Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3332, 26 September 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

A meeting of the Harbor Board will be held to further consider the question (cf surveying the Tauwharepanae block as soon as an estimate for road formation was received from Mr. King. A motion by Mr. Geo. Witters regarding tlie question of electing a dock will also be considered at the same, meeting. Owing to yesterday being a departmental holiday, the captured prisoner Burned© was not brought before the Court, bnt is t-o be charged this morning with having escaped from lawful custody. Tlie management of the Pathe Pictures villi to-night screen for the .ast time their popular week-end change programme, including the great French historical drama “The Lyons Mail,” and a variety of other subjects.

The chairman of the" Harbor Board mentioned yesterday that Mr J. W. Witty, the secretary, had been in the Boa I'd’s service for twenty-seven years. He was the third oldest secretary in the Dominion.

At a meeting last night of the tug-of-war committee in connection with the coining Coronation Bazaar, final arrangements were made in regard to what is expected to prove a most unique .and memorable contest. Although no less than, sixteen teams have signified their intention of taking part-, there has been delay on the part- of some of them in concluding negotiations. They are consequently reminded that entries finally close at 8 p.m. on Saturday at Mr. F. King’s hairdressing saloon, Peel Street.

The first band to definitely secure accommodation for its members at the North Island Brass Band Association’s contest, to be held at Gisborne next year, is the Waihi Federal Band (A grade), Who have chosen Whinray’s No. 1 Hall as their quarters during the contest.

The Mayor, who attended a meeting of the Harbor Board yesterday regarding a matter connected with the Council, said; that it had been suggested by the boating fraternity to ask the Board to construct, a. jetty so that the owners of pleasure craft could get easy access to. their boats instead of having to struggle, over barges. Dr Collins pointed out that the Council might, re-erect tlio jetty at thpbMaknraka Domain. The Chairman of the Board said that the matter of a jetty at the wharf Would he considered, and the Mayor promised to note Dr Collins’, suggestion.

An important- clearing sale will bo conducted by Messrs Common, Shelton and Co.. Ltd., at Mr. J. B. Poyntar’s yards, Ruangarehu, at noon to-day,-when they will offer the whole of liis dairy herd and milking plant, together with the horses, sheep, pigs, and farming implements on. this well-known station. Luncheon mil be provided, and .coaches will be arranged' for, to convey visitors from the railway station.

A Press Association telegram trora Timaru last aright stated a whale, which measured 71 feet in length, has been washed up oil) the beach at Makikilii. A remarkable instance of an operation, performed under difficulties is nounced in the- Paris newspapers. The scene was St. Joseph’s Hospital at Hartford, Connecticut. The operation was not only extremely difficult, but urgent. The operating room was lighted with electricity, and at the most critical moment the light failed, and the room was ini darkness. The patient lay between life and death One of the doctors conceived the hapny idea cf striking a wax match the others did the same, and the operating surgeon, with this dim and extemporised light, continued his work until a better kind of iliuminant was forthcoming. ’life operation was successfully performed, and the natient has suffered no ill effect- from the electrical mishap. In some English papers a correspondence has been started c n the question, Should Wives be Salaried? One writer S ays:—'‘Every married woman- ought to have money of her own to do what see likes with. There are thousands of women who never have a penny that they can call their own. It is a galling position for any human being with a snaik of independent spirit. Women have been inured to the ignominy of living on the charitv of their husbands. They take it for granted. But it is time to insist upon the elimination of sentiment from the work done by the wife and mother. It ought to be paid for. When a girl marries she ought to be guaranteed a fixed proportion of her husband's income. This would give her economic independence. It would also give her a definite status in the State. She would be a co-partner in the home, and not a kind of helot. She would not he at the mercy of her husband’s caprices. She Would not be subjected to the menace of desertion without any provisin for her future or for the future of her •hildren. If every married man were forced to pay a fixed proportion of his wages to his wife, there is no doubtthat the burden of marriage would not be so heavy.” Here are some aphorisms from an American paper:—An ounce of hustle is worth a pound of luck. Life would be quite monotonous if the unexpected didn’t happen so often. The fellow who does a lot of running around isn’t the one who gets ahead. The world is full of discords produced bv people blowing their own horns, Many a woman has discovered that even after she becomes a Mrs. things may go amiss. The hen which has just laid an egg cackles almost as much as a woman who lias justfound out a secret. Even when a girl wears her wings on her hat. instead or on her shoulders, there is some fellow who thinks she is an angel. The Bishop of Manchester addressed a large gathering of men in the Tower Circus, Blackpool, on a recent Sundav, in connection with the annual seaside mission. One of the tendencies of modern times, he said, was . a fierce revolt against love and charity. The erv ofto -day was. “We want justice, not charity.’’ Novels were now based upon some problem of social injustice, and legislation turned in that direction. If this alteration in man’s ideals became permanently fixed some of tins band of modern thinkers who were pushing their demands would want Christian faith to stand aside. Many people thought justice meant “my rights,” but “my rights/’ standing by themselves, were an anti-social formulaon which society could not lie based. Abnormally high prices have been, paid for vegetables in Melbourne during the past three months., and. according to the ‘Argus,” they are likely to continue for another month at least. Cabbages have -brought as high as 12s, and cauliflowers 10s a dozen, and it has been well-nigh- impossible to obtain either a cauliflower or a cabbage worth putting on the table under od retail. Parsnips and carrots have touched 1 2d each, and Swede turnips 3d and 4d. The immediate cause for such abnormal prices is the heavy rains during autumn which ruined meet of the crops in the growing districts around Oakleigh, Burwood, Brighton and Cheltenham. Another local tramway patent, the Masters patent fare collector and indicator, lias ben submitted to the Christchurch Tramway Board, and: authority obtained to fit up one of the cars with the apparatus. According to this system, o neacb seat of a car a slot machine is fitted to take one or a number of pennies. In the centre of the roof of the ear an automatic transparent indicator box is fixed, also a bell that rings- automatically at the end of a section. At each end of the car a switchboard is fitted, workable from either end. The indicator denotes the seats occupied, and shows when the penny fare is .paid. The pennies are -released bv the conductor pressing a -button when nearing the end of section, and the section -bell rings, and the pressing of another button'resets all. the indicators for the next section. Provision is made to allow a passenger to pay for several sections'at one time, also for the charging of concession and excursion rates. All who are interested in machinery will appreciate the display of od and steam engines, boilers, Burgon sheepshearing machines. Anderson marine engines, and electric lighting sets which Anderson’s Ltd are making at their local branch, 65, Lowe Street. All interested are cordially invited to inspect the machinery under working conditions. The firm also carries a large stock of general engineers’ supplies.*