Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3359, 27 October 1911, Page 4

Local and General.

Between 1500 and 1?0U people have joined the local branch of the Sports Protection League.

For drunkenness a man named Michael O’Rouke was fined 10s with the usual costs at yesterday's meeting of the S.M. Court.

Sitting in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. -Mr W. A. Barton,. S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff in the following undefended civil cases: —Commissioner of Taxes v. Fast Coast Timber and Trading Co. 3s Sd with costs os, Thomas Hope (Mr J. R. Kirk) v. Patrick O'Sullivan £2 with cost-s £l. Mr J. Warren. clerk to the Cook County Council, has been advised that the Government will not Gazette the special order dividing the Arai riding owing to a defect in making it. Therefore two members will have to be elected for the riding as it stands.

“Temperance night'’ at the Temperance Association meeting last evening attracted a large attendance. The Revs. F. AY. Chatterton and Lochore contributed helpful and interesting addresses, after which a musical and elocutionary programme was indulged in. the following contributing: Sisters Mayo and Russell and Bros. Reuwick, Hastil, Rowell and Devine.

On 'Wednesday evening the pavilion of the Turanganui Bowling green was burglariously entered. The intruder gained entrance through a closed down, but not locked, window. Once inside he used to advantage a hammer and chisel which he had removed, from «n adjoining shed, the door of which was secured bv a staple. When members of the Club visited the pavilion yesterday morning they found that the' lockers had been burst open, and certain articles were missing. The hammer and chisel, strange to sav, had been put back in their proper place in the outside shed. There is strong suspicion that the offender must have had considerable experience of the lav of the land.

The exhibit of bacon, hams, etc, made by the Okitu Factory at the show attracted great attention on Wednesday. Numerous visitors from outside, who had had the opportunity of - inspectiiiosimilar displays in the larger centres in other parts of the world, were unanimous in the opinion that the exhibit of the Okitu I< actory was one of the finest* they had ever seen. Prominent farmers from the south expressed surprise at the excellent get up of the bacon sLovn. and upon being informed of tlm satisfactory price paid by the factorv to the farmers here for pigs (viz 4d pov lb dressed weight), were considerably astonished. They stated that farmers in their districts' sold their pWs b v live weight—less 271 per cent/deduction for offal, which did not work out at anything like so good a net return as the Gisborne farmers were receiving. He stated that as low as 2 a d ner lb. was being paid for prime pigs in his district last season, and even at those prices a number of co-operative bacon factories were unable to show % profit, and not a few were compelled to close down altogether. He was surprised to learn that the Okitu ■Factorv had never paid less than 3)cl f or prime bacon pigs during the nine years of its existence, and that price only having ruled for some four or five months--the average for the remainingfSi years being fully 4d per lb.

The junior nurses of the District Hospital wish to thank an anonymous donor who generously placed season tickets for the Theatre at their disposal. rp hc English mail despatched from Wellington via. ’Frisco on the 22nd September, arrived at London on 24th inst. J' Mi' G J. A. Johnstone. Clerk of the | Magistrate's Court, has been appointed agent for the Bay of Plenty electorate. The successful tenderers for the supply of metal to the Cook County Council are a* follow:—Messrs 8 Scragg, C. Tietien F. W. Jones, D. 0 Grady. J. Harvey, Judd Bros. M. Roe, G. Hyland, and Gibson, Kwen and Peel.

The s.s. Ayrshire, which was due in Auckland yesterday, is bringing a quantity of material for the Borough Council, including the Diesel engines for generating electrical power. About twenty miles of cable for the electric lighting scheme is also due by the Turakina. Mrs Guy Butler, (nee Miss Grace Cummings), of Christchurch, late of Gisborne, was a very successful competitor at the twenty-third annual exhibition of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington. She gained first prize in Study from antique, and fir-t----in Study from still life.

Attention is attracted to the auction sale of the annual draft of horses from Messrs Sisterson and * Mcßae’s Reay station, which will be conducted bv the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., at the Masonic stables on Saturday, 23th inst., commencing at 11.30 sharp. The draft comprises about forty, consisting of thoroughbreds by Gazeley, Multifiu and Marshal Soult .also 20 well-bred backs arid harness horses unbroken, and five heavy draughts? 3-year-olds, unbroken. The sale will afford an opportunity of obtaining well-bred horses of good stamp, young and unbroken. At the same time will be offered on behalf of Mr George Witters a dog cart horse ••'All Black,” a prize taker at the recent A. and P. Show, and on behalf of Mr A. S. Wachsmann, a thoroughbred bay gelding by Strowan-Ivate. Quite a number of sensible girls have glory boxes, and whether an individual girl means to have a husbacd. a <aioer, or both, she gradually a ecu mutates an asset of very real importance. One such girl give the experiences of several. She expended a little imney on a good serviceable chest that was neither polished, or brass nailed, or elaborately hinged, or anything else but a well-made, respectable. long, lew box which made an admirable eetf-e in her bed-sitting room. There is an aromatic scent about most of our timbers that makes them specially suitable for chest-making. The purchase of this particular chest induced four or fiveother girls to buy similar ones. Seme of them hold embryo trcussc-aus, while others are gradually accumulating drhouse and table linen, the curtains, cushion slips and bed spreads that can make the poorest rooms homelike. A little good china is added from time •„ . time, and one or two of the mere ambitious girts even buy themselves aa little silver from time to time, and it is wonderful how steadily the. littlestole grevvs. No mater what the future ..as foi a- girl, a few good personal possessions, adding materialiv not nniv to her comfort, but to the' of' her importance in the eyes of such neeessary people as mothers-in-law and landladies.

AH who are interested in maehinerv vnl appreciate the dispiav of oil and steam engines, boilers. Burgon iLeenshearmg machines. Anderson marine engines, and electric- lighting sets which Anderson’s Ltd are making at them local branch, 65. Lowe Street. All interested are cordially invited to inspect the machinery under working conditions. The firm also carries a large s>tock of general engineers’ supplies.*