Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co., Ltd., of Gisborne, will lie shot for by tlie members of the Ormond Gun Club at 2 p.m. today. A meeting of the Gisborne Non-Com-missioned Officers Club was held last nigt, Staff Sergeant-Major Bishop presiding. The rules drawn up at the last meeting were adopted, and it was decided to arrange a series of lectures, the first of which will be given by Staff Sergeant-Major Bishop, on August 14th on the subject of “Discipline and Protection.” It was further decided to ask the senior officers to deliver addresses at suitable dates. The trustees of the Garrison Hall have thrown open a room to the club, where the meetings will be held, and there is every reason to believe that the institution will rapidly become a valuable feature of the military life in this district. Exceptional interest in tlie game of Rugby football has been aroused locally by tlie fact that the representative New Zealand Maori touring, team is to appear in Gisborne oil Saturday next, when they will be pitted against a selected fifteen of Poverty Bay. Tlie Maori team, it will be remembered, aroused much enthusiasm in Australia last season by their brilliant displays, and maintained this phenomenal form by defeating Otago, Wellington, and Auckland on their return to the Dominion. The present team opened their tour in fine style by defeating Hawke’s Bay, on a sloppy ground, by 3 points to nil at Napier on Saturday last. They play Hastings to-morrow, and by the time they reach Gisborne their excellent combination should be well in evidence.

An untoward incident occurred just as the funeral of the late Mr Lysnar was passing over the Tarn hern Bridge yesterday afternoon. The tug Hipi with three meat bargee in tow, approached the bridge simultaneously with the cortege. The Hipi, in charge of Capt. Palmer, passed under the structure, hut through what is said to be the failure of the helmsman of the first barge to lower the tiller rod, the vessel missed her proper course, collided with the bridge, and came to a standstill. The steersman of the second barge made for the second opening in the span, hut the third lighter swung round on the fast running inward tide and remained broadside on to the bridge until the Hipi was able to pull her clear. Meanwhile the shaking of the bridge had frightened the horses in the funeral procession, and, they refusing to cross, delayed the latter part of the procession somewhat. It is understood that little damage was done to the lighters. During a Rugbv match at Toowoomba (Queensland), recently, between the King’s School (Parramatta, N.S.W.), and the Toowoomba Grammar School, a remarkable goal was kicked by Ross, the King’s School full-back. The hall struck the left upright some distance above the cross-bar, rebounded to- the cross-bar, then struck the other upright, then fell hack again on the cross-bar, and finally drooped over. The result of an official inspection of several restaurants in Gisborne will, it understood, be presented to the Borough Council .to-night in the form oi a report from the Sanitary Inspector.

Many explanations have been ottered as to why the third finger of the lefthand should be chosen by all British brides to bear the wedding ring; but most probably it is solely a matter of numerical order, being a relic of the o.d marriage ceremony, in which the bridegroom, taking the ring, placed It first upon the thumb of his elect, as he pronounced the name of the {Father; then upon her forefinger, as he spoke the name of the Son ; next upon her middle finger as he named the Holy Ghost; and, at the final “Amen,” upon her third finger, where it remained. The early Puritans sought to abolish the ring as “a vain and heathen emblem," but the old custom of giving a ring as a token of love will probably remain to us as long as the solemnisation of matrimony is a recognised ceremony of the Church.

Owing to the size of Lord's ground in London, it is quite a feat for the ball to be despatched clean out of the ground, though this season already, savs an English writer. Tarrant has knocked a ball into F. E. Hacey’s garden for 6. It was performed by E. H. Budd in 1898. Albert Trott came very near performing it a few years ago. when, off Noble, he sent the ball on the top of the pavilion. The ball lookec like going on indefinitely, but it struck the side of a chimney-stack and ric-o-chetted over the pavilion roof. On the same ground, in 1869. Mr A. F. Walter, one of the proprietors of “The Times.” struck a carriage in the ring with such prodigious force that the ball was driven through the side of the vehicle! This recalls Archie MacLaren's feat of sending the hall clean through the silk hat of a gentleman on the outskirts of the crowd—the “hat trick” with a vengeance !

In a civilised country in this year of grace, it might be imagined that ladies could traverse the streets of the borough in perfect safety. That sucli is hardly the case, however, was proved by the experience of three ladies who ventured to essay the passage of Riverside Road yesterday. Betvreen 12 and 1 o’clock, the three pedestrians, who evidently were exploring the road for the first time, judging by the lightness of tlie shoes they were wearing, had ploughed their way about a couple of hundred yards beyond the bridge near Winiata Street, when one of them, in attempting to avoid a particularly ugly-looking morass, stepped off on to what she took to be firm clay on the side of the roadway. At the very first step the hapless lady sank in yellow mud over the shoe-tops, and at the second went down up to the knees, h ortunately vehicles were approaching from opposite directions at the moment, and it was not long before strong arms had extricated the lady from her sorry plight. Had timely help not been at hand it is difficult to imagine what the fate of the principal actor might have been. The experience emphasises the deplorable condition of the streets of the borough at the present time, and should serve as a warning to all who walk abroad that they would do well .to “gang w’arilv.” Tlie Queensland Government is very actii e at the present time in the wav of endeavoring to induce immigrants to that State, and' many are said to be the encouragements extended to folk, not a l Home, but in other parts of Australasia, who may he captured to swell the population of the banana State by alluring travelling terms and other inducements. There is always a number of people in every country, no matter how prosperous, whose instincts are "omachc and adventurous, and it is stated that quite a considerable mimljer of inquiries are being made in Auckland concerning the attractions of Queensiand and the facilities for testing them, ulncli the Government of that country are offering. It is even stated by some uiio profess a knowledge that the Queensland Government is. among other inducements, offering free railway passes from New South Wales to the .oi them State in order to tempt desirable people across the border but as the New South Wales authorities would probably have something to sav on the subject if such a rumor had any foundaroZ+Z aCt A lfc , can probably' be discounted pretty heavily. Ihe last day of our sale lias arrived and we wish to take this opportunity of than King the hundreds of eager shoppers who have made this sale such a decided success. All remnants and oddments to-day will be subject to a further discount of from 20 to 50 per cent oft the reduced prices at C. Rosie and Co.’s Money Saving Sale. Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a man to shave with a Safacto razor, which we guarantee and keep in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than by giving him a hundred guineas. The sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed' it, but in the other case he escapes the frequent tion of a dull razor scraping the skin's surface, and being late for work, etc This razor permits a sliding, diagonal motion, which gives an absolutely clean shave, leaving the face soft and smooth without the slightest irritation or soreness, which makes shaving a pleasure. Obtainable at Morse’s, ToMasonic and Central shops, Gladstone Itoad, Gisborne. Telephone* G4l.

A frost alarm, is, we understand, now installed at Fr ini lev orchard, near Hastings.